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Bush Says Americans 'Ought to Have' Broadband and a Pony by 2007
wrttnwrd writes "George Bush is calling for universal broadband by 2007. He doesn't say how, or who's going to pay for it, or who's going to build it, but hey, isn't almost good enough? (for all of you Boondocks readers out there)" First step to universal broadband: don't have your Justice Department argue against communities providing their own broadband service. And don't forget the pony!
Buch is An Asshole
Yes, wonderful ideas - like giving the wealthy huge tax breaks, lying to America to avenge his daddy, and most recently, inviting a true terrorist - our buddy Sharon, to the White House to discuss how many more people we should murder in the name of Zionism. While he sings against islamist fundamentalism, he sings for the Christian right. Wonderful Ideas (tm). So wonderful, it is embarrassing to be an American with this guy representing us. Yeah, broadband sounds great - lets get Osama. Lets figure out how to implement this broadband. I hope the rest of America isn't naive enough to think he actually intends to follow through, he just needs to make enough promises to get him elected. I shudder to think of what damage this guy can do unimpeded - shit, look at what he has done while he was concerned about reelection.
Signed,
An Embarrassed American
ymmv
There's this right-wing talk show host Kirby Wilbur in Seattle and he rants during a promo for his station that a school district in Yakima, WA turned down free circus tickets for children in the school district because the issuers of the free tickets failed to offer Spanish documentation about the tickets. He even punctuates the rant with a frothy-mouthed comment about how those kids should be learning English and implies that the school has an anti-English/multicultural agenda and is using the circus tickets to push it.
But of course that wasn't the whole story. I went out on the Internet and found the whole story in a matter of minutes. It turns out that the school district in question has a high enough Spanish-speaking population that issuing English-only documentation about the free tickets causes an undue amount of confusion and forces the school to correct the problem at great expense to itself. The school district was simply requesting that the issuers of the free tickets help them out so as not to incur the expense of altering the fliers about the free tickets.
You're always just barely getting the whole story with these guys.
--Rick "If it isn't broken, take it apart and find out why."
Well...if Bush mentions it...it'll never happen. For example;
No child left behind=all children left behind.
15 billion for AIDS=nothing for AIDS.
Anything he touts gets the kiss of death.
Nice +5 liberal pander, but the facts are different: unemployment is down (lower than Clinton years), gas prices are fine, we're not killing our soldiers (the enemy is, a little), some people are against gay marriage but a consitututional amendment is very unlikely (although warranted if the number are there), we pay more than ever to educate kids but teacher's unions fight tooth and nail to prevent us from being able to make sure teachers aren't uneducated idiots themselves, and there's not a hungry kid in this country with sane parents.
Wouldn't a little honesty be kewl?
everything in moderation
The problem is that there is no real reason to get rid of Bush, yet the Demo'rats will continue to attack him wherever they can.
And it's understandable, this is politics. However, like most fanatics, they only hear one side of the story and anyone who brings up other facts or ideas are either liars or "fox news watchers". When ideas don't go their way, they will attack personally, as they have with Bush and as they will with anyone who opposed their view points.
This is not a quest to better a country, it's a quest to remove Bush from the White House at all costs because they hate Bush.
And you, my friend, might look at the connection between populat vote and electoral votes. They are not two separate, divorced, entities.
You might want to learn some civics.
Oh, and also some civility...
DAILY ROTATION
> liberal Republicans, like Bush
Whoah, time to take a step back. I'm a little unclear on how Bush is liberal at all. You may not like his policies, but they are pretty much straight down the social conservative and neoconservative party lines. Neither of which could be called liberal by any stretch of the imagination.
Liberals (like myself!) generally want increased envronmental controls, more internationalism, lots of social safety nets, more peace, and progressive tax rates. Many of them (like myself!) also support a high degree of individual freedom. I find it hard to call the USAPATRIOT Act, the Iraq War, or the no-gay-marriage amendment liberal in the least. Liberal doesn't mean "I, as a conservative, don't like it". Bush might be accurately called a fascist, but fascism is an extreme form of conservatism.
Unless, of course, you are from any other English speaking country, in which case your confusion about how we use the labels "liberal" and "conservative" is quite understandable.
Oh yeah and Gore would've done so much better. Most everyone polled knows a Dem. will suck at protecting the American people from future attacks. So get off this crap. A Dem may help the econ. some but I doubt by much since it's recovering already.
your suckage seems to be on the rise
Recapitulating the thread: Grandparent comment accuses Great-grandparent of pro-Bush administration spinning by asking "How is the weather in D.C. today, Mr Rove?"
Parent comment decides that's unfair to Karl Rove, who, as President Bush's primary political advisor, is clearly a public figure and one who would spin the administration line.
Parent commenter decides that the proper way to argue his case against grandparent is not to argue that facts, but to make a (rather lame -- "your suckage") ad hominem attack, and then injury to the insult by displaying grandparent poster's (unmunged) email address, in the hopes that spam-bots screen-scraping Slashdot will find it.
Now, there are these who would say that such personal smearing of opposition, without making any attempt to refute their arguments, is precisely what the Republican Party in general, and Karl Rove in particular, are doing to Richard Clarke, for Clarke's courage in coming forward and telling the American public that the Bush Administration was more concerned about going to war with Iraq than with fighting Osama bin Laden.
And there are some who would say that this sort of smear is similar to the Administration's false accusation that former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill disclosed classified documents, in an attempt to discredit O'Neill's candid account of the Bush Administration's shortcomings.
And some might even go so far as to say that posting an unmunged email address is a pale echo of how the Bush Administration punished Ambassador Joseph Wilson for telling the truth -- that Iraq didn't have nuclear bomb making materials --, by telling conservative columnist Robert Novak to publish to the world that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was an undercover CIA agent, thereby ending her effectiveness as a agent -- and thus harming the country's national security -- as well as threatening her own life.
But I would never say these things, because I'd be afraid that some Anonymous Coward might post my unmunged email address. Congratulations to you, Mr. Republican Coward! Once again you've let everyone know that lese majeste, any offense against King George, will be punished, even if -- especially if -- that offense is to tell the truth about this Administration's smear tactics.
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