U.S Approves Cheeseburger Bill

BBC NEWS ^ | 12 March, 2004, | BBC

[Nascardude]

This is pretty disturbing, wouldn't you say?

[Nascardude]

Oops. I didn't see the date on it. This article is over a year old. Oh well. Shows you how much I know.

[Lord Basil]

How about a lawsuit against Big Media for making people stupid?

[guitar Josh]

I don't know what is worse: The fact that as a country we have reached this point where we have to tell adults that they're responsible for their own actions, or that 139 elected officals thought that it was a bad idea.

[sierrahome]

You've never lived until you have had an In-N-Out Burger in California or a Frishes "Big Boy in Indiana or a Slaw BBQ in North Carolina...anybody got any more?

[Petronski]

It's disturbing that we need such a law, but nice that it passed.


Die Essenpolizei can go get real jobs.

[BobL]

Tommy's, anyone?

[Teplukin]

It is high time for fat people to take responsibilities for themselves. Many are appallingly large gargantuan monsters the take up entire supermarket aisles, trampling small children and poodles w/o regard. Besides being a menace to pedestrian traffic, such people are very difficult to sit next to on plane. They crowd you out, all the while emitting streams of noxious gases.

When will we wake up to this clear & present danger?

[lawdude]

Now for tobacco, guns, etc.

[Polybius]

Two thirds of US adults and nine million children are either overweight or obese, the study said.

It never ceases to amaze me how the Liberals always want to have it both ways. If they're not whining about that, they're whining about this:

[Last Dakotan]

Why should the fast food industry deserve special protection? Better, more expensive lobbyists? We need complete legal reform, not piecemeal solutions.

[SteveMcKing]

"It is high time for fat people to take responsibilities for themselves."

I am perfectly trim - always have been. I eat absolutely ANYTHING in ANY AMOUNT that I feel like, in fact I have stuffed myself so much I got sent for medical tests for what turned out to be mere acid reflux (I need to eat slower).

I can't imagine if my body chemistry were any different... if I were someone who is naturally heavy and couldn't lose weight, I'd be 50-times as screwed as I am now as someone who can't gain anything.

(I also get little-to-no excercise in recent years... though I used to lift and run a little, but that's it.)

[Eastbound]

"On Wednesday House Majority leader Tom DeLay praised the passage of the bill, which is formally called the Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act."

Wow! Give us another 225 years and I'll bet we can move this nation right out of the crawling stage. ;^/

[Fester Chugabrew]

I thought this was old news. We elected the bastard twice.

[coloradan]

If it passed over a year ago, then there's yet another gun grabber lie exposed, namely, that gun industry immunity would be an "unprecedented" step in escaping liability. Why, looky here! Looks like the cheeseburger industry already has substantially the same immunity that the gun industry might get - in which case it isn't unprecedented.

[USNBandit]

And the kids that work at In-N-Out are so courteous. While the libs are trying to get the minimum wage raised, those kids make $8.50/hour by working hard for a good company.Double-double animal style, no pickles please

[mysterio]

I just lost my 75th pound today. So I know a bit about obesity and conquering it. However, I trust government even less than I trust greedy trial lawyers.

You can't legislate common sense. They might be right in this case, but I don't like government deciding when someone can and can't file a lawsuit. It seems that should be decided on a case by case basis.

To further clarify my post, I blame no one but myself for my former weight problem. I would not ever dream of filing suit against McDonalds. I enjoy McDonalds about once a month now.

[Doe Eyes]

Next on the agenda, securing our borders.

Just kidding.

[Xenalyte]

Rim shot!