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"Last week, a Korean carry-out in Baltimore’s downtown Lexington Market was slapped with a $100 fine for — are you sitting down? — cooking food in margarine (most recently demonized as “trans fat” ). The cook might have had it coming for naming his outfit “Healthy Choice.” But do we really need government to tell us what kind of butter or oil to use when we fry eggs? Put this in perspective: This year there have already been 182 murders reported in Baltimore. Most of those deaths are related to a vicious drug trade that makes the part of town near the famed Johns Hopkins Hospital a virtual war zone after dark. The city government, however, is spending its resources attacking the real menace: Parkay."
Generally, at this point I'd argue that people who are buying food that looks like this:
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And this:
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...don't think they're getting a particularly nutritionally impressive meal, and should be free to choose to eat transparently disgustingly delicious food without interference from a health inspector. But this particular take-out joint selected the unfortunate name Healthy Choice for their establishment. So they were pretty much asking for it.
I'm somewhat surprised it happened first in Baltimore as Montgomery County, MD was the first to enact the trans-fat laws. Of course there's always Takoma Park in that County which is a nuclear free zone. Some of it's residents regularly travel 60 or 70 miles down to below me to protest at the nuclear power plant (which produces some of the electricity they use at home).
I'm somewhat surprised it happened first in Baltimore as Montgomery County, MD was the first to enact the trans-fat laws. Of course there's always Takoma Park in that County which is a nuclear free zone. Some of it's residents regularly travel 60 or 70 miles down to below me to protest at the nuclear power plant (which produces some of the electricity they use at home).
What about the even crazier liberals in Chevy Chase who tried to ban outdoor smoking?
What about the even crazier liberals in Chevy Chase who tried to ban outdoor smoking?
These liberals are absolutely control freaks.
It is banned in part of Chevy Chase. Also cigarette smoking in your residence if it has a common wall with another residence.
Outdoor cigarette smoking is also banned in public areas of Charles County, a jurisdiction which is still the 1st or 2nd largest tobacco growing County in the state.
MD Municipal League conventions can be fun sometimes.
It is banned in part of Chevy Chase. Also cigarette smoking in your residence if it has a common wall with another residence.
Outdoor cigarette smoking is also banned in public areas of Charles County, a jurisdiction which is still the 1st or 2nd largest tobacco growing County in the state.
MD Municipal League conventions can be fun sometimes.
Liberals are such control freaks. I sometimes wish I had studied psychology so I could have written a dissertation on their mental illness.
Nobody listened to me way back when they started on cigarettes and I warned that it would NOT stop with cigarettes, that cigarettes were just the beginning. I got laughed at big time. I warned rather you are smokers or not, everybody does things that someone else sees as unhealthy or disapproves of..
I know of a company that sent out letters to all their employees that says it is mandatory that all the employees have complete physicals before a certain date and if the doctor says "loose weight", then YOU LOOSE WEIGHT! If he says "take this medication", then YOU TAKE IT! If he says "exercise 1 hour 3 time a week, then DO IT!
Just wait.... it is going to get better or should I say worse? Just wait, we haven't seen nothing yet!
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