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Gatorubet

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  1. which shows how much I fast food
  2. I assume that is an assassin sent by Burger King
  3. well, I’m sure you use your black hand occasionally too.
  4. I agree with all of that. I had a bankruptcy hearing this morning, trying to get a judge to approve the settlement of a case where my client filed a chapter 13 while their lawsuit was going on, which effectively made the bankruptcy trustee the client instead of….the client. You have to ask the court to appoint you as special counsel to represent the estate, and judges don’t like to give you your contractual 40% fee unless you have extraordinary circumstances. They want to (shock) give them money to creditors instead. Things were not going well until I mentioned I had been posting on Shaggy and Surly for over a decade, but hadn’t been banned yet. BANG! 40% approved!
  5. Let’s use another example: The famous Ford Pinto case involved Ford executives looking at the cost of making pintos gas tanks that would not explode versus the cost of the occasional judgment when it blew up and fricasseed a family. Do the execs deserve to die? That is a moral question as well as a legal question. Legally, there is no death penalty for that. I guess it might fit somewhere in the negligent homicide category, which is not a death penalty crime. Now, morally, would I shed a tear if someone whose family died in a Ford Pinto gas tank fire had shot one of those assholes? No I would not. So with all due respect, I think you are conflating the issues somewhat and turning our absence of moral reprehension upon learning of their deaths into a mistaken belief that we want people to shoot and kill those assholes. We are not saying folks should, we are just saying it’s understandable if people do, as it sounds like a resolution that is chock full of wonderful karma from a non-legal standpoint.
  6. What if it’s an alien civilization that powers their planet by mining garbage they then turn into fuel? We produce a LOT of garbage - so that makes our planet a valuable resource. But…. what if the only thing that stops the aliens is warm temperature? That would mean that global warming is just the illuminati creating a weather shield around the planet to protect our garbage.
  7. On the bright side, it wasn’t the architecture building.
  8. in Louisiana, there are no punitive damages for that. True, the penalty for bad faith, insurance denial is 50% extra of the dollar amount of the harm you caused an attorney‘s fees. But seriously disabled people have no lost wages or loss of earning capacity claims - they already weren’t working. It might be hard to say that their quality of life got worse, because they were on their way to dying when UHC withheld the drug /treatment that would make them live longer. Are you going to recover something? Possibly. But big health insurance evil corp will save a couple billion dollars annually by denying claims. Who gives a shit if you have to sprinkle a couple million dollars here and there because somebody finally takes you to the mattresses? You announce record profits and dividends, get the board to give you a huge raise, and do coke off the call girl’s ass on the board room conference table after the shareholder meeting.
  9. This got me.
  10. https://abovethelaw.com/2023/01/federal-judge-utterly-done-with-lawyers-pettiness/ So is this.
  11. Sometimes things are clear. Sometimes things are various graduations of gray. Not moving to the back of the bus is not an assassination. Being forced to sit in the back of the bus is not the same as legitimate healthcare being denied your loved one…and so they die. And there is this: the electorate of the country just said we don’t really give a shit about the rule of law. You might be engaged in some old timey type thinking.
  12. Uh….were you referring to Surly?
  13. Shit! How many people has Dan Quayle assassinated by now?
  14. user name….
  15. I don’t know. If I was a Japanese salaryman, I think I’d much prefer the Japanese anime cosplay version to ours.
  16. Leopold and Loeb taught us that sometimes the “why?” doesn’t make any fucking sense at all. It also taught us that sometimes really rich, spoiled, intelligent males who see themselves as superior beings can do some really stupid shit.
  17. It’s just like Animal Farm. Citizens United revisit gonna hold, “Some non-human entities are more equal than others. “
  18. It appears the young man had the means to afford range time. And yet, hostel girl asking him to ‘pull down his mask’ is undefeated.
  19. He should’ve gone to Burger King and had it his way.
  20. Way to Maga Represent!! if you weren’t hateful and a racist misogynist, you simply aren’t Maga material. Kudos!
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