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We had Huebsch in our last house. Stuff is built like a tank. Not cheap and can be expensive if repairs are required (but they rarely are).

Really? So 17 hostages is a much smaller deal than 40? I suppose anything less than 5 would hardly be worth mentioning, then. And imagine the press getting non-pertinent facts wrong in the middle of an fluid situation, where access is highly restricted and information is spotty at best.

Ha, just saw this earlier today and thought about posting it. Friggin' scooters.:lmao:

I stand corrected. However, I would offer that when a lawyer writes "suggest" you do such-and-such, it can properly be termed a 'demand'. I'm splitting hairs, here, though. The statute you cite also makes it very clear that only the court can award damages of between two and three times the...

How EVERY story is viewed is dependent on the media slant. Newspapers stopped being newspapers years ago; they all have an agenda and write to that agenda, be it the conservative/redneck Sun or the Red Star. Personally, I think the "intellectual elitists" have largely demonized themselves. Their...

Crusading lawyers generally act within the constricts of the legal system; investigations into past patterns of dishonesty, class action suits, press conferences, working with the relevant authorities and governing bodies, and legislators to affect change. This guy did none of that. He acted...

You got that right. Again, he awarded himself the additional $8.00. He wasn't entitled to it, it's just a benchmark of what courts typically award successful plaintiffs (according to him). Each case is unique, of course, but I have my doubts that a judge would have awarded him 3X "damages" when...

And when in Ottawa, they both put in for and received the maximum housing allowance for MPs, despite sharing a single dwelling. They did like their public housing, the scamps!

It's not the law of the land. Triple the amount contested is what he (the lawyer) claims courts routinely award to the plaintiff. So he appointed himself judge and awarded himself $12.00, without any of that pesky due process or recourse for the restaurateur. And him not only a lawyer but a...

We've always had serious dogs (Shepherd, Doberman, Rottweiler, Mastiff) and always, always, always on a lead in public. And yup, it's always been some pocket-dog off-lead that approaches with aggression and the airhead owner who thinks it's cute. I would never intentionally hurt an animal...

I thought SoA became somewhat cartoonish this season; mass killings every week and law enforcement shrugs it off? And I'm sick of Jax saying he does everything for his family but meanwhile he shuffles his sons off to whatever whore/junkie is handy to babysit and hasn't said 20 words to them all...

Huh, interesting. Snopes had some more info on it. The banana thing, not redheads. http://www.snopes.com/luck/superstition/bananas.asp

The car and insurance are fixed costs; I would have them anyway. As I mentioned, we are able to have some flexibility in our hours, so we travel during off peak times. And yes, the 400 series highways have proven to be a lot more reliable than the GO train. I have taken the train for over 10...

Yup, it is, but the plan is that it's relatively short term, in that my wife can retire within a couple years and I can follow suit shortly thereafter. I'm fortunate with my current job in that the remuneration is good and I can work from home one or two days a week. I know at least some of my...

"Live where you work" seems to have become the mantra of many, particularly the anti-car crowd, whenever the topic of commuting/transit comes up. Here's a scenario: two adults working full time in good jobs for which they have invested considerable money and effort to be qualified, two kids in...

Conrad Black - whose bombast and pomposity surpass even my own - wrote an interesting article on the subject. http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/11/29/conrad-black-giving-up-on-due-process/

Agreed, hence my stating we've turned 180 degrees. Neither model serves justice and both are agravated by the Internet lynch mobs and the mainstream media. One exists to feed the egos of those who would otherwise never be accorded attention and the other exists to make money. Ideally we would...

The presumption of guilt predates the Napoleonic Code, which in fact brought far more fairness and justice to the citizenry than they had previously enjoyed. It unified the legal code for the country and removed the privilege of station from the Church, nobility, and prominent citizens, and...

Really? Pigs? F***ing this and f***ing that? :rolleyes: From the several articles I've read, the police who arrived at the scene were not told that the gun was probably a replica, so they operated on the assumption that it was real and it was a threat. The orange cap on the end of the barrel had...