On that I disagree. I think everyone is better off with those Obama era regulations scraped. The link clearly shows how those regs negatively affected smaller businesses and big. They stopped innovation and upgrades. Many times those upgrades would have expanded access in rural areas, and provided cheaper services that would have benefited the poor people in urban areas. Those regs were supposed to be protecting these people, yet the opposite happened. Like the supposed consumer protections in the Obama era (and Liz Warren) Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, this was nothing more another good idea ruined by inefficient govt. and do gooder liberals with another agenda entirely. And like the CFPB, it can be, and is, used as a political shake down weapon against business. Good riddance.
rickyweaver,
After listening to your clip of Sen. Ben Sasse I wonder why you dislike the Donald so much. Don’t you like that he is getting rid of so many regulations?
Bob Buckles, yes I did. One senator from Alabama is not going to overturn Roe v. Wade and there were a multitude of things wrong with Moore. The ONLY think I found wrong with Jones was his position on abortion.
My own attitude regarding abortion has changed over the last few years. I am a pro-life advocate. I will do everything I can to talk you out of an abortion. As I stated above we, pro lifers are not going to get enough votes to overturn the current law.
The way we are going to defeat abortion is one person at a time and through modern medical advancements. When a woman has a friend who is 16 or 17 weeks pregnant and goes into pre-mature labor and watches medical staff save that baby, allow the pregnancy to continue a few more weeks and then does everything in their power to save that baby and give it a good chance at a good, healthy life, she, herself is going to think twice about aborting a child. When we advance to the point that we can save a baby born before 20 weeks, a woman who is thinking of aborting at 20 will perhaps think twice before doing it.
When I made a pro/con list I decided to vote for Jones. Moore was removed from office, not once but TWICE by his Republican Peers. Republicans were making campaign contributions to Jones to keep Moore out of office. Think of the way the Senate would have been tied up for months with impeachment proceedings because Alabama was stupid enough to send Moore to Washington.
Did I like voting for Jones? No. As far as I can remember it is the only time in my life I have chosen to vote for a Democrat.
AJ @10:45 I understand your position, but I think it’s based on faulty data. Net neutrality is not an Obama era idea. The underpinnings of what is now our world wide web was first commissioned by the Department of Defense and paid for with tax dollars many decades ago. It’s my understanding that the assumption under which the technology was later released by the DOD and distributed for public use was that it was to remain open for public use as a utility. The current internet is indeed a utility, and as such should be subject to some oversight or general regulations. Big business is not the body to provide oversight to anything but their own self interests. They have no public trust or expectation of acting in the public interest.
However, It is what it is, and sky is not falling. It did not tumble to the ground when killing the most innocent and vulnerable human beings became the prospective mother’s personal choice. And though the ground has shifted a bit beneath our feet lately, the sky has not lowered perceptibly since men started marrying men. So I don’t expect the sky to fall over this latest big business power grab. But that’s what it is.
“A well-known women’s rights lawyer sought to arrange compensation from donors and tabloid media outlets for women who made or considered making sexual misconduct allegations against Donald Trump during the final months of the 2016 presidential race, according to documents and interviews.
California lawyer Lisa Bloom’s efforts included offering to sell alleged victims’ stories to TV outlets in return for a commission for herself, arranging a donor to pay off one Trump accuser’s mortgage and attempting to secure a six-figure payment for another woman who ultimately declined to come forward after being offered as much as $750,000, the clients told The Hill.
The women’s accounts were chronicled in contemporaneous contractual documents, emails and text messages reviewed by The Hill, including an exchange of texts between one woman and Bloom that suggested political action committees supporting Hillary Clinton were contacted during the effort.”
Bloom, who has assisted dozens of women in prominent harassment cases and also defended film executive Harvey Weinstein earlier this year, represented four women considering making accusations against Trump last year. Two went public, and two declined.
In a statement to The Hill, Bloom acknowledged she engaged in discussions to secure donations for women who made or considered making accusations against Trump before last year’s election.
“Donors reached out to my firm directly to help some of the women I represented,” said Bloom, whose clients have also included accusers of Bill Cosby and Bill O’Reilly.”
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Fishing for “victims” and/or just getting women willing to lie for the right price. Either works for Dems and their donor class. They’re not picky.
It stays open and available for public use. Just like it has been. And just like before the Obama era regs, protections are in place, and will remain in place.
“The panic that has surrounded the rightful death of Net Neutrality has been a fascinating one to watch, but like most mob driven panic attacks, there’s little or nothing to fear.
That’s exactly what former FCC commissioner Robert McDowell kept trying to tell MSNBC’s Ali Velshi during his segment. McDowell kept attempting to educate Velshi on the fact that Title II of the Communications Act of 1934 wasn’t even around till February 2015.
This didn’t phase Velshi, who claimed that Net Neutrality’s repeal would freeze startups out of the internet game. McDowell dismissed the idea, quoting laws that have been on the books for a while that make that an impossibility.
“So, you have the Federal Trade Commission Act, for instance, you have the Clayton Act and the Sherman Act,” McDowell said. “Those are three very powerful federal statutes that kept the internet open and free prior to February of 2015.”
McDowell continued by pointing out that Net Neutrality slowed growth, and actually made it harder for startups to improve the internet with new technologies.
“What Title II [net neutrality] has done, in the wireless space anyway, is reduce investment in the past two years by 18 percent,” he continued. “We need about $300 billion over the next decade to build out [5G] networks and every independent Wall Street analyst I’ve spoken with says…the 1,000 requirements of Title II has created tremendous uncertainty.””
““It’s time to acknowledge that we have a problem,” Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke declared in a video to employees published yesterday. “Harassment, intimidation, and discrimination have been a common practice at Interior,” Zinke continued, noting that the Trump administration “inherited” the issue, and pledged that it would now come to an end. Zinke announced that he had fired four senior managers after investigating such complaints, and that he’d “remove four hundred more” if necessary:
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke revealed today he has fired four senior managers at the Interior Department for inappropriate conduct, including sexual harassment.
“I’ve already removed four senior leaders that were guilty of inappropriate behavior and I will remove four hundred more if necessary. Intimidation, harassment and discrimination is a cancer to any organization. However deep it goes, we will remove it from Interior,” Zinke said in a video posted on the agency’s website today.”
“McCabe has spent the past year popping up in the news for all the wrong reasons. In February 2016 he was promoted to deputy director and assumed oversight of the Hillary Emailgate investigation — after his wife had received nearly $700,000 from Democratic groups for a failed run for Virginia state senate. This past February he got caught talking to then-chief of staff Reince Priebus about an allegedly bogus Russiagate story in the NYT, a no-no since DOJ investigations are supposed to be independent of politics. His latest news cameo was (apparently) in the infamous text in August 2016 from FBI agent Peter Strzok to Lisa Page: “I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office – that there’s no way he [i.e. Trump] gets elected – but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.” Who’s “Andy”? Almost certainly it’s Andrew McCabe.”
What was the “insurance policy” against Trump’s presidency that was discussed in McCabe’s office? McCabe is scheduled to testify about it before the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday.
But will he still be a federal employee when he does?”
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FBI Deputy Director McCabe sscheduled to testify Tuesday to House Intelligence — but will he? "If McCabe is still there," says one panel Republican. And another, Gowdy, tells FoxNews he'd a"be a little bit surprised if he is still an employee of the FBI this time next week."
AJ @6:58 , It’s hard to say how the deregulation will affect internet access over time. In the area of technology (which is tremendously broad and deep) my knowledge is admittedly narrow and thin. When it comes to trusted sources in the field, I get many of my cues (and much of my reading list) from someone who has worked with distinction in both proprietary and open-source development and server management in private and public sectors for many years. Has he ever been wrong before? Oh yeah, but rarely about technology. Could he be wrong now? Anything’s possible. As in most things, time will tell if it’ much ado about nothing, or just another big fat corporate favor. :–)
Wandering Views 
https://twitter.com/guardianrover/status/941621487974301696
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Jonah Goldberg on FoxNews, MSNBC and how Trump is faring with Fox viewers.
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The libertarian view on Net Neutrality:
https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/understanding-net-neutrality
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Like I said last night. Good riddance.
Debra,
On that I disagree. I think everyone is better off with those Obama era regulations scraped. The link clearly shows how those regs negatively affected smaller businesses and big. They stopped innovation and upgrades. Many times those upgrades would have expanded access in rural areas, and provided cheaper services that would have benefited the poor people in urban areas. Those regs were supposed to be protecting these people, yet the opposite happened. Like the supposed consumer protections in the Obama era (and Liz Warren) Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, this was nothing more another good idea ruined by inefficient govt. and do gooder liberals with another agenda entirely. And like the CFPB, it can be, and is, used as a political shake down weapon against business. Good riddance.
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Roy Moore, just go away….
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/12/roy_moore_recount_could_cost_1.html
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KimH,
I hope you didn’t vote for the pro-abortion guy.
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rickyweaver,
After listening to your clip of Sen. Ben Sasse I wonder why you dislike the Donald so much. Don’t you like that he is getting rid of so many regulations?
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Bob Buckles, yes I did. One senator from Alabama is not going to overturn Roe v. Wade and there were a multitude of things wrong with Moore. The ONLY think I found wrong with Jones was his position on abortion.
My own attitude regarding abortion has changed over the last few years. I am a pro-life advocate. I will do everything I can to talk you out of an abortion. As I stated above we, pro lifers are not going to get enough votes to overturn the current law.
The way we are going to defeat abortion is one person at a time and through modern medical advancements. When a woman has a friend who is 16 or 17 weeks pregnant and goes into pre-mature labor and watches medical staff save that baby, allow the pregnancy to continue a few more weeks and then does everything in their power to save that baby and give it a good chance at a good, healthy life, she, herself is going to think twice about aborting a child. When we advance to the point that we can save a baby born before 20 weeks, a woman who is thinking of aborting at 20 will perhaps think twice before doing it.
When I made a pro/con list I decided to vote for Jones. Moore was removed from office, not once but TWICE by his Republican Peers. Republicans were making campaign contributions to Jones to keep Moore out of office. Think of the way the Senate would have been tied up for months with impeachment proceedings because Alabama was stupid enough to send Moore to Washington.
Did I like voting for Jones? No. As far as I can remember it is the only time in my life I have chosen to vote for a Democrat.
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A Tale of DOJ Corruption. It’s pretty shocking what’s been happening in our government…
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/12/15/a_tale_of_doj_corruption_135790.html
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AJ @10:45 I understand your position, but I think it’s based on faulty data. Net neutrality is not an Obama era idea. The underpinnings of what is now our world wide web was first commissioned by the Department of Defense and paid for with tax dollars many decades ago. It’s my understanding that the assumption under which the technology was later released by the DOD and distributed for public use was that it was to remain open for public use as a utility. The current internet is indeed a utility, and as such should be subject to some oversight or general regulations. Big business is not the body to provide oversight to anything but their own self interests. They have no public trust or expectation of acting in the public interest.
However, It is what it is, and sky is not falling. It did not tumble to the ground when killing the most innocent and vulnerable human beings became the prospective mother’s personal choice. And though the ground has shifted a bit beneath our feet lately, the sky has not lowered perceptibly since men started marrying men. So I don’t expect the sky to fall over this latest big business power grab. But that’s what it is.
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Character assassination ain’t cheap, and pays in advance I guess. It also looks real questionable as well.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/365068-exclusive-prominent-lawyer-sought-donor-cash-for-two-trump-accusers
“A well-known women’s rights lawyer sought to arrange compensation from donors and tabloid media outlets for women who made or considered making sexual misconduct allegations against Donald Trump during the final months of the 2016 presidential race, according to documents and interviews.
California lawyer Lisa Bloom’s efforts included offering to sell alleged victims’ stories to TV outlets in return for a commission for herself, arranging a donor to pay off one Trump accuser’s mortgage and attempting to secure a six-figure payment for another woman who ultimately declined to come forward after being offered as much as $750,000, the clients told The Hill.
The women’s accounts were chronicled in contemporaneous contractual documents, emails and text messages reviewed by The Hill, including an exchange of texts between one woman and Bloom that suggested political action committees supporting Hillary Clinton were contacted during the effort.”
Bloom, who has assisted dozens of women in prominent harassment cases and also defended film executive Harvey Weinstein earlier this year, represented four women considering making accusations against Trump last year. Two went public, and two declined.
In a statement to The Hill, Bloom acknowledged she engaged in discussions to secure donations for women who made or considered making accusations against Trump before last year’s election.
“Donors reached out to my firm directly to help some of the women I represented,” said Bloom, whose clients have also included accusers of Bill Cosby and Bill O’Reilly.”
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Fishing for “victims” and/or just getting women willing to lie for the right price. Either works for Dems and their donor class. They’re not picky.
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I guess we know why the Roy Moore “victims” decided to come forward at just the right time. They were most likely paid to do so.
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Debra,
It stays open and available for public use. Just like it has been. And just like before the Obama era regs, protections are in place, and will remain in place.
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More here.
https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2017/12/15/watch-msnbc-host-gets-progressively-upset-loses-net-neutrality-debate-former-fcc-chairman/
“The panic that has surrounded the rightful death of Net Neutrality has been a fascinating one to watch, but like most mob driven panic attacks, there’s little or nothing to fear.
That’s exactly what former FCC commissioner Robert McDowell kept trying to tell MSNBC’s Ali Velshi during his segment. McDowell kept attempting to educate Velshi on the fact that Title II of the Communications Act of 1934 wasn’t even around till February 2015.
This didn’t phase Velshi, who claimed that Net Neutrality’s repeal would freeze startups out of the internet game. McDowell dismissed the idea, quoting laws that have been on the books for a while that make that an impossibility.
“So, you have the Federal Trade Commission Act, for instance, you have the Clayton Act and the Sherman Act,” McDowell said. “Those are three very powerful federal statutes that kept the internet open and free prior to February of 2015.”
McDowell continued by pointing out that Net Neutrality slowed growth, and actually made it harder for startups to improve the internet with new technologies.
“What Title II [net neutrality] has done, in the wireless space anyway, is reduce investment in the past two years by 18 percent,” he continued. “We need about $300 billion over the next decade to build out [5G] networks and every independent Wall Street analyst I’ve spoken with says…the 1,000 requirements of Title II has created tremendous uncertainty.””
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Bam.
That’s how you do it folks. And that’s how you stop it.
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/12/15/zinke-ive-fired-four-execs-interior-know/
““It’s time to acknowledge that we have a problem,” Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke declared in a video to employees published yesterday. “Harassment, intimidation, and discrimination have been a common practice at Interior,” Zinke continued, noting that the Trump administration “inherited” the issue, and pledged that it would now come to an end. Zinke announced that he had fired four senior managers after investigating such complaints, and that he’d “remove four hundred more” if necessary:
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke revealed today he has fired four senior managers at the Interior Department for inappropriate conduct, including sexual harassment.
“I’ve already removed four senior leaders that were guilty of inappropriate behavior and I will remove four hundred more if necessary. Intimidation, harassment and discrimination is a cancer to any organization. However deep it goes, we will remove it from Interior,” Zinke said in a video posted on the agency’s website today.”
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Oh my indeed…..
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/12/15/oh-fbi-deputy-chief-andrew-mccabe-headed-exit/
“McCabe has spent the past year popping up in the news for all the wrong reasons. In February 2016 he was promoted to deputy director and assumed oversight of the Hillary Emailgate investigation — after his wife had received nearly $700,000 from Democratic groups for a failed run for Virginia state senate. This past February he got caught talking to then-chief of staff Reince Priebus about an allegedly bogus Russiagate story in the NYT, a no-no since DOJ investigations are supposed to be independent of politics. His latest news cameo was (apparently) in the infamous text in August 2016 from FBI agent Peter Strzok to Lisa Page: “I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office – that there’s no way he [i.e. Trump] gets elected – but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.” Who’s “Andy”? Almost certainly it’s Andrew McCabe.”
What was the “insurance policy” against Trump’s presidency that was discussed in McCabe’s office? McCabe is scheduled to testify about it before the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday.
But will he still be a federal employee when he does?”
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AJ @6:58 , It’s hard to say how the deregulation will affect internet access over time. In the area of technology (which is tremendously broad and deep) my knowledge is admittedly narrow and thin. When it comes to trusted sources in the field, I get many of my cues (and much of my reading list) from someone who has worked with distinction in both proprietary and open-source development and server management in private and public sectors for many years. Has he ever been wrong before? Oh yeah, but rarely about technology. Could he be wrong now? Anything’s possible. As in most things, time will tell if it’ much ado about nothing, or just another big fat corporate favor. :–)
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