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marym625's JournalAre you still sure that net neutrality is a foregone conclusion?
Wheeler has been asked to delay the vote.
“We respectfully request that FCC leadership immediately release the 332-page Internet regulation plan publicly and allow the American people a reasonable period of not less than 30 days to carefully study it,” Republican Commissioners Ajit Pai and Michael O’Rielly said in a statement Monday. “Then, after the commission reviews the specific input it receives from the American public and makes any modifications to the plan as appropriate, we could proceed to a final vote.”
http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/23/republican-fcc-commissioners-ask-wheeler-to-delay-net-neutrality-vote-release-proposal/
PLEASE, make sure you make your wishes know. This site makes it so easy. They will even dial your representatives for you. They have a script you can use if you're unsure exactly what you want to say. A letter you can sign.
Don't let net neutrality slip through our fingers.
BATTLE FOR THE NET!
https://www.battleforthenet.com/
I'd love to change the world, but I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you
After this week in politics, what people on DU are going through in their private lives, the world at war, this is how I'm feeling.
Ten Years After - I'd Love To Change The World (l…:
Everywhere is freaks and hairies
Dykes and fairies
Tell me where is sanity?
Tax the rich
Feed the poor
Till there are rich no more?
I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you
Population keeps on breeding
Nation bleeding
Still more feeding, economy
Life is funny, skies are sunny
Bees make honey
Who needs money? Monopoly
I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you
World pollution
There's no solution
Institution, electrocution
Just black and white
Rich or poor
Them and us
Stop the war
I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you
What is your biggest pet peeve?
Mine is "the reason why is" or even worse, "the reason why is because."
Rauner, Illinois' Scott Walker
This guy is going to tank Illinois. Unbelievable. Cut everything that helps people.
$6 Billion in Cuts and Reducing Pension Benefits
Gov. Bruce Rauner’s Budget Would Cut Spending on Universities and Health Care
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/us/politics/illinois-governor-proposes-6-billion-in-cuts-and-reducing-pension-benefits.html?_r=0&referrer=
Have a meeting to get to but had to share his atrocious proposal
Oh my dog it's COLD!
Chicago this morning record breaking cold.
Temperature -6
Wind Chill -28
And tonight will be worse.
It's so cold in my apartment I can't take a shower. BRRRR!
That is all
You can count them one by one, it could be your son.
For Black History Month in honor of some unsung heroes of the civil rights movement in 1964.
There are no names to put on a plaque. There are no stories of family and friends to tell. There are no faces remembered. But we can honor the people who were murdered, in darkness, in hiding, for the "crime" of being black in America
In The Mississippi River
With all these young black men, black teenage boys and the young black boy, Tamir Rice, being murdered by cops, and the prosecutors protecting them; with the trumped up charges used on protesters and the insane charges against Tiny Doo, I can't get this song out of my mind.
Back in 1964 when the FBI was searching for the bodies of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner, they dragged the Mississippi and Pearl Rivers. Though they didn't find those three Freedom Fighters in the river, they did find others. One was just a 14 year old boy with a C.O.R.E. t-shirt on. Seventeen bodies were found altogether, all were black males, at least 3 of which were Freedom Fighters. One was never identified, his head was missing. All were murdered.
No one was ever charged in any of those murders.
The only thing that has changed is how the murders of black men in America are executed.
Mavis Staples made the song famous but it was written by Marshall Jones in 1964. It is about the bodies found when the rivers were dragged. Mr. Jones was one of The SNCC Freedom Singers. They performed it in Chicago in 2007 for a reunion concert, which is where this video was recorded.
In The Mississippi River (SNCC Freedom Singers, C…:
Some of the lyrics:
It could be your son.
Count them two by two.
Could be me or you.
And they are gone in because of hate.
And you can count them nine by nine
In Mississippi this ain’t no crime.
And you can count them ten by ten
And we wonder when the right will win.
Reposted from last year for Black History Month.
OK old people
Do any of you have a VERY difficult time seeing after looking at a phone, pad or computer for a while?
I have great vision for close up tjings. A little nearsightedness but not enough for glasses (or so I tell myself) But this is horrible. After a couple hours I can't see anything clearly. Not at any distance.
Has this ever happened to you?
I've been crying lately thinking about the world as it is.
Why must we go on hating?
Why can't we live in bliss?
Cat Stevens- Peace Train:
A poll about our newest war for our dear DUers
It's easy. Just a yes or no question.
Do you agree we should be going to war against ISIS?
Thank you for your kind participation.
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