Barack Obama IS a superhero.
YOU go and be the first ever black President of America, a country in which black people have struggled enormously -and to some extent, still do- for basic human rights and just get over it. It’s a big fucking deal.
But did you know that we’re at risk of losing the Internet as we know it? Millions of Americans don’t know that a battle over the future of the Internet is being played out right now in Washington. How it ends will have deep repercussions for decades to come.
On one side are public interest and consumer groups, small businesses, Internet entrepreneurs, librarians, civil libertarians and civil rights groups who want to preserve the Internet as it is - the last remaining open communications platform where anyone with access and a computer can create and consume online content.
Right now a film student in Idaho can upload a video the same way a Hollywood movie studio can. A small upstart company can launch a brilliant idea that challenges the Fortune 500. An independent journalist can break a story without waiting for a newspaper to run or print it.
The principle of “Network Neutrality” is what makes this open communications possible. Net Neutrality is what allows us to go wherever we want online. Our relationship with the phone and cable companies stops when we pay for our Internet service. These companies can not block, control or interfere with what we search for or create online; nor can they prioritize some content over others -making the Hollywood video load faster than the kid’s video in Idaho.
On the other side are the Internet service providers, who want to dismantle Net Neutrality. Not only do they want to provide Internet service, but they want to be able to charge users to prioritize their content, effectively giving themselves the ability to choose which content on the Web loads fast, slow or not at all. The film student, the small entrepreneur, and the independent journalist will be lost in the ether, unable to compete with other, more established companies who can pay for a spot in the fast lane.
Gone is the level playing field. Gone is the multitude of voices on the Web. Gone is the Internet as we know it - unless we act now.
The Federal Communications Commission is crafting new Net Neutrality rules right now. The public has until Thursday at midnight to tell the FCC what we value about the Internet, and why we want the agency to create a strong Net Neutrality rule to protect it.
You guys, you need to understand how important this is. I know you don’t like to read things that are more than a sentence or so, but you need to read this. It does a great job of explaining what’s at stake regarding Net Neutrality. This issue is super serious to us all, since I’m assuming we all love our internet. It was one of the things that made me support Obama, although he hasn’t done much about it, contrary to what he promised. :(
“Lastly, as we near the eve of another Christmas, I wonder: What would have happened if Mother Mary had been covered by Obamacare? What if that young, poor and uninsured teenage woman had been provided the federal funds (via Obamacare) and facilities (via Planned Parenthood, etc.) to avoid the ridicule, ostracizing, persecution and possible stoning because of her out-of-wedlock pregnancy? Imagine all the great souls who could have been erased from history and the influence of mankind if their parents had been as progressive as Washington’s wise men and women! Will Obamacare morph into Herodcare for the unborn?”
Stop What You’re Doing And Watch The Very Pit Of Hell Out Of This of the Day: Sen. Diane Savino (D-Staten Island) speaks out in favor of same-sex marriage ahead of today’s failed vote in the New York Senate.
If, after viewing this seven-minute video, you are still of the opinion that tax-paying Americans should be denied the right to enter into a loving marriage with the partner of their choice irrespective of gender, kindly exit this country.
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Yes.
I’m all for gun control.
In fact, I think the laws should be stronger and regulations should be stricter, because there are many crazy people out there, beside felons.
Take me for example: if I had easy access to a gun, I woulda been done shot somebody by now. I’m serious, like blown a mother fucker’s head clean off.
Did anyone watch this? If so, how was it?
“You think abortion is wrong? Don’t have one. I think killing people is wrong, so I’m not in the army. My tax dollars still go to fund it, though (in fact about 21 cents of each of my tax dollars). My tax dollars also go to keep prisoners on death row even though I think the death penalty is morally wrong. My tax dollars fund Guantanamo and Bagram, extraordinary rendition, and Jim DeMint’s salary, all of which I find disgusting. So why is abortion, a legal medical procedure, so remarkably different that we have to go overboard making sure tax dollars don’t fund it?”
Igor Vovkovinskiy, standing 7 feet 8 inches tall and wearing a ‘World’s Biggest Obama Supporter’ T-shirt, shakes hands with President Obama after the Minneapolis rally for health insurance reform on September 12, 2009. (via)
Oh, that’s so awesome.
“YOU SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH!”
“Saying that kids who watch President Obama’s “stay in school” speech risk liberal indoctrination is like saying that kids who visit Disneyland risk turning into Donald Duck.”
