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Fat! It’s the New Smoking!
Big Hollywood ^ | 7/31/09

Posted on 08/01/2009 8:28:15 PM PDT by FromLori

As the Most Powerful Community Organizer in the world pushes through his vision for your future healthcare, his minions are hard at work. Myriad press outlets are blaming fat folks for the rise in healthcare costs. In Obamaland, fat is the new smoking! How and what you eat is the next evil behavior to be controlled by law

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(Excerpt) Read more at bighollywood.breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism
KEYWORDS: foodpolice; nannystate; obesity; totalitarian

1 posted on 08/01/2009 8:28:15 PM PDT by FromLori
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To: FromLori

I guess I’d better bolt down those cheese steak subs while I still can!


2 posted on 08/01/2009 8:33:16 PM PDT by SnuffaBolshevik
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To: FromLori; All

3 posted on 08/01/2009 8:33:42 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: FromLori

I’m overweight and I never go to the doctor. I exercise three times a week. I had an MRI (I paid for) a few years ago and my arteries are clean.

And do you think the people that smoke in order to stay thin - because we equate “thin” with “healthy” - are in any better shape? I don’t wake up coughing black crap out of my lungs every morning. My mom did when she was smoking hard.

And will they highlight the studies that have recently come out showing that people that have a little extra weight on them can handle sickness better? And also do better in car crashes - less damage to internal organs in the abdominal and chest areas?

I am sure they won’t.


4 posted on 08/01/2009 8:34:26 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: FromLori

So will they now have “Fat” and “Nonfat” sections in restaurants and public transportation...or just an all out ban?


5 posted on 08/01/2009 8:39:03 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs...nothing more than Bald Haired Hippies!)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

I would think “Just an all out ban”.


6 posted on 08/01/2009 8:43:46 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
So will they now have “Fat” and “Nonfat” sections in restaurants and public transportation...or just an all out ban?

You will not have any such outward discrimination, except a mild stigma attached to the overweight. That is, until they go to their ObamaCare representative, and are told that because of their eating habits, the government will not spend money on their health care.

7 posted on 08/01/2009 8:46:13 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: FromLori

8 posted on 08/01/2009 8:47:42 PM PDT by org.whodat (Vote: Chuck De Vore in 2012.)
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To: FromLori

Michelle Obama will be impacted only 50%. Her fat ass will place her on some restrictions but her “toned arms” will be exempt. Hell what am I thinking, the rules don’t apply to her, Barry, Malia, the other kid or Congress.


9 posted on 08/01/2009 8:48:14 PM PDT by Abbeville Conservative (Sarah Palin, the only cure for the RINO virus.)
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To: easternsky

Whose next beer drinkers?


10 posted on 08/01/2009 8:48:19 PM PDT by freedommom
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To: FromLori

I’m in trouble.


11 posted on 08/01/2009 8:48:27 PM PDT by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: SnuffaBolshevik

12 posted on 08/01/2009 8:49:32 PM PDT by org.whodat (Vote: Chuck De Vore in 2012.)
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To: org.whodat

Ewwww..look at the food down at her crotch...Here doggie, doggie...


13 posted on 08/01/2009 8:49:54 PM PDT by Abbeville Conservative (Sarah Palin, the only cure for the RINO virus.)
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To: org.whodat

Just sitting next to her in a Restaurant would make me start smoking.


14 posted on 08/01/2009 8:52:28 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: FromLori

Tried to tell ya’.


15 posted on 08/01/2009 8:58:04 PM PDT by elkfersupper (Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: FromLori

Told ya so. I saw this coming 20 years ago.

And you can bet they have another straw man waiting in the wings for when they have worn this one out. SOP for these fascists.


16 posted on 08/01/2009 9:01:20 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: FromLori

I used to think Americans had a problem with obesity, but then I visited Benidorm, a favorite English holiday spot on the Spanish Costa Brava....

We have NOTHING on them. When one’s diet begins with breakfast consisting of bakes beans, eggs, biscuits and gravy that excessively caloric by my Southern standards, and doesn’t improve from there, well, let’s just say the result isn’t the most pleasing to the eye.

By the end of the (curtailed) trip, not only was I proud and eager to state that I was from the US, and NOT England, but also eager to [try to] speak any language but English, regardless of how little I knew/bad my accent was.


17 posted on 08/01/2009 9:01:50 PM PDT by robertwalker62
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To: FromLori

For years Rush has been saying that after smokers, they were coming for the overweight...he was right :(


18 posted on 08/01/2009 9:02:14 PM PDT by bushwon ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, just wait till it is free! "~ PJ O'Rourke)
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To: FromLori

Just thinking ....

My insurance will pay for my heart attack, my diabetes and other weight induced illnesses and diseases.

Insurance will NOT pay for stomach bands, weight loss programs, exercise programs, Doctor sponsored weight loss clinics or anything to help the obese lose weight.

So, what is Obama gonna do?


19 posted on 08/01/2009 9:04:11 PM PDT by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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To: FromLori; SnuffaBolshevik; musicman; Secret Agent Man; ROCKLOBSTER; easternsky; Vince Ferrer; ...

Oh dear, yes, I have been hearing the knives being whetted. All these carefully timed reports on how much obesity is costing us.

Hmmm, even I have to admit I would really love to hold an auto-da-fe on those misbegotten superobese characters seen on the Discovery Channel shows. Lord only knows how much they cost us.

But then, that’s the reasoning, it’s all for the greater good. Health care for the healthy, the elderly, chronically ill, profoundly disabled are too expensive. Once government is in charge of health care, every sick person is a liability to be eliminated. Everybody who doesn’t lead a healthy lifestyle will not be entitled to care.

Of course, gays with AIDS will be the magical exemption.


20 posted on 08/01/2009 9:08:01 PM PDT by sinanju
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To: Hodar

They have diet police now in Japan he will probably train his brown shirts or give jobs to black panthers to come out.

http://www.impactlab.com/2008/06/25/fascism-returns-to-japan-the-diet-police/


21 posted on 08/01/2009 9:08:54 PM PDT by FromLori (FromLori)
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To: FromLori
Is that the international symbol for "No Fat Chicks?"

Just askin...

Mark

22 posted on 08/01/2009 9:09:27 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: Hodar

“Just thinking ....

My insurance will pay for my heart attack, my diabetes and other weight induced illnesses and diseases.

Insurance will NOT pay for stomach bands, weight loss programs, exercise programs, Doctor sponsored weight loss clinics or anything to help the obese lose weight.

So, what is Obama gonna do?”


That’s easy - he’ll cancel your insurance so you don’t enjoy an unfair advantage over the person who has slept in your back yard for the past 18 years and begged for scraps of food while contributing zero to society. It was arrogant of you to not consider that person first, doncha know!


23 posted on 08/01/2009 9:30:36 PM PDT by Rembrandt
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To: FromLori



24 posted on 08/01/2009 9:33:46 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Abbeville Conservative

25 posted on 08/01/2009 9:52:00 PM PDT by badgerlandjim (Hillary Clinton is to politics as Helen Thomas is to beauty.)
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To: Liberty Valance
A pair of Pithecanthropus erectus clintonius in their natural habitat--the bedroom of a double-wide in a Hope, Arkansas trailer park.
26 posted on 08/01/2009 9:55:50 PM PDT by attiladhun2 (Obama is the anti-Reagan, he believes government is the solution, rather than the problem)
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To: FromLori
As an experiment a friend of mine sat inside his truck in a Wal-Mart parking lot and took stats on the number of people that were entering the store: he was particularly interested in the group designated as morbidly obese. His was a random sample lasting 30 minutes. The following week on the same day at the same time, he waited in the parking lot of the largest health food store in the area and wanted to garner stats on the same class of obese people.

His conclusion? -- Not truly scientific, as the people he was observing never knew they were being observed, and no one stood on the scales for him -- but the morbidly obese group is pretty obvious. He found that on this day he estimated 28% were morbidly obese in Wal-Mart; 45% obese; 10% overweight. The health food store was quite different, during the same time scale 0% were obese, and approx. 23% were simply overweight.

27 posted on 08/01/2009 10:01:37 PM PDT by MrsEmmaPeel (a government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have)
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To: FromLori

I’m a fat smoker. Nanny stater Fascists can KMA. Eff them all!


28 posted on 08/01/2009 10:09:02 PM PDT by HerrBlucher (Its not nuts to request Obama provde his long form bc, it IS nuts not to.)
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To: FromLori

Wasn’t there a time when obesity was a disability? And we were being mean and hateful for even mentioning it?

I think it was back when a bunch of liberals (Oprah, Rosie) were fat.

I guess it’s OK now, since there’s tax money to be made.


29 posted on 08/01/2009 10:13:18 PM PDT by airborne (Congratulations to the Stanley Cup Champions! PITTSBURGH PENGUINS RULE!!!)
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To: FromLori
If you do not show up in der park on time for mornink calisthenics, vee vill drag you out of bed, and MAKE you exercise! Und, vee vill cut your ration of state approved food for vun veek! No more fat, flab, undt vheezink!
30 posted on 08/01/2009 10:16:01 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The mob got President Barabbas; America got shafted)
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To: FromLori
What is ironic is Roman gladiators were fat by todays standards. They were not the lean Decimus Maximus played by Russell Crowe. They were referred to as “hordearii” (barley men). Their diet was essentially high carbohydrate vegetarian (barley and vegetables) so as to bulk up for arena combat.
Quote from article
“A fat cushion protects you from cut wounds and shields nerves and blood vessels in a fight.” Not only would a lean gladiator have been dead meat, he would have made for a bad show. Surface wounds “look more spectacular,”says Grossschmidt. “If I get wounded but just in the fatty layer, I can fight on,”

The Gladiator Diet
http://www.archaeology.org/0811/abstracts/gladiator.html

31 posted on 08/01/2009 10:36:38 PM PDT by Polynikes (Viene una tormenta)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Won’t a fat tax backfire on Obama??? Most of his minority supporters are in the overweight position. Do you see a backlash in voters who are not inclined to change their habits and says “don’t you go there!” to the One?


32 posted on 08/02/2009 12:01:12 AM PDT by Semperfiwife (Health "care" - by the same folks who run Amtrak and the post office)
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To: Semperfiwife

Minorities will be exempted.


33 posted on 08/02/2009 12:44:31 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: Hodar
So, what is Obama gonna do?

Tax. Acorn will come around one a week to scan your wrist bar code tattoo and then weigh you.

34 posted on 08/02/2009 2:00:41 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Obama - fooling fewer people every day.)
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To: sinanju

It would be racist to go after her, though.

35 posted on 08/02/2009 2:05:46 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Obama - fooling fewer people every day.)
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To: FromLori

They'll have to wait until Ted dies.

36 posted on 08/02/2009 2:10:07 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Obama - fooling fewer people every day.)
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To: FromLori

If you want to see fat, triple chin whales, walk into any federal building and eye the so-called “workers.” A real eye-opener was seeing the fat gestapo at the ATF. These fat boys couldn’t run 50 yards without keeling over from a stroke. If seen on a beach they’d certainly spark the interest of Ishmael the harpooner.


37 posted on 08/02/2009 6:19:31 AM PDT by sergeantdave (obuma is the anti-Lincoln, trying to re-establish slavery)
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To: badgerlandjim

Pigs are more equal.


38 posted on 08/02/2009 11:38:44 AM PDT by RockyMtnMan
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