LOL...good stuff there.

Absolutely. This is a travesty!

Wow! Although I remain a staunch advocate of laissez-faire, that also means that I don't think that government and business should get too chummy with each other, on one side or the other.

I am just teasing ;)

I meant that getting involved in the items I mentioned are very risky in the current political envronment, and one should be cognizant of that risk. I wasnt saying that getting involved in any of those things was BAD, just that there are irrational risks in this environment.

I’m all for killing (or repurposing) the lawyers. No skid marks.

Think USAA is also available to children of military peeps.

My wife or other ones?

GUT WRENCHING

SUED OR HEAVY!!

A couple of thoughts: first I am thankful I'm insured by USAA, which is available to military, active and retired. They have always been very responsive and helpful.

Second, there is a reason the law is leaning toward punishing the victims and being lenient to criminals. Lawyers don't make money off of the law abiding, whereas repeat criminal offenders provide lots of opportunities to make money. Makes me wonder sometimes if the quote from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice shouldn't be followed ("The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers".).

And wedding cakes despite having a Constitutional right to a certain belief system.

Premiums are income; claims are expenses. Profit= income minus expenses.
I only use insurance products when they are mandated, like for mortgages and car registration. I dont expect fair treatment, just that it keeps the government and the banls off my back.

In this country, stay away from guns, booze, drugs, children, and wives - and have a life with minimal governmental hassles.

Except for the really crooked ones like Hillary and the FBI gang

Horrible! Note to self: Never own a gun shop. Owning a bakery can only get me sued.

Oh, good gracious gawd! EEEEK!
That right wing homicidal wacko reported that he customized his stolen pickup with a GUN STORAGE CABINET!
For that this gun loving Nazi must be PUNISHED!!!!
PUNISHED FOR OWNING GUNS!!!!!

This is what we've come to in America. Throw the victims in prison. Terrible...

Your friend's case is 'Typical Texas Justice' in my estimation. A little friend of mine, got 99 years for an accident termed 'Vehicular Homicide'. The blood tests were lost, Walmart lost the accident photos, and the investigating officer had been with the police there 27 years and only had a Basic Certification! It's been reduced to 66 years now! He is 60! The judge should have refused himself for a 'Conflict of Interest' big time!

Exactly! Force fed, force, force, force...

I have to admit, I'm Gulching California. The more stupid things they do, and ruin the place, the better chance the rest of the country has to see the error and go the other way. I'd rather not have to Gulch entirely, since I don't have the Engine of the World.

Also...here you have the government forcing you to buy a product (in this case, the related auto liability). Then, if things don't go as the vendor likes you are a criminal. Not unlike Obamacare. Nice. LOL!

I have a theory. We are heading towards throwing the victims of crimes in jail as a method of fighting crime. I first heard either Rush Limbaugh or Michael Savage joke about this over a decade ago and the thought, obviously, stuck in my craw. Now, in California we have neutered the police in their attempts to use necessary force (something I'm not a fan of, mind you - a person in a government costume using force against a citizen). In England when fathers try to rescue their daughters from groomers the fathers go to jail. Now this. Before reading this I was joking with a colleague about this concept of throwing crime victims in jail. My pickup was broken into a week ago. I didn't even call the cops. Why bother? I just threw in my golf clubs and drove to the club with my papers scattered all over the floor...

I believe you. Reading...

Jesus Christ! There is no end...

If you have a moment to read this, it's a fascinating story. The person profiled in this article is a real, in-person, friend of ours. In fact, he and my husband were in a friendly competition to purchase the gun shop that Curtis finally 'won." If my husband had purchased it, I know for a fact I'd be visiting him in prison today. Of course, Curtis's wife should not be having to visit her husband in prison today either...nor his son, who will not know him other than at a distance, when he is finally released, - I think at some point in 2021.

https://www.texasobserver.org/3002-bu...

I think Curtis' sentence has been reduced to 15 years, based on new science and the retraction of some testimony as to "what happened."

I have no doubt that if someone had died in that fire, Curtis would be on death row today. And I can tell you that without the slightest doubt, this was an accidental fire, and nothing more.

Editing to add: a good part of the sentencing was set due to the losses suffered by the insurance company that insured the shop. So, the insurance/government partnership was evident in this case, too.

I do the same all the time!