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The Problem With Lawmaking

The problem with lawmaking is that no one knows when to quit:

“We have to do away with the new and improved Four Loko,” [State Senator Jeff] Klein (D-Bronx) told The News Thursday. “Colorful cans, sweet flavors, and kids still have access to this stuff in bodegas, delis, and convenience stores.”

Revamped Four Loko hit New York stores six weeks ago, four months after law enforcement pressured the company to take out the caffeine. The drinks were blamed for several deaths of drinkers under 21 across the country and have been banned in several states.

Klein’s bill would require booze containing more than 6% alcohol, along with at least 1% sugar and a fruity, spicy, or chocolate/vanilla flavor, move to liquor store shelves. He will announce a more detailed plan during a press conference Sunday.

OK — more than six percent alcohol and a chocolate flavor . . . so where does this leave Brooklyn Brewery’s 10 percent ABV Black Chocolate Stout? And don’t a lot of people use sugar in the beer brewing process?

Posted: March 26th, 2011 | Filed under: Fear Mongering, Feed

It Feels Like Something I Saw On Web Soup; It Hurts

Kickball-snark experts at the Brooklyn Paper sound the alarm about subpar renovations at Brooklyn’s McCarren Park Kickball Fields:

Just try to imagine a summer without Brooklyn Kickball. It’s a nightmare, right?

Location Scout: McCarren Park.

Posted: March 15th, 2011 | Filed under: Brooklyn, Fear Mongering

I Know There’s An Obesity Problem In This Country, But You Can’t Find At Least A Couple Of People That Could Do The Same Job?

The mayor clarifies his position on immigration reform:

Hizzoner boasted on his radio show Friday that the leaders of 11 major fashion houses have pledged their support to his efforts to fix the nation’s immigration policy.

Without that change, the hottest models might start strutting their stuff on catwalks far from New York, Bloomberg warned.

“What’s happened is that some fashion people can’t get their models over here,” Bloomberg said. “So they start to cancel some of their photo shoots, because they can’t get models in or the cameras.”

The Daily News goes on to note that this is the same issue that Anthony Weiner brought up two years ago — and was ridiculed about by the mayor’s reelection team.

Posted: February 19th, 2011 | Filed under: Fear Mongering, Follow The Money

Now That The Storyline Is Intact, We Can Make It Look Like 24 Again

Now that it’s clear that the mayor was wrong (and our apologies to the governor for doubting his national security intelligence credentials), and that this was Full-Fledged Terrorism With International Links!, it’s important to raise the stakes again — try freaking the fuck out of everyone for no fucking reason, to start:

The car bomb planted in Times Square came within a “millisecond” of causing “mass casualties” with a 30-foot high fireball, an explosives expert said.

Kevin Barry, a retired NYPD bomb squad supervisor and the head of the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators, painted a gruesome picture of what might have been if the bomb had gone off Saturday night.

“Several hundred” could have been killed or maimed by a fireball exploding from the Nissan Pathfinder found loaded down with firecrackers, fertilizer, gasoline, propane and alarm clocks.

A “millisecond”?

Posted: May 4th, 2010 | Filed under: Everyone Is To Blame Here, Fear Mongering, Makes Jack Bauer Scream, "Dammit!", New York Daily News

More Like This And I Really Won’t Care That You’re Behind A Pay Wall

The Post has a reporter go “undercover” as an obnoxious cab-sharer on the first day of the TLC’s new program to allow riders to share taxi rides down Park Avenue just so people “get a taste” of what they’re in for:

As the shared-ride program was unveiled yesterday, an undercover Post reporter rode along with three Upper East Side women and gave them a taste of some of the uncouth behavior they could encounter when crammed in the back seat with fellow commuters.

Turning on the dreaded taxi TV was the first of countless annoying ways our reporter was able to disrupt the ride.

Reading too much into actions, manufacturing an “issue” where nothing is there and proving the negative — sounds a lot like blogging actually! And this after fewer than two dozen people actually took advantage of the shared-ride program.

Posted: March 4th, 2010 | Filed under: Fear Mongering, New York Post
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