This Is Horrible
 

large judgments against anyone who has only one drain might help change that.

This Is Horrible
 

I don't disagree that there are case out there where somone fucks up, hurts themself, and gets a windfall. So, I don't disagree with your point as a general concept.

I'm also not familiar with the facts of this specific case, so I can't really say one way or another who fucked up here. But I am generally comfortable with the notion that screws don't unscrew themselves. This was a wading pool, so I doun't think one could assume the screws were likely loosened by vibrations, as they might be on a jet, or something that moves, where a person should reasonably be expected to check screws regularly to see that they haven't worked loose.

So, my inclination here is to say it's more likely that someone fucked up, either the maufacturer, the installer, or the club that maintained the pool. Either way, I don't think the kid should bear the burden.

Wango Ze Tango
 

Have you ever bothered to read the shills on the NYT payroll?

Wango Ze Tango
 

Not in a couple of years.

Sure, my hemp-fueled drum circle at the coffee shop would read and discuss the best things that Paul Krugman and David Brooks would write that week to bring down the Bush Administration, but when they put it all behind the TimesSelect firewall, Atticus, Ty, GGG, club and I decided that caving in to this brazen act of imperialistic capitalism would not stand, man, not when it exceeds the prices of the half-caf latte.

This Is Horrible
 

the manufacturer made a cover that had holes in it for screws, so it did okay. The club likely removed the screws and didn't put them back. I don't have a problem with it being sued, but there wasn't money there for some reason, so Edwards jacked up an innocent company.

Darth Nader
 

Curses! I always feared Club would embrace the dark side.

Darth Nader
 

At least you have Ted Nugent.

This Is Horrible
 

Whither summary judgment?

Darth Nader
 

Their coffee is better. What can I say. I'm a caffeine whore.

Stranglehold
 

... we'll always have Venison.

Stranglehold
 

You used to have Spanky for that.

Stranglehold
 

Carnivorist fuck!

Happy 61, President GW Bush!
 

Happy Happy Birthday President George W. Bush, our nation’s fearless Commander in Chief!!!! And many many more.

In this open and free forum I want to state that I thank G-d everyday that I voted for you. TWICE. And may the Lord take pity on the pathetic socialist loser-haters who you defeated (Gore and Kerry).

Also, let me state here I would gladly see the 22nd Amendment repealed or temporarily suspended by you so that I could happily vote for you again over the likes of a Chi-Com operative like Hillary Clinton or the inexperienced B. Hussien Obama.

Also, further, a big Birthday Thank You! President Bush for:


1. Your swift and decisive response to the horrific act of war on 9/11 and our defensive offensive in the Global War on Terror; and

2. Your deft military leadership as CinC in the liberation of Afghanistan and Iraql and

3. Your unwaivering prosecution of the Global War on Terror, in spite of the cut and run defeatists and the global Euro-socialist appeasers and other Islamofacist supporters who seek our destruction; and

4. Your steadfast leadership of the free world, with your junior partner, the dearly departed Tony Blair, undeterred by roadblocks of hatred as put forth by the cowardly and the bigoted liberals; and

5. Your tax cuts and flawless leadership of our great free market capitalist economic ship; and

6. Your most excellent appointment of two fine conservative scholars to the Supreme Court, who will guaranty that your legacy of right wing leadership carries forward for generations; and

7. Your committed leadership to upstanding and righteous Judeo-Christian values and your example of being a righteous G-d fearing man of Bible; and

8. Your brave life-saving and affirming leadership of the pro-life position in our battle against the culture of death and infanticide of the liberals; and

9. Your courageous pardon of Scooter Libby; and

Finally, I wish to thank my fellow patriots in the Red States of America for having expressed the will of the People (and G-d’s divine wishes) in the only polls that count, the Presidential elections of 2000 and 2004!!!.

Happy birthday, Mr. President! History will record that you were a truly great and inspirational Leader, one of the best Presidents to date!


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President Clinton Indeed
 

It looks like we can get bi-partisan support for repealling the 22nd Amendment - let's get to it!

What If?
 

Every time I get really down on this POTUS, someone reminds me how much worse it really could be.

What If?
 

You ain't seen nuthin yet.....


http://clinton-legacy.org/humor/hill...a_sopranos.jpg

Bear With Me
 

OK, I've been watching/listening to some of the Live Earth concert slash propaganda and I am left with a question:

What do the"greens" propose be done re energy in Asia?

Fossil fuels are supposedly bad. Coal, which is what Asia burns in quantity is undoubtedly bad. Damming gorges is protested against because animal habitats, ancient small villages, and historical preservation is considered more important than free, clean water power. So, what choices are there? Wonderful as wind power and solar power may someday be, they cannot currently satisfy 3 billion people in Asia.

The only answer is nuclear, but the same morons who clamor for "new policies" can only offer Asia (and its people who want cars, and air conditioning, and Nintendo) pallatives. I have just suffered through hours of inanities about how I can effect climate change. No, China has passed us in greenhous emissions and the discrepancy is only going to grow. The question is how do you prevent 3 billion people in emerging Asian economies from doing what only 200 million Americans did in the last century?

Unless fusion energy works out, there is no answer, other than culling the herd. There is no amount of being "green" that can support a human population (eating well, i.e. no starvation) of 10 billion. It is a closed system. No matter how efficient we get in food production, etc., we are stuck recirculating the same amounts of protein, nitrogen, vitamins, etc. There is a reason tuna are disappearing - they were at sustainable levels when only a couple hundred thousand people ate them - but when sushi becomes popular and attainable to billions, well duh.

So it is either Soylent Green or we need population control. Fuck Until There's A Cure - let the sick die (and stop paying to pretend we can keep them alive) and encourage the intentionally ignorant (smokers, McDonald's eaters) to join them. And, as for crippled children, I support Make A Wish, and I will give you a ticket to a Kansas City Chiefs game if you just fucking die and get off the dole. IQ tests to reproduce. No more tax benefits for children, tax penalties. Inundate Africa and Asia with condoms, secretly covered with sterilizing gel. Ready to eat packs containing sterilizing agents dropped all over the world. And this unconsented to sterilization is justified because we are saving the planet, damnit, Janet.

If you still don't believe I am green, I propose that if you want to by beluga caviar (a disappearing species), you have to take a blind taste test that proves you can tell the difference between oestra, sevruga, and beluga. If you fail, your name goes in a national "Save Mother Earth and All Her wonerful Species" registry, and if you try to buy beluga again, its public evisceration on the rack. Crimes against Earthanity.

Bear With Me
 

And I forgot to mention that the Eurogreens are against foods that have been engineered to, say, grow in sub-Saharan Africa.

Oh, the hypocracy.

Bear With Me
 

Putting it more succinctly, the profits should go towards developing nuclear energy in developing countries.

But instead it will do as much to prevent 'claimate change" as Farm Aid to help small farmers and Live Aid did to prevent starvation. But I the NGOs need the money, so ...

Bear With Me
 

FWIW, during the 5 minutes of that mess that I watched late last night, the drummer from some godawfulband Down Under was wearing a "Just Say No to Nuclear" T-Shirt.

Interestingly, "more Americans support impeaching Bush now than supported impeaching Clinton when he was actually being impeached." Steve Benen has the polling data.

you have your built in loony factor. in February 2001, 30% of America supported impeaching bush. the only bad fact is he hasn't committed any impeachable offenses- I mean unless you can prove up that Hatch act violation.

This Is Horrible
 

So at the hot sulfur springs I was at this weekend, the drain-y things were not that strong. But the one that was really truly strictly for 2 people only, the water went out over a little stone waterfall, into the 85 degree duckpond. It was AWESOME, other than the smelling like egg afterwards.

Likewise, his approval ratings still stand around 30% in July 2007.

I don't think that's true. For one, 9/11 changed everything. Don't ever forget that.

This Is Horrible
 

They should take tort cases away from juries and give them to groups of randomly chosen professionals. Juries are too stupid to get past emotion.

I say this as a person who has written expert reports which caused large settlements which were filled with fucking lies. I played semantic games and caused people to lose lots of money when we really honestly did not have a case. The experts never balked. They alsmost always play ball. Only three or four have ever complained and said they wouldn't go along with some sort of hiding of the truth effected by a little tweaking of important verbiage.

Nothing like getting seven figures for a pile of shit a lawyer with no skills in science or accounting made up. Google's pretty amazing. You know how loose and screwy I can be here? You can serve my least coherent drivel to the average imbecile on a Philadelphia jury and he wouldn't know better.

In fairness, I did it from the defense and plaintiff's side. I've always got my Nuremberg Defense. Just following some shyster's orders.

It's sleazy. It's all fucking sleazy. And John Edwards is pond scum.

Bear With Me
 

Sid Bass is financing a venture with the Chris Craft to roll out "Land Boats." It's a car that uses sails, like a boat.

www.landboats.com

Definitely NSFW.

x-post
 

So, the music at the fireworks I went to on the 4th included "Born in the USA" which as we know is not actually a very the-USA-is-supreme-in-all-the-world song. As you may or may not recall, the basic structure of the song is 4 lines, chorus, 4 lines, chorus, etc. Except, in this iteration, it went straight from chorus to "Got in a little hometown jam/So they put a rifle in my hand" to chorus. And that's only 2 lines.

Yeah, they actually cut out the lines "Sent me off to a foreign land/To go and kill the yellow man."

Which I thought was "fellow man" but my BFF corrected me.

If we impeached both of them at the same time, would we have President Pelosi?

Fast forward to Jan 2009, perhaps al-Qaeda dupe, the traitor Sheehan?

http://www.itsallgeorgebushsfault.co...ehan-shirt.jpg

Recognizing that we are now exploring the land of the speculative and improbable, the way to get the GOP votes necessary to make that happen would be for Democrats in the chain of succession to step out of the way so that Secretary of State Rice would become the President.

Pink Pistol Lesbian Gangs Taking Over!
 

Staying classy, all the way down.
 

Ramesh Ponnuru finds Robert Novak reporting that the Bush Administration is preparing to blame the military for Iraq.

Staying classy, all the way down.
 

Is it just you, me, and a lesser penske sock?

Staying classy, all the way down.
 

I am not penske, but I do post under other monikers. On infirmation.com i was indy et al. fyi.

Dear Pelosi, No good deed goes unpunished.....
 

Run, Cindy Sheehan, Run!

The ...left in America and Europe has an underlying craziness for which I am deeply thankful.

..That's what makes Cindy Sheehan and others on the ...left such crackpots.

Ordinarily I'd laugh off Cindy Sheehan's threat to take on Pelosi, but Pelosi represents the San Francisco area and there are just enough kooks in that district [hi Ty!] who might make Sheehan a serious candidate. I'd like to see Sheehan use some of her trademark bile on Pelosi. It's my favorite kind of brawl: the left vs. the far left. Run, Cindy, run!




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YUK!
 

Where is his hand?

http://www.exposetheleft.com/images/cindyarrest.jpg

Dear Pelosi, No good deed goes unpunished.....
 

Hi!

Staying classy, all the way down.
 

i actually think it's someone like ggg. but your realization simply confirms my prediction- Hank 345-21