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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!
Hey, moderators: if I want to read snarky left-wing opinions, I'll go to a different site. Save the frustrated Howard Dean shrieking for your personal weblogs and stick to the technology. You actually know what you're talking about in that arena.
You can gain the nerd vote a lot easier by getting out of Iraq then try to appease us with wiretapped broadband. Broadband is good, but I think little things like not having a trillion dollar debt would be a good idea to take care of first.
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it saysit may be something along the lines the of subsidized telephones provided in rural areas. .. of course, we know John Kerry is for and against broadbad..
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
i will refer you to the actions of stalin, mao , kim and pol pot if you want to see what the left would do and is doing in many countires.
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
Just when I was about to lose it and stop reading /. because of the insane level of liberal bias in the moderation, I see your post at +4 and a smidgen of hope for sane discourse glimmered on the screen and I calmed down a bit.
Thanks to the 2-3 clueful mods who don't feel the need to tow the anti-Bush line.
Now I'm going to go play some Battlefield:Vietnam and take out some frustration after reading the bullshit in the rest of this thread.
everything in moderation
it's just so that he can contract out to Haliburton again, be overcharged, fatten his retirement stock options, put the US farther in debt, request another trillion for debt cap, push it off onto tax payers, take more money from public programs like education,...
and have a big ole' laugh when he gets re-elected!
All this is because Bush is trying to get on the nicey nice with voters...well this voter sees right past his stupidity. What he should be focusing on is why companies are allowed to offshore american jobs to India. New Jersey outsources a government service to help find jobs to out of work people oversees, god the irony in that is enough to choke a hourse. But Bush sees nothing wrong with that, he even gives tax incentives to these companies.
3 million jobs have been lost under Bush's rule of tyranny. 3 million jobs! The worst since Herbert Hoover and the great depression. He wants us all to have broadband because we will need something when we all have lost our jobs.
What about gas prices this past week there were three record setting days for the highest average gas prices. What happened to Bush's campaign promise that they could control the price of oil because he and Chenney had experience in the industry. What a crock!
So keep making bold and stupid visions like going to the Moon and then Mars. Keep worring about the people in Iraq and Afghanastan and forgetting about us we don't mind really. We don't have domestic problems of our own to worry about or nothing.
Asshole!
because democrats have a history of balancing the budget?
bring it on! --- JFK
You have to be elected once before you can be re-elected.
"It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists." -Ludwig Wittgenstein
This just in:
Bush-hater pretends statistics don't matter, he knows things are terrible under Bush, so there.
If it ain't broke, you need more software.
I don't need to believe in any of these things to be a Republican. I am a republican, but I am not "of the body" as you Demo'rats seem to need to be:
1) Name one republican who has criticized people addicted to drugs. Show me proof, too. Show me that they meant "addiction" and not "use of illegal drugs". Are you aware that 4 in 10 users of oxycontin will become addicted? Did you know that Limbaugh's 'witch hunt' is just that.... did you know a judge in the SAME COUNTY was bypassed for the same crime? Did you know that this is the THIRD charge to be "leaked" by the prosecutor's office after the other two were proven false?
2) I do believe the US should remove itself from the UN, however I also believe that we should enforce the resolutions set forth by that organization. Why? Because right now, the U.S. is part of that organization, and the U.S. agreed with and sometimes sponsored those resolutions. Therefore, the U.S. is agreeing to enforce the policies itself agreed with over the last 10 years. Oh yeah, that's hypocritical.
3) This is another common misconception of "the left". The republicans do not want to promote big business as they are more interested in promoting free enterprise. The goal of a company is to make money and when they make money, they become larger. Should companies decide "hey, we're big enough, let's stop expanding". No. Are you going to say, "hey, I make enough money, maybe I should stop looking for promotions?" No. Likewise, Republicans do not have an issue with marijuana as a "group". Sure, some individuals don't like it, but some others don't care, and in fact, want to remove restrictions on illegal drugs altogether.
4) Actually, NAFTA which Clinton signed, sent a lot of jobs to foreign countries. It has also brought a lot of jobs to the U.S. Bush has nothing to do with sending jobs overseas. Businesses do, however... but in your little world, you believe they are one of the same.
5) Another misconception. Republicans (not all, but some) believe that a fetus is a human being. Some others, like some Demo'rats do not. I look at it this way: in order to be human you need to have 46 chromosomes, this is unique to the animal kingdom). A fetus has 46 chromosomes, so scientifically, this makes it human. Do you support killing humans? Oh, and a hypocracy of "the left" is that they are OK with killing unborn babies, but don't kill those convicted murderers, because they have rights.
6) Yet ANOTHER misconception of "the left". Republicans do not "hate" homosexuals or Hillary Clinton. They also do not say that jesus says this, and your insinuation is rediculous. However, the belief comes from the Bible. I will, however, mention that homosexuality is, by the defintion of "evolution", a way for mother nature to cleanse the gene pool. So hey, be gay as much as you want.
7) Bush has actually proposed to raise pay for both veterans and troops. However, I know what you are referring to. A law which covered troops through Sept. 2003 was not renewed in time to continue them beyond that point (mostly due to Demo'rat stalling in the House).
8) Everyone makes mistakes. Bill Clinton did it too, but that's OK. That's "youthful discretion" as Mr. Clinton claimed.
9) Yet another misconception. Republicans believe in teaching abstinance in schools to prevent children from having sex and not only providing condoms.
10) We did not "belittle" our allies, we had disagreements with them. We've had disagreements with them before, and that's just part of the game. However, Mr. Chirac did undermine his alliance with the US when he called Bush in late 2002 and said he's support him in his war in Iraq and provide troops as well, and at the same time conspiring with other nations to oppose him.
11) I don't know where you get this at all... it's just rediculous. HMOs have an interest in making money, but they are insurance companies, and they make their money by collecting fees and hoping people won
Allow me to give you props for turning a broadband thread into a Bush bashing war hating thread. You should all be proud of yourselves.
Faster internet access and a fatter media [sewage] pipe into the home!
Forget health care, social security, education! All we need is to be able to download pr0n faster and to be able to watch sixteen hundred channels of HOME IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMMING.
Yeah, Mr. Bush. Way to get those priorities straight.
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So much for buying American.
Uhh, because counterpunch is a communist website.
They pretty much hate all US Presidents equally because they are all behind promoting and defending the evil Capitalism.
Seriously... read the site..
We have not yet succeeded in eliminating democrats.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Klerck you ASSHAT! Your same old shite of "is he good?, or is he whack?" is getting real freakin' old! Come on, your more original than that.. Found any movies lately that you find particularly offensive?
http://slashdot.org/~klerck
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