Internet
The people who love the wildness of the internet won a major battle this week, forcing legislators to rethink their approach to protecting the piracy of music and movies. The power of the internet was demonstrated to these legislators when Wikipedia and Google, just to name two, shut down their sites in protest. The resulting response from internet users was bipartisan and swift, as was the official reaction. This story isn’t over. Megaupload, a site that allows customers to store videos and photos in the clouds was shut down in an international criminal investigation. See the story linked below.
GOP Primary Race
There were about a billion more GOP debates, none of which I watched. I’m glad the Democrats have a sane candidate to run for President. Those in the GOP primaries are all loony tunes material.
There is Romney, who was the front runner until a day or two ago. But this week he learned that he didn’t really win the Iowa Caucus, that people don’t like candidates who abuse dogs, and that during times of high unemployment it isn’t a good thing to mention that $300,000 in income, ten times the average annual income of voters in the primary state, is a small percentage of your total annual income.
Newt got to play the race card and yell at the elitist media when they dared to question his character. Even though he isn’t holier than thou he got to sound like he was, and now a Southern state that still flies the Confederate Flag is poised to anoint him as the winner in their primary.
Perry the Barracuda dropped out of the race when it became apparent that he couldn’t effectively run with his foot in his mouth. In one final move, he threw all six of his supporters into the waiting arms of his previous rival.
After former drop-out Herman Cain resurfaced as a white man with a show on the Comedy network , my guy, Huntsman, dropped out. Presumably he didn’t want to have results showing him losing to a joke.
Women’s Rights
Women won a round when Kathleen Sibelius announced that religious groups couldn’t discriminate against women who want to practice birth control.
Homework
Megaupload Shut Down
Bloomberg Discusses All the Fun in South Carolina
Framing Discrimination as Religious Freedom
The people who love the wildness of the internet won a major battle this week, forcing legislators to rethink their approach to protecting the piracy of music and movies. The power of the internet was demonstrated to these legislators when Wikipedia and Google, just to name two, shut down their sites in protest. The resulting response from internet users was bipartisan and swift, as was the official reaction. This story isn’t over. Megaupload, a site that allows customers to store videos and photos in the clouds was shut down in an international criminal investigation. See the story linked below.
GOP Primary Race
There were about a billion more GOP debates, none of which I watched. I’m glad the Democrats have a sane candidate to run for President. Those in the GOP primaries are all loony tunes material.
There is Romney, who was the front runner until a day or two ago. But this week he learned that he didn’t really win the Iowa Caucus, that people don’t like candidates who abuse dogs, and that during times of high unemployment it isn’t a good thing to mention that $300,000 in income, ten times the average annual income of voters in the primary state, is a small percentage of your total annual income.
Newt got to play the race card and yell at the elitist media when they dared to question his character. Even though he isn’t holier than thou he got to sound like he was, and now a Southern state that still flies the Confederate Flag is poised to anoint him as the winner in their primary.
Perry the Barracuda dropped out of the race when it became apparent that he couldn’t effectively run with his foot in his mouth. In one final move, he threw all six of his supporters into the waiting arms of his previous rival.
After former drop-out Herman Cain resurfaced as a white man with a show on the Comedy network , my guy, Huntsman, dropped out. Presumably he didn’t want to have results showing him losing to a joke.
Women’s Rights
Women won a round when Kathleen Sibelius announced that religious groups couldn’t discriminate against women who want to practice birth control.
Homework
Megaupload Shut Down
Bloomberg Discusses All the Fun in South Carolina
Framing Discrimination as Religious Freedom
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