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JDDavis's JournalPresident Obama's Statement on Keeping the Internet Open and Free
Published on Nov 10, 2014
President Obama today urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to take up the strongest possible rules to protect net neutrality, the principle that says Internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all internet traffic equally.
Wave Of 65+ Voters Put Wingnuts In Control Of The Senate
There were a lot of reasons we lost last night, but not rallying young voters was the biggest.
But mostly, we didn't get out our young voters. That's because, more than any other group, young voters are least tolerant of bullshit.
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/11/wave-65-voters-put-wingnuts-control-senate
Three reasons Republicans did so well: #1 they lied
#1 Republicans lied about the "failed leadership of President Obama". Tell a lie enough times and the people begin to believe it, as Joseph Goebbles said
#2 Fox News was a 24/7/365 campaign channel, where Republicans were free to lie over and over again and never be challenged. Fox also played huge compliments to folks like Rick Scott of FL and called Charlie Crist a "turncoat". See example below
#3 All other news channels copied the secret to Fox News' ratings "success", in an effort to gain and retain viewership, by doing the same thing as Fox. Sunday talk shows always had a John McCain, a Mitch McConnell, or some other idiot Republican booked, and often had no Democratic counterpart appearing. CNN fails to challenge any Republican, (following the Fox News formula for a hopeful ratings rise).
Then, there's Ebola, (this year's "October surprise", used so craftily by Republicans to convince all fools who never pay attention to politics 99% of the year, that Obama is from Africa and brought the disease with him to kill all by next year if we don't vote for a Republican).
Add a little thing like ISIS, a few more troops sent to Afghanistan or somewhere. Then there's the "dark" people disrespecting the white police and protesting when one of them is shot dead in cold blood. Little stuff like that made people think, again, it's all Obama's fault and their world would be so much better if some hog farmer becomes a senator from Iowa.
Then, again, there's Fox News, basically saying stupid stuff like this over and over, unchallenged, day after day, since January 20, 2009.
Finally, the last straw, this Ebola thing, it got people scared
“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.”
― Joseph Goebbels
NH GOP Chair Suggests Republicans Drown Democrats
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/push-their-heads-under-the-water-until-they-cannot-breatheThe result is predictable: partisans who use language they probably shouldn’t. Take this report, for example, published this morning by New Hampshire Public Radio.
If you are seeking nuance or restraint, you won’t find it at a get-out-the-vote rally on the Sunday before a tight election.
Here’s State GOP chairman Jennifer Horn last night in Manchester:
“This is our time. We need to crush it. We need to grab it, run with it, push their heads under over and over again until they cannot breathe anymore, until the elections are over Tuesday night.”
How charming.
Fox News’ Coverage Of 2014 GOP Candidates: Flattery & Free Ads
Fox News’ Coverage Of 2014 GOP Candidates: Flattery & Free Ads
No wonder why Republicans might win the Senate...
Disgustingly obvious bias in every clip.
Has anybody here actually READ what Baker's campaign is saying?
He is proposing to cut state funding for education.
He is proposing to use SOME of those funds to give tax breaks to businesses.
He is wanting to fix social services but not proposing any more funding for any of them, including child abuse and services to mentally challenged or mentally ill.
He is ignoring 100's of roads and bridges that need repair.
Your local real estate taxes will go up to meet the school budget cuts.
Some flash in the pan stuff with $6 million for "renewable energy" whatever that is, (and, of course more tax breaks for companies that do "renewable energy" like recycling).
To read this, you would think Charlie Baker is going to change the world by changing your trash collection schedule. But, of course, Charlie doesn't like to pay teachers much, or increase the number of child abuse social workers as is obviously needed.
Smoke and mirrors.
Why isn't the Coakley campaign and the Democratic Party of Mass taking him apart on these issues?
Martha, you need to start swinging aggressively, not trying to defend your record over the last 25 years. You are a smart woman, but not aggressive enough to defeat this slug you are running against.
Watching Martha Coakley live in debate...
She's going to lose this election to that Republican slime ball.
She's looking scared, cowered over, spineless. Who the heck did her hair? She's looking like a 50 year old trying to look 25. The tone of her arguments comes out as whines, not solid assertions.
Charlie slime ball is looking like a college freshman with his cute blond hair.
Oh, this is not flamebait, I agree with Martha and will vote for her. I can't stand Charlie.
But this debate is so poorly framed for Martha.
Whoever set this up, didn't study the nature of television optics. Martha is losing this debate on optics alone.
Chuck Todd Cuts Ad For Mitch McConnell
Chuck Todd Cuts Ad For Mitch McConnellHere, ladies and gentlemen, is your "liberal media" at work.
In a debate last week with Mitch McConnell, Alison Lundergan Grimes refused to answer the question about who she voted for in 2012. Rightly so. While I realize some Obama supporters view this as denying the President, it's actually a pragmatic move when the other side is trying to wrap you in Obama paper as a way to trigger racial responses rather than rational ones.
Kentucky, after all, is still a Southern state with southern attitudes, especially in the rural areas. The question itself was a terrible one, and not germane to whether Grimes would be a good Senator. It was a no-win question and Grimes did the best she could.
But that's not good enough for "I love the game of politics" Chuck Todd. He felt the need to place his finger on the scales to weight it toward the GOP by declaring on last Friday's Morning Joe that Grimes had "disqualified herself." Sort of like jumping the gun on a swim meet or something.
That declaration is now featured in a McConnell attack ad on Grimes:
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/10/chuck-todd-cuts-ad-mitch-mcconnell
Windows 8.1 laptop no longer recognizes HTC Android photos file
I have tried and tried with both USB cable connection and Blue Tooth. Neither method of connection enables my Dell Windows 8.1 laptop to even "see" the contents on my photo files on the HTC Android phone. It used to work, last time I tried, this past summer, it doesn't now.
On the Windows 8.1 laptop, I get the message "driver not installed for this device. Do you wish to install a driver?" I respond YES, and then it says "Cannot find the driver for this device".
However, when I connect via USB to my HP desktop computer with Windows 7, my desktop immediately sees the photo file on the phone and I can download the pictures to the desktop machine, So, I'm not out of luck, I can then transfer them to a USB flash drive and then go to the Windows 8.1 laptop and copy the photos onto the laptop. The windows 8.1 laptop still recognizes USB flash drives and can see the photo and other file contents that way.
The laptop is 6 months old, under warentee. The Windows 7 desktop computer is 3 years old.
What have I done wrong? I'm sure it's "operator error", probably, and not something wrong with the laptop. Or perhaps someone else has had this problem? A
Any suggestions for solution would be most helpful. I use the laptop much more than the desktop, especially when I travel.
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