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Topic: Smokey and the Bandit IV-Smuggling
soda past Bloomberg T. Injustice |
Smokey and the Bandit IV-Smuggling
soda past Bloomberg T. Injustice
Washington Times, by Eric Golub
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 2/27/2013 11:48:05 AM
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| LOS ANGELES —“Eastbound and Down, loaded up and trucking…We’re gonna do what they say can’t be done… We got a long way to go, and a short time to get there…Eastbound for another Bandit run.” New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has now been warned. If he thought the Boston Tea Party and 1776 were revolutions, just try and restrict access to soda in 2013. The Founding Fathers rebelled against a tax. Bloomberg wants an outright ban. Not in this lifetime. In 1977, Burt Reynolds and Jerry Reed were not going to let restrictive laws on alcohol
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Comments:
This is pretty funny and a nice departure from all the serious things we are dealing with.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
RayLRiv, 2/27/2013 12:02:26 PM (No. 9199073)
One of my favorite movies. What makes it even funnier is that my old minister at the church I met my wife (Manhattan Church of Christ, 80th and Madison Ave) looked just like Buford T. Justice.
Bloomberg T. Injustice.
Awesome. Brilliant.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
CaptainChuck, 2/27/2013 12:02:27 PM (No. 9199074)
Why doesn´t anyone care to mention that large diet drinks are not banned? An inconvenient truth?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
CEP, 2/27/2013 12:09:30 PM (No. 9199092)
"We’re Americans. We’re citizens. We have a right to tell our government to leave us the heck alone...."
Not just soda but a whole lot of other things. It´s time we told those politicians that they have really overstepped the bounds.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
coyote56, 2/27/2013 12:43:27 PM (No. 9199155)
This made my morinig a little better - one of my favorites. Reminds me of some of the fun we had during the 2008 campaign with "Joe the Plumber, country western support & Tea Party speeches. Too bad Clint Eastwood was the only good part of the 2012 campaign - think I will write Tom Selleck this year. Don´t lose your sense of humor or start a 3rd Party - stay with Rand Paul, Ted Cruz & Rubio.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
coldoc, 2/27/2013 1:30:07 PM (No. 9199244)
All kidding aside (and I enjoyed this article), New Yorkers keep voting for these nutballs. Thrice, I believe. Look in the mirror, fools.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
zoidberg, 2/27/2013 2:27:39 PM (No. 9199347)
Dr. Brown’s Black Cherry and Taco Doritos are on the way.
Dr. Brown’s Black Cherry is the best soda on earth.
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