The hell with hurricane sandy victims still in tents we´re talking big gulps here!!

Wow, there is hope for NYC after all!

Perhaps we should submit Obamacare to this judge.

Pardon the additional, but here´s a suggestion just for fun of course...

When Steve Martin makes his sequel to his infamous comedy movie "The Jerk"...
he could make it as a parody biography of Bloomturd...

Maybe calling it...
"The Soda Jerk"

Remember Martin opined he might have a casting contest called something similar
to a "bake off".... ?

Well... he could now stage a "Soda Jerk etc" with Bloomturd as unwitting "star"...
Can you tell I cannot stand Bloomy?

How sweet it is. Finally, a commonsense decision which respects the rights of citizens to do whatever the heck they want. It´s only when the gummint takes charge of your healthcare costs that this nonsense becomes even remotely thinkable. Nanny Bloomberg gets a time out on this one.

A prime example of the little man syndrome with a god complex to boot.

Finally, a judge with some common sense.

Obamboozler should be waiting tables in Chicago instead of occupying the white hut.

Waiter - more water please.

Wow. At last, a breath of sanity coming from New York. I´m amazed this travesty took this long to correct.

Obesity kills. So does AIDS. So does abortion. So do gangs. So do auto accidents. One doesn´t see Nanny Blamburg selectively banning any of those activities.

"Little Gulp" Bloomberg is reversed.

He´s going to appeal ? Will taxpayers foot the bill ?

With all of the problems in NYC, soda should be near the bottom.

I think this public enemy who believes he is entitled to micro manage should be soda boarded until he surrenders.

Perfect timing as several lib run cities were ready to execute the same program. I think Bloomie & Cuomo are Obama´s trial balloons. Thank God this one popped.

I think the only reason this got tossed was because blacks and latinos in NY claimed they were being racially targeted by the law.That said,the reasons given were valid.If sugar caused obesity,I would have been a bowling ball as a kid.

I don´t think Bloomberg saw this coming. He was bragging just a couple months ago how he had appointed everyone on that commission that voted for this absurd ban. Well, Nanny, you didn´t count on a judge with common sense ruling against you, now did you? Bahahahaha!

The fact that New Yorkers sit in the corner and suck their thumbs, and wait for a federal judge to give them permission to have a big glass a pop, tells me all I need to know.
What a bunch of weak tools.

The futility of trying to promote health by legislation

The audacity and nerve of these progressive elites to attempt to control how the rest of us live our lives is mind boggleling. They are a threat to the future of America and our children. They must view themselves as some kind of aristocracy.

Isn´t it ironic that the new "Freedom Tower" is being built in the city that wants to control everything in your life, from your salt intake, transfats, cigarettes, and how much soda you can buy.

This is freedom? No wonder the younger generation thinks all freedom means is whether you can marry someone of the same sex.

How can Bloomberg, capitalist genius and innovator, be a control freak, freaked out, communist commissar? It´s easy, he reads Marx and Hitler, then takes totalitarian pills to strengthen his remarkable, naked hypocracy. A few stupid pills help, too.
The whole idea of regulating the size of junk food, sugar or chemical laden drinks, is just another commie distraction to all the other totalitarian damage he´s helping the Schumers, Feinsteins, Pelosis, Reids, Obamaos, Boehners, Cantors, to pull off.
Keep`em all distracted, watch the left hand while the right and steals your life work, enslaves you with taxes so that you´re working most of the year for the governments
of evil. What a racket and thanks to Diane Sawyer and her billionaire bunch of brianwashers for their 24/7 disgraceful aid.

"I got to defend my children."

For the record, Mayor Bloomberg´s ´children´ are in their 30s.

Banned in New York, but you can get two liters of coca cola here in the west, no questions asked.

We´ve sunk pretty low when a judge takes a position upholding individual freedom and it´s seen as "stunning".

Michelle and Nanny Bloomberg could solve a major part of the obesity crisis by requiring food stamps be used for healthy food instead of sodas and chips.

Nah, that would upset their base.

I had to post again after reading #17. Brilliant! Remember that saying from the 80´s and 90´s - you can´t legislate morality? It applies to health too. Thanks Suzie.

One small sip for mankind.

Movie theaters? So this meddler was going to cause millions of people to have to leave their movie again and again for refills?

Incredible that Bloomberg claimed that the legislation was more like "advice from a friend". All laws, in the end, are enforced at the point of a gun. Some friend.

And this wasn´t a law, but a pronouncement from the executive branch with the force of law. Bloomie is just taking a page from 0´s playbook, but with sodas instead of the whole US economy.

Now if they could just throw out NY´s "arbitrary and capricious" limits on gun magazine capacity...

The writer misreads Bloomie´s motives:

...a bubble-bursting defeat for Mayor Bloomberg, who has made public health a cornerstone of his tenure.

"Public health" isn´t what he wants. He wants control over other people´s lives, like most liberals. He wants people to do as he does, whether they like it or not, assuming that his lifestyle is "healthy" and that of others is not.

Because what is "healthy" changes almost from month to month, and because so much settled science is really junk science and because what is healthy for one man is neutral or worse for another man, Bloomberg´s dictatorial attitude is grating, so say the least.

People don´t want being told what to do by people they don´t know or trust. Most people don´t like being told what to do, period.

Bloomie needs an attitude adjustment. Perhaps the Court just gave him a little one.

Clicking on the article and I was met with lots of ads followed by news clips embedded in and next to the article. Really annoying. Not going to be visiting the NY Post again online anytime soon.

I don´t normally drink pop, but I just might have to get a 20 oz to toast that judge today.
I really like the above poster´s idea of sending obamacare to this judge, more good things could happen.

If they were really concerned, they would ban statins. Statins can cause diabetes, and weight gain, but they´re the AMA´s star performer. If you look at health problems that have increased in the last 25 years, you w
ll find statins.

Bloomberg insisted he take over the school system. It was supposed to be his signature achievement. Now, a decade later, schools are worse than ever (no mean feat!). But he´s worried about soda. What a putz.

You´re either with us, or you´re with the transfats!

I am actually surprised by this ruling. I thought justice was dead - nothing but another foolish tool for the left. Is there still hope we can survive this mess the Lofo´s have brought upon us?

All the judge did was say, if you want your soda ban, you´ve got to go through the proper legislative procedures. Theoretically, the ban could still be passed that way. It will be interesting to see Bloomberg eventually tries it (after losing his appeal).

Right #13. The DC commies are so spoiled on Federals forcing US citizens to do things, now they want to try it at city and state levels.

Don´t forget Bloomy also issued another kingly decree that two liter bottles of soda could not be delivered by pizza delivery to kid´s birthday parties! I´m not sure if the judge´s decision covers that.

#39, the New York City Council bows to no one in their venality and stupidity. But even that almost completely democrat body would hesitate to annoy the populace by taking away their big gulps.

He cares about citizen residents´ sugar consumption? What about poor NYC children, 70% plus who do not graduate?