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could very well be. its been a long time since i read about that case in law school.

the coffee was so hot no human being could drink it. she spilled it on herself and suffered third degree burns on her crotch. mcdonalds did offer her 500k. why isnt that enough money? her medical bills were much less than that and they were almost completely paid by insurance. i can cite you a litany of cases where no one has done anything wrong and yet plaintiff attorneys mainpulate people's emotions and come up with ridiculous verdicts. $1 billion for a death of a teenager. $750 million for the death of a 70 year old woman. $350 million for a man put into a wheelchair. and that's just the last 6 months. the legal system didnt work in the mcdonalds case and it doesnt work in most cases. it asks 12 ordinary people to come up with a solution to a problem they have absolutely no knowledge of, but expect to be taught what they need to know in a week. and that knowledge is filtered through a series of arcane rules of evidence to the point where the jury never knows the complete story. i am in this system every day. it is THE WORST judicial system in the western world. it is ridiculous and it benefits almost solely the attorneys who operate in it and earn MASSIVE amounts of money for doing it.

good samaritan law would prevent such a lawsuit for that reason. not that they wouldnt still try to sue you, they are plaintiffs attorneys, after all.

going to the game ia such a hassle. i like the view from my couch on my big ass tv just fine.

i'm still worried about his skating and hoping he doesnt turn into rasmussen, but having soderblom turn into a player would be a real coup.

that's what happens when you've been giving away money for free for 20 years. large investors have more cash than they know what to do with, so they spread out their portfolios and get into property ownership. cant put your money in bonds, no growth there. plus newly rich chinese companies are getting into the us property market, buying everything up. i know a guy who was trying to buy an investment property and everytime they would look at something, a big investment firm came in and overbid and paid cash up front. driving up prices everywhere. you cant get anything worth a damn for a family in chicago for less than 500-600k now.

they need to be over 500 in conference play. if so, they'll probably squeak in.

just wait until she gets a lawyer and sues the nfl and the rams and stafford.

oh matthew....a fractured spine? that could cost you a million in meds easy.

they have neither the ideology or the terrain to hold off the russians. they also have a sizeable part of the population that is pro russian. there is no comparison between them and the afghans. and it doesnt matter, its not in the us's interests to fight the russians over this. take a compromise. move on the other things.

ok. you need to relax a bit.

it doesnt. some are under the belief that mlb is somehow rejiggering the game solely to placate some gambling interest. even though the ones who are preventing the game from speeding up are the players, not the owners. baseball has been getting slower and slower and slower for decades, but somehow now that the evil gambling interests are involved its all about mlb catering to their interests (even though theyre trying to speed up the game).

my tell? your tell is thinking every year is 1938.

well duh. we will protect our nato allies. we will not protect ukraine.

athletic article today on how this whole negotiation thing is missing the real problem, which is improving the pace of play. which is very true as has been discussed here many times.

did we invade russia when they annexed the crimea? nope. and were not going to do it now either.

ukraine is not an ally. its a former soviet republic that is much more important to russia than us. same with georgia. same with belarus. if we had expanded nato to include them (which would have been foolish) or put them in the EU, things would have been different. but we didnt (rightfully) and now we are where we are.

no its not. if russia put missiles in mexico and venezuela and cuba, how would you react? the ukraine is nothing to us. sorry to let you in on the uncomfortable truth. they need to bargain this in a way that prevents a russian invasion and allows russia to save face. that's what needs to be done. america is not fighting russia over the ukraine, just like it didnt fight them over georgia.

you want to go to war with a nuclear powered russia over a country that has zero significance to the united states? come on. that is not going to happen.

there will never, ever be promotion/relegation in american sports. its a different business model.

this is about labor negotiations, not public relations. this lockout has really flustered some folks. i swear joe sheehan is going to shoot himself.

about time.

bad win. even if it was boston. sorry to say this, but they need to finish last so they cant pick worse than 5th.

+/- is a very incomplete stat.

hot take: there are more rams fans today in LA than there ever were in St. Louis.