HOUSTON, Texas (AP) -- She's the wife of a renowned evangelical pastor and one of the leaders of a Houston megachurch, but Victoria Osteen is being accused of behavior that wasn't very Christian.
Opening arguments were set for Thursday in a lawsuit that accuses Victoria Osteen of assaulting Continental Airlines flight attendant Sharon Brown before the start of a 2005 flight from Houston to Vail, Colorado.
Full story:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/07/osteen ... topstories
Trial of Houston co-pastor for assaulting Continental crew
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Bob Juch
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Trial of Houston co-pastor for assaulting Continental crew
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
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themanintheseersuckersuit
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It would seem that the plaintiff's lawyers are trying to establish a new medical principle that being a PITA can be contagious.juliea344 wrote:hemorrhoids?
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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Jury finds for the defendant passenger.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,404061,00.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,404061,00.html
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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I think, after hearing tons about this, that Ms. Osteen was probably guilty of being a major bitch with a diva complex - but not of assault. Certainly not of assault warranting that kind of dough.
FWIW, I hear that this FA also attempted to sue an airport employee for assault once as well several years ago. But that could be just a rumor.
FWIW, I hear that this FA also attempted to sue an airport employee for assault once as well several years ago. But that could be just a rumor.
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Horrible Headline on that article.
She was not found "Not Guilty." She was found "Not Liable."
That doesn't even mean that she didn't contact the flight attendant in an offensive and potentially harmful manner. It could just meant that the Jury believed there was no Harm (also called Damages), and therefore no Tort.
She was not found "Not Guilty." She was found "Not Liable."
That doesn't even mean that she didn't contact the flight attendant in an offensive and potentially harmful manner. It could just meant that the Jury believed there was no Harm (also called Damages), and therefore no Tort.
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themanintheseersuckersuit
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marrymeflyfree wrote:I think, after hearing tons about this, that Ms. Osteen was probably guilty of being a major bitch with a diva complex - but not of assault. Certainly not of assault warranting that kind of dough.
FWIW, I hear that this FA also attempted to sue an airport employee for assault once as well several years ago. But that could be just a rumor.
Claudia Hall, a former Continental flight attendant, testified by video deposition that she was falsely accused by Brown of hitting and pushing her into the bathroom wall of a plane in November 1995.
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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