Things are home are going well. I think I am finally getting over whatever hit me so hard. It moved into my lungs but seems to be getting better every day. I am glad, I don’t have a lot of sick time from work.
Fall has set in at home. It has been cool to almost cold in the morning. I turned off the heatpump because it kept switching from A/C to heat during the night. It is nice to get fresh air into the house.
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MORE CENSORSHIP
Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) introduced an amendment to block the Federal Communications Commission from implementing its recently announced Net neutrality policy to an appropriations bill. The admendment would prevent the FCC from getting funding for any initiative to uphold Net neutrality. Co-sponsors are Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS), Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) Sen. John Ensign (R-NV), Sen. John Thune (R-SD) and Sen. David Vitter (R-LA).
The move appears to be an attempt to pre-empt the FCC’s expected new policy to ensure that Internet service providers don’t discriminate between different types of information on their networks.
The nation’s largest telephone and cable companies, including Comcast, AT&T, Verizon and Time Warner Cable, want to be Internet gatekeepers, deciding which Web sites go fast or slow and which won’t load at all.
These companies want to tax content providers to guarantee speedy delivery of their data. And they want to discriminate in favor of their own search engines, Internet phone services and streaming video — while slowing down or blocking services offered by their competitors.
These companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars lobbying Congress and the Federal Communications Commission to get rid of Net Neutrality, putting the future of the Internet at risk.
The Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009 was introduced by Reps. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) This legislation would protect Network Neutrality under the Communications Act, safeguarding the future of the open Internet and protecting Internet users from discrimination online.
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Number of Operations Iraq Freedom and Enduring Freedom casualties
as confirmed by U.S. Central Command: 5166
