Oh dear. *snickers*

Via: Aunt Jemima's Revenge

Remember the Net Neutrality thing I was blathering on about earlier?

UPDATE: Net Neutrality Explained

Refresher course: The problem is that Verizon and Comcast want to be able to regulate what we see, read and watch on the net by fucking around with our access.


Now, in Boston, a public hearing was held to with the FCC to hear from Americans about the issue. Comcast however, hijacked the meeting by bussing in tons of paid people to take up all the seats, so that real citizens were turned away and thus were prevented from being heard.


Please, go thou and sign the petition to the FCC raising hell about this bullshit behaviour. Also, please show some support for HR 5353 The Internet Freedom Preservation Act

This youtube video explains:

Response to the debate

Tim Russert was a complete ass to Senator Clinton in the beginning, cutting her off and trying to misrepresent what she said. He was also a complete ass to Senator Obama on the subject of Louis Farakhan. The debate was mostly very civil. I've seen numerous accusations of Senator Clinton going negative throughout the entire debate, but most of it honestly came across to me as normal politicking. She's trying to sell herself as the next Pres. of the US. Of course she's going to question her opponent. Seriously, some Obama supporters need to calm the hell down.

That said, Clinton annoyed me with the whole trying to help Tim Russert's effort to tie Louis Farrakhan to Obama. That was fucked up and ill-advised and Obama made her look stupid.

Senator Obama truly annoyed me by backing away from being considered "liberal" however. The Democrats have really got to find their spine and STOP MAKING REPUBLICANS FRAME THE TERMS OF THE NATIONAL DISCOURSE, DAMMIT!!!! To be a liberal is NOT a bad thing and fucking Democrats should NOT be shying away from it. Commenter Becky at 3:24 pm in response to this thread hit the nail on the head...


The problem with Obama running from the word liberal is by treating it as a bad word, he's implicitly admitting that being liberal is a bad thing to be. And if that's the case, why should anybody vote for him over McCain? If liberal=bad, why vote for the more liberal candidate over the less liberal one? I've long thought what Democrats need to do is show people why being liberal is a good thing.

What if Obama had made this speech: "Yes, I'm liberal. I'm liberal because I want to reduce money in politics. I'm liberal because I want our soldiers to be treated properly when they come home. I'm liberal because I want to make sure everybody has health care, and because our current health care system that spends more on healthcare than any other advanced country while providing less people with coverage doesn't make any sense."
Becky | 02.26.08 - 3:24 pm | #


Democrats cannot keep responding to the Republicans by trying to be more like them. What they have to do is distinguish themselves from said Republicans, and then convince the country to vote for them based on that difference, just as the Republicans did starting with Reagan. Look. We not only need more Democrats, but we need genuinely liberal, progressive people who care about elevating the country to another level. No more centrists. No more Republicans in democrats clothing (Joe Lieberman, we're looking at you. No more spineless people. (That means you, Democratic Congress). We need another 50 Barbara Jordans, dammit! Principled people with the courage of their convictions who will stand up and say it loud and clear and own that we. are. liberals. Damn multiple sclerosis!


Apart from that, the rest of the debate went well. I honestly would suggest that if you need to learn about the candidates, watch them on the debates then go to their websites and read about their positions and come to your own conclusion. Ignore the pundits, cause what they say the candidate said and did too often has no bearing on the truth.

Jay-sus!

 

*SWOON* From the new interview here

UPDATE: More ridiculously beautiful pics here

One of my favourite poems

From here

IF

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

--Rudyard Kipling