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It’s come to this
“The world is going to have to change their acceptance of what Santa looks like,” Pickler said. “Santa is a role model, and kids don’t want to have a role model that’s fat.”
Since 1980, obesity rates among children and adolescents have almost tripled, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Approximately 12.5 million children age 2 to 19 are obese; that extra weight can lead to serious health problems, including type II diabetes, cardiovascular disease and psychosocial issues such as peer discrimination or poor self-esteem.









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What does this guy know about what kids want?
This article reeks with proto-fascism.
Revenant on December 23, 2012 at 10:42 PM
I’m trying to formulate a snarky way to note the total non-correlation between Santa’s centuries-old corpulence and the obesity rate, but this is so stupid that I can’t even compose the thought.
HitNRun on December 23, 2012 at 10:47 PM
Just shut up already.
Liberalism is not only a mental disorder, it’s an annoying mental disorder.
Mimzey on December 23, 2012 at 10:52 PM
That’s what Santa looks like and that’s what Santa will ALWAYS look like in this family.
AScott on December 23, 2012 at 10:58 PM
Here’s your role mode.
Have Kung Fu Christmas.
Kenosha Kid on December 23, 2012 at 11:06 PM
duh, “role model” …
Kenosha Kid on December 23, 2012 at 11:07 PM
Think I might have written something about this, ummmmm…today!
‘Twas the night before Christmas
But before he could fly
Came a call from his doctor:
“Your cholesterol’s high!
Cut the cookies and milk
Or your heart’s gonna seize.
And that fat ’round your middle
Puts such stress on your knees!
You want kids to see you
On a coroner’s shelf?
Who’ll drive the sleigh––Rudolph?
Don’t be stupid, old elf.”
Santa slammed down the phone
And took pen into fist
‘Dear Virginia,’ he wrote,
‘I no longer exist.’
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on December 23, 2012 at 11:11 PM
What’s with these people? A lot of unhappy busybodies.
INC on December 23, 2012 at 11:36 PM
Santa s/b jolly, nice, friendly and not a pedophile.
Leftists need to be locked up for mental disorders.
Schadenfreude on December 23, 2012 at 11:55 PM
Fluke you and
Michelle Obama too
Schadenfreude on December 23, 2012 at 11:56 PM
Liberals’ passion is to destroy cherished cultural traditions, be they keystones like marriage or merely ones that bring smiles to the faces of young children. (and the young at heart)
FOAD, wanna-be Marxist trash. Santa ain’t slimming down to meet your worthless expectations.
MelonCollie on December 24, 2012 at 12:21 AM
I wouldn’t Fluke Moo-shell with your junk. Just saying.
platypus on December 24, 2012 at 12:23 AM
platypus on December 24, 2012 at 12:23 AM
Yikes, not in a good/or that way.
Schadenfreude on December 24, 2012 at 12:25 AM
Yuppp.. I agree that Santa should be a skinny thuggish looking mean metrosexual black errr…er…”man” with spindly fingers and bad manners, absolutely NO facial hair and yell Ho Ho Ho everytime he calls his ” wife” ….reminds me of someone
burrata on December 24, 2012 at 2:04 AM
It has come to this, hasn’t it? Maybe if leftists didn’t start making children feel they are responsible for the death of the rain forest, global warming, excess electrical use, littering, racial prejudice, etc., at the age of five they wouldn’t be nervous wrecks. I say it’s their nerves that make them eat, they need comfort food just to get through kindergarten because they’re too young to drink.
Night Owl on December 24, 2012 at 4:03 AM
Why don’t we just give the left its own planet? They could start fresh without any of the earth’s pesky traditions and create the ultimate boring, bloodless, cheerless utopia that celebrates everything and therefore celebrates nothing.
Baerwulf on December 24, 2012 at 5:08 AM
He asks them regularly in his windowless van.
Valkyriepundit on December 24, 2012 at 6:28 AM
How about on the next go around we just don’t let social evolution, more like degenerate mutation, gain the upper hand. The problem is that conservatives got fat, lazy, rich and just sat on their butts while the stinking hippies took over. Not only that but, they allowed them to rewrite the rules. Now it’s all coming down around them and they don’t know what to do except whine.
Frank Enstine on December 24, 2012 at 7:42 AM
And the lynchpin of enacting all their progressive wet-dreams is taking the guns away first.
Naturally Curly on December 24, 2012 at 7:50 AM
Heh. Liberals. This one wants the whole WORLD to change according to his design. For the greater good/children, of course. I seriously don’t have much patience left for such fools.
weew on December 24, 2012 at 7:54 AM
pffff
nathor on December 24, 2012 at 7:55 AM
Typical libs view.
Only the superficial, the visual value, counts.
Sir Napsalot on December 24, 2012 at 8:19 AM
How about this one?
http://www.outofregs.com/index.php?page=archives&id=53
Would that make them feel better?
I can hear it now, be good kids or Santa won’t lay down surpressing fire while you assault the liberal bunkers.
warren on December 24, 2012 at 8:42 AM
Paul Ryan for Santa?
tommy71 on December 24, 2012 at 11:38 AM