Posted on 02/01/2008 4:38:48 PM PST by freemike
FEBRUARY 1--Mississippi legislators this week introduced a bill that would make it illegal for state-licensed restaurants to serve obese patrons.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesmokinggun.com ...
It said in the piece the bill is probably DOA. Good thing, this law would of forced the Obese into back alley grocery stores where they could shop then eat at home..and who would protect them from themselves there. They’d then have to pass a law to keep them form buying groceries, and another one to ban food in their homes..Its baffling how people this stupid get elected...Dosen’t say much for the smarts of their constituents either. These dudes are probably career politicians.
The only thing that surprises me is that this is proposed in Mississippi and not California. ;-)
So true.
Well maybe someday the government will put all of them into camps so they wont bother your sensibilities anymore.
Interesting, I was at a company meeting this week and the topic came up among a bunch of guys about city laws outlawing all smoking in restaurants. My partner, who is a great fellow and very republican, sadly was all for it, saying he didn’t want to have to take his two year old daughter into a restaurant and expose her to the smoke.
I pointed out that, first, as private property, the owner has the right to decide whether to allow smoking, and second, he doesn’t have to eat there and is free to go somewhere else. Sadly, I he didn’t seem to grasp the concept.
My next point was that, IMO, there are a lot of lifestyle choices you can engage in that will probably kill you faster than smoking for for a similar amount of time. And one of those is choosing to overeat, take on frank obesity, and be live a sedentary lifestyle.
Therefore, based on logic, I told them I think the state has just as urgent, or even a more urgent rationale for limiting peoples’ diets than stopping them from smoking.
Of course, logic and common sense has long ago ceased to enter into these type issues.
Two things come to mind. Have ya’ll ever seen the overall food in Mississippi? Everything is like every other food in the South, fried, battered, buttered and then fried again.
Secondly, define fat....I believe that I am still just fluffy.
Next: obese can’t buy food in supermarkets or convenience stores.
ping
I suspect this is sort of a Rush bill. Illustrating the absurdity of current government preoccupations. As it said in the article, it has no chance to pass.I think the Republicans are saying that this is the logical result of the rhetoric.
“FEBRUARY 1—Mississippi legislators this week introduced a bill that would make it illegal for state-licensed restaurants to serve obese patrons.”
How is it that I just KNOW that this governing body is ruled by Republicans?
Insanity.
NANNY-STATE Ping...........
Don’t say you weren’t warned..........
If I enter an eating establishment and I am refused service because my weight exceeds some arbitrarily arrived at numerical ideal, I’m going to make it my life’s work to sue that restaurant and the city where it is located into oblivion.
This kind of rampant stupidity make me sick and anyone who supports it is a DAMNED FOOL.
I've dealt with a large number of smoke gnatzies over the years, and the vast majority of them should be talking to Jenny Craig....if you get my drift :)
Well FINALLY someone has addressed this problem. It seems like it’s impossible to go out and have dinner without being forced to be seated next to some obese person. The obese have been forcing their will on everybody else for years. It’s about time the obese took their filthy habit outside.
I had always heard large people were jolly, I guess not
Right about now it is walking home, to read books recommended by Oprah, while shaking off nicotine cravings and eating bon-bons/ice cream/Frito's/overly sweetened yogurt, and text messaging people who were allowed into the neighborhood restaurant (to hear what the forbidden special might be).
Tomorrow it might go for a bicycle ride, do origami, or make posters for Sunday's protest.
By Sunday, it will be in a fetal position, asking the same question that prompted this reply.
LOL. Sounds plausible.
IIRC Mississippi is pretty near the top of the list among the states in percentage of obese people.
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