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    11/03/09

    In reply to MySpace's Future: Online Slum for Depression Refugees
    Will my next Sapartacus Guide be covering faygeleh favelas? #myspace
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    11/03/09

    In reply to MySpace's Future: Online Slum for Depression Refugees
    Is favela chic sort of like heroin chic, but with more rhythm? If so, I'm in. #myspace
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    11/03/09

    In reply to MySpace's Future: Online Slum for Depression Refugees
    We are all favelas now. #myspace
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    11/03/09

    In reply to MySpace's Future: Online Slum for Depression Refugees
    What's this future crap? MySpace has been a shantytown for the unemployed (& aesthetically impaired) for ages. #myspace
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    11/03/09

    In reply to MySpace's Future: Online Slum for Depression Refugees
    Depends. How's the MySpace feijoada? #myspace
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    Image of i'm a bottle i'm a bottle
    11/03/09

    @BadUncle: It's impossible to find farofa on Facebook. #myspace
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/31/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Biden was the most inscrutable choice, ever, for VP. Instead of "change" Obama brought out an old hack, who had trouble with both truth telling, even during the campaign, and with inserting his foot into his mouth. Oh, to know what kind of negotiation that was, to get him on the ticket---except, perhaps to allay terrified old white guys who feared a woman and a (half)black man on the ticket would bring on the apocalypse. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    apparently I am in the minority, but I love Joe Biden! I think he's like the lovable Steve Urkel of the White House. He comes in, says stupid stuff, knocks shit over, and is like "Did I do that?" Oh Joe. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Joe Biden is everything thats wrong and fucked up with congress. This dope won his seat in the Senate when he was 29 and has never had another job until being VP. He has learned about as much about how the country works from his perch in DC as Palin learned about Russia from staring at it. He is walking proof we need term limits.

    And he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Why is it that I feel compelled to defend Gawker's subject matter against the editors/writers at least once a day lately?

    Either this new crop of staff writers is utterly fucked, or the editorial direction has taken a nosedive, or both.

    Is there some negative correlation between the quality of stories and the quality of AJAX/CSS? #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: From where I'm standing, it would appear to be a positive correlation. It's a good day when I get tripped up by fewer than five unresponsive scripts, infinite waits for comments to load or what have you. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @romulus: The site gets prettier, and the content gets lamer. Just callin it as I see it. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: Oh yeah, I didn't mean to quibble. I agree that the site gets fancier all the time, but features seem to break often. I should have added before that it could well be my OS and browser causing headaches most readers don't experience. And in all fairness, I haven't been reading long enough to judge contemporary content against the past. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Not sure what point you're trying to make, Amrita... that you think Cheney's worldview makes some sense? That Cheney was initially popular, before everything he did brought his popularity rating to a low of 28%? I love it that Biden is willing to call a moron a moron. This is a ridiculous post. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Oh, and if you're trying to poke fun at Vice Prez Biden for weeping during the debate when he spoke about his first wife and baby daughter who died, well then, that's just messed up. #joebiden
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    10/31/09

    @Conchie Birdie: One might argue that it was the worst kind of political hackdom for him to bring them up expressly to show his "empathy" side and try to squeeze a tear out of his plastic-surgeryized eye slots. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    I'm absolutely NOT a supporter of ANYTHING Dick says... but, Good Lawwd, Biden, Bin Laden will always BE a part of the issue. I'm sorry, I guess if you had the prez saying this I could understand... but, uh, Joe? Nope.

    That being said, why are we posting crap from Fox News anyway - I thought we weren't supposed to take this stuff seriously?
    #joebiden
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    09/16/09

    In reply to Suicide Kicks Off Tax-Cheat Hell Week
    I'm curious whether Finn's tax obligation is actually $100 million in tax, or $100 million total after the completely effed way in which the IRS tallies their penalties, interest and compounded f*ck-you-in-the-bum accounting of taxpayer wrongdoing.

    Suicide? These Repugs really take it seriously when they say they don't want the gub'ment spending their money, don't they?
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    09/16/09

    @PaisleyPajamas: What does it matter (it does include fines, by the way)? So he dodged $50 mil or $25 mil or $70 mil? It's still him sucking money out of the country that he profited from, while the rest of us on ADP's automatic take-out-your-taxes payroll somehow pay 100% of our obligation.
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    09/16/09

    @FormerEnglishMajor: My interest was actually operating in the opposite direction than what you suggest: If he owed $100 million in unpaid tax ONLY, I grow pale and slightly nauseous to think what sort of penalties and interest this would accrue. If he were assessed those amounts in the same fashion that Joe Working Class is, his actually "amount owed" the IRS could be as high as a billion. Yeah, bullet in the head would seem like the appropriate answer in this case.
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    Image of son of spam son of spam
    09/16/09

    @PaisleyPajamas: Apparently, he was dying of cancer (renal).
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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    09/16/09

    @PaisleyPajamas: oops, sorry Paisley!

    Even better, the IRS put liens on his four (grown) sons' trust funds, because they suspect the trusts haven't been playing fair ball either. Selling your name out for a few extra mil... damn, really - can it possibly be worth it? Hard to imagine ANY of the people deciding what to do this week even having to debate this. UBS is giving up the names of its clients to US authorities in a few months, according to the settlement. Seems like a big losing bet.

    And all 4 sons went to Harvard Law - where Daddy donated tens of millions. Of money that was owed so, say, we could have a couple more childcare programs or a healthcare plan or God forbid, a lower deficit. How I hate tax cheats.
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    09/16/09

    @FormerEnglishMajor: No worries!

    These are the SAME mofos who claim working class people dodge their taxes, or don't work at all and are a drain on the government? It boggles the mind the pathological level of a sense of entitlement these f*ckers have enjoyed.
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    09/16/09

    @son of spam: Karmic return in the form of a ticking time bomb of a tumor.
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    09/16/09

    @PaisleyPajamas: I finally got the link to allow me access to the story--high traffic!
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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    09/16/09

    In reply to Suicide Kicks Off Tax-Cheat Hell Week
    Cry me a river. Not only are they crooks (hiding money offshore is just as illegal as money laundering or stealing), but they've had months to come clean. The UBS story (their advisors actively helping clients stash money offshore - which is where this all stemmed from) has been playing out the entire year.
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    Image of gabrielsong gabrielsong
    09/16/09

    @FormerEnglishMajor: & yet Insurance companies and Tyco Intl set up offshore addresses to evade taxes and are not aclled out on it?
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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    09/16/09

    @gabrielsong: Sir John Templeton moved to Bermuda to avoid taxes as well. It's wrong. You earn money in a country, you owe taxes in that country. I believe the TYC loophole has been closed. The Bermuda/insurance company one has not though I believe (will have to look up) they do have to report (though not pay) the earnings to the IRS.
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    09/16/09

    @FormerEnglishMajor: don't forget that in light of your rationale americans who work overseas pay double--both local payrol taxes in their host country, and fed tax here. that's a whole lot of wrong.
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    09/16/09

    @thatgirlinnewyork: oh that is not what I am saying. Templeton, Tyco, and the re-insurers like XL Limited are in Bermuda to avoid paying taxes, period. They are to whom I am referring (hence my posting under the Tax Cheat Hell Week). This has nothign to do with payroll tax issues with Americans working overseas. I do not even pretend to know enough about tax law to untangle that one.
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    08/22/09

    In reply to The Decline Of New York (Again)
    hmm, lucrative business ideas:
    1. cement shoe cobbler-mason
    2. money launderer-launderer
    3. pinstripe suit, pinstripe painter (nobody can afford the real thing now-think pantyhose seam crayon)
    4. Folgers sales associates-bye Starbucks
    5. organ grinder monkey trainer, I see them coming back-bye naked guitar guy or whatever
    I could go on
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