{"id":8429,"date":"2010-11-17T15:03:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T21:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=8429"},"modified":"2010-11-17T15:03:19","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T21:03:19","slug":"its-a-ruling-all-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/17\/its-a-ruling-all-right\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s A Ruling, All Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re the <em>ruled<\/em>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/Wellness\/fda-ban-alcoholic-energy-drinks-sen\/story?id=12164536&#038;tqkw=&#038;tqshow=GMA\" target=\"_blank\">The bureaucrats are the <em>rulers<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration will effectively ban the sale of beverages that combine caffeine and alcohol, including Four Loko and Joose, by ruling that caffeine is an unsafe food additive, according to Senator Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bask in the reflected glory, subject, of the beauty of the fiat, of the diktat of the unelected officials who exercise so much anonymous power over your life.  Caffeine?  An unsafe food additive <em>because they say it is<\/em>.  A rule that applies only in the case of alcohol, now.  Because caffeine is only unsafe when added to something in a fashion that the bureaucracy has deemed unsafety.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, note the huzzahs from an <em>elected official<\/em>, an <em>elected legislator<\/em>, who could have introduced this properly as an act and had Congress pass this as a law.  Instead, he&#8217;s thrilled that the control and the possible will of the people has been subverted through governmental processes designed to get around the basic processes of a Republic.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d weep, but my tears are an unsafe blog additive as ruled by the FCC.<\/p>\n<p>(More reax: <a href=\"http:\/\/booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/chuck-schumer-to-outlaw-jack-coke.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tam<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/injennifershead.com\/?p=2088\" target=\"_blank\">the voices in Jennifer&#8217;s Head<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re the ruled. The bureaucrats are the rulers: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will effectively ban the sale of beverages that combine caffeine and alcohol, including Four Loko and Joose, by ruling that caffeine is an unsafe food additive, according to Senator Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.). Bask in the reflected glory, subject, of the beauty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-government","category-government-overreach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8429"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8432,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8429\/revisions\/8432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}