Brain Damaged Woman at Center of Wal-Mart Suit

[Bruder Cuzzen]

I'm glad that i've spent a measly total of 6 hundred there in the ten years or so that they have been in this city .

[Swatopluk]

The Texas Attorney General is also very selective in prosecuting "voters fraud".
Help your elderly minority (=>Dem-leaning) neighbour with his/her absentee ballot? 6 month and a few thousand $$$ fine.
Hand (rich) Republicans blank ballots without checking for name, eligibility etc.? Chirping crickets.

[Sibling Chatty]

Yep.

They get picky, and they MIGHT go after me. (Disabled, not minority elderly, however.)

Our County Judge would NOT try that, and would probably stop them from prosecuting me. He's still smarting from the fact that he snubbed me at the Senior Citizen's Christmas Party (spoke to everyone but me and Mom) and on his way out the door, I very LOUDLY said, in front of the newspaper guys there to do a photo "Merry Christmas, Mr. Sutherland, even if you won't speak to me because I'm a Democrat".

He turned bright red and RAN to his car... only to be stopped by the reporter and asked WHY he did it.

The Texas Attorney General is a hack and a jerk. And he's heading for a BIG fall...along with Governor Goodhair. (Texas at large is PISSED about the Trans-Texas Corridor, and the whole Republican Party is gonna pay for it.)

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

...., and the whole Republican Party is gonna pay for it.)

'bout time.

The village idiot needs to return home to that little burg in Texas, where he belongs.

I can only imagine what it's been like these past 7-8 years, with him gone like that.

Why, it would be a peaceful place to live, actually.....

[Sibling Chatty]

I'm tellin' ya, that place "in the country" will be on the market 15 minutes before he leaves office--while they're warming up the plane to head for South America and no extradition treaty with the US. He NEVER SAW IT before he was elected, he won't be goin' back.

The pig farm--it was a pig farm, never a ranch--will become some Dallas millionaire Repub's pride and joy.

[pieces o nine]

It should be allowed to return to scrub brush -- let the scrub brush roam free, the way God intended, I always say! -- and designated as the Ofishall George W. Bush Lieberry / Nashunal Park.

Wait, if the nation's gonna park  on it, it should probly be paved over, first. Yeah, we'll do it that way.

[Swatopluk]

He should be divided evenly 

Sometimes archaic mirror punishment has its appeals:
The Divider is to be divided
The Thief of oil is to be boiled in it
The seller of poison gas is to inhale it
The justifier of waterboarding is to ride it to hell
The promoter of dogs for interrogation is to be thrown to them
The liars' tongues are to be removed
The arsonist is to be burned alive
The deregulator of food (etc.) safety is to be forcefed by its products
The drowner of NO is to be drowned (or eaten by crocodiles)
...
Alternative: Trial by ordeal:
48 hours Fallujah in orange jumpsuits without military escort
Survivors walk free.

That may be unusual but compared to the cruelty that they showd, the punishment is not excessive*

*No, that is not MY legal philosophy but one shared by many right-wingers (see the typical reaction to complaints about prisoner maltreatment in the US)

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Anything that lets the little snot die early is too mild, I think.

No, the most fitting punishment of W would be to blind him, remove his ability to speak, cripple his body, and parade him around the country, telling everyone he's a vegetable.

In reality, he'd be awake, and able the hear only, the actual unabashed comments people made of him and about him.

He'd forcibly have his nose rubbed in reality.

But, alas, this would not work on Cheny-- I think he'd enjoy what people said, regardless.  It IS attention, after all.

[pieces o nine]

Bob: were you reading Oedipus again?

[Sibling Chatty]

Back to topic:

Wal-Scum backed down.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120708739471181553.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is dropping a controversial effort to collect over $400,000 in health-care reimbursement from a former employee who is confined to a southeast Missouri nursing home since she suffered brain damage in a traffic accident.

The world's largest retailer said Tuesday in a letter to the family of Deborah Shank it will not seek to collect money the Shanks won in an injury lawsuit against a trucking company for the accident.

Wal-Mart's top executive for human resources, Pat Curran, wrote that Ms. Shank's extraordinary situation had made the company re-examine its stance. Wal-Mart has been roundly criticized in newspaper editorials, on cable news shows and by its union foes for its claim to the funds, which it made in a lawsuit upheld by a federal appeals court.

Amazing what can change when every news, cable, talk and other TV show in the US goes after them.

And when somebody points out that once her money's gone, she's on Medicaid's bill...

So Wallyworld "gets religion" after being handed its ass in public over this issue!

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Bob: were you reading Oedipus again?

Nope.  Got the idea from The Princess Bride, actually (the movie, not the book).

"To The First Pain", cries Wesley.

Prince Humperdink promptly sits in the chair.

....

So Wallyworld "gets religion" after being handed its ass in public over this issue!

About friggin' time, too.

[Swatopluk]

The idea of making them as if dead just without the benefit of actually being occured to me too (without input from no movie )
I thought about disgruntled soldiers kidnapping Rumsfeld, making him quadriplegic, cutting his vocal chords, optical nerves etc. (all by an expert surgeon and with proper anesthesia) and then dropping him in front of a hospital. Whether laving he hearing intact would increase suffering or limit it would have to be decided.
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In case of doubt put them all into the arena and let loose rogue elephants.
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Getting untoadfishy here, I admit.

[Darlica]

Getting untoadfishy here, I admit.

*Tries her guardian voice*
I was just about to say that after reading some of the later posts.
We all love a good Bush bashing now and then but this was a bit over the top at least for a place that pride it self for being tolerant, civil  and humble. I also think this thread got derailed a fair bit, it was about about walMart after all.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Let's not confuse the Evil Empire (walmart) with Satan himself...  

[Swatopluk]

Maybe Larry Flynt should dig some dirt on the whole Wal-Mart staff (I mean those leading the corporation, not the bondslaves doing the work in the shops).
And we should refer to them as Mall-Warts on a regular base.
Btw, does anybody know, whether Wal-mart is also in the "dead peasant insurance" system, so the firm does profit from employees dying?

Edit: According to a wikipedia link they did