“Presidential candidates are touting widespread broadband as a boost for employment and rural education, but a close look at financial interests suggests tech policy may also be a campaign paycheck. Candidates for both of the major political parties are drawing contributions from the technology industry, and from communications firms in particular. But the proportion differs,” Emily Kumler reports for Medill News Service.
“Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts says universal broadband access is necessary for the country to rebuild its tech sector and increase employment in high tech industry. As of mid-June, 38 percent of the $2,415,894 Kerry has received from his top 20 donors has come from contributors with a strong interest in the technology sector, according to data collected by the Center for Responsive Politics,” Kumler reports.
“Meanwhile, 5 percent of the $5,886,487 provided by the top 20 contributors to the incumbent Republican candidate, President George Bush, comes from tech companies or lobbyists. The majority of Bush’s top contributors are financial firms that may have investments in the technology sector but are not directly acting on tech firms’ behalf. Another 5 percent, or $3,332,700, of Bush’s total contributions grouped by business sector came from the communications and electronics industry. At nearly $3.8 million, donations to the Kerry campaign from the communications and electronics industry nearly matched Bush’s, but they account for 9 percent of Kerry’s total donations,” Kumler reports. “Bush says broadband will facilitate a classroom in every living room, giving the most remote citizen access to a wealth of information and opportunity. The president has set the goal but has not outlined its execution other than imploring Congress to permanently ban Internet taxes.”
Full article here.
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Nothing a single small person like me says � or anything any big important person like a VIP says � will afford us peace, give Paul Johnson back his life or make us feel better. We are dealing with the bestiality of demented zealots. This nation doesn’t know what to do. The world doesn’t know what to do. Do you escalate? Do you back away? What is the next step? How does a civilized people handle this? While no one knows how to handle our terrifying enemies, I at least know how to handle our sickening “friends.”
Stick it to them.
So far the most noted opinions I have seen from the right (skully and rice) are lets be the most savage nation and lets use nuclear weapons and screw up the whole world. Man if that is the conservative opinion I guess I am a liberal.
Getting one’s head chopped off or getting stripped, subjected to sleep “therapy,” getting one’s testicles “wired,” forced into homoerotic positions with other naked POWs while a leering female soldier taunts you and a fat sonofabitch “contractor” bitch-slaps you….
You can take my head off. I’d rather suffer only a few seconds of confusion wondering where my body went.
JACK A, I never said I was a Republican. I never said use Nucs. If you want to quote me, quote me correctly. If someone came into your house and set a fire in your bedroom and ran to the house across the street and mocked you as you came out screaming, would you not go savage on him. Maybe I spent to much time learning life on the street, than a classroom.
Cindy, this is all about making money. Why do you think Bush has cut our mass transportation funding? Why were the incentives to buy electric cars reduced?
The choice for this nation to be independant of the Oil in the Middle East is here, but we are CONSIOUSLY CHOOSING to remain reliant on these nations. Fact is, Bush wants his cake and eat it too. He wants people to use lots of gas, and at the same time he is not taking any responsibility for our reliance on the Middle East.
But hey, practially the whole administration comes from Oil Money…
skully if your not a republican what are you – a fascist?
less is less,
I’ll buy your ticket to Iraq. Start Packing!
Anyway, to use your analogy, I would go and have that man arrested. But what we did was have a neighbor down the street who didn’t set our house one fire, but whom we didn’t like anyway, arrested…
Cindy, maybe if your Government had listened two years ago when the French told you not to strike the Middle East hornet’s nest, they may now care a bit more.
Afghanistan was justified.
Iraq was revenge.
RIP Paul Johnson.
>Stick it to them.
Short-sighted thinking. Unless you exterminate them, they’ll come back with even more nefarious plans to fill your life with FUD.
whoever bitches about the beheadings without bitching about Abu-Ghraib is a hypocrite. We went out of our way to ask for beheadings when we threw all the rules out the window at Abu Ghraib.
BESIDES ALL THE BS PEOPLE ARE TYPING ABOVE ME….broadband should be treated like the railroads were. It should be encouraged by government to grow. People needed to somewhere quickly…railroads were built. Now information needs to get many different places quickly, broadband should grow. democrats are fucking morons and so are republicans. people who can get past the stupid letter R/D and do what right for the country are those who should have the power to do whats best for the country. and frankly adults are morons too. look at yourselfs! i am 19, and looking at what you all have been writing. grow up.
Why do I have to be anything. Why can’t I be an American with values of my own, that don’t be long to any one party. I don’t understand why people label someone who cares about this country and thinks Bush is the right guy, a republican. Like I said if Gore was in office doing the samething I would be supporting him, would that make me a Democrate. I believe both parties have screwed this nation, at longer than than any of us have known.
[Jay Rice] I’ll buy your ticket to Iraq. Start Packing!
Excellent idea. Maybe my diplomatic initiative might save your ass. Or head.
hey g-stank,
then by your analogy we should start beheading the terrorists.
matt,
look at yourself. you put yourself higher than everybody and call them all morons. check the ego at the door. people are talking about shit that concerns them.
skully, I agree with you. People shouldn’t be a Democrat or Republican, they should vote for who they think represents them the best. In fact, the Democrats of today are more closely related to the Republicans of the past than the Republicans of today are. So since all these definitions are changing, and we as people are changing, I totally agree with you.
G-SPANK, it has been an honor debating with you…
less,
excellent. please go over there and try. let us all know how it goes. they’re such reasonable people those terrorists.
no, Jay, what I’m saying is you can’t call unfair when you’ve already broken the rules. Two wrongs don’t make a right, so we shouldn’t start beheading people.
What is the nature of humanity? Competition! That’s why Capitalism works so great! But people compete in all kinds of ways. We got it going with Abu-Ghraib. We said “fuck the rules terrorists!”, and the terrorists responded “Oh yeah, well we’ll up the ante!” How could you not see that one coming. If you like this sort of thing, go live in Israel, they’ve been doing it for years…
thanks skully, you’re not a bad as I first thought. I still think the Kerry helping terrorists thing is wacked out, but…
G-Spank, one of groomsman has “If you support Bush you support Terroism” on his truck. We have argued our positions over Pints of Guniess many nights. He hates Bush, I like Bush, but I would take a bullet for my friend any day.
We broke the rules first????? I don’t think so g-stank. Not a chance. Those animals don’t know what civil rules are. They kill anyone that doesn’t believe in their brand of religion. They terrorize women, children, and fellow muslims. You and the like are completely off the wall. You people make zero, I repeat zero sense. I’d love to see how they’d treat you if they got their hands on you.
It’s good to have Jay Rice on this board. Where else can you get a guy with an IQ of 70 with an obvious redneck KKK attitude who believes that America should bomb everyone we don’t like and truly believes that Saddam was behind 9/11 to give his ignorant opinion on world politics?
Oh yeah, you could talk to the current resident of the White House.
Skully, that was a fantastic analogy. So the neighbor comes into my house and starts a fire and then runs. He even claims responsibility. So I go to his house and start a bunch of fires trying to smoke him out, but I never get him. Instead, I forget about him and go to a different neighbor’s house. This guy didn’t have anything to do with the fires, but he used to fight with my dad a lot. So I burn his house down, capture him, take his kids prisoner and tie their testicles to wires. I take a bunch of pictures of them to embarrass them, and I break all the Geneva Conventions doing it. Then, when the rest of the neighborhood tells me what I did was wrong, I tell them that they don’t get any of the posessions from this guy’s house because they didn’t help me burn it down.
Yeah, that is a good analogy.
G-SPANK, I gotta ask. What is up with the nickname?
I thought my one of my ex-girlfirends name was inciting (Tammy Tange)
Jay, have you ever read the articles of the Geneva Conventions? Yes, we broke the rules first. Read them.
http://www.genevaconventions.org
At a minimum, Donald Rumsfeld needs to be tried for war crimes.