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Obama Announces for President, Boosts Broadband
Arlen writes "As many as 17,000 people (according to police estimates) watched Senator Barack Obama officially announce his candidacy for President in Springfield, Illinois today. He mentioned several things that will interest readers of Slashdot. The Senator said he wanted to free America from 'the tyranny of oil' and went on to promote alternative energy sources such as ethanol — a popular stance in the Midwest where he announced, because of all the corn farmers. He also talked about using science and technology to help those with chronic diseases, which is likely to have been an allusion to his staunch support for stem cell research. Perhaps most of interest to readers here is the following statement halfway through Obama's speech: 'Let's invest in scientific research, and let's lay down broadband lines through the heart of inner cities and rural towns all across America. We can do that.' Like nearly everything in his speech, this was met with robust applause from the crowd. You can watch a video of the entire speech at Obama's website."
fiberoptic or copper? vote obama, cause hillary hates violent fun, plus who wants bill clinton to be the pressidents bitch? theres something wrong there.
Maybe the issue is more complicated than just non-specific summaries of gun control laws and crime rates?
Absolutely the issue is more complicated, and in fact, the net effect of gun control seems to be nothing but reduced access to guns for law abiding citizens. In some cases, the rate of violent (gun) crime went up, in other cases, the rate went down. Link to various studies
The bottom line, as a person that values personal liberty, and the fact that the Supreme Court has ruled multiple times that the state and the police have no obligation to protect you or me specifically, I prefer to live in a state where the right to be armed is still respected.
Its Kdawson's incessant knee-jerk lefty trolling. He's becomingthe lft version of Rush Limbaugh for Slashdot - his articales are almost always biased, and almost always left. All he does is stir up the rabble on the left and reationaries on the right.
He's the worst editor here since Katz.
What blackmail info does he have on Malda?
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This is how open he is:
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Hail Eris, full of mischief...
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The Ivy league is horribly overrated. Seriously.
They *are* better than most state universities, but not by the margins most people seem to think they are. And they're also demeaned by "daddy bought a building" syndrome.
Fuck, I could take classes from Harvard right now if I wanted to(and I have, from the extension school, I'd still get a diploma from Harvard if I went for one). No big deal.
Live in the area of the Ivy league and the mystique quickly, quickly wears off.
The key to the enjoyment of pop music is to replace any instance of "love" with "C.H.U.D."
Because the Bush regency is not completely stupid. Sure, they stole the election; sure, Bush has been essentially ruling by fiat, or "executive order". But he spun things in such a way that the VAST majority of the citizens agreed with what he was doing; therefore, there was no real will to resist.
Now, when the class of citizens who are capable of resisting (gun owners, usually conservative, often republican) are actually starting to notice that things weren't quite what they seemed to be, the power structure has changed by way of the 2006 democratic congress takeover; Bush is still attempting to rule by Fiat, but the media is starting to be critical, as is the congress; the people who would revolt see this, that the government is apparently sorting itself out (or is in the process of doing so) so there is no real apparent reason to hoist the Jolly Roger.
At least, that is the way I see it.
Why, yes, I AM a Pagan Libertarian.