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- AngryDeuce, on 10/16/2009, -20/+1326Al Franken, I ***** love you.
- scottpigeon, on 10/17/2009, -10/+711Al Franken has a good future ahead of him. He hit the ground running as a freshman, and I hope he doesn't stop. If Norm Coleman had beaten him in the election, would anyone be standing up on this issue?
- ferret15, on 10/17/2009, -6/+481Wow. Just Wow. And to think Franken was almost defeated in the senate race.
- Bartboy919, on 10/17/2009, -15/+394Best senator in the senate?
Id say he and Sanders are right up there. - RagManX, on 10/17/2009, -7/+383Congratulations. Most clueless diggers don't manage to get into a topic this early while simultaneously making this big a fool of themselves. You should be revered among your kind for the great content of wrong within two lines of text.
- geoken, on 10/17/2009, -6/+359Flawless Victory + Fatality.
- rusty0101, on 10/16/2009, -13/+358A statistic quoted by the attorney representing KBR is that 99.999% of all incidents arbitrated do not consist of factors of this nature. If 'other women' (presumably 3 or more) have come forward with similar stories, that suggests that KBR has required binding arbitration on over 300,000 incidents in the time frame. Given a theoretical 10 year block of time, that turns into about 100 binding arbitration events per day.
I would be very surprised if the US Military had an average of over 100 cases of non-judicial and judicial proceedings and decisions a day. Of those non-judicial proceedings are significantly more likely to be considered similar to binding arbitration. Additionally NJD is offered as an alternative to Judicial proceedings, not required and a judicial hearing having to be fought for.
I don't think KBR is anywhere near the size of the combined forces of the US Military, which suggests that arbitration hearings are happening far more frequently than they need to be.
Yes, I'm playing fast and loose with these numbers. In the vast majority of situations where binding arbitration does apply, Situations such as what was experienced by Ms. Jones would have been covered under civil and criminal statutes, and this would _not_ have even been considered for binding arbitration. If that 99.999% statistic quoted is meant to mean all binding arbitration applied in all situations, including for example the contract you may have agreed to with your cell phone, exactly how many situations of one in 100,000 does this suggest are this severe, or worse.
The use of statistics in this case is vastly misleading in both extremes, and it should have been recognized immediately by the lawyers involved that a situation of this nature does not fall within contract law, and should not have been handled by a binding arbitration.
And yes I'm very familiar with the concept of hiring lawyers not to tell a company what they can and can not do, but to tell the company how they can do whatever the hell they want to. - BlueDjinn, on 10/16/2009, -18/+340Direct link to the YouTube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6kiZIlMFto - seantubridy, on 10/17/2009, -3/+288"She has not had her day in court, sir."
Franken was saying "sir" but he was thinking "you filthy piece of slimy *****". - Infinitas, on 10/17/2009, -4/+279Perhaps more comedians should be politicians. They seem to "keep it real."
- WraTH017, on 10/17/2009, -7/+279BillyBlue96 supports gang rape.
- pyrobaby, on 10/17/2009, -6/+238How exactly did you get that he had no understanding of this, oh wise and all-knowing BillyBlue96 who has probably never even seen any of Al Franken's work before this, either? DUR STUART SAVES HIS FAMILY I LIKE RAEP
I'm sick of you knee-jerk idiots that would rather support a corporation's right to quietly gang-rape their employees and stuff them in boxes than ever side with a liberal. - inactive, on 10/17/2009, -6/+237For all the anti-Franken people out there still making "comedian" jokes about the man.
Can any of you idiots do this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0-FYyuvrRk&fea ...
He's probably one of the best we have in Washington, and we need more like him there.
BTW: He graduated from Harvard with Honors - ObamaYouth, on 10/17/2009, -14/+240I didn't know rape was legal. shame on those republican legislators who refuse to criminalize rape.
- kahoona1, on 10/17/2009, -7/+232Holy *****, that was ruthless.
- Maynza, on 10/17/2009, -7/+224This is one of those times when 'ANNIHILATES' in the title is appropriate.
- teebird, on 10/17/2009, -0/+197Seems I recall Franken being dismissed as "just a comedian" by some of the bigger mouths in the GOP.
Not bad for "just a comedian." - its420somewhere, on 10/17/2009, -4/+189How is it that a corporation can arbitrate law? This is crazy!
- geoken, on 10/17/2009, -4/+180Yeah, Franken has no understanding of this. The guy who had made up stats and choked on his own tongue when he was presented with the obvious deficiencies/outright lies in those stats is the guy who knows what's going on, we should just shut up and trust what he thinks.
- Narsilianshard, on 10/17/2009, -6/+176If Franken is this good, just imagine what a revolutionary politician Jon Stewart would be.
- robertrulez, on 10/17/2009, -3/+158ALL I SEE IS OWNAGE
- lukeadams, on 10/17/2009, -12/+166A Senator that cares more about an average citizen than a corporation? What is this country coming to? /end sarcasm
That lawyer and the 30 republican "pro-rape" senators (they don't deserve a capital 'S') should resign in disgrace!
At least they aren't as bad as Sarah Palin. They didn't make the victim pay for the cost of the rape kit! - kahoona1, on 10/17/2009, -4/+156What are you, 12?
- DeskFlyer, on 10/17/2009, -29/+173Who's the hottie in the background?
- rusty0101, on 10/17/2009, -0/+137To summarize -
KBR, You're attorney is using statistics to defend you. Statistics are not your friend in this case. - footbag01, on 10/17/2009, -4/+140IMO he makes a better Senator then a comedian.
- bjornski, on 10/17/2009, -0/+132I'm proud to say I got to vote for him. :)
Keep kicking ass, Al!
/who said he wasn't any better than Coleman again? - Subduction, on 10/17/2009, -0/+129Excuse me, but rape is simply a "dispute" that any two reasonable people/corporations can work out without involving the courts.
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Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) - TheGroje, on 10/17/2009, -8/+131You know... I'm thinking Wellstone would approve...
- noahgelman, on 10/17/2009, -4/+123What the ***** are you talking about?
- Joker99352, on 10/17/2009, -4/+107I think I have a new favorite Senator.
- Iamien, on 10/17/2009, -0/+100Yes or no answers keep the conversation about facts and less about *****. Must be why every lawyer uses them with a hostile witness.
- PattySoandSo, on 10/17/2009, -14/+112I truly love the posts above. In addition to the fact that in the Senate, Franken rocks, and in the House Grayson kicks ass, and those that have posted above communicate just that -- but I also really love the fact that for some reason the trolls have steered clear. Normally, some right-wing crackpot nutcase who's too stupid to find his own arse if it was under his nose would be posting stuff like, "just you wait, you bunch of commie left-wing socialist neo-nazi (they always get their political ideologies all screwed up, if anyone's notice as have I), you just wait until 2010 when we ahhh, when we lose a bunch MORE seats in the House as we have for two congressional elections running, and lose even more Senate seats than our pitiful 40 seat minority in the Senate that only Harry Reid is afraid of. And don't forget 2012 -- we're coming for you in all our teabag glory!"
- MWeather, on 10/17/2009, -3/+100I like how you defend rapists. Nice work there bro.
- ugacrew, on 10/17/2009, -1/+97I wish I could digg this statement 100 times over given how I feel about the situation.
- ProfessorRiffs, on 10/17/2009, -1/+96Dude.. just *****'... seriously already.
- Megalomatthew, on 10/17/2009, -1/+93"He needs to learn to shut his ***** mouth and leave things alone that he has no understanding of."
I think YOU need to take your own advice.
Added: Go ***** yourself. - TrevorBelmont, on 10/17/2009, -1/+90The Senate does not exist to entertain you.
- MarineOnDope, on 10/17/2009, -3/+91Senator Franken is a ***** hypocrite. He makes all this noise about wanting to end rape and other crap like that, and then video footage is released showing him mercilessly raping an attorney.
- iamorangehat, on 10/17/2009, -4/+88It makes you wish you lived in his state so you could vote for him.
- fuzzynyanko, on 10/17/2009, -6/+89Because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and, doggonit, I just kicked your ass.
- AManWithNoName, on 10/17/2009, -1/+84BillyBlue96 was a ***** digger and and now a worse commenter. He needs to stick with something he's good at if he ever finds it. He needs to learn to shut his ***** mouth and leave things alone that he has no understanding of.
- pinstripewizard, on 10/17/2009, -7/+89BillyBlue96 gang raped and murdered a girl in 1990.
- TrevorBelmont, on 10/17/2009, -3/+81A comment that is so wrong minded that even the commenter couldn't Digg it. (0/-57, at the time of this posting).
- beakerbite, on 10/17/2009, -0/+77That's the only way to deal with heartless corporations.
- ggggbabybabybab, on 10/17/2009, -4/+79Al Franken has definitely been a beast lately, always knows how to tear apart the walls of ***** people throw up.
- drouk1556, on 10/17/2009, -6/+80It's a rape case, you insensitive bastard.
- smacksaw, on 10/17/2009, -1/+75I know...you watch Al and think about Norm Coleman and it's like getting a brand-new iPhone with a bunch of apps and it's replacing your old suitcase cellular. You have to wonder "what the *****" when you realise the difference.
- concusion, on 10/17/2009, -7/+81Haha how can anyone go against Franken in this case? It just goes to show you Republicans will do anything to be the opposition, and that includes being the scum of the earth. Thank god their a few good ones left like Ron Paul but damn..
- Syric, on 10/17/2009, -0/+72Are you Norm Coleman, by any chance? Because I'm pretty sure Coleman was the only person still complaining about the outcome.
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