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 Chris Farley was born and raised in Madison, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) from Waterloo, where Trek is based. 
  
 The Wisconsin State Journal reported Tuesday that the lawsuit originated in California last year but a judge on Friday ordered that it be heard instead in federal court in Madison because it's closer to all of the parties involved. 
  
 Make Him Smile, a company founded and run by Farley's family to protect his publicity and property rights, said damages could exceed $10 million. Trek said any damages sought were purely speculative. 
  
 Trek has responded that much of the case rests on whether Farley was a resident of California at the time of his death, making his name and image subject to a California law that governs deceased celebrities' right of publicity. Trek's lawyers argue that Farley was a resident of Illinois when he died in 1997 in Chicago from a drug overdose. 
  
 Farley graduated from high school in Madison and Marquette University in Milwaukee before going on to star on Saturday Night Live and in several hit movies, including "Tommy Boy" and "Black Sheep." 
  
 He weighed about 400 pounds (180 kilograms), the lawsuit states, having "spent his entire career building, then capitalizing on, his unique brand of 'fat guy' humor and acting style." 
  
 The lawsuit alleges that Farley "carefully guarded and policed his brand," rejecting overtures from companies he felt did not warrant it, and even feared that losing weight would jeopardize his brand as a comedian. 
  
 The lawsuit alleges Trek chose the name Farley "to immediately associate defendant Trek's fat bikes with one of their favorite 'fat' and 'loud' comedians," and the company's executives knew what they were doing when they made the decision. |||||
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Shorter version: – The family of late comedian and film star Chris Farley has filed a federal lawsuit against Trek Bicycle for naming its fat-tired bikes "Farley," saying the Wisconsin-based bike company misappropriated Farley's name and traded on his "fat guy" brand of comedy, the AP reports. Farley, who starred on Saturday Night Live and in hit films including Tommy Boy and Black Sheep, weighed about 400 pounds, per the lawsuit, and "spent his entire career building, then capitalizing on, his unique brand of 'fat guy' humor and acting style." The suit says Farley "carefully guarded and policed his brand," rejecting overtures from firms he felt didn't warrant it, and even feared losing weight would jeopardize his brand as a comedian. The complaint alleges Trek chose the name Farley "to immediately associate defendant Trek's fat bikes with one of their favorite 'fat' and 'loud' comedians." Chris Farley was born and raised in Madison, Wis., about 30 miles from Trek's home base in Waterloo. He graduated from Milwaukee's Marquette University. The Wisconsin State Journal reported Tuesday the suit originated in California last year, but a judge on Friday ordered it be heard instead in federal court in Madison because it's closer to all involved parties. Trek has responded that much of the case rests on whether Farley was a resident of California when he died, making his name and image subject to a state law that governs deceased celebrities' right of publicity. Trek's lawyers argue Farley was an Illinois resident when he died in 1997 in Chicago from a drug overdose. Make Him Smile, a company founded and run by Farley's family to protect his publicity and property rights, said damages could exceed $10 million. Trek said any damages sought were purely speculative.


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In her latest syndicated column, conservative author Ann Coulter joked about murdering Sen. John McCain‘s daughter Meghan, launching herself into yet another war of words with the senatorial daughter and her mother. 
  
 “MSNBC’s Martin Bashir suggested that Republican senators need to have a member of their families killed for them to support the Democrats’ gun proposals. (Let’s start with Meghan McCain!),” she wrote in a column entitled “Liberals Go Crazy For The Mentally Ill.” 
  
 Once McCain caught wind of the column, she expressed her disgust with Coulter: “Apparently Ann Coulter made a joke about me being killed in a recent column. I should expect nothing less but disgusted regardless,” she tweeted, later adding: “My father is a very famous politician. My family gets a lot of threats. Joking about me being killed really isn’t funny or appropriate.” 
  
 Her mother, Cindy McCain, took to Twitter to lambast the conservative columnist as “incredible despicable, crazy, and sick.” She also wrote: “Ann Coulter needs to get a life!” and “Ann Coulter, have one of your family members threatened. See how you feel!” 
  
 The two have had their share of public spats ever since McCain wrote a lengthy Daily Beast column decrying the author as a “disaster” for the Republican Party. 
  
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 >> Follow Andrew Kirell (@AndrewKirell) on Twitter ||||| “But Congressman,” Bashir said, “is that what needs to happen to move these senators to stop threatening a filibuster? Is that really what needs to happen? That you need to have a member of your family killed in order for you to do what the American people want you to do?” 
  
 “I hope not,” Rep. Cummings replied. “I don’t wish this pain on anybody.” ||||| Obama has been draping himself in families of the children murdered in Newtown. 
  
  
  
 MSNBC's Martin Bashir suggested that Republican senators need to have a member of their families killed for them to support the Democrats' gun proposals. (Let's start with Meghan McCain!) 
  
  
  
 In a bizarre version of "A Christmas Carol," CNN's Carol Costello fantasized about "a mother who lost her child," showing up and knocking on Sen. Rand Paul's door, saying, "Please don't do this!" 
  
  
  
 The victims of gun violence are the left's latest "human shields" -- a term coined by me in Godless: The Church of Liberalism 
  
 -- for their idiotic ideas. At least it's not the godawful Jersey Girls this time. 
  
  
  
 The one clear thread that unites all the mass murders currently being exploited by the Democrats is that they were committed by visibly crazy people who were unaccountably not institutionalized. But Democrats refuse to do anything about crazy people. Apparently, the views of families with relatives murdered by severely disturbed individuals are no longer relevant when it comes to institutionalizing the mentally ill. 
  
  
  
 If liberals had a decent argument for taking guns away from the law-abiding while doing nothing to prevent schizophrenics from getting guns, they'd make it. Manifestly, they don't, so they send out victims to make the argument for them, knowing no one will argue with a person whose child has just been murdered. 
  
  
  
 This allows liberals to act as if Republicans' only counter-argument to their idiotic gun control proposals is: We don't mind dead children. |||||
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– There's no love lost between Ann Coulter and Meghan McCain, but this may be their biggest spat yet. It all started with Coulter's latest column, which focused on gun control, Mediaite reports. Coulter wrote: "MSNBC’s Martin Bashir suggested that Republican senators need to have a member of their families killed for them to support the Democrats’ gun proposals. (Let’s start with Meghan McCain!)" Needless to say, this did not sit well with the McCain family. "My father is a very famous politician. My family gets a lot of threats. Joking about me being killed really isn’t funny or appropriate," McCain tweeted, adding that she was "disgusted" even though she "should expect nothing less" from Coulter. McCain's mom Cindy also chimed in on Twitter, calling Coulter "despicable," "crazy," and "sick." Salon notes that Fox News removed the offending Coulter column from its site after the brouhaha erupted.