Obama offered $300K less than the asking price for his house...offer accepted...somehow RR turned this into:

Obama "underpaid" $300K for his house

I went back and forth with him a couple of times over this before realizing that "debate" with RR is a fool's game.

As a real estate professional, do you consider a low offer "underpayment"? And as a real estate professional, how often do sellers of >1 mil homes accept less than the initial asking price?

If he made a 1.6 million offer on a 1.9 million house, the offer was accepted, and he paid 1.3 million...THAT would be a 300K "underpayment". To my mind, anyway.

Also, Obama did not make the only offer on the house...there was a lower one.

Does the IRS consider this 300K difference between the asking price and the selling price "essentially a gift"?

Your "point", at the time, was that Obama "underpaid" 300K on his house, based on an ABC news story which apparently did not use the word "underpaid".

Of course, now it has become something more complicated.

you are not the captain of this guy's life, so there's no need to go down with the ship

bring on the cell taps

I know what your point is...but you, and readerreader, obviously have no interest in mine:

Obama did not "underpay" for his house.

To acknowledge your point: Obama did engage in a deal that opened him up to questions about ethical violations.

These questions have been resolved to my satisfaction, by information sources outside the Salon letters section.

oh yes

is alive and well at Salon.com

A sociopath usually appears normal, but upon closer inspection shows a lack of empathy and other normal human emotions...this dude seems more like a psychopath.

However, that in and of itself is not a crime.

but I can't explain how, exactly

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't most people with a fetish think about the fetish during "normal" sex?

If you can, why not just do the fetish itself? What's the danger, exactly?

GG makes mention of this...I'm not a Bush supporter, but I always thought that criminality was determined by conviction, not accusation. Maybe some of the regulars can clear this up for me.

high-level lawbreakers are protected from consequences by our political class

See, the answer is right there in the caption...no need to think about it.

A criminal is a person guilty of a crime...criminality is the state of being a criminal.

now available to accept your projections

or whatever

who cares...just do it

you're not doing it right

no you are not "all better now"

but you know that!

touch my heart

6pm tuesdays, here

those who were cheated on are also welcome

Rather it is her use of gender archetypes between the actors in this social construct, which can only lead to more male hegemony.

i hope that's clear

when the magic snowflake appears

however i cant stop thinking about that spanking letter

yawn

and sometimes that person turns out to be quite boring

then i could take my own advice

that would be the best thing to do

My ex was an upper middle class Catholic girl, and she left partly because of my inability to meet the earnings goals.

For many years I couldn't forgive her for that. But eventually I came to realize that she was just a person trying to create the conditions for her own happiness. Just like anyone else.

what a surprize

thanks

prosecution would certainly show the world that the US has turned the corner on the topic of torture...however, reconciliation would avoid digging into something that probably goes deeper than anyone in the government would like to admit.

it is real...tv is real

it was like my id and superego fighting, or something like that

they have not become convinced...it's just a matter of "good enough"

because reality has a fascist bias

"green" tax credits and kinda sorta universal health care: yup

nationalization of the oil industry and Full Employment Act: nope

Why would Obama expend political capital trying to chase down these torture people? He already got elected...why not instead work on the Promise of America...

I saw the Promise of America, live...I don't remember what the promise was, exactly, but it was very upbeat and positive, and I'm sure that it didn't include anything about war crimes trials...

oh it's right here by the mouse...i want to click and see a pretty person. i like to turn off the sound and watch her talk.

the voices make it sound like she is talking to me.

we were talking about Dollhouse...i'm going to need some nachos

"like tears in the rain"...or maybe just graffiti on a boxcar

this unit cannot self-delete

this chat room is only about tv

that way they'll grow up without any gender stereotypes

A number of years ago I had a therapist who believed that people were basically ambivalent about everything. This ambivalence could explain your attraction to, and repulsion from, the people in your life.

I'm not sure how I feel about what you just said... ;-)

human dolls...in a dollhouse...they get sent on secret missions.

The United States of Tara also sounds interesting. "Tara" is one of the buddhas, but that's probably not what they're talking about.

omg

While I am a professional and have come in contact with people like Marisa Belger, I can hardly imagine living among the upper class on a daily basis. Better that I should just throw electronic rocks from the security of my tiny studio apartment, because this person is surely a monster of the foulest kind.

technically you're a moron

I have the keys to my little cage...but you are not so lucky.

True, but I can influence the midichlorians.

please tell everyone about your favorite tv show

please tell us all about your most favorite tv show