ENOUGH OF THIS

QUICK STAT

THE NEW TREASURY OF AMERICA

TALK ABOUT A WHACK JOB

Half the time, I tend to think that a Hannity or O'Reilly or Malkin actually believes their own rhetoric. With Coulter, I don't believe it for a second. And so her vileness cannot be taken seriously. She is worse than vile. She is just empty. - - Andrew Sullivan

It's true this women has the BIGGEST TRASH MOUTH in America. I've seen her on several shows since her Today interview when all of this started. She was on Lou Dobbs, O'Reilly and on The Situation with Tucker Carlson and none of them were able to get her to admit she made a mistake in bad mouthing the 9/11 widows. Sounds like someone else I know that can't think of even one mistake since becoming president and starting a war.

As I said yesterday the republicans have done a good job of using words to change the focus on a subject. Well there is another trick the republicans use and that is saying their opponent "ARE TAX AND SPEND", "HAVE NO PLAN", "HATE AMERICA", "DO NOTHING BUT NAME CALLING" and on and on. When the truth is they are talking about themselves.

For example have you heard of the republican plan to get out of IRAQ? Good plan right?

Do we really need to talk about TAXES and the National Debt.

I don't even know what "HATE AMERICA" means and have never heard of anyone use those words except the republicans.

The biggest name callers are the Coulter's, O'Reilly's, Hannity's and Linbaugh and some others.

It's like they say "Repeat something often enough and pretty soon people will believe"

DING, DONG. . .

Is there a more arrogant piece of CRAP than Tom DeLay. (Ann Coulert is in the running to take his place). I saw this in The New Republic and think it summarizes DeLay quite well.

Tom DeLay just delivered his House resignation speech--a melodramatic soliloquy highlighted by a rousing celebration of political partisanship. "It is not the principled partisan" who deserves scorn, DeLay argued, "but the preening self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle." "You show me a nation without partisanship," he said, "and I'll show you a tyranny." Also, he added: "Given a chance to do it all again, there's only one thing I would change: I would fight even harder." One House Democratic staffer emailed me midway, likening the address to Gordon Gekko's "Greed Is Good" speech.

Of course, the problem here is that DeLay really wasn't all that principled. From the GOP's 2003 Medicare bill to farm subsidies to pork spending--not to mention the shameless use of government to enrich legislators and lobbyists--DeLay cast aside the conservative ideals he espoused in the name of political power and personal gain. As even the Wall Street Journal harrumphed last year: "The problem. . . is that Mr. DeLay, who rode to power in 1994 on a wave of revulsion at the everyday ways of big government, has become the living exemplar of some of its worst habits."

Right down to the self-important, self-deluding farewell address. --Michael Crowley

I pray this is the last time I talk about this CROOK. Well wait a minute I hope I can write about him just once more and that is when he is convicted and sent to jail. His wife and daughter might also be sweating.

I guess the old saying "A FAMILY THAT CHEATS' TOGETHER STAYS TOGETHER" works in the Delay household.

YOU GOTTA HAVE HEART

BACKGROUND

I think I need to go back to 1985 when I was much younger and some would say healthier. Back then I was at work and working very hard. It was around lunch time and I didn't feel well. I was sweaty but that's about it.

A friend I worked with was walking by and I asked him if he'd give me a ride home because I wasn't feeling well. He said he would but could he pick up his Kentucky Fried Chicken first. I said sure why not.

A little later my boss came by and said "Man you don't look well, I'm taking you to your DR." And off we went. My Dr. put me in the hospital as I had just had a heart attack.

I honestly felt no pain and except for feeling sweaty and to others very pale. So lesson one, learn the symptoms and when in doubt see a Dr. Have a boss that recognizes the symptoms and be sure to thank him. (I can't remember if I ever thanked Kert so in case I didn't I want to thank you now. Thanks Kert.

Up till I had my heart attack I smoked 2 packs a day and had been a smoker for about 25 years. With my heart attack I at least finally got the message that "THE BASEBALL BAT" to the head God gave me was his way of telling me something. I may be a slow learner but I'm not stupid. I stopped smoking then and there and haven't had a smoke since. I even stopped drinking. Made sense although I never had a problem with drinking like my dad did. It just seems the right thing to do.

I had a second heart attack in 1989 but didn't need to go to the Hospital. I had mild stroke in 1993 and did spend a day or two in the Hospital and about 6 weeks off work. That was followed by some therapy because I lost some of my memory. I couldn't remember DOS commands (for those out there that remember what DOS is).

It's funny how the brain works these DOS commands were part of my job. I used them every day. But my stroke made it hard for me to remember them. In time they all came back and I went back to work.

Since '93 life has been good. So now it's on to documenting the next several months. Wish me well.

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THIS JUST IN

A physician claims these are actual comments from his patients made while he was performing colonoscopies:

1. Take it easy, Doc, you're boldly going where no man has gone before.

2. Find Amelia Earhart yet?

3. Can you hear me NOW?

4. Oh boy, that was sphincterrific!

5. Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?

6. You know, in Arkansas, we're now legally married.

7. Any sign of the trapped miners, Chief?

8. You put your left hand in, you take your left hand out. You do the Hokey Pokey. . .

9. Hey! Now I know how a Muppet feels!

10. If your hand doesn't fit, you must aquit!

11. Hey, Doc, let me know if you find my dignity.

12. You used to be an executive at Enron, didn't you?

13. Could you write me a note for my wife, saying that my head is not, in fact, up there?

June 08, 2006

START OF A NEW DAY

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NOT SO FAST

I'm not so sure that I should get all jacked up about the news that al-Zarqawi is dead as I've seen some people do this morning on TV as they discuss the meaning of all this.

I think it's important to keep in mind that the folks we are fighting do not play by a standard set of rules. These are guys that are building bombs in their garage, they live in caves, they build and drive suicide car bombs. They fight this gorilla war which makes it very hard for us to get good reliable intelligence on them.

I'm not sure we've learned how to fight this kind of war. We weren't to successful in Viet Nam and I don't think we have been that successful in Iraq.

It seems to me when you are dealing with fanatical extremist like these al qaeda nuts there is always someone else that is ready to take the place of the leader.

And finally, remember it was over 2 years ago that we captured Saddam and at that time the president said "In the history of Iraq, a dark and painful era is over. A hopeful day has arrived. All Iraqis can now come together and reject violence and build a new Iraq." - - George Bush Dec 2003

Now 2 and a half years later we are still at wor with no clear exit policy. So while this is good news only time will tell what it means to the over all war in Iraq.

TALKING POINTS

Why is it when the republicans say that the democrats are a "FRACTURED PARTY" because they have so many different points of view, but when they talk about the republicans they say they are the "BIG TENT" party because they have many different points of view.

That's something the republicans have learned very well over the years. They like to use a PLAY ON WORDS to change the meaning and to imply something different than the true meaning.

Let me give you some examples.

DEMS = FRACTURED PARTY while REPS = BIG TENT PARTY

ESTATE TAX is now DEATH TAX

DOMESTIC SPYING is now TERRORIST SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM

PRIVATIZE is now PERSONAL ACCOUNTS

I'm going to keep adding to my list and will publish it from time to time as I add more words.

OH BABY!!!

OK, this is it. This the $4 million dollar baby picture. Now can we all just let the baby sleep.

YOU GOTTA HAVE HEART

I'm going to be 70 this October and I wonder at my age is it ok to be afraid? I guess it is because I am.

I've been having a problem with my legs. It all started about a year ago when I was at Costco looking at something I can't remember what and it doesn't matter anyway. So I was there looking at whatever when I felt an itch in my leg. So I used my heal to scratch it, no big deal and the itch went away.

That was the start of a journey that lead me to yesterday and an appointment with a heart surgeon. The topic of discussion was my heart as you might expect. Turns out I need to have open heart surgery in the not to distant future. But hold on I'm getting ahead of myself.

I've decided that as long as I can I'm going to BLOG about what's going on as I move forward to regain my health. I may not post each and every day but I'm sure I'll find enough to talk about because I live alone with my dogs (Buddy, Billy and Sweet) and I'll need to figure out how to take care of them before and after my operation. I even need to figure out how to take care of me as well.

I hope when all is said and done my postings will help me as I go through all the testing and recovery as well as some visitors to my BLOG.

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June 07, 2006

D DAY TODAY

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NEVER MISS A BEAT

Man if there is a way to put ill begotten money in his pocket Tom Delay will not only find it he'll use it. All in the name of Family Values of course.

This time he uses his wife and daughter, guess it doesn't matter much who you corrupt as long as you get the money.

A registered lobbyist opened a retirement account in the late 1990s for the 
wife of then-House Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) and contributed thousands of 
dollars to it while also paying her a salary to work for him from her home in 
Texas, according to sources, documents and DeLay's attorney, Richard 
Cullen. 

The account represents a small portion of the income that DeLay's family 
received from entities at least partly controlled by lobbyist Edwin A. 
Buckham. But the disclosure of its origin adds to what was previously known 
about the benefits DeLay's family received from its association with 
Buckham, and it brings the total over the past seven years to about half a 
million dollars. 

Buckham was DeLay's chief of staff before he became a lobbyist at the end 
of 1998.  
 
From 1998 until recently, Buckham, an evangelical minister,  met regularly 
with DeLay, occasionally attended staff meetings in his office, made 
scheduling recommendations or decisions for the office, and served as 
DeLay's chief political and spiritual adviser,  even though he was not formally 
employed by him. 

Under congressional ethics rules, lobbyists such as Buckham are barred from 
providing gifts or gratuities with a total value exceeding $50 to lawmakers in 
a single year. No similar prohibition exists for payments to a lawmaker's 
family members, but the pay must be a reasonable wage for real work and 
not be meant to influence a lawmaker's votes. Nothing in pending House and 
Senate lobbying reform legislation addresses the issue of such lobbyist 
payments to lawmaker's families. 

An arm of the group paid Buckham a monthly consulting fee, and Buckham in 
turn employed its executive director as a consultant to his lobbying firm. 
The two of them shared a single office on the top floor of a townhouse 
owned by a nonprofit organization that Buckham created and directed. 
Buckham's role is relevant because from 2001 to Jan. 31, 2006, ARMPAC 
paid Christine DeLay; DeLay's daughter, Dani DeLay Ferro; and Ferro's 
Texas firm a total of $350,304 in political consulting fees and expenses, 
according to public records.  - - Washington Post

I find it interesting how these guys with their so called FAMILY VALUES and CHRISTIAN BELIEFS have no problem pulling this crap.

THE DAMN HYPOCRITES

WE SEND THESE GUYS BACK YEAR AFTER YEAR

Read what Boehner says about this BULLSHIT Travel. This guy is nuts.

WASHINGTON, June 5, 2006 - Whether measuring by the number of privately funded trips taken or the total amount sponsors spent on each congressional office, members of the House and their aides topped their Senate counterparts during the January 2000 through June 2005 study period. House members or staffers also took the 10 most expensive trips identified in the Center for Public Integrity's analysis.

Here's a breakdown of the top-traveling congressional offices (legislator and staff totals combined) alphabetized by member, followed by a list of the priciest individual trips and who took them:

Who Are the Top Travelers?

Offices Taking More Than $350,000 in Travel
Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas)
Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.)
Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio)
Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas)
Rep. J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.)
Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.)
Rep. Michael Oxley (R-Ohio)
Rep. W.J. Tauzin (R-La.)*
Rep. William Thomas (R-Calif.)
Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.)
Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska)


Offices Taking More Than 200 Trips
Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas)
Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio)
Rep. Larry Combest (R-Texas)*
Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas)
Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.)
Rep. J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.)
Rep. Michael Oxley (R-Ohio)
Rep. W.J. Tauzin (R-La.)*
Rep. William Thomas (R-Calif.)
Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska)

* No longer in Congress

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT YESTERDAY

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June 06, 2006

STILL WORKING HARD

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OH CRAP!!!

WI-FI AND THE CITIES

I'm sending this to the Kitsap County Commissioners and suggest they forget the NASCAR Track. I think having connectivity throughout the county would be much more useful and could lead to additional jobs.

With all the talk about the merits of a NASCAR Track being located in Kitsap County it seems to me that it brings little value to most citizens of the county.

On the other hand providing Wireless (WI-FI) Internet connectivity I feel has the great potential to bring real jobs to the county. It offers the opportunity to provide better, improved and broaden education to our children.

Over the past year or so I have seen report after report talking about what many cities and counties around the country are doing in regard to providing WI-FI connectivity in their area. Below is just the latest article from the New York Times .

The second paragraph which I have highlighted in blue says it all.

No fewer than 300 cities and towns around the nation have taken wireless 
Internet access, or Wi-Fi, to the people. San Francisco's aim is to make the 
entire city a hot spot, Chicago plans to blanket the city with access, and 
large parts of Philadelphia are to go wireless soon. But New York, which 
should be leading the way, is dragging. A plan to offer free Wi-Fi access in 
city parks has been moving slowly, and a larger vision has yet to take shape. 

Wide dissemination of Wi-Fi is not the future. It is now, needed by 
businesses, educators and especially the underserved populations on the 
wrong side of the digital divide. Rural communities have known for a while 
that going wireless is cheaper, more reliable and allows even the most 
remote areas to log in. It spares the expense of laying down extensive 
networks of cables, not to mention the work and time involved. 

Local governments are filling a leadership void at the federal and state 
levels, and they are going directly to providers to negotiate Wi-Fi deals. San 
Francisco's mayor has turned to Earthlink and Google. Earthlink, based in 
Atlanta, is also helping Philadelphia. In some of these deals, lower-speed 
connections are free, with higher speeds available at a price. The providers 
also hope to make money off advertising. 

Surfing the net in the parks is a modest goal for New York, where some 
smaller parks have already been hooked up by agreement between 
independent groups managing those parks and NYC Wireless, a nonprofit 
organization. The city needs to get moving to get the larger parks online, but 
it also has to get serious about wider access. The minimal goal - pressed 
with energy in the City Council by Gale Brewer of Manhattan - should be 
free or low-cost access in its densely populated, poor neighborhoods in all 
the boroughs. That is where cable and phone line options are out of financial 
reach, and where education especially suffers as a result.  -- New York Times

While I'm not suggesting that the NASCAR debate be turned off I am suggesting that you all become the folks with a BIGGER VISION for ALL the people of Kitsap County. Time for car racing should not be the only issue on the agenda for Kitsap.

THEY ARE RELENTLESS

Even though their arguments are a pack of lies the republicans continue to tell them and what's worse American keep falling for them.

Here are 9 Myths that the republicans love to push. You'll recognize some of these and some may be new but check them out and decide for yourself. You don't need me or ANYONE else to make up your mind.

Oh by the way IT'S the ESTATE TAX (IRS) not the DEATH TAX as the republicans like to say to kinda scare you.

Myth 1: Repealing the estate tax wouldn't significantly worsen the deficit because the tax 
doesn't raise much revenue. 
Reality: Repealing the estate tax would add trillions of dollars to future deficits. 

Myth 2: The estate tax forces estates to turn over half of their assets to the government. 
Reality: The few estates that pay any estate tax at all generally pay less than 20 percent 
of the value of their estate in taxes. 

Myth 3: Many small, family-owned farms and businesses must be liquidated to pay estate taxes. 
Reality: The number of small, family-owned farms and businesses that owe any estate tax 
is small - and shrinking rapidly. 

Myth 4: The estate tax is best characterized as the "death tax." 
Reality: The estate tax would more appropriately be called an "inheritance tax," as it ultimately 
affects only the heirs of large estates. 

Myth 5: The estate tax unfairly punishes success. 
Reality: The estate tax affects only those most able to pay, and the funds it raises are used to 
support a range of programs that benefit the nation. 

Myth 6: Eliminating the estate tax would encourage people to save and thereby make more 
capital available for investment. 
Reality: Eliminating the estate tax wouldn't dramatically affect private saving, and it would 
greatly increase government dissaving (i.e., deficits). 

Myth 7: The estate tax constitutes "double taxation" because it applies to assets that 
already have been taxed once as income. 
Reality: Large estates have substantial amounts of "unrealized" capital gains that have 
never been taxed; the estate tax is the only means of taxing this
income. 

Myth 8: If the estate tax is reformed and retained, the logical top tax rate would be 
15 percent, the same as the capital gains rate. 
Reality: To match the effective tax rate on capital gains, the top estate tax rate would 
have to be 35-40 percent, not 15 percent. 

Myth 9: The cost of complying with the estate tax is nearly equal to the total amount 
of revenue the tax raises. 
Reality: The cost of estate tax compliance is modest, and is not much different than 
the cost of complying with other taxes. 

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June 05, 2006

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IT'S A POLICE ACTION

CNN 6/3/6 -- Canadian police say they have foiled a major "al Qaeda-inspired" bomb plot against targets in and around Toronto.

The Canadians did it with good old fashion police work.

Funny isn't that what John Kerry said was needed in the WAR ON TERROR. Not a major army.

WHERE HAVE ALL THE PROTESTER GONE

I was working on this a week or so ago but misplaced it until now.

Man last night I tuned into The American Experience on PBS a little after the show had started. It was a film called TWO DAYS IN OCTOBER. One of the turning points in the War in Viet Nam and an incident that started the protests on collage campus's.

I remember those days and this film was so powerful I found it hard not to cry. As is true today in Iraq the men dying over there in Viet Nam were so young, so very, very young.

It was truly an awful time and though they don't like comparing Viet Nam with Iraq I can't help but see the similarities.

The above was what I said back in October 2005 when I first saw this show.

Only a few were natural protesters, those students who marched against the war in Vietnam. Most had come to the University of Wisconsin to learn, to have fun, to get away from home. But as the war escalated, more and more students were drawn into the demonstrations, and what they witnessed on October 18 brought even more into the fold.

That was the story behind the show on American Experience, PBS last night. It was as powerful the second time as it was the first time I saw it. I don't feel any different today as I did back then. And yes I know it was about Viet Nam but it could be IRAQ just as well. In fact I wonder why we don't see the protest movement growing. It seems to me America is almost as unhappy with this war as that one at the time.

I think it will happen it's just a matter of time.

We need to come home.

IT'S NOT POLITICS AS USUAL

I'm not sure how I fell about this yet. I do know that I've thought for some time that it would be great to have a strong third party. I think it's worth it to watch this group as it develops, might change some minds.

Unity08 is a diverse group of Americans who believe that neither of today's parties reflects the aspirations, concerns or will of the majority of Americans. Both parties have polarized and alienated voters. Both are unduly influenced by single-issue groups. Both are excessively dominated by money.

There is a better way. . .

Unity08 is committed to presenting a third presidential ticket and platform - one that addresses the issues and challenges of the 21st Century - to the American voters in 2008.

We will not waste time pointing fingers. Instead, we will focus on how America can find common ground on critical issues - to give the overlooked moderate majority a voice and a choice in 2008.

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June 04, 2006

WHAT DO YOU THINK

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HAIL TO THE CHIEF

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ARE THEY TRULY NUTS???

The president devoted his weekly radio address to the Marriage Protection Amendment and has invited supporters to the White House on Monday for another speech promoting it.

The Senate is set to begin debating the amendment Monday and vote Wednesday, but both sides believe sponsors do not have the 67 votes it needs for approval despite Bush's endorsement.

"His position is that he thinks people ought to have the freedom to lead their private lives," White House spokesman Tony Snow said. "He also does not believe that that means that you have to redefine the institution of marriage. He believes the institution of marriage is between a man and a woman."

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) said he decided to call for a vote on the amendment because states that banned same-sex marriage in the last 18 months are under assault in the courts. "Unelected activist judges are tearing down state laws in nine states today," Frist said on "Fox News Sunday" last weekend. "That's why I will take it to the floor of the Senate." Frist is the least believable guy in all of congress except for Tom Delay.

The fact that the president and congress are wasting their time on this nonsense is reason enough to vote these guys out of office. Let me list a few issues that might be worth their time. . . but then that just me.

The WAR in Iraq, the debt, Health Care, National Security, No Energy Plan, Education, the Culture of Corruption.

Jack Cafferty on CNN Situation Room addressed this issue last Friday. Listen to his commentary at the beginning of the video and then listen to the emails he got in response to his question.

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Give them HELL Jack. <----( watch the video here )

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CAN YOU AFFORD TO RETIRE - Part 6 of 6

Can the 401k become the Primary Retirement System for America? .

The whole Retirement System is in crisis, is the administration or congress giving the attention is should to this issue? .

This is the last part of our series on retirement. There just doesn't seem to be much hope. (I think they are out dealing with gay marriage.) .

The bottom line is that people today will need to work longer.

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WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?

Pat Buchanan said I hear some of the Talking Heads and on Talk Radio that people are extremely bitter at American Journalist that seem gleeful that it might be another Mai Lai.

On Fox News' The Big Story with John Gibson, right-wing pundit Michelle Malkin blasted the media coverage of the alleged massacre in Haditha, claiming that there are "puddles of drool in the offices of the L.A. Times and The New York Times."

Other right-wing pundits have also complained about media coverage of the Haditha incident on Fox News. For example, on the May 31 edition of The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly claimed that the "left-wing press" and others are "rejoic[ing]" over Haditha, as Media Matters for America noted.

I have my TV on all day long and I can say I have NEVER heard any one say they were happy or even sounded happy about the situation that our Troops find themselves in.

It's the DAMN RIGHT WING NUTS like O'Reilly. Gibson and Malkin with their BULLSHIT that is truly hurting this country.

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June 03, 2006

GOT A CART BEFORE THE HORSE

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THE O-MAN DOES IT AGAIN AND AGAIN

The other night O'Reilly was saying the American military has always killed people in war. He used as an example that he has used in the past. He was wrong than and he was wrong the other night.

He had a chance to correct his LIE but O'Reilly being O'Reilly can not face up to ever saying he was wrong.

Keith Olbermann did a long piece on this as you can see in the video. He is dead on and Bill O'Reilly and FOXNEWS should offer an apology.

Which by the way is what the O-Man winnes about all the time when he thinks he has been put down by someone else.

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CAN YOU AFFORD TO RETIRE - Part 5 of 6

Do you know how to manage your 401k account?

I think this is the most important segment of this whole series. You might want to view it more than once.

Did you know that the 401k was originally designed to be a supplemental plan, it was never intended to be the primary retirement plan.

I'm sure some people would be very good at managing a 401k plan, while most others would struggle at best and many would end up with out any money at all.

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SAVE THE INTERNET - Part 5 of 5

By ADAM COHEN - The New York Times

Forces favoring a no-fee Web have been gaining strength. One group,
Savetheinternet.com, says it has collected more than 700,000 signatures on 
a petition. Last week, a bipartisan bill favoring net neutrality, sponsored by 
James Sensenbrenner, Republican of Wisconsin, and John Conyers Jr., 
Democrat of Michigan, won a surprisingly lopsided vote in the House 
Judiciary Committee.

Sir Tim argues that service providers may be hurting themselves by pushing
for tiered pricing. The Internet's extraordinary growth has been fueled by 
the limitless vistas the Web offers surfers, bloggers and downloaders. 
Customers who are used to the robust, democratic Web may not pay for one 
that is restricted to wealthy corporate content providers.

"That's not what we call Internet at all," says Sir Tim. "That's what we call 
cable TV."

Check out the video below from PBS - NOW from last night. It does a good job of laying out the issues. Lets you know who is behind them and why.

The visit the SAVE THE INTERNET Site using the link below and tell congress how you feel.

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June 02, 2006

WORKING GOOD TODAY

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U-R-S-P-R-A-C-H-E

Five years of studying and perseverance finally paid off for Katharine "Kerry" Close, an eighth grader who won the national spelling bee crown on Thursday.

The winning word for the 13-year-old from Spring Lake, New Jersey: u-r-s-p-r-a-c-h-e, a word of German origin, which means a parent language, especially one reconstructed from the evidence of later languages.

"I couldn't believe it. I knew I knew how to spell the word and I was just in shock," Close said moments after receiving the winning trophy. "I couldn't believe I would win."

It was her fifth straight appearance in the finals of the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington.

FIRST WE HAD THE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE

Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has named Mississippi Senators Thad Cochran (R) and Trent Lott (R) Porkers of the Month for adding $700 million for the "railroad to nowhere" to the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2006 (H.R. 4929). The Senate's version of the bill for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and hurricane aid on the Gulf Coast costs $109 billion.

President Bush requested $92.2 billion, and the House passed a $91.9 billion version in March. The "railroad to nowhere," which would use taxpayer funds to purchase and replace a private rail line with a highway benefiting Gulf Coast casinos, is one of dozens of earmarks costing billions of dollars tacked onto the Senate bill. It comes on the heels of the controversy over the $223 million "bridge to nowhere" for Alaska in the 2005 Highway bill.

For fattening the deficit, classifying an unnecessary project as "emergency" spending, and failing to learn the lessons of the infamous "bridge to nowhere," Sens. Cochran and Lott are Co-Porkers of the Month for May 2006.

CAN YOU AFFORD TO RETIRE - Part 4 of 6

More stories of broken promises. This segment talks about 401k plans and explains some of the problems. As an example they talk about the lack of participation about 25% - 30% don't join a plan. Less than 3% contribute the maximum allowed.

Allowing these companies to offer a retirement fund of any kind and not funding it fully to me is a crime. They are stealing from their employees and should go to jail.

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SAVE THE INTERNET - Part 4 of 5

By ADAM COHEN - The New York Times

The companies fighting net neutrality have been waging a misleading
campaign, with the slogan "hands off the Internet," that tries to look like a
grass-roots effort to protect the Internet in its current form. What they
actually favor is stopping the government from protecting the Internet, so
they can get their own hands on it.

But the other side of the debate has some large corporate backers, too, like
Google and Microsoft, which could be hit by access fees since they depend
on the Internet service providers to put their sites on the Web. It also has
support from political groups of all persuasions. The president of the
Christian Coalition, which is allied with Moveon.org on this issue, recently
asked, "What if a cable company with a pro-choice board of directors
decides that it doesn't like a pro-life organization using its high-speed
network to encourage pro-life activities?"

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June 01, 2006

I HAD A PLAN

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DON'T CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION

The other day I talked about the Washington State republicans adopting a platform that would revoke the constitutional provision granting automatic citizenship to the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants.

Yesterday on the Dori Monson Show he had a hour discussion about this topic. I wasn't able to listen to the show yesterday but I taped it decided to send him the following email. Dori claims to be an independent just like Bill O'Reilly. I think that's a bunch of BULLSHIT. It would seem to me that if he was a true independent he would find something that democrats do right . In the years I've listened to him I can't think of one thing. You make the call.

Anyway here is what I said: I'd like to vote against this republican plan. It's a dumb idea and I suspect overkill.

The dumbest ideas in the world seem to come from the republicans. Remember they wanted to bring Terri Schiavo back from the dead. Sen. Frist wanted to give everyone $100.00 to solve the gas problem. President Bush wanted to attack Iraq instead of hunt down bin laden and you know WHAT A GREAT IDEA THAT WAS.

Why the hell do the republicans always want to mess with the Constitution. It was written by people that not only had common sense they knew how to use that common sense. These folks are nuts and if they had their way we wouldn't have a Constitution to guide us.

One of your listeners made a good point and you just blew it away. At what age do you send people back. People have come across the boarder for years. I'm thinking there are several generations that came across and are still not citizens. Do you then send ALL the following generations back to a country that they know nothing about. That's crazy.

Yes the republicans have a better idea "IF IT AIN'T BROKE. . . BRAKE IT".

CAN YOU AFFORD TO RETIRE - Part 3 of 6

$100,000,000.00 dollars that's what the CEO was given to make this bankruptcy work. Plus he was given special protection to save his pension. The employees on the other hand had their pay cut, pension abolished, and had to pay much of their health care insurance.

This restructuring of business is happening all across the country. The employees are taking it in the shorts and there just doesn't seem to be much they can do.

In this segment you start to see the heart break these employees go through.

HERE WE GO AGAIN

Saw this in todays Washington Post.

Delta Air Lines' pilots union yesterday approved a 14 percent pay cut, eliminating a key hurdle in the airline's struggle to restructure under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and emerge from court supervision by mid-2007.

After more than six months of often-contentious labor talks, 61 percent of Delta's 6,000 pilots agreed to $280 million-a-year in pay and benefits cuts as part of a 3 1/2 -year contract.

The agreement follows earlier concessions. In 2004, Delta's pilots agreed to a wage cut of nearly 33 percent as part of a five-year deal designed to save the airline about $1 billion a year.

In addition to the pilot agreement, the bankruptcy court judge yesterday removed another potential obstacle to Delta's transformation. The court ruled against an objection to Delta's proposal to terminate its pension plan. The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., the federal agency that insures pension benefits, opposed the proposal.

It looks to me like the plan as laid out by United worked so well Delta is following it exactly.

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SAVE THE INTERNET - Part 3 of 5

By ADAM COHEN - The New York Times

A tiered Internet poses a threat at many levels. Service providers 
could, for example, shut out Web sites whose politics they dislike. 
Even if they did not discriminate on the basis of content, access 
fees would automatically marginalize smaller, poorer Web sites.

Consider online video, which depends on the availability of higher-speed 
connections. Internet users can now watch channels, like BBC World, that 
are not available on their own cable systems, and they have access to 
video blogs and Web sites like YouTube.com, where people upload videos 
of their own creation. Under tiered pricing, Internet users might be 
able to get videos only from major corporate channels. 

Sir Tim expects that there are great Internet innovations yet to come, 
many involving video. He believes people at the scene of an accident - 
or a political protest - will one day be able to take pictures with 
their cellphones that could be pieced together to create a 
three-dimensional image of what happened. That sort of innovation 
could be blocked by fees for the high-speed connections required to 
relay video images.

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