The FCC has exposed themselves to be mouthpieces for corporate overlords. The “openess” of Android is a complete distraction and has nothing to do with throttled connections and extortionate pricing by carriers. This is hugely disappointing and we will regret it for a long, long time. Update: Steve Wozniak’s open letter to the FCC to [...]
Tom Perriello has been the best person in the United States congress for the past two years. He did not win re-election, but Virginia can be proud to have fielded a statesman such as Tom Perriello for the past two years. He has worked tirelessly and hard for good governance, civic responsibility, and justice. They [...]
Think twice before you believe any organization’s claims; many operate with the opposite goals from what you have been misled to believe… 6 Insane Conspiracies Hiding Behind Non-Profit Groups How strange that Cracked and Comedy Central are providing more thoughtful news than the actual news is… Be sure to read through to page two and [...]
There are many reasons I do not think that corporations should have the same rights as individual persons. Corporations are effectively not subject to the effects of aging, they can have virtually unlimited resources, they dodge personal responsibility by selectively using scape-goats/layoffs/contractors, and they can effectively dodge taxation by getting subsidies or tax-breaks that ordinary [...]
How Obama Enables Rush: President Obama lowered taxes. Why doesn’t the country know that? Rick Perlstein on how Rush Limbaugh helped mislead a nation—and why the Democrats let him get away with it. I think this is an interesting read about how the public can so easily be misled by lies, stated confidently… and left [...]
Last night’s election returns showed us a few things, and one of the most concerning to me is that crazy fringe candidates with no business in public office with grave responsibilities were able to slip through the public screening of a U.S. Congress district election in several districts last night; but largely they were unable [...]
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Barnett over Wolf… Wolf is a very long term incumbent with a very long public record of pandering to big corporations and Republican leadership; he is a sycophant to all the wrong people. He has huge support from his mostly clueless constituents (my fellow 10th district voters) which is horribly sad as they do not [...]
just a reminder to get your say in the governance of the country, to be a participant rather than a bystander…
My wife and I heard via facebook that Metro Vienna was mobbed and hard to get into as early as 9:30am, so we continued driving into Crystal City where we knew we could park where she works even if public parking was full. Public parking was not full; but the Crystal City Metro station was [...]
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