No Runny Eggs

The repository of one hard-boiled egg from the south suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (and the occassional guest-blogger). The ramblings within may or may not offend, shock and awe you, but they are what I (or my guest-bloggers) think.

Archive for February 1st, 2008

The bipartisan nanny state of Mississippi wants to banish the fat folks from the restaurants

by @ 18:09. Filed under Health, Politics.

(H/T – Jon Ham, more discussion from Rick Moran and the Imperial Torturer and silent E, and lawhawk)

Mississippi House Bill 282, written by Republican W.T. Mayhall Jr., and introduced by him, fellow Republican John Read, and Democrat Bobby Shows, would prohibit restaurants licensed by the state of Mississippi from serving the “obese” under pain of closure by the state. That’s right; if this becomes law, 30 percent of the residents of Mississippi would be banished to the home kitchen. Don’t believe me? Allow me to pull the text from the bill:

HOUSE BILL NO. 282

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT CERTAIN FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS FROM SERVING FOOD TO ANY PERSON WHO IS OBESE, BASED ON CRITERIA PRESCRIBED BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH; TO DIRECT THE DEPARTMENT TO PREPARE WRITTEN MATERIALS THAT DESCRIBE AND EXPLAIN THE CRITERIA FOR DETERMINING WHETHER A PERSON IS OBESE AND TO PROVIDE THOSE MATERIALS TO THE FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS; TO DIRECT THE DEPARTMENT TO MONITOR THE FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS FOR COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ACT; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

SECTION 1. (1) The provisions of this section shall apply to any food establishment that is required to obtain a permit from the State Department of Health under Section 41-3-15(4)(f), that operates primarily in an enclosed facility and that has five (5) or more seats for customers.

(2) Any food establishment to which this section applies shall not be allowed to serve food to any person who is obese, based on criteria prescribed by the State Department of Health after consultation with the Mississippi Council on Obesity Prevention and Management established under Section 41-101-1 or its successor. The State Department of Health shall prepare written materials that describe and explain the criteria for determining whether a person is obese, and shall provide those materials to all food establishments to which this section applies. A food establishment shall be entitled to rely on the criteria for obesity in those written materials when determining whether or not it is allowed to serve food to any person.

(3) The State Department of Health shall monitor the food establishments to which this section applies for compliance with the provisions of this section, and may revoke the permit of any food establishment that repeatedly violates the provisions of this section.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2008.

I probably shouldn’t be the one to judge, but if Rep. Read’s House portrait is still still accurate, he’ll be shut out of restaurants. Brilliance, bipartisan P-I-G. Sheer, unadulterated BRILLIANCE!

Revisions/extensions (6:42 pm 2/1/2008) – Sorry about the slight, silent E. I didn’t finish reading my seriously-overloaded reader before punching this out initially.

R&E part 2 (7:22 pm 2/1/2008) – Once again, I have to issue an apology. Somehow, I missed lawhawk’s run at this.

Mr. Pelican Pants – Bush-Clinton dynasty, 1980-2008 (or longer)

by @ 17:28. Filed under Politics - National.

Since I’m doing lists, I’ll bring one created by Mr. Pelican Pants up from the comments….

1980: Bush is VP
1984: Bush is VP
1988: Bush is Prez
1992: Clinton is Prez
1996: Clinton is Prez
2000: Bush 2 is Prez
2004: Bush 2 is Prez
2008: Clinton 2 is Prez??

In other words, if HRC is elected this year, two families will have effectively run this country for 32 years.

If she’s elected, it would more likely be 36 years when all is said and done, Pelican. There have been only three “natural” one-term Presidents (which takes out the never-elected Gerald Ford) since the turn of the last century (William Taft, Herbert Hoover, Jimmy Carter), and only Carter did not take the Oval Office from a fellow party member. Also, all 3 turned over the Oval Office to the opposition party.

Iraqi WMD revelation buried somewhere in the memory hole

by @ 10:59. Filed under Presstitute Follies, War on Terror.

(H/Ts – Bluto/The Jawa Report and memeorandum)

The editorial page editors at The Wall Street Journal take their makeup-and-camera counterparts at CBS‘s “60 Minutes” to task for buring a rather telling portion of Scott Pelley’s interview with George Piro, who was the one who debriefed Saddam Hussein after his capture:

Mr. Piro: “The folks that he needed to reconstitute his program are still there.”

Mr. Pelley: “And that was his intention?”

Mr. Piro: “Yes.”

Mr. Pelley: “What weapons of mass destruction did he intend to pursue again once he had the opportunity?”

Mr. Piro: “He wanted to pursue all of WMD. So he wanted to reconstitute his entire WMD program.”

Mr. Pelley: “Chemical, biological, even nuclear.”

Mr. Piro: “Yes.”

Now, why do you suppose CBS would bury evidence of Saddam Hussein’s continuing desire to get all manner of weapons of mass destruction, especially in the fall 2002-spring 2003 time frame, countries such as Russia, France and Germany were chomping at the bit to satisfy Hussein’s desire for WMDs? Could it be that it might suggest that President Bush was right in taking his regime and ultimately him down?

Flashback – John McCain wanted to be a ‘Rat in 2001

by @ 10:04. Filed under Politics - National.

It wasn’t exactly a secret at the time, and when the story finally made print with details in March, 2007, I don’t remember if I had already considered it old news. However, Drudge pulled it out of the memory hole today (H/T – Allahpundit, who is also the one that remembered it was 10 months old). Another new bit comes from Jack M., who offers some fresh first-hand confirmation. Guess it’s time to break out the ugly stick (on page 2 because it will not be for the squeamish or for those at work at a place they don’t own).

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