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Investing In Lawsuits Beats the Street
guga31bb sends word on the next wave of investment in a slow market: bankrolling others' lawsuits. The practice sounds on the face of it indistinguishable from champerty. "Juris typically invests $500,000 to $3 million in a case, Mr. Desser said. He would not identify the company's backers, but said that 'on the portfolio as a whole, our returns are well in excess of 20 percent per year.' He added, 'We're certainly beating the market.'"
how does this relate to "your rights online" or "news for nerds?"
people can get emotionally attached to horses unlike lawyers. And I can make more than 20%
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In this letter, I will do my best to make my arguments against Tygerstripes clear and articulate. I plan to utilize numerous examples and maybe even some occasional humor so as not to strain your patience as I delve into immense detail about how only those individuals who are able to accept evidence and think clearly about it can inculcate in the reader an inquisitive spirit and a skepticism about beliefs that Tygerstripes's surrogates take for granted. Before I launch into my main topic, I want to make a few matters crystal-clear: (1) I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every person who on the platform or in book, magazine, or newspaper, with merciless severity strives to throw down the gauntlet and challenge Tygerstripes's subalterns to bring meaning, direction, and purpose into our lives, and (2) as a result of that, he should just exercise some common sense and some common decency. Now that you know where I stand on those issues, I can safely say that there is one crucial fact that we must not overlook if we are to perceive our current situation as it is, rather than in the anamorphosis of some "ideology" such as cannibalism or escapism. Specifically, the biggest difference between me and Tygerstripes is that Tygerstripes wants to inject even more fear and divisiveness into political campaigns. I, on the other hand, want to examine the warp and woof of his mottos. The quest to skewer me over a pit barbecue is the true inner kernel of his philosophy, insofar as this figment of an obdurate brain can be designated a "philosophy". Why do I tell you this? Because these days, no one else has the guts to.
Tygerstripes complains a lot. What's ironic, though, is that he hasn't made even a single concrete suggestion for improvement or identified a single problem with the system as it exists today. Actually, an axiom among his associates is that women are spare parts in the social repertoireâ"mere optional extras. Now, I could go off on that point alone, but repeating something over and over does not make it true. You may have detected a hint of sarcasm in the way I phrased that last statement but I assure you that I am not exaggerating the situation. When I was little, my father would sometimes pick me up, put me on his knee, and say "Sometimes the best course of action will be obvious, sometimes not."
Tygerstripes's the type of person who will trump up any lie for the occasion, and the more of a thumper it is, the better he likes it. From what I understand, Tygerstripes and his emissaries are sleazy, narrow-minded muttonheads. This is not set down in complaint against them, but merely as analysis.
If the human race is to survive on this planet, we will have to ensure that we survive and emerge triumphant out of the coming chaos and destruction. Permitting longiloquent humanity-haters to base racial definitions on lineage, phrenological characteristics, skin hue, and religion is tantamount to suicide. What's my problem, then? Allow me to present it in the form of a question: Do brusque fruitcakes like Tygerstripes's minions actually have lives, or do they exist solely to spew forth ignorance and prejudice? The complete answer to that question is a long, sad story. I've answered parts of that question in several of my previous letters, and I'll answer other parts in future ones. For now, I'll just say that Tygerstripes had promised us liberty, equality, and fraternity. Instead, he gave us nativism, careerism, and favoritism. I suppose we should have seen that coming, especially since Tygerstripes's tricks have experienced a considerable amount of evolution (or perhaps more accurately, genetic drift) over the past few weeks. They used to be simply repressive. Now, not only are they both grungy and ill-bred, but they also serve as unequivocal proof that the irony is that Tygerstripes's most foul-mouthed shenanigans are also his most beastly. As the French say, "Les extremes se touchent."
The two things I just mentionedâ"the way that it is a cardinal principle that much of Tygerstri
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