Feds: Put down that twinkie!

  In yet another mandate, a federal panel is demanding that health insurance pay for "counseling" for obese patients.
  Boston Herald:

In a move that could significantly expand insurance coverage of weight-loss treatments, a federal health advisory panel on Monday recommended that all obese adults receive intensive counseling in an effort to rein in a growing health crisis in America.

  Of course, no one knows how this will work. The article goes on to complain that doctors do not have the time or ability to run counseling sessions for a year or more but such meetings are necessary because it's not fair that most people's doctors haven't told them they're fat.
  Like, seriously, most people in this country really do not know that it's unhealthy that they have twinkies, doughnuts and Big Macs stuck between the folds of fat under their bellies.
  The Herald quotes a concerned doctor:

He cited a recent study that found that more than half of all obese patients had never been told by their physician that they needed to lose weight. “That’s just not fair to the patient,” said Der-Sarkissian, who leads Kaiser’s adult weight management efforts in Southern California. 

“You have to diagnose the patient and have the discussion, even if the patient doesn’t really want to hear it,” he said.

  It isn't "fair" that no one's mentioned that, since you can't move without a motor, you might be too fat.
  Here's the thing. The government always operates the same way.
  They want a new regulation, so they find an appreciative greedy party who will be willing to prostitute their organization for a few bucks to parrot what the government wants in the way of rules for the public.
  Like the EPA's onslaught on talk radio, in which they have sad little child actors sobbing about how they can't breathe because of asthma and how they feel like they're fish out of water. Designed to engender sympathy, the EPA solemnly announces that, if even one child (or person) is helped, then we have to _______.
  James Taranto of the WSJ who reports that, in case you haven't noticed, we haven't had a major airplane collision in ten years. One would think this is good news, Taranto says, but no. The "rule makers" are upset because they want to pass more regulations to make flying yet more regulated and, um safer, and this might be difficult, considering no one's currently hysterical about air safety:

The second paragraph explains: "The benefits of aviation rules are calculated primarily on how many deaths they may prevent, so the safest decade in modern airline history is making it harder to justify the cost of new requirements." 

Then comes one of the most wonderful quotes we've ever encountered, from William Voss, president of the Flight Safety Foundation: "If anyone wants to advance safety through regulation, it can't be done without further loss of life."

  Writing new and additional regulations and then hiring people to enforce them and punish offenders is mother's milk to government employees.
  Let's look at a couple which were passed this week which you may have missed in the flurry about SCOTUS's striking down of Arizona's lack of regulations.
  Did you know that Putt Putt mini golf is now a federally regulated sport? Slopes are now "limited" so that wheelchairs can be used. 
  At least one workout machine in gyms must be set to be accessible for wheelchairs (????).
  Saunas have to have enough room for fat people to turn around, which will probably result in the closing of saunas at some clubs and gyms.
  Also small horses must be allowed as use as service animals just like service dogs. You might wonder why, but a look at the photo over at CNS explains why the federal government is showing dhimmi magnanimity toward horses as opposed to just dogs. Muslims find those dogs you sleep with unclean. Thus, horses.
  The feds did specify if the horse poops on the floor, you can ask it and its owner to leave.
  The feds' regulation that all public and hotel pools have a wheelchair lift into the pool has caused great consternation among owners, considering that not enough of such gizmos were either available or affordable.
  Still, Thomas Perez of the Department of Justice is extremely proud of this administration's achievements.

As I consider the department’s accomplishments to date, and our plans for the future, I continue to take my inspiration from people with disabilities and their families,” Perez said in Baltimore. 

“These individuals express the harm of segregation and the value of integration more eloquently than any lawyer’s brief ever could.  They are the heroes of this civil rights movement.”

  J. Christian Adams resigned from the DOJ, citing Perez as the reason for the DOJ's dropping of the Black Panther's intimidation of voters in Pennsylvania.
  I retreat to my couch and Twinkie.