Posted on April 18th, 2007 by Stephanie
I love my broadband internet. I can’t imagine going online with dialup again. It’s amazing the difference a few years make, since there was a time when dialup seemed quite fast enough.
But I’m glad to see that the FCC is looking into whether or not broadband is being deployed fairly and quickly enough. The United States is behind 14 other countries in broadband penetration, which just amazes me. Seems like something has to be wrong with how it’s going. Read more…
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Posted on April 18th, 2007 by Stephanie
In a lot of ways, I’m not surprised to hear that various Democrats are talking about filing articles of impeachment on Vice President Cheney. It’s one of those things that has more or less been in the air a long time.
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) is the main voice speaking out for impeachment, although many other Representatives are hearing requests from constituents for impeachment.
I understand the logic of going for Cheney rather than Bush. Plenty of people loathe him, and would rather impeach Cheney than impeach Bush and leave Cheney as President. Read more…
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Posted on April 16th, 2007 by Stephanie
The whole deal with Imus being fired has really blown up much bigger than I like. Now it appears that Media Matters wants to go after other shock jocks, including conservative ones.
I read about this over at Gun Toting Liberal, and I have to agree… this whole thing is a bad, bad idea. We may not like the language they use or the opinions stated, but they have the right to say it. Even when much of it is hateful. Read more…
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Posted on April 14th, 2007 by Stephanie
It doesn’t surprise me at all to read that the IRS would like to require auction sites report the income gained by selling on these sites. I’m just not sure if they have the right to require the sites to do so.
This sounds like it is consistent with real world requirements of businesses that so far have not been applied to online business:
section 6405(c) of the Internal Revenue Code requires 1099 forms to be submitted by any person who, for a fee, “regularly acts as a middleman with respect to property or services.” (from the article linked above)
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Posted on April 14th, 2007 by Stephanie
President Bush has made it clear that he does not want a timeline for withdrawl drawn up. I don’t agree with him on a lot of things. But I do agree that now is not the time to say when we’re leaving Iraq.
For me, it boils down to one very simple point. If we leave too quickly and the country dissolves into chaos, we’ve done something incredibly unfair to the people of Iraq. We’ve probably also made more enemies. Read more…
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Posted on April 10th, 2007 by Stephanie
It’s really bothersome reading about the degree of secrecy the current administration is trying for sometimes. Some is necessary; there’s no doubt about that. But they often seem to be overdoing it.
The current issue has to do with using non-White House emails, which are considered official records and are required to be preserved, to do official business. The excuse is that these email addresses are used to separate official business from political. Read more…
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