Sean,
Where is the interest in Joe Biden's lobbyist son, Hunter?  One would think that journalists would have more to do than come after Sarah Palin's daughter and be more interested in a vice-presidential child with some possible "shady" dealoings.  Oops, I forgot he is a  liberal.  "Me thinks the dems do protest too much"  kate

Sean,
Al Gore wasn't too worried about global warming a few weeks ago when he was crusing Center Hill Lake in Tennessee in a massive Houseboat and some of his people were running around the lake in a gas guzzling wakeboard boat.

Sean,
If you or i or any other white guy had said what Jessie Jackson did we would be prosecuted for hate crimes.Jessie is nothing more than a professional agitator.Has he ever had a real job.

http://www.pr-inside.com/don-t-f...ble-r418545.htm

2008-02-02 21:04:58 - A bill which would prevent all restaurants from serving food to obese people - which is being roundly criticized or treated as a bad joke - can be made viable and worthy of serious consideration if it can be refocused on children eating at fast food chain restaurants without a parent or guardian, and only prevents them from ordering food items or meals which are extraordinarily and especially fattening, says the public interest law professor behind the modern anti-obesity movement.


The measure - which even its three sponsors agree has little chance of success in its present form - is being criticized for, among other things, interfering with the free choices of adults, for being so all encompassing that obese travelers could not eat out anywhere and obese employees of restaurants would have to go home to eat, for requiring
scientific criteria by which food servers would try to single out the obese, and for many other reasons.

But, prohibiting only the service of especially fattening food items and meals to children who eat at fast food chain restaurants without a parent or guardian would make the law more consistent with many other requirements already placed on children, would not interfere with decisions made by adults for themselves or by parents for children dining with them, and would impose only minor restrictions, says public interest law professor John Banzhaf.

Banzhaf, who filed the first of ten now-successful fat law suits, and counseled on others as well as inspiring and appearing in "Super Size Me," has been called "the Ralph Nader of junk food," "the man who is taking fat to court," "a major crusader against big tobacco and now among those targeting the food industry," and "the man big tobacco and now fast food love to hate." He has written to the bill's sponsors asking them to refocus the bill.

Banzhaf suggests that the bill be focused exclusively on children, arguing that "While most people have a very strong and almost visceral objection to any governmental restrictions imposed to protect their own health from their own bad judgments, we have a long tradition of protecting children from the own inability to make mature judgments."

"Thus, while we traditionally have not prevented adults from smoking tobacco, abusing alcohol, engaging in very dangerous sports and other activities, etc., we have not hesitated to legislate against children purchasing tobacco or alcohol or fire works, engaging in a variety of activities presenting even moderate dangers (e.g., getting tattoos or even vaccinations, etc.

"Focusing your bill on protecting children rather than adults would remove the major objection to it, and provide a strong argument for it - one likely to be echoed by many groups concerned about child health and welfare."

Banzhaf also suggests that the bill should be limited to fast food chain restaurants, arguing that "Limiting your bill to only fast food chain restaurants would defuse most of the objections from the overwhelming majority of restaurants in the state while at the same time focusing on the great majority of situations where children are able to eat out without parental accompaniment."

"However, since virtually every study points out that fast food restaurants play such a large role in the epidemic of pediatric obesity, such a revised bill would still have a major impact on childhood obesity, and also help establish an important principle."

Also, Banzhaf proposes that the bill limit only the serving of foods which are especially fattening: "It may be hard to argue that obese children should not be allowed to purchase low calorie food items of the type now available (due in part to my efforts) from many fast food chains. This is especially true since there may be many circumstances where it is impossible or at least very inconvenient for them to eat elsewhere."

"By prohibiting only the serving of especially fattening foods to obese children, you significantly reduce the objections to your bill. It is much easier to argue for - and to justify - preventing an obese child from ordering a Mucho Grande Nachos from Taco Bell (at over 1300 calories) than a salad with lo-cal dressing, or apple slices, from McDonald's."

He notes that obese children would still be permitted to order most of the items on a fast food menu. "For example, at McDonald's, even a Double Cheeseburger and Quarterpounder, or a Filet-O-Fish or McChicken, has fewer than 500 calories. Those food items the child should not be served include: the Double Quarter Pounder With Cheese (740 calories), Premium Crispy Chicken Club Sandwich (660 calories), several deserts, etc.

BELOW IS A DRAFT OF THE MAIN PROVISIONS OF THE REVISED BILL BANZHAF PROPOSES:

No employee of a fast food chain outlet shall serve to any child who appears, to a reasonable person, to be under the age of 16 and to be obese, any single food item reported by the company to contain more than 500 calories, nor any meal where the calories in all of the food items in the meal (including any drinks, but not including sauces not provided at the counter) as reported by the company exceed 1000 calories.

However, all such food items may be served if the child is accompanied by a parent or guardian, or if the child presents a letter or note on the letterhead of a physician, hospital, or other health care entity certifying that he is not obese or that for medical reasons he should be served such food items, or if he or she provides such proof in a form or manner approved by the State Department of Health, including but not necessarily limited to, a wallet-sized card from any of the above sources or from the school which the child attends.

PROFESSOR JOHN F. BANZHAF III
Professor of Public Interest Law
George Washington University Law School
FAMRI Dr. William Cahan Distinguished Professor
2000 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006, USA
(202) 659-4312 // banzhaf.net
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>
>
> RECEIVED THIS, AND NOW I AM MORE
> >CONFUSED THAN I WAS BEFORE ....
> >
> >
> >
> >LET ME SEE IF I HAVE THIS STRAIGHT:
> >
> >
> >
> >HIS FATHER WAS A KENYAN, MUSLIM, BLACK - WE HAVE SEEN PICTURES OF HIS
> >'AFRICAN
> >FAMILY'
> >
> >
> >
> >HIS MOTHER IS A KANSAN, ATHEIST, WHITE -
> >
> >
> >
> >WHERE ARE THE PICTURES OF HIS KANSAN, WHITE MOTHER
> >
> >
> >
> >AND HIS WHITE GRANDPARENTS WHO RAISED HIM?
> >
> >
> >
> >HIS FATHER DESERTED HIS MOTHER AND HIM WHEN HE WAS VERY YOUNG
> >
> >
> >
> >AND WENT BACK TO HIS FAMILY (WHOSE FAMILY ?) IN KENYA ?> >
> >
> >
> >HIS MOTHER MARRIED AN INDONESIAN MUSLIM AND TOOK HIM TO JAKARTA WHERE HE
> >
> >WAS SCHOOLED IN A MUSLIM SCHOOL
> >
> >
> >
> >HIS MOTHER RETURNED TO HAWAII
> >AND HE WAS RAISED BY HIS WHITE KANSAN GRANDPARENTS? WHEN ?
> >
> >
> >
> >HE LATER WENT TO THE BEST HIGH DOLLAR SCHOOLS, HOW?
> >
> >
> >
> >HE LIVES IN A $1.4 MILLION DOLLAR HOUSE THAT HE ACQUIRED THROUGH A DEAL
> >WITH A
> >WEALTHY FUND RAISER. HOW?
> >
> >
> >
> >HE 'WORKED' AS A CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST IN CHICAGO
> >- HAS NEVER HELD A PRODUCTIVE JOB.
> >
> >
> >
> >THE PRESIDENCY IS NOT A CIVIL RIGHTS POST,
> >
> >NOR IS IT SUBJECT TO AFFIRMATIVE ACTION SET ASIDES
> >
> >
> >
> >HE ENTERED POLITICS AT THE STATE LEVEL AND THEN THE NATIONAL LEVEL,
> >
> >WHERE HE HAS MINIMAL EXPERIENCE
> >
> >
> >
> >HE IS PROUD OF HIS 'AFRICAN HERITAGE'
> >
> >
> >
> >BUT IT SEEMS THAT HIS ONLY AFRICAN CONNECTION WAS THAT HIS AFRICAN FATHER
> >GOT A
> >WHITE GIRL PREGNANT AND DESERTED HER.
> >
> >
> >
> >I DIDN'T KNOW THAT SPERM CARRIED A 'CULTURAL' GENE.
> >
> >
> >
> >WHERE IS THE PRIDE IN HIS WHITE CULTURE?
> >
> >
> >
> >HE GOES TO AN 'AFROCENTRIC' CHURCH THAT HATES WHITES, HATES JEWS,
> >
> >AND BLAMES AMERICA
> >FOR ALL THE WORLD'S PERCEIVED FAULTS
> >
> >
> >
> >AND THEN REPEATEDLY COVERS UP FOR THE PASTOR AND THE CHURCH
> >
> >
> >
> >HE CLAIMS THAT HE COULD NOT CONF RONT HIS PASTOR
> >
> >
> >
> >BUT HE WANTS US TO BELIEVE
> >THAT HE CAN CONFRONT NORTH KOREA
> >AND IRAN,
> >
> >YEAH, RIGHT!!!
> >
> >
> >
> >YEAH, I THINK I SEE HOW HE COULD BE A 'UNITER' AND BRING US TOGETHER,
> >
> >
> >
> >I THINK THE HOPE IS THAT HE HOPES NO ONE WILL PUT THE PIECES TOGETHER UNTIL
> >AFTER THE 'ELECTION' .
> >
> >
> >
> >LIKE I SAID AT THE START, ' I AM CONFUSED !!!! '
> >

   I Have been unable to reach you by phone. How can I cast my vote? Please send phone number that will answer or please send petition or address where I can vote.     Send to: Lee Ward 555 N. Dupont ave. Unit # C-67   Madison, Tn. 37115     P. S. I do not have cable TV so I can't get it there.      Thanks, Lee Ward

Sean, what in the world in going on with J.C. Watts from OK?  Is what I am hearing true?  Could he possibly be turning to the "Dark Side" and endorsing Barrack "Hussein" Obama?  Tell me this isn't true?  I have always been a huge fan of his.  He always stood out among republicans because he wasn't afraid to stand up to the other so-called "black leaders" and call them out on their idiot ideas and principles.  These others NEVER have had the blacks' interest at heart, and JC called them on it.  Looking forward to hearing back from you on this.

Can you please tell me what you heard about high school diplomas being revoked from home schoolers in Tennessee?  I just heard a snippet of that conversation.  THANKS 

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