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    Steve Forbes' Desperation For Bestseller Credibility: Having Employees Expense His Book

    Nicolas Cage: Shine On, You Crazy Diamond.

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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    08/15/09

    In reply to Steve Forbes' Desperation For Bestseller Credibility: Having Employees Expense His Book
    Back in the nineties, the short megalo Gingrich drew a four million advance from Murdoch. The book was to be standard fascist drool, lists about corporate godism or something. Incidentally, on another front, unbeknownst to either of them, there was in Congress a move to allow bloated tycoons to own more and more of everything newsy in every city.

    The book bidness, it used to mean something.
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    08/15/09

    In reply to Steve Forbes' Desperation For Bestseller Credibility: Having Employees Expense His Book
    Sorry, but I only buy books from Teve Torbes. Or Lamar Alexander #2.
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    Image of gawkimo gawkimo
    08/15/09

    In reply to Steve Forbes' Desperation For Bestseller Credibility: Having Employees Expense His Book
    Let's apply Forbes' flat-tax philosophy to this book thing, shall we?

    Which scenario is more of a burden to the individual in each scenario:

    a.) Billionaire buys 1,000 copies of this shitty book for $17,160.

    or

    b.) One of Forbes' furloughed copy editors earning $37,000 buys the exact same number of books for the exact same price.

    You see? Real equality! The financial burden of these men are exactly the same!

    Flat tax rules!

    Excelsior!

    And as far as the poor copy editor making ends meet:

    CHARITY, people.

    Charity is the solution.

    For example:

    Instead of big guv-mint redistributing these books to the poor, the billionaire should have the personal freedom to donate the extra 999 copies *out of his own personal choice* to the furloughed copy editor -- who can then burn these books in his Franklin stove for heat during the winter months!
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    Image of Borromeo Borromeo
    08/15/09

    In reply to Steve Forbes' Desperation For Bestseller Credibility: Having Employees Expense His Book
    Taxpayers financing a rich man's ego-testicle delusions...what's new.
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    Gosukusan promoted this comment Edited by Borromeo at 08/15/09 1:04 PM Borromeo was starred Borromeo was unstarred
    Image of Gosukusan Gosukusan
    08/15/09

    @Borromeo:

    Does not compute
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    08/15/09

    @Borromeo: Yeah, taxpayers? What? Jesus, I hope not.
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    Image of Greasy Thumb Guzik Greasy Thumb Guzik
    08/15/09

    @Gosukusan:
    If the books are expensed, then then the cost of them is written off on Forbes. Inc taxes.
    We, the taxpayers pick up 50% of the cost & Silly Steve gives the books away as gifts for buy a subscription to his dieing & doomed mag!
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    Image of takeouteurotrash takeouteurotrash
    08/15/09

    @Greasy Thumb Guzik: If you're an accountant, I certainly hope you're not practicing.
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    Image of ChillbearLatrigue ChillbearLatrigue
    07/15/09

    In reply to Nicolas Cage: Shine On, You Crazy Diamond.
    Friends, let us not remember the broken, talentless hack that we see before us, but the Nicolas Cage of Wild At Heart, Raising Arizona and Valley Girl. The Nicolas Cage that we all knew before his rebranding as an "action hero." That's the way that he would have wanted us to think of him.
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    Image of Lizawithazee Lizawithazee
    07/16/09

    @ChillbearLatrigue: I immediately thought of him when I saw the "swimming pool" post earlier.
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    Image of Natasha VC Natasha VC
    07/16/09

    @ChillbearLatrigue:



    Truth. Let us never forget Cage's greatest moment: chasing a couple down the street and screaming "I'M A VAMPIRE!!!"
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    07/15/09

    In reply to Nicolas Cage: Shine On, You Crazy Diamond.
    Nicholas Cage sounds like none of the professors Mrs. Smitros has described from here MIT days.
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    07/15/09

    In reply to Nicolas Cage: Shine On, You Crazy Diamond.
    If The State DVD isn't #1 next week, America will make me very very sad.
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    Image of phlox✔ phlox✔
    07/15/09

    @DennyCrane: Yes! CC has been running The State every night. Plus, Michael & Michael premiers tonight.

    Little things make us happy, non?
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    Image of irishflyesq irishflyesq
    07/15/09

    In reply to Nicolas Cage: Shine On, You Crazy Diamond.
    I will console myself by imagining that those copies were bought solely for the purpose of being destroyed.
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    Image of TedSez TedSez
    07/15/09

    In reply to Nicolas Cage: Shine On, You Crazy Diamond.
    Tagline: "If you didn't hate Next, the 'Twilight Zone'-y movie in which knowing the future makes Nicolas Cage go goofy, then you might not mind Knowing, the more recent 'Twilight Zone'-y movie in which knowing the future makes Nicolas Cage go even goofier. See it now, while there's nothing on TV!"
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    Image of NinaHagen NinaHagen
    07/15/09

    @TedSez: Were you in my head while I was watching National Treasure slightly impaired on TNT? OK I was not slightly impaired but still, it's uncanny.
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    Edited by NinaHagen at 07/15/09 7:32 PM NinaHagen was starred NinaHagen was unstarred
    Image of Colonel Mustard Colonel Mustard
    07/15/09

    @TedSez: "If you're into this sort of thing, have we got the movie for YOU!"
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    Image of NinaHagen NinaHagen
    07/15/09

    In reply to Nicolas Cage: Shine On, You Crazy Diamond.
    Does he put lemon juice on a valuable document before he holds it up to a flame?
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    NinaHagen was starred NinaHagen was unstarred
    Image of phlox✔ phlox✔
    07/15/09

    @NinaHagen: No, but all (most) of his movies feel like he is personally pouring lemon juice on a fresh papercut.
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    Image of Conrad Conrad
    07/15/09

    In reply to Nicolas Cage: Shine On, You Crazy Diamond.
    I believe the correct title is actually "Bunnies in Space!" I can see your confusion.
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    Image of NinaHagen NinaHagen
    07/15/09

    @Conrad: Ha! "Put the bunny down" was totally lost in the year of hilarity that also included "Get off my plane."
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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    07/15/09

    In reply to Nicolas Cage: Shine On, You Crazy Diamond.
    Not to give anything away, but if you like disaster porn, you will be hard pressed to find a movie that can match the shear destruction featured in Knowing.
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    Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! was starred Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! was unstarred
    Image of Natasha VC Natasha VC
    07/15/09

    @Belabras:



    The airplane scene was actually impeccably done, no?
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    Image of Choire Choire
    07/15/09

    @NatashaVC: Oh the airplane scene is incredible. I had questions about the, shall we say, physics. But pretty perfect.



    Also this is one of my favorite movies ever. TRUE FACT.
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    Image of NinaHagen NinaHagen
    07/15/09

    @Choire: AHHHHHHH!
     Reply
    NinaHagen was starred NinaHagen was unstarred
    Image of NinaHagen NinaHagen
    07/15/09

    @Choire: That's not such a good AHHHHH, btw.
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    NinaHagen was starred NinaHagen was unstarred
    Image of NinaHagen NinaHagen
    07/15/09

    @Choire: The lack of basic physics in Wall-E freaked me out & I went to Sarah Lawrence.
     Reply
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    Image of SudeshnaCadish SudeshnaCadish
    07/15/09

    In reply to Nicolas Cage: Shine On, You Crazy Diamond.
    Does he look a wee bit like Max Headroom in that shot?
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    Image of Conrad Conrad
    07/15/09

    @SudeshnaCadish: He looks a bit made of wax.
     Reply
    Conrad was starred Conrad was unstarred
    Image of Natasha VC Natasha VC
    07/16/09

    @Conrad:



    It is a wax statue of him! I walked by it in Vegas. Encased in glass. I pressed my face against the glass. (I could feel him).
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