HOT COFFEE!

Why don't you start a thread on "growing wheat", and we'll follow this one about the Hot Coffee incident...

Your incessant recorded messages about the SCOTUS decisions as contrasted with your infantile "original intent" Founding-Fathers bullsh*t grows tiresome.

going to watch it tonight, I will report back tomorrow,

I watched it tonight (DVR it last night) Very compelling and provides a counterpoint to the Chamber of Commerce and big corporate pr. Definitely pro plaintiff, but does not hide that bias. Several points made is that the so called tort reform simply removes responsibility for bad acts from the wrongdoing businesses and puts the cost onto the individuals and taxpayers. Also, the horrors of mandatory arbitration that most individuals don't realize apply to them in many cases.

On the McDonald's case, if you see the photos of the damage to the poor lady, you would vote for McDonalds to be punished severely, even more so than the jury did. Also, clarifies many of the erroneous "facts" bandied about by those who thought her suit was frivolous.

Definitely worth watching

A documentary is not supposed to be an unabashed propaganda film Dog. McDonald's did nothing wrong. It did not cause her injuries, her own actions were the cause. Might as well hand a plaintiff $800K for melting an article of polyester clothing to their skin when they attempt to iron the wrinkles out of the clothing while wearing it.

I do feel some sympathy for the pain she caused herself, but the law was never intended to protect you from your own actions. I'm sure that the jury was moved by the photographs, but the reality of the situation is that McDonald's didn't spill the hot coffee on her, she managed to do that all by herself. I would certainly agree that McDonald's bore some responsibility if one of their employees injured her by spilling hot coffee on her, but as that was not the case here, it seems pointless to punish a company for the irresponsible acts of a consumer.

PrintSmith wrote: A documentary is not supposed to be an unabashed propaganda film

Why don't you tell that to Palin's handlers....

Or the clowns like James O'Keefe...

Or the clowns like Michael Moore, AlGore and Ms. Saladoff..........

Good, now that we've establish that your comment about "A documentary is not supposed to be an unabashed propaganda film" is total bullsh*t, we can move on...

A documentary is supposed to be an unabashed propaganda offering? Who knew?!

Apparently you didn't....

Wow - I should have taken regressive film classes. I thought a documentary was an unfiltered look into a given topic for the purposes of preserving a historical, not a hysterical, moment.