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Potomac Watch: A baconburger for fatso here, and hold the lawsuits
Saturday, March 6, 2004
By JUDY HOLLAND
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON -- Congress is poised to tell fat Americans: You are what you
eat and that's your fault -- you can't blame the fast-food industry.

The issue of obesity will loom larger than life on Capitol Hill next week
with the House expected to approve the "cheeseburger bill," which would
prevent Americans from suing fast-food giants such as McDonald's for making
them overweight.

(A similar bill passed the state House this week and awaits a vote in the
Senate.)
The fast-food industry has been blamed for bulging waistlines and for
putting people at greater risk for ailments such as diabetes and heart
disease that are driving up health care costs.
About two-thirds of adult Americans are overweight and about 15 percent of
children and adolescents are too heavy, with teenage obesity rates more
than tripling in the past 20 years.
A January study by Children's Hospital in Boston found that nearly
one-third of American kids age 4 to 19 eat fast food daily, adding about
six extra pounds per child per year.
Rep. Ric Keller, R-Fla., the sponsor of the "cheeseburger bill," who
represents Orlando -- a fast-food Mecca -- said this nation has "got to get
away from this new culture where people always try to play the victim and
blame others for their problems."
Keller, a stout man who says he eats at McDonald's once every two weeks,
said that "litigation against the food industry is not going to make a
single individual any skinnier. It will only make the trial attorneys' bank
accounts fatter."
Keller stresses that his bill would shield the food industry only from
obesity-related claims, leaving it liable for judgments on tainted food or
for providing misleading information about products.
The debate is all about "personal responsibility," said House Majority
Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas.
"It's hard to believe that trial lawyers want to make the claim that
'Ronald McDonald made me do it.' If you eat too much, you will gain
weight."
Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who has sponsored a matching measure in the
Senate, known to some as "McBill," says the fast-food industry shouldn't be
held responsible for people overeating any more than the gun industry
should be held liable for criminals wielding firearms.
"This whole new wave of (litigation) needs to be stopped before it gets
started," said McConnell, the Senate's No. 2 Republican.
But foes of the "cheeseburger bill" call it anti-consumer and argue the
judicial system should be trusted to toss frivolous suits.
Rep. Robert Scott, D-Va., said it's unfair for Congress to immunize a
powerful interest like the food industry against lawsuits. "The place to
try the lawsuits is in court," Scott said. "The general rules of liability
ought to apply to everyone whether or not they have political clout."
Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the
Public Interest, slams the "cheeseburger bills" as "pure self-interest to
protect the restaurant industry against very rare lawsuits."
Lawmakers who want to halt lawsuits based on bulging waistlines say the
American public is on their side. A July 2003 Gallup Poll showed 89 percent
of 1,006 adults surveyed oppose holding the food industry responsible for
obesity.

Since U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher in 2001 announced the nation has
an "obesity epidemic," a smattering of lawsuits have targeted McDonald's as
the cause of litigants' obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure.
The cases were thrown out but McDonald's has since offered low-fat
alternatives, such as salads, yogurts and fruit.
The fast-food industry sees daily warning signs similar to those that
plagued the tobacco industry before they were flooded with lawsuits for
marketing highly addictive cigarettes, without properly disclosing the
health risks.
Unlike tobacco, fast food and high-calorie snacks are not addictive, but
the National Restaurant Association is nervous and is lobbying hard for the
"cheeseburger bill," sending hundreds of members around Capitol Hill last
fall to press for legislation blocking obesity lawsuits.
Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, D-Conn., and Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, are taking a
different approach, pushing a restaurant-labeling bill that would require
fast-food and other chain restaurants to list calories, fats and sodium on
menus. Currently, such information must be provided only on packaged foods.
The fast-food industry is also coming under assault from filmmaker Morgan
Spurlock, a 6-foot, 185-pound New Yorker who decided to eat only at
McDonald's for a month.
Three doctors monitored his condition and cameras recorded his expanding
waistline in a documentary, "Super Size Me," due for release this spring.
Spurlock gained 25 pounds and says he suffered from depression and liver
toxicity. His sex drive vanished and his cholesterol level soared.

On 6 Mar 2004, napalm_raider@bLobbiSoFatAndUgly.org (NR) wrote:

There should be organized campaigns to vote any lawmaker out of
office that opposes this bill.

That's what happens to all the fatties.

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Potomac Watch: A baconburger for fatso here, and hold the lawsuits
Saturday, March 6, 2004
By JUDY HOLLAND
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON -- Congress is poised to tell fat Americans: You are what you
eat and that's your fault -- you can't blame the fast-food industry.
The issue of obesity will loom larger than life on Capitol Hill next week
with the House expected to approve the "cheeseburger bill," which would
prevent Americans from suing fast-food giants such as McDonald's for

them overweight.
(A similar bill passed the state House this week and awaits a vote in the
Senate.)
The fast-food industry has been blamed for bulging waistlines and for
putting people at greater risk for ailments such as diabetes and heart
disease that are driving up health care costs.
About two-thirds of adult Americans are overweight and about 15 percent of
children and adolescents are too heavy, with teenage obesity rates more
than tripling in the past 20 years.
A January study by Children's Hospital in Boston found that nearly
one-third of American kids age 4 to 19 eat fast food daily, adding about
six extra pounds per child per year.
Rep. Ric Keller, R-Fla., the sponsor of the "cheeseburger bill," who
represents Orlando -- a fast-food Mecca -- said this nation has "got to

away from this new culture where people always try to play the victim and
blame others for their problems."
Keller, a stout man who says he eats at McDonald's once every two weeks,
said that "litigation against the food industry is not going to make a
single individual any skinnier. It will only make the trial attorneys'

accounts fatter."
Keller stresses that his bill would shield the food industry only from
obesity-related claims, leaving it liable for judgments on tainted food or
for providing misleading information about products.
The debate is all about "personal responsibility," said House Majority
Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas.
"It's hard to believe that trial lawyers want to make the claim that
'Ronald McDonald made me do it.' If you eat too much, you will gain
weight."
Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who has sponsored a matching measure in the
Senate, known to some as "McBill," says the fast-food industry shouldn't

held responsible for people overeating any more than the gun industry
should be held liable for criminals wielding firearms.
"This whole new wave of (litigation) needs to be stopped before it gets
started," said McConnell, the Senate's No. 2 Republican.
But foes of the "cheeseburger bill" call it anti-consumer and argue the
judicial system should be trusted to toss frivolous suits.
Rep. Robert Scott, D-Va., said it's unfair for Congress to immunize a
powerful interest like the food industry against lawsuits. "The place to
try the lawsuits is in court," Scott said. "The general rules of liability
ought to apply to everyone whether or not they have political clout."
Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the
Public Interest, slams the "cheeseburger bills" as "pure self-interest to
protect the restaurant industry against very rare lawsuits."
Lawmakers who want to halt lawsuits based on bulging waistlines say the
American public is on their side. A July 2003 Gallup Poll showed 89

of 1,006 adults surveyed oppose holding the food industry responsible for
obesity.
Since U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher in 2001 announced the nation has
an "obesity epidemic," a smattering of lawsuits have targeted McDonald's

the cause of litigants' obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure.
The cases were thrown out but McDonald's has since offered low-fat
alternatives, such as salads, yogurts and fruit.
The fast-food industry sees daily warning signs similar to those that
plagued the tobacco industry before they were flooded with lawsuits for
marketing highly addictive cigarettes, without properly disclosing the
health risks.
Unlike tobacco, fast food and high-calorie snacks are not addictive, but
the National Restaurant Association is nervous and is lobbying hard for

"cheeseburger bill," sending hundreds of members around Capitol Hill last
fall to press for legislation blocking obesity lawsuits.
Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, D-Conn., and Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, are taking a
different approach, pushing a restaurant-labeling bill that would require
fast-food and other chain restaurants to list calories, fats and sodium on
menus. Currently, such information must be provided only on packaged

The fast-food industry is also coming under assault from filmmaker Morgan
Spurlock, a 6-foot, 185-pound New Yorker who decided to eat only at
McDonald's for a month.
Three doctors monitored his condition and cameras recorded his expanding
waistline in a documentary, "Super Size Me," due for release this spring.
Spurlock gained 25 pounds and says he suffered from depression and liver
toxicity. His sex drive vanished and his cholesterol level soared.
McDonald's this week said it will stop selling super-sized portions of
fries and drinks in its 13,000 U.S. restaurants.
NR
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If I catch you busting into a mass and vilifying a church, the last thing
you'll hear in your entire life, will be the ratatatatat of an automatic.
- --Steve Chaney to Mark Ira Kaufman
Message-ID: <1992May19.214752.17027@csus.edu>
Young Mr. Chaney, the man who has told me that he wants to murder me and
sodomize women in my family, has said, repeatedly, that advocates for
choice had vandalized churches.
- --Mark Ira Kaufman
Message-ID: <1992Jun6.152649.3498@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
she probably has to have her picture taken by satellite because no normal
camera can fit all that whale blubber into one picture.
- --Steve Chaney
Message-ID: <1992Oct28.031340.28224@csus.edu>
Excessively fat women look ugly. It is impractical to try and have sex

she's 100lbs overweight and the weight is all fat - but most women ain't
that big.
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Message-ID: <3814f6ca$0$208@nntp1.ba.best.com>
You of course do know what a lot of Asian women prefer, right? Besides,
after @$#*ing a cute asian chick, experience tells me it isn't all that
except that she looks good on your arm. In bed it ain't much at all. If

lights go out, any guy whose hormones are more fixed on p