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The Bar => Pictures & Photoshops => Topic started by: Oceander on December 21, 2009, 06:03:44 AM

Title: MoveON.org
Post by: Oceander on December 21, 2009, 06:03:44 AM
A most vile, pestilential organization if there ever was one:

(http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx221/B_Oceander/MoveON/MoveON_new-logo.jpg)


(http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx221/B_Oceander/Others/Leftist_Laxatives.jpg)


(http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx221/B_Oceander/MoveON/Political_Suppository.gif)
Title: Re: MoveON.org
Post by: Oceander on December 21, 2009, 06:05:01 AM
And a little something regarding the utterly hypocritical founders of MoveON.org, who made their money the old-fashioned capitalist way (just like Michael Moore) and now want to deny that opportunity to everyone else:

(http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx221/B_Oceander/MoveON/Hypocrites.jpg)
Title: Re: MoveON.org
Post by: JohnnyReb on December 21, 2009, 06:55:03 AM
Damn!....what an ugly couple.
Title: Re: MoveON.org
Post by: Oceander on December 24, 2009, 12:15:05 AM
Quote from: JohnnyReb on December 21, 2009, 06:55:03 AM
Damn!....what an ugly couple.

That they are.
Title: Re: MoveON.org
Post by: bkg on December 24, 2009, 12:19:53 AM
Quote from: JohnnyReb on December 21, 2009, 06:55:03 AM
Damn!....what an ugly couple.

Are they rich now? One would think...
Title: Re: MoveON.org
Post by: Oceander on December 24, 2009, 12:33:22 AM
Quote from: bkg on December 24, 2009, 12:19:53 AM
Are they rich now? One would think...

They should be, unless they've been unduly profligate in the last 12 years (which is doubtful, as almost every rich liberal is as crabbed and miserly with their own money as they are liberal and spendthrift with everyone else's money).  According to the Wiki article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Blades) on Frau-bee_itch Blades (which I'm sure is a reasonable enough source for a data-point like this) Blades and Boyd sold the business they created - Berkeley Systems - for $13.8 million in 1997.  Since Berkeley Systems was founded in 1987, they no doubt scored mostly long-term capital gains on that sale, which means they should have paid no more than 20% in federal taxes, which would max out at about $2.76 million (assuming no basis to recover out of the sale proceeds), leaving them with at least $11.04 million net of federal income taxes (the fact that I get so close to a round number with that tax estimate makes me believe that they really sold for $11 million, plus a tax gross-up).

If they're as miserly as I've heard Michael Moore is with their own money, then that $11 million would be worth today between about $16 million and about $29 million depending upon what they invested it in.

So, yes, I'd say they're rich - they just don't want any of the rest of us to be rich (it's no fun being a rich white liberal if you have to constantly worry about being overtaken by the hoi polloi - particularly the coloured hoi-polloi).
Title: Re: MoveON.org
Post by: bkg on December 24, 2009, 12:36:29 AM
Didn't know about the business. Good info. I was just making an educated guess that Moveon.org generated a lot of revenue, of which they enjoyed a significant amount more than the average American wage...

I guess I should "assume" they donated the proceeds from the business sale?
Title: Re: MoveON.org
Post by: Oceander on December 24, 2009, 12:45:10 AM
Quote from: bkg on December 24, 2009, 12:36:29 AM
Didn't know about the business. Good info. I was just making an educated guess that Moveon.org generated a lot of revenue, of which they enjoyed a significant amount more than the average American wage...

I guess I should "assume" they donated the proceeds from the business sale?

I don't have any way to hand to figure out what sort of a "skim" they're taking from the revenues generated by MoveON.org, but I think you make a very valid point there, they probably do take quite a big "skim" and live quite nicely off of it, allowing them to leave their original $11 million nest-egg alone to grow and grow and ... and do all the things that they so desperately want to deny to the rest of us.  They really are a bunch of fcuking hypocrites.