Our share of the settlement? The opportunity to purchase at a discount an annuity from the same company. As far as we know, that's all that any members of the class received. Not being at the point of life where we buy annuities and having other, more attractive options for our modest retirement funds, we didn't take up the offer, as was the case with the vast majority of beneficiaries of the settlement.
Except for the lawyers. Their share of the settlement was millions of actual American dollars. They all accepted the terms of their part of the settlement.
That's what makes class action lawyers so admirable: the work so hard for the benefit of . . . (we'd finish the sentence but all endings, straight or sarcastic, are just too obvious).
Well, even among class-action firms, there are those who are more corrupt than the norm. Such is Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman LLP, indicted last week for fraud connected to its filing of various suits.
That's enough to motivate our comment. But here's the kicker: Milberg Weiss has been an extraordinarily generous contributor to political campaigns, disproportionately of the Democrat persuasion.
This on top of the William Jefferson* scandal makes this a very bad day for the Ds, who now have to return all the yard signs that they'd printed with the slogan, "Cast Your Vote Against Corruption."
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*Congressman Jefferson, in the best style of his party, is refusing to resign despite the fact that his accepting of $100k in bribes was captured on videotape. Yet we know that a mere audiorecording of a confession to one's wife is sufficient to get federal marshals to arrest the President of the United States. Doesn't Jefferson
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The media likes a story, even if it for a time dashes their predominant political hopes. This is a story, as were Wright and Rostenkowski and other notably corrupt Ds.
And if your media zombies are as you describe, how did Bush get elected?
Oh, right. He stole the election.
Um, Fiona, sometimes we are joking. We give you permission to laugh. We kinda guessed that you didn't think Bush stole the election.
If our blog frustrates you, don't read it. Life is frustrating enough. We blog for our own amusement. If you're frustrated, there's at least one other blog out there.
As to who attributes to whom what who didn't say, getting Michael Moore to post a comment here is not high on our list of life goals.
Once more to clarify what we thought was obvious: Jefferson's seat in LA is of course secure for him thanks to "zombies" that you describe, if Jefferson is not convicted or thrown out by a vote of the House. But the posting goes to the question of the Ds nationalizing the issue of corruption to use agasint all Rs. They'll need more than their armies of the living dead to do that, and they just lost an issue that might have helped them.
Nice analogy at the end of the post, by the way. Certainly more artful than a "greenhouse." We don't think that it in any way invalidates anything that you expressed.
Considering the continual practice of dead people in voting Democratic in Chicago and St. Louis, I find that the analogy of "the living dead" in support if the Democratic party quite funny indeed.
Well, that's just the point, isn't it? The Democrats' campaigning against reality hasn't worked really well in the last generation, except with an ace prevaricator at the top of the ticket ("You can fool some of the people ..."), and even he lost control of the Congress after two generations of near-continuous Democrat control. So just when they think they've got an issue, reality once again interferes.
We point this out because as SWNID we stand against the rush of pundits and hand-wringers who predict the collapse of the conservative majority in our republic. That is all.
So why so shrill when you actually agree with our manifest wisdom?
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