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Blogs Bristle at FEC's Internet Political Speech Proposal (this affects you)
Captain's Quarters ^ | 3/4/05 | Captain Ed

Posted on 03/04/2005 8:57:28 AM PST by chiller

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To: King Prout

I know.
Heard about this a day or two ago.
Been pondering it.
Something strange, the 'old media' seems to be behind this to an extent.


41 posted on 03/04/2005 12:03:52 PM PST by Darksheare (If you were in my heart I'd surely not break you. If you were beside me and my love would take you.)
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To: Darksheare
the 'old media' seems to be behind this to an extent

I suspect this is so.

42 posted on 03/04/2005 12:07:28 PM PST by King Prout (Remember John Adam!)
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To: chiller

Anybody got a list of real email addresses for the senators? I can't get the email forms to work for either of my senators on two different computers...don't know if their server is being unfriendly or whatever...


43 posted on 03/04/2005 12:07:32 PM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: MizSterious

This proposal to control the internet has Hillary! written all over it. I distinctly remember a comment that Hillary made in the mid nineties about the fact that they controlled the media, but did not have control of the internet and needed to work on that.


44 posted on 03/04/2005 12:10:35 PM PST by Eva
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To: Leatherneck_MT

It doesn't take more than an hour to set up shop with a web site in Boloniastan...so the FEC threat is more of a joke than anything else. They can't really threaten any group, from either party. And to sit here now and talk about it...is simply an attempt to look busy for the media.


45 posted on 03/04/2005 12:11:28 PM PST by pepsionice
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To: King Prout

Especially after the thrashing we gave them over the Rather memos.
They wanted to continue business as usual and ignore it, but we 'insignificant' internet 'peee-pull' let them know that sweeping it under the rug wasn't an option.
They see their monopoly on the news slipping away, and they are angry.


46 posted on 03/04/2005 12:14:08 PM PST by Darksheare (If you were in my heart I'd surely not break you. If you were beside me and my love would take you.)
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To: King Prout; Neets; Darksheare; scott0347; timpad; Conspiracy Guy; NYC GOP Chick; MeekOneGOP; ...

47 posted on 03/04/2005 12:19:49 PM PST by Lady Jag (Honor)
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To: King Prout

This is pretty bad.

Thanks for the ping


48 posted on 03/04/2005 12:20:39 PM PST by freedumb2003 (BS is stimulated whenever a person’s desire to speak on a topic exceed his knowledge of the facts)
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To: Lady Jag

That it is.
Unfortunately it looks to be something they really are thinking about.


49 posted on 03/04/2005 12:21:19 PM PST by Darksheare (If you were in my heart I'd surely not break you. If you were beside me and my love would take you.)
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To: Darksheare

It's unConstitutional. Besides, blogs have been nationally hailed as heroes in pjs, even by the MSM.


50 posted on 03/04/2005 12:25:50 PM PST by Lady Jag (Honor)
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To: Lady Jag

Ah, now the wrath of the pajamahadeen will be unleashed for its first major war...and with Captain Ed leading the charge, it will get noticed, I believe.


51 posted on 03/04/2005 12:29:03 PM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Lady Jag

Yes.
But they're angry about the CBS 60Minutes II debacle and te recent Dragon Toys captured doll thing.
Demented and sick, but they'll try it.
Anyone foolish enough to vote for it needs a quick kick in the seat of the pants and their name placard desk bar busted over their heads.

In that event, NY will need two new name placards for it's senators likely.


52 posted on 03/04/2005 12:29:40 PM PST by Darksheare (If you were in my heart I'd surely not break you. If you were beside me and my love would take you.)
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To: pepsionice; chiller; k2blader; Guillermo; Darksheare; Bob J; King Prout; MizSterious; ...
Bradley Smith is the sole FEC commissioner-to the best of my knowledge-who even seems to have rudimentary grasp of what the 1st Amendment entails.

The fact that we have not only unelected administrative bureaucrats, but elected public servants-who are putatively supposed to represent our interests-that are willing to circumscribe our fundamental constitutional rights, in the name of political expediency, is disturbing, to say the least.

-good times, G.J.P. (Jr.)

53 posted on 03/04/2005 12:36:13 PM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

I'm all for it. Who's Capt. Ed?


54 posted on 03/04/2005 12:36:56 PM PST by Lady Jag (Honor)
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To: Darksheare
But they're angry about the CBS 60Minutes II debacle

Do you have any children? If not, adopt the Dems. They're whining, sniveling, little crap-covered larva. And later I'll tell you how I really feel.

55 posted on 03/04/2005 12:38:48 PM PST by Lady Jag (Honor)
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To: Lady Jag

Only daughter died in a car accident.

Don't want anymroe kids.
And adopting a Dem would convince me that a right exists to quell whiners through repetetive appplications of blunt objects upon cranial containers.


56 posted on 03/04/2005 12:41:21 PM PST by Darksheare (If you were in my heart I'd surely not break you. If you were beside me and my love would take you.)
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To: Lady Jag

Captain Ed is the main poster at the Captain's Quarters blog...# 9 on the Truth Laid Bear ecosystem....


57 posted on 03/04/2005 12:45:58 PM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: chiller
Lots of bowing-and-scraping language in this essay. Screw that.

- Don't call them "honorable"; they don't deserve the appellation.

- Tell them to shove this idea right up their a$$es; we will not obey.

Time to smack political parasites down; enough bowing and scraping!

58 posted on 03/04/2005 12:48:30 PM PST by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: Tom Bishop

The last thing these morons want to do is unite the right and the left against them. Bring it on !


59 posted on 03/04/2005 12:48:48 PM PST by John Lenin
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To: Darksheare

Blunt objects on dems is best. Sorry about reminding you of your loss; of course I had no idea and feel bad for stepping in it. I understand more now. {{{{HUGS}}}}}


60 posted on 03/04/2005 1:02:46 PM PST by Lady Jag (Honor)
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