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It’s certainly obvious she doesn’t want to become the world’s fattest sack of goo in secret, this is all about achieving fame. So I’m going to do my best to help her.

The unemployed mother – who cannot work because of her weight – claims she stays active by doing simple exercises and having regular health checks.

‘I go for a waddle and do stretches and exercises every day,’ she said. ‘My muscles need to hold up to my weight, so I have to stay strong.
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Despite warnings from her doctor that her bizarre experiment could kill her, Susanne insists she wants to break the record.

Dr Patrick Flite said: ‘She’s really playing Russian roulette with her life with this goal. There are well-documented complications that come with morbid obesity.

‘I would never encourage anyone to be doing what Susanne is doing.’

Dr Flite said Susanne’s medical checks showed no current problems, adding: ‘She’s capable of making her own decisions. I don’t see any psychiatric problems or anything else wrong.’

I do. If you click through to the article, you’ll see she has that smug smirk on every single picture. (Warning: She’s wearing shorts in one.) The woman is a nut, and if current mental health science cannot identify a psychiatric deficiency then that means it hasn’t looked hard enough. I’m not a psychologist and I do not play one on teevee, but I think my initial impression is the right one: In a welfare state in which there is no place for individual exceptionalism, this is where the natural instinct to achieve it is siphoned off. Yes, this is lunacy, and it’s man-made.

Thanks, Cas.

The other obvious problem is, if she should ever reach her goal, with the elapse of a little more additional time someone else is going to pass it, and then where will she be? Well, practically speaking, under the ground and that’s another problem. Doesn’t that sum it up? When Al Bundy waxes lyrically about scoring two touchdowns in a single game at Polk High School…that’s as pathetic as Susanne Eman will become if she lives, which isn’t gonna happen. So she’s one notch beneath Al Bundy. One notch and six feet.

Ed Darrell thinks it’s time for Americans to dream, and we realize our biggest dreams through government spending. Jabba The Eman of Arizona, at “52 stone” (that’s over 700 lb.) and still packing it on, proves he has a point.

Where’s Michelle Obama when you need her??????!!!!!eleventy!!!!one!!!
- philmon | 08/19/2011 @ 08:29
That’s what leftists fundamentally don’t get — that everyone wants to be unique and special.

Everyone. Not just them and their iPhone-wielding, latte-sipping, argula-chomping, Daily Show-snickering co-religionists.

Leftists feel unique and special through their politics. The entire point of contemporary liberalism is to identify a huge swathe of the population to sneer at. Since more than half of Americans lean conservative, then there’s a better than even chance every single person you meet on the street is, by definition, an idiot. It’s a vicious, poisonous species of affirmation, but it IS affirmation, and most of the time it’s all they’ve got. Managing the proles makes them feel special, and, thanks to wonderful circularity of leftist emotivism (I dare not call it “logic,” even in quotation marks), the proles deserve to be managed because it makes them feel special.

Problem is, the proles want to feel special too. And since pretty much every actual achievement is off limits — too racist or homophobic or whatnot, plus it might make liberals feel uncomfortable about not having done more with their lives — wellllll……

And the saddest part is, a prole like Ms. Eman up there really does need to be managed. She is, as you say, psychologically unbalanced enough to be engaging in deliberate self-harm. Which is a DSM-IV criteria of lots of things you can get committed for, if memory serves, but like you I’m not a psychologist and don’t play one on teevee. If there were ever a time for liberal “benevolence,” this is it…. but somehow this woman’s systematic self-harm, which not incidentally is now costing all of us a shitload more thanks to Obamacare, is somehow “empowering.” Or something.

It is. To laugh.
- Severian | 08/19/2011 @ 09:06
And thus Morgan goes where no man dares to tread.

I spent sometime with this story last night but couldn’t, frankly, stomach it. I knew there was a post in it but I didn’t want to sweat it out.

What I really, really didn’t get from the story is where and how she finances this binge…. who pays,…. how much? It gives her career as “unemployed” but somebody’s gotta be feeding her the bucks as well as bringing her the fries fried in bacon grease.
- vanderleun | 08/19/2011 @ 15:09

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