A grieving father won a nearly $11 million verdict Wednesday against a fundamentalist Kansas church that pickets military funerals in the belief that the war in Iraq is a punishment for the nation’s tolerance of homosexuality.
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The jury first awarded $2.9 million in compensatory damages. It returned later in the afternoon with its decision to award $6 million in punitive damages for invasion of privacy and $2 million for causing emotional distress.
But you know this stupid fuck has no money. He may end doing the same thing that ‘Rev’ Butler had to do when a judgement was won against the Aryan Nations . . . . . the plantiffs in that victory got the physical/land property of the Aryan Nations because the judgement exceeded the value of the defendants.
The S-CHIP veto override failed in the House – those two democrats who voted for upholding that veto better might want to start planning for new careers.
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However…… there are some other amusing tidbits lying around –
Sam Brownback is dropping out of the wingnutReThuglican GOP presidential race.
Fred Phelps is chumming his way into Fred Thompson’s camp. Ya know, I don’t even like Thompson on ‘Law & Order.’
And then there’s this defense that I think Larry Craig should look into. . . . . pretending. . . . .
(Monsignor) Stenico has since denied he is gay and has claimed he was only pretending in order to gather information about people he believes are involved in a Satanic plot to discredit the church by seducing priests into homosexuality