Salt Ban? You’ve Got To Be Kidding – Flash Mobs A Major Threat
FIRST – A NOTE FROM MICHAEL SMERCONISH
I received this email from Michael:
Have you heard about New York Assemblyman Felix Ortiz and his effort to ban restaurants from using salt? Here’s how the New York Daily News’ Samuel Goldsmith covered Ortiz’s legislation today:
Brooklyn Dem Felix Ortiz wants to ban use of salt in New York restaurants
If State Assemblyman Felix Ortiz has his way, the only salt added to your meal will come from the chef’s tears.
The Brooklyn Democrat has introduced a bill that would ban the use of salt in New York restaurants – and violators would be smacked with a $1,000 fine for every salty dish.
“No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food,” the bill reads.
Thanks Mike. The note is revealing. To hear the interview, go to the Smerconish logo on the right side of the page.
FLASH MOBS
The city’s aggressive action on flash mobs is one of the most important stories of the year. If these mobs continue to run wild, Center City could face a serious threat to its economic existence. This kind of scary behavior has got to be crushed with immediate force, and extreme penalties, upon conviction. Will flash mob crime continue? Let’s hope not. This is an issue that must be addressed by ALL members of City Council. There is no room for this kind of fright in this or any city. No debate on this one.
WEB CHAT
Thanks to all of you who joined me on the Daily News web chat on the Ticket To Ride Show at the Franklin Institute. There are 9 more shows. I look forward to seeing the winners of the web chat giveaway. It’s been a real eye-opener to do these shows, but most of all, a lot of fun to meet so many people. If you would like to see the transcript of the web chat, click on the Philly.com logo.
Comments(51)
Why don’t we tax the flash mobs? I don’t think using officers in high boots goose steppin around is the answer. You could tax them double if they has got salt with them. Then get me a gig at the airport.
Jeez. Pull a political stunt and a bunch of dolts take it literally. Youse all is a bunch of dolts. Seriously.
The Flash Mobs are good for the city, they raise our profile as one bad ass urban place that has not been disney-fied like NYC. We need more mobs and more wide open decadent XXX shows to make our city stand out. Phildelphia can never out class or out intellect another large city, so why no just out ghetto all the others?
We don’t need a salt ban. We need a ban on filling station owners’ charges for air for tires. A ban on unfree air. Tax it. Tax the unfree air.
Philly’s new tag line:
Come to Philly to get your Ghetto on!
Philadelphia should put a foot and bike toll on the Schuylkill river walkway!
Increase Parking tax at city hospitals, and make the highest tax at Children’s Hospital, because white people from the suburbs will pay any amout of tax to see their sick and dying children. Plus most people who park at city hospitals dont live in the city, so it doesnt hurt city residenta!
Tax Books at college book stores becasue most kids come from outside the city and are transient and their rich white families will buck up and pay, who cares if they complain, the kids all leave when they graduate anyway.
Tax the use of all public toilets, retrofit to take transit tokens and passes. $1 to poop, $.50 to pee and $6 tax on tampons.
You know I put salt and pepper on everything before I even taste it. Sometimes that backfires but not often. I’m not saying my Mom or Dr Jill are bad cooks. I’m not saying all restaurant food is bland. My grandfather put 3 shakes of salt and 4 shakes of pepper on everything as soon as the plate was put in from of them. Except Maypo and ice cream those were the exceptions. So did my Dad and brothers. Leave it to some looney liberal from NY to come up with BS legislature. First they forced us to wear seatbelts. Now they want us to eliminate salt. What’s next? Recreational drugs? Gangs? All in the name of the common good. Poppycock. Did you know I make an annual pilgrimage to NH once a year so I can drive legally without a seatbelt. Hot rod Lincoln.
I have already contacted Barack on the Flash Mob crisis in Philadelphia. When we have completed the surge in Afghanistan we will redeploy 100K crack soldiers in Philly going door to door rooting out Flash Mob members. We’ll start in North and West Philly. They will be thorough and ruthless. They will root out this varmint and depose of it. They will be hard to detect as they will blend in with the rest of the neighborhood. We will be offering bonus food stamps, welfare checks and lotto tickets to anyone who provides evidence leading to the arrest and prosecution of the Flash Mob members. They will disappear as quickly as they appeared.
If that doesn’t work we will hire Senator Dan Rangel to serve as a pied piper and lead them all back to NYC.
Poppy Seed normally you are far afield with your thinking and comments but today you are on to something. Philly: Get your Ghetto on! Genius. Pure genius. Imagine an ad with 5 gangsters walking down the middle of the street hitting people upside the head with baseball bats and setting cars on fire and dealing drugs on the corner. Will Smith rapping in the background with spinoff of the Fresh Prince of Belair. The five gangsters stop at City Hall. Mayor Nutter comes out to join them. They all embrace and the Mayor says, “We ain’t your Mother’s historical city no mo. We ain’t your Father’s renaissance city dog. We ain’t Barack city of hope and change. Hell we ain’t even got legalized gambling yet despite Governor Rendell’s efforts. But if you want ghetto we got your ghetto right here!”
Biden/Biden in 2012! Better people and better ideas
Tax the homeless when they pee in the Broad Street concourse.
I just read with great interest in the newspaper that Phil Epstein tried to lure Larry Kane into a homosexual tryst during the Beatles tour. Larry did not take the bait! Nor did he smoke pot! Nor did he have sex with groupies! Please explain to me how he had fun on this Beatles Tour? It was the 19960s and a straight acting Jewish guy with a reel to reel tape recorder follwed the Beatles. This sounds more like a recipe for a hair brained comedy in the spirit of revenge of the nerds. Maybe the Beatles thought Larry was cool in an uber nerdy kind of way?
I died of the same drugs Rush Limbaugh was getting illegally. Tax the drugs.
Next wave will be “flush mobs” of kids from MontCo who flush toilets at KOP mall.
Lets have gay flash mobs, where a bunch up homos show up at a Starbucks and start kissing and doing gay stuff. It’s a peaceful way to protest the violent black flash mobs, and it will remind Philadelphians that flash mobs can be fun and safe, albeit a bit queer.
So many groups wanting flash mob status and so little time. Neil Patrick will we be able to recognize the gay flash mob? Will they look like the Village People? Y M C A!
We went to our parrish’s St Patricks Day celebration last night in St Catherine’s basement. By the time Dr Jill and I got there all the corned beef and cabbage was gone. They were nice enough to thaw out some leftover Jamabalaya from last month’s Mardi Gras celebration. Nothing says St Pattys like spicy fish and rice! There was plenty of green beer to wash down this monstrocity. The first VP from Scranton may have imbided a wee too much of the green beer. I was clog dancing on the bingo tables. Erin go bragh! You know I was raised in a stict Irish Catholic family which makes my views on abortion so disturbing. Dr Jill’s ancestors came over on a boat from Sicily but americanized their last name to get jobs. Stiil feeling the affect of the green beer this morn. Erin go bragh!
Barack wants to be celebrating his big healthcare bill by drinking green beer on Wednesday if the revised bill passes both sides of Congress. I fear he’ll be crying in his beer instead when this turkey goes down. Did you see that nitwit Chaka Khan on Fox News yesterday? His Philly constituents must be so proud. He was so incoherent that he could not say anything discernable except that the bill will pass and 40M Americans will have coverage. Must have been too difficult to get this dolt more than one talking point before the show.
Neil Patrick would the Mummers be considered a gay flash mob on New Years Day?
Biden/Biden in 2012! When will the reign end?
Good point VP Joe on Mummers. I had a sociology
professor who cliamed the Mummers were an
expression of latent homosexual tendencies.
They initially forbid female particpation, worre
make up, and gowns, and the strut was really
a gay sashay of sorts. He caught a lot of heat
about this in 1980s, but look at the facts and
decide for yourself. Where else could big hulking
working class men express themselves like this
without cover of “Mummering”. Kind of like Massa
Snorkeling, right? Did you see Massa skit on
SNL? What was wild is that it was just written
based on fact, no need for hyperbole to make
it funny. The Democrats are the tickle me Elmo
Party!
I’ve heard good reviews about Larry’s show,
Congrats Larry!
Big week ahead for the up or down vote on
healthcare, don’t see how Obama wins either
way. The true up or down vote is really
in November when the people weigh in to set
the agenda straight. Republicans will be able
to reset the Obama presidency for sucess, clearly
his own party is not helping him.
Waiting for the 7:01. Should be an interesting week.
Hey everyone on the news is saying I should be upset that the Israelis announced their buildup in the Gaza while I was there. Like they showed me up or something. I love these guys. They love me. We have a special bond. They would never do anything to show me up. Nor would I. This talk is poppycock. Pure poppycock I tell you. Just unfortunate timing. That’s what Benjamin promised me. See if I go back to Jerusalem. Can’t even get a good ruben.
Healthcare will be the talk of the town this week. Rumor has it the Princess of Darkness Nancy Pelosi is only 5 votes away from pushing the Senate version through the House. One can only hope that these congressman listen to their constituents and vote no. They are likely holding out for big payoffs like the Louisiana Purchase or Husker Buyout. Can’t blame them. Too much political tender riding on this bill. She’ll end up twisting enough arms to get this through. God help us all!
What if by some act of God this turkey of a bill does not pass? Congressman everywhere grow a pair. They actually go back to ground zero and devise a bipartisan plan that works for the 300M Americans that current have the world’s best healthcare. Not just the 40M that choose not to have it or are excluded somehow. Can Barack survive such an embarrassment? Would that benefit or hurt the Dems chances in November?
I propose a flash mob in the streets of downtown Philly this week protesting this healthcare bill. Have Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh speaking from the steps of City Hall. Billy Penn would be smiling down with approval. The average American needs to stand up and be counted. Protest this turkey!
Biden/Biden in 2012! Let’s impeach Barack and get on with the business of America!
Banning salt is like banning pot. Both are bad for you and bad for society in excess. I like to have the government decide what people can ingest.
Isn’t crazy how the Democrats want to Ban
Everything and tell people how to live?
Didn’t they use to be the permissive live and
let live types who thought any kind of behavior
was okay? Maybe the flash mobs woke them up to
the fact that anything goes type of society
leads to dangerous consequesnces. Anyone who
saw Precious would rightly conclude that Great
Society programs did more harm than good to
African American famiies. We lost two generations
of blacks to learned helplessness, and it will
take way more than two gernations to get them out
of their economic and social deficit.
I want to ban people from being silent during school prayer moments. You will pray. It is good for your immortal soul.
I want to ban physician assisted suicide.
Lord Abbott, have you seen Larry’s Ticket to Ride yet? I thought you bought tickets.
Are we really having a discussion about salt in restaurants in New York? Is this the most important topic of the week? Leave it to Smerconish to sidetrack Larry. His site must be as desolate as Larry’s. May be he thinks the power of 2 is greater than the sum of the parts. Not in this case, boys.
Is VP Joe in his own little world or what?
Day 4 for this pointless blog and the puppets are racing in. This could be Larry’s weakest effort of all time!
May be Larry should go back to riding SEPTA or search for free air for his tires. He may be onto the later with Smerconish…
Larry is a friend of mine.
He resembles Frankinstein.
When he walks across the street.
You can smell his stinky feet………
If they ban salt does that mean we have to find something else to throw in the wounds of Islamic Jihadists?
Dick did you see me on the tube this weekend? I was promoting my new book on Bush’s years in the White House. BTW that lawyer you shot was my legal consult. Good thing I was never indicted, that man has never been the same since you blasted him in the face. He no longer will stand in front of a person holding a gun or a gavel. I was also a little miffed that alot of my interviewers kept asking me about Sarah Palin as if she were my running mate. Listen if I could turn GW Bush into a president anything is possible. Right Larry?
My country’s insistence on building settlements is placing Americans around the world in harm’s way. I apologize. You should cut us loose because we’re too stubborn to see that we are foolishly causing trouble for our allies.
No Tickets to ride for me 0OOJ. I flirted
with the idea, but realized going to see
that would give my wife and kids reasonable
cause to tell me to get a life. Also a bit
young to be into the Beatles. I’m more of an
Irish Invasion guy, the one who called UE in
1980 as the greatest band to hit our shores
since the Beatles. I even have the high school
English paper to prove it;) Going to see U2
this summer and hopefully will be worth price
of admission. Larry’s show is not my cup of
tea, but heard good things, and you gotta give
him credit for working at his age. A lot of men
his age have lost control of their bowels and
just stare into space.
“A lot of men his age have lost control of their bowels and just stare into space”
This describes about 80% of the bloggers on this website.
I am not going to pussy foot around, I am one of those 80%! Larry Kane is like an eclipse. They tell you not to look directly at it but some of us do, without the card board cut out that they gave you in elementary school. But bottom line is Larry is a good decent guy, and the 80% that come here to mock him and critize probably also respect him. Yea, the Beatles thing is silly at this point and he needs to get a new game after March, but lets give him a chance. This site could actually be a good political commentary site if he put in a little more effort and got it published in some more main stream sites. I respect him along with the great Lord Abott, who is my God and savior, and who’s kool aid I drink with his every keystroke. Hey Abott, how’s your Buderus? Where is your angry nemesis Ed, or were you really Ed all along?? That’s what makes this site entertaining. Larry has a dysfuntional Howard Stern like crack pot pack, but he’s not wise (or hip) enough to further commercialize it!
I propose to tax poop. People who poop more should pay more to have their poop treated. That’s the way of the market.
I just took the best dump. My day can’t get any better.
When is the last time in US history that Congress passed a bad bill just to get it passed with the full intention of fixing the bill later? Has this ever happened before? Why not fix it now and avoid the extra step? This is ludicrous. Only the Dems would be so ridiculous and arrogant. God help me I love these people.
I’m fasting today so that I will be hungry and thirsty for St Patty’s Day tomorrow. After eating all that boiled cabbage, turnips, carrots and potatoes I will be looser than a goose. A veritable veggie enema. God knows this town needs an enema. I borrowed that from the Joker in a Batman movie but so true. DC that is not Wilmington.
Biden/Biden in 2012! Gas out the ying yang tomorrow.
I guess Larry is too busy with his Beatle-mania to change the blog topic. If you can pull yourself away from Ticket to Ride, cheetos, winecoolers and TV reruns long enough to type a couple of coherent comments on the healthcare fiasco, we’d all be on pins and needles waiting to read your pentrating insights.
Hey Larry, perhaps VP Joe has a solution to 2 of your cause celebres. If you can convince everyone to eat outrageous portions of cabbage tomorrow, they can produce their own gas and air free of charge. Not sure how you would actually capture the byproducts but it is worth looking into. Do we have any legitimate scientists reading this blog or anyone that stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night?
I saw today that Governor Christie wants to institute hospital taxes in New Jersey. There’s some healthcare reform for you!
Healthcare is coming. Like it or not it is going to get rammed through. Like beef through the hamburg grinder. Like sausage meat through the tube. Like Kristy Alley’s lover through those thunderous thighs. You get my drift. Not good and not pretty. This whole deemed parliamentary procedure seems a bit far fetched but I guess the threat is real. Pelosi will do it. Reid will do whatever it takes. Dems throughout Congress will follow them like the sheep they are to slaughter in November. EVERYONE loses. So why are we doing this? So Barack can save face? So 30M illegal aliens vote Dem in 2012? So the first page of the socialistic agenda is turned? Why?
I’ve been in the Senate for over 30 years. I’ve seen and supported a lot of bad legislature. I can’t get behind this bill even while holding my nose. The bill and the schemes to get it passed smell to high heaven. This will be the lingering legacy of one Barack Hussein Obama. History will not be kind to the man that promised so much but delivered a shit sandwich.
Speaking of sandwiches we’ll be heading down to the Wilmington Moose Lodge tonight for some corned beef sandwiches and green beer. I love the comradery down at the lodge. 600 guys with a sole purpose. To get shitfaced. Dr Jill will sip on one beer all night. She’ll take a couple bits out of her sandwich. She’ll eat a big old salad before we leave the house. This is nothing more than a photo op for her.
Governor Christie is trying to clean up one of the largest cesspools in the US. That would be NJ. Mismanaged for 100 years the state is so far out of control that his precessors didn’t even try to fix things. You have to give him credit because he is keeping his word and trying. It is going to be near impossible to reform a welfare state like NJ in 4 years. He’ll never get re-elected if he’s serious and follows through. Unlike Barack he is far less concerned about his legacy, rating numbers and focus groups. Unlike Barack he will institute real and positive change.
Biden/Biden in 2012! After the healthcare bill vote later this week Barack officially becomes a lameduck president.
By the by Larry this is day 6 for this turkey.
All white men over 50 must leave larry’s blog(and WalMart).
Larry, I’ve been following that jersey girl who wants to weigh a 1000 lbs. She only weighs 600 lbs as of today but I’ve sent her some coupons for Wendys and Kentuckey Fried Chicken. i think we all must get behind her and see that she reaches her goal. “1000 pounds or bust”
I’m not going to pussy foot around, a 1000lb woman is a good thing- baby got back!
John Edwards has made quite a mess of his life, he may still go to jail. Its hard not to delight in his misery, he was always such a disingenuous candidate. A sincerly insincere man.
John Edwards’ daddy worked in a mill.
Waiting for the 6:45. Another day in beautiful DC.
Did you see me at the Radio and TV Commentators dinner last night. I was pretty funny. No I was really funny. Not Shecky Greene funny. More like Bill Murray funny. I had several really good ones. ‘You can see he’s a Democratic dog – he’s biting the hand that feeds him’. I watched the replay last night when I got home. I noticed that I said ‘look’ about 45 times before starting a sentence. Sister Angela at St Casmir’s Elementary School in Scranton is probably rolling over in her grave. Relax Sister I’ll say 8 Hail Marys and 2 Our Fathers to atone for my sins. I’ve said and done much worse.
I had forgotten about this appearance it’s a good thing my writer and publicist didn’t. I was counting on getting ripped at the Moose Lodge last night. I got wasted at bar in the JW Marriot instead. No green beer at the JW.
Did you see that pathetic character Dennis Kucinich has flip back to voting for healthcare. What a tool! He gets a ride on Air Force 1 and all of the sudden he’s on board. How could anyone have ever envisioned him as the President? Not many did. Less than me. Actually far less than me. He was always scuffling around trying to insure he was at the govrnment matching funds level. What do you expect from a little dweeb that grew up in a car in Cleveland?
Can Barack flip another 5-7 Dems? If not the firestorm some kind of parliamentary gimick to pass healthcare will bring will be far greater than any battle in Iraq. The people will storm the White House and execute this traitor. He will wish he had been impeached at that point.
Biden/Biden in 2012! Funnier than Barack and more electable than Kucinich
By the by Larry have you noticed that Daylight Savings Time is in effect. You know the saying. Spring forward and fall back. The convention instituted around 1895 – that’s 115 years ago Lar. Pay your website guy an extra $10 a month and he’ll bring you into the 19th century. Really this anchronism is embarrassing to your legacy much like your simplistic blog topics.
Biden/Biden in 2012! Even we can keep the time straight.
Larry knows what time it is, its time to get
a new schict. The ides of March suggest that
Beatle tickets to ride have rode off into the
sunset. Even Larry must be tired of telling
that worn out tale, Let’s spring ahead to a new
topic. Obama didn’t do so good on Fox News,
that Brett fellow didn’t let him drone on and
run out the clock. Not Obamas finest moment
and its why people watch Fox. Imagine Katie
Couric doing anything but smile and batting her
eyelashes at him.
Polls showing Americans more frustrated with GOP than ever. What’s this Tea Party going to do? Divide the right.
Larry seems like your site needs an overhaul. Just like I remade myself into a successful “who’s your daddy?” TV host, you have to think outside the box. I did the news once and ended up with nothing but an Asian wife. That’s when thing got interesting. I knew I had it in me to scrape the bottom of the barrel to keep myself relevant so I started the DNA testing program and brought on all types of lowlifes to show how dirty and despicable people could be. So far it’s worked out great for me. I just love it.
Larry, I have to agree with Maury. Your site has lost it’s edge. Just like Maury I had to remake myself. I was once the mayor of Cleveland or was it Cincinnati oh who cares, I once had a real job and now look at me. I bait trailer park residents until they reveal their innermost secrets and then begin to beat each other up. Could life be any better? My recommendation to you Larry is to get all these fifty plus year old bloggers to come on your show and reveal their true selves. It would make for good TV. Unlike your Beatles show at the Franklin Institute you may get some one to watch……..
Larry, I know, I know, I’m not one of your favorite people, but listen here, your blog has reached it’s end. No one cares any longer, Larry. You write about idiotic subjects and you’ve lost the bulk of your loyal responders. Salt? You blurb about salt? Now that is ridiculous. While Obama tries to pass an unpopular health care bill through Congress without even a vote you want to complain about some obscure politician in NY who wants to ban salt. Larry, that’s why I don’t like people like you.
Larry has advertisers so talking
about salt is okay as long as its
not rubbed in their wound of paying
for advertising that has no value.
Larry has advertisers……. just who is advertising on this site? All the advertising is for Larry’s Beatlemania products, unless you figure in Michael Smerconish’s plugs.
I’m not going to pussy foot around, i have no idea why I come here. I don’t know the Larry Kane fellow personally, but heard he was a huge celebrity on TV in Philly, so its an honor to be able to opine on his every musing…
Still not pussy footing around, but making a huge well-formed darkly colored BM as I type, and that is my greatest pleasure in life!
Larry, this is what I’m talken bout. Take Pussy Foot for example. Here’s some 50ish white guy that won’t even use his real name. He posts his anal perspective and crawls away into the darkness. I say you invite him and those like him, like lord Abbot and such to appear on your show. It would be a hoot. Fat, balding, white assed crackers displaying their inner thoughts on your show would send your ratings through the roof.
Mel, you think Larry puts up PNC and
Subaru banners for free? Open your eyes,
and your heart.
Jerry, you sound like you’re describing yourself
Ed, but knocked your ages down to the 50s.
Herb Denenberg dead!
He seemed to have lived too long. A very
annoying self righteous man. What did
he really do, and when did he do it?
I use to like Orien Reid, I think Denneberg
did too, they worked nicely together, but
otherwise the city is better off without his
Acerbic angry rants. He was a cheap imitation
of Ralph Nader.