Yes.

It’s Friday, a day for me to do my normal non-political diary.

This time though it is confessional and not one of a humorous nature.

It is a confession.

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 I was wondering how HR 5353 (Internet Freedom Preservation Act) is doing? The bill introduced by Congressman Edward Markey that would

assure consumers, content providers, and high tech innovators that the historic, open architecture nature of the Internet will be preserved and fostered.  H.R. 5353 is designed to assess and promote Internet freedom for consumers and content providers.  Internet freedom generally embodies the notion that consumers and content providers should be free to send, receive, access and use the lawful applications, content, and services of their choice on broadband networks, possess the effective right to attach and use non-harmful devices to use in conjunction with their broadband services, and that content providers not be subjected to unreasonably discriminatory practices by broadband network providers

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This important piece of legislation has only 14 co-sponsors? The congress bent over backwards for the telecom companies on FISA, will the congress bend over backwards for net neutrality?

I don't often write diaries as I usually don't have much to say beyond snarky comments and simple observations. This is another observation but one that stung me enough to write about it on my own blog but I figured I'd share it here and give an opportunity for others to share their thoughts or discuss similar situations where they've seen this happen.

I was pleased to see that John McCain will soon be able to use the "Internets" without the aid of his wife. The man who wants to be the leader of the free world will in no time have the ability to use the same technology already mastered by my 10 year old nephew and my 74 year old mother. After all, Senator McCain did graduate from the top 99.44% of his class at Annapolis (894/895). And while he already knows that you can accomplish vetting of VP candidates with "a Google", I wonder if he has yet to Google himself? Let's see what he would get if he Googled himself right now and see if there's anything there on the first page that might ignite that famous temper of his...

It was just over a week ago we learned that John McCain didn't know to how to use a computer:

I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself.

And now, in phrasing usually reserved for describing a toddler's ability to use the bathroom, a McCain spokesman says:

He's fully capable of browsing the Internet and checking Web sites.

I hope someone gave him a cookie.

Seeing as it's Friday, time for some of that science shenanigans.

Earlier in the week, the McCain campaign announced that it had someone develop a little application that could monitor a website and show you the changes that had been made. And in doing so, were trying to show Obama for a flip-flopper because of these changes.

The politicos' mutual stalking has reached unprecedented new levels this year: At least one side has started to spider the other's campaign website to track that campaign pages' precise word changes up to an hourly basis.

Sorry if you missed it as a news item: all the geeks were "oh wow" about it on Wednesday, but by Thursday they were all waiting for 'The Dark Knight' to open and they wanted to be first in line.

There's just one problem for McCain with this.

Balls.

More, below the fold.

Sean Tevis was sick and tired of his state legislature representative in Kansas, an anti-evolution, anti-abortion, anti-gay, pro-surveillance nutjob named Arlen Siegfreid (tell me THAT name doesn't sound evil). So Sean put his name where his mouth was and decided to run against the guy. And he needs your help.

Senator McCain:

It has come to my attention that you are trying to familiarize yourself with the Internet... and yes, the noun is singular in case you've been listening to George.

I would like to offer to you a few helpful suggestions which will make your internet 'watching' experience more productive and less dangerous.

Follow, if you may, after the fold.

Since the initial poll I took from my first diary of these same or similar purpose.   I scoured the net to bring to the forefront interestin perspectives of our world. - Politics or otherwise.

I will add another poll and I will continue to create these diaries as long as there is a demand for it.

You mean McCain walks softly? "Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran" McCain? No.

Oh, maybe McCain believes in busting up monopolistic corporations that hinder competition? No.

Oh, maybe he's for universal health care? No.

I know he'll step in and help negotiate peace between waring nations? No.

McCain’s Conservative Model? Roosevelt (Theodore, That Is)

"I count myself as a conservative Republican, yet I view it to a large degree in the Theodore Roosevelt mold," Mr. McCain said, referring to Roosevelt’s reputation for reform, environmentalism and tough foreign policy.

Not sure what he means by mold. Maybe he's thinking as President he'll be moldy? And by moldy I mean old. In fact there are almost as many years between McCain's birth and Obama's birth as there are between McCain's birth and Teddy's Presidency.

There's always room for a new 3AM spoof, right?

This time, the nation's security is put at risk because John McCain doesn't know how to read his email:

Links: YouTube | jedreport.com

I've had an occasional post that implied that McCain was really living in the past (eg, McCain's New Summer of Love Ad) but today's NY Times story really makes it quite explicit

• McCain is learning how to get online and will have it down soon (when its so trivial)!
 
• McCain doesn't do email cause there's no need?

Can you imagine this person might be President of the US in 2009?  And how truly scary that would be?

{UPDATE: A Jedreport video does a great job showing how scary it could be!}

This place down here in the tubes has entered into the fringes of John McCain's sluggish thoughts, back behind the economy, birth control, condoms, offshore oil exploitation, and all of the other troublesome, hazy thoughts in his brain.  John McCain:  "Don't make me think.  I get confused when I think."  He promises he will learn how to get online soon. right after he finds the computer.  It's the rectangular box with the monitor attached to it, guy...

Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright got arrested in Shreveport, Louisiana.  In an interpretive reenactment of Bush's early days, they apparently got into a bar fight.  "How you Hollywood fellers like that Caddo Parish jail?  Don't drink the water, even if you is thirsty."  By the way, if you come to Louisiana, be careful which bar you go to.  

More entertainment after the flip.

Pitiful:

I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself.

How long should it take to "learn" to get online?  It's one point and a click. Next up, John McCain tackles "the google."

And the truly sad thing is, those are his words, as shared in an interview with the New York Times:

One of the newly posted talks to the TED website this week is one by Clay Shirky, author of here comes everybody. In it Mr. Shirky discusses the impact of how we organize ourselves and our efforts and the way that is effected by the fact that the internet drops the cost of communication to virtually nil. What's fascinating about this talk is that he discusses the subject matter in a kind of ideologically agnostic way that makes it clear how many debates this phenomena pops up in. He only explicitly discusses three: photography, journalism/blogging, and software development, but he makes clear that he believes that the impact will be of similar magnitude to the invention of the printing press.

Follow me over the fold for the embedded version of the talk, a little background on TED, and my own commentary on the talk.

I know I have been criticized for not writing enough in some of my previous diaries.  But one of my hobbies is to find the interestring videos I find on the internet.. It is much more entertaining and informative than TV (Obviously)

Cross-posted at Bobgiloth.com.

"There are times in almost every sector that forces of change come together to fundamentally disrupt the way the sector works...The philanthropic sector is on the brink of its own strategic inflection point...21st-century philanthropy can do [what] 20-century philanthropy could not do: underwrite social change on a wholesale basis."

Ben Hecht, Wholesaling Social Change: Philanthopy's Strategic Inflection Point, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, March, 2008