Another indication of a world gone mad!

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jimsbowies

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I was watching CNN'S "Moneyline" last night with Lou Dobbs....one article was about the fact the trial lawyers now had a new and signigicant target on their "radar scope"....the grocery manufacturers of America...specifically, those manufacturers and distributers of food products typically sold in restaurants...

More specifically, those restaurants we typically view as "fast food"...the McDonald's, KFC's, Applebees, etc. of the world....

So, why are the legal sharks swimming in the food industry's swimming pool? OKAY, PAY ATTENTION NOW.....

Because some folks eat fast food and get FAT....endangering their health.....yup, what a mind-boggling notion that if you eat high-fat, high calorie fast food....you might get FAT.....

And because of that, your life is no longer healthy and you need lot's and lot's of "greenbacks" to make you healthy...

Hey guys and gals....I'm not making this up.....

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Dobbs interviewed some lawyer who said that the fast food industry (the manufacturers and distributers) are the new "big tobacco" equivalent in this new century......and that the scuzball trial lawyers are "serious as a heart attack" about going after these big-buck fast food chains and their suppliers.

I saw someone's "signature" on this forum that said something like "guns kill people like spoons make Rosie O'Donald fat"....my apologies if I missed something there....but if one can argue that McDonalds (who publishes the caloric and fat contents) can be sued for making someone FAT....then so too can the manufacturer of knives, forks and spoons....the argument being that the manufactuer "facilitated" someone eating and ipso facto, becoming fat:barf:

Folks, we've finally lost it with absolute certainty.....

As a nation and individually, we must begin to turn our backs on those with the "entitlement" mentality....those who sue over "too hot coffee", diving boards on swimming pools, etc.....this crap has to stop......if not, then business as we know it will end in this country......and without that capital and business base....the country ends.....we won't need nuclear war or terrorists to take us down.....let's just let the trial lawyers do it quietly to us...
 
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dischord

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Yes, I recently saw an spot about lawyers who are going after casinos for knowingly enticing and addicting people to gambling (or something along those lines) -- one of the lawyers they interviewed was one of the lead guys on the tobacco suits (Boston guy? don't remember his name). He said that any "addictive" product was a potential target.

The up side is that these new targets might mean they are moving beyond gun manufacturers...not that I approve of their tactics, but it is a silver lining.
 
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rock_jock

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but it is a silver lining
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I fail to see any good in the further expansion of the trial lawyer tactic of transforming society through lawsuits rather than the legislative process. These people (and I use that word loosely) have essentially found a "loophole" in our democratic system that allows them to implement a socialist agenda without the approval of the masses. They have become undeclared royalty issuing their dictates from on high. The fact that you feel some sense of relief that we can continue to enjoy our RKBA only because they are temporarily focusing on other, more lucrative targets, shows how much we have been inculcated into an acceptance of this tactic.
 
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Tankist

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I remember hearing something about this, but it was in relation to fat kids.

I think what they were saying was that the industry should be sued for intentionally targeting a segment of population (like kids) with their advertising. Same manner in which the tobacco industry used to target teenagers.

Personally, I don't agree with this. No one forces that greasy crap they call food down anyone's throat. You eat it, you take responsibility for you expanding frontiers. I haven't touched any kind of fast food in many years, ever since I found out what's in them.

The stuff is poison, but no one make's you eat it.
 
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Cal4D4

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We seem to have bred a generation of legal system "gamers" who find cultural weaknesses to finesse into personal fortunes. Come on people, when we get fat let's not sue Barcalounger for making too comfortable of a chair.
 
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dischord

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The fact that you feel some sense of relief that we can continue to enjoy our RKBA only because they are temporarily focusing on other, more lucrative targets, shows how much we have been inculcated into an acceptance of this tactic.
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Spare me the lecture. I said I disagreed with the tactic. :rolleyes:

Just because I said it's good that they might have moved beyond guns does not mean that I'm happy about their new targets.

Think of it this way: It is OK to be happy that one friend might have gotten out of harm's way even while other friends are still under fire. Being happy for your safe friend does not mean you "accept" the bad guys actions.
 
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dischord

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Add this to the silver lining: If the gun industry has made it through their gauntlet, maybe other industries can too.

(Yeah, I know, I might be premature in saying the gun industry made it through)
 
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longeyes

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if memory serves

Didn't Someone promise us tort reform? We're still waiting.

The threat in all this shakedown activity is that it will lead to a general disrespect for the law.
 
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rock_jock

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Dischord,

I wasn't venting at you per se, but rather expressing my frustration that any of us should feel relieved by the gun industry being let off the hook. The trial lawyers are simply waiting until the political winds change, much like the Democratic Party, before they again launch against guns.
 
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dischord

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I wasn't venting at you per se
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Fair enough :)

, but rather expressing my frustration that any of us should feel relieved by the gun industry being let off the hook.
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Well, I'll repeat myself. I don't see anything wrong with being happy that A might be off the hook even while you are concerned that B and C are still targets.
 
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Ironbarr

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Say what?????

Brains (or lack thereof) cause fat. They also cause burned (whatever) from hot coffee. Some other things brains cause: 1. dead babies from (a) closed cars/high heat, (b) bathtubs, (c) car immersion. I won't go to No. 2, et al - too many to list.

Now, since brains are the culprit in so many "dastardly" (and stupid) things, lawyers would do well - and are expected - to pursue suits involving parents, grandparents, and lineage all the way back to Eden (or fish, apes, birds, bugs, or whatever) to recover for their clients damages (and for themselves, of course - fees) for inferior brain operation. They may also toss in God (or whom/whatever) for faulty engineering and lack of an established maintenance plan (preventive/corrective, etc). With a little engineering-uity, lawyers may well establish a precedent with respect to possible Creator design/manufacturing errors wherein that proverbial Pot of Gold, the one-tenth tithe, together with it's centuries of vested earnings and capital growth, are captured on behalf of thinking-challenged homo saps - er, sapiens.

(This polical correctness crap sure makes it hard to write straight-from-the-shoulder prose).

-IB
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JasonReed

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Actually I am surprised this hasn't happened earlier. For years I've been saying that if you can go after tobacco companies and gun manufacturers based on "cost to society" then why not alcohol and fast food...Americans rack up a lot more medical bills from overindulging in these things.

If there's any comfort to be taken, I'm hoping that this will finally push things too far and force some of tort reform. Kinda like when PETA came out against fishing. I was thrilled! Just made them look foolish.
 
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jimsbowies

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IronBarr

Your response is absolutely the most hilarious whilst intellectual and well-written response I think I've ever seen on a forum like this.....jolly good job there.:)
 
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Mike Irwin

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Expect to see the number of industries targeted go up, and the size of the players being pursued go down.

I predict in the next 10 years that the coal, iron/steel, oil, textiles, paper, sugar, computer hardware, etc., industries will be hit with similar suits.

And that those will simply be the tip of the iceberg.
 
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priv8ter

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The end times are NIgh!

I first heard about this topic when I was listening to Tom Lycos a few months ago. I figured he was making it up. After seeing it on MOneyline last night...

I told my wife, if this ever goes to court, and anyone makes any money off of this, I AM leaving the UNited States. Not sure where I am going, but I'm just not staying here.
 
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JasonReed

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Actually I am surprised this hasn't happened earlier. For years I've been saying that if you can go after tobacco companies and gun manufacturers based on "cost to society" then why not alcohol and fast food...Americans rack up a lot more medical bills from overindulging in these things.

If there's any comfort to be taken, I'm hoping that this will finally push things too far and force some of tort reform. Kinda like when PETA came out against fishing. I was thrilled! Just made them look foolish.
 
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