Last week the President of Pakistan Zardari signed into law new Cyber-Terror law making Cyber Terror a crime punishable by death, I wonder if they consider spamming Cyber Terror….

Nearly a week after the election, the Washington post have come clean that their coverage was tilted towards President Elect Obama. Now they are only talking raw numbers, and not the actual slant of the articles written. 

You have to go here to see how those stories were slated negatively against McCain, something like 57% negative to 14% positive, where Obama numbers were 29% negative and 36% positive.

The other thing I thought was interesting is that it seems that the Washington Post doesn’t think they are a left leaning newspaper, which is about as stupid as believing that Fox News is “Fair and Balanced” 

I guess that is the Washington Post’s new tag line could be “Fair and Balanced about Obama”

So, a US Government study chastizes the Iraqi government for moving too slow and making too little progress. Hmm, let’s see. How can I refactor this scenario into an analogy that folk in America could relate to?

Let’s say China invaded your home town and destroyed the water treatment plant, most of the schools, most of the grocery stores, and a significant percentage of roads, bridges, hospitals, telecommunication lines, sewage systems and houses. Ok, then they swarm in with tanks, trucks and troops and stand on every corner all day, every day. Now, they ask YOU to stand up a government and get the infrastructure back in place and instill not only ORDER but a sense of continuity of community, and oh yeah, have it all done and back to “normal” by 90 days? Oh yeah, the word “normal” is from THEIR dictionary, not yours.

Yep. Pretty much it.

Ok, so I over simplify. Granted most of the rebuilding is being done by US or western personnel. That’s mostly because (a) Iraqi skilled labor has either been killed or fled to another country, (b) the Iraqi’s don’t have any capital to support rebuilding, nor the equipment and raw materials, and (c) Iraqi’s are afraid that by going to construction sites, they’ll be targeted by terrorists as American allies and either killed or tortured and killed or just killed and killed again.

Any way you cut it, we invaded and messed up a lot of things and created a bees nest of problems. Now we’re angry at THEM for not having it all cleaned up and back in order on OUR terms. Yeah, that’s logical. Before this is “over” (if it will ever be), we’ll be pissing off the few that like us to the point where EVERYONE over there is against us. Pointing fingers at them in anger is not the way to smooth things out and make it all better. It ain’t going to help at all.

My 2 cents.

That’s right. You heard it here first! If you don’t believe me: Check out this article, and then this article.

Well, it looks like the courts don’t see any need to keep the CRB and SoundExchange in line with reality. This article spells it out pretty clear. By this time next year, most net radio “stations” will be broadcast from outside the US. Stupid. The revenue potential (advertising) being ignored is dumbfounding. I can’t find one person that thinks this is a good move. Oh well. We’ll get to listen to more net radio from Pakistan and Korea, chock full of anti-American ads.