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Mississippi Pols Seek To Ban Fats
The Smoking Gun ^
| 2/1/2008
| The Smoking Gun
Posted on 02/01/2008 12:58:24 PM PST by mmichaels1970
New bill would make it illegal for restaurants to serve the obese
FEBRUARY 1--Mississippi legislators this week introduced a bill that would make it illegal for state-licensed restaurants to serve obese patrons. Bill No. 282, a copy of which you'll find below, is the brainchild of three members of the state's House of Representatives, Republicans W. T. Mayhall, Jr. and John Read, and Democrat Bobby Shows. The bill, which is likely dead on arrival, proposes that the state's Department of Health establish weight criteria after consultation with Mississippi's Council on Obesity. It does not detail what penalties an eatery would face if its grub was served to someone with an excessive body mass index.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: bbw; bhm; fats; foodnazis; health; nannystate; obese; obesity
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To: allmendream
They don’t want to mess with Mississippi’s population, Mississippians have for some years running been the highest contributors to private charity in the nation. Considering our rank in income, that’s quite a feat.
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posted on
02/01/2008 5:00:27 PM PST
by
mrsmel
To: mrsmel
Mississippi is GREAT! The food is just too good for words, and if I lived there I would be over 300 lbs. Too much BBQ and sweet tea!
102
posted on
02/01/2008 5:16:26 PM PST
by
allmendream
("A Lyger is pretty much my favorite animal."NapoleonD (nocrybabyconservatives))
To: allmendream
Ive been to Mississippi. If they ban fats they will exile a significant portion of their population who are over 50% fat by volume.I've been to California. If they ban education, they will exile a significant portion of their population who are over 50% brainless by volume!
Please don't throw stones from your glass California house.
Remember, you have Diane Frankenstein!
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posted on
02/01/2008 5:22:02 PM PST
by
WileyPink
("...I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." John 14:6b)
To: allmendream
I live on the coast, so it’s more seafood than barbecue. That’s good, it’s less fattening, unless you deep-fry everything. (I’m a heretic, I just don’t like deep-fried food). I also don’t like sweet tea-—infamy!-—because my grandmother made it so sweet it was like syrup and made me hate it to this day.
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posted on
02/01/2008 5:23:21 PM PST
by
mrsmel
To: WileyPink
Sorry, I didn’t mean for that to sound so mean. I was using humor...as I’m sure you were.
:~)
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posted on
02/01/2008 5:25:36 PM PST
by
WileyPink
("...I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." John 14:6b)
To: WileyPink
I couldnt’ agree more. I moved recently near L.A., the epicenter of ignorant superficiality.
I loved Mississippi, and the food there is so good if I lived there any longer I would be 300 lbs and HAPPY about it.
One of my best friends in the USAF was a Abraham Lincoln looking tall skinny guy from Mississippi named Homer. Lots of beautiful people in Mississippi, but lots of really BIG people also, and some of the BIG ones are REALLY BIG. Nothing against Big people though, two of my best friends are HUGE, good people, fun, funny, and she is one of the best cooks ever.
Why is it everything good in life is illegal, immoral or fattening?
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posted on
02/01/2008 5:30:40 PM PST
by
allmendream
("A Lyger is pretty much my favorite animal."NapoleonD (nocrybabyconservatives))
To: WileyPink
Absolutely! And unlike California, people in Mississippi are less likely to make people who are big feel bad about themselves.
And the preferred spelling of our Senator’s name is ‘FINE-SWINE’! ;)
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posted on
02/01/2008 5:33:26 PM PST
by
allmendream
("A Lyger is pretty much my favorite animal."NapoleonD (nocrybabyconservatives))
To: allmendream
I wrestle with that quandary myself :)
108
posted on
02/01/2008 5:34:23 PM PST
by
mrsmel
To: Codeflier
Welcome to the ‘post-literate’ society. UGH!
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posted on
02/01/2008 5:56:38 PM PST
by
allmendream
("A Lyger is pretty much my favorite animal."NapoleonD (nocrybabyconservatives))
To: Hawthorn
To: WileyPink
Ah, here is the problem:
“W. T. Mayhall, Jr.
District 40 - DeSoto County - Republican”
DeSoto County is too close to Memphis. It’s becoming Memphis Jr. and not like Mississippi at all.
Plus he was born and educated in Memphis. That’s affected his thinking to be more easily swayed by the PC crowd.
He may be a fine person, but this country needs less “government action” not more.
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posted on
02/01/2008 7:14:21 PM PST
by
Cedar
To: mmichaels1970
> Please see #75. <
Thanks. But if you're a Southerner, you must know that us folks down here tell lies and tall tales to gullible Yankees all the time, just to shock 'em. More fun than a barrel of monkeys!
(In other words, regardless of what post #75 says, I imagine these legislators are having a big yuck over all the folks who have fallen for their silly prank!)
To: mmichaels1970
Yeah, no surprise - it’s Mississippi - quite a few liberals (including those who introduced this bill). Those types will nanny state us to death.
To: mmichaels1970
“They’re going to pry my hush puppies away from my cold, fat, dead fingers.”
114
posted on
02/01/2008 7:54:18 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(11+7+15=3 Heismans)
To: Cedar
115
posted on
02/02/2008 4:24:24 AM PST
by
LibLieSlayer
(Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims and vote for?)
To: mmichaels1970
The actual bill is
here.I hope the Maryland legislature doesn't get wind of this bill. The People's Democratic Republic of Maryland would certainly PASS such an enlightened measure!
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posted on
02/02/2008 4:33:10 AM PST
by
markomalley
(Extra ecclesiam nulla salus)
To: All
With many state budgets facing billion dollars in deficits...the first step won’t be this, there is no money in it. The first step will be fast food taxes to raise revenue to pay for the diabetic testing supplies and bariatric surgery...mark my words.
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posted on
02/02/2008 12:06:34 PM PST
by
Eric Blair 2084
(Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
To: mmichaels1970
Thanks. I did not see your post before I put mine up.
W
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posted on
02/04/2008 11:13:28 AM PST
by
WayneS
(Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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