EAT ME!!

This is flat ridiculous. Found via the Drudge Report, originally on The Smoking Gun website;

FEBRUARY 1--Mississippi legislators this week introduced a bill that would make it illegal for state-licensed restaurants to serve obese patrons. Bill No. 282 is the brainchild of three members of the state's House of Representatives, Republicans W. T. Mayhall, Jr. and John Read, and Democrat Bobby Shows. The bill, which is likely dead on arrival, proposes that the state's Department of Health establish weight criteria after consultation with Mississippi's Council on Obesity. It does not detail what penalties an eatery would face if its grub was served to someone with an excessive body mass index.

Pardon me all over the place, but if I want to eat and look like a pig that is really none of the state's damned business! When I graduated from high school and joined Uncle Sam's Canoe Club I requested duty on the opposite coast, reason #1 being that I felt I didn't need "Mom" looking over my shoulder any more. After 37 years I feel that way even more strongly. They should take this legislation, fold into nothing but a mass of corners and firmly place it where the sun will never shine!

And though the owners of the Smoking Gun predict it will be dead on arrival, I find the idea that anyone would even propose this idiocy troubling.

God must love stupid people, He made so many of them.