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The Loft » Blog Archive » What Net Neutrality Really Means Let’s say you want to send a birthday card to your nephew Ronnie. You put a 39-cent stamp on the envelope and drop it off at the post office. And away it goes (you hope). Now let’s say that instead of sending little Ronnie [...]
Iran accuses West of hypocrisy
via Reuters.com “I’ll tell you, they are not concerned with nuclear programs … They are themselves engaged in nuclear activities and they are expanding day by day. They test new brands of weapons of mass destruction every day,” Ahmadinejad told a news conference after meeting Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. I’ve been saying this same [...]
What Women Want
via GM’s FastLane Blog And finally, time-starved women are hungry for a chance to get away from it all – so our dealerships are hosting “ladies night out” events to create a relationship that goes beyond our products. Recently we’ve had dealers host a Bunco party and a Girl Scout Girl Power Clinic; we’ve also [...]
Inevitability
I just read this great post over at The Poor Man. In it, he states that the Republican ideologies (theocratic, corporatist and racist) are not long for this world, because they rely on the fact that people are spread out. In it he also links to this post elsewhere that shows the problem when you [...]
Save The Internet
There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear.
Maybe There’s Something Wrong with the Audience.
And we wonder why Democrats don’t get elected. Pelosi’s big reaction to the lying, stealing, unethical, immoral, illogical, repressive, oppressive, regressive Republican administration and Congress is an “eleventh priveleged resolution” against their lunacy and idiocy. So let’s unpack this. The purpose of my privileged resolutions is to put the Republican Congress, over and over again, [...]
How to Steal a Coastline
Via Rolling Stone Same old, same old, really. Disaster strikes. The poor lose their homes. The rich move in and drive them out. Happened lots of times. This time, people aren’t making it sound like a good thing. So that’s one thing we’ve got going for us.
Phone-Jamming Records Point to White House
via Yahoo! News So, yeah, the White House was involved in rigging at least one election. That’s if you ignore the fact that Diebold promised to “deliver” Ohio in 2004, and the Conyers Report.
Who are these liberals, anyway?
Who are these liberals, anyway? Take heart, liberals. You know you are a gift to this world. Have patience with Rush and his ilk. But do not give them one inch, because they will take a mile.
My Fellow Americans
The New York Times published a very interesting poll today. Here are the results. (WARNING: PDF) First, two things we know already: 85% of Americans do not “favor a gas tax” 63% of Americans do not “favor a gas tax even if you reduce payroll and income taxes” Now, three heartening, hopeful things that you [...]