Today At Red State

At Red State, Moe Lane addresses what he refers to as "the rubes over on the anti-war Left": 

And since we’re bringing up uncomfortable truths, let me add this one: we were right on the war, rubes, and you were not. [Clicking on the link brings up "Not Found".]


In another post, entitled The Wisconsin protests may now collapse utterly, he says:

The report is in that the professional antiwar movement has decided to ‘join’ the pro-Big Labor protesters in Madison.  And by ‘join’ I mean, of course, to ‘completely take over said protests and hijack them in favor of a largely anti-American message that reliably alienates anyone normal.’  Add to that the minor detail that the antiwar movement is also starting to gear up for going Full Metal Moonbat over the President’s decision to start bombing Libyan military targets, and I expect that whatever original message remained from the original set of demonstrators should be nicely muddled by, say, next Thursday.

Yeah, Moe.  You wish. 

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Also at Red State, Neil Stevens has this to say about the "net neutrality" fight:


So to close the night, Al Franken wants ordinary citizens to subsidize successful corporations like Netflix, by shifting all Internet usage costs to individuals, instead of letting ISPs charge service providers for costs surrounding heavy use. That’s a terribly unfair thing to do to casual users. And what’s worse is that you know he’ll change his tune when the Universal Access fight starts.

"... letting ISPs charge service providers for costs surrounding heavy use."  The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) wants to legislate network neutrality, "a principle proposed for users' access to networks participating in the Internet" (Wikipedia definition). Wikipedia goes on to say: "The principle advocates no restrictions by Internet service providers and governments on content, sites, platforms, the kinds of equipment that may be attached, and the modes of communication."  The guys at Red State want to let ISPs charge service providers; what that means is that the media and other big corporations will pay big bucks to the ISPs in return for fast high-speed access; your email to Aunt Mabel, on the other hand, or your blog on fishing, will be back at dial-up speeds unless you pay a premium.  Our corporate overlords, of course, can afford it, since they'll pass the price on to their customers.  Read about the issue on Wikipedia here.  Here's a little of it:

Neutrality proponents claim that telecom companies seek to impose a tiered service model in order to control the pipeline and thereby remove competition, create artificial scarcity, and oblige subscribers to buy their otherwise uncompetitive services. Many believe net neutrality to be primarily important as a preservation of current freedoms.^[4] Vinton Cerf, considered a "father of the Internet" and co-inventor of the Internet Protocol, Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the Web, and many others have spoken out in favor of network neutrality.

Opponents of net neutrality characterize its regulations as "a solution in search of a problem", arguing that broadband service providers have no plans to block content or degrade network performance.^]Despite this claim, there has been a case where an Internet service provider intentionally slowed peer-to-peer (P2P) communications. Still other companies have acted in contrast to these assertions of hands-off behavior and have begun to use deep packet inspection to discriminate against P2P, FTP and online games, instituting a cell-phone style billing system of overages, free-to-telecom "value added" services, and bundling.

We in North America are seriously overcharged for cell-phone usage; both Europe and Asia have much faster service at much lower prices.  This is the model the ISPs want to introduce.  Conservatives, of course, are all in favour of more corporate profits.

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In an article entitled "Srebrenica Resurrected, streiff says:

Today, after some weeks of shillyshallying, President Obama made the momentous decision to sort of do something halfway in response to the revolt against and attempted ouster of Muammar Qaddafi.

Of course, Bush and the neocons would have charged like a bull at a red flag; Bloody Bill Kristol is pushing for ground troops to be sent in. 

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Conservatives hate the GM Volt; everybody should drive monster SUVs.  (Simpsons ad for the "Canyonero":  Twelve feet high and two lanes wide, 65 tons of American pride -- Canyonero!)  So they're very pleased with a negative review from Consumer Reports.