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link Denmark Introduces ‘Fat Tax’ on Foods High in Saturated Fat – ABC News.

The mind races at the likely repercussions from this new law.  Today it’s a tax on fat, but the zealots will want to push it more and really get to the root of the problem.  Cows.  There will soon be a tax on cows, or even a push to outlaw them.  Taxes will also spike for any who dare to operate in the dairy industry since they will be seen as enablers to cows.  That might actually not be much of a hardship anyway since the world is moving towards the farming of cannabis as a more healthy and benign farm crop.  In addition, it’s well known that cows give off gasses that contribute mightily to Global Warming, so banning cows can actually have a two ‘fer benefit.

Once this train of logic gets going however, it’s a sure thing that the next areas to be targeted are clothing manufacturers and those industries that make fabric.   There will be a tax on plus sized garments so that fat people won’t be able to afford to buy clothes.   Of course you can’t make fat garments illegal, that would be preposterous.  But you can make it difficult for fat people to be seen in public.  Not that this doesn’t have benefits.  We’d no longer have to look at Michael Moore on TV for example.

Immediately, we can think of new companies that spring up to capitalize on the anti fat people dictates, especially if there’s new financial incentive.  To help people eat less, companies will start to market two tined forks.  This will make eating of large volumes of food difficult and the added strokes required to eat the same volume of food will actually be an aerobic exercise as well.  Sheer genius.  By the same token, they will make smaller plates and smaller cups, since larger plates and cups would of course carry punishing taxes.  There will be pictures of grossly obese people printed on packages of ice cream and soda pop as public service warnings. 

The trend will be towards making food products that are less and less appealing to the palate, making eating less of an enjoyable pursuit.  As society progresses, the proliferation of food pellets will be the norm as people ingest the optimal amount of nutrients according to a national standard.  Rogue elements of society would still eat real food, but they will be pariahs as they huddle outside of office buildings eating sandwiches and enduring the condescending glares of law abiding citizens as they pass by.

Of course, the transition away from butter will not be complete without changes in popular phrases and idioms as well.  No longer will politicians use the phrase, “butter not guns” and in business, you’d have to “margarine somebody up”.  Now you can only say, “smooth as unsaturated vegetable product”. 

It’s only a matter of time before they get to cheese and Oreos.

link  NYPD Warns Women About Skirts in Brooklyn Sex Attack Probe | NBC New York.

Interesting that we’ve yet to hear from national human rights groups protesting about this NYPD warning.  Sure, the expected bit of chirping has come from the local organizations,  but the mentality of stupidity of the NYPD’s warning is not fully appreciated by most readers.

It’s a certainty that they think they are doing women a public service by warning them not to dress in a certain way.  While there are certainly women out there that make Britney Spears dressed for a night on the town look like a nun, a google search fails to find any instances of women in short skirts or shorts committing regular acts of crime, violent or otherwise.  Oddly, we don’t see news stories of roving bands of women in short skirts terrorizing neighborhoods.

On the other hand, countless surveillance videos at 7-11’s, shopping malls, train stations, night clubs and parking lots show that people wearing hoodies and or baseball caps are over represented in the committing of violent crimes and robbery.  Wouldn’t it make more sense to ban people wearing such clothing, or at least warn them that such attire will cause them to be harassed by police?

The rights of potential perps have long ago surpassed the rights of victims in the perverse world of political correctness. This is but an egregious example of how extreme it has gone.   Rather than focus on discouraging the activities of those that exhibit anti-social and criminal behavior, liberal apologists instead would rather curtail the activities of law abiding citizens.  We are asked to purchase all sorts of personal and property security as well as pay usurious insurance rates rather than sufficiently deter and punish criminals.

We are hit on the head constantly with the old chestnut about not being able to tell a book by its cover, but that sentiment is more the exception than the rule in real life.  In the animal world, survival depends on being able to distinguish friend from foe with very simple visual cues.  Lamb= friend, lion, not so much.  It’s possible there there once existed animals congenitally programmed with curiosity to approach obvious predators.  But they are extinct.

In the much more highly evolved human societies, we are conditioned to ignore obvious danger cues from our surroundings on the premise that ‘the law’ will protect us from harm.  This would not be an issue except for the fact that those with such misguided notions often wind up in political office and such errant beliefs are imposed on an otherwise sane public.  In the animal world, they would simply be eaten.

The NYPD have it all wrong.  The philosophy should be to make life miserable for the perps, not the regular folk.  Pick on the guys wearing hoodies in summer, sideways ball caps and baggy jeans.   Heck, we’d be better off if everyone wore short skirts.  That would make it easy for them to pick out the perps from the crowd.   Maybe the Scots had something….