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Belgium's 20-stone minister for public health is accused of being too big to be 'credible'
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Posted on 10/16/2014 8:45:57 AM PDT by traumer
Some politicians come under fire for being corrupt or incompetent, but Belgium's new Minister of Public Health is the first political figure to come under fire for being too fat for the job.
Maggie De Block - who is Belgium's most popular politician and was once tipped as a future premier - surprised many when it was announced she would take up the role of Health Minister in the centre-right coalition which has just taken office.
The 52-year-old, who weighs in at more than 20 stone, was not considered to be exactly setting a good example in a country where obesity is a growing health problem.
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posted on
10/16/2014 8:45:57 AM PDT
by
traumer
To: traumer
NO PICTURES!
I'm having lunch.
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posted on
10/16/2014 8:47:44 AM PDT
by
grobdriver
(Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
To: traumer
UKIP’s Nigel Farage called Belgium “a non-country”. He was right.
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posted on
10/16/2014 8:48:34 AM PDT
by
Dr. Thorne
("Don't be afraid. Just believe." - Mark 5:36)
To: traumer
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posted on
10/16/2014 8:49:23 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: traumer
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posted on
10/16/2014 8:49:31 AM PDT
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
To: traumer
at 14 pounds per stone, that comes to 280 pounds.
Pretty hefty for a Prime Minister?
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posted on
10/16/2014 8:51:32 AM PDT
by
FroggyTheGremlim
("Your apathy is their power." - Sarah Palin Jul 19, 2014)
To: traumer; mikrofon; martin_fierro
Maggie “Around” De Block.
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posted on
10/16/2014 8:52:10 AM PDT
by
Charles Henrickson
(I decided not to post a picture. Thank me.)
To: traumer
The article states that she was “unmoved by hunger strikes”. I’m thinking that she’d be unmoved by a Cat 5 hurricane.
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posted on
10/16/2014 8:52:24 AM PDT
by
Bob
To: onedoug
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posted on
10/16/2014 8:52:46 AM PDT
by
traumer
To: reg45
She is way over 280. She used to be a doctor.
To: eCSMaster
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posted on
10/16/2014 8:53:33 AM PDT
by
traumer
To: eCSMaster
She ain’t exactly pretty, ain’t exactly small.
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posted on
10/16/2014 8:53:47 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
To: traumer
The picture of this porcine Administrator makes
the First Caboose look sickly thin.
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posted on
10/16/2014 8:54:55 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
To: grobdriver
Yeah, don’t look. She’s so fat she’s getting that thing where it looks like her cheeks are about to to swallow her face.
To: traumer
“she wields her wheelbarrow
through streets that are narrow
her barrow is narrow her hips are too wide
for wherever she wields it
the neighborhood feels it
her girdle keeps scraping the homes on each side...”
-Allan Sherman
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posted on
10/16/2014 8:56:31 AM PDT
by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: Diogenesis
what happened to our SG ?
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posted on
10/16/2014 8:57:03 AM PDT
by
traumer
To: dfwgator
Forty-two, thirty-nine, fifty-six
You could say she’s got it all!
To: Yossarian
setting new EU standards...
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posted on
10/16/2014 8:58:31 AM PDT
by
traumer
To: Bob
The article states that she was unmoved by hunger strikes. Im thinking that shed be unmoved by a Cat 5 hurricane. LOL!
She is De Block of Granite.
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posted on
10/16/2014 8:59:58 AM PDT
by
Charles Henrickson
(I decided not to post a picture. Thank me.)
To: traumer
Belgium's new Minister of Public Health is the first political figure to come under fire for being too fat for the job. Guess they never heard of Chris Christy.
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posted on
10/16/2014 9:00:48 AM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
(It takes a gun to feed a village,)
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