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I find that to be somewhat ironic considering Manning is a member of the anti-science American far right:

http://newsmeat.com/sports_political_donations/Peyton_Manning.php

Larry Elison, to become the most hated man in the World.

I didn't realize Mr. Ellison was a Conservative.

Apparently he's about 39% Republican and 40% Democrat.

>>All corporations lean to the right

Do you mean "the right" in the European sense of the word, or the American sense of the word? To Europeans, all of America is "right wing". If you mean it in the American sense of the world, you should spend some time looking through Open Secrets.org to see how corporations actually give. Goldman Sachs gave nearly a million to Obama, and around two hundred thousand to McCain, for example.

>>After all, corporations exist for the purpose of realizing profits, so why would a corporation ever support a political party or movement that works against the system that has allowed corporations to become as big, powerful, and profitable as they are today?

Big businesses often trend Democrat because Democrats believe in protectionism, whereas Republicans believe in competition and small businesses. Small businesses represent threats to big businesses, but regulation and red tape (Democrat tools) can impose severe barriers to entry for small businesses. For an insightful lesson, look at the difference in how many big businesses failed in post-war France versus America in the same time period. Off the top of my head, something like 90% of France's large businesses in 1950 were still around in 1980, whereas only 10% of America's were. Competition vs. Protectionism. Too big to fail, and all that.

Contrary to popular perception, the ultra-rich also like Democrats. If you believed the media, you'd think that Republicans were all about giving tax breaks to the ultra-rich. But we pay taxes in two different ways here in America - 1) income tax, and 2) capital gains. A reduction on income tax doesn't make the slightest difference to the ultra-rich, who get most of their money from capital gains. But all you hear about in the media is "Republicans pose tax break for the ultra-rich" and you don't hear anything about how John Kerry reduced capital gains taxes, or how Democrats recently killed the carried interest exemption (one of their 2008 campaign promises) after they had a lot of money thrown at them by lobbyists. Not that tax cuts aren't good things, but the carried interest exemption is just a bone thrown to Goldman Sachs.

It's interesting reading to see how Billionaires actually donate to political causes:
http://www.newsmeat.com/billionaire_political_donations

I've not seen stories of LARGE groups of "RIGHT WINGERS" gathering to beat people up or drag people behind trucks.

I've seen the Obama Administration ignore CLEAR intimidation of voters (Black Panthers). I'm sure the violence at the G9/G20 summits was all because of the police, and not the peaceful protesters.

I haven't seen news lately of gays being beaten on a regular basis, I do see video of left wingers assaulting people all the time. If you want, I'll get you a list the MSM won't show you. But you'd chalk it up to Faux news or DrudgeReport hysteria. It only happens if CNN or NYT says it did.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mithridate-ombud/2010/03/24/medias-myth-right-wing-violence

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=PA&last=Leboon&first=Norman

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6848176.ece

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2008/09/021387.php

http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/09/25/msm-promotes-left-wing-fantasies-of-right-wing-violence/

This looks to me like just another case of politicians trying to protect their big contributors. Consider:

The legislation's sponsors are from Texas (Cornyn) and New York (Schumer).

AT&T is based in Texas. AT&T has given more political contributions than any other company. Its current COO, and its former CEO, both donated to Cornyn.

Verizon is based in New York. Verizon is also on OpenSecret's heavy hitters list at the above link. Verizon's CEO unsurprisingly donated to Schumer.

Boost (Sprint) is based in Kansas.

Boost/Sprint has been the most aggressive in moving into prepaid phones, which often have lower costs than contract services. This threatens the incumbents: AT&T and Verizon each have about double Sprint's subscriber base, and thus have the most to lose from a shift towards prepaid.

Increased surveillance rules remove prepaid's privacy benefits. And they impose record-keeping costs on prepaid services like Boost, making them less competitive with AT&T and Verizon's lucrative contract businesses.

This looks to me like just another case of politicians trying to protect their big contributors. Consider:

The legislation's sponsors are from Texas (Cornyn) and New York (Schumer).

AT&T is based in Texas. AT&T has given more political contributions than any other company. Its current COO, and its former CEO, both donated to Cornyn.

Verizon is based in New York. Verizon is also on OpenSecret's heavy hitters list at the above link. Verizon's CEO unsurprisingly donated to Schumer.

Boost (Sprint) is based in Kansas.

Boost/Sprint has been the most aggressive in moving into prepaid phones, which often have lower costs than contract services. This threatens the incumbents: AT&T and Verizon each have about double Sprint's subscriber base, and thus have the most to lose from a shift towards prepaid.

Increased surveillance rules remove prepaid's privacy benefits. And they impose record-keeping costs on prepaid services like Boost, making them less competitive with AT&T and Verizon's lucrative contract businesses.

Sodium.

http://www.nrn.com/breakingNews.aspx?id=382296

http://www.reading.ac.uk/foodlaw/additive.htm

http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=74056755&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-03-02/processed-foods-may-need-u-s-rule-to-limit-salt-cdc-chief-says.html

The Romans controlled salt for centuries without a war or revolt over it.

I find it funny that this post is tagged "republican" when Barry Diller is a Democrat ( http://www.newsmeat.com/media_political_donations/Barry_Diller.php ). There is a strong tendency on slashdot to think that the wealthy are Republicans when in fact the areas of the U.S. with the highest average income levels are overwhelming Democrat.

Richard Garriott aka "Lord British" (Ultima series, NC Soft) $2,300 to Hillary Clinton

Flash website:
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate.php?last=Garriott+&first=Richard&st=TX&city=Austin

Well let's see. Here is the former board of AIG. This is going to be a quick Google of each one, and may not be correct or comprehensive.

M. Bernard Aidinoff: Democrat

Pei-yuan Chia: Democrat

Marshall A. Cohen: Can't tell. He appears to be Canadian, maybe he's not active here politically.

William S. Cohen: Democrat (2 out of 3 to Dems, also was Clinton's Sec of Defense)

Martin S. Feldstein: Republican

Ellen V. Futter: couldn't find any evidence.

Stephen L. Hammerman: Democrat (mixes it up some, likes Rudy as he was NYC police commissioner, but mostly Dems)

Carla A. Hills: mixed

Richard C Holbrooke: Democrat

Fred H. Langhammer: Republican (actually this is pretty mixed, but recently leans Republican)

George L. Miles, Jr: Republican

Morris W. Offit: Democrat

Martin J. Sullivan: Democrat

Michael H. Sutton: Democrat

Edmund S. W. Tse: Can't tell. Also not originally American.

Robert B. Willumstad: Can't tell.

Frank G. Zarb: Democrat

I believe that's 9 Democrats, 3 Republicans, and 5 unknown. I don't have time to do WaMu at the moment, but you're welcome to.

Mr. Malackowski's donation record: http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?zip=60657&last=Malackowski&first=James

Like the others, NASA should license the patent and collect revenues. Selling it outright is simply giving it away.

"Sen. Obama has some questions to answer about his dealings with one of his largest contributors Exelon, a big nuclear power company; apparently he cut some deals behind closed doors to protect them from full disclosure of the nuclear industry," she said.
<snip>
Obama's spokesperson, Bill Burton, however did return fire.

"Leave it to Senator Clinton to attack Barack Obama for a bill that she actually co-sponsored and supported. Instead of playing the same Washington games that people are sick of, she should prove how fully vetted she is by finally releasing her tax returns so that voters can see where the millions of dollars she's dropped into her campaign are coming from," Burton said.

All I can find about it on the Internet and all the press reports I have seen say he is a democrat. However, I did mention he acted like a republican enough to work for several republican presidents and he was all for going into Iraq before 9-11 happened.

A democrat donating to republicans isn't all that unusual. This is especially the case in the primary where you don't want the best candidate to win. Almost all of the donations were to people in the primary elections. Also, something less sinister, is the fact that democrats sometimes have republicans as friends and friends would support other friend in their bid for office.

That site is weird though, it show Mrs Clinton as only donating to a few political activities itself, some of which seems to be Exxon.

For a "card carrying democrat", he sure donated a fair bit of money to Republican Candidates. If the site is to be believed, anyway.

I don't shop at the "best buy". I had been considering utilizing speakeasy.net. Does it still have the slashdot brand?

I just can't give my dime to these http://www.newsmeat.com/ceo_political_donations/Ri chard_Schulze.php people

Ugggh. Must preview. Must preview. I forgot the brackets on the above URL. Sorry.

http://www.newsmeat.com/billionaire_political_dona tions/Bill_Gates.php

The Army (and its 82nd Airborne Division) is not the National Guard. Regardless of what it seems to you, the president's OK is required for one state to send its Guard into another, even if the recipient state's governor agrees, to prevent the scenario I described.

Ray Nagin is a Republican.

It was very difficult to understand your long, unstructured, unpunctuated post. Especially your citations of Democrats during Katrina. And whatever is your point about "Socialism".

The fact is that New Orleans was left to drown by Bush, despite the efforts of the governor, and the (Republican) mayor's incompetence. And just as Bush showed his agenda trying to blackmail LA Governor Blanco into letting Bush federalize the National Guard, Bush is now following through with this covert law enabling martial law.

I think if you read this, you'll notice that it's rather the other way 'round. Sadly, I cannot think up an appropriately funny 'chuck norris fact' for the occasion.

Microsoft issued an relatively unusual press release in mid-September 2003, announcing that Emerson was leaving to "spend more time with his family". The announcement got published in the New York Times, and Emerson's supposed end date was August 31, 2003. He would consult on "complicated transactions".

Emerson's position as "SVP Corporate Development" reporting directly to Steve Ballmer was abolished on his resignation, and the Corp Development division demoted to supervision by the CFO. After a period, Brian Roberts, Emerson's long time deputy was promoted to run the division. Robert's left Microsoft in 2005 to work with Emerson at his new position at Evercore Partners. Roberts and Emerson have been associated since running telecomunications portfolio in the dot-com days at the investment bank Lazard-Freres.

Emerson made political contributions to the Bush re-election campaign in mid-September 2003, and listed his occupation as Microsoft Executive, so his August 2003 resignation is a bit atmospheric or conveniently backdated.

Emerson had been given a 12 Million dollar loan as a signing bonus to MSFT in 2000. A mid-September 2003 proxy noted that he was paying the loan back with vested stock options. The options were underwater, but had a positive Black-Scholes valuation based on their future potential to be profitable. Emerson used this positive valuation to retire the loan on a cash free basis.

Emerson had little public trace through most of 2004, and then acquired a position at Evercore Partners, a mergers and acquisitions investment advisor. Evercore has since IPO'd, and is traded as EVR.

Emerson and a Baystar principal Andrew Farkas were both listed as advisors/investors in a NYC Venture, I-Hatch Partners. A Farkas relative (Younger brother, I believe) is the fund executive. This is good evidence that the Baystar and Emerson relationship had alternative means of communication, and unreturned phone calls from MSFT headquarters should be considered a convenient fiction.

Emerson and deputy Roberts also show up in July 2003 SEC documents as the signatory for the Microsoft investment in IMMR (Immersion) that had patent suits against Sony and MSFT. The MSFT stock investment in IMMR ended the Microsoft portion of the suit (for game controllers) while ensuring the suit against arch-rival Sony would continue. This "investment in a strategic lawsuit" has echoes in the Baystar Pipe deal occuring just months later. We can conclude that the IMMR and SCOX investments are implementations of a similar strategic idea. Sources:
http://news.com.com/2100-1022_3-5079594.html
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/789019/0001 19312503051346/ddef14a.htm
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950 3E6DB103AF933A1575AC0A9659C8B63
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?cit y=SEATTLE&st=WA&;last=EMerson&first=RICHARD

That's a good question. A company that produces faulty machines with all sorts of blunders and glitches in the past and present - since this is a free market surely market pressure should eradicate this company. Yet it seems the government that should look into such irregularities (especially since free market is (supposed to be) one of the pillars of the GOP) apparently has no interest in doing so.. Could it be because Diebold not only supported the Bush campaign financially, but not only had the ability, but also the intention to to deliver the victory to their crony buddies? - Noo, that would be too outlandish and could never happen; the vigilant public would easily find out about it.

The Romans had a saying: Bis peccare in bello non licet. To blunder twice is not allowed in war. Thank god big business isn't warfare or after all these blunders heads would be a'rollin (and piling up).

Don't underestimate the political pull of the Cato Institute and other lobbying institutions founded by the Koch family. They are very influential to the other business-friendly, anti-regulation political think-tanks including those followed by more Republican than Liberatarian politicians. In addition, the David Koch donates an awful lot of money to Republicans. If his think tank gets involved against the DMCA, we might see to chance of progress here.

You are correct. I should have researched it in more depth.

http://www.newsmeat.com/washington_political_donat ions/Jack_Abramoff.php

Now who's the one reciting talking points?

Repeat after me: Abramoff gave no money to Democrats. It is true that some of his clients, some Indian tribes -- indeed those bilked by Abramoff -- gave money to both Republicans and Democrats. One cannot directly link this money to Abramoff, however.... and in fact it would be foolish to do so.

Meanwhile, an FEC search of Abramoff's personal political donations show where his true loyalties exist.

As for the Clinton bit, please refer to what someone else has written further down in the threads. No need to repeat it here.

Oh, i could agree with the second part of your statment. However, microsoft didn't seem to get thier just penalties because the courts didn't realy see the harm it has done. We could talk metaphoricaly about how we were damaged but the truth is that consumers who bought microsofts product still got some value. This isn't to say they couldn't have recieved even more value for thier money if microsoft didn't do what it did, it just means they didn't get completley riped off.

Campain contributions don't neccesarily mean protection money.there have been several cases were this has backfired. This apears to indicate martha was contributing quite a bit though.

You DID know charitable contributions count towards tax breaks in the US, didn't you? Out of all Gates' billions stolen from you and me and every poor person on the planet, he donates a penny (to him) to get himself some extra tax-dodging ammo, and everybody fawns all over him like he was a Saint. PS, I installed a rootkit with this post, which writes the word "gullible" in your Windows system registry. Go look.

While I'm willing to slag MS on Windows Vista, beating down the little guy, etc... One area I will give Mr. Gates his due is in the donating department. He's perhaps the greatest philanthropist of our time!! When was the last time YOUR Fortune 500 CEO gave $100 Million to fight HIV.
I don't think the head of Cisco Systems (for one example of a really really un-poor person) has given nearly that much (unless it's in soft money):
http://www.newsmeat.com/ceo_political_donations/Jo hn_Chambers.php

By the way, there sure are a lot of "D"s on this list for a "hard core" Republican.

I never heard of Carl Icahn till I read today's posting. He's the 49th richest person in the world according to Forbes.His political contributions are to both Republicans and Democrats. (But mostly to Dems.)

Some people would say he's a Wall Street predator the way he bullies companies like TWA. He's got such a big pile of money he can influence companies like Blockbuster. The same guy thinks he's the closest thing a shareholder has to a friend. Even serious analysts admire him.

He's even part of XO Communications and tried to takeover the ailing Marvel Comics. There's a book about it called Comic Wars.

"You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog" - Carl Icahn

"property tax information, campaign donations"

www.tad.org
www.newsmeat.com

Ok that took a whole 2 seconds. Not very hard.

www.newsmeat.com

As a matter of fact, yes.

Political contributions by Michael Dell.

Wayman should fit in much better.

Wayman should fit in much better.

proof: Steve Jobs' political donations

Dude, you're getting a dubya!

(the records from the dude at Holland America are obviously not from the real Paul Allen)

Charles Walton's campaign donations since 1993

Down with Michael Dell!
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st= TX&last=Dell&first=Michael

Down with Michael Dell!
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st= TX&last=Dell&first=Michael

Um, this list makes me rethink some of those plans I have to purchase Dell systems...

So let me get this straight: you looked at the campaign contributions by former Star Trek members, and chose to highlight Leonard Nimoy, who donated money to Howard Dean and Bill Bradley (*I* voted for Bill Bradley, and I would today), while ignoring the fact that Robert Beltran donated money to LYNDON LAROUCHE?????

Note that the only Trek star listed who donated to a Republican candidate was Ricardo Montalban, who played a villain. The fellow he donated money to lost. Now that's what I call method acting.

Rupert Murdoch
Lorne Michaels
Siegfried Fischbacher
Roy Horn
Greg Norman
Martin Short
Alanis Morissette

Rupert Murdoch
Lorne Michaels
Siegfried Fischbacher
Roy Horn
Greg Norman
Martin Short
Alanis Morissette

Rupert Murdoch
Lorne Michaels
Siegfried Fischbacher
Roy Horn
Greg Norman
Martin Short
Alanis Morissette

Rupert Murdoch
Lorne Michaels
Siegfried Fischbacher
Roy Horn
Greg Norman
Martin Short
Alanis Morissette

Rupert Murdoch
Lorne Michaels
Siegfried Fischbacher
Roy Horn
Greg Norman
Martin Short
Alanis Morissette

Rupert Murdoch
Lorne Michaels
Siegfried Fischbacher
Roy Horn
Greg Norman
Martin Short
Alanis Morissette

I looked long and hard for Shatner, but i got nuthin'! Cheap skate.

You can see other Star Trek cast members political donations on this page (half-way down on the left).

I looked long and hard for Shatner, but i got nuthin'! Cheap skate.

You can see other Star Trek cast members political donations on this page (half-way down on the left).