Albert Einstein:

Barack Obama:

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Recently the Federal Communications Commission released their new “Broadband” report on America.  It seems that the wireless companies have run out of space to provide broadband service to the public.

There’s some things I want you to keep in mind:  Wireless companies don’t give you access to information for free.  A very large donor to Obama’s campaign happens to be R. Gerard Salemme, the Vice President of  Policy of Clearwire Communications, a Sprint partner.

Remember the big DTV Conversion that was delayed from February to June of last year?  It was likely done to help Clearwire, while hurting AT&T and Verizon.  Source is here.

So what?  Obama’s dirty, all politicians are dirty.  But the government just keeps getting dirtier.  They know they can get away with it, but YOU don’t care.

Look, the government took over the banking industry.

Next, they took over GM.  Speaking of which, does it seem right that same government that owns a majority of General Motors is suddenly very interested in proving that Toyota is a murderer?  Now they chasing down Honda.  They can’t have Toyota selling a lot of cars, they are a huge competitor to GM.  But nobody seems to be mentioning that in the media.  The same media that announced that Barack Obama had won the presidential election in September of 2008.  The politicians “own” the major media.  Local radio has been dead forever, taken over by the likes of ClearChannel and the rest of the big corporations.  Newspapers are going bankrupt every day.  All that’s left is television and the Internet.

The Internet isn’t that hard.  They just claim that there’s kiddie porn on a site they don’t like, and they shut down the entire data center the sites running on.  They’ve done that recently.  Even Google will remove controversial videos from it’s YouTube site.  They’ve pulled some that claim that 9/11 was an inside job.  I don’t know on what grounds the videos were removed, they leave lots of other videos that are just as crazy.  Maybe there’s some truth to them so the government asks Goog to pull the plug on them.

Other sites get pulled supposedly for sharing movies and music illegally.  Maybe they are, maybe they aren’t.  But shouldn’t they be presumed innocent until proven guilty?  Or at least get the chance for a trial first?

And now the Government up to even more shenanigans.  While the major networks and national media are pretty much in Obama’s pocket, what would happen if a local TV station started to raise a stink about government corruption?  Not to worry, there’s a plan for that.

The FCC is threatening television broadcasters, the same ones that just spent millions of dollars to upgrade to digital TV, that they will either do things the easy way, or the hard way.  The easy way is to roll over and stop transmitting a free over the air signal to the public.  The hard way, well, let’s just say it’s pretty much the same, only instead of being voluntary the feds will simply shut them down.

But this is all “for the good of the nation”.  The wireless companies aren’t making enough money off mobile broadband and they need the frequencies that television is “hogging” so that they can sell even more wireless data at enormous profits. Not to get too sidetracked, but did you know that it costs nothing for the wireless companies to send a text message?  They are sent over the control channel of the tower that would normally just transmit a bunch of zeros when it’s not in use, but they found a way to squeeze text messages in there without taking up ANY unused capacity from the system.  And they charge 20 cents or so for it.  Brilliant!!

Anyway, I do have a point here, and I’m getting to it.

By shutting down local broadcasters and giving that spectrum to the wireless companies, Obama’s buddies make more money, which they undoubtedly will pass a portion of under the table to their friends in government.

And they claim that they are doing this to improve “broadband”.  But when you follow the chain of dominoes that falls down,  what they’re really trying to do is cut off your access to information itself.  And since they can’t do it by law (that damn first amendment gets in the way), they’re finding other ways to do it…

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I prefer UPS.  They are efficient, have a great tracking system so I always know where my package is, and never once have they claimed to have delivered a package when in fact it was sitting in limbo somewhere.

I bet you’ve used UPS hundreds if not thousands of times yourself.  Or FedEx.  But why?  Why would you even need UPS or FedEx when the US Postal service exists?

The Postal Service is the second largest employer in the country, after WalMart (and not including the federal government).  The Postal Service is an “independence agency of the United States government”.

Yet you use UPS and FedEx, likely because they are cheaper, faster, and more reliable at delivering parcels.  Huh.  Interesting.

Where I live we have a “municipal utility”.  It provides electricity, cable TV, broadband Internet, and telephone service.  Our electric rates are pretty darn close to the same as Aliant Energy is charging in this state.  Maybe even higher.  REC, who provides service just blocks from my home charges about half of what our municipal electric service charges.  But I’m stuck with the “public” option, which costs more.

I don’t use the cable tv.  I use Dish Network.  Why?  More choices.  I get about twice as many channels on Dish, and about five times more HD channels.  We also have Mediacom in our area providing cable, Internet, and phone.  The cable tv service is priced within a dollar of the city offering.

For Internet I use Qwest.  It’s actually $10 a month cheaper, for speeds that are about double of the municipal offering.  Mediacom is faster than either one, and costs about the same as the municipal.

I also use Qwest for my local telephone service.  It costs $24.95 per month for local service, including Caller ID, Call Waiting, and Call Forwarding.  Now here it gets interesting.  The municipal service is $12.95.  It includes those same three custom services.  But if I want to keep the phone number that I’ve had since 1997 I have to add $2.95 a month.  And then I lose the $5 a month discount that Qwest is giving me for my DSL service, effectively raising the price of the municipal offering to $20.90.  I could save $4.00.  But wait, there’s more.

If I switch from Qwest to the municipal telephone service there are some gotchas.  Qwest works all the time.  The municipal won’t work during a power failure.  I can add a battery backup, but if the equipment out on the pole runs out of battery power, I’m still left with no service.  How would I dial 911?  More importantly, how would my kids dial 911?

What the hell is my point?  I’ve actually got three points.

1. Private carriers often perform better than the US Postal Service.
2. “Public” utilities are not necessarily cheaper than private investor owned utilities
3. “Public” utilities often perform worse, and offer less choice than private utilities.

Now, which one do you want managing your health care?

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“I don’t know. I thought it was really gonna be different this time.”

I’m well aware that not everyone shares my political views, and that’s fine.  In fact, that’s great.  Differing views are good.

If you are one of those that don’t typically agree with me, do me a favor here, and read this post with an open mind.  This isn’t a democrat vs republican post.  This is a post about how both sides are wrong, and very dangerous to the future of our country.  Some of what I’m about to write will sound ridiculous.  But read it anyway, and then do your own research and make up your own mind.  I know that I thought it was a steaming pile of bullshit when I first heard some of this.

I remember hearing people say that George W. Bush was a puppet of big oil and big business.  And he was.  But so is Obama.  Look at who he is surrounded by, a bunch of Wall Street people.  All the presidents in recent history have been puppets, it’s not a real position of power.  The last president to not be a puppet was JFK, and look at what happened to him.

So if the president is just a puppet, then who the hell is pulling the strings?  The banking community.

Think about this, the so-called mortgage meltdown that caused the recent recession was caused by banks selling worthless investments.  And then the government bailed them out of their own mess.  Why?  Because the president is a puppet.  It would make more sense to give the billions of dollars to the people, but instead it went right into the pockets of the bankers.  How convenient..

Every year a meeting takes place to discuss the outcome of the next year.  The guest list is a secret, meeting minutes are kept, but a list of attendees is not.  This meeting is called “Bilderberg”.  The attendees are very rich, very powerful people.  Names like “Bernake”, “Clinton”, and “Obama” are said to have been on the guest list in 2008.  Remember when Hillary and Barack seemed to disappear from the public radar for a couple of days during the campaign?  They were supposedly in Chantilly, Virginia attending the Bilderberg meeting.  I have no proof of this, but I would not be surprised.

Former guests are said to be people like George W. Bush, Alan Greenspan, and a long list of other politicians who claim to work for us, the people.

When I first heard about Bilderberg I thought it was a conspiracy theory and nothing more.  But, then, I didn’t believe that the Federal Reserve was as “Federal” as FedEx.  True story.

The “Fed” isn’t part of the government.  The government has no control over it at all.  It run by the banking cartel.  The bailouts we’ve been seeing use money that is printed by the fed, money that never existed before, printed out of thin air.  And when you and I pay it back, we pay it back with interest.  It’s a nice gig if you can get it.

I’ve heard claims that the rise in gas prices were decided by Bilderberg, in order to hurt the American people, then the mortgage crises would hit, followed by the bailouts.  All to de-value the U.S. Dollar.  Why?  It’s part of the “new world order” you’ve heard about off and on over the past couple of decades.  The Bilderbergs want total control.

So why haven’t you heard about the Bilderberg group in the mainstream media?  Seriously?  You have to ask?  Think about who owns the media.  Giant corporations, like Time-Warner, and FOX.  Rupert Murdoch is one seriously rich son of a bitch, and he owns a HUGE global media empire.  It’s not unlikely that he himself is a member of Bilderberg.

Besides, we’re all busy sitting around watching the non-stop disco on TV, temporarily pacified, the media knows that less is more.

I bet Micheal Jackson was actually murdered, just to distract us from what our elected officials were doing while we weren’t watching them.  Hey, it’s possible!  Not terribly likely, I know.

So maybe I’m crazy, but do a bit of Google searching on Bilderberg and let me know what you think, regardless of if you think I’m a genius, or a fucking nut job.

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THE COW AND THE ICE CREAM

ONE OF THE BEST EXPLANATIONS OF WHY OBAMA WON THE ELECTION AND IS PUSHING FOR HIS HEALTHCARE LEGISLATION:

“We are worried about “the cow” when it is all about the “Ice Cream”

The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was while teaching third
grade this year.

The presidential election was heating up and some of the children
showed an interest. I decided we would have an election for a class
president.

We would choose our nominees. They would make a campaign speech and
the class would vote.

To simplify the process, candidates were nominated by other class
members.

We discussed what kinds of characteristics these students should have.
We got many nominations and from those, Jamie and Olivia were picked
to run for the top spot.

The class had done a great job in their selections. Both candidates
were good kids. I thought Jamie might have an advantage because he got
lots of parental support. I had never seen Olivia’s mother.

The day arrived when they were to make their speeches.

Jamie went first:
He had specific ideas about how to make our class a better place. He
ended by promising to do his very best. Everyone applauded and he sat
down.

Now is was Olivia’s turn to speak:
Her speech was concise. She said, “If you will vote for me, I will
give you ice cream.”

She sat down.

The class went wild. “Yes! Yes! We want ice cream.”

She surely would say more. She did not have to. A discussion followed.
How did she plan to pay for the ice cream? She wasn’t sure. Would her
parents buy it or would the class pay for it? She didn’t know.

The class really didn’t care. All they were thinking about was ice
cream.

Jamie was forgotten. Olivia won by a landslide.

Every time Barack Obama opened his mouth he offered ice cream and
52 percent of the people reacted like nine year olds: They want ice
cream. The other 48 percent knew they’re going to have to “feed the
cow and clean up the mess.”

Remember, the government cannot give anything to anyone —
that they have not first taken away from someone else.

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Wait.  Some explanation is in order.  I got unwittingly subscribed to MoveOn.org after subscribing to Barack Obama’s site during the campaign.. I donated $5 to Obama’s campaign in the beginning because he sounded interesting and on the Democrat side, I thought he was by far the best choice.  But ever since donating, I got put on the MoveOn.org distribution list. 

So anyway, I received the following email

Dear MoveOn member,

Right-wing mobs aren’t just disrupting congressional town halls—their outlandish lies are now making their way into mainstream news coverage, too.

We need to set the record straight. The majority of Americans support real health care reform. And no wonder, given the incredible cost of inaction.

In Michigan alone, 620 people lose their coverage every day. And for those with insurance, yearly premiums will hit $22,579 in a few years if we don’t act.

We can’t let right-wing extremists ruin the biggest opportunity in a generation to get real reform. Can you send a quick letter to the editor of The Detroit Free Press—or another local paper—about the urgent need in Michigan for Congress to pass health care reform with a real public option?

Ugh.  So instead of doing the right thing and just unsubscribing to the email list (which would probably help keep me more healthy in terms of blood pressure, heart attacks and apoplectic shock), I decided to use their email system to give my voice.

Here’s the email I sent through their system.

Subject: The government needs to stay out of our healthcare

The American public is overwhelmingly opposed to government involvement in our healthcare.

Obama was touted as the great unifier, but clearly he’s overstepping his bounds by ignoring more than half of this country’s citizens views and charging ahead solely on party lines.

There are much bigger problems for our Congress and President to focus on rather than imposing Socialist policies that will cripple our already fledgling economy.

The White House needs to stop asking neighbors to turn in other neighbors, stop the marketing assault on our public and turn to policies that enable individual liberties.

Thank you for your time.

But, come on, really.  Surely MoveOn.org will end up filtering emails like these and would NEVER allow my letter to get through.  In fact, I bet they report me to the IRS or something, or send some Union thugs my way or otherwise make my life hell.  I expect them to fight dirty, I really do.

Who knows.  Maybe my use of their system might convince one or two people on the back end?

You can write a letter through MoveOn.org, too!  Just follow this Write A Letter link and compose it up!

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