Nanny Bloomberg is the opposite of Nanny McPhee, he gets uglier with every problem he tries to fix with his 8 million ill-behaved charges.
There is no problem so small for which Nanny Bloomberg doesn’t have a draconian fix at the ready.
Salt. Can cause hypertension if abused. Solution: banned.
17 oz Soft Drinks. Too much sugar says he. Banned!
With those little problems Nanny Bloomberg has a solution. If you have a bad habit that might have the slightest impact on your health, no matter how tangential, no matter how remotely possible, no matter how ambiguous the causation, the Nanny has no choice but to swoop in and abscond with your liberty. Tyranny for your own good, of course is still tyranny.
But The Nanny demurs calling it a minor “inconvenience” to reverse a national health catastrophe. If lifestyle choices harm you, you must be encouraged, even coerced to stop.
But here is the curious thing. What if I told you that there is clear evidence that a particular behavior has been shown in multiple studies to very seriously impact health. Indeed, for those who engage in this behavior life expectancy can be reduced from anywhere from 5 to 20 years. Along with that dramatic reduction in life expectancy come hosts of other health problems that can put a serious drain on “the system.”
So naturally, The Nanny can not allow such a destructive lifestyle choice to cost so much in life and death. The Nanny must step in and do something, right?
Wrong.
June 27, 2012 at 3:53 am
Methinks that your fat ass could stand to lose a few hundred pounds before bitching about other people stressing the system. OH NO. NOT THE GAYS. I'm quite sure you'll die of a coronary embolism before I die from being gay.
June 27, 2012 at 4:58 am
Did you even read the post dipstick?
June 27, 2012 at 5:01 am
Anonymous, your self-loathing for your disordered desires should not be inflicted as hatred upon others as you try to cope with your deep inner awareness that your nature is corrupted, tempting you to do unnatural and immoral things. I know it's difficult for you to restrain yourself, but try. You are already dead, in a spiritual sense. But Christ raised Lazarus, and he can raise you too; if you want him to. If not, have a gay time in that perverted subculture of death.
June 27, 2012 at 5:46 am
And dude, Pat's the skinny one. I'm the Costello of the duo.
June 27, 2012 at 3:24 pm
Please note, the conclusions of the second study you cited was "the claims of drastically increased overall mortality in gay men and lesbians appear unjustified."
There is plenty of good research that shows certain diseases which are unique to homosexual men cause radically increased mortality, in SOME populations, but this study isn't one of them.
Gay men, and particularly gay men in New York city have extraordinary health resources available to them which probably preclude the intervention of Mr. Bloomberg.
Bloomberg is certainly an example of the progressive agenda pointlessly run amok (a 12oz soda is ok, but 16 will kill you?). But I think the argument you tried to make in this piece is, to put it mildly, flawed.
June 27, 2012 at 5:22 pm
Seriously, DUDE? Lazarus is a myth. As is Jesus. I fear no judgement from fictional entities. I especially fear no judgement by you, considering your worldview is seriously fucked up. Much like the entire catholic church. Go fuck a little boy.
June 28, 2012 at 12:07 am
@ most recent anonymous: you are aware that the two major sources of sex-abuse are schoolteachers and fathers, right? Priests have the lowest rate of all clergy, and clergy have a significantly lower rate than society at large.
Of course, the sex-scandal wasn't little boys, but teenagers—it wasn't pedophilia, just homosexuality. Most gays are not sexual predators, but—in the West, anyway—most sexual predators are homosexual.
Finally, in the twentieth century, atheists murdered more people per year, in peacetime, than were killed in the entire 300-odd years of the Crusades. Which were wars. So whose worldview is fucked up?
Go starve some Ukrainians.
June 28, 2012 at 12:47 am
And out comes the disco ball. Anon, why you gaying up my CMR? Isn't it happy hour at the Man Hole? Strap on your chaps and go swap proctologists phone numbers with other healthy, well-adjusted, joy-filled rump-rustlers.
Sorry I'm a little testy today, but my Oreos just got queered. Can't you even leave my cookies alone, you crazy gays?
Leave my damn cookies alone!
June 28, 2012 at 1:17 am
Black rep- hilarious. I saw that too. Irritated but not surprised.
Gay Anon – my own sins are heinous and many; but at least I know they're sins. I'll pray for you. I really will.
Erin
June 28, 2012 at 4:23 pm
Ooo YOU'LL PRAY FOR ME?? To a fictional diety. Enjoy wasting your time, you cunt.