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Was also seized. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/01/atdhe-sports-streaming-website-seized_n_817224.html

Way to go SONY. Seriously, how long do you think it will take before companies realise that such means of control are little more than speed-bumps on the road of technological progress.

On a side note, after seeing the Tunisian Uprising and The Egypt Situation, I wonder how long it will be before a consumer revolution finally gets sparked against the tyrannical corporate overlords. Agreed, more fundamental issues (things like freedom and human rights) were the trigger for what happened in Tunisia and Egypt . Some day however, when those issues are taken care of(the eternal optimist here), the most pressing question facing average joe may be why he has to essentially behave like a milch cow to the media conglomerates. Come that day..... REVOLUTION!

I didn't call on Palestine to lay down their arms. I called on them to make a credible commitment to peace. If they want to do that by laying down their arms, that is fine. If they want to do it some other way, that is fine with me too. If they want to start, they can desist from making this kind of cartoon. (uh, if that link doesn't work, you might have to copy and paste it: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/03/jon-stewart-takes-aim-at_n_447296.html )

I didn't call on Palestine to lay down their arms. I called on them to make a credible commitment to peace. If they want to do that by laying down their arms, that is fine. If they want to do it some other way, that is fine with me too. If they want to start, they can desist from making this kind of cartoon. (uh, if that link doesn't work, you might have to copy and paste it: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/03/jon-stewart-takes-aim-at_n_447296.html )

Actually there is no way in hell they'll do that because last time they tried tracing child porn it led them to the Pentagon! That's right boys and girls, your tax dollars at work, as they had the giant brass balls to actually buy and download CP while sitting there at work in the Pentagon.

And why wouldn't they? Because unlike those poor peasants where they are guilty until proven innocent the prosecutor declined to file charges in nearly all the cases!

So if they want to pass this I think we should start with a five year "zero tolerance" policy for government officials of ALL branches. How much you want to bet they'd be all for privacy then? Sadly this will never be, instead it'll be another case where the law doesn't apply to them, just to everyone else.

The "crazy fucker" who shot
Gabrielle Giffords strangely, wasn't Muslim.

(cough)

No, he was a liberal.

The "crazy fucker" who shot
Gabrielle Giffords strangely, wasn't Muslim.

(cough)

and if you don't think Putin still runs the show, there's a bridge I'd like to speak to you about...

Putin *clearly* runs the show and has been working on amending the Russian Constitution to do away with the pesky term limit rule. Just recently hinted he might run in 2012.

Googling for Putin and constitutional changes brings up the Reuters link as well as numerous articles on the subject back when the PM job was 'created' for him in 2007/2008. Not a lot since, which is a wee bit telling since Putin/Medvedev have a habit of closing newspapers they don't like.

particularly like FocksNews' report: "...the second biggest star in the universe..."

And then there is this from a HuffPo article titled "Two Suns? Twin Stars Could Be Visible From Earth By 2012":

When that happens, for at least a few weeks, we'd see a second sun, Carter says. There may also be no night during that timeframe.

Dr. Carter said no such thing, of course.

But wait! How can that be? The HuffPo can never be wrong: they're politically correct!

Steve Jobs died in
1984
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/When_was_the_Mac_Computer_invented
.... and then again in 2008
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/06/steve-jobs-dead-how-the-m_n_155639.html http://www.spooftimes.com/NewsDetail.aspx?articleId=7836cb01-1471-4590-aab4-7c562261bc2e&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

and then again yesterday.

You might actually want to check and see who is actually sending in more money to the government. I am betting you think it is the poor or middle class. You would be wrong according to the reported government numbers. The bottom 50% earners are only paying 2.7% of the total income tax received. This is actual money sent in to the government. Where is the myth that the poor are paying more than others coming from?

If the bottom 50% of the earners are only paying 2.7% of the income tax that ends up to be even less of the total amount of revenue that the federal government actually gets. How do people say the "rich" are getting off scott-free and the middle class and the poor are actually paying for everything? The actual revenue numbers being reported by the federal government don't seem to support that statement.

Top 1% Pay 38% of all income tax
Top 5% Pay 59% of all income tax
Top 10% Pay 70% of all income tax
Bottom 50% Pay 2.7% of all income tax
47% of American Households didn't pay any income tax for 2009.

45% of all the revenues of the government in 2009 and 2010 were from income tax. Corporate tax revenue was 13% in 2009 and 9% in 2010 of total revenues. The federal government revenues from largest to smallest are Income Tax, Social Security and other payroll taxes, Corporate Tax. All the other taxes don't even add up to the Corporate Tax amounts.

So if you added corporate taxes to the top 5% then you are talking 71.7% of revenues in 2009. It would 67.7% of revenues in 2010. So it would appear to me that the "rich" in this country are paying significantly more than half of the cash needed/used for the government to run.

So exactly who are the "rich" that we are talking about? It is just the fat cats on Wall Street and the CEOs? I don't think so.

If you look at who the corporations are in this country you might be surprised. 99% of all corporations/firms in this country have under 100 employees. They make up 30% of the revenue of all US companies. If you move up to companies with under 500 employees now you are talking about 46% of all the revenue of US companies. So small businesses are paying roughly 30% of the corporate taxes and small-medium companies are paying roughly 46% of all the corporate taxes. I suspect that most of the people who own these businesses would be considered "rich" by most people, but they are not the wall street fat cats and typical CEOs that people think of as the "rich". I make that comment because I hear people saying the middle class is disappearing. If that is the case then I would assume that those who own their own business are considered "rich".

Please explain to me how this is suppose to work where the "rich" supposedly are not paying their fair share. I am not saying the distribution of earnings in the US is a good/perfect thing. I do think everyone still has a chance to make more money and own their own business today, if they are willing to work hard and take the risks required.

http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/smallbus.html
http://www.kiplinger.com/features/archives/how-your-income-stacks-up.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_United_States_federal_budget
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_federal_budget
http://budget.house.gov/
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/index.html
http://www.heritage.org/budgetchartbook/federal-revenue
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/07/income-tax-47-of-american_n_529059.html

As a consumer I support net neutrality, but what the FCC is implementing isn't it. This is worse than nothing. What is wrong with the world when Al Franken is the voice of reason?

Weren't we all 'against' this version of FCC's net neutrality??? It wasn't exactly what most people wanted, and it only passed because it appeased to cable lobbyists (ie. ATT, Level 3, etc.).

As the net neutrality rules were about to be passed, this was posted on slashdot: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/21/1510232/Obama-FCC-Caves-On-Net-Neutrality which pointed to this article -> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timothy-karr/obama-fcc-caves-on-net-ne_b_799435.html . Sorry I don't know HTML....

What I don't get here is that a lot are praising the net neutrality and are against Verizon, but if you read through that earlier slashdot post, a lot of people were against this version of Net Neutrality because it really didn't give that freedom we wanted, not all of it, and nowhere near it..... I wonder what changed since the rules by FCC have not changed...

Just thought I'd point out this old slashdot article out..

There are more economical ways to travel than by private jet that still offer privacy.

Ignoring that, how about his multiple large houses and their enormous electricity bills?

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/05/03/stunning-pictures-al-gores-new-9-million-mansion-media-totally-ignore
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/gorehome.asp
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/17/photos-al-goree-new-8875_n_579286.html#s91230&title=undefined
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/05/exclusive-estimate-carbon-footprint-of.html

Do we want him spending half is day rubbing shoulders with the public because of the negligible carbon footprint difference from his plane ride?

I don't know about you, but people who say "do as I say, not as I do" can get bent IMHO.

1. by allowing them to see countries other than their own. street view alone ought to help humanize the rest of the world in their eyes, along with allowing them some comparison of relative wealth of societies under different kinds of rule. you know, the same sort of thing oppressive regimes generally deny in order to keep their subjects ignorant and believing they have it good. see for reference north korea.

2. how will (not) having these products affect the iranian government? answer: it won't: i'm sure they already have illicitly acquired GIS software and imagery for government use. therefore, the only thing that can come of this decision is neutral or good for the iranian people.

i think that you should answer your own bonus question given that it is illegal for american companies to do business with and receive money from iran. since there is no apparent monetary reward to google, maybe they're actually trying to not be evil. i know. it's a strange concept.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/23/us-allowed-american-compa_n_800989.html

does google have such an exemption to do business? i haven't seen any evidence of that. please provide some in your answer to your bonus question.

Maybe you haven't heard of the NYPD's "stop-and-frisk" policy? It is clearly unconstitutional, but goes on anyway.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-powell/stopping-stop-and-frisk-i_b_647298.html

http://www.nyclu.org/issues/racial-justice/stop-and-frisk-practices

-molo

Goldman never needed a bailout. The treasury just had to give all the banks money so it wouldn't be obvious which banks *cough* BoA *cough* citi *cough* really needed the money.

Goldman had meetings about how much money they were going to make off the subprime crash as early as 2007. Bright guys, they were. Apparently they made a net $50m profit off the subprime crash.

You mean where she "knowingly permitted a situation to continue where impermissible pressure was placed on several subordinates in order to advance a personal agenda.''

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=awseYZEQaikU

And her defense fund was illegal too

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/24/sarah-palin-defense-fund_n_624833.html

Sorry but using the ethics laws as the boogyman and blaming the press just doesn't fly, it hamstrung Joe Miller's campaign and its not an excuse for quitting the job she was elected for.

You'll have to show me evidence that ice mass is rebounding from a 2007 year low. The latest I've heard is that the area of ice coverage has increased a bit, but the ice is thinning. Overall, there's been less ice mass worldwide every year. Here's data from Greenland, Canada, and the Antarctic.

http://www.ageofautism.com/2011/01/breaking-news-statement-from-dr-andrew-wakefield-no-fraud-no-hoax-no-profit-motive.html
http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/05/peer-reviewed-papers-support-findings.html

I'm not saying who to believe there; I'm just linking to his defense vs. Deer's accusations

See also for alternatives to prevent/cure/mitigate ASD:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/autism-research-discovery_b_794967.html
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/health/autism/vit-D-theory-autism.shtml

In general, for good health through better nutrition:
http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/foodpyramid.aspx

And discussion comments here (pro and con):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jenny-mccarthy/vaccine-autism-debate_b_806857.html

http://www.ageofautism.com/2011/01/breaking-news-statement-from-dr-andrew-wakefield-no-fraud-no-hoax-no-profit-motive.html
http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/05/peer-reviewed-papers-support-findings.html

I'm not saying who to believe there; I'm just linking to his defense vs. Deer's accusations

See also for alternatives to prevent/cure/mitigate ASD:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/autism-research-discovery_b_794967.html
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/health/autism/vit-D-theory-autism.shtml

In general, for good health through better nutrition:
http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/foodpyramid.aspx

And discussion comments here (pro and con):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jenny-mccarthy/vaccine-autism-debate_b_806857.html

http://www.talkaboutcuringautism.org/medical/studies-about-vaccine-autism-link.htm

Mentioned here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/hxwhite/no-link-found-between-vac_n_715090_61080424.html

Although, as in my other comments, the issue may be a much broader one about dealing with toxins, dealing with immune system issues from vitamin D deficiency, and so on, where the extra heavy metal toxic load or allergic reaction from some vaccines is just one of many issues...

Please see my other posts to this article, including these links and others:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/autism-research-discovery_b_794967.html
http://www.amazon.com/Disease-Proof-Your-Child-Feeding-Right/dp/0312338058
http://www.ravediet.com/preview.html
http://www.iodine4health.com/

The first link suggests that pretty much all autism is related to various issues like you discovered in time (there are just a bunch of them from vitamin D deficiency, to iodine defiency, to lack of omega-3s, to dairy, to toxins of various sorts in processed foods or, presumably, vaccines). From there: "Most neurodevelopmental disorders have common roots. But looking at only one aspect of such conditions will not solve the problem of autism. Current autism research is based on an outdated approach -- one that is something like blind men examining the proverbial elephant. Each researcher works in his or her own silo examining different factors and coming to different conclusions. Research that integrates, synthesizes and examines all the data on causes and potential treatments is practically non-existent. The mitochondrial dysfunction identified in the JAMA study I've been talking about is ultimately only one downstream symptom of many upstream causes. Other researchers have found systemic inflammation,(ix) brain inflammation,(x) gut inflammation,(xi) elevated levels of toxins and metals, gluten and casein antibodies,(xii) nutrient deficiencies including omega-3 fats,(xiii) vitamin D,(xiv) zinc, and magnesium, and collections of metabolic dysfunction related to quirky genes that make it difficult to perform chemical reactions essential for health in the body such as methylation and sulfation.(xv)"

The second and third links show why excessive dairy is pretty harmful for most people (even ignoring how most of the world is lactose intolerant). The fourth is something I'm just learning about at the moment (iodine deficiency, where dairy is often a primary source of iodine, so watch out for it without dairy or eating seaweed or supplementing).

Your son is lucky to have you as his Dad. You might want to still monitor for the other health issues and take pro-active steps to "disease-proof" your family on a diet of mostly vegetables, fruits, and beans (and some nuts, seeds, and whole grains).

As a four year old, my wife had surgeons open up her belly and take her guts out (and put them back) because they refused to listen to her mother who suggested she had a millk allergy (from an article she read) -- and it turned out, after all the trauma, yes it was an allergy to milk and lactose. Doctors (especially surgeons) seem to be trained to sound very confident even when they don't have a clue (especially about nutrition). Part of how it got that way, starting around 1910:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexner_Report

For down the road:
    http://www.newciv.org/whole/schoolteacher.txt
    http://www.holtgws.com/

See my other posts for this article with links to this and others: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/autism-research-discovery_b_794967.html

Please see my other comments to this thread, including mentioning Mark Hyman's work and others. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/autism-research-discovery_b_794967.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/autism-research-discovery_b_794967.html
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/health/autism/vit-D-theory-autism.shtml

Look into iodine deficiency too:
http://theiodineproject.webs.com/addadhdautism.htm
http://www.coffetoday.com/child-autism-associated-with-iodine-deficiency/903216/

A comprehensive approach to nutrition:
http://www.amazon.com/Disease-Proof-Your-Child-Feeding-Right/dp/0312338058

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/autism-research-discovery_b_794967.html
Not to raise false hopes, but from there: "The causes of mitochondrial dysfunction are well known, specifically as it relates to metabolism and the brain, and I have documented them in my books "UtraMetabolism" and "The UltraMind Solution." They include environmental toxins (iv) -- mercury, lead and persistent organic pollutants(v) -- latent infections, gluten and allergens (which trigger inflammation) sugar and processed foods,(vi) a nutrient-depleted diet(vii) and nutritional deficiencies.(viii) These are all potentially treatable and reversible causes of mitochondrial dysfunction that have been clearly documented. I found all these problems in Jackson, and over a period of two years we slowly unraveled and treated the underlying causes of his energy loss which included gut inflammation, mercury, and nutrient deficiencies. Over time, the tests for his mitochondrial function and oxidative stress (as well as levels of inflammation and nutrient status) all normalized. When they became normal, so did Jackson. He went from full-blown regressive autism to a normal, bright beautiful six-year-old boy."

If you do only one thing, check vitamin D:
    http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/health/autism/vit-D-theory-autism.shtml
    http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/newsletter/another-autism-case-report.shtml

Vaccines may still be involved in a couple of different ways, for kids who are having problems dealing with various heavy metals, where they may be struggling before, but the hevay metals or other issues with the vaccines pushed them over the edge (especially in a vitamin D deficient child, since vitamin D is used in creating glutathione, the brain's master antioxidant). One doctor being discredited doesn't prove that some vaccines can't have side effects in some especially sensitive individuals.

A new way of eating that in six weeks your family would like as much as how you eat now:
    http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/foodpyramid.aspx
    http://www.amazon.com/Disease-Proof-Your-Child-Feeding-Right/dp/0312338058
At the very least, you'll probably live longer on that plan to help your kid longer.

We try to eat more that way, and take our vitamin D, and so on...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/government-concedes-vacci_b_88323.html http://www.911truth.ch/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2012 Secondly, no "correlative study" is needed. This is physiology. There is a direct pathway by which mercury and aluminum damage the brain.

Oh please. If she even hears about this, she'll just attribute it to a conspiracy against him.

She has heard about it and you're not too far off-base with her reaction. Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jenny-mccarthy/vaccine-autism-debate_b_806857.html

Famously, Jenny McCarthy went on Oprah and told parents not to vaccinate their kids. Many doctors and parents LISTENED! If you read the articles, you'll see that as a result children died of easily preventable childhood diseases because parents were too scared to get the proper vaccinations.

She's STILL DOING IT! She still says the same thing. Article in Huffington Post, dated TWO DAYS AGO:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jenny-mccarthy/vaccine-autism-debate_b_806857.html

I know children regress after vaccination because it happened to my own son. Why aren't there any tests out there on the safety of how vaccines are administered in the real world, six at a time? Why have only 2 of the 36 shots our kids receive been looked at for their relationship to autism? Why hasn't anyone ever studied completely non-vaccinated children to understand their autism rate?

These missing safety studies are causing many parents to approach vaccines with moderation. Why do other first world countries give children so many fewer vaccines than we do? What if a parent used the vaccine schedule of Denmark, Norway, Japan or Finland -- countries that give one-third the shots we do (12 shots vs. 36 in the U.S.)? Vaccines save lives, but might be harming some children -- is moderation such a terrible idea?

This debate won't end because of one dubious reporter's allegations. I have never met stronger women than the moms of children with autism. Last week, this hoopla made us a little stronger, and even more determined to fight for the truth about what's happening to our kids.

Amazing.

You mean like when Jimbo Wales was busy "oversighting" things out of Rachel Marsden's wikipedia article because she was screwing him?

Perhaps if you could give us a list of all that "violence coming from the left" in the US that is somehow being cleverly concealed by all the media of the world (must be some kind of a leftist conspiracy involving all those pinko-commie corporate CEOs!) it would help your points to attain some modicum of credibility. Unless your post was meant to be some very subtle satire, that is.

• It was not the fear of conservative violence that caused Ann Coulter's speech to be cancelled this week.
• It was a liberal who bit the finger off a man who disagreed with him on healthcare.
• It was Obama-loving Amy Bishop who took a gun to work and murdered co-workers.
• Joseph Stack flew his plane into the IRS building after writing an anti-conservative manifesto.
• It was liberals who destroyed AM radio towers outside of Seattle.
• It's liberals who burn down Hummer dealerships.
• It was progressive SEIU union thugs who beat a black conservative man who spoke his mind.
• It's doubtful that a conservative fired shots into a GOP campaign headquarters.
• In fact, Democrats have no monopoly on having their offices vandalized.
• Don't forget it was Obama's friend Bill Ayers who used terrorism as a tool for political change. SDS is still radical, with arrests in 2007 and the storming of the CATO Institute in July 2008.
• It was a liberal who was sentenced to two years for bringing bombs and riot shields to the Republican National Convention in 2008.
• It was a liberal who threatened to kill a government informant who infiltrated her Austin-based group that planned to bomb the RNC.
• It was liberals who assaulted police in Berkeley.
• It was liberals who intimidated and threw rocks through the windows of researchers.
• The two Black Panthers who stood outside polls intimidating people with nightsticks were probably not right-wingers.
• Every time the G20 gets together, it's not conservatives who destroy property and cause chaos.

I could literally go on and on, but let's try to have some perspective here. Violence is a product of the fringe, on either side, and it's sickening to try to use it for political advantage. Those who commit violence in the name of politics deserve political change no more than they deserve leniency in sentencing. Violence furthers no cause. The only call to action that violence has ever moti

Here's the picture, just to make sure we're looking at the same thing.

It may not be drawn on her back, but the lower half rather directly shows that it's meant for her.

I'm not saying you should care about that. I'm saying that you shouldn't ignore reality on the sole reason that reality is stupid. On the contrary, you should watch it so you can see just how stupid it can get, and why it's getting stupid, so a cure might be thought up.

look here. Took about 5 seconds of googling.

That would be this one, complete with the gunsights. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/24/sarah-palins-pac-puts-gun_n_511433.html But true, no evidence yet that she or any of her followers were involved.

Nope. Sorry. Not this time.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/24/sarah-palins-pac-puts-gun_n_511433.html
This has been a long time coming, and I suspect won't be the last.

wow

Then compare/contrast against the comments at HuffPo

The casino will "keep the bet" if they are winning, but will cancel a payout if they can show it exceeded the pre-programmed win-loss ratio for the machine or was due in any way to a machine "malfunction." (They may refund the single bet that preceded the payout, but that doesn't count for much.)

This one: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/31/fortune-valley-casino-say_n_520182.html

This one: http://www.freeslotmachinescasino.com/news/jan07/pennyslots.html

and this one: http://www.inquisitr.com/46188/casino-denies-man-166m-jackpot-after-slot-malfunction/

The reasons for the payout cancelations vary, but no where is there any mention of the casino giving money back to all of the people who were betting and losing money on the malfunctioning machines prior to the "incorrect payout".... if the machine was broken the entire time, all bets should be canceled and the money returned, or else the payout should be allowed to stand.

If I were king, my rule would be that if the player is allowed to bet, the casino must pay out if the player wins, no matter what the cause of the win (except for fraud). Casinos might take a little more care in the acceptance of machines, promoting better development processes, etc. As long as they can simply cancel wins due to what they claim is a malfunction, while keeping all losses, there is no incentive to improve the state of function in the code that drives the machines.

I believe that gambling is fundamentally stupid, but if the state is going to allow it, the state should allow it on terms that are equally favorable to the plebes and the casinos.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/autism-research-discovery_b_794967.html
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/health/autism/vit-D-theory-autism.shtml
MIght be of interest...

See also: http://www.amazon.com/Disease-Proof-Your-Child-Feeding-Right/dp/0312338058

My bad, that would be:

"ranked the United States 14th out of 34 OECD countries for reading skills, 17th for science and a below-average 25th for mathematics."

But hardly "best educated population (on average)."

The latest poll, a poll of Likely Voters, has Obama at 46-53 approve disapprove. Another poll, a poll of eligible Adults, shows Obama at 47-46 approve disapprove. That's a 7 point difference in disapproval!

The gap between LV and RV polls is known in polling circles as the "enthusiasm gap", and it tends to be a lot higher in mid-terms then presidential elections. The gap has consistently favored Republicans for the last 30 years, mainly because Rich people are much more likely to turn out then poor people.

Here is a more politically-correct source for the same story: Huffington Post . It says essentially the same thing but will not induce those painful knee-jerks.

So far, Wikileaks has published approximately nothing that is shocking or surprising or that reveals unlawful activity

I consider this shocking, surprising, and revealing unlawful activity: Anyone with half a brain should be able to realize that buying drugs and hired dancing boys for the entertainment of Afghan police you are helping to train is not something you want to do.

Oh, of course. I mean, they would never actually create laws or public policies that would put restrictions on unhealthy food, and would certainly never try to restrict the consumer access to certain foods!!

People that think that must be morons.

Oh, of course. I mean, they would never actually create laws or public policies that would put restrictions on unhealthy food, and would certainly never try to restrict the consumer access to certain foods!!

People that think that must be morons.

The FCC has been regulating the air waves for over 76 years! Never had a problem with that.

The Artists and Songwriters Guilds disagree. To briefly quote: "As a songwriter I have a problem wrapping my mind around the concept that the FCC is going out of the Censorship business and into the protection of free speech. Wasn't it the FCC that banned Billy Holiday's wonderful recording of "Love for Sale" and Cole Porter's "I Get a Kick Out of You?" Wasn't it the FCC that agreed with Vice President Spiro Agnew that the recording industry was promoting 'drug culture' with songs like "Puff the Magic Dragon" and "A Little Help From My Friends?"

"Isn't it the FCC that gave us Janet Jackson's 'Nipple Gate' and drove Howard Stern off the air and onto Satellite radio? Didn't they ban Ice-T for Cop Killer? Fine Bono for cursing at an awards show? I could go on, but I hope this short list demonstrates the controversial history of the FCC's role in censoring free expression in music."

"The Electronic Freedom Foundation a strong proponent of Net Neutrality, has also expressed concern: "While we're big fans of net neutrality, we worry that the FCC may want to build its net neutrality regulations on a rotten legal foundation,"Title I 'ancillary authority' which is both discredited and unbounded. As we've said before, if ancillary jurisdiction is enough for net neutrality regulations (something we might like) today, the FCC could just as easily invoke it tomorrow for any other Internet regulation that the commission dreams up (including things we won't like, like decency rules and copyright filtering)." - - - So even some of the most fervent Net Neutrality supporters understand that turning over the internet to the FCC may be a problem for people who want free expression to survive and thrive in the wonderful new information medium that is the Internet."

LINK to full article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-carnes/net-neutrality--can-we-tr_b_609392.html

Hows about investing some of their increased profits plus the tax dollars they have been given to improve their networks to actually do so?

Comcast Profit up 12%
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Time Warner Profits up 7%, Beating Forcasts

The issue is still under investigation. If there is one thing our government doesn't do, it's move quickly. Just because they haven't charged him yet doesn't mean they aren't planning on it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/15/wikileaks-conspiracy-charges_n_797454.html

Oh look, here is wikileaks RELEASING THE PERSONAL DETAILS OF AN INDIVIDUAL'S SEX AFFAIRS.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/17/tj-hemlinger-emails_n_798104.html