Comcast, call the waaaaaaaaambulance.

‘allo?

An Corporate Crony Oligarchy. One where the insolent serfs simply do not get to question authority. That’s what they are pushing for.

My experiance with Telecom’s is that they are all corrupt. Perhaps Time-Warner worst of all.

I would disagree. I’ve lived all over the country and had to deal with most all of the big cable companies and telecoms both. I put Comcast at the top of the list of semi-corrupt cable companies but HAVE to place AT&T at the very top of the list of corrupt telecoms.

heh. I had Comcast once - for about a week. They didn’t even offer The Comedy Channel in that area - deal-breaker. I told ‘em I’d been promised basic cable and they hadn’t delivered - had a dish up the same week.

Corrupt - *and* incompetent. I wonder if they provide service to the White House. Perfect fit….

Gotta luv Noah and the guys at Wired. Been waiting for a thread to be on topic on with this

Comcast Is Hiring an Internet Snoop for the Feds

Wanna tap e-mail, voice and Web traffic for the government? Well, here’s your chance. Comcast, the country’s second-largest Internet provider, is looking for an engineer to handle “reconnaissance” and “analysis” of “subscriber intelligence” for the company’s “National Security Operations.”

Day-to-day tasks, the company says in an online job listing, will include “deploy[ing], installing] and remov[ing] strategic and tactical data intercept equipment on a nationwide basis to meet Comcast and Government lawful intercept needs.” The person in this “intercept engineering” position will help collect and process traffic on the company’s “CDV [Comcast Digital Voice], HSI [High Speed Internet] and Video” services.

More … http://blog.wired.com/defense/.....nts-d.html

Hmmm….

Writing to a media outlet might be much like pi**ing up a rope.

Comcast is counting on BlueAmerica being a low budget operation, unable to afford a lawyer or willing to put up the money to fight this. If we challenge them, they may well fold.

Boxturtle (Do we start a legal attack fund?)

It’s not the culpability of “Comcast” themselves, but the myriad different names of the little corpses within their big dead corpse that might be responsible and they may just get to blame some entity other than Comcast, the parent, thus protecting themselves, the culpable.
Give them time, it is a lot of bullshit they have to wade through to get to what they want to tell everyone is the “truth”

Comcast Rejects FISA Ads Critical of Comcast

Now that is COMCASTIC!

We used to be stuck with Comcast when we lived downtown in an apartment. The service would be out for hours if it rained anywhere within 50 miles, and the channel selection sucked. Bought the house, got DirecTV and now we’re happy campers. And don’t START me on AT&T…

In his post yesterday, Glenn shared with us the email address of the person at Comcast he was dealing with (Kathryn_Koles@cable.comcast.com). Here is the email I sent her, with the subject line “Thank you for stretching our advertising dollars”:

Dear Ms. Koles,

Thank you so much for throwing ridiculous barriers in front of the Blue America advertising campaign pointing out Representative Chris Carney’s failure to support the US Constitution in his position on new versions of the FISA bill. This obvious attempt to cover up previous illegal behavior by Comcast through erecting petty barriers to carrying the ads only helps to shed more light on the issues involved. Your behavior is very likely to take what would have been a local issue in one Congressional district and add considerable fuel to the FISA debate in general. Prominent media figures such as Keith Olbermann at MSNBC and Dan Froomkin at the Washington Post routinely monitor Glenn Greenwald’s blog, so it now is only a matter of time before our small ad campaign gets free national exposure.

Sincerely,

Jim White
Gainesville, FL

NOTICE: Due to Presidential Executive Orders, and with the assistance of your employer, Comcast, the NSA may have read this email without warning, warrant, or notice. They may do this without any judicial or legislative oversight. You have no recourse nor protection save to call for the impeachment of the current President.

No reply from her yet.

i had to drop charter because of their fuckery (more here, here and here) is there no decent company to do business with?

And here I was considering switching my cable service to Comcast. Guess I’ll call them tomorrow and explain exactly why I can’t do that now.

My vote for the most vile telecom is Verizon, they owe me three months of my life and at least 438 dollars.

That is a very nice letter Jim, love the notice at the end.

Ah, another chance for the one word answer man:

No.

Wait a minute …

Comcast’s legal counsel, David Silverman of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP in Washington DC, wrote an email late last week (here) claiming — laughably — that Comcast has decided to reject the ad because it “would face potential liability for any defamation contained in the spot.”

Did they run any Swiftboat ads in 2004?

If they did, why was that, not defamation?

(bows) Konnichiwa, selise and Elliott

(bows) Konnichiwa, SouthernDragon

GGGOOOOOOooooo!!!!! Blue America! Way to call’em out!

I think if we make it part of the presidential campaign they might be liable if they refuse the add

Geez, did ICE round everybody up?

(bows) Konnichiwa, SouthernDragon

(bows) Konnichiwa, SouthernDragon

Thanks Jane.

digg

claiming — laughably — that Comcast has decided to reject the ad because it “would face potential liability for any defamation contained in the spot.” (my bold).

Defamation my ass. Retroactive immunity hasn’t been passed - yet. *That’s* the lawsuits they’re afraid of…

i don’t know… maybe outside enjoying the day? our heat wave is finally thinking about leaving. and in a few minutes i’m going to take advantage of the less than miserably hot outdoors. (it’s been hotter here in MA, than in central FL).

I have to sign off for a while, we’re about to get smacked by a storm; but wanted to note, it’s my understanding that our man Dennis will be continuing his Impeachmenting at 7

later…

Server burp.

It’s hotter than usual for this time of year but I keep hearing about a heat wave along the east coast. Gettin’ me a nice tan, though. Gotta look gooooood in that tux on Sat.

thank you! missed last night - will try to catch a bit later tonight.

IOKIYAD? *

* It’s OK If You Attack Democrats?

Yeppur. I’ll bet they’d take an ad slamming Obama in a New York heartbeat.

i have a good friend in central FL and we’ve been comparing temps these last few days.

… i’ve lived in dallas, so this ought to be easy since it never even hit 100. but in dallas i had central air everywhere. the last few days have seriously sucked here. but we’re expecting some t-storms and a “cold” front tonight and then we’ll be back to normal temps with highs in the mid ’80s. phew.

I got it too

I haven’t had cable in years. Anybody know the difference in price between cable and a dish, the monthly fee, not the cost of the hardware?

wonderful.

thank you Dennis– last nite was spectacular.

I’m beginning to like the old servers. This present setup seems to have snakes in it.

LOL!!!

I apologize, OT, but this is an interesting development. A tripartisan group of big players has established a concerted effort to prevent Bushco from attacking Iran:

http://www.newiranpolicy.org/452/473.html

Don’t know about anywhere else, but here in Savannah the monthly cost for basic service plus local channels is about the same, with DirecTV having more and better channels than Comcast. (DirecTV has BBC America, for example.)

Funny, no burps here…

depends on what kind of deals you can get. check the websites for specials. i got a special with charter that was only $5.99/month for local and c-span. really hated to give that up.

Probably this has already been mentioned, but just in case:

E.D. Hill loses her Fox News show after ‘terrorist fist jab’ remark

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/.....ab-remark/

I’m surprised Comcast isn’t using the “executive privilege” defense on this. Huh. /angry snark

Snakes on a blog!!

OT but has anyone heard anything about the McCain camp already beginning to use push polling? I’m sure the Repukes want to define Obama and in critical states early push polls just might do that.

Their “partners” are a pretty diverse bunch of folks. The Rethugs are so f***ed.

As opposed to trolls. I like snakes better.

oh my.

(spew!)

Like Marion said, I think the prices are about the same. I really liked my dish (have cable now - apartment living…) but when it would rain hard - no teevee.

Either way, be sure you get a DVR (which the dishes I’ve had always threw in for next to nothing - maybe $6/month extra…)

Let’s hope cooler heads prevail. And that there are still some Generals left that have not spoken out and gotten fired who have been lying low and will not let this happen.

but when it would rain hard - no teevee.

That hasn’t been our experience. The longest I recall ever having the signal go out was maybe 15 minutes during one of the fiercest thunderstorms I’ve ever seen. We’ve got infinitely better and more reliable service with the dish than we did with the cable.

oh my.

yeah - I’m perplexed. I mean, does anyone really thinks she was hired for her smarts? She still ‘looks’ the same, so she’s held up her end of the deal…

Har!

YESSSSSSS!!!
KO showed that clip last night. Guess there’s some level of utter idocy that they deem unacceptable. Who knew?!

FunnyD

Saw that earlier. Now the folks who watch Faux News are going to be treated to the right wing version of musical chairs while their ratings sink into the swamp they created. Hopefully it won’t be too long before they’re waist deep in alligators and cottonmouths. Couldn’t happen to a nice bunch of people.

it was only for a minute, if you were reading for that minute you didn’t get the belch

I wonder if I wasn’t living farther away from the nearest tower. I was really living in the boondocks back then…

If you haven’t already- please DIGG this, and also DIGG Howie’s post (which is SCREAMIN’!) HERE

“tripartisant”

hmmm…checks to find third party referance

Oh, I wasn’t thinking about going back to that wasteland. I was just curious because I see people talking about the different setups they have. I turned in my “box” years ago because TV was all trash all the time. I’ve got better ways to spend what little dough I have. I can get all the important stuff on the intertoobz with little or no effort.

Makes my stomach turn. Howie Carr (right winger out of Boston) kept saying on his radio program, “…and he hangs out with terrorists…how can anyone trust him?!!!!”, when referring to Barack Obama.

I feel so special that I got to experience that.

http://www.nysun.com/national/.....ran/79667/

OT ABC had another story about high crude oil prices without mentioning the pre-eminent role of hedge fund speculation in them. NBC *gasp* did have a story that talked about speculation and even had Michael Greenberger who testified recently along with George Soros about this before the Senate Energy Committee. selise has the audio of it if you are interested. But they also had a dumbass individual speculator giving the same old spiel about we don’t move markets we just tag along. Something that was true before the subprime bubble burst and moved all this speculative money and interest from housing to commodities. Now it is BS and we see it every day.

and he hangs out with terrorists…

well, he *was* spotted in an intense conversation with war-pimp Joe Lieberman…

lol, after ‘08 if u ain’t already terrorist you’ll be a red.

Guess he’ll have to divorce Michelle since she does the terrorist fist bump.

Better red than dead.

LS… what a smart and wise coalition. Will check it out further.

Bush is getting ignored by people who hate him in Europe. His lame duckness.. but we can’t afford to do that. A sociopath-narcissist not getting his fix of attention whether negative or positive and that goes for the puppet master Cheney…. leads to dangerous possibilities with Iran.

I’ve heard what I consider to be some pretty smart people say that about $50/bbl is directly attributable to speculation - do you agree?

maybe in the ol’soviet merika, lol

Maybe he will just stamp his feet, turn blue and cry. Let’s hope.

Shouldn’t that be war-pimple Joe Lieberman?

I didn’t even like Obama that much but the pugs are making him look better and better.

From your link, LS. But I can’t find the presser on CSPAN.

The campaign to push for direct talks with Iran’s mullahs is kicking off with a press conference this morning on Capitol Hill expected to feature the Libertarian nominee for president, Robert Barr, as well as several members of Congress, including Reps. Keith Ellison of Minnesota and Barbara Lee of California, both Democrats, and Rep. Ron Paul, who mounted a bid for this year’s Republican presidential nomination. Brandishing red telephones supposed to symbolize a hotline to Tehran, the group will urge supporters to call Congress and press for talks.

I like the red phone angle!

I think a lot of people would agree with you. Most Americans do have limits.

Everything above $50bbl is pure speculation. Even the oil companies said that. It all goes back to Phil Gramm’s Enron loophole slipped into a spending bill in the middle of the night in 2000 that took away regulations on contracts. The law used to be that all contracts were regulated which kept speculation in check….until he snuck the change in and now each and every contract must be proven wrong…which is impossible due to the number of contracts…and the lack of staff. That is how I understand it, but…I’m no economist..

Rachel Maddow just said that Exxon’s profits have QUINTUPLED since Bush in office. almost $41 billion last year. Dems were filibustered by Reps today in Congress… because don’t want to fret the oil companies… just DRILLING is where it is at, that is their office. God, the cronyism is so in your face and at the gas pump.

Yeah, well somebody must have kept it hushed up, because the “call in” was today, and I never heard about it until this evening..They have other events coming up.

I have no TV right now. Is Kucinich getting attention at all?

I used to be excessively generous about the base price of oil saying that tops it should be about $80. The truth is it should probably be trading between $60-65/bbl. So its more like about $65-70/bbl of today’s price is due to speculation.

Diane Watson is up, I think Dennis will be up in another 10 or 15 minutes, but I logged on to CSPAN just as he was stepping down and she was stepping up.

Oh gawd, they’re everywhere. Save us all from the scary tearrist fist bump (dap)

They’ve even gotten to Shrub Sr.

http://www.imperfectunion.com/?p=177

Ohhh, the humanity /s

Oh, you must mean elsewhere… no, but I’m hoping KO will cover it. We shall see.

CNN’s McCaffrey had a little on it with email readbacks…

Thanks. I got distressed so few of my network heard anything about Dennis yesterday. Got Wexler’s email. He is pushing hard!

Oil companies that own reserves and oil producing countries are definitely making out like bandits but though they benefit from the high prices they are not the ones driving the speculation. As I have said before the great irony in all this is that the money that speculators are using to make their bets is coming from the liquidity that the Fed and central banks around the world pumped into financial markets to “stabilize” them. So we are essentially being screwed by our own money.

LOL

Missed that, glad to hear it!

You mean like the Bear Stearns bail out? What should have been done?

So is the pay off on those bets higher than what they’re putting in their tanks?

EW is upstairs.

“…would face potential liability for any defamation contained in the spot.”

Sorry, Comcrap. Wrong word choice. You meant definition of character, not defamation…

BC

LMAO! Oh that’s right! I forgot about that. ;-)

Exactly! All terrorists wear red and look very good in red I may add. Spit.

Might anyone here buy Comcast stock (not in street name) and file a class-action shareholder lawsuit for declining legitimate revenue from the ads?

Bah hahahahahaha!

Oh gawd. Here’s the scariest photo ever of two terrorists getting ready to kiss…

http://static.flickr.com/4/5700766_a362cfe730.jpg

My eyes! My eyes! *bleaching eyeballs*

Gag! Thanks for the nightmares, Kay. *g*

You’re welcome, Wangdangdoodle! LOL

Now you didn’t have to do that. It’s almost dinner time and you throw that in. Shame :)

Sorry to be slow in answering but I am fixing my dinner and eating it. I would repeal the repeal of Glass-Steagall so that investment banks could not use their regular commercial banking reserves as collateral in their investment loans and leveraging. I would increase the amount of those minimum reserves so that they would have less to play with. As for the futures markets, I would increase the margins from 5-7% to 30-50% and bring US commodities traded in US markets fully under US regulation. There are a lot of other things like increasing the capital gains tax but that is for another time.

It certainly is gag worthy and I often wonder why the right wingers don’t talk about these terrorists hanging out with each other. Interesting…

…oh…but they’ll throw out crap like, “…and he hangs out with terrorists!” when speaking of Barack Obama hoping this crap will stick to the wall! Spit.

;-)

didn’t we see this scene in Blazing Saddles ???

“nobody move, or the telecom gets it”

it was funny in a movie …

it’s just SAD in a commercial operation

You funny.

Love that mobie, btw.

this is very similar to the way I got involved in the class action suit against ATT(sbc }.I started looking around for anyone that wasn’t tapping the circuits and failed.I was so pissed off.I finally ran into this add in opposition to these telcos and conacted them and one thing led to another.I thought I was going to be a john doe but noooooo,they gave me top billing so i’m sure they got my number to say the least.Fuck these fascists

I’ve used ATT(SBC) for years. How can I become a plaintiff to that lawsuit?

Fuck these fascists and good for you! thank you!

First you have to have all your receipts at about the time of yhe att sbc merger so they can decide if you were part of a group that fits into the time frame of the suit.Then I could give you the names of the firms that are handleing it.They’ve changed the reps and now eff is handleing it.They haven,t contacted me in quite a while and the times I did talk to them they were very impressed at how informed I was. Mainly because of EW, greenwald,and fdl posts.

Eli upstairs!
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Thank you. Hard for me to wrap my mind around, but that helps.