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  • #946
    Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

    Originally posted by jerphisch View Post
    Don't have the link but the average award in a wrongful death case is about $3M, that's what makes $55M absurd.
    Half of it is from the pervert, so you can knock it down to $28 million. It'll be appealed down to a realistic number. One of the jurists said he was thinking of his wife going through this. That's not going to fly with the appeals judge.
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    • #947
      Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

      From Elizabeth Warren's Facebook.

      At the same time they are blocking all possible Supreme Court nominees, and suggesting they’ll beat whomever President Obama chooses like a piñata, Senate Republicans are in a panic because their party seems to be on a path to nominate one of two extremists for President. These are not separate issues. For too long, Senate Republicans have tried to have it both ways — feeding ugly lies, rejecting the legitimacy of the President, blocking scores of nominees in an effort to cripple our government – all while claiming they are can govern responsibly. That game is over now. If Republican Senators want to stand up to extremists running for President, they can start now by standing up to extremists in the Senate. They can start by doing their jobs.
      Oh, I hope this is true. I do.
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      Originally Posted by dropthatpuck-Scooby's a lost cause.
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      • #948
        Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

        http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...p_ref=business

        A Republican congressman on the House Committee on Financial Services thinks Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), one of the most vocal advocates for Wall Street reform, needs to be “neutered.”

        Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.) made the comments during a panel discussion at an American Bankers Association conference Wednesday. According to Politico, Luetkemeyer said people needed to “find a way to neuter” Warren, whom he called the “Darth Vader of the financial services world.”
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        Originally Posted by dropthatpuck-Scooby's a lost cause.
        Originally Posted by First Time, Long Time-Always knew you were nothing but a troll.

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        • #949
          Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

          Originally posted by ScoobyDoo View Post
          http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...p_ref=business
          Good luck with that BLAINE. While your at it can you come up with a better name cause seriously your name is ridiculously ******y kthanxbye!
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          • #950
            Originally posted by jerphisch View Post
            Don't have the link but the average award in a wrongful death case is about $3M, that's what makes $55M absurd.
            Wrongful death cases are cheap. Anything where someone is still alive and can claim future damages are always going to cost more. In this case, I'm sure part of the claim is future/ongoing emotional distress.

            The biggest driver of medical malpractice premiums is the fact that when doctors Fark up, their patients no longer die immediately but instead require years or decades of ongoing medical care.
            Last edited by unofan; 03-18-2016, 06:40 AM.

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            • #951
              Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

              Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
              It's absurd because she didn't suffer damages of $55 million. This happens all the time and I hate it. This has nothing to do with her and everything with these astronomical judgements. While I don't want caps on judgements like I have advocated in the past, they should have a basis in reality rather than some creatively arrived at sum.

              I hate these stupid judgements.
              Women still can't get equal pay for equal work...

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              • #952
                Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

                Lolol. Holy ****. Gawker getting the hammer dropped on them. It's still absurd but Gawker should have known better. They aren't a mentally ill sexual deviant.
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                • #953
                  Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

                  Holy ****!! Those are just compensatory. Punitive might come on Monday.
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                  May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
                  Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                  I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                  Originally posted by Kepler
                  When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                  He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                  • #954
                    Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

                    Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                    Holy ****!! Those are just compensatory. Punitive might come on Monday.
                    And if Gawker wants to appeal, Florida law states they have to bond the original judgment amount into escrow, up to a maximum of $50MM. They might be turning out the lights.
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                    • #955
                      Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

                      Freepers still hate McCain, would vote for a Dem just to be rid of him.

                      (Also, McCain's GOP primary opponent just appeared on Alex Jones. Aint no half steppin' the cray in AZ.)
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                      • #956
                        Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

                        McConnell may be selling out the Senate to save his skin.

                        "If the senators start to move off of this position, the biggest problem they are going to face is going to be a loss of support … they’re going to alienate the most active part of their constituency," said Adam Brandon, president and CEO of FreedomWorks. "I want Mitch McConnell to see that the potential grass-roots army is far stronger than anyone on K Street." […]

                        Democrats believe McConnell is motivated by self-preservation. Siding with activists on the Supreme Court, they say, could help the majority leader avoid Boehner's fate. […]

                        "I do believe he’s going to lose the majority. And he’s hoping that 2018 is going to be better [electorally] and he wants to save his job so he’s around [to return to majority leader] in 2018," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said in an interview. "He’s actually saving himself and sacrificing his people that are up this time. He knows what happened to Boehner."
                        Ouch. The calculation is highly suspect in terms of the long term goals of the GOP. Holding the line would make more sense with a strong top of the ticket that could mitigate damage; instead, doing this with Drumpf or Cruz as the nom is playing with fire since we could see additional Senate pickups beyond the expected 4-6. Combined with a Hillary election that's a recipe for two (Scalia and RBG) highly liberal SCOTUS appointments in those two years. The (still distant) possibility of a House flip would eliminate the terrorists from power altogether and give the Democrats an open field to get government working again and convince all but the Dead Enders of the insanity of allowing the GOP near power until they are toilet trained.
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                        • #957
                          Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

                          Good... good...

                          According to a newly released analysis by the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, senate races in Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Missouri and North Carolina are looking to be more favorable for Democrats than previously predicted as moderate and independent voters grow disillusioned with the GOP.
                          Mein Drumpf might actually make America great again; just not the way he means.
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                          • #958
                            Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

                            Hard to believe we can pick Grassley off, but we can at least boot him from his chairmanship by taking the Senate.
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                            • #959
                              Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

                              Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                              Hard to believe we can pick Grassley off, but we can at least boot him from his chairmanship by taking the Senate.
                              He's had six terms. Time to go, dude.

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                              • #960
                                Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

                                Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
                                He's had six terms. Time to go, dude.
                                He's in it strictly for the power at this point. There's no other way for him to get that nubile intern tail.
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