Comments on: The making of a poll bump — of sorts

by: Larkrise

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 07:37:22 +0000

CBS reports that Bush’s approval rating remains the same, at 33%. I looked at the AOL poll today (6/12/06) and the majority did not feel that Zarqawi’s death would make any difference. The majority continue to believe the War in Iraq is not worth the cost. AOL’s poll is not random, so it is not scientific. However, it is interesting to note that in the past, it has skewed to the right. Go to AOL Daily Pulse to see the numbers. It is getting more difficult to wear those rose-colored glasses.

by: Again

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:25:47 +0000

(Washington Post) Military Plays Up Role of Zarqawi, via BuzzFlash

working propaganda means to control the paths of information - that’s why they IGNORE any kind of democracy in the rush for the control over the net: House Turns Deaf Ear To Net Neutrality

“Despite the flurry of phone calls, emails, videos and pleas from a wide base of passionate pro-Net Neutrality constituents, representing hundreds of thousands of people from all political persuasions and hundreds of consumer groups, the House of Representatives crushed an amendment to safeguard an equal opportunity Internet….

Think MoveOn and the Christian Coalition. Think the American Civil Liberties Union and the Gun Owners of America. Think Parents Television Council and the National Coalition Against Censorship. Add their support to the very founders of the medium as Vinton Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee stand beside unlikely cohorts Moby and Alyssa Milano….

…the US House of Representatives ignored it by siding with telecommunications and cable duopolistic entities. The ears of a dinosaur are difficult to reach, but his carrion is easy enough to see - it leaves droplets of green behind it…

Whether the issue is antitrust, freedom of speech, democracy, or the influence of PAC money in Congress, many feel that the House has no true understanding of Net Neutrality - which is gentler, a salve for audacious wounds, than thinking it does understand and ignored it anyway.” (emphasis mine)

reminds me of Mussolini: “Fascism is the merger of state and corporate power”.

by: RJHall

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 07:16:52 +0000

You know what makes the ULTIMATE long-lasting poll bump? Being assassinated. After all, it worked for JFK, right? Heck, it even made Julius Caesar’s name the word for “great leader” in several languages for thousands of years!

I have long been afraid that if Prexy got killed, by terrorists or something, he’d go down in the history books forever as a great president who was slain before his time by his enemies. Lately the following thought has occurred to me: what if Emperor Palpatine (Dick Cheney) decided, in the final days of 2008 or early days of 2009, to stage (or allow) a terrorist attack or assassination that led to Prexy’s untimely demise? Prexy’s name and reputation would get the ultimate poll bounce, and Palpatine would solemnly declare that in these tragic times he was unfortunately forced against his will to disregard the election and carry on in Prexy’s name until the war on these terrorists was won.

I sure HOPE that nothing like that happens, but if only I could be sure….