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Obamacare anti-obesity rules require signage near elevators on calories burned by using stairs
Thoughtgrime ^ | February 20, 2014 | Sisyphus

Posted on 02/20/2014 5:15:22 AM PST by orwell2112

Obamacare’s partially read fiats, already under fire for forcing restaurants and vending machine operators to affix calorie labels to offerings, also mandate informing the public about calories burned during certain activities, according to the latest fatwa, issued today, by the Department of Health and Human Services.

The fatwa requires “Any business, institution, municipality, or other entity to place signage in no less than 14 languages, which must include Spanish, Urdu, and any three varieties of Pidgin English, within two vertical feet and five linear feet of escalators, elevators, and moving walkways, inter alia, informing the public on how many calories ambulating or climbing a stairwell in place of utilizing available powered transportation will consume.”

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1 posted on 02/20/2014 5:15:22 AM PST by orwell2112
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To: orwell2112

How many calories are burned during an armed insurrection against tyrants?


2 posted on 02/20/2014 5:17:58 AM PST by fruser1
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To: fruser1
How many calories are burned during an armed insurrection against tyrants?

Up to all that you have.

3 posted on 02/20/2014 5:19:23 AM PST by Freelance Warrior (A Russian.)
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To: orwell2112

I have a better proposal: make a successful fitness test mandatory to get any kind of government benefit, tax refund or a government job.


4 posted on 02/20/2014 5:22:48 AM PST by Freelance Warrior (A Russian.)
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To: orwell2112
I'm offended.
I have a knee affliction which precludes me from using stairs and this sign is outrageous, and hateful.
I demand elevator justice.
5 posted on 02/20/2014 5:25:33 AM PST by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: fruser1

Well, it all depends on how fat is the tyrant; not so much on how long does it burn...


6 posted on 02/20/2014 5:26:25 AM PST by Moose Burger
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To: orwell2112

If those signs start appearing I will bring along a backside view of Michelle’s fat ass to tape over the sign.


7 posted on 02/20/2014 5:40:35 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: orwell2112

Why not just tax elevators, escalators and moving sidewalks? s/


8 posted on 02/20/2014 5:41:04 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: orwell2112

My personal favorite signs are the braille signs at the drive through at my bank. They can only be reached from the drivers seat so I’m trying to imagine a blind person driving up and groping around for the instructions in braille. There are also brail signs at my gym at about 4 1/2 feet right in the middle of the wall which say “no male over the age of three” as you go into the women’s dressing room. So I’m trying to imagine a blind mother (since a four year old male couldn’t reach that high) moving her hands all over this 6X6 foot wall area to make sure she had read the braille. She then has to say, sorry sweetie but you have to go into the men’s locker room. And of course, since she’s blind, why wouldn’t she be able to take her son into the men’s locker room as long as she wasn’t changing?


9 posted on 02/20/2014 5:44:09 AM PST by Mercat
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Will they have to hire more bureaucrats and create a Department of Signs and Notices, or can they just go with this one…

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/09/shutdown-closes-the-tap-on-new-beers/2955673/

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY SOCIALISM


10 posted on 02/20/2014 5:48:49 AM PST by PGalt
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To: Freelance Warrior

Fitness, IQ, civics, and foundational history.


11 posted on 02/20/2014 5:49:03 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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12 posted on 02/20/2014 5:49:31 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Mercat

Common sense rarely plays a role in leftist topdown diktats.

Common sense is letting the individual have too much sovereignty.


13 posted on 02/20/2014 5:50:51 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: RJS1950

The cited article is obviously a satire.


14 posted on 02/20/2014 6:03:39 AM PST by bagman
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To: orwell2112
Are there also signs at exclusive golf clubs indicating the number of calories burned while playing 36 holes?
15 posted on 02/20/2014 6:05:05 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obama: "I can do whatever I want")
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To: Amagi
I demand elevator justice.

I have a hip replacement so I'm in a similar situation.Perhaps we should begin chanting "no justice,no peace!"

16 posted on 02/20/2014 6:07:35 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obama: "I can do whatever I want")
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To: orwell2112

This is why Monty Python’s Flying Circus was one of the greatest TV comedies ever.

Britain had already descended to this level of Socialist lunacy by the late 1960’s. Providing a virtually bottomless barrel of material.


17 posted on 02/20/2014 6:21:28 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: orwell2112; All

I checked the site. I think this is satire. All the other stories at the site are Onion like stories.


18 posted on 02/20/2014 6:21:30 AM PST by prof.h.mandingo (Buck v. Bell (1927) An idea whose time has come (for extreme liberalism))
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To: orwell2112

Don’t forget Ebonics.


19 posted on 02/20/2014 6:35:41 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: Mercat

“They can only be reached from the drivers seat “

I always figured they could be reach by a blind passenger in the back seat, driver’s side.


20 posted on 02/20/2014 6:51:44 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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