08.09.07

Be a good little infant and eat what the state tells you to eat

Posted in Food, Free-market Economics at 3:56 pm by Administrator

One of Hoosierdom’s most venerable institutions, the Indiana State Fair, has banned trans fats.  First state fair in the nation to do so!  What a source of pride – NOT.

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  1. Mr. Dings said,

    August 9, 2007 at 10:00 pm

    And don’t smoke anything but your meat, while that’s still acceptable. Is it not all about health care costs? I can’t imagine the state actually caring about us as souls or even hearts and minds unless they are something to be changed into what it desires. Of course that is purported to be the common welfare.

  2. Bentnotesmanhisself said,

    August 9, 2007 at 10:11 pm

    It’s finger-wagging do-gooders who have found influence with legislators, unelected agency heads and other figures in the state apparatus so as to put into effect their jackbooted totalitarian designs. Health-care costs aren’t the real issue at all. It’s these socialists wanting to render us all helplesss babies at the mercy of their regime. You nail it with the phrase “something to be changed into what it desires.”

  3. Mr. Dings said,

    August 10, 2007 at 7:48 pm

    What, there’s no financial incentive for keeping us from ourselves here?
    Well, isn’t that more moral? I guess it is just that we cannot see the poison. Make mine beer-battered.

  4. Mr. Dings said,

    August 10, 2007 at 8:27 pm

    But, really, jack booted totalitarian designs? Sounds as hyperbolic as freedom-haters. They’re just ninnies and twits. We’re through being cool. Eliminate them! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvCE84ELEn4
    I suppose they think they can force me to grow up, if not prevent me from growing old. At a cost.

  5. Mr. Dings said,

    August 10, 2007 at 8:27 pm

    But, really, jack booted totalitarian designs? Sounds as hyperbolic as freedom-haters. They’re just ninnies and twits. We’re through being cool. Eliminate them! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvCE84ELEn4
    I suppose they think they can force me to grow up, if not prevent me from growing old. At a cost.

  6. Bentnotesmanhisself said,

    August 10, 2007 at 10:28 pm

    Well, they’re ninnies and twits who happened to arm-twist the fair board into making food vendors 86 the trans fats, now, aren’t they?

  7. Mr. Dings said,

    August 11, 2007 at 5:59 pm

    Building me up with their rules…

  8. Mr. Dings said,

    August 12, 2007 at 5:41 pm

    Et tu, Amsterdam?

    http://www.rationalreview.com/content/33453

    How about a ban on lightening?

  9. Mr. Dings said,

    August 12, 2007 at 8:24 pm

    Now this is jack-booted totalitarianism: http://www.chinapost.com.tw/news/2007/08/08/117438/Chinas-new.htm

    Oh, if Tibet only had some oil and some Jews we might have to shock and awe some more…

  10. Mr. Dings said,

    August 12, 2007 at 8:30 pm

    Psst. I know where you can score some killer trans fats, cheap.

  11. Mr. Dings said,

    August 12, 2007 at 9:58 pm

    And, there goes some scenery from the landscape:

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,141400,00.html

  12. Bentnotesmanhisself said,

    August 13, 2007 at 2:57 am

    Alas, Tibet doesn’t have much in the way of oil or Jews, so it’s not a first-tier strategic national-security concern of ours. File under “perfectly sensible.”
    Have you really thought about what it would mean if our array of enemies were able to destroy Israel?

  13. Mr. Dings said,

    August 13, 2007 at 4:23 am

    I would not like to see it, but I don’t like to see us meddling. Damn it, I don’t want to see the world blow over all this. We already went through this threads back. One of those damned if you do, damned if you don’t things that bug the hell out of me. Yes, given the support we have given Israel thus far, and actually I have no real quarrel with the Jews as a people, though many in history have, it would be a real bitch of a war. We are simply not going to allow any forces to conquer Israel. Simply not. Stranger things have happened though. Far too much water over that dam, I’m afraid. Now, do we try to broker peace or let er all come to blows?

  14. Bentnotesmanhisself said,

    August 13, 2007 at 8:41 pm

    It looks like the West, personified by Tony Blair and Condi Rice – and Ehud Olmert – are giving the peace process another go, putting the West’s bets on Abbas.
    It will be interesting to see if it leads to any different results than the last gazillion attempts.

  15. Mr. Dings said,

    August 13, 2007 at 8:49 pm

    Ban Free Markets! They killed this man: http://money.aol.com/news/articles/ar/_a/china-toy-boss-kills-self-after-recall/20070813065009990001

  16. Mr. Dings said,

    August 14, 2007 at 4:45 am

    http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/79005.php

    What about predatory marketing of fast food to children? This do-gooder mentality has been with us for awhile. We are already way down the slippery slope…

  17. Mr. Dings said,

    August 14, 2007 at 6:42 pm

    Perhaps the Indiana guv and legislature can tax trans fats out of existence, the democratic freedom way. Will they call that a slick market where you can get it then? They took away Old MacDonald’s fries! You’ll have to find it in the beef. Oh where oh where has my little cow gone? His carcass gone the way of Frenchie Le Feu, whose empire no longer holds sway. For this is such a brave new world where whiners find a way & losers pay and pay.

  18. Mr. Dings said,

    August 22, 2007 at 8:28 pm

    Follow up: Star columnist Matthew Tulley responds in today’s rag to those complaining about his recommendation in his column that the State Fair should ban smoking:

    http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070822/COLUMNISTS19/708220466/1101/COLUMNISTS19

    A snippet:
    “Cameron Fox went for my soft spot, suggesting “all the extremely fattening foods should be banned from the fair as well.”
    Now that’s offensive.

    A reader named Kadi told me to think of smokers such as her who have tried to quit.
    “Yes, there are patches and means to help break the addiction,” Kadi said. “However, I spend $12 a week on cigarettes. Patches run about $30 a week, which is beyond my budget.”

    Finally, let’s hear from reader Jerry Tiller.
    “We are more and more making smokers seem like a criminal element,” said Tiller, a nonsmoker. “Think about something else to write a column about and let the smokers alone.”

    These are all fair points. And although I still support the smoking ban, I appreciate a good debate.

    Unlike the Nazis.

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