One huge reason the internet works as well as it does is because there has been little or no government involvement! The FCC will certainly screw it up.

This action by Senate Republicans is an endorsement of ObamaCare, and is unacceptable. When I heard this news, I actively checked to see who voted “Yes,” and learned there was *no* roll call vote.

“The doc fix, was approved without a roll-call vote after leaders of both parties agreed to pull it out of a stalled package of tax changes and safety-net spending.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/19/health/policy/19cong.html?src=mv

is my most compelling argument against governmental control of the medium. The do-gooding, busybody nature of regulators is especially dangerous. They will ‘just’ regulate this and ‘just’ regulate that until they ‘just’ regulated us into submission. First, they will find a case of some kind of terrible indignity or crime, then they will create a solution for that problem. Once they get their dirty little hands on these problems, they will be loathe to restrain themselves from fixing everything and anything they perceive as troubling. Soon, some content will be perceived as morally repugnant and that content will be controlled. If the content is seen as a community menace, in other words, that which they don’t like, it will be banned.
Dangerous group of authoritarians.

RGA http://remembernovember.com/

Remember the Dream. Remember November. from Republican Governors Association on Vimeo.

RGA http://remembernovember.com/

Remember the Dream. Remember November. from Republican Governors Association on Vimeo.

That’s Senate Bill 3480 to be precise.

Senate Bill 3480 — Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010

A bill to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and other laws to enhance the security and resiliency of the cyber and communications infrastructure of the United States.

Another agency (The Office Of Cyberspace Policy).

Director appointed by and reports directly to POTUS.

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If you haven’t realized it yet………….. A “National Emergency” to this administration and their owners means there’s still at least one patriotic Republican and/or Conservative typical bitter God-clinging gun owning tea-bagger remaining alive and/or out of prison/FEMA Camp.

The internet threatens Fedzilla. That’s the bottom line.

Information is power. Power hungry people both democrat and republican hate the scrutiny and the information that the internet provides to the ‘unwashed’ masses.

The political class prefers a quiet populace, not an educated and engaged populace.

Our schools systems have been dumbed down. Most of the major media outlets sleep very comfortably next to their mistresses in the political class.

The internet represents one our last few defenses against tyranny.

with the internet, but remember – the reason we have so many laws about every little thing is because there are so many people (and companies) who are just too stupid to do the obvious right thing.

Some people would drive their cars at night with the headlights turned off because they can see well enough, not considering that drivers coming the other direction can’t see them – so we have to have a law about that.

Some restaurateurs don’t see the need to clean rat droppings off the kitchen counters – so we have to have a law about that.

In its present state, the only thing I see about the internet that needs policing are scam & spam artists, phishing for data, etc. Educated people will realize that lies look just as big in type as truth, and fools can’t be helped anyway.

Good times are bustin’ out all over:

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/nation/story/E744C01438F6DB698625774700815937?OpenDocument

Bank failures double last year:

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/banking/2010-06-19-bank-failure-pace-tops-2009_N.htm

Good times are bustin’ out all over:

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/nation/story/E744C01438F6DB698625774700815937?OpenDocument

Bank failures double last year:

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/banking/2010-06-19-bank-failure-pace-tops-2009_N.htm

I just saw Geraldo (Jerry Rivers) own Billo over the Mchrystal fiasco. It is funny that a life long liberal and former freak show host knows more about war than the top ranked BS artist on tv.

Geraldo was trying to talk about how the Rolling Stone article affected the war effort; remember lives are on the line. Luffah, was at his smarmiest talking only about how smart he is and how our leaders of men should be more media savvy.

I want to pick a fight with anyone here who thinks Billo is a conservative and in any way someone of relevance. His I am smarter than everyone else act is sad because he actually means it, and doesn’t even find it amusing. Compare that to Rush, there is no comparison. Rush is smarter, funnier, and his act let’s us in, O’reilly is really just a pompous ass.

There may have been a day when Billo was considered conservative compared to the MSM. But he is really just a populist at best. If he has any conservative values, they are the worst of conservatism. He only cares about statism and making everyone act as he thinks they should. He does not believe in liberty, he believes in mimicry, mimicry of Luffah.

I guess it is good people watch him instead of hard left shows. At least that is one good thing he does. But his high ratings should not be considered a good sign for our cause. To me, the average Or’eilly viewer would have been the quintessential LBJ voter.

you inferred improperly. I am not sure if he musings were vain or not, they could have been simply correct. I do agree he made a mistake, but that was not the point of my post. The point of my post was that people SHOULD (not must) have perspective, they should decide what is more important, the war or a hot magazine issue.

Let me put it this way, if a firefighter is saving your child from an inferno, would you find his bad looking teeth to be important? Remember Patton and the slap? It is about decadence, to me the worst thing that ever happened to Western Civilization, and could be its undoing.

BTW, I have said I have problems with Mchrystal’s/ Obama’s MOE, but that is not relevant to the argument I made.

Rules of Engagement.