Posted on 10/04/2012 8:18:53 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
How was I able to determine that the the speaker would be a liberal worried about the ‘obesity’ epidemic?
Come on folks. Open your eyes.
Just as a simple example, consider this story that I read just today about the USDA encouraging parents to introduce crappy food that kids don’t like at home, so that they will eat them at school.
And why is our government ‘waging war’ on obesity? Consider a bit of news that I heard on WIZM just a few weeks ago: Wisconsin obesity rate among adults on the rise, study finds
Trust for America’s Health released a state-by-state study titled “F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future 2012,” which found the obesity rate among Wisconsin adults could be 56.3 percent by 2030. In 2011, 27.7 percent of the state’s adults were obese.
The report found the increase in obesity is expected to contribute toward higher disease rates and health care costs, which the report said might rise by 14.7 percent by 2030.
Nationwide, 39 states might have obesity rates higher than 50 percent by 2030, 13 of those with obesity rates higher than 60 percent, the report found.
If the average body mass index of Wisconsin’s residents went down 5 percent by 2030, or about a ten-pound loss for a six-foot, 200-pound person, the report found Wisconsin health care costs could drop 7.4 percent. By 2030, this could bring savings of $11,962,000,000.
So there you have it. Health care costs are out of control, and since–thanks to Obamacare and other Nanny-state initiatives–we the people have to foot the bill for all those fat people, we the people have got to intervene.
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Anyone who cries because someone publicizes what they’ve said or written, just can’t bear too much sunlight on themselves.
but throwing a hysterical hissy fit over an email is normal?
I’m not defending her judgement. I’m refuting your argument that she did something illegal.
If I’d received the letter, I would have recycled it. She acted out of outrage, but publicizing it may have done some public good. It certainly won’t decrease the attention on her weight issue. Maybe the extra sunlight on *her* will make her rethink her habits that affect her health and her weight.
I will go so far as to say that it shows a lack of self control, that she chose to make the letter public. But it was *not* illegal.
I didn’t mean illegal. But I would think it deserves some real complaints to the FCC.
How about they do it daily? Just pick an emailer, find out as much as you can about them online and just go off on them for 15 minutes. I guess it’d be a ratings winner.
I can think of quite a few times, actually, where political pundits have read a critical email online, and later listeners dug up information about the person who sent the email and their affiliations. Quite a few excellent diggers right here on FR, I would imagine.
You could have a poll...
If 0 is “totally un cool”, and 5 is “Meh”, and 10 is “totally cool”, I give her a 2.5, halfway between evil and “Meh”.
4:05am here...Peace, out.
How many of them have their own TV show?
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Bully Victim Inks New TV Deal
http://asspos.blogspot.com/2012/10/bully-victim-inks-new-tv-deal.html
Great comment! :-)
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