We can't let this happen!

This is a serious threat to our right to free speach. If this happens, how long before we are like Iran or China?

 


"Tomorrow morning the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will mark the winter solstice by taking an unprecedented step to expand government's reach into the Internet by attempting to regulate its inner workings. In doing so, the agency will circumvent Congress and disregard a recent court ruling.

How did the FCC get here?

For years, proponents of so-called "net neutrality" have been calling for strong regulation of broadband "on-ramps" to the Internet, like those provided by your local cable or phone companies. Rules are needed, the argument goes, to ensure that the Internet remains open and free, and to discourage broadband providers from thwarting consumer demand. That sounds good if you say it fast. " See the rest HERE

You can't win!

Ok this bothers me becuase this 'war on drugs' crap is just that... crap. The government can't end drug trafficking and use, when we are protecting the opium fields in Afghanistan, when we are arming, financing, and selling drugs in Central and South America, and the simple fact that people want to escape and are going to find a way to get and do drugs. Period.

 

"When a young mother is killed trying to protect her 2-year-old son from stray bullets, then it is easy to understand why some of us are calling for the National Guard to help curb the violence.

So far, police haven’t said what motivated two armed men to storm into a barbershop in Sacramento, CA with guns blazing. The gunmen injured six people and killed Monique Nelson, as she tried to strap her son into a car seat and escape the violence.

But I’m willing to bet that drugs or gangs or both were involved.

This is the kind of tragedy that makes James Gierach’s blood boil. For decades, Gierach has been on a crusade to end the nation’s failed drug war. " see the rest HERE


School district screws Christmas

This just really pisses me off. Just... blah, it's Christmas not hanuroharakwayulemas... it isn't Hannukah , Rohatsu, Ramadan, Kwanza, and Yule, it's CHRISTMAS! If you want to display such items at said holiday than do so but decorating trees has been stolen by Christianity in recent times and claimed as their own, just let them have it and do your own thing! I'm all for believing in whatever religion you want, and celebrating it accordingly, but seriously... don't be stupid and say 'well if the Christians get a Christmas Tree then I want a Scientology tree for my kid' what next 'well in my religion we believe in marrying child brides, so I'm coming to the holiday convocation to shop for a bride' or 'well in my religion we believe in branding our sneakers and offing ourselves to join a ufo hiding behind a comet, so shut up and give me your shoes and drink this fucking juice!'

 

"Ashland public schools can display a decorated pine tree if it is surrounded by symbols from other religious holidays, but they should not display a Christmas tree alone, in order to remain religiously neutral, Superintendent Juli Di Chiro told the School Board Monday.

District officials have implemented new holiday guidelines this year, after a controversy erupted at Bellview Elementary School last December over Principal Michelle Zundel's removal of a holiday tree, because a family complained that it was a religious symbol. After dozens of parents and students protested the decision, Zundel replaced the tree, adding other winter decorations and allowing students to decorate the tree with symbols from their own religions." See the rest HERE