mitch @ 9:49 am on December 21, 2006
Whats up with people not seeing what the big telco’s are up to? Even more disturbing both political parties should be outraged at this same behavior as both of their founding values would denounce the telco’s behavior. But alas, the FCC has killed build-out requirements for telco’s, allowing them to enter only the most profitable areas of a city, instead of the whole city.
I’m all for letting companies be profitable, and even with letting the market forces have their way with as little government interaction as possible. However, the governments job is to handle specific instances where someone else’s rights might be infringed by the actions of another. In this situation, the FCC is allowing telco’s to dig up and make a profit from using public land. The problem is, this decision allows the telco’s to “selectively” use public land in their best interests, and ignore the rights of all of the citizens of these cities. Each resident of a city has the right to have a say in *ALL* dealings with *ALL* public land within the cities boarders. This FCC ruling, over rules this, in favor of the telco’s. Even more so, it also gives the telco’s more rights than the cable companies currently, at least until the cable companies rework their contract with each city. Whats even more disturbing is the fact that the telco’s only had to convince three people in order to gain this favor. Three people that are not voted on at all by the public. This is just one more reason the FCC needs to be gutted and striped of any type of authority, assume or actual. They need to be cut back to what their original purpose was for, to prevent chaos on the airwaves.
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mitch @ 2:38 pm on December 18, 2006
I rented this movie over the weekend. Its a documentary that won some awards in the Sundance Film Festival, and I highly recommend it to anyone interested. I just wanted to make a couple notes and thoughts about it here, as the movie stuck to the issue and truely was bipartisan with regard to how it treated either of our two dominant parties currently in office. In case your wondering the synopsis of the movie off imdb reads:
He may have been the ultimate icon of 1950s conformity and postwar complacency, but Dwight D. Eisenhower was an iconoclast, visionary, and the Cassandra of the New World Order. Upon departing his presidency, Eisenhower issued a stern, cogent warning about the burgeoning “military industrial complex,” foretelling with ominous clarity the state of the world in 2004 with its incestuous entanglement of political, corporate, and Defense Department interests.
Or in my own words, it talks about why we fight, what have all of our major military excursions been about since the end of World War II. What I got out of the movie was that there is alot of money in war. I also heard a first hand account of the plan to go to war with Iraq months before 9/11 happened. Yeah, thats right, they wanted to go to war with Iraq, not because of the were harboring terrorists, as we’ve now finally had Bush admit to, but because it was predetermined to. The movie makes allegations of a think tank idea that there is some kind of world domination plan which was the reason for the push to get into Iraq and oust our “former friend” Saddam. Which, I don’t find to unbelievable actually… I’m also kind of a cynic.
To however, the most upsetting parts of all of this, is our current administrations alienation of our *inalienable* rights. (namely, liberty, political and due process) Which were sternly warned against by Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address in 1961. Why is it that people can’t seem to remember history? I’m wondering why we have military bases all over the world actually… whats the point of them? If were not trying to rule the world like the ancient romans did, why do we act like it? Why do we constantly dabble in foreign affairs, onces that we don’t have any business in meddling in?
9/11 was a horrible time, and those responsible deserve to be punished, which is why I’ve never heard anyone argue that going into Afghanistan was the wrong thing to do. We *knew* they were there. Iraq on the other hand was a different story. Saddam was doing horrible things to his people definitely. Making claims (read: lies) that there was an immanent threat posed by Iraq unless we take action, without a shred of proof to back it up? How dare you. People need to wake up and look at what the leaders of this country are doing. If you continue to live in denial/ignorance, the day their policies effect you on your front door step will be too late.
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mitch @ 1:50 pm on December 5, 2006
I’ve been told by my wife that I’m a difficult person to buy for. Guess its because its become known that I my wants are very specific and if you don’t get what the specific one I want then I’m not satisfied… ? Least this is what my wife tells me. So I’m supposed to write up a big wish list today so she can either go purchase or order online my wants. Something I actually enjoy to be honest. I do want lists all the time, hence my Amazon Wish List listed in my links. Which I actually haven’t updated recently… guess I’ll do that today too. One of these days I’ll either look for or write my own wish list, where I can link up what I want from many different sites, not just amazon. *sigh* if only there was more time in the day… 
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