Hey, even the federal government’s hometown, the District of Columbia, has now followed Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Alaska into make pot smoking in private—as well as growing the plants in your home—completely legal.
Can the end of the long, senseless drug war be far away? At least the biggest part of it, which has always been about marijuana, it’s smell and bulk making it the easiest drug to track down? The Mexican drug cartels must be frantic.
Posted in The Culture, The Drug War, The Economy
Tagged is the drug war near an end, legal pot in federal capital
For one thing, after today’s FCC dictatorship move, the economy’s major bright spot, the Internet, will henceforth be plagued with the same political uncertainty the rest of the economy has been saddled with under our autocratic president and his selfish party leadership for the past six years.
“Raising the minimum wage was a key agenda item for new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority leader Harry Reid after their party took over Congress in 2007. The resulting effects on overall employment have been gruesome, to the point where the people who arbitrarily determine such things have absurdly decided, in the interest of covering their tracks, that the 4.5 percent unemployment rate seen during the middle of the past decade is no longer achievable, and that “full employment” is really a rate of 5.5 percent.”
The golfer-in-chief still periodically claims he’s going to get to work on the economy. For the middle class, he says, whatever’s left of it after his previous “get to work.” With any luck he’ll shut up and go play golf. Taking over the Internet should be more than enough to wipe out what’s left of the economy in the next two years.
Via BizzyBlog.
Our politicians are such lightweights who are more concerned with graft and repression than actual accomplishment that their space agency is content to build tinker-toys. The real dreams of space conquest are still only dreams.
Posted in Obsessions, Sailing, Science/Engineering, Space, The Culture, The Economy
Tagged a real space station, nasa's tinker-toys, still only a dream
“The attempt by the Obama Administration to control the Internet as a public utility takes power away from consumers, website developers and small business owners and puts it in the hands of Government. This will drive up costs, slow down innovation, and put unelected political appointees in charge of picking winners and losers.”
Which is where the graft that is their main aim comes in.
“And it will take away America’s moral authority to argue that autocratic regimes have no right to assert control of the Internet in their own countries.”
Sign the petition. It’s all we have left against the autocratic Democrat Obama.
Posted in Obamalot, Science/Engineering, The Economy
The squirrely phrase “net neutrality” means different things to different people. It’s about as opaque a concept as there is. So, on the surface, the looming federal takeover of the Internet set to befall the world on Feb. 26 to protect “net neutrality” isn’t transparent at all. Until you do a little digging and discover that under the terms of its White House-approved 332-page plan the FCC will be outlawing any practice of any ISP anywhere that the agency decides is “unjust.”
Initially, as some contend, it will be about the size of the pipe, not the stuff that flows through it. But switching attention from the pipe to the quality of the flow will be a simple matter of redefining “unjust.” For instance, an ISP could be fined for “unjustly” hosting a blog or other site the FCC deems inaccurate or unfair. And there are plenty its White House master already doesn’t like, such as Drudge.
The current FCC regime “may promise forbearance,” concludes the Wall Street Journal, “but watch out, because that’s not how government works. The nature of bureaucracies is to grab power and expand it. Once the FCC assumes the authority to set ‘rates, terms and conditions’ across the online economy, expect a political land rush. The Beltway struggle for advantage will be so intense and the stakes so high…”
As our favorite Texas senator, Ted Cruz, says (in additon to his superb video mockery of our finally transparently-dishonest president) “…five unelected bureaucrats [are going to] regulate and control every aspect of the Internet….”
There’s even a side motive coming from leftist Democrats who want the old liberal alphabet news media (MSNBC & cBS, etc.) to regain the dominance they’ve lost to the Net and its many conservative and libertarian voices.
So, twenty years after the Web arose from the GUI (the graphical user interface) and launched the freest communications and business marketplace the world has ever seen—vibrant and profitable for all concerned—the federal vulture is going to swoop down and rend it.
And, not incidentally, set its talons for a broad censorship of ideas and opinions the Democrats and their mendacious president don’t like.
Via WSJ.
Posted in Blogosphere, Scribbles, The Economy
Tagged federal takeover of the internet, Net Neutrality, unjust ISP practices
Ajit Varadaraj Pai is the only Republican commissioner of the FCC—soon to be known as the Department of the Internet. He is a lonely voice against the Worm’s impending takeover of the Web in the duplicitous name of protecting its “net neutrality.”
As PJMedia’s Roger L. Simon writes Obama “will say practically anything to achieve his goals without regard to the truth.”
As usual, Lyin’ Brian Williams and his cronies of the alphabet snooze media are ignoring that, the takeover and Pai. For them, what Pai calls impending federal “micromanagement” of the Net could mean a return to the glory days when they had a monopoly on electronic news and opinion. They’ve been covering for Wormtongue for six years now and they certainly won’t undermine any federal diminution of their chief competitor.
(Consider Lyin’ Brian’s take on bloggers here.)
The Worm, of course, would love to knock out his primary critics, the PJMedias and a host of other conservative/libertarian bloggers with millions of readers who’ve exposed his lies and his general corruption of the IRS, DOJ, etc. He may not be able to achieve his main goal of putting Fox News and Rush Limbaugh out of business, but he’ll settle for censoring Instapundit, Breitbart and the Drudge Report.
Like your Internet the way it is now, do you? Sorry, you can’t keep it. King No-Hope still has two years on the throne and he has other plans.
UPDATE: Well, that didn’t take long. Now the Worm’s Federal Elections Commission (POTUS appoints them so they are his) is talking about regulating bloggers or any entity that uses “the Internet to influence policy and campaigns”, as opposed to newspapers and television which do it all the time.
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