You know why people hate lawyers?

Louisville Slugger was successfully sued for close to $900K by the family of a youth league pitcher who was killed by a hit ball*, because,

...Louisville Slugger is liable for failing to warn about the dangers of using aluminum bats, and that the failure to warn played a part in the accident that caused the death of Brandon Patch.

Uh...what?  The eight million release forms that the league makes you sign warning both parent or guardian and child that sports are risky, and injury or even death can occur isn't sufficient?  So now what, we have to tack warning labels on all sporting equipment too?  And what is particularly dangerous about aluminum bats over other types?  There isn't, and if memory serves me correctly, the reason that youth leagues and softball use aluminum is because of the dangers of wood bats shattering and throwing splinters everywhere.

Naturally, the jury stated that there was nothing defective with the bat, but because it wasn't plastered with eight million fucking warning labels, Louisville Slugger gets hosed. Seriously getting fucking tired of this, you can't do anything or buy anything without eight million fucking warning labels and release forms.  For the record, I'm as disgusted by the drooling fucktards in the jury as I am the ambulance chasers, they should all be put in stocks and pelted with rotten eggs and produce for this nonsense. 

Eventually people will pretty much have nothing to do but sit inside and play video games, surf the intarwebs and watch TV...until some ambulance chaser successfully sues entertainment producers and ISPs for a fortune because someone has a heart attack or suffers deep vein thrombosis or some shit from sitting in one place all fucking day.

*Yes, I feel horrible for the family, it sucks, but the idea that they didn't know that this was part of the risk in playing baseball, especially for a pitcher, is asinine.  My cousin was an accomplished softball pitcher (not a lesbian, FYI), I can guarandamntee she knew what the risks were, as did my aunt and uncle.

**Also, yes, I know, not all lawyers are evil, and there are times where someone has been wronged, and lawsuits are legitimate.  This however, is not one of those times, but the neverending stream of suits like this make people look down on the legal profession.

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Devolution

Yes, the mood tail, a bad idea whose time was millions of years ago. And thank Gaia She got rid of them. Imagine if your tail was like a dog's tail? You're trying to explain how you're not having fun at the sorority pillow fight as your tail is going a mile a second. 

I bet a dollar it gets sold at adult shops for affecting mood rather than for showing it, if you know what I mean and I think that you do.

Cleaning it'll be a pain though, alex will have to let us know.

Via Vodkapundit

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Rough economy out there

How rough?

Well,

The man, whose description was sketchy , entered the fast-food restaurant just after 2 p.m. Monday and pointing a gun at the cashier, demanded money and told the cashier to get on the floor, said Lt. John Hickey of the Haverstraw Police Department.

The man then walked into the manager's office, which is located at the back of the store.

"He requested an application for employment and the manager said ‘No,'" Hickey said. The manager asked the suspect to leave; he left the premises in an unknown direction.

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I'm from the government, and I'm here to help!

The government in American Samoa received major grants from DHS in order to build better tsunami warning and detection systems...so let's skip the theatrics and buildup and just get down to it.  $25K in big screen TVs, $4K in leather furniture, $77K in "equipment" that no one can account for or locate, and of course an untold fortune in travel and entertainment. 

DHS eventually cut off the money flow and won't issue more funds until American Samoa pays back some of the misused funds, as they should have, but of course there still is no decent tsunami warning system there as a result.  So naturally, there was a tsunami in late September that killed 34 people and caused millions in property damage, and the Samoan government is about as effective in delivering relief as FEMA.  And people wonder why us eeeeevil wingnutty wingnuts are so skeptical of government...

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Now even the lefties hate Michael Moore

During a recent appearance on ABC’s late-night program “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” Mr. Moore gave an account — apparently tongue in cheek — of how he drank a bottle-and-a-half of tequila with Mr. Chávez at the Venice Film Festival in September, and how he mistook Venezuela’s burly foreign minister, Nicolás Maduro, for a bodyguard.

Those comments have created an uproar here among some of Mr. Chávez’s loyal supporters, known as Chavistas.

So now the left hates him too. Pretty quick only space aliens will be watching his movies.

source

 

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Charles Johnson caught spreading a lie - Amazingly no correction forthcoming

In a post this morning I linked to a Little Green Football's post which, based on a Talking Point Memo DC post, accused Fox of lying about being excluded from an interview. From the comments of that thread:

"You know that story that was on Fox News yesterday, claiming that Fox had been excluded from a “roundtable” interview with pay czar Ken Feinberg?

And then (according to Fox News) all the other networks stood up and said, “If Fox isn’t there, we’re not going to be there! We’re all Fox News now!”

Well, turns out it didn’t exactly happen that way."

Apparantly, according to HuffPo, it did happen that way.

According to the article at the Huffington Post Fox did request an interview,was excluded, and then when the media pool insisted they be given time they were punished by having their time cut by more than half. The Huffington Post has people actually talking on the record so that adds a little credibility.

Clemente said that when Isham presented that scenario on a conference call with the other pool members — including Fox News — "they unanimously said, instantly, no, that's not gonna fly. Either Fox is in or none of us is doing it."

Once Isham relayed that message to Treasury, Treasury cleared it with White House Communications Director Anita Dunn, who approved Feinberg's interview with Fox News' Major Garrett.

Clemente said, however, that there was now a catch: every network would get two minutes with Feinberg instead of the previously planned five.

"That's not very normal," he said. "I'm told that whoever was there was absolutely militaristic about the time limit. Usually two or four or five minutes means, 'Ask your last question,' with a little flexibility. But there was none."

The last correction has been up for over 6 hours and Charles Johnson has made no correction to his original post. Far below the standards he holds others too, such as when racist comment were posted by one of his minions at Hot Air. They were posted in the middle of the night but Hot Air was castigated by Johnson and his followers because they were not immediately removed. Nice double standard.

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In which I return to the blog just to piss everyone off...

No cartoons on Fox tonight because of....sports?

Torches. 

Pitchforks. 

That is all. 

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They see me rollin', they hatin'

This meth is so good
I'm tweakin'
They hopin' they gon' catch me ridin' dirty
Tryin' to catch me ridin' dirty
Tryin' to catch me ridin' dirty
Tryin' to catch me ridin' dirty
Tryin' to catch me ridin' dirty

All Zettel knows is he had to pay out thousands of dollars to fix his New Holland loader tractor after Troy Taibinger tried to outride police on it for two hours in Woolwich and Wellesley townships last June.

Taibinger was due to be sentenced in Kitchener's Ontario Court Friday. He pleaded guilty last month to dangerous driving, theft over $5,000, failing to stop for police and possession of crystal methamphetamine.

However, his sentencing was adjourned to next month.

Taibinger told reporters after his arrest that he was high on crystal meth when he decided to steal the tractor from Zettel's Maryhill Road farm. The keys were in the ignition.

I'll be keeping this in mind next time I get goofed on in the country for locking my doors.

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ACORN gets to help regulate the financial industry?

Did Dems just put ACORN in charge of financial regulation? -

From the pages of Government Doesn’t Listen, Part MMXLVII, we have this stunning example from the House Financial Services Committee. Yesterday, Reps. Maxine Waters, Barney Frank, and the rest of the Democrats decided to grant community organizers governing powers by giving them a role in shaping and enforcing new regulations on the American financial industry. That seems to include, although not explicitly, ACORN:

Well they do seem to know a lot about non-traditional entrepreneurship and tax law, and the founder and his brother seem to be up on their accounting skills so maybe this isn't a bad thing.

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Some midday pwnage for you

This is classic, read the original post of this ricer/street racer bitching about a rather lenient ticket he received...then jump to comment four.

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Bruce Springsteen is a dumbass

No, for once, I'm not talking about a celebrity's politics here...

Backstage before his Tuesday night concert at the Spectrum, Bruce Springsteen was telling Joe Torre how his "Working on a Dream" tour won't end until after Thanksgiving, so he'll miss the World Series. But his Monday night show finished in time for the E Street Band to catch the last few innings of the Phillies' win in Game 4.

"Yeah, yeah we saw it," Torre recalled Springsteen saying excitedly. Then, according to Torre, Springsteen remembered he was talking to the losing manager and not a Phillies fan, adding a subdued, "Oh."

Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick, during the last few innings that you caught, did you not notice the fact that Torre happened to be sitting in the Dodger dugout, wearing a Dodger uniform, and, you know, managing the fucking Dodgers?

"Oh," indeed, you fucking ar-tard.

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Ur doin it wrong

If you're going to throw your baby in front of a train, make sure the train has a cowcatcher.

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Kids are so honest and good

This probably has been posted everywhere, but I've only seen it in the Head Moron's comments.



Update: and even more good honesty: videotape of the balloon launch.

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Uggs are a part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor...

...TAKE THEM AWAY!!!

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Proposed artwork for Jimmy Carter Regional Airport

Yeah, they're changing the name of Souther Field Airport from a guy who contributed to aviation to the name of a guy who bragged about bringing Deliverance to his state.

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This'll help the morale problem

Oh yay!
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U.S. lawmakers reached an agreement on Wednesday that would allow the Obama administration to bring more terrorism suspects from the Guantanamo Bay prison to the United States to face trial.
...
Democratic negotiators from the House and Senate included the language in a $42.8 billion bill that would fund the Homeland Security Department for the current fiscal year over the objection of Republicans.

They quote a GOPer saying that they're terrorists who don't deserve Constitutional protections, they allow a Dem to answer saying, "American prisons are secure".
I'm sure they are, I bet they have great cable too, but that doesn't address the point.

The part that will make this a fitting part of the Funniest End of Civilization ever?
When they're let off because the 101st didn't mirandize them we won't be able to send them anywhere because nobody will want them so we'll either have to put them back in Guantanamo or let them loose in the US.

There is some good news. You know how the AP showed that pic of the dying Marine?
Well, they'll still be able to do that, but...
The measure would also allow the Pentagon to block the release of photos showing the abuse of terrorism suspects, which have figured prominently in several scandals.

I'm gonna have to punch Boortz for linking that damn story.

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Poland hearts kiddie rapists

So much that they awarded Roman Polanski a star on their Walk of Fame today.

The sidewalk tribute, which sits alongside stars for film icons like Marilyn Monroe, is emblazoned with a quote from Polanski reading, "Nothing is too shocking to me".

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Pay Cuts

Looks like Obama's "Pay Czar" is going to start cutting compensation at bailout companies. 

How about this:  Every elected or appointed government employee takes a blanket 10% pay cut.  Furthermore, every elected official with a net worth of over a million dollars will be paid minimum wage and receive no benefits. 

I bet we could pay for a donut shop in space for that kind of money.

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This Is Why I Try To Avoid Going To The Store At All Costs

Good grief! Not only was this guy caught beating off in a parking lot once, he gets caught doing it again.

The woman told deputies that she was exiting Bed, Bath and Beyond when she saw a sedan next to her car with its engine running, but was unable to see anyone inside, according to an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s report.

As she walked between the two cars she saw a man masturbating in the front seat, and according to the report, “she did see the unknown subject’s sexual organs and she was offended by what she saw.”

Deputies found the 21-year-old man by running the license plate number provided by the woman. He admitted to deputies that he was the person masturbating in the Bed, Bath and Beyond parking lot and admitted that this was the second time he was caught.

 

 

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I guess ACORN doesn't have a branch in Copenhagen

Chicago lost it's 2016 Olympic bid in the first round of voting. 

(doubleplusundead) I've gotta add this, from Cuffy,

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