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NY puts calorie counts on menus..; Nanny state or health benefit?
Topic Started: Jul 22 2008, 05:05 AM (685 Views)
Riley
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pianojerome
Jul 22 2008, 12:05 PM
Riley
Jul 22 2008, 10:26 AM
QuirtEvans
Jul 22 2008, 10:23 AM
she was Jonesing for some of those mini-Dove bars

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Hm. Never heard of them.
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sue
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I was thinking he meant these. Someone brought a bag of them to work the other day; I'd never seen them before. :ph43r:
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Horace
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the weirdest thing about me is that I do not like and have never liked chocolate dipped ice cream bars.
As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good?
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Horace
Jul 22 2008, 09:33 AM
the weirdest thing about me is that I do not like and have never liked chocolate dipped ice cream bars.

Hmm, maybe you've only had the old kind, the cheapo ones where the chocolate was really little more than brown wax, and just broke off and crumbled and made a mess. The pricey ones with real chocolate are pretty good, but bad, if you know what I mean. They tend to have really rich ice cream as well.

If this is the wierdest thing about you, you need to cultivate some more high-octane wierdness. This just won't cut it in the real world. Or here.
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I really haven't known what to make of the whole thing, but if pressed to offer an opinion: I can't get on the bandwagon with this sort of government hand holding.


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Mark
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If the local government and the people under said local government do this I do not have a problem with it. They can more easily get it changed if they decide later they do not like it.

Federal government on the other hand is forever. Forget it! This should not be discussed in the halls of congress let alone the floor.
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sue
Jul 22 2008, 11:29 AM
I was thinking he meant these. Someone brought a bag of them to work the other day; I'd never seen them before. :ph43r:
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I meant these:

http://www.dovechocolate.com/Collection/Do...Miniatures.aspx

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I agree, Mark. This is why I oppose the idea of federally mandated community service, even though my daughter has to do so to graduate. Not a bad idea, but at the local level. Better solutions come at that level. There's nvery little that is one saize fits all.
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How many calories in a fat-assed congressman? How much government fat skimmed off the top would you have to slice through, to actually get to the meaty core, where the black and shriveled heart is?

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Jul 22 2008, 09:17 AM
I agree, Mark. This is why I oppose the idea of federally mandated community service, even though my daughter has to do so to graduate. Not a bad idea, but at the local level. Better solutions come at that level. There's nvery little that is one saize fits all.

If Americans weren't such morons I'd have no problem at all not having this kind of thing turn mandatory. But, we're morons.
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Jul 22 2008, 12:19 PM
How many calories in a fat-assed congressman? How much government fat skimmed off the top would you have to slice through, to actually get to the meaty core, where the black and shriveled heart is?

:veryangry: :veryangry: :veryangry:

Some people say the same about corporate CEOs. Do you think that's a universally fair opinion, Frank?
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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Jul 22 2008, 01:21 PM
Mikhailoh
Jul 22 2008, 09:17 AM
I agree, Mark. This is why I oppose the idea of federally mandated community service, even though my daughter has to do so to graduate.  Not a bad idea, but at the local level. Better solutions come at that level. There's nvery little that is one saize fits all.

If Americans weren't such morons I'd have no problem at all not having this kind of thing turn mandatory. But, we're morons.

Morons?! Let them die and decrease the surplus population.

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Jul 22 2008, 10:16 AM
I meant these:

http://www.dovechocolate.com/Collection/Do...Miniatures.aspx

(Picture is in Flash, and won't copy)

OMG. So one could buy a box of those and keep them in the freezer. Wonder how long they'd last. :whome: Those look dangerous.
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Jul 22 2008, 12:22 PM
Frank_W
Jul 22 2008, 12:19 PM
How many calories in a fat-assed congressman? How much government fat skimmed off the top would you have to slice through, to actually get to the meaty core, where the black and shriveled heart is?

:veryangry:  :veryangry:  :veryangry:

Some people say the same about corporate CEOs. Do you think that's a universally fair opinion, Frank?

Absolutely! The corrupt CEO's that bilk their workers and bankrupt their corporations by taking $10 billion retirements and "separation packages," or the ones that sell their companies, their workers, and their workers' families down the river by running the company on 30, 60, and 90-day money, so they gamble everything on the quick money by trading their corporation publicly until someone who doesn't give a crap about ANYONE, buys up over 50% of the stock and then begins a hostile takeover, or the CEO's who, out of sheer greed, lay off employees left and right, and....

Oh boy... I could go on and on and on, Quirt.

Leadership, at its best, is a vehicle for service. My employees serve our customers. I serve my employees. In return, my employees love me and are motivated and work their asses off. In return, I pay them a generous wage, give them time off to attend to family functions or personal errands, and I make sure that they take enough vacations each year. In return, they work their hearts out for me, and their families love me, too.

It's symbiotic. It's not about 30, 60, and 90-day money, contrary to what they're teaching in business colleges, now. It's a 5-year plan, a 10-year plan, and a vision of what I want this corporation to be, 25 years from now.
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
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Frank_W
Jul 22 2008, 01:19 PM
How many calories in a fat-assed congressman? How much government fat skimmed off the top would you have to slice through, to actually get to the meaty core, where the black and shriveled heart is?

:veryangry: :veryangry: :veryangry:

black and shriveled heart?

black and shriveled heart?

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Frank_W
Jul 22 2008, 12:46 PM
QuirtEvans
Jul 22 2008, 12:22 PM
Frank_W
Jul 22 2008, 12:19 PM
How many calories in a fat-assed congressman? How much government fat skimmed off the top would you have to slice through, to actually get to the meaty core, where the black and shriveled heart is?

:veryangry:  :veryangry:  :veryangry:

Some people say the same about corporate CEOs. Do you think that's a universally fair opinion, Frank?

Absolutely! The corrupt CEO's that bilk their workers and bankrupt their corporations by taking $10 billion retirements and "separation packages," or the ones that sell their companies, their workers, and their workers' families down the river by running the company on 30, 60, and 90-day money, so they gamble everything on the quick money by trading their corporation publicly until someone who doesn't give a crap about ANYONE, buys up over 50% of the stock and then begins a hostile takeover, or the CEO's who, out of sheer greed, lay off employees left and right, and....

Oh boy... I could go on and on and on, Quirt.

Leadership, at its best, is a vehicle for service. My employees serve our customers. I serve my employees. In return, my employees love me and are motivated and work their asses off. In return, I pay them a generous wage, give them time off to attend to family functions or personal errands, and I make sure that they take enough vacations each year. In return, they work their hearts out for me, and their families love me, too.

It's symbiotic. It's not about 30, 60, and 90-day money, contrary to what they're teaching in business colleges, now. It's a 5-year plan, a 10-year plan, and a vision of what I want this corporation to be, 25 years from now.

There are probably Congressmen like you, too.

You might object if someone decided that all CEOs, you included, were corrupt and bilk their workers.

You ought to generalize about politicians a little less. They don't all come in one flavor.
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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Frank_W
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You're right, Quirt. Sometimes, I feel like generalizing a lot and being a real prick, though.

Perhaps I should cut down on my daily caffeine intake.





Nawwwwwwwww...... Screw that!! :excited: :devilgrin: :fallenhalo:
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Jul 22 2008, 12:54 PM
Frank_W
Jul 22 2008, 01:19 PM
How many calories in a fat-assed congressman? How much government fat skimmed off the top would you have to slice through, to actually get to the meaty core, where the black and shriveled heart is?

:veryangry:  :veryangry:  :veryangry:

black and shriveled heart?

black and shriveled heart?

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:spit: :lol2:
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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