http://bitchslappin.net The Plog Politicians love to hate. Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:01:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en SmallBusinessNewz is reporting that Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez is pushing hard to get an amendment to the Small Business Act pushed through. This amendment would redefine what a "Small Business" is, and allow large businesses owned up to 49% by Venture Capital Firms to get funding from the Small Business Administration. ... http://bitchslappin.net/various-house-reps/small-business-funds-to-venture-capitalists I knew there was a reason I threw out my TV ten years ago. Yesterday I was over a friend's house and he had the news on, I'm not sure which network, but some talking heads were discussing how Obama is "off his game" and how Hillary still has a ... http://bitchslappin.net/the-fcc/mainstream-medias-trashing-of-the-presidential-primary Yeah, this burns my buns in a big way, especially since I chose Earthlink for my ISP BECAUSE they supported Net Neutrality. If I had another choice for an ISP right now other than Verizon, who is much worse, or RCN, who is a joke of major proportions, I'd be ... http://bitchslappin.net/various-idiots/earthlink-my-isp-violates-net-neutrality The opening video on the website "The Story of Stuff" is amazing. It encapsulates exactly what I've been yelling about since my college days, that our current economy is based upon a pipe dream, and is so totally UNSUSTAINABLE that our children will be eating, drinking, and breathing nothing but ... http://bitchslappin.net/politics-as-usual/the-story-of-stuff Gee, PA never rated this kind of pre-election attention before. And I hope we never do again. I gotta tell you, it's gotten so bad I had to turn my phone's ringer off. It's either that or block calls that come through as "Unavailable" on caller ID, if that's possible. This is ... http://bitchslappin.net/presidential-candidates/hillary-stop-the-phone-robots The major media attention being paid to the videotaped beating of Victoria Lindsay is, as usual, putting a lot of attention on YouTube and MySpace. From a recent NY Times article on the prosecution of the 8 kids who were indicted in the beating: “For whatever reason, this MySpace, my-you, this YouTube ... http://bitchslappin.net/big-media/bullying-is-youtube-or-myspace-to-blame Night before last I was reading through the comments on Slashdot on the Report about the Bakken Formation, and how it's now economically feasible to extract oil from it and opening up drilling there would increase the US oil reserve tenfold. One comment on that post has stuck in my ... http://bitchslappin.net/king-bush/sustainability-and-the-oil-economy The Huffington Post has a clip of something Andrew Sullivan said on the Chris Matthew's Show-- that the Torture Memo from John Yoo "...means that Don Rumsfeld, David Addington and John Yoo should not leave the United States any time soon. They will be, at some point, indicted for war ... http://bitchslappin.net/king-bush/war-crimes-indictments-imminent The only Big Media outlet giving the Torture Memo any play is the New York Times, which is the BEST argument going for not letting Wall Street into their Boardroom. Wall Street has benefitted ridiculously from Bush and Company's wholesale deregulation and resultant bailout after the predictable meltdown it caused, ... http://bitchslappin.net/king-bush/mainstream-media-ignores-torture-memo Yesterday I wrote about the Gigantic Guaranteed Loan that the USDA had given out to a company named Open Range Communications to string Wimax across Rural America, including my current home state of PA. Turns out that the head of the company, whose name is William S. Beans Jr, was ... http://bitchslappin.net/the-telecomm-goliaths/usdas-lending-program-sure-needs-an-overhaul