Publish all Votes!: "Publish all Votes!
I am American,not a democrat (1:An advocate of democracy.-The common people, considered as the primary source of political power."YES" 2:A member of the Democratic Party. "NO" )or republican! (1:One who favors a republic-A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them.- as the best form of government. "YES" 2:A member of the Republican Party. "NO" ) Why does voting have to be secret?All we have to do is publish everyones vote!I'm not afraid of people knowing how I voted.Should I be?Publish everyones vote so they can see if their vote was counted correctly if at all.There would then be no doubt who really won.I will never believe that the American public was ever stupid enough to put Bush in office,EVER!
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Saturday, August 04, 2007
Like it matters!
August 02, 2004
My opinion that is! I guess it matters to me! As to anyone else,we'll see.
Today is the day I searched for the word blog.I had been hearing the word for a few years and finally got curious.I've been looking for this my whole life.A place to state my opinion so that at least maybe,just maybe,some will be influenced by my opinion!
So,I am setting here creating my own blog.Spliting my time writing this and watching my two year old grandaughter.She's watching Kermit's Swamp Years.I just got here so I don't have a clue yet what this is even going to look like or be , but here it goes!
I changed the date below to keep this post first for a while because I don't know HTML too well yet!
My opinion that is! I guess it matters to me! As to anyone else,we'll see.
Today is the day I searched for the word blog.I had been hearing the word for a few years and finally got curious.I've been looking for this my whole life.A place to state my opinion so that at least maybe,just maybe,some will be influenced by my opinion!
So,I am setting here creating my own blog.Spliting my time writing this and watching my two year old grandaughter.She's watching Kermit's Swamp Years.I just got here so I don't have a clue yet what this is even going to look like or be , but here it goes!
I changed the date below to keep this post first for a while because I don't know HTML too well yet!
Friday, August 03, 2007
Thursday, August 02, 2007
Damn I'm gonna like this!
Hey if your here then say something!
I'll get this stuff figured out then I think I'm gonna like this shit!
"THE MORE I LEARN
THE MORE I REALIZE
THE LESS I KNOW" muttbob
I'll get this stuff figured out then I think I'm gonna like this shit!
"THE MORE I LEARN
THE MORE I REALIZE
THE LESS I KNOW" muttbob
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Monopo"lies"
Since Ronald Reagan got into office in 1980 with his "less government" this country has been steadily moving towards monopo"lies" in every sector of big business.Within 3 months after getting into office I was sorry I ever voted for him.
muttbob
BY
SIMON WILKIE
Director, Center for Communication Law and Policy
University of Southern California
BACKGROUND
Today’s telecommunications sector presents a high degree of concentration. In the wireless sector
we have four major national competitors and the broadband access market is even more concentrated.
The residential broadband access market is effectively a duopoly where cable operators compete with
incumbent LECs. As such, competitive market forces are stymied resulting in higher prices, less
investment and less innovation to bring consumers better and more affordable services.
In short, consumers are getting shortchanged.
muttbob
SPECTRUM AUCTIONS ARE NOT A PANACEA:
THEORY AND EVIDENCE OF ANTI-COMPETITIVE AND RENT-SEEKING BEHAVIOR
BY
SIMON WILKIE
Director, Center for Communication Law and Policy
University of Southern California
BACKGROUND
Today’s telecommunications sector presents a high degree of concentration. In the wireless sector
we have four major national competitors and the broadband access market is even more concentrated.
The residential broadband access market is effectively a duopoly where cable operators compete with
incumbent LECs. As such, competitive market forces are stymied resulting in higher prices, less
investment and less innovation to bring consumers better and more affordable services.
In short, consumers are getting shortchanged.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
A Message from Barack | Obama Exploratory Committee
Obama for President-The man I've been waiting for.
This is what I've been saying for years (but without the profanity).muttbob
A Message from Barack Obama Exploratory Committee: "The decisions that have been made in Washington these past six years, and the problems that have been ignored, have put our country in a precarious place. Our economy is changing rapidly, and that means profound changes for working people. Many of you have shared with me your stories about skyrocketing health care bills, the pensions you've lost and your struggles to pay for college for your kids. Our continued dependence on oil has put our security and our very planet at risk. And we're still mired in a tragic and costly war that should have never been waged.
But challenging as they are, it's not the magnitude of our problems that concerns me the most. It's the smallness of our politics. America's faced big problems before. But today, our leaders in Washington seem incapable of working together in a practical, common sense way. Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can't tackle the big problems that demand solutions.
And that's what we have to change first.
We have to change our politics, and come together around our common interests and concerns as Americans.
This won't happen by itself. A change in our politics can only come from you; from people across our country who believe there's a better way and are willing to work for it."
And that's what we have to change first.
We have to change our politics, and come together around our common interests and concerns as Americans.
This won't happen by itself. A change in our politics can only come from you; from people across our country who believe there's a better way and are willing to work for it."
Saturday, January 27, 2007
The Bush family and the S&L (Savings and Loan) Scandal
The Bush family and the S&L (Savings and Loan) Scandal: "There are several ways in which the Bush family plays into the Savings and Loan scandal, which involves not only many members of the Bush family but also many other politicians that are still in office and still part of the Bush Jr. administration today. Jeb Bush, George Bush Sr., and his son Neil Bush have all been implicated in the Savings and Loan Scandal, which cost American tax payers over $1.4 TRILLION dollars (note that this is about one quarter of our national debt)."
Between 1981 and 1989, when George Bush finally announced that there was a Savings and Loan Crisis to the world, the Reagan/Bush administration worked to cover up Savings and Loan problems by reducing the number and depth of examinations required of S&Ls as well as attacking political opponents who were sounding early alarms about the S&L industry. Industry insiders were aware of significant S&L problems as early 1986 that they felt would require a bailout. This information was kept from the media until after Bush had won the 1988 elections.
Jeb Bush defaulted on a $4.56 million loan from Broward Federal Savings in Sunrise, Florida. After federal regulators closed the S&L, the office building that Jeb used the $4.56 million to finance was reappraised by the regulators at $500,000, which Bush and his partners paid. The taxpayers had to pay back the remaining 4 million plus dollars.
Neil Bush was the most widely targeted member of the Bush family by the press in the S&L scandal. Neil became director of Silverado Savings and Loan at the age of 30 in 1985. Three years later the institution was belly up at a cost of $1.6 billion to tax payers to bail out.
The basic actions of Neil Bush in the S&L scandal are as follows:
Neil received a $100,000 "loan" from Ken Good, of Good International, with no obligation to pay any of the money back.
Good was a large shareholder in JNB Explorations, Neil Bush's oil-exploration company.
Neil failed to disclose this conflict-of-interest when loans were given to Good from Silverado, because the money was to be used in joint venture with his own JNB. This was in essence giving himself a loan from Silverado through a third party.
Neil then helped Silverado S&L approve Good International for a $900,000 line of credit.
Good defaulted on a total $32 million in loans from Silverado.
During this time Neil Bush did not disclose that $3 million of the $32 million that Good was defaulting on was actually for investment in JNB, his own company.
Good subsequently raised Bush's JNB salary from $75,000 to $125,000 and granted him a $22,500 bonus.
Neil Bush maintained that he did not see how this constituted a conflict of interest.
Neil approved $106 million in Silverado loans to another JNB investor, Bill Walters.
Neil also never formally disclosed his relationship with Walters and Walters also defaulted on his loans, all $106 million of them.
Neil Bush was charged with criminal wrongdoing in the case and ended up paying $50,000 to settle out of court. The chief of Silverado S&L was sentenced to 3.5 years in jail for pleading guilty to $8.7 million in theft. (Keep in mind that you can get more jail time for holding up a gas station for $50.)
Today Neil Bush is working on closing a deal in Florida, where his brother Jeb is governor, to sell a software package to schools with his startup company Ignite.
Update 11/28/2003: Some of Neil Bush's business deals have been exposed in his recent divorce case. For more on this see:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/112703A.shtml
http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2004/01/26/neil_bush/index.html
It should also be noted that shortly after news of Neil Bush’s involvement in the S&L scandal hit the press his father, George Bush Sr., announced the Desert Storm campaign in Iraq, which subsequently had the result of making Neil’s name quickly fade from the headlines. In addition, while Neil Bush's divorce proceeding were exposing more backroom Bush dealings, America was once again bombarded with war propaganda for Operation Iraq Freedom.
The S&L scandal is by no means the only incident of questionable, and actually illegal, financial activity that the Bush family has been involved in. The line of questionable, illegal, and unethical businesses practices goes back at least to Prescott Bush Sr., George Bush Sr.’s father. Prescott Bush was a Senator from 1952 – 1963. Previous to his time as a Senator Prescott was a banker and businessman. Prior to the American entry into WWII Prescott Bush was director of Union Banking Corporation. Union Banking Corporation helped to finance Hitler’s regime. The Concentration Camps of Nazi Germany were labor camps that the Nazis used to make products for their regime as well as for sale to raise money. Prescott profited directly from the Auschwitz labor camp.
In 1942, after Hitler declared war on America the United States government seized the Union Banking Corporation under the Trading with the Enemy Act as a front operation that was supporting the Nazis. Much of the profits from the operation were already pocketed by Prescott however, and $1.5 million was put in a trust fund for George Bush Sr.
For more on Prescott Bush's ties to the Nazis see:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1312540,00.html
http://www.nhgazette.com/cgi-bin/NHGstore.cgi?user_action=detail&catalogno=NN_Bush_Nazi_2
The issues of WWII will be revisited again later.
This is actually just the tip of the iceberg as far as the Bush family and business dealings are concerned, the topic is a book in itself. In the interest of brevity I invite you to research the Bush family business ties yourself, including those in Saudi Arabia, where George Bush made millions as an oil well developer, and George Bush’s $14 million deal when he sold the Texas Rangers, while leaving tax payers footing the bill.
http://www.realchange.org/bushjr.htm#rangers
For information on Prescott Bush Jr.'s economic ties to China see:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2002/02/19/usat-prescott-bush.htm
Between 1981 and 1989, when George Bush finally announced that there was a Savings and Loan Crisis to the world, the Reagan/Bush administration worked to cover up Savings and Loan problems by reducing the number and depth of examinations required of S&Ls as well as attacking political opponents who were sounding early alarms about the S&L industry. Industry insiders were aware of significant S&L problems as early 1986 that they felt would require a bailout. This information was kept from the media until after Bush had won the 1988 elections.
Jeb Bush defaulted on a $4.56 million loan from Broward Federal Savings in Sunrise, Florida. After federal regulators closed the S&L, the office building that Jeb used the $4.56 million to finance was reappraised by the regulators at $500,000, which Bush and his partners paid. The taxpayers had to pay back the remaining 4 million plus dollars.
Neil Bush was the most widely targeted member of the Bush family by the press in the S&L scandal. Neil became director of Silverado Savings and Loan at the age of 30 in 1985. Three years later the institution was belly up at a cost of $1.6 billion to tax payers to bail out.
The basic actions of Neil Bush in the S&L scandal are as follows:
Neil received a $100,000 "loan" from Ken Good, of Good International, with no obligation to pay any of the money back.
Good was a large shareholder in JNB Explorations, Neil Bush's oil-exploration company.
Neil failed to disclose this conflict-of-interest when loans were given to Good from Silverado, because the money was to be used in joint venture with his own JNB. This was in essence giving himself a loan from Silverado through a third party.
Neil then helped Silverado S&L approve Good International for a $900,000 line of credit.
Good defaulted on a total $32 million in loans from Silverado.
During this time Neil Bush did not disclose that $3 million of the $32 million that Good was defaulting on was actually for investment in JNB, his own company.
Good subsequently raised Bush's JNB salary from $75,000 to $125,000 and granted him a $22,500 bonus.
Neil Bush maintained that he did not see how this constituted a conflict of interest.
Neil approved $106 million in Silverado loans to another JNB investor, Bill Walters.
Neil also never formally disclosed his relationship with Walters and Walters also defaulted on his loans, all $106 million of them.
Neil Bush was charged with criminal wrongdoing in the case and ended up paying $50,000 to settle out of court. The chief of Silverado S&L was sentenced to 3.5 years in jail for pleading guilty to $8.7 million in theft. (Keep in mind that you can get more jail time for holding up a gas station for $50.)
Today Neil Bush is working on closing a deal in Florida, where his brother Jeb is governor, to sell a software package to schools with his startup company Ignite.
Update 11/28/2003: Some of Neil Bush's business deals have been exposed in his recent divorce case. For more on this see:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/112703A.shtml
http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2004/01/26/neil_bush/index.html
It should also be noted that shortly after news of Neil Bush’s involvement in the S&L scandal hit the press his father, George Bush Sr., announced the Desert Storm campaign in Iraq, which subsequently had the result of making Neil’s name quickly fade from the headlines. In addition, while Neil Bush's divorce proceeding were exposing more backroom Bush dealings, America was once again bombarded with war propaganda for Operation Iraq Freedom.
The S&L scandal is by no means the only incident of questionable, and actually illegal, financial activity that the Bush family has been involved in. The line of questionable, illegal, and unethical businesses practices goes back at least to Prescott Bush Sr., George Bush Sr.’s father. Prescott Bush was a Senator from 1952 – 1963. Previous to his time as a Senator Prescott was a banker and businessman. Prior to the American entry into WWII Prescott Bush was director of Union Banking Corporation. Union Banking Corporation helped to finance Hitler’s regime. The Concentration Camps of Nazi Germany were labor camps that the Nazis used to make products for their regime as well as for sale to raise money. Prescott profited directly from the Auschwitz labor camp.
In 1942, after Hitler declared war on America the United States government seized the Union Banking Corporation under the Trading with the Enemy Act as a front operation that was supporting the Nazis. Much of the profits from the operation were already pocketed by Prescott however, and $1.5 million was put in a trust fund for George Bush Sr.
For more on Prescott Bush's ties to the Nazis see:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1312540,00.html
http://www.nhgazette.com/cgi-bin/NHGstore.cgi?user_action=detail&catalogno=NN_Bush_Nazi_2
The issues of WWII will be revisited again later.
This is actually just the tip of the iceberg as far as the Bush family and business dealings are concerned, the topic is a book in itself. In the interest of brevity I invite you to research the Bush family business ties yourself, including those in Saudi Arabia, where George Bush made millions as an oil well developer, and George Bush’s $14 million deal when he sold the Texas Rangers, while leaving tax payers footing the bill.
http://www.realchange.org/bushjr.htm#rangers
For information on Prescott Bush Jr.'s economic ties to China see:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2002/02/19/usat-prescott-bush.htm
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