Darts and Laurels (Ithaca barf alert)

Ithaca Journal ^ | 8/10/02 | Dorothy E. Cole

[Behind Liberal Lines]

DART: From Dorothy E. Cole of Ithaca: "No bank robber would get as much as these CEOs give themselves. The tax on these CEO's should be raised where they wouldn't profit from their greed. People lose jobs, pensions because of companies going broke feeding these hogs."

[Behind Liberal Lines]

If someone can explain to me how a tax can be raised until someone "wouldn't profit from their greed," please let me know.

Given that every tax is a percentage, the only way to collect the tax would be to assume that the "evillle" CEO is taking more, not less, money. The CEO, faced with a higher tax, would most likely negotiate additional perks to compensate for the tax. Which would cause people to "lose jobs, pensions because of companies going broke," wouldn't it?

And yes, I am being sarcastic to some extent.

This is clearly just another Ithaca socialist trying to to exploit "corporate greed."

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[Behind Liberal Lines]

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[Clara Lou]

You do live in amongst them, don't you? Sort of like Lott, surrounded by the people of Sodom.

[Miss Marple]

We have a column similar to this one in our local paper, although ours is titled "Hearts and Darts" because we aren't so pretentious out here in the Midwest.

Pretentious City of Evil bump!

[Behind Liberal Lines]

We have a column similar to this one in our local paper, although ours is titled "Hearts and Darts"

The paper for the nearby Auburn Citizen has a "hits and misses" column.

Its sort of sadly comical sometimes due to unintential black comic puns, like when they gave a "hit" to honor a US soldier wounded in Afghanistan.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Why you waste your time reading the crap spewed from a college paper is beyond me.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Actually, is this a college paper? I just assumed it was because we have a darts and laurels in our college paper and the editors who write the darts and laurels in our paper are unbelievably idiotic.

[hellinahandcart]

Its sort of sadly comical sometimes due to unintential black comic puns, like when they gave a "hit" to honor a US soldier wounded in Afghanistan.

Here's a perfect example from the link you provided:

LAUREL: From Bill Carini of Newfield: "James Cummins Littletree, of Littletree Orchards, received very serious head injuries in a bicycle accident in July. He has been hospitalized in intensive care since then.

That's a Laurel?

[general_re]

Naw, the part where they praise him for working for a dollar an hour - that's the laurel. The perfect worker drone who is more than happy to break his own back for the good of the collective, unlike those dirty capitalist pig CEO's ;)

[billhilly]

I'm wondering where the cities' homeless winter these days. Maybe the city buys them bus tickets in the fall and spring so they can migrate like a happy flock of geese

[Soaring Feather]

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[Behind Liberal Lines]

Why you waste your time reading the crap spewed from a college paper is beyond me....actually is it a college paper?

The Ithaca Journal is published by Gannett.

You know, the same people who bring you the quality publication "USAToday."

So I can understand your confusion.

[L.N. Smithee]

You do live in amongst them, don't you? Sort of like Lott, surrounded by the people of Sodom.

Yup, Ronnie Lott did spend most of his career with the San Francisco 49ers.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

You do live in amongst them, don't you? Sort of like Lott, surrounded by the people of Sodom.

Believe it, or not, Ithaca was originally called "Sodom," in fronteir days.

I guess it has ALWAYS been "a city of evil."

[Clara Lou]

That's pretty funny. =)

[NativeNewYorker]

Known as "Sodom" and "The Flats" in its days as an unruly frontier town.

Oh. My. God.

[Under the Radar]

You are right about the whole percentage thing. I think that we should ask Miz Cole to compile a list of citizen she thinks should pay this tax. Every person on this list should be forced to pay a certain amount of money to the state to finance the planting of flower gardens, more diversity training in kindergarden, and the building of Wiccan chapels for homosexual joining ceremonies. If we do this by way of a list, rather than the objective application of progressive taxes accross the board, then only those bad people will be punished. We want businessmen to suffer, but we want Barbara Streisand to earn a stipend from the state. I am sure you see the logic behind this.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Here's a good example of the unintentional and blackly comic puns that the Auburn (NY) Citizen's "Hits and Misses" column generates:

MISS: To the terrible accident on southern Cayuga Lake early Saturday. Deputies in three counties are seeking the boat that slammed into a moored craft occupied by Harry Uhl Jr., 27, and Nasreem Raza, 18. Uhl was killed, Raza hospitalized. Perhaps the operator of the other boat didn't realize there were people on board who were left injured. But they had to know they'd hit another vessel. They should have stopped.

In other words, they gave them a "miss" for a "hit" and run.

Sheesh.