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The 1992 McDonald’s coffee lawsuit (Liebeck v. McDonald’s) involved Stella Liebeck, who suffered severe third-degree burns from scalding hot coffee, leading to a jury awarding her $2.9 million (later reduced and settled), not for cheap slacks, but for extensive medical bills and pain, as McDonald’s knew its coffee was dangerously hot (around 180-190°F) and had faced 700+ prior burn complaints, with punitive damages reflecting their indifference, making it a landmark case against corporate responsibility, not a frivolous suit over minor damage.

If memory serves, I believe she attempted to get reimpursement without a lawsuit and McDonlad’s declined.

Also, I believe the verdict or damages were appealed and they ending up settling this for less than half-a-million dollars. The PR damage was probably much higher.

End the filibuster. Replace Obamacare with a free market solution and catastrophic coverage that is affordable. Get election reform done. Implement President Trump's executive orders as LAW. Pass new laws to make sure illegal immigration is dealt with. Authorize the use of the military to remove all illegals. Redo the census and make sure only American citizens can vote, and that representation is proportionate.

“The first Christmas of course had the slaughter of the innocents so it was hardly a joyous time in Bethlehem.”

According to the Gospel of Matthew, the “Slaughter of the Innocents” likely occurred up to two years after the birth of Jesus, rather than on the night of the “first Christmas”.
The timeline is established by several key details in the text:

The Magi (Wise Men) did not visit Jesus in a manger, but in a “house” (Matthew 2:11), and their journey to Judea following the appearance of a star suggests a significant passage of time.

Also, King Herod ordered the execution of all male children in Bethlehem aged two years and under. This age range was based on the specific time the Magi reported first seeing the star, indicating that Jesus could have been a toddler by the time the decree was issued.

And lastly, Joseph was warned in a dream to take Mary and Jesus to Egypt to escape Herod’s wrath. This escape happened before the massacre, meaning the Holy Family was likely already gone when the violence occurred in Bethlehem.

Another clue is Christ being presented by His parents to be circumcised which is done eight days after being born. See Luke 2:21. So, even if Herod committed this slaughter much sooner, it was at least not on the first Christmas.

I’ll repeat what I said before about Rob Reiner:

He was a great filmmaker.

His problem was that he extended his fictional fantasy world into the real world and believed that the well-meaning stated goals of the left could actually be achieved by implementing leftists politics.

Redistribution schemes do not lift people out of poverty, free-market capitalism does.

Gun control does not make people safer. Gun rights do.

Borders are not bigoted. Borders, like fences, make for good neighbors.

LGBT sexual perversion destroys individuals, communities, and nations. Abortion is murder.

Fantasy can serve a purpose in entertainment, but it’s dangerous to live in the fantasy world of the left.

“Rob Reiner was a loser.”

Rob Reiner was a great filmmaker.

His problem was that he extended his fictional fantasy world into the real world and believed that the well-meaning stated goals of the left could actually be achieved by implementing leftists politics.

Redistribution schemes do not lift people out of poverty, free-market capitalism does.

Gun control does not make people safer. Gun rights do.

Borders are not bigoted. Borders, like fences, make for good neighbors.

LGBT sexual perversion destroys individuals, communities, and nations. Abortion is murder.

Fantasy can serve a purpose in entertainment, but it’s dangerous to live in the fantasy world of the left.

“People need to stop being lazy. Go get your own food.”

Going to get food is not lazy, as opposed to making your own food?

I’m always intrigued by what people consider to be lazy.

It really depends on how you spend the time you save by eating out or having food delivered.

By the way, people can do things like this to your food even if you go “get your... food.”

Well said.

And what happened to the Reiners is tragic.

Milquetoast libertarianism might also lead to violence, Mr. Paul. (Just ask your neighbor.)

If you want to have robots show fight without real fighting abilities, Kung fu would be the right martial art to teach them.

Agreed.

The death penalty is a more merciful option for everyone.

The victim's family gets closure and some degree of justice.

Society does not have to carry the enormous burden of prodiving the entire cost of keeping a dangerous criminal alive and healthy, nor the cost to keep him from being a continuing threat.

Even the perp is better off. What kind of life does this guy have? Is it worth living?

I have a close family member who works with guys like this in prison. Many are isolated, alone, and have nothing. It's torture. And that makes it hard to provide any kind of mental health help. Many would like to die but can't. The death penalty is better.

And when it comes to judgment day, we all die sooner or later, but those who know exactly when they are going to die have the advantage of time to soul search and seek to make things right to whatever degree is possible.

Get rid of filibuster. Get rid of Obamacare. Fix immigration by changing laws that aren’t working and empowering the executive branch to enforce exisiting law. Secure future elections. Redo the census with a legislative fix to correct the extreme errors the current numbers reflect.

MAGA has a lot keeping it together. But the Democrat party has been taken over by its most extreme elements.

MAGA does not want Communism. MAGA does not want men in women’s restrooms and locker rooms. MAGA does not want children being mutilated by practicioners of the LGBT religion. MAGA does not want to be taxed to pay for thengs we don’t believe in and are even extremely opposed to.

The best the left can hope for is to minimize MAGA enthusiasm, because no one who supports MAGA is switching sides to join the mentally ill and morally corrupt left.

I believe marijuana should be treated similarly to alcohol.

I do not support recreational abuse of either (i.e. getting high or drunk), but I think adults should have more autonomy to decide whether to use either.

Prohibition of alcohol did not work, except in one area—access to it by minors. Legalizing marijuana will have the negative impact of more minors gaining access to it. This is a bad time for them to be expirimenting with brain altering chemicals.

So, other changes in society are needed beyond mere legislation on one issue. We need a society that values individual responsibility, family values including parental authoiry, and other faith-centered values that made this nation strong.

TX is usually for Texas, but here it is a mundane preposition. Can you guess it?

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try agaIN.

In both cases the buses were not electric.

But both may have been electrical fires related to the heaters on the buses.

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“Venezuela [made an] unmistakable display of military force... [as] thousands of soldiers stood in formation.”

Thousands?

Might as well have stayed home. This looks even weaker than staying home.

LOL. I totally forgot that ad.

Of course Omar is quick to point out the founder who was charged is “Caucasian”. How about the other 77 who were charged?

78 individuals have been charged in the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme, a $250 million scam during the COVID-19 pandemic where the Minnesota nonprofit, led by Aimee Bock, approved fake meal sites that claimed to serve millions of meals to children but delivered almost none, with funds laundered through shell companies, bribes to employees like Abdikerm Abdelahi Eidleh, and luxuries by operators such as Salim Ahmed Said (Safari Restaurant), Abdiaziz Shafii Farah (Empire Cuisine), and Qamar Ahmed Hassan (S&S Catering). Connections involved sponsorship approvals, family/business ties among Somali-American defendants, and vendor networks submitting phony invoices. Over 50 have pled guilty, with Bock and others convicted at trial as of late 2025.​

Sources:

U.S. Department of Justice: https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/78th-defendant-charged-feeding-our-future-fraud-scheme​

IRS Criminal Investigation: https://www.irs.gov/compliance/criminal-investigation/77th-defendant-charged-in-feeding-our-future-fraud-scheme​

“Lazy”

Yeah. So were people who made books using moveable type. And so were people who replaced that with laser and jet ink printing. And so were those who went from physical to digital documents. All just lazy.