The FCC: whaddup wid''dat?
I am proposing the immediate disbanding of the FCC. I proclaim it an utter waste of tax dollars, and think that the money should be redistributed to paying off the enormous debt this godforesaken...
View ArticleThe return of robber-barons and filthy monopolies (w/poll).
In school, we once read about the "robber-barons" and monopolies of the 19th century, and we learned with a certain amount of pride that a President named Theodore Roosevelt came along and challenged...
View ArticleA Pharmaceutical Fix Idea
I have been thinking about how prescription drugs are as expensive as they are here, and I was also thinking about why that is. The pharmaceutical industry does make a big profit off of the American...
View ArticlePhoebe Putney and the Rise of Medical Monopolies
Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany, GA is a 443 bed medical center that serves 26 counties in southwest Georgia. Among many other services it provides acute care, psychiatric care, neonatal...
View ArticleSave The Internet
A video about net neutrality from the Save The Internet Coalition:http://www.youtube.com/...
View ArticleHistory of War Channel
Cross posted at Peace is ActiveIf we want legitimate governments, we need to do something about the monopoly control of our media systems.
View ArticleRequest: a list of legislation to nullify/fix
I fully expect that we will take back two branches of government in 2008.* What are we going to do then?
View ArticleA big, fat F.U. message to Sumner Redstone of Viacom
And an F.U. to the BBC, too. But mainly, I want to rant about Viacom, and for a simple reason. Viacom, Sumner Redstone's company, are corporate bullies who show their colors in their futile legal...
View ArticleThe Edwards' Campaign Gets COOL - And Moms (& Pops) Get a Hand
PT 2 in my series of "Edwards Fights Injustice"."It Keep Me Up At Night" Today we add food safety to the list of what makes us a community and keeps us safe and secure or as the old adage goes,...
View ArticleHow AT&T and Verizon Profited and Qwest Suffered from their Role in Illegal...
This is an ugly story. To put it very simply, the evidence suggests that 3 out of 4 of the nation's biggest telephone providers, AT&T, Bell South and Verizon, cut a deal with the administration...
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Laissez Faire: History's Lesson Once Again
The belief that uniform benefit could be had by pure unregulated capitalistic economies died more than a century ago when people realized that pure market economies failed to produce a benefit to...
View ArticleReconciliation? Was that the mandate?
All along I thought it was about change, you know the change we all believe in.Yes, most Americans want less petty bickering and lies from the folks we elected to hold office. Less shouting over each...
View ArticleGM, Ford, Chrysler: Break 'em up!
When Jimmy Carter's justice department broke up Bell Telephone in the late 1970's we had a revolution in communications.All of a sudden, the heavy boot of Bell Telephone wasn't on the neck of all the...
View ArticleDefending Our Unnatural Ramparts
We spend much of our lives keeping nature at bay. We work to earn money so we can weatherproof our houses; we shop for soap, ant buttons, silver polish, raincoats, and brooms; and when we're not...
View ArticleONE SINGLE CANDLE
I wonder if you realize how dark the world has been for most of the last 10,000 years? For most of that time you could burn wood for light, but firewood was not a quickly renewable resource and...
View ArticleFight Murdoch's News Control; Sign Petition to FCC for Investigation
FCC Review Murdock's Special Treatment in light of the racist cartoon in the Post. Sign Petition Below:Rev. Al Sharpton and several councilmembers have on the heels of the racist cartoon in the NY Post...
View ArticleModern Little Red Hen
There is a a right wing version floating around on the net.This is my counterattack.OK, it does need work.
View ArticleThe Socialist Republic of Sweden (that's neither)
This week, Wyatt on The Daily show hilariouspair of reports on the 'evils' of Swedish Socialism. The Swedes appear to get the joke; as the videos have more-or-less gone viral there (the Swedish...
View ArticleKrugman Destroys Health Insurance "Market Competition" Meme - It's...
or at least a series of regional monopolies or minute oligopolies with the same effect - using market control to extort ever increasing premiums.Paul Krugman on June 22destroyed the "public plan will...
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