Scum of the Earth: John Edwards and the Trial Lawyers

Nice edit, Jorge. I see that, even after Will called you out, you're continuing the silly tactic of intentionally misleading by willful omission.

Of course you know very well I was only mocking StupidMoniker's posting of the Communist flag to once again fling poo at advocates of national health care. I'm not like you guys. Pretty much all my fouls are retaliatory and you know that too.

You used to be half good at this stuff. Did you suffer a concussion or something? I seriously don't understand what's going on with you.

 

There are many examples of trial lawyers reaping millions in questionnable cases.

There are, I would suspect, just as many cases where corporations have done some very bad things either intentionally or through unacceptable negligence, many of which have led to harm and even death of innocent thrid parties. Many (if not most instances) cannot even make it to trial for lack of evidence.

Both sides are in the 'right' in some cases and wrong in others. To make one-sided comments about these necessary checks-and-balances reflects a bias that renders one an ignoramus.

 

Wow, it's a real trip to scan through this thread and only see the responses to Trader_J and quotes of TJ. It's really kinda fun, although I can see how R2K would get bent out of shape by people quoting Yetti... "I'm trying not to read this crap and you keep quoting him!!"

Trippy indeed.

 

Um, no you weren't. You were about as vindicated in that thread as you were successful in all those threads where you lost and claimed victory. And, as in those threads, saner heads got bored with arguing with a crazy person.

No, I'm not denying it. I do assert though that I don't like doing it, I regret when I take the bait from you and others and I'd much prefer a less adverserial forum to discuss these issues. Only a few of the differences between the two of us.

 

So you would prefer to make it less adversarial by removing your opponent? Niiiiice....

And you are the poor victim that gets baited whereas the opponent is always the bad guy?

 

Jackie:

I guess I ought to go ahead and take you off ignore. You're the only one on the list and you post so much about me I go ahead and read your stuff half the time anyway. I'm not a victim. No one here is. But I will say it's a little more difficult to have sincere discussions of the issues we talk about here when people like Jorge and you follow people around needling them. Your obsession with MacBeth borders on stalking and Jorge's reliable antagonism make it difficult for anyone to the right of Christ to behave well in here. If you don't think I try to, you're not paying attention. I don't regret flinging poo at you or Jorge or bama (though we've recently agreed to try and play nice), just because, well, when in Rome... I do regret the spats I've had with basso and giddyup and Refman and a few others. I take full blame for my part in those and I'll do my level best not to repeat them. Meanwhile, on the other side, you've got a guy who proudly trumpets his ability to pick a fight by calling it psychological warfare. It's not even close.

 

Curiosity always got the best of me, too . That's why I stopped putting people on the ignore list.

I just think that you think you are a better person because you believe your views to represent the "good" side. Therefore you talk like you can argue from some higher moral ground. That is a kind of arrogance that you might not even be aware of.

It's the same mindset when you say "these guys are bad (T_J, me, whoever), so my flinging poo at them is justified." You don't realize that that makes you a hypocrit in that context.

Plus, I think "poor" MacBeth can speak for himself (even though he seemed to enjoy the little pity party you threw for him recently) .

 

Jackie:

There are issues on which I do feel a moral superiority. They are racism, sexism and other bigotry. If that makes me arrogant, then I am. On other issues (abortion, affirmative action, the economy, taxes, the deficit, the environment, education, separation of church and state) I respect the differences of opinion and can appreciate a sincere difference of opinion when it's expressed respectfully. When I fail to be respectful I am not proud of that (like some are); I regret it. And I usually try to come to an understanding with the poster I argued with. There are others who don't and, when it comes to flinging poo, in that way I do feel like a superior poster to someone who is proud of getting a rise out of other people and never once has sought understanding with them. If that makes me arrogant, so be it.

As for the MacBeth thing, I wasn't pitying him. He can handle himself and anyway I don't pity anyone on a message board. It wasn't pity -- it was just that your weird obsession was getting annoying. I was standing up for my preference not to read the same boring digs over and over again, especially when he never even fought back -- not for anything to do with him.

 

Mea culpa, Conquistador. Far be it from an angry lunatic fringe liberal like myself to derail a thread devoted to proving a vice presidential candidate's the scum of the earth. Keep preaching, brother.

 

And by the way, I would like to express my disagreement with all this lawyer-bashing .

 

Take your logical and levelheaded argument and shove it

 

The only lawyers I really despise are the those who pursue Shareholder Class Action Lawsuits. The majority of those cases are ridiculous and only benefit the attorneys.

 

Among the worst of the worst.

 

I don't know which is more hilarious:

(1) the pathetic existence of this thread.*
(2) the continued, non-locked existence of this thread.

It's sort of like watching teletubbies. You're all like "WTF! How could anybody watch this" and then you're all like getting comfy there in front of the tele, tubby.

(* it does not even merit a response. But maybe we can elicit another bizarro post and marvel further that the thread is unlocked. Anyone want to talk about the impact of OIL EXECUTIVES and DEFENSE CONTRACTERS on the planet and the human race in particular? Oh my! Let's see trial lawyers "victimize" (sic) incredibly wealthy corporate entities, while OIL EXECUTIVES victimize people who enjoy breathing air and DEFENSE CONTRACTORS provide weapons that rend people into tiny dead pieces of organic matter. ******* trial lawyers! Yea!)

KC, keep them coming -- er, bring them on!

 

Here's a few more trial lawyers...Maybe one day I can be half as bad as these other scum bag lawyers...



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