CHUBBY
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I call on..... Newt Gingrich!
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| America's decline in economic supremacy will undermine, if not eliminate this country. | |
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| And to what do you attribute this decline? | |
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| Poor science and math education. | |
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| Do you advocate marrying one's high school math teacher, as you did? | |
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| And then serving her with divorce papers while she is in the hospital for breast cancer surgery? | |
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| Another threat is a loss of patriotism and a sense of American history. | |
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| Here's a fun American history fact. After hounding an opposition party president for years-- the greatest period of peace and prosperity in the history of this nation, by the way-- | |
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| --you had to resign as Speaker of the House because come to find out you cheated on your second wife. And your Republican successor resigned for cheating on his wife. | |
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| You say in your book another threat is these rogue dictatorships with nuclear and biological weapons. | |
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| Fanatically religious leaders, not elected by the people, who invade sovereign nations without provocation. | |
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| We've got to overhaul the civil justice system to reduce the burden of lawsuits. Like that lady who spilled hot coffee on her lap in the car and sued McDonald's for $30 million, ha ha. | |
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| Seventy-nine year old Stella Liebeck was a passenger, not a driver, and the car was stationary, not moving. She suffered third degree burns on her private parts and other areas. | |
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| McDonald's refused to settle for $20,000 for Liebeck's medical bills, forcing the case to go to court. There were at least 700 previous cases of scalding coffee incidents at McDonald's before. | |
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| Lawyers found that McDonald's served its coffee at 190 degrees f, 30-50 degrees hotter than other restaurants. The Shriner Burn Institute had warned them not to serve their coffee above 130. | |
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| The jury awarded Liebeck $160K compensatory damages and because McDonald's was guilty of "willful, reckless, malicious, or wanton conduct, applied punitive damages of $2.7 million. | |
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| The judge reduced this to less than half a million, and in the final settlement, Liebeck received much less. | |
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| And why would McDonald's serve its coffee at 190 F, you may well ask? Well, I'll tell you. Liquids expand when heated, and this enabled McDonald's to squeeze a little bit more coffee out of every pot. | |
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| And when you're selling millions of pots of coffee a year, that's a lot of coffee. McDonald's was aware of the hazard it was posing, not only to the coffee drinkers, but also kids, pets, handicapped, | |
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| but the bean counters at corporate did the math and they found it was cheaper to settle the cases that came through than it would be to make more coffee. So they kept doing it, | |
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| and they'd likely be doing it still if Stella hadn't made them stop. And that is the dictionary definition of criminal negligence. You GOPigs want to take away our right to sue, | |
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| and you can't even come up with one single example of a successful frivolous lawsuit. You'd know about liquids expanding if you'd paid attention in science class instead of banging your math teacher. | |
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--- "We're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did." Groucho Marx
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