I don't really mind if various other publications feel the need to rip off Dealbreaker editors but it really frosts my cookies when they lift material from our readers without sourcing 'Guest.' Do we know for a fact that the lede of this story, which states that Rose City Archery will benefit from the tax break on wooden arrows included in the Patriot Act Bailout bill, was stolen from this comment? No, we don't know that for a fact. But it certainly seems suspicious.
Update: Perhaps we got it wrong? We're quick to j'accuse on behalf of DB readers.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2008 10:09AM
First! Smart comments to follow
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2008 10:10AM
Too long, didn't read.
Posted by Dan Daoust , Oct 02, 2008 10:11AM
What was that about frosting your cookies?
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2008 10:14AM
Good find
Straight up plagiarism...
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2008 10:15AM
Thanks Bess. I'll frost your date walnut shofar cookies any day of the week.
http://www.cyber-kitchen.com/rfcj/ROSH_HASHANAH/Cookies_Date-Walnut_Shofar_Cookies_-_pareve.html
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2008 10:15AM
Fifffff
Posted by peWonderWoman , Oct 02, 2008 10:17AM
Too bad you can't poke people randomly anymore
http://www.new.facebook.com/people/Ryan_J_Donmoyer/1027194605
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2008 10:25AM
Thanks #7...just looking at the guy's pics suggests he is a douchebag
Posted by diablo , Oct 02, 2008 10:38AM
Trivia: the Senators from Oregon who sponsored this earmark split their vote on the bailout. Wyden (D) voted No, Smith (R) voted Yes.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2008 10:49AM
what's wrong with frosted cookies?
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2008 10:55AM
Um, Ryan Donmoyer here. The Bloomberg reporter on that story. I promise you this is just a weird coincidence. I didn't even know anything about this post until someone pointed it out to me this morning. Was reporting this myself yesterday at noon, filed by 2, had it on the wire before 4. I certainly didn't have time to sit around reading Dealbreaker and the comments.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2008 10:57AM
Um, Ryan Donmoyer here. The Bloomberg reporter on that story. I promise you this is just a weird coincidence. I didn't even know anything about this post until someone pointed it out to me this morning. Was reporting this myself yesterday at noon, filed by 2, had it on the wire before 4. I certainly didn't have time to sit around reading Dealbreaker and the comments.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2008 10:58AM
What's really weird about that story is its emphasis on tax breaks, not the expensive new mental health provisions or the massive surtax on individuals making more than $500k a year (which seems like a lot to most people, but then in 1970 $30k a year was a big salary).
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2008 10:59AM
comment at 1:55pm and you filed by 2pm. more than enough time to write that garbage story
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2008 11:00AM
@13 http://dealbreaker.com/2008/10/you-guys-like-taxes-right.php
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2008 11:00AM
What's really weird about that story is its emphasis on tax breaks, not the expensive new mental health provisions or the massive surtax on individuals making more than $500k a year (which seems like a lot to most people, but then in 1970 $30k a year was a big salary).
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2008 11:01AM
Um, Ryan Donmoyer here. The Bloomberg reporter on that story. I promise you this is just a weird coincidence. I didn't even know anything about this post until someone pointed it out to me this morning. Was reporting this myself yesterday at noon, filed by 2, had it on the wire before 4. I certainly didn't have time to sit around reading Dealbreaker and the comments.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2008 11:01AM
@13 http://dealbreaker.com/2008/10/you-guys-like-taxes-right.php
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2008 11:03AM
no talk of McCain "vetoing the first bill that comes across his desk as president with a single pork-barrel project", yet voting for the Bailout.
I am all for the bailout, don't get me wrong. What I am addimantly against however is hypocracy.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2008 11:05AM
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Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2008 11:05AM
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Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2008 11:06AM
Um, Ryan Donmoyer here. The Bloomberg reporter on that story. I promise you this is just a weird coincidence. I didn't even know anything about this post until someone pointed it out to me this morning. Was reporting this myself yesterday at noon, filed by 2, had it on the wire before 4. I certainly didn't have time to sit around reading Dealbreaker and the comments.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2008 11:06AM
Um, Ryan Donmoyer here. The Bloomberg reporter on that story. I promise you this is just a weird coincidence. I didn't even know anything about this post until someone pointed it out to me this morning. Was reporting this myself yesterday at noon, filed by 2, had it on the wire before 4. I certainly didn't have time to sit around reading Dealbreaker and the comments.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2008 11:06AM
Um, Ryan Donmoyer here. The Bloomberg reporter on that story. I promise you this is just a weird coincidence. I didn't even know anything about this post until someone pointed it out to me this morning. Was reporting this myself yesterday at noon, filed by 2, had it on the wire before 4. I certainly didn't have time to sit around reading Dealbreaker and the comments.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2008 11:07AM
@17,
Come on dude, accept my friend request.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2008 11:14AM
Hi, I'm a CEO of Bloomberg.
What's an attribution?
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2008 11:19AM
Hi, I'm a CNBC reporter.
What does MBS stand for?
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2008 11:47AM
@15 and @18 - was that really added to last night's bill?
Posted by ep , Oct 02, 2008 11:59AM
"Posted by guest, Oct 02, 2008 11:47AM
@15 and @18 - was that really added to last night's bill?"
Was a proposed amendment. I don't think it made it.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2008 12:11PM
More on the wooden arrows. Apparently, in 1934, the US Congress passed the Robinson-Pittman act at the request of the nations sport hunters and fishermen and women. The act attached an 11% tax on many items of hunting and fishing equipment. This money was collected by sellers of that merchandise and rebated to the various state wildlife agencies based on the number of hunting and fishing licenses they sold. The act has been collecting and rebating 11% taxes all those years now. There has been hundreds of millions of dollars collected and sent to state wildlife agencies. Without the tax, many state agencies would have been hard pressed to maintain any sort of wildlife protection. To say that it has been a success is an understatement. Many species of game have been successfully reintroduced into the woods because of hunter’s efforts and hunter’s dollars.
Since the toy wooden arrows are used for play and not to hunt, the government was wrong to tax them on it.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2008 1:11PM
@30 - thanks for that and for letting us know an egregious wrong has been righted... I know I'll sleep better
Posted by michange , Oct 02, 2008 6:52PM
@31 What egret they're huntin?