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It Must Be Monday

Monday after a three-day weekend.  Wow.  (What?  you didn't have a three-day weekend?)

Looks like illegal votes may have pushed Al Franken from washed up comic to U.S. Senator.  Us in Washington State have great experience with this, since it was illegal and ineligible votes that made Gregoire our governess back in . . . was it 2004 (time flies when you're having fun)?  Mantra of the Democratic Party: if it's close, we will win it, thanks to ACORN, and felons, non-citizens, and the dead voting.

Roman Polanski is safe in Switzerland (lets hope he doesn't speed).  Leaving Hollywood a place where a child rapist will be defended but a conservative is a pariah.

Fidel Castro (who figures prominently in my novel) appeared on Cuban T.V. today.  Meaning either Cuban CGI technology is improving or the old mass murderer is still alive.  We could hope when he finally kicks the bucket Cuba might make some movement toward freedom.  Or maybe Raul needs to die, too. 

Webtoon ("Netoon"?) "Day by Day" is having a fund raiser to help pay the living expenses of the author.  Maybe I should have a fund raiser.  I'd probably get 47 cents and a bottle cap.  Tell you what.  Donate $5.99 and I throw in a free Kindle copy of my novel.

Blog Neglect

Yes, I've been neglecting my blog.  In my defense, I've been very busy with work and getting home late and tired when I get home.  So while I do have things to blog about, they will have to wait until tomorrow when I have more gumption.

Blog Neglect

Yes, it's been since Sunday since I posted.  Monday I had nothing to blog about.  Then Tuesday I came down with the worst case of the flu.  I could barely move let alone think and write.  I didn't start feeling human until today.  So I haven't been blogging.  But I will soon, I promise.  Maybe even tonight.

Be Nice . . . Or Else

Some Democrats want to make it against the law to be mean on the Internet.  And "mean" is defined so broadly it could be just about anything not nice (links original):

The Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act would make it a felony punishable by up to two years in prison to transmit an electronic communication ("including email, instant messaging, blogs, websites, telephones, and text messages") "with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person...to support severe, repeated, and hostile behavior."

Which, according to some covers a whole range of things:

UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh suggests half a dozen situations that could be covered by this law, all involving protected speech, including online criticism of politicians, angry demands for refunds from manufacturers of shoddy goods, calls for boycotts, and hostile messages to an ex-boyfriend. "The examples could be multiplied pretty much indefinitely," he writes at The Volokh Conspiracy. "The law, if enacted, would clearly be facially overbroad (and probably unconstitutionally vague), and would thus be struck down on its face under the First Amendment."

So, we're all cyberbullies now.  This is typical.  If you don't remember Megan Meier she was the teenager who committed suicide due to a MySpace hoax perpetrated by the parent of another girl.  Now Democrats want to limit liberty in the name of protecting the children, and as usual, they hit the wrong target. 

30,000 Page Views

This blog just hit 30,000 page views.  Which is probably what Instapundit gets in a day and Drudge gets in an hour.  Took me 937 days or about 2.6 years.  I've averaged 32.12 page views per day since the inception of this blog.  Which isn't great.  At the beginning I was averaging 14.3 page views per day.  This last month it's been closer to 27.  One day I got 2,700.

This will be the 1,433rd post.  I've had 178 comments and 11 "trackbacks" (where another blog post something from this blog).  More have linked to this blog than that, not all have done "trackbacks."

Don't worry, I'll continue to post, continue to complain (as my son says that's all I do), and continue to talk about the things that interest me.

After all, what is a vanity blog about other than that? 

Blog Neglect

Due to business travel I've been neglecting my blog (that you're now reading).  I promise tomorrow to start blogging anew.  Tonight I watched Sarah Palin's great speech (thanks to the DVR).  Tomorrow I'll watch McCain's.  I'm behind the news cycle and low on sleep.  

More tomorrow . . . I promise. 

Spell Checkers and the Election

This is getting frustrating.  I have no spell-checkers that recognize the following words:

• Barack

• Obama

• Biden

• Palin

I've finally learned there's a "c" in "Barack" but I'm having trouble with "Biden" vs. "Bidin" and "Palin" vs. "Palen."

So voting the easier-to-spell ticket it's another reason to vote McCain/Palin.

47% of You People are Idiots

Rasmussen Reports that in a poll, 47% of Americans favor a return of the Fairness Doctrine for radio and television.

Nearly half of Americans (47%) believe the government should require all radio and television stations to offer equal amounts of conservative and liberal political commentary . . .

Not surprisingly, Democrats are more for it than Republicans, at 54% of Democrats wanting the government to violate the First Amendment.

The repeal of the fairness doctrine is what allows talk radio (of both liberal and conservative persuasions) to thrive.

If there's any good news, "only" 31% are complete idiots and want the internet regulated to be forced to present both points of view.

And we let these people vote.  No wonder we have the government we have.

Fairness Doctrine for the Web?

An FCC Commissioner speaking at the Heritage Foundation today said it's possible a new "Fairness Doctrine" passed by a new Congress and enforced by a new Administration could extend to the web:

The commissioner, a 2006 President Bush appointee, told the Business & Media Institute the Fairness Doctrine could be intertwined with the net neutrality battle. The result might end with the government regulating content on the Web, he warned.

The result of this?

“Then, whoever is in charge of government is going to determine what is fair, under a so-called ‘Fairness Doctrine,’ which won’t be called that – it’ll be called something else,” [Commissioner Robert] McDowell said. “So, will Web sites, will bloggers have to give equal time or equal space on their Web site to opposing views rather than letting the marketplace of ideas determine that?”

Don't think it can't happen?  When Democrats get in charge, their first response is to control . . . everything they can.  They've kept their hands off the web for too long.  They must be chomping at the bit to get control of it.  As McDowell said:

“The Fairness Doctrine has not been raised at the FCC, but the importance of this election is in part – has something to do with that,” McDowell said. “So you know, this election, if it goes one way, we could see a re-imposition of the Fairness Doctrine. There is a discussion of it in Congress. I think it won’t be called the Fairness Doctrine by folks who are promoting it. I think it will be called something else and I think it’ll be intertwined into the net neutrality debate.” 

And then the web will be controlled for the benefit of the Democrats. 

1,000 Posts

That last post (about Jupiter) was the 1,000^th post on this blog since its inception in September 2006.