We have gotten a lot of great comments by people over our first posting about the parents suing McDonalds over their kids weight issues. But after reading some more, and doing some thinking, I’ve come to different conclusion.

**I changed the posted date on that older post so it will sit right beneath this one on the site.** One of the items that I read, in comments here on this site and elsewhere, is how could a lawyer in his right mind take this case. Let’s not equate taking on the case with taking on the cause. Lawyers don’t have to believe in their clients cause, they believe that everyone has the right to be represented. That’s what the country was founded on.

Now that I have the purist BS out of my system, let’s look at the more likely senerio.

Let’s say I’m a lawyer and some parents come to me and say they want to sue McD’s because little Jonny is the size of a van. I likely know the case is dumb, will be ridiculed and tossed out, but I’ll say I believe we should all have a voice.

So I file the suit, make a few motions, do a few interviews. Two months later (or longer if I’m a good lawyer), the case gets tossed out by a judge who says it’s stupid.

I get to bill my clients for 10 or 15 grand for doing hardly no work because it never went to court. Then I can go on the Today Show and say, I just did it because I wanted to help the parents of the country to get in the discussion of what food is healthy and how kids should be fed. Then, I look like an OK guy. An OK guy that billed my clients 15 grand and I was on the Today Show.

We know it’s going no where, but has anyone thought for a second about what they ate for lunch today? Was it healthy? If it was, good for you. After taking a stand against the parents, have you eaten less fast food? If so, good for you.

In the end, the parents get nothing. Maybe fat Jonny stopped eating Tubby-sized McGrease and started walking. So, I ask, what is really so bad about this case?

McDonald’s is seeking to have a federal class-action lawsuit dismissed. The lawsuit was leveled by parents who are blaming the fast food giant for their kids being obese. Is someone suing the parents for being stupid?

**Originally posted on November 21.** Lawyers for McDonald’s say that a federal class-action lawsuit attempting to hold them liable for the obesity of children should be dismissed, arguing that under the theory, you could even sue mom for cooking fattening foods.

“They are seeking to hold McDonald’s and McDonald’s alone accountable for the growing problem of youthful obesity,” said Brad Lerman, a lawyer for the restaurant chain.

What we are seeing is the fallout of life-long smokers suing tabacco companies after getting cancer. I think what’s missing here is a dose of common sense. What we are seeing is another dose of I’m not responsible for my actions taking place.

What these people should also add in the lawsuit is their IQ to prove how stupid they are also. In fact, if I was on the McDonald’s legal team, I’d make a motion to administer IQ tests.

“The understanding and comprehension of what hamburgers and French fries do has been with us for a long, long time,” Lerman argued. “People don’t go to sleep thin and wake up the next day suddenly obese. They realize it when their clothes are too tight and their pants don’t fit.”

One teen, Gregory Rhymes, who likes to Tubby-size his orders, said he weighs 400 pounds and is 5 feet, 6 inches tall and has been diagnosed with diabetes.

Ashley Pelman, 14, of the Bronx, submitted an affidavit saying she weighs 170 pounds at 4 feet, 10 inches and has been eating at the chain three to four times a week since she was five.

Another named plaintiff, Jazlyn Bradley, 19, of Brooklyn, said she weighs 270 pounds and is 5 feet 6 inches tall, and that during a four-year-period she ate twice a day at McDonald’s.

The parents of these children say they never saw posters in the restaurant explaining the nutritional content of the food.

I’m not sure who is to blame here. Some of these kids should have been taught that shoveling grease into your piehole would result in picking up a few extra pounds. The blame lies in a lack of common sense and parents that clearly don’t care about their children.

I’d like to know if these children also have an Xbox, Playstation or GameCube and have the habit of playing it, or partaking in some other inside activity - like watching TV - for a good part of the day.

I had a mother that would walk over to the TV and turn it off, regardless if I was in mid-program, and make me go outside. That gave me the appreciation of the outdoors to at least a small degree.

I wonder about a parent that would let their child stuff that mutton in their gullet at such an extreme rate, then not cut them off when they noticed the ill effects. Do mom and dad not care that little Susie is a walking coronary? Of course not, when you can make Susie’s eventual heart attack into a few million dollar lawsuit. So while she’s getting her veins vacuumed out, mom and dad can party in Costa Rica while working on a buttery tan. Speaking of butter, Susie probably put plenty of butter fat in her ass handles while mom and dad were busy not being involved in her life.

So who should we sue? The parents. Those kids should be turned over the protective services and saved from that child abusing home.

A few days ago, I drove in my Cherokee to Wendy’s to get some lunch. If I noticed a few extra pounds because the heavenly #6 I ate, could I sue Jeep for providing the car that drove me there? How about I sue the unholy, PETA hating chicken farm that provides Wendy’s with poultry?

How about I skip my next Wendy’s run and use that $4.84 to buy those kids a fucking clue?

Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina is celebrating his 100th birthday as fellow Senator’s hail his career as “legendary.” Strom “White Power” Thurmond was first elected to the Senate in 1954. Since then he has compiled quite a record.

He started as a democrat, then switched to the republican party. Harry Truman insisted that the Democratic Party embrace the cause of civil rights at the 1948 convention, so Thurmond bolted the party. Fifty years ago, Thurmond ran for the White House as a segregationist. Luckily, Truman won that election.

As well as holding the record for longest serving and oldest Senator ever, he hold another record. He holds the record for the longest filibuster in U.S. Senate history at 24 hours and 18 minutes, in opposition to the 1957 Civil Rights Act. He began his filibuster by reading the texts of the election laws of all 48 states.

Strom’s father, Will Thurmond, shot and killed a political foe who called him a “low, dirty, scoundrel.” He was acquitted after pleading self-defense.

He is one of few living politicians to have received votes from Civil War veterans.

He now spends every night at Washington’s Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He still makes it to the floor to cast his vote, though observers say that he often doesn’t appear to know what it is he’s voting for, or against. If that is shocking, consider that, as president pro tem of the Senate during the Clinton administration, he was third in line for the presidency.

And I’m not going to get into the hundreds of complaints that were filled against this “lengendary” Senator by women on the Hill for his sexist actions, including groping women as they walked in his office.

So, as Strom winds up his political career, I’d like to say, good riddance.