Mr. McCain
Let me preface these comments with the facts that I have been a registered Republican during the majority of the 40 years that I have been voting. I vote in almost all primary, general, and certainly in all presidential elections. I voted for you this year in the NJ [...]
Dr. Murphy has a great post over at FireDogLake about the Politics of Water. What it says, in a nutshell, is that the US is exporting one third of our water footprint as farm subsidized crops, while people pay higher prices for bottled water than for gasoline. And Chicago [...]
As of today we will, most likely, no longer be living in a Democracy. With the so-called “compromise” on FISA, which gives Bush everything he wants and covers up his FELONY crimes and those FELONY crimes of the telecoms, we will be living in a Fascist Country, where the TYRANT [...]
Because the Fisa/PAA and Telecom Immunity “compromise” vote that just passed in the House today after much backroom dealing (with the telecoms writing the final draft of the FISA “compromise”, it’s rumored) is so very obviously unconstitutional and such a bitchslap to the American People and the Rule of [...]
Glenn Greenwald at Salon has a pretty complete wrapup of what’s going on with FISA and PAA, the telecomm immunity issue, and the trashing of our Constitution and Rule of Law. And though the tie to Impeachment isn’t made, it’s pretty obvious from the comments that everyone knows that [...]
The deep pocket Telecomms and Republican fearmongers seem to be swaying the House to vote a backroom deal on FISA which will allow spying on every single one of us with no warrant. How’s that for trashing the Bill of Rights? And it looks like the Telecomms are getting that [...]
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Technorati Tags: Ecology, Environment, Excess, Perspective on our Excessive Lifestyle, Sustainability
[...]This just in from Megavote PA:
Articles of Impeachment - Vote Passed (251-166, 16 Not Voting)
The House voted to refer 35 Articles of Impeachment against President Bush to the Judiciary Committee.
Rep. Charles Dent voted NO……
Boy, a lot has happened in a couple years. 251 to 166? Wow. That means that [...]
The slashdotters have done a wonderful job of debunking the Nuclear Threat from the Nuclear Warhead blueprints allegedly found on a laptop computer in Switzerland and owned by so-called nuclear smugglers. They first point out that the story in both the NY Times has some inconsistencies with how [...]
According to a bulletin I just received from the Wexler camp, Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced Articles of Impeachment against Bush on 35 separate allegations of High Crimes. Wexler is a co sponsor on these Articles of Impeachment. But in order for the Repuglycan LockSteppers to be overridden, it is CRUCIAL [...]
There’s a disturbing article in the NYTimes this morning entitled Food is gold so billions invested in farming. The article talks about how the Wall Street Weenies are now investing in Farmland and the other infrastructure that farming depends on, such as grain elevators, equipment suppliers, and other essentials [...]
The stuff coming through on the FreePress daily update about media matters is full of how little info we have about the Comcast Brouhaha, and how to that their “network management” is more like “competitor blocking”. Bennett keeps spewing about it on WetMachine as well, saying that Topolsky & Co [...]
It’s amazing that McCain is trying to visually “distance” himself from Bush. They’ve been pretty much in lock step since the beginning, and in fact many of Bush’s policies were stolen from McCain’s campaign platform when they ran against each other, and what differences there are can be measured in [...]
If ever the Dems had a chance to do what they promised us when we all elected them into the majority, the time is now. If they don’t vote down another $163 Billion for Iraq today, they will have broken (again) every promise they made to us, and at a [...]
If you are fence sitting on doing your part to reduce carbon in the atmosphere, and, more importantly, fence sitting on pushing your congresscritters to pass MUCH MORE STRINGENT legislation to make sure Corporations and Government do their part, you need to read the blogpost over at TomGram, which also [...]
SmallBusinessNewz is reporting that Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez is pushing hard to get an amendment to the Small Business Act pushed through. This amendment would redefine what a “Small Business” is, and allow large businesses owned up to 49% by Venture Capital Firms to get funding from the Small [...]
I knew there was a reason I threw out my TV ten years ago. Yesterday I was over a friend’s house and he had the news on, I’m not sure which network, but some talking heads were discussing how Obama is “off his game” and how Hillary still has a [...]
Yeah, this burns my buns in a big way, especially since I chose Earthlink for my ISP BECAUSE they supported Net Neutrality. If I had another choice for an ISP right now other than Verizon, who is much worse, or RCN, who is a joke of major proportions, I’d [...]
The opening video on the website “The Story of Stuff” is amazing. It encapsulates exactly what I’ve been yelling about since my college days, that our current economy is based upon a pipe dream, and is so totally UNSUSTAINABLE that our children will be eating, drinking, and breathing nothing [...]
Gee, PA never rated this kind of pre-election attention before. And I hope we never do again.
I gotta tell you, it’s gotten so bad I had to turn my phone’s ringer off. It’s either that or block calls that come through as “Unavailable” on caller ID, if that’s possible.
This is [...]
The major media attention being paid to the videotaped beating of Victoria Lindsay is, as usual, putting a lot of attention on YouTube and MySpace.
From a recent NY Times article on the prosecution of the 8 kids who were indicted in the beating:
?For whatever reason, this MySpace, my-you, this YouTube [...]
Night before last I was reading through the comments on Slashdot on the Report about the Bakken Formation, and how it’s now economically feasible to extract oil from it and opening up drilling there would increase the US oil reserve tenfold. One comment on that post has stuck in [...]
The Huffington Post has a clip of something Andrew Sullivan said on the Chris Matthew’s Show– that the Torture Memo from John Yoo “…means that Don Rumsfeld, David Addington and John Yoo should not leave the United States any time soon. They will be, at some point, indicted for [...]
The only Big Media outlet giving the Torture Memo any play is the New York Times, which is the BEST argument going for not letting Wall Street into their Boardroom. Wall Street has benefitted ridiculously from Bush and Company’s wholesale deregulation and resultant bailout after the predictable [...]
Yesterday I wrote about the Gigantic Guaranteed Loan that the USDA had given out to a company named Open Range Communications to string Wimax across Rural America, including my current home state of PA. Turns out that the head of the company, whose name is William S. Beans [...]
A recent story in the Boston Herald says that Verizon is again saying that if they don’t get a state franchise bill passed soon that they won’t be able to wire FiOS into much of the state. Hell, many parts of Mass don’t have dsl or cable now, so [...]
Om Malik is reporting a MAJOR investment by the USDA in a mystery company called Open Range Communications. The company secured USDA financing to the tune of $267 million for the purpose of rolling out BroadBand to Rural Areas. This announcement comes fast on the heels of two [...]
How much you wanna bet there are a bunch of former AT&T and Verizon Legal Weenies out there looking for work, since they missed the Devil in the Details that allows Wireless Microphones to operate in that UHF Spectrum Range they just spent Megabucks by the tractor trailer full [...]
Can we say anti-competitive? Seems Canada doesn’t have it any better than the US where Canadian Broadband Issues are concerned. “Users of the Canadian family-run ISP Teksavvy (which we profiled last year) have started noticing that Bell Canada is throttling traffic before it reaches wholesale partners. According to Teksavvy [...]
The man sure did make some MAJORLY SWEET Lemonade out of the rotten racial fruit that’s been flung at him this week.
And to think that my Pennsylvania Primary vote might actually count for something this time!
Technorati Tags: Obama, Racial divisiveness
[...]Well, those sneaky changes to the laws that got through in the Post 9/11 era are what got Spitzer’s “structuring” of withdrawals and deposits into various accounts put under a microscope. But can anyone tell me if, when it was found out that these financial flags were not pointing at [...]
The House passed a FISA reform bill today that does NOT include Telecomm Retroactive Immunity. It also lets them tell their story in closed door session in Court. More importantly, it refuses to give permission to warrantless or rectroactive warrant wiretapping and puts some serious limits on blanket wiretaps. Glenn [...]
At the Congressional Hearing on March 11, it was very obvious that outside of the halls of Congress, Net Neutrality and Internet Free Speech is very much a Bipartisan Issue. PCMag covered the Net Neutrality hearing, which resulted in this incredible quote by Michele Combs of the Christian Coalition, [...]
Today VonTV.net had a great panel discussion on Net Neutrality, and one of my favorite bloggers, Harold Feld of WetMachine (also VP of Media Access Project) was one of the Net Neutrality Proponents. Marvin Ammori
General Counsel at Free Press, was also on the Proponent side of the [...]
What a HOOT! So I just went blog visiting and caught this perfect moment at Wetmachine. Click on the thumbnail to see True Market Power!
Technorati Tags: Comcast, Market Power, WetMachine
[...]Domino Power Magazine has a great analysis of the information, that was presented in the recent meeting of the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform, about how the infamous White House Emails got Lost. Reading the whole article will most likely lead you to the same conclusion I [...]
I know hundreds of individuals in the Lehigh Valley have called this guy and told him how we, his constituents, feel about the environment and global warming, and nothing anyone tells him will change his vote. Charlie Dent is guaranteed to vote against any bill that’s good for the environment. [...]
What’s wrong with this picture? A local farmer in Minnesota wrote a great opinion piece in the NYTimes about his issues renting acreage to expand his high-demand locally grown organic fruits and veggies business. Problem is that the acreage he wished to rent had been dedicated to “corn base”. [...]
There’s another AT&T sponsored Cable Franchising Bill in Tennessee, this one being pushed by the Telecom Astroturf group “Connected Tennessee“. It’s not the only Tennessee Cable Franchise bill, but it is the one getting the most press and attention, probably because of the dough that’s being slung [...]
This morning CNN ran a story about President Bush’s comments about the Economy and the FISA bill. Needless to say the dialog after the story, the one in the comments, was just as interesting as the story. And there were some gently dissenting viewpoints.
However, and here’s where it gets interesting– [...]
Apparently Comcast PAID a bunch of people to show up 90 minutes early and fill the seats at the FCC hearing at Harvard on Comcast’s blocking of Legitimate BitTorrent traffic by Spoofing packets. And after the folks at SaveTheInternet.com caught a bunch of the seat fillers on Video admitting they [...]
Nwitimes.com is reporting that in Indiana, after passage of one of the ubiquitous ‘Cable Choice and Competition‘ state level bills written by the phone companies, and pushed into passage by the phone companies deploying a swarm of lobbyists and handing out lots of chunky campaign contributions at the local [...]
Take the case of Wikileaks.org, the Premier WhistleBlower Website, which just had its domain name shut down by court order at the behest of a Cayman Islands Bank working through the American Court System so that people in the US wouldn’t be able to see the docs on their [...]
Right now the FCC is looking into Comcast’s packet spoofing to shut off BitTorrent traffic, which Comcast says is for the purpose of “managing the network”. Never mind that there are other ways to accomplish the same thing. Oh, and might I mention that LEGAL uses of BitTorrent are in [...]
Hmm, wonder if we’ll get someone EVEN WORSE than Martin if he’s found to be crooked . . .
North Carolina Democratic Party Investigates FCC Chairman Kevin Martin
Tags: FCC Chairman Martin, Misuse of Government Funds, North Carolina Democratic Party
[...]Geez, the Peak Oil groups have been pointing this out for a long time. It’s about time that the NYT got with the program, and reported this study about Biofuels being a Greenhouse Threat.
Too bad they didn’t catch this already reported story when it was originally reported, and in [...]
The New York Times reports today on a very disturbing story. This story was first broken on the Common Dreams website on an in depth Campaign Finance article last April, which points up how Obama has repeatedly stated that he doesn’t take money from Federal Lobbyists. The Common Dreams [...]
The Washington Post has reported that Bush has ordered expanded Internet network monitoring to stop the stealing of US Government Data by . . . whoever. Of course, we all know where this is going. This is going to be a blanket abrogation of Internet Privacy, along with all the [...]
Well, even if Specter voted the right way for the wrong reason, I’m glad he did. The FISA bill was tabled. From Daily Kos earlier today re Specter and FISA; “Specter will vote against cloture because he’s having a hissy fit over his precious amendment not getting due consideration.” [...]
