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To: Eowyn-of-Rohan
a 72-year old lady was carded last week for trying to buy a cigar for her husband.

I'll never forget seeing an ancient man, leaning on a cane, being turned down for a single beer at a hockey game because he didn't have proper ID.

34 posted on 09/23/2002 9:36:57 AM PDT by freeeee
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To: freeeee
Fools, or peons on power trips. I probably would have given him my beer.
38 posted on 09/23/2002 9:48:58 AM PDT by Eowyn-of-Rohan
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To: freeeee; Eowyn-of-Rohan; Lion's Cub; FourtySeven; YoungKentuckyConservative; LS; DWSUWF; ...

a 72-year old lady was carded last week for trying to buy a cigar for her husband.

I'll never forget seeing an ancient man, leaning on a cane, being turned down for a single beer at a hockey game because he didn't have proper ID.

There was probably an ATF agent on the premise ready to bust the food vendor because his workers didn't ask every person for ID.

In other words, the Gestapo was looking over their shoulder.

From a related article: Who's making America so fat

"I never underestimate the ability of judges to come up with curious rulings," says Gifford of the Michigan Restaurant Association. "But clearly, if you sat around and listened to the average citizen talk about this (Barber) lawsuit, they realize it for being the frivolous shot at big money that it is and we're hopeful that judges and juries will treat it accordingly."

Here, I'll help.

Hamburgers, french-fries and soft drinks; don't they sell those in grocery stores as well as in restaurants? There are many companies that manufacture those products. Just as there are many companies that manufactured tobacco products. Lawyers attacked the tobacco manufacturers, not the retail sellers of tobacco products. Why suddenly have the fat-police going after the retail sellers/prepare rather than the manufactures? Because even the lawyers know they would be trounced by the food manufacturers. Archer Daniels Midland alone could crush all the lawyers.

Bottom line, carbohydrates stimulate overproduction of insulin that causes conversion of the carb to sugar (glucose) for use by the body. If the body does not need it immediately, it goes to fat. The body cannot make this same conversion with animal or plant fats and proteins.

Agree. The lawyers would never attack the government -- the hand that feeds them -- for advocating a bogus food pyramid.

49 posted on 09/23/2002 11:07:11 AM PDT by Zon
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