this is tech news? The crazed rants just made me unsubscribe.

This, to someone, is a crazed rant? I thought this rather even-tempered. Practically sedate, given the issue. Thirty points? Nothin’. The ostrich-emulating antics of the general populace continually bring *me* to the brink of an aneurysm. The other one I never understand is why people keep buying into the “deregulation will bring down prices” mythology. Didn’t work for the banks in the 80’s - we had to bail them out. Didn’t work for airlines, planes were falling out of the skies in the 90’s. Didn’t work for cable television, rates skyrocketed. Didn’t work (in Connecticut, anyway) for electricity, ditto on the skyrocketing prices. Yet, every time you turn around, they parrot the same myth. Bush is the epitome of the Republican philosophy of governance: Keep repeating a lie even in the face of contrary evidence, and never let your own memory go back farther than yesterday’s Republican soundbite. Hecuvajob, Brownie!

‘gnome,

Will you get off the political rants and stick to tech. We hear enough of this crap from the MSM, cable, media, etc. I fear that you have been infected by the ‘left-coast liberal’ virus!

I bet the ones who are complaining are Republicans.

:)

Only true liars are the democrats. In their lies, they’ve convinced you America is a crap nation and that its citizens can’t think for themselves and always need a handout.

Just look at the retarded 1.5 Billion spent on free converter boxes.

The government intervening is the reason for high prices. Gasoline could be alot cheaper if we could drill our own oil. Health care would be alot cheaper if citizens know how much they were really paying when they went to doctor x or pharmacy y. And all that regulation on banks from the 80s sure worked well for the current subprime “crisis”? Didn’t it?

No more government handouts, they need out of the healthcare business, the oil business, the charity business and the retirement business and stick to laws and law enforcement period.

Martin Kruse, although I tend to vote Democrat, I can see some of the logic you put forth. Unfortunately, it is the Republicans that have lied to us for the past 28 years (yes, since Bonzo)

The problem with your assertions is that the Republicans are no better than the Dems, the difference is who the government handouts benefit.

The Dems want government to help the many, the Republicans the elite few.

Also, as Lewis Black is fond of saying, The Dems are the party of no ideas, the Reps are the party of bad ideas.

Think about all the unnecessary laws the Reps have put into effect in the last 28 years - and don’t fool yourself, the Reps have been in enough control, one way or another for that long. Even in the Clinton years, the good ideas had to be diluted to be palatable to the Republicans.

So because of that, I could see myself voting for Ron Paul, if I thought there was any chance in hell he could win. And yes, a short period of that type of ‘rule’ could be a good thing, beginning with the repeal of many stupid, unnecessary laws from the past 100 or so years.

Unfortunately, the Republicans (the ones in name, and in power) have simply shown that they are not the party of Lincoln, just a party that wishes to benefit themselves, at the cost of everything else.

And it is not delusional to say that, while life may be better here than elsewhere on Earth, it has gotten worse in the last 30 years - it is simple fact.

BTW, your comment about the DTV boxes shows that you know little about that fiasco - it was the Reps concession for the spectrum grab that that party was undertaking. DTV transition never needed to change the frequencies of transmission, that idea is a complete fallacy. Besides the changeover is part of the Deficit Reduction Bill of 2005. That reduction was necessary due to the fighting of an unprovoked war, by an idiot that never served a day in the ‘real’ military, and has been proven to have been absent from the duty he was gotten into by his father.

Thanks for the comment.

xonk, John Marshall - how tough is it to sidestep the things you don’t want to read about? If you avoid a site because you don’t like a few things there, you must cut down your reading quite a bit.