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Mississippi wants to ban fat people - 2/1/2008 12:13:04 PM   
cyberdude611


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Politicians in Mississippi want to ban obese people from eating at restaurants.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0201081fat1.html
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RE: Mississippi wants to ban fat people - 2/1/2008 12:15:55 PM   
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RE: Mississippi wants to ban fat people - 2/1/2008 12:17:20 PM   
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RE: Mississippi wants to ban fat people - 2/1/2008 12:18:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		I would vote for it! I don't need to go to Mississippi for anything anyway......

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RE: Mississippi wants to ban fat people - 2/1/2008 12:19:11 PM   
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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

Not a bad idea, actually, is it?


Other than the fact that it's completely unconstitutional and discriminatory....sure...

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RE: Mississippi wants to ban fat people - 2/1/2008 12:23:42 PM   
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I dont think you should discriminate against any one. Refusing to serve a fat person will not keep them from eating. It will however make them depressed and eat more.

And exactly what is "too fat" to eat at a resturant? BMI is an out dated index. Are they going to have a scale every one has to pony up to before they can order?

Have you been to MS? I go there each year.. and I can tell you most folks would never past muster.

Make resturants have healthy choices.. but refusing a segment of the population service is discrimination. Plain and simple.

Here is the full bill : http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2008/html/HB/0200-0299/HB0282IN.htm

Stupid assed rednecks... (yes that is a joke.. I have tons of stupid assed redneck friends)

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RE: Mississippi wants to ban fat people - 2/1/2008 12:25:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here are the guys who introduced the bill: Republicans W. T. Mayhall Jr. and John Read, and Democrat Bobby Shows. They're responsible for it, not me :-) .

They're obviously trying to publicise an issue - I doubt something like this would ever pass. The article actually says 'the bill (...) likely dead on arrival'. And how seriously do you take 'The Smoking Gun' as a source of information?

PS: I hasten to add, before anybody labels me as a fattist, that I do NOT agree with such a bill.

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RE: Mississippi wants to ban fat people - 2/1/2008 12:26:02 PM   
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RE: Mississippi wants to ban fat people - 2/1/2008 12:32:39 PM   
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Status: offline 		The sad reality is that they are giving voice to the hatred of fat people that many people harbor. This is taking the "War on Obesity" and moving it to a "War on the Obese". I fully expect to see in the next few years many regulations to restrict and punish obese people. I won't be surprised to see
some government somewhere subject them to execution. When you say that it won't happen, show me the laws protecting the rights of the obese?

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RE: Mississippi wants to ban fat people - 2/1/2008 12:38:30 PM   
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Status: offline 		I believe the constitution covered it quite well.

We do not need more laws, just better enforcement of the laws already in place.


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RE: Mississippi wants to ban fat people - 2/1/2008 12:41:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		I wonder how they will accomidate those with thyroid and blood sugar and other metabolic isues.   This is soooooooooooooooooooooooooo stupid

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RE: Mississippi wants to ban fat people - 2/1/2008 12:46:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		It isn't about why people are obese, it is the fact that they are obese and some people just don't want to have to look at obese people.

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RE: Mississippi wants to ban fat people - 2/1/2008 12:46:57 PM   
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RE: Mississippi wants to ban fat people - 2/1/2008 12:49:49 PM   
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Status: offline 		This is for real. There are people who wish they could close their eyes, open them and never see another obese person ever. Actually, they don't think of the obese as people anyway, just annoyances to be avoided and scorned.

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RE: Mississippi wants to ban fat people - 2/1/2008 12:51:59 PM   
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RE: Mississippi wants to ban fat people - 2/1/2008 12:52:31 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm sure there are hundreds of eccentric bills being introduced each year. It's offensive, I agree, but as cyberdude and Tigresse said, the Constitution covers the rights of people - no matter their waistlines.

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RE: Mississippi wants to ban fat people - 2/1/2008 12:58:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		The MS legislature is unlikely to pass it, because I imagine (based on other state legislatures I've seen pictures of - and indeed our own Federal legislature), there will be too many members who would then be unable to eat at restaurants.

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RE: Mississippi wants to ban fat people - 2/1/2008 1:00:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		There are plenty of people who wish they never had to see or be bothered by children too - which is strange to me since we were all children at some point.

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RE: Mississippi wants to ban fat people - 2/1/2008 1:02:13 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: Leatherist

They need to ban srceaming babies from movie theaters next.


They don't need to. First you go get the DVD, then you take it home, pop it into your DVD player......Voila'!


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RE: Mississippi wants to ban fat people - 2/1/2008 1:05:12 PM   
Lucylastic


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Status: offline 		Kittin, it was also made not of on PR MEdia site
http://sev.prnewswire.com/health-care-hospitals/20080201/DC1309901022008-1.html
and also USA today
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/02/bill-would-make.html
not that it makes any difference,
....actually Aubre, I agree with you, "my god is it april already" was in response to the OP, I thought it was april fools day.....
I agree that obesity is the biggest hate thing goin on right now and its only gona get worse, blah blah blah.
bloody idiot politicians
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