POSTCARDS FROM THE BUNKER February- Post Valentines / presidents day / post Mardi Gras / ash wednesday Edition;
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The Conservatives motto : "There is always something you should fear, and we
are the only ones that can keep you safe."
"Anything less than the entire truth is just a lie."
Mission : The mission of Postcards from the Bunker is to inform and educate
certain misguided individuals (and you know who you are) regarding:
a.. Defending The Constitution
the key insight that liberation begins in the individual's own mind, and
that techniques of propaganda, persuasion, and brainwashing program individuals
to create prisons for themselves in dutiful submission to their political,
economic, and religious overlords.
Leadership quote : "Thank you all for coming". Ronald Reagan -our Leader-
are the only ones that can keep you safe."
"Anything less than the entire truth is just a lie."
Mission : The mission of Postcards from the Bunker is to inform and educate
certain misguided individuals (and you know who you are) regarding:
a.. Defending The Constitution
the key insight that liberation begins in the individual's own mind, and
that techniques of propaganda, persuasion, and brainwashing program individuals
to create prisons for themselves in dutiful submission to their political,
economic, and religious overlords.
Leadership quote : "Thank you all for coming". Ronald Reagan -our Leader-
“It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people”
And now, Todays top news from the Conservative Bunker
And now, Todays top news from the Conservative Bunker
BREAKING NEWS:
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Sarah Palin Will Be Featured Speaker at First Tea Party ConventionKeynote address to be delivered by Mad Hatter.
Palin Calls Global Warming
Studies “Snake Oil”Evolution “a crock,” Newton “a fig.”
Studies “Snake Oil”Evolution “a crock,” Newton “a fig.”
NATION'S CAPITAL BROUGHT TO A STANDSTILLBy Sen. Shelby (R-Ala.).
"I'll tell you, you woke up this morning, and New York, a tremendous sight, all the snow. I mean, it was whiter than a Tea Party rally." –David Letterman
Sarah Palin Reportedly Bought 4000 Copies of Her Own Book“She's a voracious reader,” says spokesperson.
Whenever Dick Cheney preaches gloom and doom, I feel relieved because he's right 0% of the time
Dubai: World’s Tallest Skyscraper Closes One Month After OpeningThey forgot to install elevators
"A park is opening in London with a playground for old people. It sounds great until the merry-go-round goes so fast, grandpa's dentures fly off."–Craig Ferguson
Apple: iPad Replaces EverythingExcept pad of paper and pencil.
"Growing up... Life in Leeds, Alabama taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love."
Scorpio Oct 24 - Nov 21
People say you're a control freak, but if you had your way, they'd say it a little slower and maybe even a touch louder.
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.'-H.D. Thoreau
Obama Administration Cancels
Moon ProgramWill put brainpower to work on college football playoff.
Moon ProgramWill put brainpower to work on college football playoff.
Gambling, Binge Eating
Re-Classified as DisordersSex addiction re-classified as “horsing around.”
Re-Classified as DisordersSex addiction re-classified as “horsing around.”
Amish Recall 43,000 BuggiesFollowing reports of sudden acceleration
"People still talking about the Super Bowl. It was the most watched TV program of all time. The second most-watched event was the episode of 'Dallas' where J.R. gets shot in the face by Dick Cheney." –David Letterman
Afghanistan: Big Military Campaign BeginsWill finally bring an end to centuries of bloody conflict, say experts.
"ABC News reports that the president of Pakistan slaughters a black goat every day since becoming president in an attempt to ward off the evil eye. It's good to see these modern, progressive people are our allies in the war against terror." –Jay Leno
Study: Beer Builds Strong BonesWhich you'll need in a barroom brawl.
"The Object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." - Marcus Aurelius
71% Say Palin Unqualified to Be PresidentBut qualified to be GOP nominee.
It's interesting to note, that in the Anchorage Daily News article, no where does it mention just who built these two cabins on Sarah's land. Was it her or her co-owner? At least no one has fessed up, yet.
It'll be amusing to watch her squirm out of this latest scandal. I'm sure she'll find someone to blame, probably the co-owner of her property.
Toyota, Acting Forcefully,
Recalls All Its CarsOrders its dealers to kill themselves
Recalls All Its CarsOrders its dealers to kill themselves
"He who knows how to be poor knows everything." -- Jules Michelet
Honda Recalls 440,000 for AirbagsNeeded to protect Honda drivers from runaway Toyotas.
There are two profound lies at work in America told by Republicans. That we are over taxed and we need more guns to keep us safe.
We are BY FAR the most gun owning, gun violent, gun crazy nitwits on the planet and also the least taxed nation in the civilized world.
We are BY FAR the most gun owning, gun violent, gun crazy nitwits on the planet and also the least taxed nation in the civilized world.
“Computer Engineer Barbie” Doll to Debut This FallAlong with “Head of Computer Engineering Department Ken” doll
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The Battle of the Titans: JPMorgan vs. Goldman Sachs
Or Why the Market Was Down for 7 Days in a Row
Goldman, which has the power to manipulate markets with its high-speed program trades, may be engaging in a Mexican standoff [with Obama and Volker]. The veiled threat is, “Back off on the banking reforms, or stand by and watch us continue to crash your markets.”
by Ellen Hodgson Brown, J.D.
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by Andy Borowitz |
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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) - Congressional Republicans emerged from their unprecedented session with President Barack Obama today feeling positive about the experience, but still adjusting to their newly-torn assholes.
"On the whole, we felt that it was a worthwhile exercise," said House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH). "But clearly, each of us left with twice as many assholes as we went in with."
Congressional observers had doubted that it was possible for there to be more assholes in the Republican caucus than there already were, "but the President proved them wrong," Rep. Boehner said.
The House Minority Leader said that his colleagues were "amenable" to another session with the President in the future, "but next time it won't be televised and we won't be there."
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Obama Reprimands GOP To Their Faces
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Let's fly small regional planes dept:
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The Battle of the Titans: JPMorgan vs. Goldman Sachs
Or Why the Market Was Down for 7 Days in a Row
Goldman, which has the power to manipulate markets with its high-speed program trades, may be engaging in a Mexican standoff [with Obama and Volker]. The veiled threat is, “Back off on the banking reforms, or stand by and watch us continue to crash your markets.”
by Ellen Hodgson Brown, J.D.
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by Stephen Pizzo |
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My fellow Americans, I am here tonight to report the state of our Union. Let me be clear. The state of our Union is awful.
Of course, you knew that. But I must add to that the warning that the state of your government too is awful. It has, for all practical purposes, nearly ceased to function.
This is not the way I had envisioned my first State of the Union. During the campaign I promised change you could believe in. I promised to change the way Washington does business. I promised to end America's reckless and counterproductive military occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan. I promised to close America's gulag at Guantanamo. I promised to begin repairing the damage done by 8-years of Republican economic mismanagement and redressing the horrific damage those policies did to America's once robust and growing middle class. And I promised to put the US at the forefront of protecting our endangered environment.
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Russell FeingoldThe Supremes Have Opened the Floodgates
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by David Michael Green |
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There's only one political party in the entire world that is so inept, cowardly and bungling that it could manage to simultaneously lick the boots of Wall Street bankers and then get blamed by the voters for being flaming revolutionary socialists.
It's the same party that has allowed the opposition to go on a thirty year scorched earth campaign, stealing everything in sight from middle and working class voters, and yet successfully claim to be protecting 'real Americans' from out-of-touch elites.
It's the same party that could run a decorated combat hero against a war evader in 1972, only to be successfully labeled as national security wimps.
Just to be sure, it then did the exact same thing again in 2004.
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Republican Strategist Pens Memo To Kill Financial Regulatory Reform
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Alexander CockburnThe Oldest Game in Washington
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ABC brings us the latest installment in the hilarious adventures of the former half-term governor of Alaska (emphasis added):
Sarah Palin has been using her political action committee to buy up thousands of copies of her book, "Going Rogue," in order to mail copies of the memoir to her donors, newly filed campaign records show.The former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate had her political organization spend more than $63,000 on what her reports describe as "books for fundraising donor fulfillment." The payments went to Harper Collins, her publisher, and in some instances to HSP Direct, a Virginia-based direct mail fundraising firm that serves a number of well-known conservative politicians and pundits.Sarah PAC spent another $8,000 on colorful bookmarks designed by a Nashville-based event branding firm. And her committee paid her publisher $20,000 for what appears to have been the cost of sending her personal photographer and another aide along on her book tour. Those expenses are listed by the PAC as travel repayment to Harper Collins.
ABC says Palin's office hasn't told them whether she is accepting royalties from these book sales. She'd be a moron to do so..but then again, Palin is a moron. After all, what's the point of having a PAC if you're not going to use it to pump up sales of your own book? Supporting candidates? Hah!
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by Andy Borowitz |
HATTIESBURG, MISS (The Borowitz Report) - In what has been described as a miracle cure in the annals of sex addiction, Tiger Woods has reportedly been cured of his sex addiction by repeated viewings of the John Edwards sex tape.
"We basically had the thing playing on a loop," said Dr. Tracy Klugian, one of the doctors at the Pine Grove Behavior Health and Addiction Services clinic, where the golf legend was undergoing treatment for sex addiction. "He kept screaming, 'I can't take it anymore,' but we refused to unstrap him."
Speaking briefly to reporters upon his release from the clinic, Mr. Woods confirmed that viewing the Edwards sex tape was "a traumatic experience," adding, "I may never have sex again."
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President Obama's Budget Unveiled
by Meteor Blades
Mon Feb 01, 2010 at 09:09:25 AM PST
The President's proposed budget would spend $3.8 trillion in 2011, the fiscal year that starts October 1, 2010. But it would only bring in $2.2 trillion in revenue. Predictably, the Republicans are already howling over it, withpredictable hypocrisy. With the past as a guide, you can expect Congress to make significant changes in that budget, and many of those will not come from the GOP side of the aisle.
Cuts would be made in the departments of justice, housing and urban development, commerce, health and human services, and agriculture.
Some highlights:
$25 billion for state governments to meet Medicaid costs.
$33 billion in additional funds this year for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and a budget of $159 billion for those conflicts in 2011, $46 billion more than the 2010 budget. The overall increase in the 2011 vs. the 2010 Pentagon budget: $44 billion.
$33 billion in additional funds this year for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and a budget of $159 billion for those conflicts in 2011, $46 billion more than the 2010 budget. The overall increase in the 2011 vs. the 2010 Pentagon budget: $44 billion.
$28 billion for elementary and secondary education programs, a $3 billion increase.
$17 billion more for Pell grants to students in higher education.
$17 billion more for Pell grants to students in higher education.
$61.6 billion for civilian research and development, a $3.7 billion increase over this year.
$43.6 billion for the Department of Homeland Security, a 2% increase. This will include $734 million for 1,000 advanced imaging machines to enhance airport security.
$43.6 billion for the Department of Homeland Security, a 2% increase. This will include $734 million for 1,000 advanced imaging machines to enhance airport security.
$100 billion in small-business tax cuts.
$37 billion increase in taxes for oil and gas companies over the next nine years.
$20 billion saved through cuts in some 120 programs, including folding 38 education programs into 11, cutting the National Park Service's Save America's Treasures and Preserve America grant program, cutting the Brownfields Economic Development Initiative, which converts decayed former industrial sites to new uses, and getting rid of the Advanced Earned Income Tax Credit, which allows low-wage workers to get tax-credit checks in advance.
No return to the moon for NASA.
A boost in the top two tax brackets from 33% and 35% to 36% and 39.6%, respectively.
Families that make $250,000 or more would see their capital-gains and dividend tax rates rise from 15% to 20%.
Hedge-fund and private-equity traders now pay capital gains on their fees would be taxes at higher income-tax rates.
Corporations would pay extra taxes on overseas earnings, amounting to more than $120 billion over the next decade.
The budget can be seen here.
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good read dept:
There wasn't the same pride in being a poultry worker. I've worked as an organizer and witnessed many unpleasant realities -- families being evicted, children being lead poisoned -- but nothing prepared me for the poverty and desperation I found in Alabama. I arrived before the recession, and unemployment was already at 8 percent. Many of the locals spend years bouncing back and forth between the chicken plant and Wal-Mart. I knew a number of people who had never opened a bank account, simply because there was never anything they could have put in it.
by Bill Berkowitz |
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A new book tells the story of how one New York-based journalist embedded himself in the backbreaking work routinely performed by immigrant laborers.
"Have you ever wondered why poultry plant workers don't hang their plastic smocks outside on a line to dry after a shift spent covered in chicken juice and meat?" Gabriel Thompson asked in a recent e-mail. "The answer: red ants."
Thompson found this out "ten minutes into a new shift [at a chicken slaughterhouse in Alabama] when [he] felt a bite, and then another, and another, and looked down to see red ants swarming around my chest, stomach, arms, and other places, too. Evidently," Thompson pointed out, "red ants are attracted to the stench of dead chickens."
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VIDEO: Full Sarah Palin Tea Party Convention Speech
"How's that hope-y, change-y stuff workin' out for you?" Sarah Palin opening her $100,000 45 minute Tea Party Convention speech.
It goes without saying that hillbilly talk is a winner in these circles, but the kicker in the speech, the moment that garnered the greatest standing ovation of the evening was this one:
"We need a commander-in-chief, not a professor of law standing at a lectern." Sarah Palin on President Obama.
Let me interpret that one for you and why it received the standing ovation:
Continue reading "VIDEO: Full Sarah Palin Tea Party Convention Speech""We need a stupid asshole to preside over our vision of America, we resent anyone smarter than we are, that's why we love you Sarah!"
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Why A Good Education Is So Important: Baptist Missionaries Didn't Know They Needed Papers For 33 Children To Leave Their Country
Ten Baptist missionaries are facing kidnapping charges in Haiti for trying to take 33 children out of the country, and the lawyer for all the defendants is putting the blame on the group's leader.
Attorney Edwin Coq said Laura Silsby knew the group couldn't remove the youngsters without proper paperwork, while he characterized the other nine missionaries as unknowingly being caught up in actions they didn't understand.
"I'm going to do everything I can to get the nine out. They were naive. They had no idea what was going on and they did not know that they needed official papers to cross the border. But Silsby did," Coq said Thursday after a magistrate charged the 10 at a closed hearing
Attorney Edwin Coq said Laura Silsby knew the group couldn't remove the youngsters without proper paperwork, while he characterized the other nine missionaries as unknowingly being caught up in actions they didn't understand.
"I'm going to do everything I can to get the nine out. They were naive. They had no idea what was going on and they did not know that they needed official papers to cross the border. But Silsby did," Coq said Thursday after a magistrate charged the 10 at a closed hearing
What a stupid excuse.
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| Which of the following questions, mailed by the GOP in an official looking envelope with the warning, “Official Document, Do Not Destroy,” and labeled “2010 Congressional District Census” does not appear in the enclosed document? | |
| A ) | Do you think the record trillion dollar federal deficit the Democrats are creating with their out-of-control spending is going to have disastrous consequences for our nation? |
| B ) | Do you worry that the Obama administration is committed to greatly expanding the government's role in your life? |
| C ) | Is there nothing the GOP will not do to mislead voters? |
| Hint: You have to ask? | |
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Let me put American life in the Age of Terror into some kind of context, and then tell me you’re not ready to get on the nearest plane heading anywhere, even toward Yemen.
In 2008, 14,180 Americans were murdered, according to the FBI. In that year, there were 34,017 fatal vehicle crashes in the U.S. and, so the U.S. Fire Administration tells us, 3,320 deaths by fire. More than 11,000 Americans died of the swine flu between April and mid-December 2009, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; on average, a staggering 443,600 Americans die yearly of illnesses related to tobacco use, reports the American Cancer Society; 5,000 Americans die annually from food-borne diseases; an estimated 1,760 children died from abuse or neglect in 2007; and the next year, 560 Americans died of weather-related conditions, according to the National Weather Service, including 126 from tornadoes, 67 from rip tides, 58 from flash floods, 27 from lightning, 27 from avalanches, and 1 from a dust devil.
As for airplane fatalities, no American died in a crash of a U.S. carrier in either 2007 or 2008, despite 1.5 billion passengers transported.
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Your liberal boyfriend Barack Obama has ordered more robot-death-plane attacks on people during his first year in office than George W. Bush did in eight years. [Sydney Morning Herald]
Read more at Wonkette: http://www.wonkette.com/#ixzz0fkSBieHT
Read more at Wonkette: http://www.wonkette.com/#ixzz0fkSBieHT
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And Jesus Rode on Dinosaurs
by Angry Mouse
Fri Feb 19, 2010 at 06:06:03 AM PST
Nearly a third of Texans believe humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth at the same time, and more than half disagree with the theory that humans developed from earlier species of animals, according to the University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
And is anyone surprised to know that Republicans are more likely than Democrats to believe this crap? Extra fun fact: supporters of Kay Bailey Hutchison are even more likely to believe this crap.
Here are some other fun "facts" they believe:
- 38 percent agreed with the statement "God created human beings pretty much in their present form about 10,000 years ago."
- 22 percent said life has existed in its present form since the beginning of time
- 51 percent disagreed with the statement, "human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals."
- only 41 percent know that humans did not live at the same time as the dinosaurs
Maybe instead of rewriting textbooks to teach kids that Newt Gingrich was the most important man ever, Texas should focus on teaching kids that, as Lewis Black said, "The Flintstones" is not a documentary.
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Posted by Rack Jite in GOP ROT at 08:19 2 Comments
It is official, the P word has replaced the L word
Big Government (read taxes) is very very bad. Big Insurance and Big Pharma and Big Oil and Big Banks are very very good. Big Government Regulation (read taxes) is very very bad too. American Government (read taxes) is akin to Marxism, Stalinism, Communism, socialism, Hitlerism and Nazism (read taxes).
Last week a man flew a plane into a building in Austin, Texas because his entire life was spent hating the government (read taxes).
The Tea Party movement is based on the words DON'T TREAD ON ME (read taxes).
Breaking it down we find the only taxes that are supported pay for jails, prisons, executions, wars, bombs and of course waterboards. All those things primarily concern those suffering from a lack of whiteness.
Glenn Beck made it official at his CPAC presentation Saturday night. Demonizing the word "liberal" (tolerance) is over, now the great Satan is the word "progressive" (progress) which is a "cancer" and a "disease" destroying America.
No doubt tolerance and progress are the enemies of what we once called Right-wing conservatives, but these days there is no longer any difference between Right-wing conservatives and the Republican Party. Today's Republicans would never have garnered a single vote for Social Security, Medicare, MEDICADE!, civil rights, Workman's Comp, food stamps, Head Start or even public education for that matter.
Intolerance is beautiful and taxation is thievery.
Republicans understand that there are more than enough aging overweight white Hillbillies in America to sell that pile of crap to keep them in power forever.
As Frank Lund so well explains, for the dull of knife it isn't so much the issues as it is words and slogans which making emotional connections that win the politics of the day.
Last week a man flew a plane into a building in Austin, Texas because his entire life was spent hating the government (read taxes).
The Tea Party movement is based on the words DON'T TREAD ON ME (read taxes).
Breaking it down we find the only taxes that are supported pay for jails, prisons, executions, wars, bombs and of course waterboards. All those things primarily concern those suffering from a lack of whiteness.
Glenn Beck made it official at his CPAC presentation Saturday night. Demonizing the word "liberal" (tolerance) is over, now the great Satan is the word "progressive" (progress) which is a "cancer" and a "disease" destroying America.
No doubt tolerance and progress are the enemies of what we once called Right-wing conservatives, but these days there is no longer any difference between Right-wing conservatives and the Republican Party. Today's Republicans would never have garnered a single vote for Social Security, Medicare, MEDICADE!, civil rights, Workman's Comp, food stamps, Head Start or even public education for that matter.
Intolerance is beautiful and taxation is thievery.
Republicans understand that there are more than enough aging overweight white Hillbillies in America to sell that pile of crap to keep them in power forever.
As Frank Lund so well explains, for the dull of knife it isn't so much the issues as it is words and slogans which making emotional connections that win the politics of the day.
We are the least taxed 1st world nation on Earth.
The debt Obama is responsible for is NOTHING, less than 1%, compared to the debt accumulated by Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and the Republican caused Recession.
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You gotta hand it to the agents of the regressive right for playing the weakest imaginable hand so well.
I'm talking about the Lee Atwaters and Frank Luntzs of the world, who both understand human psychology (read fear) and are absolutely pitiless about employing it for purposes of assisting the rich and powerful in raping the rest of us.
If you can get past the absolute amoral viciousness of these sociopaths, you have to admire their handiwork at some level. (Oh, wait a minute: correction. Lee Atwater actually did apologize for some of his crimes against humanity. Of course, it was on his death bed.)
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Internet Access: Alabama Is At the Bottom Again!by: mooncatSun Feb 21, 2010 at 22:33:40 PM CST |
Another "Thank God for Mississippi" moment ... only this time we're essentially tied with our neighbor to the west for last place in internet access.
This doesn't just mean almost 40% of Alabamians can't read political blogs -- there are real economic consequences to limited internet access. From Where Jobs Come From: The Role of Innovation, Investment, and Infrastructure in Economic and Job Growth, emphasis mine:
Several studies have shown that fast, reliable broadband investment improves the operational efficiency of businesses, making it easier for them to reach new markets, grow their business, and hire additional employees. This is particularly important for small businesses or for businesses in small communities. High-speed Internet services are integral to any firm intent on processing large volume transactions efficiently. Already, many manufacturers require suppliers to be capable of exchanging orders electronically. Broadband access also enables small businesses to build websites that advertise their services in the fast, interactive, and reliable format consumers have come to expect visiting the large online retailer websites. In this way, it can be an important tool to help level the playing field between large and small businesses and between urban and rural communities.
This is the kind of infrastructure development that could have a real economic impact in rural Alabama. So far, the Stimulus is only funding a single broadband extension program in Alabama, a $3.9 million DSL expansion in western Alabama. It isn't clear if that's because applicants are being turned down or if not many communities are applying for the money. Either way, we're missing out on what should be a golden opportunity.
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“It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people”
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