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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters file
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, pictured in January at the U.S. Conference of Mayors winter meeting in Washington, has taken on numerous dietary habits he considers unhealthy.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg — who banned 16-ounce sodas, trans fats in restaurants and public smoking — has a new bug in his ear: young people who play their music too loud through their headphones.
The city's spending a quarter-million dollars to launch a Hearing Loss Prevention Media Campaign warning young people through social media and focus groups about the risk of losing their hearing, The New York Post reported Wednesday.
"With public and private support, a public education campaign is being developed to raise awareness about safe use of personal music players ... and risks of loud and long listening," Nancy Clark, the city Health Department's assistant commissioner of environmental disease prevention, told The Post.
Researchers at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston reported in 2010 that nearly 1 in 5 Americans ages 12 to 19 have lost some of their hearing.
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The researchers didn't single out portable music devices, but cited a 2010 Australian study that linked them with a 70 percent increased risk of hearing loss in children.
Bloomberg has won a reputation for trying to ban things he considers unhealthy. Just last month, he proposed banning Styrofoam because it clogs landfills and might be harmful.
Other things and activities Bloomberg has banned since he was elected in 2001 include:
- Smoking in bars and restaurants.
- Trans fats, the artificial fats used to cook french fries and other greasy treats, which doctors consider the most dangerous saturated fat.
- Menu boards that don't include calorie counts.
- And most famously, soft drinks larger than 16 ounces.
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Maybe next he will consider banning public policy from interfering with private life. How wonderful that NYC has been granted a guardian angel...whether they like it or not!
The city's spending a quarter-million dollars to launch a Hearing Loss Prevention Media Campaign..." Well, that will fall on deaf ears.
danman-1118103
Agree with you on that apart from the banning smoking in public, I was grateful for that!
Maybe he should ban "acting like a pu$$y" as well.
And ban himself???? Hmmm, that actually sounds like a really good idea!
NYC got what they asked for. I really wish they were their own state, it's embarrassing.
Bloomberg behaves like a NAZI. He needs to be curtailed.
Godwinned at 1.6.
Congratulations Shipwrecked, you have won our new NAZI prize. It includes a full, all-expense paid trip to a FEMA death camp, surrounded by OBAMANATION Brown Shirts.
You will get plenty of exercise dodging domestic drone strikes, enjoy a relaxing visit to the torture spa, and receive your complimentary Palin-faced shooting target (for wearing, not shooting at). You'll have an hour each day to call your family from our "possibly" tapped phones, so be sure to stick only to the Obama-approved script you're handed.
I'd go with more, but I'm tired now. Anyone else wanna up the stakes?
ROFL - ban NAZI SCUM
Sieg heil! Sieg heil! Sieg heil!
I love you. great comment. made me laugh and NY has a fine tyrant, now doesn't it.
It's hard to believe this guy was actually elected into office.
That's danman I love btw.
I sispect Nanny Mayor Bloomberg has a very looooooonnnng list of things he wants to ban.
What he should have done was ban himself from reversing a voter passed law preventing him from running for a third term.
In a city over run with gangs and violence he targets sodas and headphones... I have no words.
No man has power over another individual. These are public servants, not an elite class worthy of designing and implementing the manner in which any person or people can, should, and will live their lives. I am so sick and tired of Washington, and politicians in general, taking it upon themselves to tell us, WE THE PEOPLE, how we are to LIVE OUR LIVES. Again, OUR LIVES.
History has a way of tapping us on the shoulder and asking, "Those who came before you are still condemned for not doing anything to stop the so-called authorities. So, what's your excuse?"
It's actually quite funny that this is even being looked at as an issue. As a kid I played drums, was in a band, and used to sit at the edge of the stage litterally right in front of the amps as stage security at local rock shows. I never wore hearing protection, and had multiple tests that showed my hearing to be fine. I love loud music, and at the age of 50 will still listen to music cranked up on a set of ear buds. I am now starting to show signs of high end hearing loss , but can still hold a converstion just fine. As a matter of fact I use my conversational skills to make my living.
This is a non issue. it is merely being used to acclimate the masses to the idea of the big nanny state style government dictating your lives. We the people need to just shove back and say hell no.
When will those who live in New York start revolting, against this jerk they have in office? Surely New Yorkers are not going to stend for this nonsense much longer...the nation is laughing at New York and this idiot in office.
So Hitler has been reborn?
I love this! haha. Libs voting against their own liberty. Gotta love it!
Maybe I'm naive but I honestly thought bans such as these were illegal due to personal right to choose for ones self.
They WILL rise up, but due to this countries current sheep like mentality, they will rise up and re-elect him. Think I am wrong? How do you explain Ted Kennedy in office for so long or the fact Pelosi is re-elected (well thats Cali., so kind of explains that) or any off the other long term Senators and congressmaen from both sides. I am 42 years old and year after year my entire life things have been getting worse, yet 98% of Americans still vote for the Dems or Reps. Can you say baaaaaaahhhhh?
Maybe Bloomburg should concentrate more of the cities financial resources towards crime fighting rather than the New image of the granny state of NY City. I cannot believe these people actually voted for this guy. Even worse is I heard several places he is considering a run for the White House in 2016. ( how scary would that be? )
This countries eleced officials are way out of control. If anyone feels their lives need governed and micro-managed to this degree, I feel sorry for you. The Bloomburg tyes in this country are stealing your liberties and freedoms. The really sad part is, the people of NY City actually are allowing this without any opposition.
I don't like loud music either, but this is not the job of any mayor. He is beginning to sound more like a Nazi. Sure glad I don't live in NY.
forget the headphones ,Bloomberg needs to get"SILENCED"for good
this is getting ridiculous, doesn't this guy have more important things to address ?
and like "Viet Nam era Vet" said, this is not the job of the mayor. He needs to do his job, not regulate the volume of music and the size of soft drinks...
crime, poverty etc. ?
Kornfed, NYC is going to be the template for the rest of the country. Just watch the liberal run cities, they'll pick up on this hardcore real soon.
There is something terribly wrong with Bloomberg, mentally, and I'm not kidding either! I truly believe he needs some in depth mental evaluations. I'd like to say it's because he's a liberal, but even some of the most ardent liberals wouldn't behave like this guy. He is truly fugged up!
Sorry mayor, I'm 57 years old, and I'm gonna be one po'd dude when you're crying that I can't listen to San Berdino at full volume.
I'm sorry mayor that you have a head like a potato. I really am
Just maybe this little weasel will come out from behind his body guards long enough for someone(I volunteer) to kick his assssssssss.
Look up the "Dunkin' Donuts" what-we-can-serve-you placard circulating on facebook. It's really disturbing. I think Bloomberg has gone far enough. Now it's becoming just laughable.
Welcome to the world of Obamacare, this is but the beginning of movements to keep you healthier while at the same time minimizing the costs of providing Obamacare. In other words, if we can prevent you from doing harmful things to yourself now it will cost everyone much less later. Soon you'll see a sin tax on everything that is presumed to be harmful, much like those on tobacco, alcohol, and pretty soon hemp. In doing so, they believe that they'll out price these heath concerns but in reality this will only serve to burden the middle class and enlarge the number of habitually poor.
My God, what's with this guy! How does NY put up with this tyranny? It's true, though, I feel it's only a matter of time before our whole country is run like this. Will we sit back and allow it? I find that we're all too happy to tolerate tyranny when something that bothers us is banned--you know, ban what they are doing. But when we ourselves are affected by it, we whine and complain---and then elect the idiot for another term.
You know, I agree that this guy is a punk ass and needs to quit with his gestapo crap, but this may be one all those kids would thank him for 10 years from now. You will never get it back. Just ask Townshend.
kornfed & bonebreaker:
This guy can run under any ticket he wants to, but he is no liberal. Just another back talking ass. I am a Democrat & would never have voted for him or anyone like him.
New Yorker's seem to love it.
there was a time when NY was called the Big Apple, a chance to make it big or fall hard.
Now, you are told what to drink & how much, what you can not eat, what you can not do here or there, ban this, ban that.
Today, no load headphones. Nanny-Nanny boo-boo
Progress in motion, Tyranny incognito, but it's what is wanted.
F@@k Bloomberg!
He and obama must be brothers --both are little @!$%#s
Bloomberg = Nazi communist.
Here's what we have to say to the imposing self righteous power ya think you have.
,.l.. Mr...
Haha, and your broke dick broke. Hilarious. This should be the first sequestration cut, but it won't be. No one can see that, he'll have to fire some teachers and fireman.
I like Mayor Bloomberg. He's my kind of guy. Too many people in today's world are having fun and enjoying themselves, and it has got to stop. I do everything I can to keep other people from having fun and enjoying themselves, but I am only one man. We need a whole race of supermen like Bloomberg to take over everywhere and put the entire population of hedonists in their place!
Cannonball, Citizen Frank, Kornfed and others....
Uh are you so ignorant that you do not know that Bloomberg is a REPUBLICAN...He has run on the republican line every time as the nominee of their party, the State GOP tried to get him to run for Gov as a Republican.
So much for your whining about Libs...Bloomberg is not a 'lib' nor is he a extreme right winger but he is certainly a fiscal conservative.
As far as some of you being glad you do not live inNew York, the feeling is quite mutual..we would prefer you make your little visits, spend your money and leave.
Chosen you mean the Republican Party Nominated a man who is a Nazi Communist?
NY is not overrun by gangs as one said on here, you watch WAY too much TV
Really glad I don't live there. What's next instead of calling Bloomberg the mayor they'll call him " Premier" . Like they don't have bigger problems to aim all that mind power towards.
The man is just trying to save public monies.
When people show up with type II diabetes (from the sodas) or with sever hearing loss, I can imagine that many of you will say these poor people are victims who are deserving of medical assistance.
I am not thrilled with the nanny state, but I understand that he is putting these restrictions in place to curb long term health care costs.
I would rather see him enact something along the lines of.... if you doctor tells you to watch your diet because you are pre-type II and you don't, the person should get to pay (quite literally) for their arrogance.
The same goes for loud music in headphones. Eventually you will have hearing loss and should be expected to buy your own over-priced hearing aids.
Now what do I do with all my stock in hearing aids and batteries???
Amazing what sheep people can become! This a-hole has gone beyond nanny-state, he is Hitler like and the people of New York are too stupid to figure that out! People are letting themselves become beaten down drones giving up THEIR freedoms and liberties - how pathetic!
By building critical housing units and improving the public education system, that New York is in desperate need of, Bloomberg would put the $225,000 to better use. He never gives up on trying to run and control the lives of others.
...talk about being on a power trip.
Thank gawd we have this man to save the lib's from themselves. Clearly they are too stupid to look out for their own good.
#1.7 (I don't know who to reference)- HYSTERICAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok hitler!!
Frankly True
Cannonball, Citizen Frank, Kornfed and others....
Perhaps you would like to revise your statement. If you still want to hold your position, I will get into why he switched to independent if you would like to know the reality.
Mayor Bloomberg is the prince of the financial center of the world. Arguably the largest concentration of wealth in the world. In intimate proximity with some of the worst poverty in the developed world. Survivor guilt by the wealthy in the huge concrete jungle of NYC leads to wealthy liberals imposing their will by taxing the you-know-what out of the rest of us to pay off their guilt. But they keep their money, power and influence, while we get fleeced. Y'know, banning noise from headphones (or 32 oz. sodas, or trans-fats, or DRIVING CARS in Manhattan, etc.) may not be a bad idea at first, unless it leads to an infinite regression of impositions by a benign dictator, who suddenly doesn't sound that benign anymore. As goes NYC, so goes the nation.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own
good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C. S. Lewis [ www.lpboulder.org/quotes ]
Worm meat,
I thought Conservatives were for small government.
Deciding what people can eat and meandering in their bedrooms is the opposite of small government.
This nazi is not going to stop, is he? His obsessive-compulsive fanaticism regarding "health" clearly shows that there is something really wrong (and psychologically unhealthy) with him.
Frankly True, you're right he did run as a Republican, but Bloomberg is a political chameleon. First a Democrat, then a Republican, now an Independent.
"Bloomberg began his career at the securities brokerage Salomon Brothers before forming his company in 1981 and spending the next twenty years as its Chairman and CEO.[4] He also served as chairman of the board of trustees at his alma mater Johns Hopkins University from 1996 to 2002.[1] A Democrat before seeking elective office, Bloomberg switched his party registration in 2001 to run for mayor as a Republican. He defeated opponent Mark Green in close election held just weeks after the September 11 terrorist attacks. Bloomberg won a second term in 2005 and left the Republican Party two years later.[4] He campaigned to change the city's term limits law in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and was elected to his third term in 2009 as an independent candidate on the Republican ballot line."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg
It seems like he only became a Republican to ride on the wave of President Bush's approval rating right after 9-11.
BLOOMBURG you stupid idiot!!!
Stick to the honking taxis at 2:00AM , gangs, dirty cops, and your favorite hookers.
Since when have you EVER been near a common man listening to "loud ear buds"?
THIS IS WHY POLITICIANS ARE TOOLS!!!!!
Kornfed
Frankly True
Cannonball, Citizen Frank, Kornfed and others....
Kornfed,
Initially, Bloomberg ran as a "moderate to liberal leaning" Republican.
However, he switched his governing style. He "oversees" the city of New York as a Republican who is dedicated to the 1%.
Of all US citizens, NYC dwellers seem to be the most provincial. I like that, wouldn't want an arrogant New Yorker living next door here in BumF**K, Arkansas.
Well, at least he hasn't banned earbuds.........YET. Funny how this clown has gone nanny-happy- what's next for NYC- mandatory city-wide calisthenics because he thinks we need the excercise?
They only wear headphones to drown out Bloomberg's constant yapping. If he would shut his oversized pie hole things would be much quieter. The world would be a better place. The big mouth Governor from Jersey is a close second.
It's a good thought but HELL if they want to be deaf let them, as long as the State does not have to foot the bill for their rehabilitation when they can't hear.
I thank god/God/dog EVERY DAY that I do NOT live in the sorry State of New York, and the EVEN SORRIER cesspool of New York City!
I'm sorry. I could not hold it back any more.
i wonder what form of government dictates what it's citizens can and cannot do?
i know the risks, and i do it anyways because i LIKE to and it is none of YOUR damn business. i don't do it when it disturbs others, i am respectful about it (not all are, i am aware of that, and i find that just as annoying as most people do...however, not being respectful of others is not a crime).
life is short and i will do whatever i enjoy doing, so long as it harms nobody else i will take whatever risks i choose.
Huh?
Very well put >danman-1118103<
The nanny needs to stick his head up his butt if he don't want to hear the music.
Now we see where Obama is getting his direction from...
I have a friend, not yet sixty, who spent a lot of time in his twenties at rock concerts (employee, not spectator). He estimates he's lost at least 40% of his hearing because of that. Do you want to try to get kids to act sensibly now for a quarter of a million bucks (which probably wouldn't build even one unit of a public housing development, by the way), or do you want to spend millions on them when they are sixty and can't hear anything?
The mayor isn't being a nanny, he's doing his best to hold down health-care costs and to get people to act in their own best interests. I don't live there, but I have teen-agers in my family. They're not allowed to listen to loud noises in their ears. If more people exercised some self-control, we wouldn't have epidemics of obesity, diabetes, and deafness. Wake up, America. When you can't hear them coming for you, you're in big trouble.
Do we have a comprehensive list of everything that this control-freak tyrant has banned or is banning?
Large sodas
salt
transfats
smoking
painkillers at the ER
loud headphones
freedom
what else? what else?
Anyone who thinks this is a legitimate use of time and resources should probably stop typing now. Carpal tunnel, you know...
Sorry, it's the fault of the people who elected him. He needs to get a hobby and out of everyone's business. He says that this is his last term. For the sake of the people in NYC I hope so.
I don't care what people think is too load through a pair of fricken HEADPHONES? Get Real Laws like this are socialistic in nature and it seems the mayor of New York is 100% socialist. Next he'll make a law saying your underwear has to be white. GET A LIFE BLOOMBERG!!!!!!
I am sure that Bloomy never uses headphones.... It is too hard to put them on when your head is so far up your a$$! The people of NYC need to send him back to LaLa land!
Hey NYC.....who yo daddy? Doomberg yo daddy. He tells you what to eat, what to wear, what to listen to. For that privilige, you get to pay more taxes than any other American city. And the icing on the cake for all this lunacy is that YOU had a choice, and chose HIM to run your lives. Bwahaha.
Was he elected mayor or father? Because while I agree that playing music too loud is bad for kids ears, I really don't think it's the city's job to parent these kids. If their moms and dads don't give a @!$%# then why should he?
Aside of the fact that he is the Nanny from hell you have to admit he means well, the problem is people voted for a leader and they got a Nanny, in the mean time violence and drugs run wild and he is attempting to control personal issues that are best dealt with through education and that is a problem, and when his police force is in need of constant supervision he is looking at issues that a government figure should only address to his educational professionals if there are any,leave the decision process of individuals to the individual. good intentions are a wast of time, his time should be devoted to the budget and the enforcement of laws, enfrastructure and things that make the system work more efficiently not babysitting that's a different story all together, it looks like he is addicted to his pet peeves, a trueLiberal, that is stepping over the limit of social tolerance. he is leaning to far to the left when he wants to control his citizens lives. even if his opinionsare correct he is going to far. he is right but he is wrong. we dont elect politicians for that reason, people like him and even the first lady need to understand that, in fact we did not hire or elect the first lady to do anything, her job is to just be the first lady, their is no pay check, and their is no job description, she should simply be a gracious hostess, no first lady in history ever had a office till Hillery showed up and she was not on the payroll and we should not have given her a office to conduct business out of, things are getting f'ed up. you might say Elanor was a assistant to Theodore that was true and a exception to the fact, and if the time comes when we have a first Gentleman I would expect him to assume the roll of a supporter of the POTUS with no pay check, and no office other then a desk in the upper living quarters. now if Obama feels he should appoint his wife to a office such as secretary of state and the senate approves the nomination then she can have her office. in short people need to get out of peoples business. and we as a nation need to stop playing games.
@Janine984304; Just the constitution, you would think he thinks he owns the people, maybe that is what happens when you have all the money you go socialist, and you think everything belongs to you. its just that the constitution is in the way, they need to get rid of the constitution so they can do their self appointed job. the second amendment is a good place to start if that goes it all goes like domino's. they almost have the first with the PC thing and the hate crime issues. they are working on it busy little beavers.
Definition of a Liberal: An individual who believes in personal freedom to the max. This is the definition of a liberal. Liberals believe in individual freedoms to the max. Will you people please get it right? If a politician is limiting as many individual freedoms as possible then he/she is NOT a LIBERAL. I am so tired of people misusing this word. If you don't know the definition of a word before you use please look it up. There is huge difference between a LIBERAL AND A CONSERVATIVE. Mayor Bloomberg is more conservative than he is Liberal. There is also ultra conservative. And ultra-conservatives are far worse than conservatives.
And judging from everything Mayor Bloomberg has banned he comes off to me as a conservative. After all Conservatives do believe in controlling the freedoms and rights of everyone lives. They like strict rules in place so they can control everybody and everything. They do not believe in minding their own business. They believe in governing everyone's lives and running everybody's businesses. That's what they do. That's who they are. They are conservative. They are very strict and do not believe in any personal liberties except their own. They only believe they should have the right to do as they please while forcing everyone else to comply to their way of life. And they believe that they are acting for everybody else's good even when they know damn well that we are responsible for our own lives and our own health.
They claim they pay all of our bills when the last time I checked I paid all of my own bills. I have them set up to where they automatically come out of my bank account. And I'm sure that most of the people who are deaf is footing their bill and if they are then a close relative is or maybe a close friend, but it damn sure isn't the government. Now, Medicaid maybe footing the bill for some, but these people worked and paid taxes for years so hell the government should assist them. After all it is their tax dollars. Just like social security, you work all your life and it is automatically taken out of your paycheck, so when you become disabled or you want to retire that money is rightfully yours. And this is why conservatives have no valid argument when they make idiotic comments about footing the bill for liberals or footing the bill for the whole country.
"I really be wanting to say since when have you all ever paid my bills or anybody else's bills that's in my family or lives close to me." As if liberals don't work and earn money too. I mean conservatives really piss me off with their stupidity and wanting to control everything and everybody. And Mayor Bloomberg is included because this just crass. He is going too damn far. He cannot tell people how low or how high they should listen to their music. Hell, if they go death I'm pretty damn sure they will have their own private health insurance which will be coming out of their own paychecks, and not the taxpayers like some of you idiots like to claim, and that's how the expenses will be handled. So it is none of his damn business and this has absolutely nothing to do with him.
New York needs another mayor. I'm not understanding how he got elected the second time. I mean how in the hell could the residents of New York city re-elect such an idiot. I don't understand. How do you live in a city that damn strict and be completely comfortable with it? How? I mean doesn't anybody in that city have a problem with the way he is running things? I mean enough people should be getting together protesting and rallying their representatives to make him repeal some of those laws. I mean there is no way I could just sit idly by and let him run my city they way he wants to. I would be gathering up everybody I know and we would be protesting to high heavens. The governor and the state congress would have to intervene and make him repeal them laws. He would learn quickly if it was me. I'm just saying.
Bloomberg needs to take a remedial 7th grade Civic's class. Has he heard of the "Bill of Right's and Individual liberties"?
Kornfed.
Nope, my statement stands, he's no Repub.
Spiddas,
Whatever state you live in, no doubt the state of New York places more "greenbacks" in the federal treasury in the form of revenue contributions. Like it or not, the state is the financial, fashion and entertainment center of the country. Even the city of New York probably puts more dollars into the federal kitty than where you live...not every person can mentally handle "Mayberry" with Aunt Bee.
Don Nanny Bloomberg Quixote, Mayor of La Mancha, has found another windmill to attack.
I remember when the Walkman (and later, Discman) came out in the late 70's/early 80's and everyone said the exact same thing. Those fears never really materialized, however, because teens listened to their favorite tunes at a comfortable (i.e., non-dangerous) level. It is inherently fairly painful to listen to music through headphones at a too-loud level, which is why 99.99% of listeners don't do it. But good luck Nanny Quixote. Another giant for you to slay (and spend tax dollars on while asking for federal reconstruction money for Sandy). Ole!
I have to give him props on this, though. He's not banning it outright, instead he's just launching an awareness campaign, and it's for a pretty good cause.
Then again, maybe he'll try to ban loud machinery next. PFFFFT, what idiot thought up roads that need maintenance?
Wake up and smell the Nazi camps sweetheart.
I think it's a great idea to WASTE $250,000 on something so very trivial. He's a rich arrogant A-hole. The November elections cant come soon enough...although he never listened to the people in the first place...he's no better than any communist/socialist/Nazi/ out there.
Janstince: Every personal audio product I have ever bought includes an insert from the Consumer Electronics Association which says "Read this important information before using your headset" or something similar. It contains warnings about safe volume levels. I'm not sure what else Bloomberg expects to accomplish with his awareness campaign, except maybe to enhance people's awareness of HIM.
oh com'on its NYC. $250k, some of you pay that much every few months just in rent.
LOL Sean. I feel bad for the folks in NYC its crazy expensive to live there.
lmao @ Sean
Hey it is expensive to live here but we make a lot more money too. It is all relative.
To each his own
Why don't you tell the diswasher kid how he makes so much more money.....pffft, that is what is wrong with "your" city right there.
New Yorkers did not hand a 3rd term over to Bloomberg. From majors being limited to two terms to granting himself a 3rd term, Bloomberg changed the city's charter...apparently, he flexed his muscles. His Democratic challenger, Thompson, lost his mayoral bid by only 3%. No doubt, many New Yorkers wanted a change!
I'm with him on this issue. I have a loud ringing in my ears 24/7 caused by avaition noise when I was younger. Those using headphones will face the same issue. Every mayor & governor should do something about loud car horns also.
I love uncle Nanny!
He should just direct the NYPD to stop and frisk anyone wearing headphones in a public place and confiscate them for their own safety.
Satanick - that's phase two. He's got to get the lemmings on his side first before criminalizing personal choice and independent thought, once again.
I have no problem with the NYPD stopping to frisk anyone they want to. This is one of the best way to find and confiscate hand guns.
As a gay man I have no problem being frisked by a cute cop....
I have no problem with the NYPD stopping to frisk anyone they want to. This is one of the best way to find and confiscate hand guns.
Hahahahaha
The mayor has become a professional pest...
King Bloomie is doing things to make you safer and more secure in your daily lives! You should applaud his efforts!
Good day, citizen! Be well!
You don't live in America do you?
Matt is invoking the image of Dr. Raymond Cocteau, the dictatorial ruler of "San Angeles" in the Demolition Man movie. Worthy of your viewing, M*A*S*H Fan, since the comparison of Bloomberg to Cocteau (who controlled virtually all aspects of society) is pretty striking.
OK, so what you are saying is that we the people need help making decisions on our own safety. That scares me. What about a persons right to choose. And as for the 16oz soda thing (i'll have 2)
Wow, some of you are really sarcasm-challenged huh?
Matt & ChrisMcK - That's exactly what I was thinking of as I read this, Demolition Man... Maybe he'll make salt illegal next.
@ChrisMcK & @Yearight-2805952:
Very good, citizens. I would like to ask you both to accompany to me dinner at... (wait for it)... Taco Bell!
Frankly True
You are correct and thanks for clearing things up. Where are the gangs of which they speak? They certainly do not come to my neck of the (New York City) woods. I love New York. :)
hahahaha...i wonder what's next...
Flatulence (in your own pants), nose picking (your own nose of course) and infant projectile vomiting.
MRZ-1191248
hey great ideas might I forward this to bloommy
Dear NYC Residents,
As you can see I have begun to build
my great and.... errr I mean OUR great Utopia.Myerrr OUR way of thinking will lead to bans on Metal and Rap (too violent/trashy/sexy) Videogames that have guns or violence, and Parents, Schools, Youth Sports Teams, Social Clubs will be mandated to give every child a medal everyday for doing absolutely nothing and having done it so well, because we dont want to make anyone sad they weren't good enough to earn it. Then will come the meat ban, because after all, animals are people too right? Then the ban on suggestive dresswear (because after all ladies nut jobs like me think your at fault for being desirable) so people wont feel inadaquite or want to commit rape. Then the ban on children in public, if there are no children in site nothing bad will happen right?Lastly will be the ban on your voting rights, because after all I
the great and powerful Oz....er I mean YOUR mayor have already decided whats best for you and damn it why would you want to give the job to someone else. Thank you NYC residents for letting me makemy perf....err I mean OUR perfect Utopia,Your Welcome.
The great and pow...Mayor Bloomberg"All pigs are equal but some pigs are more equal than others" Orwell's Animal Farm
Given enough time, NYC will become as it was in Orwell's 1984
If we had more mayors like Bloomeberg in out cities, maybe we could get the problem with hand guns under control once and for all.
naivete, thy name is davey
Sure davey and then they'll confiscate books that they don't like. Next, movies they don't like will be banned, then on to music of certain types and finally there will be thought police.
Handguns and firearms in general are not the problem, idiots like you that blame inanimate objects for the ills of society are.
Yes Davey, and then they will haul you off for having subversive thoughts. It is so much better to violate people's rights to privacy (oops, don't let them find your little stash of weed!). What book are you reading??? Hmmmm too controversial. You seem to need re-education.
Silly statists don't want to be free but don't realize that they are the first ones who will suffer under tyranny.
Bloomberg has done a pretty good job in some areas, cleaning up many of the city's fiscal issues, lower crime and generally making NYC more livable. It's too bad he's become so full of himself and feels he has the obligation to enforce his will and curtail individual freedoms.
And NYC may breaking new ground in usurping personal liberties, but cities in California are just as bad. San Francisco was the first to ban toys in Happy Meals. Perhaps instead of banning all this stuff the government should just take away everyones children and raise them so they become "model citzens."
Why don't you ban honking car horns and auto alarms that go off for no reason.
Coughing or sneezing in public!
Uh Car Alarms are banned in NYC (Nobody paid any attention anyway) and Honking is a $250 fine.
You have a car alarm going off for hours you better hope the police get you before one of us throws a brick through your windshield!
Happy now?
Frankly True
You sound like Ernest T. Bass, only difference he threw Rocks..
Bloomberg is definitely redefining NYC - it's no longer New York City, it's more like Now You Can't.
While I agree that high volume music is bad for the hearing, the question is how much right does the government have to delve into your personal habits? Better to go after the booming boxes in cars that rattle the neighborhood windows and make it impossible for the driver to hear emergency vehicles than individuals stumbling around with buds in their ears, trying how to not properly spell anything as they text, twit and socialize themselves into oblivion (oh, yeah, and watch out for that bus with it's horn blaring at you).
What really scares me is that there are people who want this idiot to run for president in 2016.
Well said pahoo! I can't believe it either. Why anybody would want this billionaire to be the leader of our country must have also voted for the current CINC (Clown-IN-Chief).
Why must so many of my fellow Americans act like sheep and just follow the herd. Pick somebody new people. Get the corrupt scum out of Washington before they drive us past the point of no return.
Maybe we'll get lucky and he and Prince Mario Cuomo will take each other out of the race. Maybe they can even drag Hilary down with them. Who's that leave to run for the Democratic nomination? Biden? Oh, crap. Just can't win.
How about banning the idiots here who honk the second after the light turns green?
Yeah - sorry about that. I didn't know it was you
NJSteve
!!! lmao! I'm glad I wasn't drinking a soda!
Nice! Thanks for the late-day laugh! :)
I know what you mean. Last week thursday morning I was sitting at a light when it turned green. Some fudgehole honked his horn at me. Pissed me off so bad I was going to throw my beer at him. But I thought that might have been a bit over the top. :-)
you're drinking a beer, while driving, on a Thursday morning?
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I've always thought that people should pass a seperate test and have a rider on their drivers license that allows them to even have a horn.
Lots of people seem to believe that their horn is directly connected to the other guy's accelerator.
Hillary Clinton running the christian founded promised land will just be another Time-Stamp mark, pre- written in Revelations.
As posted relier, there is a $250 fine for honking
Remember it is not the NYers that honk, it is the people from outside the city, most of us Manhattanites do not own cars.
"honk" haha! i never do that , just lay down on the siren or AIRHORN ! that gets them going or they just pull over
Emperor Bloomberg...has a nice ring to eh? This putz has grown waaay too large for his bloomers! New Yorkers must love him! I'd move to NJ rather than put up with his control. Maybe next will be a camera in every domicile so he can make sure you don't do anything unhealthy?
Quick review:
He took salt shakers off the table in restaurants.
He took "Big Gulp" cups of soda away too.
He was instrumental in upping the price of tobacco products with higher taxes.
He wants to take your guns.
When did we ask this Dork to be our Nanny?
Lets give him a sex change, sign him up in a convent, and he can wrangle a second grade class - where he belongs. Is this the future of America?
As a kid, I rode a bike without a helmet, shot BB guns without safety goggles, rode in cars without seatbelts and even played lawn darts - and lived to tell about it.
Seriously - Bloomberg buddy, F*@k OFF!
You forgot the "stop and frisk" laws.
Uh salt shakers have not been taken off the tables...
Smoking rates are lower in NYC than almost anywhere else, improving health for all,
We have had strict gun laws here for a long time, you go live your paranoia on having guns in some Midwest state.
I sincerely doubt you live in NYC so you have no say in th matter, stay in BumF--k Arkansas
Frankly True
You and your pole smoking homo ilk can keep new york city. You better hope he doesn't go after your dildos next.
Lmao Tom, That was just plain hilarious!
What's next? I didn't realize the mayor had that much power. S'up, New York? Good luck trying that here (MN).
I still think the libbies are looking for that perfect utopia like in "Demolition Man". Where everything that is bad for you is illegal. Let me know what the 3 shells are for.
Yikes, then we'll all have to eat at Taco Bell!
I'd rather eat at taco bell every night for the rest of my (what would be short) life than to live a single day under the rule of these dictators.
@ Onermalii: Please learn what a liberal is. I mean the definition of a liberal. Because most liberals want you to be free to so as you please. I am so sick and tired of these idiotic jokes about liberals. If you are going to try and be sarcastic please be well informed.
LMAO!!!! This guy reminds of one of those grumpy old men who sit on their porch, telling all them young whipper-snappers to "stay off of my lawn!". As rich as he is, I'm pretty sure he'll just outsource that particular job, with all of the preventative engineering he's into. Hey Bloomy, I'm getting ready to go home, and: smoke a cigarette, jam my music (Metallica) as loud as my amp will go, and drink a 42oz. Mountain Dew, out of a styrofoam cup of course, and eat a whole bowl of greasy transfats, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it!
(Footnote: sarcasm omitted for obvious reasons...), except for the Metallica part...ha!ha!ha!
@NPC
Izzat the Kill em All album?
i loved me some frank and now alvin is gone too. we may not be far behind but my children still spout excerpts from joe`s garage(especially don work for yuda) i am surprised not by the words but they can still hear. turn it up!
@NPCDan
I would guess "And Justice for All..." album
@ Larry
Have you heard or seen the Yellow Shark stuff Zappa did in Europe. Priceless
It's good to see that NY has solved all of their real problems. Now they can move on to banning large drinks and loud headsets.
What an entitled @!$%# ...
This man is a GOD!!! No, really, he is acting lacyually ike he is a god.. a dangerous guy with authority with no respect for anyone's liberty or choice. He is so sure of his own superior wisdom he thinks all must submit to him for their own good.
Progressives are like that!
So this little pip-squeak dictator is determined to save us from ourselves, pray to God this insane imbecile never buys his way to the oval office
Just wait...Bloomberg/Emanuel
actually, not lacyually...sorry.
Spending more money of other peoples' money that we don't have on more studies, campaigns and laws that we don't need. Good stuff, Mike. If you want to be President, I hear there is an opening for a socialist in Venezuela.
What did he say?!
Banning large sodas and transfats were great because the hope of reducing the number of fat people is a wonderful thing. Same with smoking that affects everyone around the smoker.
However... government interference for how loud one listens to music while not affecting others should not be allowed. I have the same argument for seatbelts and motorcycle helmets. The only way I would support things like this is if they directly affected my pocketbook. If the damage done by loud music or not wearing a seatbelt etc. only affects the individual, then the government should butt out. (common sense of course dictates not to blast music or go without a seatbelt etc..)
I don't agree with you one bit. As a responsible adult, I do not need the gvt. telling me what I can and cannot eat or drink. If you don't want to eat trans fats or drink a large soday, then don't. Stay the hell out of my life though.
@telemark 8, I can't agree with you at all. The fact is we are moving away from the freedoms we once had as a country. Once we start down the road of, "If it affects my wallet......" we are talking about a shift from the freedom of the INDIVIDUAL to the "GOOD FOR ALL" movement that we saw in eastern Europe. The fact is that if you truly want freedom and understand what freedom is, than you have to accept the fact that there are some costs associated with freedom. We are free to make bad decisions just as we are free to make good ones. With your thought process, where do you think we will be with Obamacare verse your lifestyle?? If we want to make freedom totally cost free from a financial standpoint, you can kiss real freedom goodbye.
As an example, as a person that enjoys a good cigar or pipe.(tobacco that is), I cannot walk in NY's Central Park and enjoy it as I have done for more than 20 years without facing a fine. But anyone familier with Central Park knows that as city parks go, it is huge. There is no reason why I can't have my enjoyment too when I am not near anyone else. I bring this up because the loss of freedom is comes like a dripping faucet, not like a wave. What you are saying is that under certain conditions, you are willing to give up your freedom. I think that is sad.
No, you do need the gov telling you what you can and cannot eat because then when you need to go to the hospital and cannot pay for it yourself, the tax payers are left to foot the bill. Just because you are an adult does not mean you can eat whatever you want or do whatever you want because if you can't afford the consequences for your actions, the public will pay for your stupid decisions.
@truth, what actually make you believe that the government knows more than the average person? If you follow your thought process, you will find that most of your freedom will be gone. There will always be someone that feels that they are affected by someone else's behavior. That cannot be legislated away without giving away your freedom. Whether you are a Dem or Rep or independent, we can all point to very stupid things that the government does. I don't want those people anywhere near my freedom. I know more than they do. Do you?
So it's ok to take away other people's freedoms as long as it's not ones you enjoy? How very progressive of you.
telemark8,Whether it is food,tobacco products or loud music it is not the governments business as we are supposed to be able to have liberty in this country.You can't dictate what you think is unhealthy because somebody will come along and find something that you do that is unhealthy thus taking away your liberty.If you like living under a dictators rule there are many countries that would welcome you.
This guy is a frigin dictator. Get rid of him as soon as you can.
@ Just a cleaning lady, you are so right. Think of how many things the media says are bad for you. One day it too much or this or to little of that. Coffee is good, no wait..its bad, wine is good, but now linked to something bad and on and on. We are all going to die. That is the way it is. Just because someone has been elected to office, or in Nanny Bloomberg's case, bought his way to office, doesn't give them some special insight. Bloomberg is about his own agenda, not the will of the people he claims to represent.
Telemark, what is the difference? Banning trans-fats, salt and sodas or going after people with headphones and forcing people to wear helmets, etc... There is no difference. And smoking outdoors does not necessarily affect others--it depends how close they are and where the wind is. Be serious
I always wondered what type of contraband he carries in those bags under his eyes ? He would make a good Boy Scout. He could carry a sleeping bag, pack, canteen & First Aid kit in those bags under those eyes.
Those bags are packed!!!! He must lie awake at night thinking about all the things that annoy him - thus, the bags.
Bloomberg has to be the biggest nanny mayor in the U.S.You would think that he was elected the king.
I think it's a tie between Bloomberg & whoever is mayor of San Francisco... they banned toys from Happy Meals in SF.
What a nut job. What else can he ban? Cola, and now headphones? Sure taking a bite out of crime there psycho. Keep it up, with brains like this maybe you can run for president. I think you may fit in.
As usual another out of touch politician swinging at the low hanging fruit. How about starting with real problems like the muggers/gangs/mutants on the subway?
I remember a line from a movie which said that NYC was the new model for the concentration camp where the residents were to proud to leave because they were prisoners and guards as well as the architects or their own hell.
I support the mutant ban.