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Disclaimer: I am a Canadian and my husband spends a fair amount of time down south for work.

Will the board allow them to bring crisis/grief counselors into the school for these kids? Because Jesus Christ they’re going to need them.

I was holding it together until this. Fuck.

Comment from my bestie on my outraged FB post this morning:

She sounds incredible. I find her especially badass and inspiring since I wanted to be a park ranger when I was a little girl. I’ve gone a different way, but if Betty could start when she was 85 and now in her 90s experience such a shitty thing and be ready to get back to work anyway... goddamn, Betty’s my new hero.

Someone on the main page is criticizing her for attending and I'm thinking you'd be crazy not to go just for this reason. So much fun to be had! And you get the inside dirt. And there must be alcohol. When I was working I got invites to political parties for people I reeeeeally didn't agree with. I always went. You…

The judge threw it out. And in the normal sense of the word it was groundless. They wanted a level of security that isn’t normal in public places.

So if someone came into your house and gunned down a guest, and then the family of your guest sued you for not hiring armed guards for your house, you’d go bankrupt rather than do anything to defend yourself? You’d accept the loss of all your money, your home, a good chunk of your prospects for retirement because…

They only owe because they chose to sue and lost. It's pretty standard that the losing party in a lawsuit may be financially responsible for the winners court costs (at least some states adjust it lower based on things like ability to pay and such).

But it was totally ok to file a groundless lawsuit?

They’re not demanding the victim’s families pay the legal cost. They’re demanding the people who initiated an unreasonable lawsuit against them pay the cost of that lawsuit.

Then maybe they shouldnt have tried to cash in on the deaths of their family members?

So they make money and therefore it’s okay to sue them for something they’re not responsible for, threaten to appeal and keep suing them when your case gets dismissed, and expect them to shoulder all the legal fees?

Doesn’t this figure represent the cost to the theater of those families pursuing legal action against them even though they did nothing wrong? I feel like I’m mostly OK with this, depending on how aggressively they seek payment. Anyone who jumped on board trying to get a payout or place blame on what amounts to an…

In Grade 1 and 2 there was a kid named Patrick in my class, and every morning when we sang the anthem, I would wonder why Patrick was being singled out for truer love than the rest of us..... True Patrick love :)

We’ve just gone through it with our anthem in Canada. They voted to change “in all thy sons command” so it's gender neutral. Oh, the freak outs. Meanwhile the anthem we sing now is nothing like the original and the original was gender neutral. But outrage, etc.!

“I’m not crying YOU ARE”

If myself and 5 other people named Caroline had a business for years, and our titles were “Sales Caroline” and “Marketing Caroline” and “Operations Caroline” but our names being Caroline had nothing to do with the business we were doing, and we hired a Katie, I don’t think it’s cry-baby PC trigger Obama culture to say…

Is Larry a British breed? Otherwise, he’s just another worker crossing borders for economic gains. (Just like the British from about 1583-1997.)