More Nanny State, a la Bloomberg

[Ken]

San Francisco city attorney sues Monster Beverage over energy drink marketing to kids.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...d9d_story.html

[BENESSE]

I bet I can top that, Ken.
Just when I thought things couldn't get much worse, now this:


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/ny...ted-ad.html?hp

The city actually pays someone to troll the classified ads looking for behavior that is not PC. It is SO outrageous, it makes me incandescent with rage.

[Ken]

The New York City Commission on Human Rights. Just another example I can point to when someone asks me about wasteful government spending I would cut.

[Rick]

This thing in San Fran is a fence walker for me. On one hand energy drinks are being investigated by the FDA to determine if there are health risks associated with them. On the other hand, I don't need my government telling me what I can and cannot drink. Then on the other hand, kids are free to purchase them and their parents may never know so it's not like parents can exercise control over their kids. Finally, on the other hand, I don't see it much differently than cigarettes when it comes to kids.

[randyt]

And on the other hand a 15 year old girl can buy over the counter "morning after pill". Yet maybe not a monster drink LOL.