LA City Votes For Municipal Fiber Network

An anonymous reader writes "On Saturday, Lafayette, Louisiana voters gave BellSouth and Cox the collective finger and approved a municipal FTTH network by a 62% to 38% margin. The Daily Advertiser has coverage of the vote and possible repercussions. The hotly-contested vote was prompted by a lawsuit by BellSouth and Cox Communications, who bitterly opposed the plan. BellSouth threatened to close a Cingular call center if the plan passed, and the companies employed push polling, including statements that a city-run cable system might ration TV programming and block religious channels."

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Re:The cities have a right

[Hungus]

Just one small part to answer you, the rest while interesting is outside of what I would prefer to discuss on slashdot:

I didn't say that Republicans were cowardly for hiding behind the Christ, but here are my thoughts on it.

I never said that either what I said was

"Do you really think the " Christo-Republicanism" "gripping the state is "Characterized by abject fear; cowardly"?

because you said they were craven and so I just inserted the definition of the word craven and asked you if you really meant what you said. As to "Bro. Jimmy" please do not confuse him and his message with Christianity, that would be like making Pat Robertson or Oral Roberts head of the church or even Jim Baker or Robert Tilton Pope sure we have our charlatans, but eventually the house cleaning will get done.

As to abortion always being wrong ... it is in every case wrong, no exceptions whatsoever. I am sorry you do not understand that, in fact I am am sorry that the on average of 42 million people a year who are involved in it don't get that either. (thats about 21 million perpetrators and 21 million victims)
oh and in the US the breakdown according to the CDC is :

The overwhelming majority of all abortions, (95%), are done as a means of birth control.
Only 1% are performed because of rape or incest;
1% because of fetal abnormalities;
3% due to the mother's (usually mental over 90% of the time) health problems.

ok sorry about that abortion is one of my buttons.