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August 9, 2008 at 08:29:41
Gangs Rule in Los Angeles While the City Council Polices the Fatties by Sandy Sand Page 1 of 2 page(s) |
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Our intrepid leaders want restaurateurs to be food police, so what’s next? Moms posting calorie counts in their kitchens? L.A.’s never-stay-home mayor, Antonio “Mr. Photo-op” Villaraigosa, and the city council have time to ban mylar balloons, the paparazzo, fast food joints in certain parts of town, plastic bags and raise taxes and not spend the money for its dedicated purpose, but they don’t have time to go after the gangs that run the city. They aren’t the only ones who go after the safe and the frivolous; the state legislature, which could not balance a budget if they had an elephant scale are at it, too. If State Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Van Nuys, has his way, he will be the Calorie-in-Chief Policeman, because here he comes again telling us to count calories, but who’s counting?
According to the Los Angeles County Health Department, hardly anyone, especially the denizens of fast-food restaurants, and they want to ram calorie-counting down their throats, and force-feed us unwanted reminders of how fat we’re getting.
The means to their end is beleaguered businessmen who are already stuffed with enough rules and regulations to choke a horse.
Now they want food entrepreneurs to post calorie counts, too. Unfortunately, New York City restaurateurs lost this same food court fight, setting legal precedent.
It doesn’t seem fair to put the bite on only the fast-food places. All restaurant should be included for the scales to be balanced. The California Restaurant Association is sponsoring Assembly Bill 2572 that, in part, would allow nutritional information be printed in brochures, on posters or tray liners instead of on menus and menu boards.
You gotta eat up the tray liner idea. By the time the food’s on the liner, it’s too late to order differently, and according to a report by former mayor Jim Hahn, 65 percent of L.A. residents are functionally illiterate anyway.
A much better idea would be to have cash registers shout out calorie counts as each item is rung up.
L.A.’s wild and crazy Councilwoman Jan Perry, was skewered and turned into hamburger in her bid to limit the number of new fast-food joints that could be built in South L.A.
Like someone who can’t say ‘no’ to a second helping of dessert, Perry isn’t listening to ‘no’ by her constituents, she brought her nonsense motion before the council again after it
sizzled on the back burner for several weeks.
The council passed her ’interfering-with-market-place’ resolution, and banned the building of fast food places for a year.
Sane, sensible and encouraging local businessmen and increasing employment would have been to build a few super markets in the area, of which there are none, and make it convenient to food-shop, so maybe more people who live there would stay home and cook up a few healthful meals.
Perry and Padilla must have done lunch at the Cheese Cake Factory, and gone on sugar high to join forces and have both their measures be put at the top of the we-know-what’s-better-for-you-than-you-do menu at the same time.
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Big Brother
Another example of Big Brother looking out for us. Thank you Big Brother. by sbaker (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 147 comments) on Saturday, Aug 9, 2008 at 4:39:40 PM  (0+)
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Yup
That's what they are doing here in Okc, Ok. The mayor mick cornett put the city on a diet, and you know the food establishment he picked to help the losers with their weight? TACO BELL! The worse most fatty food there is; is Mexican food! It proves that he is helping with the invasion of criminal mexicans to make war on the american people! It's nothing but a diversion....another war tactic. Smoke and mirrors....nothing but. by Zena Princess (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 89 comments) on Saturday, Aug 9, 2008 at 5:40:30 PM (0+)
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Come to think of it....
These are some of the people that have either 1. Supported the illegal's entrance without permission into our country to take advantage of cheap labor and the American people, and/or 2. Simply stayed silent. Sounds like they are getting what they deserve. Karma. by Zena Princess (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 89 comments) on Saturday, Aug 9, 2008 at 6:13:57 PM (0+)
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The Kalorie Kops plan sounds like
a sneaky way for reduce deaths from gang violence. Skinny targets are harder to hit. Aint they clever? by John Wood Sr (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 101 comments [1 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Aug 9, 2008 at 7:16:34 PM (0+)
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Reply: There's an up-side to everything
Scales balanced with a silver lining. by Sandy Sand (198 articles, 0 quicklinks, 227 diaries, 1548 comments [2 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Aug 9, 2008 at 8:38:23 PM (0+)
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Congratulations Sandy
As always Sandy this article was well written, informative, interesting and - I guess - accurate. One question though; what policies could they implement to solve or reduce the gang problem without resorting to racial or social profiling? by John Haigh (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 118 comments) on Saturday, Aug 9, 2008 at 8:53:35 PM (0+)
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Educate yourself
Why are we all getting so much fatter? Look at the Corn Industry....corn sugar is in just about every prepared food we buy. Avoid it and you will start getting back to your normal weight. Every damn bottle of soft drink we consume has about 45 grams of the stuff....Yogurt has just about as much...what a shock when I found out something I though of as health food was full of corn based sugar. Ocean Spray Cranberry juice...the first ingredient listed after WATER is corn syrup....sugar is listed again later...that stuff is poison to us! Corporate America cares about one thing...and that is money. If you care about yourself...best start payin attention. I've been avoiding sugar and carbs during the day for about 6 months and am almost back to high school weight....and out of my 'fat pants'. I eat Cherry Garcia and as much as I want of whatever at night. All I had to do was really look where all the corn syrup was coming from. Veteran '66-68 by Roger (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 465 comments [22 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Saturday, Aug 9, 2008 at 9:15:18 PM (0+)
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