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SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The Jane Austen inspired company that devoted itself to developing, “World class” video games based around the novels of Jane Austen declared bankruptcy after three years of business and having sold less than fourteen copies of their games.

“We simply overestimated the interest for Jane Austen video game porting,” said Cal Witherington, the CEO of the now bankrupt corporation.

The company released three video game titles, “Sense and Sensibilities", “Pride and Prejudice” and “Emma". Despite, an aggressive ad campaign, the games hardly sold at all. Developed for the PS3, Wii and XBox 360, the games were given high scores for video and look, but dismal scores for actual game play.

“It looks wonderful! The animation is down right perfect,” noted Adam Jones of IGN. “The problem was, there was no action in the games at all. One goal was to just walk around slowly, while talking. One mission included going on a long walk in the rain. That mission took two hours to finish!”

Some implementation of the game didn’t work too well either. In order to playing on the PS3 or Xbox 360, the player needed to press one button to act nice, another button to act proper. “In the end, the game became more of a button smasher,” according the IGN review. Players playing on the Wii really just needed to jerk the nunchuck and waggle to Wii Remote to get the same affect. The faster they shook, the better the score.

IGN went on to note, “One potential benefit of the game for ‘Pride and Prejudice’ was that you could play as many of the characters, including Mr. Darcy, though you needed to unlock that by scoring over 200 points in the dancing portion of the game, a hard feat. But in the end, it became nothing more than a waggle fest to brood.”

The company lost more than $20 million since they started three years ago and were forced to shut their doors. It remains unknown whether anyone will pick up their latest project, and first to move off from Jane Austen, “Little Women".

Just a few quick tax questions.

Can an aborted fetus be counted as a dependent?

Does listening to NPR count as a charitable contribution that I can deduct?

I bought Cleveland Browns tickets for this season. That can be counted as a capital loss right?

Do I only need to pay taxes on the money I didn’t spend this year? Which would be great because I spent about twice of what I made this year, so I should be due for a refund then… which I really could use because I spent about twice of what I made this year.

Can I deduct my mortgage payment? I know you can deduct your interest, but that isn’t enough! I work every once in a while at home, so clearly it is a place of work and a business expense.

Can I deduct per diem from my income? I mean if Sarah Palin can charge the state for living in her own home, certainly I can.

I read somewhere that you can get deductions or credits for improving your home, making it more energy efficient. I bought a 52″ LCD TV, which is much more energy efficient than a 52″ Plasma TV. Can I deduct the TV?

That making work pay credit kicks ass! Seeing that there are hundreds of thousands of undocumented workers that won’t use their credit, can I use all of theirs combined?

All the help possible would be appreciated. I need to get this thing mailed by midnight tonight.

PS… because Obama has socialized the country, I don’t need to pay state and local taxes now right?

“Huckabee likens gay marriage to incest, polygamy”
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“That would be like saying, well there’s there are a lot of people who like to use drugs so let’s go ahead and accommodate those who want to use drugs. There are some people who believe in incest, so we should accommodate them. There are people who believe in polygamy, should we accommodate them?” he said, according to a transcript of the interview.

He goes on to say…

“Marriage has historically never meant anything other than a man and a woman. It has never meant two men, two women, a man and his pet, or a man and a whole herd of pets.”

Women historically couldn’t vote, own property, work outside the home.
Blacks historically were slaves, subjected to severe discrimination.
Historically, caste systems determined a person’s value… not the person themselves.
Historically, the church had huge control on the day to day lives of people.
Historically democracy didn’t exist and people were peasants whose sole purpose was to serve a King (who, historically, was chosen typically based on the vagina he popped out of).
Historically, Protestants were sacrilegious bastards.
Historically, gays have been discriminated against and certainly not allowed to marry.

Historically? Are we to put the bar that low?