So you’re saying that he did vote yes, jamoke? Even though the bills were assured passage? Sounds like compromising your ideals for political expediency to me.

Oh, I don’t think you’re right about that at all. The punitive effect alone was worth a good bit. As your source indicates, smoking levels dropped (some of it being pre-MSA, doesn’t de-value the post-MSA stuff, smarty), and those warnings on the packages?

That’s too bad. It was a thing of beauty.

Reagan, like some of his predecessors, had Billy Graham as an adviser, and made many, many references to God, assumedly a Christian God, in speeches. This doesn’t make him religious, but it doesn’t make him atheist, either.

Well now you’re arguing the merits of the case. The point is, they got an UNPRECEDENTED (except for the f’ing railroads) exemption from tort liability. You can’t let a jury decide the merits of the case, because it’s not even allowed in court.

Ha! An obvious and long-overdue reply!

Then what’s the problem with applying the same tort rules to them that we apply to everyone else?

And they got their asses sued off for it, and paid billions in settlements. Let the gun manufacturers take the same medicine.

Can’t advertise on TV? Tell that to Henry arms. I’ve watched this ad a dozen times at least. You have a statute you want to cite?

Was about to point this out. Thank you, counselor.

And so the healing begins.....until the next Gawker clickbait hit-piece. ;]

Don’t be silly, Bernie voted to fund the war over and over like a good patriot representing a (mainly) rural state. He could have voted his conscience, the funding always passed by a HUGE majority, but he didn’t......or did he?

Where is Kristin C. when we need her?

Do you think Bernie will bring his tax returns?

My biggest problem with the adaptations, since I was a kid, was that damn grizzly bear. What the fuck was that bear doing in the jungle in the first place?

I never worried about blowing up, just shaking apart.

Limited at 90 would still give it death-trap status. I had an ‘82 caprice classic AND a late-80's/early 90's k-car. One wrong twitch on the wheel at 70+ = Mr. Toad’s wild ride.

Triple digits? Did you have a runway that you drove on? And more importantly, were you wearing a helmet? And maybe a HANS? And had some serious life insurance?

NASCAR is redneck, not southern. They race all over out west, michigan, new hampshire, indiana. Honestly, they race outside the south (and sell out- there’s rednecks all over the country) more than they race in the south.