Comments on: The Dreaded Open Thread http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/28/the-dreaded-open-thread/ America's favorite blog Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:11:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: SeattleDan http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/28/the-dreaded-open-thread/#comment-18228 Wed, 02 Aug 2006 03:50:39 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/28/the-dreaded-open-thread/#comment-18228 The joke goes in the book business thusly: How do you make a million dollars in the book biz? Start with two million. The joke goes in the book business thusly:

How do you make a million dollars in the book biz?

Start with two million.

]]> by: SeattleDan http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/28/the-dreaded-open-thread/#comment-18227 Wed, 02 Aug 2006 02:01:02 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/28/the-dreaded-open-thread/#comment-18227 No, Stephen, the so-called "death tax" would not impact my family at all. We dont have that many assets. What I'd like to be able to do is not to leave my family any debt and have some financial security. No, Stephen, the so-called “death tax” would not impact my family at all. We dont have that many assets. What I’d like to be able to do is not to leave my family any debt and have some financial security.

]]> by: siobhan http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/28/the-dreaded-open-thread/#comment-18219 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 22:52:15 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/28/the-dreaded-open-thread/#comment-18219 Cuba... Very conflicted set of feelings right now. If things are changing, and the people get more freedom, great. If we go in there and turn it into Cancun East, not so great. I'm glad I got to see it when I did (literally a month before the crackdowns started in 2003 - probably the point of greatest openness in a while). And what will be the impact on our little resort at Guantanamo? Cuba…

Very conflicted set of feelings right now. If things are changing, and the people get more freedom, great. If we go in there and turn it into Cancun East, not so great. I’m glad I got to see it when I did (literally a month before the crackdowns started in 2003 - probably the point of greatest openness in a while).

And what will be the impact on our little resort at Guantanamo?

]]> by: Harold http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/28/the-dreaded-open-thread/#comment-18205 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 18:02:37 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/28/the-dreaded-open-thread/#comment-18205 Becca (and Brian) - 'round these parts old-timers refer to green Bell peppers as "mangos". No one knows why. It turns out this term is also used in some other parts of the country. There's a Linguistics thesis there somewhere. Becca (and Brian) - ’round these parts old-timers refer to green Bell peppers as “mangos”. No one knows why. It turns out this term is also used in some other parts of the country. There’s a Linguistics thesis there somewhere.

]]> by: nato http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/28/the-dreaded-open-thread/#comment-18200 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:33:13 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/28/the-dreaded-open-thread/#comment-18200 My parents are approaching the point where the estate tax would be an issue when they die, but since they plan on leaving everything to the dog anyway, I'm not too worried. Seriously, though, they were raised with all that Kennedy claptrap about "ask not what your country can do for you", so they tend to think of taxes as one more way that (theoretically) they are helping out. As long as I outlive the dog, I don't care one way or the other about the estate tax; it's not a burden if as a potential inheritee you aren't a self-centred greedy sack of crap. My parents are approaching the point where the estate tax would be an issue when they die, but since they plan on leaving everything to the dog anyway, I’m not too worried. Seriously, though, they were raised with all that Kennedy claptrap about “ask not what your country can do for you”, so they tend to think of taxes as one more way that (theoretically) they are helping out. As long as I outlive the dog, I don’t care one way or the other about the estate tax; it’s not a burden if as a potential inheritee you aren’t a self-centred greedy sack of crap.

]]> by: Stephen http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/28/the-dreaded-open-thread/#comment-18193 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:13:31 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/28/the-dreaded-open-thread/#comment-18193 So I’m surfing through the dials yesterday and I hear Bush talking to Faux News about the new increase to minimum wage, $2.15 I believe, and how the plane in the Senate is to attach a clause about increasing the exclusions to the estate tax. He said that this would help smaller families. I’m just curious…There is not a chance under heaven that I could leave 5+million to my children so they would have to pay the tax. Am I really that poor? Is everyone else in the country just waiting to get rid of this repressive tax so they can leave their millions to their children? SeattleDan- as a small businessman, if you wanted to leave your business to your children would the “death tax” really hit your family that hard? Any other self employed people out there that this is hurting? Wouldn’t it be better to repeal the self-employment tax if we are trying to help small business? So I’m surfing through the dials yesterday and I hear Bush talking to Faux News about the new increase to minimum wage, $2.15 I believe, and how the plane in the Senate is to attach a clause about increasing the exclusions to the estate tax. He said that this would help smaller families. I’m just curious…There is not a chance under heaven that I could leave 5+million to my children so they would have to pay the tax. Am I really that poor? Is everyone else in the country just waiting to get rid of this repressive tax so they can leave their millions to their children?

SeattleDan- as a small businessman, if you wanted to leave your business to your children would the “death tax” really hit your family that hard? Any other self employed people out there that this is hurting? Wouldn’t it be better to repeal the self-employment tax if we are trying to help small business?

]]> by: Becca (and Brian) http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/28/the-dreaded-open-thread/#comment-18185 Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:57:06 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/28/the-dreaded-open-thread/#comment-18185 Harold- Sadly that was just the result of lacking inspiration with only 2 minutes left of internet time. I was just trying to think of something that comes packaged in the grocery store...Mangos probably weren't the best example. :-) Becca btw...very few fishies or colorful color on the Great Barrier Reef. Sad. Hopefully we see more in Fiji (which we hit on our return to the States) Harold-

Sadly that was just the result of lacking inspiration with only 2 minutes left of internet time. I was just trying to think of something that comes packaged in the grocery store…Mangos probably weren’t the best example. :-)

Becca

btw…very few fishies or colorful color on the Great Barrier Reef. Sad. Hopefully we see more in Fiji (which we hit on our return to the States)

]]> by: tess http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/28/the-dreaded-open-thread/#comment-18176 Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:06:22 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/28/the-dreaded-open-thread/#comment-18176 The MSITB syndrome drives me nuts when my bf adjusts himself every 15 seconds when he's concentrating and forgets where he is, and if someone were to casually look over at him he'd be the poster boy for Victorian anti-touching devices. No, this problem necessitates the use of a telethon and awareness campaigns. The MSITB syndrome drives me nuts when my bf adjusts himself every 15 seconds when he’s concentrating and forgets where he is, and if someone were to casually look over at him he’d be the poster boy for Victorian anti-touching devices.

No, this problem necessitates the use of a telethon and awareness campaigns.

]]> by: Harold http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/28/the-dreaded-open-thread/#comment-18162 Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:39:47 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/28/the-dreaded-open-thread/#comment-18162 Becca (and Brian) - "mangos come in plastic"? Explain, please. I have always bought my mangos loose. Or are you using the alternate definition of "mango" that I once thought was peculiar to Northeastern Pennsylvania? Becca (and Brian) - “mangos come in plastic”? Explain, please. I have always bought my mangos loose. Or are you using the alternate definition of “mango” that I once thought was peculiar to Northeastern Pennsylvania?

]]> by: Scooby http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/28/the-dreaded-open-thread/#comment-18157 Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:47:48 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/28/the-dreaded-open-thread/#comment-18157 Becca, When I was in South Australia 12 years ago, the cockatoos and galahs were overpopulating and being culled. It amazed me that such beautiful birds could be killed by the hundreds. Hey, be careful of those stingy things in the reefs! Several news stories lately about fatal stings... be sure to wear your stockings! Becca,

When I was in South Australia 12 years ago, the cockatoos and galahs were overpopulating and being culled. It amazed me that such beautiful birds could be killed by the hundreds.

Hey, be careful of those stingy things in the reefs! Several news stories lately about fatal stings… be sure to wear your stockings!

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