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May 15

kk in seattle commented on Fucking NBA Rejects Kings Move to Seattle.

I am so looking forward to seeing David Stern in the witness stand in a marathon antitrust lawsuit against the NBA. I hope Hansen crushes their balls.

May 10

kk in seattle commented on Hansen Ups Offer for Sacramento Kings. Again..

Let's see, $175 million premium over the last sale times 30 teams . . . the owners are about to flush over $5 billion down the toilet if they don't approve a sale to Hansen. It's not often that you see a bunch of rich guys voluntarily throw away $5 billion.

May 8

kk in seattle commented on Walking Disaster Wins Election in South Carolina.

@41: Remember the Edwin Edwards rule: it's not really a scandal unless he's caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.

May 8

kk in seattle commented on Walking Disaster Wins Election in South Carolina.

His first scandal definitely will be voting to amend the Constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage. You know, to protect the sanctity of . . . well, maybe the scandal will be that he gets laughed off the floor. Never happened to ol' "Diaper Dave" Vitter, but the Senators seem to drink more at lunch, which makes them more forgiving.

May 8

kk in seattle commented on Proof That Paying McDonald's Employees More Leads to Happier Employees.

@8: Does anyone think that poor workers are happier when they get a 27% raise? Fuck yeah, they're happier. What kind of entitled shithead would even ask such a question.

May 8

kk in seattle commented on Seattle Weekly Eliminates Restaurant Critic Position.

Many, many moons ago, after reading another pointless "Best of Seattle" survey, I wrote the Weekly and recommended that instead of surveying its readers on "Best Hamburger!" (who cares?) they should instead focus on collecting useful information from their readers that other readers would find genuinely valuable, such as "Best Auto Mechanic," "Best Divorce Lawyer" and "Best Oncologist." My thinking was that people really need assistance in making those important decisions, and often don't have any experience in doing so. I also pointed out that it would generate advertising from professionals rather than just cheap restaurants.

Bottom line: SW is on the way out, while Angie is getting rich.

May 7

kk in seattle commented on Internet Sales Tax Could Bring King County an Additional $63 Million a Year in Revenue by 2017.

@Kelly: Guess what? UPS requires that you calculate shipping for the weight of each package, based on the zip code to which you ship and how quickly you want it to arrive. SHOCKING!! Why, it must be an administrative nightmare that ties up small businesses for weeks, hiring dozens of bureaucratic employees who do nothing but figure out shipping costs for EVERY SINGLE PACKAGE based on weight, priority and desination. IMPOSSIBLE! Yet, somehow, people manage to calculate and pay shipping. Go figure. TurboTax sells cheap software for filing income tax returns based on thousands of pages of statutes and regulations. This is child's play compared to that. And again, if eBay doesn't have modestly priced software available to solve this so-called "problem," they deserve to be driven out of business by someone, and soon.

May 7

kk in seattle commented on US Senate Approves Internet Sales Tax.

@seandr: Don't be a drama queen. Does it cost $2 to pay each $1 of income tax, which is a far more complicated system? Of course not. You can buy the most complext Turbo Tax software with an audit guaranty for about $100 a year. Before the effective date of any taxation of internet sales, eBay will surely have in place for a modest fee software that automatically calculates and remits sales taxes to the proper authorities. And if they don't, then they deserve to be driven out of business.

May 7

kk in seattle commented on US Senate Approves Internet Sales Tax.

This is NOT a tax increase. It's just Congress finally getting the hell out of what never was their business, which is how the states finance themselves. Years ago, Congress forbade the states from taxing internet sales. (Of course, Congress never provided for any alternative source of revenue.) This simply undoes that royal and undeserved fucking-over of states that would like to tax internet sales. Whether states choose to tax internet sales, or any sales at all, should be up to them.

This is a states rights issue, which should make it a Republican natural, except that they're all hypocritical shitheads.