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Add Height, Weight To Anti-Discrimination Law?
T O P I C Discussion Started: 05-17-2007, 6:54 PM Add to the Discussion
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Lawmakers are considering a measure that would make Massachusetts just the second state to add "weight and height" to its anti-discrimination law.

The existing protection applies mainly to the workplace but also covers landlords and real estate interactions.

Most states have laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, religion, age, gender, disability and other factors.

A handful offer protection for gays and lesbians. But only Michigan includes weight and height in its anti-discrimination law.

What do you think?

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allegro69 06-04-2007, 9:30 PM Add to the Discussion
"I have brown eyes and can't a job because nobody will hire me. I'm being discrimated against. Where's Jim Sokolove when you need him?"

Hopefully where all ambulance chaser lawyers should be - JAIL!

daswede 05-29-2007, 3:38 PM Add to the Discussion
I have brown eyes and can't a job because nobody will hire me. I'm being discrimated against. Where's Jim Sokolove when you need him?

Philmatt 05-29-2007, 3:26 PM Add to the Discussion
Well Sheehan, I agree with you and think we are all in a mess but people keep voting for these losers. Lets send out poiticains elsewhere to live so we can all stay right here.

Sheehan 05-29-2007, 1:07 PM Add to the Discussion
This country should be ashamed of itself. What silly nonsensual nontrivial dumb thing will they think of next?! Our politicians and lawmakers are all the deadbeats of this society. I think Cindy Sheehan can tell you that through her own harrowing experience. It's time to get out of this country if you can. Marry an illegal immigrant and move to their home country before you get nuked. If you are a middle classed white person who is not gay, fat, etc. and works hard to earn a living, wake up! Don't let your sons or daughters serve in the military and do all you can now to find routes out of this country. This country is run by nutjobs and is full of nutjobs, don't become one and just leave.

Best Regards, Jerry Sheehan

bogey251 05-29-2007, 11:23 AM Add to the Discussion
being a short, fat, black female disabled homosexual who is over 50 would be like being superman!

pdaniels 05-24-2007, 9:11 PM Add to the Discussion
yea sounds cool

Im fat so I now can sue you skinny folks and anyone taller than me watch out thats right Im seeking legal council

and all those years working every day to take care of my family what a waste.

I just needed to wait 27 years

I knew my turn would come around sometime just never figured it be after illegal aliens had more benefits than me??

OHH well WOOHOO cant wait

Daddy needs a new lounge chair to chow down Doritos and **** about nothing all day

Or better yet a new car to take my fat butt to the new Casino up the street every day

see if I can get my kids a job there they have nice uniforms there too

JL57 05-24-2007, 7:46 PM Add to the Discussion
mahalo awsomeron im lindsey from kamuela. You say that people of certain size whether weight or height can't go on certain rides or do certain things. For the most part you are right, but in other ways you are not. Yes, people cant change their height but sometimes they cant change their size either. In some families their weight is undeniably big and they cant do anything about it because of genetics and sometimes its because of medical conditions. But either way it is wrong to discriminate against their height and weight, but at times its for their own safety. Although this is wrong, people should learn accept themselves before the world can accept them. Does the aloha spirit end at the edge of the hawaiian islands.

Thanks,JL

goeasy 05-23-2007, 10:49 AM Add to the Discussion
Parrot0123

I'm not sure what your point is... Age is a natural evolution of life. Even you will experience this.

All the old people who have worked all their lives, paid into Social Security and have saved for their old age are not burden unless our politicians pass stupid laws such as Medicare D and the old folks fall into the so called "Donut Hole" and watch their savings disappear because of the high cost of Health Care due to the "freebies" offered and given to illegal immigrants,

What is your solution??? Put the old folks on an ice floe and give them a gentle push out to sea? Or maybe you can initiate an amendment into the new immigration law that will forfeit the 5 thousand dollar fee if they take an elderly so called burden back to MEXICO with them.

Parrot0123 05-21-2007, 4:31 PM Add to the Discussion
quote:

After all they are only trying to better their lives. They will pick the cranberries, cut the grass, shovel the snow and all the other jobs no one else wants or is willing to do. So what if they overcrowd our schools, quardruple the cost of health care and break Social Security and cost the taxpayers billions if not trillions of dollars? It's the humanitarian thing to do - right?

Think about it.


Interesting though. I would respond by asking you to think about this:

In the midst of all the weak correlations and bad science that is prompting cries of an "obesity epidemic", there is one health problem facing our society that is known to be serious: an aging population.

For all the cries of the risk factors of obesity, the single highest risk factor for ALL of the conditions in the claimed spectrum is age.

83% of people who die from heart attacks are over the age of 65, 21% of people over 60 have diabetes, and the numbers continue to hold up for blood pressure, cholesterol, cancer, etc...

We have a huge population of baby boomers that are just coming into the old age phase of their lives, and unless somebody manages to find the fountain of youth we're stuck with this problem.

This is going to be a HUGE burden on our society, obesity is not even a blip on the screen.

But that's just the way things are, and laying blame won't do any good. I don't think anybody here is about to make accusations of fault against our parents and grandparents.

goeasy 05-21-2007, 3:24 PM Add to the Discussion
Let's put it this way...

20 million Iranians Muslims invade New England, New York and South Carolina.

How quick would Senators Kennedy, Kerry and Miss Lindsay Graham be willing to offer them the same deal?

After all they are only trying to better their lives. They will pick the cranberries, cut the grass, shovel the snow and all the other jobs no one else wants or is willing to do. So what if they overcrowd our schools, quardruple the cost of health care and break Social Security and cost the taxpayers billions if not trillions of dollars? It's the humanitarian thing to do - right?

Think about it.

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