Gun Counter Gomer takes the high road:
Fro some, the line of what they can tolerate without retribution has been crossed. Several of my friends in the blogosphere have had enough, and have decided to try to destroy the biased media, one reporter at a time, by organizing and then deeply investigating the lives of those reporters who go beyond the pale in their biased support of Barack Obama.
I’m all for exposing the biases of reporters as this post about James V. Grimaldi of the Washington Post and his dishonest hit piece will attest, but where do you draw the line?
Is it sufficient to expose their biased work and lack of professional ethics so that it shows up prominently in a blog search, or do you engage in destroying the entire person? Do you go after their failed marriages and tax records? Do you research and then publish their sexual perversions and closely-held racial prejudices? What about their kids, their spouses, and their friends?
And if we’re willing to stoop to that level to attack their personalities, are we too distantly removed from escalating to attacks their persons? We saw an Obama supporter attack and beat up a middle-aged woman holding a McCain sign in Manhattan last week.
Do we want physical intimidation and violence to be the new political discourse?
I cannot speak for others, but I’m not willing to stoop to the level of the totalitarian left. I’m not going to destroy the private lives of private citizensmdash;even those bent on perverting public discourse—because they’ve lost all professional integrity.
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! Arise once more, O laughable Online Integrity.
But before we move on, someone really ought to have a talk with this guy:
According to his web page, Scott Thomas Beauchamp and his wife, The New Republic fact checker Elspeth Reeve, are apparently expecting a child.
The fact that they didn’t go all ‘Lindbergh baby’ on the Beauchamps shows remarkable restraint and professional integrity. Those things and the fact that nobody wanted to chip in for gas and then there was that whole who "called shotgun first" argument in the Sip ‘n Save parking lot and the "I thought you printed out the google map" confusion and… well let’s just that a major crime wave was averted.
Outside of stealing the Slim Jims at the Sip ‘n Save which was totally gangsta’…
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Is there squeezeable cheezwiz on dem crackers?
Or going crackers in a barrel.
And if we’re willing to stoop to that level to attack their personalities, are we too distantly removed from escalating to attacks their persons? We saw an a middle-aged woman holding a McCain sign in Manhattan last week.
Are those two sentences supposed to connect in any particular way?
Did someone quietly and totalitarianly glare at the woman? Did a fellow traveller demand to the unlicensed sidewalk merchants nearby that they offer to sell her a McCain hat? Did he ask the Frosts how they felt?
Times like this, I tell ya, I wish I were a totalitarian. It’s plumb hard to be a free speecher in these spectacularly ill-informed, selectively unreflective times.
Oh, and T, what was the name of that douchebag who “proved” your identity three years after you announced it? Patrick something or other? I’m sure Bob was in your corner on that fine day.
My bad. Cut and paste fubar.
I’m glad that it’s Online Integrity and not the fear that some reporter, or Maybe Stewart or Colbert would start focusing attention on the inanity of their blogs and their commenters. Integrity, yeah, that’s it.
From my cold dead fingers…
I just hope the people who faced foreclosure due to the democrat’s (intentional) errors with Fannie and Freddie (By the way… who received the 1st and 2nd largest politcal “donations” from these two special interest groups??)….
Anyhow.. I just hope the people who had to sell their homes, land and/or cars just to beat foreclosure realize that Obama’s CAPITAL GAINS TAX is going to hit them hard…
Talk about adding insult to injury!!! You lose your home or car, sell it under the value to avoid foreclosure and now Obama wants you to PAY A HIGHER capital gains tax on it!!! Talk about total BS!!!
NObama!
Wait a goddamned minute. Last week Gomer was all over the African Press International fake news about the enraged wife — whitey-hater Michelle Obama. Before that it was the idea that Ayers secretly wrote Obama’s biography and before that it was … aww fuck it, the man’s so willfully stupid he makes my uncle seem like a MENSA member.
Gomer “takes the high road,” but as I so foolishly do at times I read the comments:
“(I kicked them in the head a few times after I had them on the floor)”
“These people need to be taken down, one at a time if need be.”
“…once Barry has been burned in effigy, including monkey effigy a few hundred times we’ll be approaching par with Bush. Frankly I look forward to using my giant puppet making skills in furtherance of liberty’s cause”
To summarize: “Yes, we are very enamored of physically attacking people who think differently than we do.”
A woman was attacked by a mentally disturbed man, who apparently at no time ever mentioned being a Democrat. Their response was to unanimously support violence. The man who attacked the middle aged woman has nothing to do with the sort of political movement I am involved with. The Obama campaign has been highly enlightened in comparison to the thugs I have seen on multiple videos at McCain-Palin rallies, and really by any standard. Stay classy, Republicans!
If you lost money on the sale then you don’t have a capital gain, you have a capital loss. Don’t you?
math and spelling aren’t their strong points
What on earth are you jabbering about? Could you compress more moronic tropes into fewer words? I’m asking that in a literal way. It’s almost impressive.
You know your a wingnut when Snopes debunks your bulk email derived “wisdom” six months before you even have the chance to spread it.
For everyone else, in plain terms: Obama’s capital gains tax on housing sales starts after $500,000 household profit on the sale of a home. So, genius, if you lose money on the sale you won’t be taxed. Nor would you be taxed if you only make $450,000 on the sale (not the actual price of the house — it’s the “PROFIT”).
I’m tired. And I hate these people.
You get the feeling that there are a couple of ‘84 Firebirds sitting on flat tires on his front lawn.
I suppose if Treason in Defense of Slavery Yankee doesn’t want to resort to physical intimidation and violence, he could always out-source this work to El Malkin. She doesn’t seem to have any qualms about siccing her dogs on anyone, be it man, woman or child.
“Fro some” – is that like when someone has a really awesome afro? Like, you’d say, “wow, your hair is ‘fro-some!”
Wingnuts talking about “biased work and lack of professional ethics” is just too much. How do you satire that?
“These people need to be taken down, one at a time if need be.”
my, what a novel sentiment!
shouldn’t “pile on” I suppose, but…..
!!!!! hey, ignorant troll !!!!! Let’s check out some other !!!!!! buttons on your keyboard. Like the ones that have the funny looking things on ‘em that look like this: + – = They’re over on the other side of the keyboard — you know, the “RIGHT” side, nudge nudge!
No, not my right — YOUR right.
Yeah! Damn right you’re right, you betcha.
So, anyhoo — those + – = things……..ever learn what those mean? No? Didn’t think so.
‘S okay dude, don’t sweat it. Smokin’ Sarah will be right over to help you get your pants zipped, WINK WINK.
You lose your home or car, sell it under the value to avoid foreclosure and now Obama wants you to PAY A HIGHER capital gains tax on it!!! Talk about total BS!!!
only if you make above $250K. and if you make more, the rate will still be 1/3 lower than what it was under Reagan. you fucking moron.
Someone wasn’t paying attention when the MSM reviewed this….
If you sell your property in a short sale, and your lender forgives a portion of the debt (–a big IF, as it requires quite a bit of grovelling, and a patient buyer–) to the extent your loan is forgiven by the bank, it is taxed as ordinary income. This is usually higher than the capital gains rate. Unfortunately, it has also been part of the tax code for decades, so the wingnuts can’t blame this one on OBAMA.
So, let’s say you purchased a $500,000 home near the top of the market in 2005 for $100,000 down, with a $400,000 mortgage, at the teaser rate of 1% for 3 years. When your loan rate increased to market rate in June 2008, your loan payment went from $1100 per month to $4800 per month, and you had paid back $10,000 of principle. Unfortunately, you still had $390,000 worth of debt, but your house currently has a fair market value of less than $350,000. In a short sale, you can only unload the place for $325,000. The seller’s lender and your bank approve the short sale. You have $75,000 worth of profit in the form of “forgiven debt.”
THERE ARE 4 EXCEPTIONS TO THIS RULE:
(1) When the borrower receives a bankruptcy discharge and the deficiency was included in the bankruptcy
(2) When the borrower is insolvent at the time of the cancellation of the debt. Insolvency would occur when a borrower’s liabilities exceed assets. Note that seller would have to prove this insolvency to the IRS when filing a tax return.
(3) When the debt was secured by a nonrecourse loan. Under a nonrecourse loan, the lender does not have the legal right to collect a deficiency judgment from any assets of the debtor not pledged to secure the loan. While most home mortgages are do not fall into this category, purchase money loans on a person’s residence are nonrecourse in some states.
(4) When the tax liability from the cancellation of debt on an investment property can be offset against other business liabilities and expenses. This exception does not apply to properties occupied as a residence by the mortgagor.
Thanks, Ruthie. Funny how our side can respond with research rather than uninformed poo-flinging, but that guy was THIS close to posting enough to win the winking Palin tote bag!
You all give out winking Palin totebags for jerkdom? No wonder the trolls are flocking here en masse! I hear those are even hotter X-mas re-gifting finds among the wingnuts than framed copies of the New Yorker cover with Michelle and Obama dressed up as Black Panthers.