[Bear_Slayer]

STOP SHOUTING!!!

[YHAOS]

Serious? . . . or tongue-in-check?

[elizabetty]

Huckanomics.

[Brad from Tennessee]

STUDY RANKS MISSISSIPPI AS ‘FATTEST’ STATE IN U.S.

JACKSON, Miss. — Experts say Mississippians need to skip the gravy, say no to the fried pickles and start taking brisk walks to fight an epidemic of obesity.

According to a new study, this Deep South state is the fattest in the nation. The Trust for America’s Health, a research group that focuses on disease prevention, says Mississippi is the first state where more than 30 percent of adults are considered obese.

Aside from making Mississippi the butt of late-night talk show jokes, the obesity epidemic has serious implications for public policy.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,294873,00.html

[madison10]

You would do well to actually read the information at the link Leisler has with the article rather than criticizing right out of the box. Looks real to me.

[coloradan]

While we’re at it, should we also stop serving food to people of a certain skin color?

[savedbygrace]

Even if it gets passed, Gov. Barbour would never sign it. Right?

[diverteach]

What’s next, the state telling others thier too skinny and force them to eat?

[mrsmel]

Oh geeze not this again. This bill will NOT pass, and the sponsors know it. Mississippi has some of the most lenient smoking, gun, insurance, helmet, etc laws in the nation.

[Hoodat]

So when are they gonna stop giving food stamps to fat people?

[durasell]

Relax, it’s just another bill intended to give people from Alabama something to laugh at.

[FreePoster]

Too many people in this country have not been educated in the most basic ideas about liberty and the proper role of government.

So they see a law like this and say, “Hey, well maybe it’s a good idea. Too many people are overweight eating all that stuff. And it will lower my taxes and insurance premiums to not have to help pay for their health problems. It’s for their own good anyway.”

The principles of liberty need to be taught in grade school and high school and college, and not as one opinion among others.

[Revolting cat!]

Excellent idea. Let us hope it passes. I’ve just returned from a grocery store where a family of five successfully blocked every isle it visited, and it visited every isle. Prohibit them from shopping at supermarkets, while we’re at it! Enough fat is enough!

[Revolting cat!]

Everybody should be like her!

[Eva]

My husband wants to know if this is a joke. Huckabee signed a law making it illegal to smoke in your own car, but this is even worse.

[nicmarlo]

Well.....here’s the actual proposed nanny-state bill.....

[GeronL]

thats unconstitutional, it shoul apply to all food estblishments.

Ban the feeding of fat people, they should also make it illegal for fat people to buy any form of food

[Mygirlsmom]

Why could't you just pay a skinny person to go order the food for you?

Psst! Buddy! You look like you could use a few fries.....

[freespirited]

As soon as some enterprising lawyer were to figure out that more women were affected than men, the discrimination lawsuits would start to fly and the legislature would have to repeal this thing. Assuming it became law, which it wont.

[Titan Magroyne]

Tell me again how to tell the pubbies and dims apart...