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Crazy Sarah Speaks

Every time a microphone finds its way in front of Sarah Palin, you can be assured some crazy talk will transpire. She has essentially become the conspiracy theorist of the GOP:

Sarah Palin didn't allow press at her speech Friday at a Wisconsin Right to Life fundraising banquet, and attendees were barred from bringing cell phones, cameras, laptops, or recording devices of any kind. But Politico managed to get a few reporters in to hear the former Alaska governor again raise the specter of death panels and claim an anti-Christian conspiracy in the redesign of U.S. coins.

So now our currency isn’t “Christy” enough for Sarah? From now on when Sarah speaks she must wear the official conspiracy theorist apparel as designated by all of us sane people:

When we see her take the stage in the approved apparel then we will know that she is speaking crap. Oh wait! We already knew that – didn’t we?

Killing the Internet

I guess the Republicans in charge of our country do not like their citizens having access to information. One way to stop that is to overprice the internet to the point only CEO's and millionaires can operate on it:

FCC Chief Kevin Martin yesterday gave his support to AT&T and other telcos who want to be able to limit bandwidth to sites like Google, unless those sites pay extortion fees. Martin made it clear in a speech yesterday that he supports such a a "tiered" Internet.

Martin told attendees at the TelecomNext show that telcos should be allowed to charge web sites whatever they want if those sites want adequate bandwidth.

He threw in his lot with AT&T, Verizon, and the other telcos, who are no doubt salivating at the prospect at charging whatever the market can bear.

This is part of the larger conspiracy by the telco giants to price the internet out of existence. We are at a point that it would take Congress to stop this action. If not then numerous sites could be affected. Of course one big impact would be on lonely bloggers, like me, who would not be able to afford these high prices.

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