Mississippi Pols Seek To Ban Fats

The Smoking Gun ^ | 2/1/2008 | The Smoking Gun

[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.

[mmichaels1970]

The rats in the Miss government, or the ones that skitter around the kitchens of the restaraunts? The article notes two repub sponsors. And the rats that skitter around the kitchens would welcome every sort of patron (more food dropped on the floor and stocked in the storerooms), I’d think.

[ChurtleDawg]

the smoking gun is the msm?

[July 4th]

Not the most well thought-out bill, is it?

[Digger]

Let’s just call it “The 21st Century Dark Ages”. Global Warming, PC crapola, etc.

[darkangel82]

Sounds like Huckabee voters.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Two republicans are behind the bill. Rats are running the GOP.

[darkangel82]

ping

[CindyDawg]

Baptists banning eating? No way.

[Hawthorn]

It looks suspciously like an attempt to re-introduce a degree of racial segregation. Even if the bill should pass, the feds surely would block it.

[Red Badger]

All three of em?...

[CindyDawg]

Nope. I would never vote for this.

[Wuli]

“Republicans W. T. Mayhall, Jr. and John Read, and Democrat Bobby Shows”

not republicans, just rinos

[tioga]

-here’s a nanny state ping for ya.

[capt. norm]

They are going about it all wrong!

All they need to do is regulate the width of all the entrance doors to the restaurants and narrow them down to the desired size and that would do the job.

They could even put up a sign like "You must be at least this skinny to enter".

But I would think these "heavy" eaters would be among a restaurant's best customers. I would be drawn to a restaurant that advertised "All the fat people eat here"....and there's something about a skinny chef that makes me suspicious.

[San Jacinto]

Now I don’t care who you are....that’s funny.

Was this introduced as a form of sarcasm, or was the sponsor serious???

[Sig Sauer P220]

Damn libs. Want to control all aspects of people’s lives.

[VR-21]

That's the mentality of the modern American politician. Everything not banned is mandatory.

The United States Constitution was written to be an instrument which limited the power of government.

Pass the Charmin.

[Mygirlsmom]

Many Type 1 diabetics are thin as rails —what’s your point?

[Codeflier]

The exit polling data from the 2004 presidential race revealed that people want the social conservatism, but unfortunately they also want big government socialism.

The economic conservative is a dying breed. Leaves me feeling quite lonely.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Start a new one, call it the Construction Party or something. But start it now, get a candidate into the race, and build from there. Judging by the endless stream of establishment endorsements for McCain, the GOP is just too far gone to be saved.