That this is another study funded by the oil or coal or nuclear industry . . .

Funny, I just got an email today from HuffPo "Eyes and Ears" to attend a meetup and do some citizen journalism. My first thought was "Why would I wanna do that for aoHell??"

They're actually Trolleys, but it's basically the same idea. Run by overhead power.

Well, a friend of mine in Albany NY, where off track betting on the horses is legal, is a sports reporter who specializes in horse racing. He just told me that BofA has, for awhile now, been refusing transfers from BofA to the tracks or to the OTB offices EVEN THOUGH IT"S LEGAL. He said people in that world have known about this for awhile now. I've not seen much of anything come through in the media about that either. Since when did Bank of America decide they have a right to tell ANYONE how to spend their dough? No matter what you may feel about gambling, this isn't right.

Um, we paid for that internet and were promised a lot in return . . . which the ISPs such as Verizon and AT&T never delivered on. In my book that's called theft. And now you want to let them do what they want with the network that taxpayers paid for? Turn the internet into Bud TV and the Home Shopping Network???? You need to do some reading on the history of the internet. If you do, you might realize that you're talking out your ass . . .

Thank you for the succinct summation. You only missed a couple points. The corporations are making a profit off spectrum that belongs to us, the American people. Regulating the use of our spectrum by corporations who would like to steal it for their own use is a wise thing to do. And it's the law that WAS in effect when the internet became wildly successful. Of course, that's when local loop unbundling was also the law of the land. Funny, the corporations managed to lobby that out of existence in most parts of the country, but other countries took our good idea and built internet access that kicks our butt forward, backward and sideways. If we don't figure out a way to put things back the way they were, we're going to be relegated to backwater status as a country a dozen years hence.

If we all stopped paying taxes, the Corporations would go broke . . .

Most of my clients don't want to switch their email from their ISP to their domain, since they have no clue how to reconfigure the email client. And that's something I can't do for them.

The ocean full of used condoms, empty water bottles and bits of rubber duckies, and the smog so thick over land that it looks just like . . . HOME.

The Public Option has been so watered down that it only will pick up the slack for a tiny percentage of the people without insurance. The rest are going to be REQUIRED to BUY insurance. So this will NOT put the health insurance companies out of business. It will make them rich. We have the best political system money can buy . . . Not that it matters, since she's in Canada.

I'm a small businessperson already overburdened with paperwork. If I had to collect sales tax for every state I have a customer in, I'd have 30 or so quarterly forms to fill out and file instead of the one I barely have time for. Personally I think sales tax should be done away with entirely anyway EVERYWHERE. It's overly burdensome on the poor, who can least afford it. And then this argument goes away. If states need income, let them charge income tax and property tax.

Well, at least the page is styled now, unlike it was a month or so ago, when all the stylesheet links were mysteriously failing in firefox and only firefox.

Banks CREATE money. They do this by creating notes for money that's been loaned.

Quick! Call a Doctor! This is serious! What if he speaks like this in front of a JUDGE????