From: Gary Wiltshire 

Hey, there was the Oreo crap in California just recently.

On Fri, 16 May 2003 22:58:40 +0100, "Paul Ranson"
 wrote:

>There was a story the other day that the US health costs as a consequence of
>obesity and general over-weightness is in the same ballpark as from smoking.
>
>Which I found amusing. I'm looking forward to government ostracisation of
>fat people.
>
>Paul
>
>"Judy Folkenberg"  wrote in message
>news:3EC53B3B.5BC8A79{at}mail.nlm.nih.gov...
>>
>>
>> Bill Lucy wrote:
>>
>> > >>One has to be very careful in imposing federal laws
on state issues.
>Doing so can come back to bite -- hard.
>>
>> Did you hear the latest?  Texas repubs asked Homeland Security to chase
>down a dems plane on the grounds that it might  have
>> crashed.  (It was a ruse) Homeland Security is livid to be pulled into
>this petty fight.  This will come back to bite the Texans.
>>
>> Oh and this just in. Delay was up here (DC) for some wine and cheese party
>(well acutally, beef and red wine) at a local
>> restaurant and tried to light a cigar or cig.  The Maitre politely
>informed him that the building was owned by feds and smoking
>> was not permitted.  Delay huffed and puffed and asked that the rules be
>bent.  When the Maitre again informed him that he could
>> not smoke, Delay was reported to have said, "I am the federal
government."
>(Didn't some French king pull a similar stunt?)
>> Delay finally had to go outdoors to smoke..before the dessert course.
>>
>> Judy
>>
>>

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