Deluge of net neutrality comments floods FCC website after Oliver rallies audience | PCWorld.

Like I wasn’t going to post a link to this somewhere…

“People were basically saying, ‘Yes, Bank of America took my home. Yes, Taco Bell gave me diaherra, and sure, GM tried to kill me but Time-Warner and Comcast are the worst. ‘ “

and

“The cable companies have figured out the great truth of America If you want to do soemthing evil, put it inside something boring.”

Yay, John Oliver!

 

 

Republicans Hating On Obama’s Prisoner Swap Owe Chelsea Manning A Thank You.

Hmmm.

In new memoir, Hillary Clinton makes stark admission on Iraq War vote: “I still got it wrong. Plain and simple.”  – NY Daily News.

Speaking of effective message control….

Verizon demands Netflix stop messages on slow streaming | Reuters.

Fuck you, Verizon.

Suit on behalf of Arizona prisoners gets class-action status | Reuters.

Yeah! Go, go, gadget in-justice system reform!

Inside the RSS, India’s Hindu nationalist movement, where Modi got his start – The Washington Post.

hmmm.

50 women learn to lead in the face of strife, mostly from each other – CSMonitor.com.

🙂

Why Didn’t Obama Tell Congress About Prisoner Swap? – NBC News.com.

Obama might be an idiot sometimes but he’s not a vengeful, hateful, bratty, spoilt little bastard of a grown toddler.
That description suits most of his opponents (and hey, some supporters too) though.
The more Obama can do without consulting those little bitches, the more he will accomplish, and the better he will do by the American people.

BBC News – Emir of Kano Ado Bayero dies in Nigeria

hmmm, waters shifting.

BBC News – Leading Pakistani Geo TV channel is ordered off air .

For something new and different, (not!) Pakistan is a freaking shit-show.

Bowe Bergdahl’s home town left bewildered by backlash against its hero | World news | theguardian.com.

There has been no definitive report, just a lot of innuendo. Truthfully the public doesn’t know what happened.
I think it was short-sighted and tactically weak to try and make a hero out of the young man in this media climate.
I suspect a message of, ‘we don’t leave anyone behind,’ would have played better.
I am -for the record- in favor of the swap which returned him. (Um, we don’t leave anyone behind? And seriously, would we have applied these standards to AWOL/POW soldiers in Vietnam? I hope to gawd not!)

Top takeaways from Tuesday’s primaries – CNN.com.

hmmm.

2014 Mississippi election: Dems prep war plan – POLITICO.com.

hmmm.

Vodafone Lays Bare Scale of Phone Tapping – WSJ.

hmmm.

Pentagon has protocol for returned captives – The Washington Post.

hmmm.

Everyone I Talk To Says ‘Who Cares?’ Then I Show Them This And They Freak Out A Little..

Best explanation of net neutrality, ever.

Russia says U.S. should push Ukrainian leader to halt violence .

Doublespeak is hilarious

The real marijuana story – CSMonitor.com.

CSM I am disappointed in you.
Most of this has been firmly debunked or proven to be more closely tied to socio-economic situations.
Let the NE Journal of Med insert cause and effect that doesn’t actually happen into its pages.
Why don’t you stick with reporting actual facts?

‘The Beast’ asteroid is hurtling past Earth. Here’s how to watch it. .

hmmm.

The life and awful death of a Tamil asylum seeker in Australia | World news | theguardian.com.

Sigh….

Sylvia Mathews Burwell: New Obamacare chief ran textbook campaign – POLITICO.com.

DID BHO just hire someone who actually know how to get her job done?
Well, I’ll be…

Who won the war? Russians take a different view on D-Day – Yahoo News.

what a partisan bunch of crap.

BBC News – Tuam children’s bodies: Catholic Church ‘has no records’.

disgusting.

German Lawmakers Plan to Quiz Snowden in Moscow – ABC News.

heh.

Israel to build 1,500 more homes in settlements | World news | theguardian.com.

Fucking animals.