Well…just read that the FCC has ruled for the people of the US in classifying the internet as a utility that will limit what the ISP’s can do with it. What this means is that the giants like Verizon and others can’t charge more for faster speeds and must treat all traffic on the internet the same…what these companies wanted and what they bought so many republican legislators for was to be able to favor who they gave the fastest speeds to…effectively giving the ISP’s the power to control traffic they didn’t get paid extra to ensure the highest speeds for…essentially, they were lobbying to be able to slow down everyone’s internet that didn’t pay extortion to keep it working as it has since it’s inception…there was a second part of the decision today that I feel was just as important as the first, and that was that states can’t pass laws limiting who can be an ISP…something that the big providers again bought lots of repub legislators to do…to prevent municipalities across the country from competing with the crappy service that many of the big ISP’s provide in cities and means that lower cost internet and universal wifi will now be able to go forward without interference. This all came about with mobilization of the progressive community in the comment phase for the new regulations…with almost 2 million of those comments coming from Kos alone…so we finally won one…and this one really is a victory for the people…
Category Archives: Politics
The stupid, it burns…
Well…just a little short one on some more jaw dropping stupidity from another repub today…and from someone who should know better…some background…a repub legislator from Nevada, in sponsoring some new legislation that would allow non-traditional treatment for many illnesses said today that she believes that cancer is a fungus and can be cured by a baking soda flush…now, this is stupid from most people but this woman, Michele Fiore, is the CEO of a healthcare company that makes millions from cancer treatments that are not baking soda….I’m not sure I can work up any more outrage today but in this case “the stupid, it burns”…..two questions come to mind here…how the hell do you get to be CEO of a healthcare company with these beliefs and second, how the hell do such stupid, ignorant people keep getting elected by the repubs? geez…
Doing nothing against ISIS?
Well…just finished reading about another ignorant right winger, Lamar Smith, a congressman from Texas who said today that Obama is doing “nothing” to combat ISIS in the middle east and it is a shame that Jordan and Egypt are doing more….how many more times do we have to use facts to try to puncture the bubble of ignorance for these folks? The facts are that the US has launched 8 times more airstrikes against ISIS that all of the other countries in the middle east combined…that our command and control systems like AWACS are used to plan and control every attack no matter what country the planes come from…and our satellites and intelligence gathering assets are the only ones that have the capability to find out what is happening on the ground. I think it would be a big surprise to our pilots and planners over there that they are doing nothing and it is just a part of the truth of the right these days…that they don’t give a damn about the service of the military unless they can use it to attack Obama…even lying about the truth and denigrating the contribution that our military has given in the fight against ISIS…what an idiot…call ole Lamar and tell him to shut the hell up…
Working on some stuff…
Well…I know I haven’t been too topical lately and I am going to blame it on the flu and the fact that there is not a whole lot happening in politics right now…I think I’ve written this one before….there is one disgusting thing that happened this week in that ole Rudy Guiliani opened his mouth and exposed it for the sewer that it is…questioning if Obama loves the US or not…and the sky rained down with the dog whistles of racism that have marked the past 6 years from everyone on the right…not one of them disagreed with ole Rudy or even said anything that this kind of crap is out of bounds…going along with the blatant undermining of US foreign policy that is being done by Boehner…I would ask the question “why do the repubs hate the US so much?”…doing everything in their power to hurt the institution of the presidency across the world….and not caring about the damage they’re doing….that, to me, is not the love of country that the right is always going on an on about….and I think we on the left need to shout this every time you see one of these idiots talking about it…geez…
This country has gone crazy…
Well…just got the bathroom done and was reading and came across a gem that I just had to comment on…in Georgia, there is a state rep who has a list of the most important problems facing the US…guess what his top concern is? Human jellyfish hybrids…yep, this idiot, Tom Kirby thinks that the possibility of human hybrids is more important than jobs, or crumbling infrastructure, or income inequality…and he is writing a bill right now to “get out ahead” of this major threat to the US…yep, that last part is sarcasm…where the hell do they find these morons? And, who votes them into office? Man…I am shaking my head….
Arkansas goes off the rails…
Well…if you hadn’t seen the stupidity of the repubs on education lately, you just need to take a look at Arkansas and their fight to change the AP (advance placement) history courses there. Most AP courses across the country are built by experts in history that know what colleges and universities across the country want their applicants to know and are filled with something the the repubs just can’t understand…truth…and the fact the the US has not been and never will be perfect but the only way to get better and understand where we come from is to study this truth. That doesn’t matter to the repubs, though…they propose to destroy the truth of history and replace it with the study of the ten commandments, three Reagan speeches…and other nonsense that will automatically preclude every Arkansas student from meeting the requirement to even get in to college….but, they don’t give a damn…ignorant voters are the only thing keeping them in office and they just want more of them…I pity the poor kids of Arkansas…geez…
Republicans are still stupid…
Well…just a couple of thoughts that I wanted to get down here this aft and not get further behind….you know, repubs are still really stupid….first, you have this fight over immigration with them trying to tie reversing Obama’s immigration policies by tying them to funding for the DHS and acting like a bunch of pouting little brats when the dems don’t roll over and allow it….those immigration policies are nothing different than Saint Ronnie of Reagan did when he was in office and the repubs thought they were great back then…wonder what the difference is? Yeah, we all know the just hate the black guy in the White House…..what was the second stupid thing? Oh, I guess it’s just that they keep doing the same thing and expecting different results…did they really think that even if they passed this crap that Obama was just going to say…”oh, okay, if you say so, I’ll sign it”? Oh, the second thing is ole Boehner’s invite of Bibi…and now 63% of the country said it was a stupid thing to do…so, John, don’t take my word for it, listen to the damn country for a change…geez..
The supreme court isn’t one….
Well…I have had this little tidbit rattling around in my head for a little while yet and thought I’d take a stab at it before it rattles out one of my ears…with all of the bad, bad decisions that this court has made, it is no longer a court…but it is the judicial arm of the repub party whose only goal is to further the aims of the right in this country. Starting with Bush v. Gore, where the case should have been sent back to the House where all election disputes are supposed to be resolved according to the constitution….this court took the case with the ruling that said this was a one time thing and could never be a precedent to be cited in any other case (something that had never happened in the history of the country) this court has been radically doing the right’s bidding. Then we have Citizen’s United that made corporations people in complete disregard with a hundred years of precedent and guaranteed the seven figure speaking fees for the justices when they retired…while ruining our political process and allowing the billionaires on the right to buy elections ( as they just did in 2014). Then there is Hobby Lobby, a decision that allowed employers the right to impose their religious beliefs on their employees and which gave the right one of the items that was high on their wish list….to impose Christianity on everyone in this country. In just these three instances, we can see that this supreme court is no longer the impartial arbiter of law they are supposed to be, but the judicial arm of the right using it’s power to advance the right’s aims to the detriment of the country…they need to go…geez…
The real death panel….
Well…during the repub fight against the ACA, one of their go to phrases was the law included “death panels” which would condemn people to death by restricting what type of care people would get under the law…ignoring the fact that that most elderly folks are covered under Medicare and it would have nothing to do with them….but, with a new study that came out today, the real death panel is going to be the supreme court if they rule against subsidies for people who buy their insurance through the federal exchanges…and condemn an extra 10,000 people to death per year since they won’t be able to afford unsubsidized insurance. This total can then be added to the estimated 17,000 people a year that die since the Medicaid expansion was made optional by the court and the governors of repub states decided not to expand the program. So, the only thing you need to remember is there truly is a death panel here in the US, and it is called the supreme court…geez…
More on vaccines….
Well…I guess the repubs haven’t gotten to their monthly quota of stupid yet so they all have to weigh in on the vaccines “controversy” that they have manufactured all by themselves…and I want to start with just a month or so ago to show how crazy these folks are…of course you remember the Ebola scare where there was one case in the US and everyone on the right was just freaking about about it…and one of the memes that they were pushing was that it was Obama’s fault that there was no vaccine for Ebola that everyone could get to be safe…fast forward to today and you have all of the repub idiots out there saying it should be a parents choice whether or not they vaccinate their kids…never mind the fact that millions and millions of lives have been saved by vaccines since they were invented…under the guise of freedom, these idiots are willing to have their children die from readily preventable diseases since, according to their great minds like Rand Paul, vaccines can cause “severe mental problems” even though there has never been case of this that they can refer anyone to…they just “know” it’s a fact. Then, today, we have another great light from the right…some senator from Tennessee or some other backwater of science deniers, go on and on that the current measles outbreak is caused by “illegal immigrants” coming over the border since none of them are vaccinated…but he missed the fact that all of the central American countries including Mexico have vaccination rates that are much higher than the US. So, I guess what all of this means is the repubs are still the party of the stupid; denying science to pander to the stupid in their party and putting many people in danger for it…geez…