Via A Thousand Paper Cuts I learn that some anal-retentive control freaks in Mississippi have introduced a bill making it a crime for a restaurant to serve fat people...
The story is near the bottom of the page.
Wake up - these people are serious.
Posted on 08/03/2008 7:27:34 PM PDT by SmithL
Last week, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to make the city the first in the country to ban the sale of cigarettes in pharmacies such as Walgreens and Rite Aid.
And that's only the city's latest effort to make us all healthier.
The supervisors also voted to require chain restaurants to post nutritional information, including calories and fat content, on menus. This follows the creation of a program to recognize restaurants that don't use trans fats and an idea by Mayor Gavin Newsom to levy a fee on retailers of sugary sodas.
The board is also taking up legislation to dramatically curb where smokers can light up, including prohibiting puffing in taxis, lines for the ATM and common areas of apartment buildings. And Newsom wants to close some streets to cars on select Sundays so people can jog, hula-hoop and lay out their yoga mats on the pavement.
What's next from City Hall? A mandate to eat your broccoli and hit the treadmill 30 minutes every day?
"Next, it'll be if you're fat and eating sugar, you'll get a ticket," scoffed Chris Carillo, a 41-year-old software engineer who lives in Polk Gulch. "There's crime on the streets, homeless people congregating, a lot of grime. I'd rather see them concentrate on that."
San Francisco famously became the first city in the nation to attempt to provide universal health care to its residents and requires employers to provide paid sick leave, both of which are mostly popular ideas in this progressive city.
But when it comes to legislating good habits, some San Franciscans have had enough.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Only in Sodom by the Sea.
These characters make NYC seem almost SANE!
The People’s Republic of San Francisco moves forward into the 21st oops....14th Century....
Is this the breaking point or do we just keep going downhill...
The last person to leave will have to turn out the light...
If SF was really health-minded AIDS tests would be mandatory. But Nooooooooooooo...!
Illegals won’t be reported or deported and can kill you...but you won’t have to worry about drug store cigs doing it. Liberalism is truly a mental disease.
Liberalism truly is a disease.
I suppose the queers, with their extremely high risk life style, would be among the "others" he's talking about, why doesn't he try taxing them out of existance?
Via A Thousand Paper Cuts I learn that some anal-retentive control freaks in Mississippi have introduced a bill making it a crime for a restaurant to serve fat people...
The story is near the bottom of the page.
Wake up - these people are serious.
Fascist bravo sierra
so much for their tourism !!ha.
But they will still vote Democrap.
Wes Alles, director of the Stanford Health Improvement Program, which seeks to make the university's community healthier, said legislation can directly change behavior.
Lesseee... sanctuary city, congregating location for the crazies and bums, major aids/hiv, out of wedlock births, high crime in the inner cities, COYOTE, legal pot... Um, what was it Wes Alles was saying, again? OH, that's right. "Health". The issue is "health". And legislation about "health" can directly change behavior".
Well, if you’re going to have some diseased stranger in a SF bath house fist your rectum, I suppose trying eating a healthy diet might have some merit for helping to stave off the black plague and check the rate of your physical decline.
No way. The Nazi's running the city haven't even started yet and they know they can count on the people of SFO to bend over and take it any time they command them to.
How about the health costs that accrue to taxpayers as a result of the behavior of rump humpers exchanging bodily fluids and blood-born pathogens?
Most of the comments on that stories web page are right-on.
It goes beyond public education to actively change people's environments. Examples of structural interventions include offering condoms in schools or public restrooms and operating needle exchange programs.
So it goes with eliminating cigarettes from pharmacies or labeling how many calories are in a Big Mac.
"We're not dictating individual behavior - it isn't a nanny state," Katz said. "What we're trying to do is make the world a place where it's easier to be healthy.
The irony of their statism is completely lost on the self-proclaimed "progressives".
If they really want to make a dent in what healthcare taxpayers provide, they should make anyone who has AIDS liable for the death penalty should they have sex. I mean really; let them put their money where their mouth is. No pun intended ;)
Healthy Living through Chemistry.
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