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Title: White House Cook Promoted to Senior Advisor
Post by: Ben on July 17, 2010, 11:24:16 AM
In order to control what I eat apparently, and tell me how fat I am. I saw part of this on a link to CNS yesterday, but wanted to wait till a more mainstream news service picked up on it simply because it's way too 1984ish and unbelievable.

Now my doctor is forced to record BMI on my medical records and make them available to the government? Which is also interesting because at my recent physical, my doctor told me BMI is not a good indicator for my body type. So I wonder if there will be a "notes" section to the govt form, or if I will simply be ordered to conform to BMI like a good citizen?

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/17/feds-monitor-obesity-white-house-promotes-obama-cook-senior-position/

Feds to Monitor Obesity as White House Promotes Obama Cook to Senior Position

As the Obama administration sets its sights on overweight Americans, demanding obesity ratings for all citizens by 2014, the White House has promoted the Obamas' personal cook to a senior advisory position.
fox news\

As the Obama administration sets its sights on overweight Americans, demanding obesity ratings for all citizens by 2014, the White House has promoted the Obamas' personal cook to a senior advisory position.

Sam Kass, the 20-something Chicago chef, is now the White House "Food Initiative Coordinator," Kass' title reportedly was upgraded last month from food initiative coordinator to senior policy adviser for health food initiatives. His duties have not changed.

The change comes as the Health and Human Services announced this week that under the stimulus law, health care providers must establish "meaningful use" of electronic health records to qualify for federal subsidies or risk seeing their Medicare and Medicaid payments slashed. The electronic health records must include Americans' body mass index, or BMI, height and weight.

Critics say the BMI is unreliable and the ratings will lead to more government intrusion.

Supporters say the ratings will serve as motivation for weight loss.

"The fact we're now tracking BMIs', I think knowledge is power for us," nutrition expert Mitzi Dulan told Fox News."There are a lot of people that don't know their BMI and it's denial.

Dulan noted that a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that $147 billion is spent annually on obesity-related costs, or 10 percent of medical costs.
Title: Re: White House Cook Promoted to Senior Advisor
Post by: Boomhauer on July 17, 2010, 11:33:08 AM
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"The fact we're now tracking BMIs', I think knowledge is power for us," nutrition expert Mitzi Dulan told Fox News."There are a lot of people that don't know their BMI and it's denial.

Go to hell. BMIs are made up bullshit. Keep your f***ing fingers out of my business.

GD f***ing commies...


Title: Re: White House Cook Promoted to Senior Advisor
Post by: Monkeyleg on July 17, 2010, 11:37:26 AM
Well, Obama went quickly from being a Chicago community activist to president, so what's wrong with a 20-something going from being a cook to a czar overseeing our diets?
Title: Re: White House Cook Promoted to Senior Advisor
Post by: Viking on July 17, 2010, 12:19:50 PM
Go to hell. BMIs made up bullshit. Keep your f***ing fingers out of my business.

GD f***ing commies...



This. The guy who invented it wasn't a doctor, nutrition expert or anything. He was a goddamned mathematician and sociologist. As far as I'm concerned, BMI is pseudoscience, along with phrenology, astrology, Lysenkoism and other such idiocy.
Title: Re: White House Cook Promoted to Senior Advisor
Post by: djw on July 17, 2010, 01:00:27 PM
Just inching up the flame under that pot of now luke-warm water............you won't even feel the difference until you are in the camps.
Title: Re: White House Cook Promoted to Senior Advisor
Post by: Scout26 on July 17, 2010, 01:35:34 PM
....along with phrenology, astrology, Lysenkoism and other such idiocy.

Shhhhhhhhh, don't give 'em any GD ideas !!!!!!
Title: Re: White House Cook Promoted to Senior Advisor
Post by: Silver Bullet on July 17, 2010, 04:25:16 PM
543 days down, 918 days to go. 

37.17% complete.
Title: Re: White House Cook Promoted to Senior Advisor
Post by: zxcvbob on July 17, 2010, 05:12:59 PM
Why don't they monitor smoking?  Oh yeah, I forgot.  Obama is a cigarette smoker.

(what is their Constitutional authority for this nonsense?)
Title: Re: White House Cook Promoted to Senior Advisor
Post by: Monkeyleg on July 17, 2010, 06:26:18 PM
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Why don't they monitor smoking?  Oh yeah, I forgot.  Obama is a cigarette smoker.

Cigarette smokers are much further down the road to the internment camps than the rest of the population. The liberal elites are above the policies they enact, such as health care.
Title: Re: White House Cook Promoted to Senior Advisor
Post by: BridgeRunner on July 17, 2010, 06:32:44 PM
Go to hell. BMIs made up bullshit. Keep your f***ing fingers out of my business.

GD f***ing commies...

Well put.  =|
Title: Re: White House Cook Promoted to Senior Advisor
Post by: Perd Hapley on July 17, 2010, 06:49:06 PM
So all that hype and alarmism about Obamacare?  Those people saying that if .gov pays our medical bills, they can claim authority over every detail of our lives?  Those people were right?   :O 
Title: Re: White House Cook Promoted to Senior Advisor
Post by: Gowen on July 17, 2010, 06:50:24 PM
Just another case of good ol' boy cronyism.  He wanted to pay off a loyal supporter.  It didn't matter if this guy was his cook or guy who washes his rear end.  He would of found some position for him.
Title: Re: White House Cook Promoted to Senior Advisor
Post by: longeyes on July 17, 2010, 06:54:09 PM
Don't they have to find a Senior Policy Advisor job for Bo's trainer?  He can be useful in providing advice in how to make America's unwashed go fetch.
Title: Re: White House Cook Promoted to Senior Advisor
Post by: Tallpine on July 17, 2010, 07:05:36 PM
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"The fact we're now tracking BMIs', I think knowledge is power for us," nutrition expert Mitzi Dulan told Fox News."There are a lot of people that don't know their BMI and it's denial.

Dulan noted that a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that $147 billion is spent annually on obesity-related costs, or 10 percent of medical costs.

Perhaps they will come up with a final solution for obesity ...  =|
Title: Re: White House Cook Promoted to Senior Advisor
Post by: Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas on July 17, 2010, 09:18:37 PM
Perhaps they will come up with a final solution for obesity ...  =|
FEMA camps stocked with tofu, no doubt.
Title: Re: White House Cook Promoted to Senior Advisor
Post by: Tallpine on July 17, 2010, 09:57:18 PM
FEMA camps stocked with tofu, no doubt.

Isn't that cruel and unusual punishment  ???

Or maybe they will serve gruel and unusual punishment  :lol:
Title: Re: White House Cook Promoted to Senior Advisor
Post by: Silver Bullet on July 17, 2010, 10:39:00 PM
Isn't that cruel and unusual punishment  ???


A few years ago I was listening to a radio station while driving somewhere in my car.  It was a talk radio station, and the subject was nutrition.  The host was very scholarly and businesslike, when the next caller (a male) asked a question about tofu.  

The host immediately became more animated and replied, "Tofu ?  That will turn you into a tree-hugger !"

 =D
Title: Re: White House Cook Promoted to Senior Advisor
Post by: Ben on July 17, 2010, 11:01:15 PM
So all that hype and alarmism about Obamacare?  Those people saying that if .gov pays our medical bills, they can claim authority over every detail of our lives?  Those people were right?   :O 

Shocker, ain't it?
Title: Re: White House Cook Promoted to Senior Advisor
Post by: longeyes on July 18, 2010, 08:40:12 PM
Shut up and eat your granola and broccoli. =D
Title: Re: White House Cook Promoted to Senior Advisor
Post by: PTK on July 18, 2010, 10:46:59 PM
This is a case of the majority of the USA population getting exactly what they asked for, knowingly or not. =|
Title: Re: White House Cook Promoted to Senior Advisor
Post by: RocketMan on July 18, 2010, 11:03:01 PM
This is a case of the majority of the USA population getting exactly what they asked for, knowingly or not. =|

^^^^This.  The American people willingly voted for socialism the last go around.  Now they are getting it in great big bleeding batches.
Title: Re: White House Cook Promoted to Senior Advisor
Post by: seeker_two on July 18, 2010, 11:31:52 PM
Wonder what day will be Soylent Green day?....
Title: Re: White House Cook Promoted to Senior Advisor
Post by: RocketMan on July 19, 2010, 07:37:59 PM
Wonder what day will be Soylent Green day?....

seeker_two won the thread.
Title: Re: White House Cook Promoted to Senior Advisor
Post by: Balog on July 20, 2010, 12:05:41 AM
This actually makes me really happy. Most truly horrid laws are generationally accepted after enough people grow up with them, but when first passed they're usually: in the wake of a major traumatic event (GCA 1968), so minor at first they don't hurt enough people to cause pushback (NFA 1934), or slipped in as "emergency measures" (WoSD, 16th Amendment). Obama and friends don't have any of that.

Crap like this might hurt the looters and parasites enough they'll actually lash out at the administration. I think the soft middle is already getting there. I think the only hope for getting the frog out of the pot is passing all this crap at once. The socialists abandonning incrementalism is the best thing that could happen for our side. If fatties are really so common (ie such a large voting block) the more Obama does to piss them off the happier I am.
Title: Re: White House Cook Promoted to Senior Advisor
Post by: Jamisjockey on July 20, 2010, 12:07:52 AM
543 days down, 918 days to go. 

37.17% complete.

The worst is yet to come.
Title: Re: White House Cook Promoted to Senior Advisor
Post by: Scout26 on July 20, 2010, 03:48:04 PM
Wonder what day will be Soylent Green day?....

Shaddup and get in the hopper.......
Title: Re: White House Cook Promoted to Senior Advisor
Post by: MechAg94 on July 20, 2010, 11:38:53 PM
What does this say about the rest of Obama's advisors that he promotes the cook?  It's not like he is Steven Segal or something. 
Title: Re: White House Cook Promoted to Senior Advisor
Post by: Tallpine on July 21, 2010, 08:51:12 AM
What does this say about the rest of Obama's advisors that he promotes the cook?  It's not like he is Steven Segal or something. 

What does this say about the cook's boss?   :P