Announcing Reason.tv’s Nanny of the Year 2009!
by Nick GillespieIn 2009, America’s meddlers worked overtime minding other people’s business.
Nanny of the Month winners have targeted everything from fish pedicures to feeding the homeless. But there can be only one Nanny of the Year.
Who took home top honors as the year’s biggest buttinsky? Click the video to find out.
Nanny of the Year is written and produced by Ted Balaker. The director of photography is Alex Manning and the associate producer is Paul Detrick.
Approximately 1:20 minutes.
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We’ll be back next month with the first Nanny of The Month for 2010. Sadly, there will be no shortage of candidates.
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Michale Bloomburg is a jibbering idiot.
From where do these idiots originate?
We are overrun with this madness, to which I simply respond with; "kiss my ass".
Ironic, is it not, that the nanny state types you want to ban, or virtually ban through taxation, items you enjoy putting in your body, because they are supposedly bad for you, also actively encourage putting other items in your body (i.e. Fistgate), regardless of the fact that every sane individual recognizes doing so is unhealthful.
I do what the hell I want, when I want…and I still don't wear a Seat belt….
Next thing, you won't be able to barbecue in your own backyard.
though you should know this site was designated as malware. "may harm your computer" whatever
maybe it was a fluke – I don't know but It was weird
One more reason to not go to NY and spend money…
As if I needed more reasons…
this world is turning totally upside down! it's quite a race for the stupidest person alive, and i'm not yet sure who the front runner is.
I got the same message yesterday……..but I am on this site everyday and yesterday was the 1st time it happened to me…..???? gov't watch chasing REAL Americans away???????
In their minds they own us, so they see nothing wrong with telling us what to eat or drink, how warm are homes should be, what we should believe, how we should speak, how much we can make, how long we should live etc.
We are nothing but cattle to them, give it time and they will even start branding us, for our own good of course.
It blows my mind that these progressives want to save our lives one minute and take it another. They are psychotic! If you eat dinner out we will make sure your trans fats are limited, we will tax your sugar intake with soda purchases, make sure you know how many calories you are consuming, limit your salt, banning school bake sales because of sugar and fats…but in the mean time they are considering a Health Care bill that will have regulatory panels for the aged, (you are not eligible because you are old and smoke), warning us that we should not have more than 1.3 children, we should limit our CO2 output, abort the special needs ones, and those that won't have a chance at a proper life (I want to know how it is determined because O should have been aborted by his single mother of 17) and it goes on and on…
Like they say, those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. The "liberals" of today are the ideological progeny of the 30's "progressives." We're witnessing the rise of eugenics-lite, modified to assuage modern leftists' white-guild-laden sensibilities.
They originate from the clueless public which votes them into office.
The clueless public is produced from public schools, low-IQ mass media, and government dependency.
Precisely Thinking Man, they view as as they view livestock. It's not just bloomberg it's the entire nanny movement. I'm so sick and tired of these people. We have a small but festering and virulent strain of this in Alaska, and I hope it dies off while it's little and weak, somebody please step on it. They're going to look out for ya and if you do anything besides clap them on the back for it your some kind of whack job.
Congress has already given out pork funding to private contractors to develop implantable RFID microchips.
It started out as being for livestock, under the authority of the USDA.
It then morphed into soldier identification, under the authority of the DoD.
Many of the academics who formulated the concept of the electronic health record (EHR) and wrote billions in funding for them into the first Porkulus are also part of the technocratic think tanks tasked with characterizing health innovation. These think tanks have, not surprisingly, touted RFID implants linked to EHRs exchanged through a national IT platform (as they have in the UK) as being one of the major goals to be achieved by health care in the near future.
The progressives' plans for health reform range between a mandate of Federally-defined plans, to a public option, to full single payer. All of these plans claim authority to control recordkeeping. If you will recall, EHRs were one of the early efficiency improvements touted by the administration in the early stages of the health care reform debate.
When your health care is defined or provided by the government, they can control how the records are kept and administered. You don't have to consent to care, but then again, they don't have to consent to treat you, even though you are legally required to pay. If that legal requirement consumes so much of your money that you cannot afford to pay again for private care, then too bad – the progressives don't care, because they expect you to enthusiastically embrace what they have prepared for all of us.
With unaccountable progressive bureaucrats in charge, will we eventually come to the point where consent to inclusion in a Federal EHR database is a requirement for care, and later, implantable RFID EHR-linked chips become a requirement for care?
At this point, none of us knows, however the power of bureaucrats to issue such a directive makes the government takeover of health care an inherent threat to liberty.
Amen to that. It begins eugenics-lite and then goes full bore into the eugenics-on-steroids, like Germany did…
Makes me wonder what their ideal man looks like under their eugenics code cause it isn't the blond hair, blue eyed little children anymore…me thinks its more about whether you are a follower of their theology…
What does it tell you about this administration's value of human life, when one of its high ranking members in their Propaganda Ministry tells a group of HS seniors her favorite political philosopher are Chairman Mao? This is the person she turns to most? In case anyone reading this is not aware, history reports show he is responsible for a minimum of fifty million human deaths in the aftermath of the 1949 communist revolution.
If they take my barbecue away…it reminds me of a movie…'its in the sauce..'
that's "white-guilt," not "white-guild"
Anonymous
An often overlooked aspect of all this control. Once you have a RFID implant, it is a short hop to being tracked at all times. Say, linking it to your bank account or pay check… can't get your funds without it!
Perhaps a special deal of just downloading your available funds to your chip, no need for banks, checks or debit cards..just scan your arm for purchases.
Gingersnap – well said. And if I may carry us down this road just a wee bit further:
Tracking by RFID implants is just yet another short hop to this:
"He required everyone—small and great, rich and poor, free and slave—to be given a mark on the right hand or on the forehead. And no one could buy or sell anything without that mark, which was either the name of the beast or the number representing his name." – Revelation 13:16-17
Now, considering that these words were put to paper more than 1900 years ago by one of the disciples and eye-witnesses of Jesus Christ – is nothing short of frightfully amazing.
exactly wanna see whats going on today read the last book of the bible
what part of FREEDOM do these morons not understand. Some people need the govt. to tell them what to do
what about gambling?
we are nothing but a revenue stream to them
My guess as to who the great whore in revelations is….the media
Mau saved the People by killing them, guess you have to be a lib to get it
"What was "freedom", Grandpa?" "Tell me about when you were free!" "How did you ever know what to eat without the government's help?" …later… "Wow, I wish I had lived in the olden days like you, Grandpa. I want to be free. How can we make that happen again?"
Already banned in some communities, to "fight global warming"[sic].
There already is a federal system for implanting RFID chips in livestock and tracking livestock movements in a database: http://animalid.aphis.usda.gov/nais/index.shtml It's voluntary in all states except Wisconsin (at least one Amish farmer has been arrested for refusing to chip his animals).
Very simple modifications, if any, will be needed to copy the system for tracking human beings. Well, citizens; illegal aliens won't be tracked, of course!
Excellent point. We must not forget that this was brought on, in part, by Big Agriculture and its army of highly paid lobbyists. This is the same group responsible for the ongoing, perennial, pork and subsidy filled farm bills. (the same ones that pay people to not grow food)
The farm lobby is among the worst in DC, and contrary to popular belief, it does NOT represent the family farmer. Big Agriculture is taking the taxpayer for tens of billions of dollars a year in misguided subsidies and wasteful projects.
It is also responsible for increasing the regulatory burden on farms. Yes, this is one industry literally begging to be regulated, which should raise red flags immediately. Perhaps the only industry begging for more government regulation is the tobacco industry, and for good reason: when industry lobbyists corrupt the political process to bring about more regulation, supposedly in the name of public good, that regulation typically acts to force out small or upstart competition, since only big corporate interests can afford the costs of bureaucratic compliance.
Such behavior is abhorrent to the free market. Businesses should thrive or fail based on the merits of their operation, not their ability to use government as an offensive weapon to bludgeon the competition into bankruptcy.
Case and point, from the NAIS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Animal_Iden...
"The costs of becoming NAIS compliant for a U.S. beef producer were found to be a minimum of $2.08 a head for large producers and as much as $17.56 a head for smaller operations, with an estimated average cost to cow/calf producers of $6.26 per animal, according to research by Christopher Raphael Crosby of Kansas State University's Department of Agricultural Economics published in 2008."
"Consider the family chicken farmer, who will have to place a $1 visual tag on each chicken, while the corporate farmer will have to tag only one chicken in each flock, giving the corporate farmer a 1$ cost savings per chicken, over the family farmer. This disparity will further tip the scales in favor of corporate farms and give them greater ability to out-compete smaller farms, hastening the demise of the small family farm."
This phenomenon is known as regulatory capture, in which rent-seeking businesses conspire with Big Government to bring about a regime of regulatory cronyism in favor of the regulated.
It’s really not confusing at all when you consider that they need us desperately when we are productive, and then desperately want to get rid of us once we start costing more than we produce.
We’re just cogs in a wheel; they need us to work so we can pay the taxes that fill the bottomless troughs of money that they pilfer from freely; they need us to manufacture the toys and harvest the foods that they so enjoy; they need us to wait the tables and clean their mansions that they collect like it’s a game of Monopoly; and when we can work no more, and medical technology can no longer deter the inevitable decline of our bodies, they need us to willingly line up and calmly read a magazine while we wait for our matter-of-course shot to end it all and return the elements of our bodies to the earth so that we can be of one last use as fertilizer for the farms that feed them.
Read “Brave New World” and get with the program.
Mayor Boob Burg I think you mean. If it were not for his money he would be a homeless person in need of someone telling him how to do a body function!
Oh. I thought it was ObaMao's teleprompter. At least a close second eh?
My own site was badly afflicted with those warnings. Click their link and you WILL get a virus. Just go on past and read this site; you should be fine.
To whomever the webmaster is: your site password(s) have been hacked. Delete the files that generate these pages, change your password, and all will be right with the world.
My statement was more of a philosophical rant or sarcasm…I have read 'Brave New World', "1984", "Animal Farm", "Atlas Shrugged "and many others when I was a teenager in the 1970's (while everyone else was reading Mao's little Red Book and Saul Alinsky's 'Rules for Radicals') before it was even popular to read them. I tend to think sarcastically and find it is lost on many here and don't quite get what I am saying.
I do appreciate your analysis for it is very precise and well thought out, one of the better ones I have come across I might add. But I still struggle with their ability to be so godless, evil and psychotic. Because it is so plain and clear to me, its hard for me to grasp their thought processes. For me, the final answer is that man is intrinsically evil and every man will have to make a choice to follow G-d or His fallen angel, Satan. And this is all playing out nicely into the end times of the Bible…IMHO
Red White and Jew understood it…probably because of an understanding of the eugenics movement from a personal perspective.
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Bloomberg is part of the anti-CULT.
Beware of what is coming.
Charcoal is (has been for years) banned in California. That must be some wacky state to live in.
I knew that!
This is actually a scam run out of Africa if I recall correctly. If you click on the notice or in some cases evn try and close it it will install a virus. The Anti-Virus is supposed to fix it is another scam you pay money and the fix just temporarily shuts down. The proble as stated is the holes in Unix Operating Systems that almost all servers use. Every Operating system has a lot of holes in security because they were designed to communicate not block communications. I have heard that there are security patches available but thier reliability has also been comprimised. I do not envy system administrater who has to deal with these issues.
What a total jerk….
Hmm… you could be on to something there:
√ She "sits on many waters". Check.
√ The Kings of the Earth have commited adultery with her. Check. Big time.
√ The inhabitants of the Earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries. Check.
√ Drunk with the blood of the saints. Check. New York Times Lied, People Died.
√ She is the great city that rules over the Kings of the Earth. Well, close enough.
4 out of 5 – not bad, my friend. Not bad.
Obamacare is Soylent Green………………….
I just had to speak up on this. I am an ex-smoker. I loved smoking. I know it was annoying to those who did not smoke, so I tried to keep my habit from annoying others. Banning smoking from outdoors is pretty lame if you ask me, but hey, I don't smoke anymore so I don't have a dog in this fight.
I will say that nobody cared too much when they put a punitive tax on tobacco. Everybody just ignored it and said good, stick it to those smokers, they cost us excessive healthcare bills in the long run anyways. Well, I would argue that smokers usually die young, and that the offset probably helps heathcare costs in the long run, but I digress.
Look at what they are doing now with their little tax schemes. Let's tax soda, salt, transfat, heck, lets tax anything that people use that might marginally effect health. Do you really think the politicians lose sleep about your health? All they want is that big juicy revenue and they will tax sex if they have to to get to it. I would argue that taxing tobacco has opened up a Pandora's Box of sorts to the ability of taxing just about anything they want to.
And NY just reelected him……….geez
Looks like Thinking Man isn't fooled. The problem is Bloom Nut is part of the bigger problem. All these moves for bans of every kinda being used to get the sheeple to follow the herd. We saw how they lined up for the H1N1 vaccine. If they had been paying attention the line would have been non-existent. Get used to getting in line. It's what they have planned for us. Soup lines are in our not too distant future. Smokers were just the first to be attacked. .