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The kid is wearing a fat suit -- used under clothing for some actors to appear fat.

I think it's real dire. I've seen his picture before, it's been around a few years.

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The skin tone at the back of the hand does not match that of the rest of the arm, nor the facial skin tone match that of the shoulders.  The fat suddenly ends at the hand -- no wrist, just a rounded bulge. 

We'll just have to agree to disagree because the pic is about 7 to 8 years old, and it would be odd to do such a good photo shop job and overlook the wrist. I think it's jus the angle. I remember reading he was about 7 and McDonalds was all in the news about making kids fat and luring them with toys. Can't find anything about it except it is purported to be an excerpt from a documentary about fast foods and fat kids/people. Maybe someone will turn up something else about it.

Regarding Best's disagreement and expression of such and stealing a line from the Seder meal: " Why is today different from any other day?"

I'm qualified because I read "To Kill A Mockingbird".

I have said for years that cigarettes (and tobacco products in general) should be taxed out of existence. 
I smoked for over 20 years and I now hate the smell of cigarette smoke. Been quit for about 22 years now.  When I learned that the tobacco lobby buys congressional votes at very , very high Republican proportions, I just quit so none of my money would be funneled into those slimeballs pockets. The Dems that took their money are no better than the R's ., but at least Polosi didn't go around the House floor handing out tobacco checks to House Members to vote tobacco's way.  Boner, on the other hand, had no such morals.

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Fat suits are movie props meant to be worn under clothing, not a photoshop thing.

As with anything now days, some people have gone overboard about it. Problem is, those people are in a position to irritate/harass others and put them in a position where they have to defend themselves from government bull crap. Google 'fat letters' and see how many schools are sending letters home to parents telling them their children are overweight, when in most cases they are healthy and normal in size and weight.

The schools use the BMI index charts, which are not very accurate,  The army used them at first, but found they were forcing out body builders and their most physically fit soldiers.  They went to calipers after that. Don't know what they use now.

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Mom’s outrage after sporty 11-year-old daughter is sent home with a letter from school calling her overweight.

• A 5'5", 124 pound girl has been called fat by her school in a letter sent home to her mother
• The determination was made by comparing her body mass index to peers

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I suppose common core was the cause of this letter.