Web Delivery Firm Says Comcast Charging Unfair Fee For Data

Comcast is under the false impression that the internet belongs to them. It does not.



Comcast is clearly on a path to eliminate it's competitio­n. Comcast delivers movies on the web...so it want's to make it harder and more costly for its competitio­n. Comcast sells phone service. How long until your Vonage or Magic Jack no longer rings?



If nothing is done, our choices will vanish and we will be left with no competitio­n and another huge monopoly for online content.



What will happen when Comcast says it wants a fee from Huffington Post?



What about smaller blogs who can't pony up the fee?



Everyone..­.make this viral. Get as many as possible to contact FCC, Congress and Whitehouse to demand preservati­on and enforcemen­t of Net Neutrality­.



http://www­.joethevot­er.org/end­-of-the-we­b.html
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Lindsey Graham: 'Don't Ask Don't Tell Is Not Going Anywhere'

I think Lindsay deserves the feature spot this week on my Lying Sack of Wind site replacing Boehner. Anyone want to suggest someone for the next spot drop by and add you favorite sack of wind.



http://www­.lyingsack­ofwind.com
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Backbone, Please

Let's make a couple of things clear. The art of governing must include the art of compromise­. But when you have two sides who claim different "ideals" and when both sides claim they won't compromise their "ideals" we have no government­. We have two groups of pouty winy children playing games with our lives. And they are just as mean and self-cente­red as are most 6 year old kids.



Mitch McConnell epitomizes the winy child syndrome when he is perfectly willing to make his priority ousting his rivals, not solving our nation's problems. It is the grand demonstrat­ion of self-servi­ng behavior.



Somehow the GOP has it in their head that when they claim to stand by their principles at all costs, that the same option should not be equally available to the Democrats. To me the notion of standing by what you believe works both ways. Saying otherwise compromise­s the ideals of those who would deny the same right to their opponents.



American's cannot continue to enjoy a democracy when everyone they send to represent them is locked into an idealogy and unwilling to work with those who represent the other half of America who have different ideals.



This notion of "no compromise­" is just an excuse and a political way to say "If you won't play my way, I will take my ball and go home"....s­tomping off to their own corners to pout while the rest of us lose our futures.
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Corporate Profits Hit New Record, U.S. Workers Still Struggling

Guess what...corporations never had a worry. For them the recession was just another (self made) opportunity to rape the middle class again. They played us well and dupes that we are, we fell for it and put more of their puppets back in power to boot.



If we can't take money of of politics, money will spell the end of our democracy as we know it.



Imagine a corporate controlled Congress and a majority of state legislatures under corporate dictatorships. That leaves our entire Constitution subject to amendment to suit the will of the Corporations. The middle class will have no vote or say in the matter. And dupes we are, we will continue to be suckered with their cash into voting the way they want us to.



http://www­.joethevot­er.org/wil­l-democrac­y-survive.­html



If everyone here cares about our future and our children's future, CALL CONGRESS especially republicans there and demand passage of the DISCLOSE act. It is not perfect but as was demonstrated in the boycott against Target, corporations will shy away from supporting issues if they fear backlash. Secrecy is possible more damaging to our future than the actual cash.
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President Obama: Stop the Searches or I'm Voting Against You

And what is wrong with the average worker having a right to an organized voice for their own protection? Corporations have millions to spend to manipulate elections, A union is about the only option the average middle class worker has to unite as a group to have their voice heard over the din of US Chamber cash.



If corporations can unite to pool resources to manipulate elections and hire lobbyists why would you deny that same option to "we the people"?
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It's Party Time on Wall Street, But Americans Face the Hangover

Our jobs are not coming home. Once well established with low cost labor, little or no safety rules, no taxes etc. Big Business will continue to spend their tax cuts moving more jobs away. All that will be left will be those jobs that cannot be moved.



Immigration is tied in as well. Get rid of low cost competition for jobs we normally don't want to make room for starving ex-middle class who have lost most of their better job options to China and India.



Then the pressure will be to cut minimum wage, reduce or eliminate benefits, even make it impossible to get health care again. ( we are expendable anyway...right? ) We will be expected to replace illegals at the same wage and with no protections.



The only united voice the middle class has, unions, are already under attack.



Since as voters we always allow our votes to be purchased by those with the most money, we are as much the puppets of corporate American as are the politicians they buy.
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Cutting Social Security is the New TARP

This hits my points re. age in my article here: ( comments welcome on the site )



http://www­.joethevot­er.org/gop­-says-just­-die-early­.html



What got me thinking and looking at life expectancy in the US ( we die earlier than most ) is that the new suggested retirement age lands pretty squarely on the expected life span of black males in America, 69-70 years.



The GOP plan is to collect more because you have to work longer, then plan that you will die before you collect anything.



This is the ultimate scam on the American people and amounts to a fraud on African Americans who will have to pay all their working lives just to be told to die when it is their turn to collect, effectively stealing their money.
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The Olbermann Suspension and Corporate Media

Mr. Sanders...before the lame duck is gone....let's do something NOW to preserve Net Neutrality !!!
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The Olbermann Suspension and Corporate Media

Another lesson I hope we never need to learn. Corporate employment contracts as political weapons.



My article is here. Comments welcome.



http://www­.joethevot­er.org/did­-americans­-give-away­-their-rig­hts-this-e­lection.ht­ml
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A Centrist Democratic Agenda: More Jobs, Less Corruption

Will the GOP continue to be the ones to halt economic reforms and risk taking the blame in 2012?



Will the Dems use their lame duck session to pass some needed legislation such as DADT and DISCLOSE? Can the get their own people to back them or will these die at the end of 2011?



I made some of my own predictions. http://www­.joethevot­er.org/wha­ts-next.ht­ml
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Today Is the Day

The Tea Party is a right wing branch of the Republicans funded and controlled by two Libertarians named David and Charles Koch.



( Freedomworks and AFP ) both founded and funded by Koch brothers/Koch Industries. These two brothers tied for 9th place as Americans wealthiest men. Koch Industries is the largest privately owned oil company in America. Cited by the EPA as one of our worst polluters and they want Congress to change the law so they can pollute as much as they want. Also backed by BP and all major oil companies.



http://www­.guardian.­co.uk/worl­d/2010/oct­/24/tea-pa­rty-climat­e-change-d­eniers

http://blo­gs.creativ­eloafing.c­om/theclog­/2010/08/2­5/whos-fun­ding-the-t­ea-party

http://cro­oksandliar­s.com/karo­li/koch-in­dustries-d­enies-fund­ing-freedo­mworks

http://the­connexion.­net/wp/?p=­8763



While those who support the TP on the street have legitimate complaints about our corrupt Congress, they have paid little attention to facts that would tell them they are really being manipulated to support the same big business/corporate agenda that will eventually destroy our democracy.



http://www­.joethevot­er.org/wil­l-democrac­y-survive.­html
About Barack Obama
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