Sugary Soda Pop Tax

Mexican Coca-Cola still contains real sugar

Everyone knows sugar is bad. At least that is what we are told by liberal know it alls that want to control what you and I eat and drink. Whats wrong with sugar? I've found that most of the bad press sugar gets is based on myths about the all-natural sweetener. Here are a few I heard about on the radio today:

• Sugar is fattening. Do you know how many calories there are in a teaspoon of sugar? Take your best guess, then click here for the answer.
• Sugar causes diabetes. Look it up. It just isn't true.
• Sugar rots teeth. Not so. It is the acid produced by bacteria (which can feed on sugar. among other things) that causes tooth decay. Don't want cavities? Brush your teeth.

These myths form the rationale behind the national tax on "sugary drinks" now being considered in Congress. Not only does this proposed tax break Barack Obama's pledge not to raise taxes on the poor and middle class Americans, but it is a thinly disguised ploy to help finance the liberal's unworkable national health care schemes. Not to mention that it is just another step in the liberal plan to regulate every detail of our everyday lives under color of law.

Dick Armey, Chairman of FreedomWorks.org wants us to resist this ill-conceived legislation. He says:

Some liberals in Congress have proposed paying for government-run health care by hiking taxes on soft drinks and other beverages. Because the socialized health care schemes being considered will cost at least a trillion dollars, liberal politicians are looking for ways to pay for their schemes without upsetting too many folks. So they think that a tax on soft drinks is better than any other type of tax.

To me, its just more liberal nonsense, cooked up to justify taking away our freedoms. Please follow this link to let Congress know you aren't happy with this attack on our freedom to choose, this tax on everyman and his kids, this dishonest attempt to fund yet more government meddling with our way of life.
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PS: The US sugar industry is subsidized by the government. Our government also subsidizes the production of the "high fructose corn syrup" now used to sweeten most of our non-diet pop. Now the same folks want to tax us to consume it. It appears they trying to encourage production of natural sweeteners and at the same time trying to do discourage their use. Tell me things aren't screwed up. Tell me it isn't the government that is responsible.
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Note: The old feeder never drinks diet soda, now does he use any artificial sweeteners. I think they are ineffective for weight loss. Most folks I know as drink diet pop are still overweight after years of abstaining from 'sugary' soda. I also suspect the chemicals used might be dangerous. I drink Mexican Coke whenever I can get it. It really is better tasting.

What the Heck Did He Mean Here?

This is from a speech Sen. Obama gave in Colorado in July, 2008. Watch it and ask yourself what in the world he's talking about.

Here's the long version (24 min) from the Obama Campaign site. You might want to skip to the 14 min mark or so for a reasonable lead in.

So why would we need a "civilian national security force that is just as powerful, just as strong, and just as well-funded" as the military? We already have the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, National Guard, TSA and various federal and state law enforcement agencies. Since Defense is about 20% of regular federal spending (whatever that means these days), this suggests a massive spending project without any apparent purpose.

Taking the relatively benign interpretation of Obama's proposal, he may be suggesting, as the Left is wont to do, that all desired spending is a matter of "national security." He doesn't really have anything useful for them to do, but he's sure it needs to be done in a big way. In this interpretation the plan is only a colossal waste of money, to be spent on make-work projects like the FDR administration promulgated during the Great Depression. These kinds of programs were ineffective then, and they might well precipitate a depression if tried now.

Looking beyond that, we can guess that this may be a vehicle for channeling more federal money into favored "community organizations" such as ACORN, Nation of Islam, etc. Such a powerful, strong, well-funded civilian force would be very handy to have in the future for stealing elections, intimidating opponents, and perhaps busting a few heads, as needed. Anyone for pogroms?

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Another cross-post from DLMSY.

YouTube: Strike one!

Nick Berg's Dad: "Thats my boy!" (click)

This message from YouTube landed in my e-mail box today:

The following video(s) from your account have been disabled for violation of the YouTube Community Guidelines:

• Not Automatic - (ptgustan)

Your account has received one Community Guidelines warning strike, which will expire in six months. Additional violations may result in the temporary disabling of your ability to post content to YouTube and/or the termination of your account.

For your reference, a copy of this message has also been emailed to the address associated with this account.

Sincerely,

The YouTube Team

It was a video of the beheading of Nick Berg by Mohammedan fanatics. It had been posted on my YouTube page for more than a year. You can still see it here, but the YouTube folks deleted it from my personal page.

YouTube allows almost anything: dirty stuff, scandalous lies, commie propaganda, and more. But they don't want you to see the truth about our Mohammedan enemies. I can't really complain too much; it is their website. I'm not impressed with the criteria they use to exercise their censorship rights.

It can only get worse if Barack Obama gets elected. His 'dictatorship of the proletariat' approach to 'fairness' in the media will only embolden the heavy-handed bias of sites like YouTube.
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The title of the offending video, Not Automatic, relates to another of my posted clips, Its Automatic. If you liked the deleted video, you'll love this one!
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YouTube is owned by Google, which also owns blogger. Do you suppose the Plains Feeder will get the boot for whining about YouTube?

Lisbon Treaty and the Irish vote

God bless the Irish. The Times of Malta notes that:

[O]f the 27 countries in the European Union only one has to abide by a provision in its Constitution of holding a referendum on matters which may affect its citizens' way of life. This is why the people of Ireland voted recently in a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty - and rejected it.

The other 26 countries, including Malta, opted for ratification by their parliament and basically ignored their people's views on the Lisbon Treaty.

Parliaments and Congresses that think they know what is best for the poor, benighted common folks should be given the boot. Read it and weep, one-worlders. The comments are interesting as well.
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Note that the one-worlders aren't folding their tents just yet. Quite the opposite. All the elitists are scrambling to undo this democratic result.

Enemy combatants are people, too

Don't shoot him Joe! Read him his rights.

You may cry for our United States now. The Supreme Court ignores the realities of war, rules that captured enemy combatants have the same rights as you and I. Justice Scalia:

The game of bait-and-switch that today’s opinion plays upon the Nation’s Commander in Chief will make the war harder on us. It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed. --- The Nation will live to regret what the Court has done today. I dissent.

The Frenchification of America continues unabated. Maybe we should just ticket the terrorists; certainly they will appear for their court dates now that the have their rights. This would have saved us a lot of embarrassment and expense during WWII.

Miranda Time at the POW Camp

Leftist Talk Radio is Sick

Bernie 'the perv' Ward

Leftists just don't seem to be able to put on a radio show that doesn't stink on ice. Remember Air America, the now defunct leftist talk radio network featuring comical Al Franken? Or Whoopi Goldberg's failed radio show Wake Up With Whoopi? Failures all.

Now one of the only successful lefty talk radio hosts (and he is only successful because his audience is in San Franfreako has taken a fall. Seems Bernie Ward, beloved of the fruit and nut folks in SF was caught sharing kiddie pornography over the internet. Bernie was in a perverted sex chat room asking for sexual humiliation when he grossed out one of the other perv denizens with his child porno. The other pervert, a lady going by the moniker SexFairy, turned him into the cops.

Liberalism is often associated with sexual perversions or blasé acceptance of same. Its a sickness.
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When the Democrats take the White House next year, we can expect a return of the inherently unfair "fairness doctrine" at the FCC. Then there will be full employment for idiots like Whoopi and Franken, and a forum for perverts like Bernie. I can't wait.
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Warning - Frank Material: The Smoking Gun has the nasty transcript.

Top 10 Tech Political Contributors

From e-Week: Top 10 Tech Political Contributors. Food for thought.