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- What keeps you up at night?: Thinking about my job
- If you could bring one dead person back to life, who would it be?: I won't say
- What song do you want played at your funeral?: Led Zeppelin- Four Sticks
- What is your sweetest taboo?: tormenting trolls on my local paper's comment thread
- What helps you sleep?: An excellent cup of coffee
May 22
lauramae commented on Why They Break Windows.
lauramae commented on Why They Break Windows.
Most small business owners have a fairly slim profit margin. I side with any one of them over a punk with time and a rock. Fuck you.
May 14
lauramae commented on SL Letter of the Day: Insane Demands.
lauramae commented on SL Letter of the Day: Insane Demands.
She's counting on the guy's need for sex to get what she wants. She'll use the photos and the affair to torment the wife.
People who want to fuck someone other than their spouse tell a potential lover all sorts of things (true or not) to get what they want. My guess is the wife wouldn't recognize herself in the husband's description that this witch has every intention of sharing with the wife.
The letter writer is a worthless, game-playing soulless twat.
People who want to fuck someone other than their spouse tell a potential lover all sorts of things (true or not) to get what they want. My guess is the wife wouldn't recognize herself in the husband's description that this witch has every intention of sharing with the wife.
The letter writer is a worthless, game-playing soulless twat.
May 13
lauramae commented on Senator's Illness Gives Dems Chance to Seize Back Control of State Senate; Fate of Reproductive Parity and State Dream Acts Hangs in the Balance.
lauramae commented on Senator's Illness Gives Dems Chance to Seize Back Control of State Senate; Fate of Reproductive Parity and State Dream Acts Hangs in the Balance.
Yeah, they cave. I don't understand except there are a lot of progressives that get all hand-wringy when they sense confrontation or even an argument. Pansies.
May 13
lauramae commented on Senator's Illness Gives Dems Chance to Seize Back Control of State Senate; Fate of Reproductive Parity and State Dream Acts Hang in the Balance.
lauramae commented on Senator's Illness Gives Dems Chance to Seize Back Control of State Senate; Fate of Reproductive Parity and State Dream Acts Hang in the Balance.
I hope they have the guts to go for it. Screw the republicans and that little club of boys.
May 6
lauramae commented on May Day Anarchists Will Compensate Small Businesses Whose Windows Were Smashed.
lauramae commented on May Day Anarchists Will Compensate Small Businesses Whose Windows Were Smashed.
How about not breaking the windows in the first place? I don't really care what kind of feel good measure anarchists offer up to support the businesses they fucked up in the first place, or the original message they successfully obscured by their selfish, privileged actions.
What right do you have to break any fucking window? What right do you have to take the message others have and make it about you? Who are you anyway? Nobody. you are all worthless nobodies.
What right do you have to break any fucking window? What right do you have to take the message others have and make it about you? Who are you anyway? Nobody. you are all worthless nobodies.
May 6
lauramae commented on US Senate Approves Internet Sales Tax.
lauramae commented on US Senate Approves Internet Sales Tax.
It wouldn't be difficult at all to implement a collection of sales tax for each state that has sales tax (it isn't 50, by the way). It would be no more complicated that calculating the shipping cost. In fact it would be easier. The code linking the appropriate sales tax would simply be tied to the zip you enter on the billing address. Just a quick google search and I came up with taxrates.com. I'm sure there are others. My guess is that private companies that keep track of this provide merchants with a way to keep up to date on the current tax rates for any area.
As for making sure the tax collected gets to the states, it wouldn't be hard for a company to keep track of the amount of quarterly sales to each zip. It wouldn't be hard for the IRS to verify the dollar amount collected and whether what is collected gets to the proper state's revenue departments.
All of that would be much simpler and quicker than the republicans in the House actually doing their goddamned jobs.
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As for making sure the tax collected gets to the states, it wouldn't be hard for a company to keep track of the amount of quarterly sales to each zip. It wouldn't be hard for the IRS to verify the dollar amount collected and whether what is collected gets to the proper state's revenue departments.
All of that would be much simpler and quicker than the republicans in the House actually doing their goddamned jobs.
May 2
lauramae commented on SPD Supports Free Speech and Doesn't Use Excessive Force, Police Say.
lauramae commented on SPD Supports Free Speech and Doesn't Use Excessive Force, Police Say.
It's absolutely crazy that someone would actually believe that throwing anything wouldn't result in force. Don't want to have a cop react forcefully while you are marching and yelling with your stupid face covered? Don't throw shit. If you throw shit, be prepared to deal with the consequences. Brought it on yourselves.
May 1
lauramae commented on Police Throwing Flash Bangs into Crowd "Like Beads at Mardi Gras" at 5th & Olive.
lauramae commented on Police Throwing Flash Bangs into Crowd "Like Beads at Mardi Gras" at 5th & Olive.
Hey Seven, complaining about the cops in this instance is just silly. March with a mob and some are throwing rocks, pipes and bricks and other are throwing balloons...there's smoke and yelling and somehow cops are supposed to know that the thing about to get hurled is a balloon?
What nincompoopery. Deal with the consequences. When you make the decision to seek out trouble with a mob and the mob acts, well, like a mob, you are just lucky it wasn't worse.
I always enjoy the part where suburbanite/anarchists start whining about cops noticing destructive behavior and responding accordingly.
Be fucking happy you aren't a carver, princess.
What nincompoopery. Deal with the consequences. When you make the decision to seek out trouble with a mob and the mob acts, well, like a mob, you are just lucky it wasn't worse.
I always enjoy the part where suburbanite/anarchists start whining about cops noticing destructive behavior and responding accordingly.
Be fucking happy you aren't a carver, princess.
May 1
lauramae commented on Police Throwing Flash Bangs into Crowd "Like Beads at Mardi Gras" at 5th & Olive.
lauramae commented on Police Throwing Flash Bangs into Crowd "Like Beads at Mardi Gras" at 5th & Olive.
good point, 36. At least that is true. And yes, I agree, Anarchists are useless pigs.
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