Election commission takes light touch with Net regs

Government took a light hand when it first introduced the income tax. It took a light hand when it first started limiting smoking. As long as McCain-Feingold (aka Soupy Sales, Jr.) is the law of the land--thanks to politbureau members like these two senators and the majority of wimpy members of congress who voted for the unconstitutional act, and a wimpy president who signed it, and a majority of the supreme court who found it legitimate--it's just a matter of time before political websites like this one will be shut down prior to elections.

Yeah, the constant barrage of "required by court order" or "required by law" are going to be the death of us all. The government is more and more intrusive, and that's with Republicans in charge. With friends like them, we don't need enemies, especially enemies of the people like McCain.

LOL! I guess then that real film clips are allowed...

Excellent stuff!

Alamo-Girl has the Ron Brown funeral .gif on the right

I have been posting those 2 .gifs myself all over the internet for several years

The "AF1.gif" on the left with some added text & a flying pig animation added

The Ron Brown funeral video - with a black horizontal band at bottom I added - over that pink band - text "JOKES TO TEARS" - "Tears.gif"

They are a bit "heavy" on bytes for the 56K dialup bunch

Hard to believe that Slick Willie had a photographer on the jet archiving his "Grope-A-Thon" 0 incidentally - she ended up with a cushy WH job after that day.....

The animated .gifs I am working on are to put accurate photos and events together in a small limited area on emails, webpages, etc.

To much text and too many "still" photos on one or more webpages is just too cumbersome and time-consuming for a web surfer to bother with

It therefore gets forgotten - as the NYT wants 911 to be

A bit of humor helps make things memorable also

Working on a Hillary/Suha animated photo sequence now - always a big favorite -

Amazing how motor-driven and digital cameras can zip out so many fast pix

Did someone say "Suha?"

Government took a light hand when it first introduced the income tax. It took a light hand when it first started limiting smoking. As long as McCain-Feingold (aka Soupy Sales, Jr.) is the law of the land--thanks to politbureau members like these two senators and the majority of wimpy members of congress who voted for the unconstitutional act, and a wimpy president who signed it, and a majority of the supreme court who found it legitimate--it's just a matter of time before political websites like this one will be shut down prior to elections.

I give it a couple of election cycles (4-6 years). The influence of the internet in allowing people to speak their mind in a forum where they can be heard everywhere, not just their local newspaper's Op-Ed page, it's not been truly felt yet.

I don't like Howard Dean, but I give him credit for using the internet in such a way that he went outside the normal media and normal party apparatus to get noticed by people, and I think you will see a lot more candidates use those methods. Not just candidates, but third parties.

That is what worries the leadership of both parties, and that is why I think when something major happens, the fit will hit the shan, so to speak.

I think the internet will factor heavily in the next Presidential election - I think it's the best bet we have on putting forth a Conservative candidate for the GOP, rather than relying on getting non-Conservative candidates who are only candidates because of who they know or how much money they can raise.

Just listen for party leaders (both Dems and GOP) to talk about how the internet is being used to slander their candidates, or how it's being used to influence elections. We've heard it in the past, and I think we'll hear it much more in the future.

Most Democrats, 192 Demmocrats, in the House of Representatives voted Yes to pass McCain-Feingold. Only 12 Democrats voted no. While Most Republicans, 176 Republicans, voted no to McCain-Feingold. Only 41 Republicans voted Yes: House vote.

In the Senate, only 7 Republicans ( the RINOS), voted yes McCain-Feingold. Senate Vote. So the Democrats in Congress and the RINOs especially McCain are to blame for this assault against freedom of speech on the internet not Republicans since Most Republicans voted against passing this “reform”.

Certainly we can see here by their votes what party wants to take our freedom of speech and the rising new media on the internet away. And that party is the Democrat party. Yes Bush made a mistake in signing this but he is not the Republican party.

Thanks for the links, and welcome to FR!