“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.
Related MacDailyNews articles:
Star-studded list of tech execs to endorse President Bush for another term – May 18, 2004
Apple CEO Steve Jobs advising presidential candiate Kerry on economic issues – May 01, 2004
President Bush calls for ban on broadband Internet tax – April 26, 2004
President George W. Bush calls for universal broadband by 2007 – March 29, 2004
The Mac is Bush to Windows’ Clinton – October 25, 2002
OK, please quote one instance where I used foul language or name called.
I am waiting.
AND I see you still don’t want to discuss the issues. Why not?
from Jay: “you tools infer that because the US scared the terrorist prisoners the innocent civilians deserve to have their heads hacked off.”
Don’t you realize you’re living in a world where you MAKE SHIT UP. Noone ever said what you are claiming here, you’re mind simplifies the world around you so you can make it fit whatever simple ideas you have inside. It’s pathetic.
What people have been saying is that the terrorists use Abu Ghraib to justify their claims about the USA, and their actions against us. DON’T YOU GET IT?!! We’re not saying “Deserve” anywhere you moron, we’re pointing out how nature works in this situation. You’re the kind of person who beats up your neighbor and then act all surprised when you find your car tires slashed.
Hey Jay……Did you ever quoting you here – – “also swear and name call the president of the US” – – – When Mr Clinton was in office?
P.S. you win. Name calling and emotionalism trump reason, logic, and knowledge every time.
I know the likelyhood of an accurate anwer to this question, but I really would like to know if you listen to Rush Limbaugh?
I also want to thank you for continuing to contribute here, at least you do continue to debate.
Respectfully,
Thank you,
M.D.
gstink,
you are implying that the terrorists have some kind of valid reason for their actions. you are fking out of your minds to do that. these people are not human. they are now officially bulls eyes. mac poodle – whatever.
“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.”
What the hell are you trying to say gstink?????????????????????
Hey Jay Rice…..
Two other questions I would love your feedback on.
A. If we classify whole populations in the middle east as
“terrorists” and “nuke them” in your words…….
Would some innocent people be killed?
B. If some organized group of people here in the USA
(say the NRA, or the ACLU) were labeled as “threats”
to the safety and security of the nation, would you
support indiscriminate killing of them too?
Anybody else in sympathy with Jay’s views are also welcome to answer.
Again, Thank you,
M. D.
Jay, I am sorry I ever actually expected a response to my questions from you.
Thanks anyway
M.P.
jack ass said: “George Bush sucks air.”
not near as bad as others but still name calling.
Jay Rice and other inteligence offenders alike. Explain me the main differences between Islamic Rule and the present USA administration. Both use torture to get their objectives. Both have leaders with low culture. Both use military force as the way to achive their point of view. Both try to subjugate other states to their wishes. Both control the internal Media to hide their internal problems (USA rated very low this year in the international ranking for freedom of press). I’m not getting the point.
what do you liberal fools think happened in Japan and Germany? What did we have to do to those people to beat them into better world neighbors? Do you really think it went smoothly? It took a long time for our efforts to pay off. Same things going to happen here. the middle east is lucky this isn’t a more Roman time. They would get their asses handed to them and shape up or die.
hi jay rice,
you have got to be completely out of your mind with that moronic question. You are not even worth it to reply too if you can’t see the difference between US and Islamic rule. Give me a freaking break you fwad!
Jay, you simplify the world to the point of delusion. The fact is that your mind thinks just like these terrorists. Your attitude is the same “monkey” attitude of the people you say we should nuke. They are saying the same thing as you. Look in the mirror, Jay, and you will see yourself wearing a Turbin and condeming the USA. It’s a simple matter of where you happen to be born.
For good and ill, the Iraqi prisoner abuse mess will remain an issue. On the one hand, right thinking Americans will abhor the stupidity of the actions while on the other hand, political glee will take control and fashion this minor event into some modern day My Lai massacre.
I heard some Arabs and Muslims are asking for an apology. I humbly offer mine here:
I am sorry that the last seven times we Americans took up arms and sacrificed the blood of our youth, it was in the defense of Muslims (Bosnia, Kosovo, Gulf War 1, Kuwait, etc.).
I am sorry that no such call for an apology upon the extremists came after 9/11. I am sorry that all of the murderers on 9/11 were Islamic Arabs.
I am sorry that most Arabs and Muslims have to live in squalor under savage dictatorships. I am sorry that their leaders squander their wealth. I am sorry that their governments breed hate for the US in their religious schools, mosques, and government-controlled media.
I am sorry that Yasir Arafat was kicked out of every Arab country and highjacked the Palestinian “cause”. I am sorry that no other Arab country will take in or offer more than a token amount of financial help to those same Palestinians.
I am sorry that the USA has to step in and be the biggest financial supporter of poverty stricken Arabs while the insanely wealthy Arabs blame the USA for all their problems.
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I am sorry that our own left wing elite, our media, and our own brainwashed (from elements of our society like radical professors, CNN and the NY TIMES) masses do not understand any of this. I am sorry the United Nations scammed the poor people of Iraq out of the “food for oil” money so they could get rich while the common folk suffered.
I am sorry that some Arab governments pay the families of homicide bombers upon their death. I am sorry that those same bombers are brainwashed thinking they will receive 72 virgins in “paradise.” I am sorry that the homicide bombers think pregnant women, babies, children,the elderly and other noncombatant civilians are a legitimate targets.
I am sorry that our troops die to free more Arabs from the gang rape rooms and the filling of mass graves of dissidents of their own making. I am sorry that Muslim extremists have killed more Arabs than any other group.
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I am sorry that foreign trained terrorists are trying to seize control of Iraq and return it to a terrorist state. I am sorry we don’t drop a few dozen Daisy cutters on Fallujah.
I am sorry every time terrorists hide they find a convenient “Holy Site”. I am sorry they didn’t apologize for driving a jet into the World Trade Center that collapsed and severely damaged Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church – one of our Holy Sites.
I am sorry they didn’t apologize for flight 93 and 175, the USS Cole, he embassy bombings, the murders and beheadings of Nick Berg and Daniel Pearl, etc….etc! I am sorry Michael Moore is American; he could feed a medium sized village in Africa.
America will get past this latest absurdity. We will punish those responsible because that is what we do. We hang out our dirty laundry for all the world to see. We move on. That’s one of the reasons we are hated so much. We don’t hide this stuff like all those Arab countries that are now demanding an apology.
Deep down inside, when most Americans saw this reported in the news, we were like – so what? We lost hundreds and made fun of a few prisoners.
Sure, it was wrong, sure, it dramatically hurts our cause, but until captured we were trying to kill these same prisoners. Now we’re supposed to wring our hands because a few were humiliated? Our compassion is tempered with the vivid memories of our own people killed, mutilated and burnt amongst a joyous crowd of celebrating Fallujans.
If you want an apology from this American, you’re going to have a long wait. You have a better chance of finding those 72 virgins.
gstank,
keep dreaming fool. again thank god you have nothing to do with protecting the civilized world. we would all be decapitated by now.
great posts Jay! Keep up the great work. These losers are incredibly out of touch. George Bush is the best man going.
you really think Jay has the mental capacity to write those previous posts. I highly doubt it. Someone penned his name.
Jay Rice and other inteligence offenders alike. Explain me the main differences between Islamic Rule and the present USA administration. Both use torture to get their objectives. Both have leaders with low culture. Both use military force as the way to achive their point of view. Both try to subjugate other states to their wishes. Both control the internal Media to hide their internal problems (USA rated very low this year in the international ranking for freedom of press). I’m not getting the point. You are the man Jay Rice!!. Bush is the most cleaver human being on hearth. As true as for you to be a dummy, th only thing you are missing are the feathers.. The problem is that you can not argue about the main differences between the present US admin and most of the islamic countryes. After all where are the WMD? In iraq or in USA?
It’s futile to discuss or argue with someone of the mental incapacity of a Jay Rice. There’s no room in their narrows minds for anything but what they want to believe and spout with blind ignorance.
narrow minds……. hmm sounds like you people are pinning your delusional shortsightedness on Jay when it’s really you wackos that don’t get it. Bug off!
I really don’t understand this hi jr character. what the heck is he smoking????? He wants to know the difference between the US and middle eastern crazies. Read the apology post from Jay Rice. That scratches the surface numb nuts.
Hello. My name is Mary Jo Kopechne. I would have been 65 years of age this year. Read about me and my killer below. When Sen. Ted Kennedy was merely just another Democrat bloating on Capitol Hill on behalf of liberal causes, it was perhaps excusable to ignore his deplorable past. But now that he’s become Sen. John Kerry’s leading campaign attack dog, positioning himself as Washington’s leading arbiter of truth and integrity, the days for such indulgence are now over. It’s time for the GOP to stand up and remind America why Sen. Kerry’s chief spokesman had to abandon his own presidential bid in 1980 – time to say the words Mary Jo Kopechne out loud. As is often the case, Republicans have deluded themselves into thinking that most Americans already know the story of how this “Conscience of the Democratic Party” left Miss Kopechne behind to die in the waters underneath the Edgartown Bridge in July 1969, after a night of drinking and partying with the young blonde campaign worker. But most Americans under 40 have never heard that story, or details of how Kennedy swam to safety, then tried to get his cousin Joe Garghan to say he was behind the wheel. Those young voters don’t know how Miss Kopechne, trapped inside Kennedy’s Oldsmobile, gasped for air until she finally died, while the Democrats’ leading Iraq war critic rushed back to his compound to formulate the best alibi he could think of. Neither does Generation X know how Kennedy was thrown out of Harvard on his ear 15 years earlier — for paying a fellow student to take his Spanish final. Or why the US Army denied him a commission because he cheated on tests.
As they listen to the Democrats’ “Liberal Lion” accuse President Bush of “telling lie after lie after lie” to get America to go to war in Iraq, young voters don’t know about that notorious 1991 Easter weekend in Palm Beach, when Uncle Teddy rounded up his nephews for a night on the town, an evening that ended with one of them credibly accused of rape. It’s time for Republicans to state unabashedly that they will no longer “go along with the gag” when it comes to Uncle Ted’s rants about deception and moral turpitude inside the Bush White House. And if the Republicans don’t, let’s do it ourselves by passing this forgotten disgrace around the Internet to wake up memories of what a fraud and fake Teddy really is. The Democratic Party, not to mention Sen. John Kerry, should be ashamed to have the national disgrace from Massachusetts as their spokesman. And the GOP needs to say so out loud. I remember all of this and I’m sure most of you do, too.
Dear Senator Kerry:
�� I am the Designated Letter Writer for the guys down to Daryl’s Bait Shop
here in Lagniappe, Louisiana.� We have been shaking our heads over your
stumbling campaign.� It ain’t so much we like you or your Party, but you
are a fellow American, born in the U S of A, so we don’t want you to
disgrace yourself.� Here are 10 helpful hints we have worked up for you.�
(More if you want them. Let us know.)
1.� We know you served in Nam.� You’d do yourself a favor if you didn’t
keep mentioning it every time someone pokes a microphone in your face.�
Geez, it was 35 years ago you did that for what was it, four months?� Some
of us guys at Daryl’s Bait Shop� spent more time than that on chow lines.
2.� Get your stories straight.� Admit you threw your or someone’s medals
and/or ribbons over the Capitol fence in ’71, and you went touring around
with Jane Fonda, and you testified falsely of atrocities by US troops.� You
ought to say that was all a youthful mistake.� We’ve made a few.� We’ll
understand.
3.� It’s OK, you can talk French to French reporters if you want to, we
don’t mind. Smilin’ Jack Boudreau can speak French, and we elected him
Chief of the Lagniappe Volunteer Fire Company.� We’re not bigots.� We call
’em as we see ’em, make up our minds.
4.� Sen. Kerry, why aren’t you touting your good luck in snaggin, not one,
but two, rich wives?� Here at Daryl’s we often wonder what it would be like
to have a really rich wife.� We speculate just how big a bass boat we could
buy along with one of those new Dodge Hemi trucks to pull it to the
crick.� Smilin Jack always points out how it’s his cousins, Marvin and
Dickweed who appear in those Dodge Hemi commercials but still they can’t
afford one of their own.� We chuckle how we could be fishin all day with
nary a worry about where the money is coming from.� You don’t have to cook
that ketchup, do you?� Come on, show the world how lucky you are.� We here in the South respect achievement and don’t begrudge someone’s good fortune even if he’s a politician.
5.� Me and Boudreau wonder why you aren’t going to the wrasslin matches to
get votes?� We’ve seen videotape of you on the ski slopes.� You got some
good moves, looks like you already know how to take a fall.� All us here
(except Freddie Dobbs and Herm Harrison) are great fans of wrasslin.� Not
that we’d vote for you just because you was one.� Armen Yazoo is a wrasslin
maniac, but none of us would vote for him even if he was running only for
dogcatcher.� So you got to tread easy on showing you’re Joe Sixpack who
just happened to go to Swiss prep school and St. Paul’s School and Yale
College Skull & Bones.� We’d see through that pose in about a minute and a
half and mark you for a hypocritical windbag and general liar.� You needn’t
go to the trouble of hanging a black velvet Elvis oil painting in any of
your living rooms. Weren’t none of us recently fell off a turnip truck.
6.� Tell us something you’re for.� We already know what you’re against.
7.� We ain’t all that impressed with the UN and we don’t know why you keep
bowing in its direction, promising you will go there first thing if you are
elected President of this country.� Is there anything the UN has ever done
right?� Didn’t they make a royal mess of that Iraq oil-for-food program,
millions skimmed off just happened to land in their personal bank accounts?
Seems to us they spend around 98 percent of their time passing
resolutions that don’t add up to a hill of beans.