[JohnHuang2]

Thursday, June 20, 2002

Quote of the Day by surely_you_jest

[Libertarianize the GOP]

Junk science about obesity
http://www.freerepublic.com/fo cus/news/702969/posts

[Flyer]

'Fattest' cities:

1. Houston

We can't help it - it's all that good barbeque.

[Japedo]

Anyone want to place bets on what we can look forward to tomorrow?

Did anyone Wager this!?!?!

[DemoSmear]

I will attest to the ranking for Colorado Springs. I think everyone here either runs, bikes or mountain climbs- that is when we're not fighting fires.

[blackbart.223]

"One proposal: Add a 1-or-2 cent tax on soft drinks to finance a major nutrition and exercise education campaign."

And now we know what this is all about. I guess they are not squeezing as much as they wanted to from tobbaco users.

[brat]

People have a RIGHT to be free George. If they want to eat fries, let 'em. And don't pull that ^%^& that was pulled on smokers! Enough is enough! What's next? Isn't it time you hit the health fanatics? Isn't it their turn to be over taxed?

[Tripleplay]

By taxing soft drinks, controlling vending machines in schools, and restricting snack and other food advertising to children, they want to reverse a trend that now has 61 percent of adults overweight ? with a healthcare cost to the nation of $117 billion a year.

How come I never read how much illegal aliens are costing the nation for healthcare benefits? Or how about people on welfare?

[rambo316]

I don't know, man, Bushie is really disappointing me.

$500,000,000 to fight AIDS in Africa.

Giving houses to all non white citizens (Bush is playing a Marxist now.), not because they worked for it.

And the list goes on and on and on.....

[MARTIAL MONK]

Am I the only one who finds the title of this despicable?

Nineteen thousand American boys died in the cold and the snow of the Ardennes barely over a half century ago. Nineteen thousand individual deaths, frozen and frightened, facing the monster or mechanized warfare, often with arms little advanced from the First World War. The Battle of the Bulge should be viewed with the same hushed reverence as Iwo Jima, Antietam, the Ia Drang Valley or Omaha Beach.

Are we so shallow a society that the name of this greatest test of the Second World War should become a cutesy moniker for the imagined travails of modern day slovens? Maybe Memorial Day is enough for some but for me, I will honor thse faceless legions still marching in the night. The Battle of the Bulge has only one meaning and it should not be defiled.

[lavaroise]

THe return of CCCP

WHAT!!!!! IF I ENJOY SNACKS AND MY KIDS BEHAVE IN THE CONSUMPTIONS THEREOF, WHY SHOULD THEY BE PUNISHED THAT WAY IN THE NAME OF WORSHIP OF THOSE WHO CAN'T CONTROL THEMSELVES????

[lavaroise]

By the way, US snacks and McDonalds are a godsent for those suffering from chronic hypoglycemia and hyperthyroidism.

[hopespringseternal]

The funny thing is that if the fatsos were shoving as many zuchinis in their face as they do everything else, they would still be fat.

Once again, the uplifters and utopians blame objects for the actions of people.

[metesky]

At a fitness fair on the White House south lawn, President Bush will announce the revival of the President's Council on Physical Fitness

IIRC, this was originated by JFK back when I was in high school. The same rhetoric was used then, sedentary, obese, unfit, blah, blah, blah.

Saint Jack encouraged walking, even though he could barely crawl ten feet without being "serviced" by one of his secrataries.

Every week there were pictures in the papers of various cabinet members setting off on five mile walks and fifty mile hikes.

It was a dog and poney show then and now.

Those ponies must be old and tired by now.

[Gunner9mm]

'"The kinds of things we're recommending ... sound controversial because they're new," says Margo Wootan'

Wrong. They sound controversial because they're stupid.