Action expected today from the Federal Communications Commission will determine the winners and losers in a months-long lobbying battle between traditional wireless providers and companies seeking to break into the market, including Frontline Wireless and Google.
Google and Frontline want the FCC to require that the winner of the spectrum auction build networks that are available to a variety of handheld devices and that allow consumers to access content without restriction. They argue that new competitors will result in better service and lower prices for consumers.
Google and Frontline also want the FCC to require the winner of the spectrum auction to be limited to selling it on a wholesale basis at “reasonably nondiscriminatory commercial terms.” This would prohibit whichever company won the auction from selling space on new networks to individual consumers and allow smaller carriers to buy bite-sized pieces of the wireless market.
“Given the difficulty of discussing classified matters in public, I think it is preferable to have a letter addressing that question [of Gonzales’ veracity] from the administration … by noon tomorrow(Tuesday), which will be made available to the news media,” Specter wrote in the statement. “The administration has committed to producing such a letter.”
Specter expects the letter clarifying the attorney general’s testimony to be addressed to himself and Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), who declined to comment on the matter.
Specter was equally cagey, telling reporters to wait until Tuesday for any further comment from him.
“They say nothing about the permanent U.S. military bases the Pentagon has built in Iraq, including the massive Balad Air Base, which is bigger than Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, and the largest U.S. embassy on earth, which is roughly the same size as the Vatican; nor the fact that the CIA station in Baghdad is the biggest one the United States has had anywhere in the world since the CIA’s station in Saigon during the Vietnam War.”
Joe Palermo replies to Michael O’Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack’s vague meaningless tripe on the Iraqi occupation…
My reply to them? Ya just might pull a pink rabbit out yer ass too, but I’m thinking whose gonna clean up the pink rabbit shit if you do???
The News Corporation appeared tantalizingly close to winning the support of enough members of the Bancroft family to succeed in its bid to acquire Dow Jones & Company last night, but not close enough to conclusively claim victory.
Family members and trusts representing more than 30 percent of the shareholder vote — enough to put the deal over the top — indicated to their lawyers that they would support the bid, but some of them had not yet delivered signed commitments and could still back away, according to people briefed on the matter, who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to discuss it.
The Denver faction, controlling 9 percent of the shareholder vote, is crucial to the deal — it is the only large bloc that wants to sell, but has been holding out for a higher price. If it can be won over, that would almost certainly give Mr. Murdoch enough confidence that he has a majority to proceed with a shareholder vote.
The Denver trusts and several others have suggested that by having the company pay the family’s fees and expenses, they would effectively receive a differential price.
We could all be long dead before the lawsuits in this one are done…
It’s not a permanent military base, it’s the middle of the desert municipal airport. Just in case Disney wants to build Disney Iraq. Great place for a water park, if there was water. Of course Sandstorm is a cool name for a rolleycoaster…
“The latest Washington Post-ABC News survey shows that 65 percent of Americans disapprove of Bush’s job performance, matching his all-time low. In polls conducted by The Post or Gallup going back to 1938, only once has a president exceeded that level of public animosity — and that was Richard M. Nixon, who hit 66 percent four days before he resigned.
“The historic depth of Bush’s public standing has whipsawed his White House, sapped his clout, drained his advisers, encouraged his enemies and jeopardized his legacy. Around the White House, aides make gallows-humor jokes about how they can alienate their remaining supporters — at least those aides not heading for the door. Outside the White House, many former aides privately express anger and bitterness at their erstwhile colleagues, Bush and the fate of his presidency.”
“He seemed like a nice guy, kept to himself allot…”
An aide to former Gov. Mitt Romney who was linked to the campaign’s alleged use of phony badges has created personal Internet pages where he boasts that he’s a top secret “special ops” employee who toils in the “underbelly of politics.”
Will Ritter, who helps plan Romney’s presidential campaign events, included the bizarre, Jason-Bournesque job description on Internet networking pages that also contain boisterous pictures of him hoisting a champagne bottle in a hot tub and other party shots.
The Romney campaign has been besieged by allegations of questionable conduct by aides on the campaign trail. Ritter’s boss, Jay Garrity, stepped down last week after the Herald reported he was accused of distributing phony badges to Ritter and another campaign staffer.
The silver shields were allegedly used to strong-arm reporters, gain quick access to restricted areas and, in at least one instance, blow through a Mass Pike toll without paying. The campaign has denied knowledge of staffers using the bogus badges inappropriately.
Ritter’s former boss, Garrity, is under investigation by criminal authorities probing allegations that he impersonated a law enforcement officer in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Why am I thinking these guys are former college Republicans? Above is a scene from the ever popular video series “Keyboard Kommandos Gone Wild”… Or maybe it’s just a photo of a Romney staff guy who found something up his butt…
An Intermittent Trickle of Blandiloquent Suasion and Recondite Opacity
Presents:
It was a dark and stormy night. Professor Denys Glenlorn was sitting at his desk, attempting to calculate how much weight he could lift if he were equipped with a mechanized exoskelton.
“Someone’s at the door,” called Mrs. Glenlorn.
The Professor hoisted himself to his feet. “That’ll be Major Bloodloss from next door. He said he had something he wanted to show me.”
He pressed the automatic door-opener, and picked up his Heckler & Koch HK416 hopefully, in case he should prove to be mistaken about the bona fides of his visitor.
Moments later, Major Bloodloss strode in. He glanced at the Professor’s gun and laughed. “Better luck next time,” he said.
Officials pointed to a Justice Department legal opinion during the Reagan administration, which made the same argument in a case that was never resolved by the courts.
“A U.S. attorney would not be permitted to bring contempt charges or convene a grand jury in an executive privilege case,” said a senior official, who said his remarks reflect a consensus within the administration. “And a U.S. attorney wouldn’t be permitted to argue against the reasoned legal opinion that the Justice Department provided. No one should expect that to happen.”
Rozell, the George Mason professor and authority on executive privilege, said the administration’s stance “is almost Nixonian in its scope and breadth of interpreting its power. Congress has no recourse at all, in the president’s view. . . . It’s allowing the executive to define the scope and limits of its own powers.”
“Almost” Nixonian? The criminals currently defacing the White House and destroying the foundation of the Executive Branch of Our government surpassed Nixon’s level of corruption a long long time ago. Worst of all is the political hacks that infest this administration have installed hundreds of judges who lack the fundamental integrity to even consider recusing themselves from supporting these outrageous claims of dictatorial authority.
The ignorant political hack who currently claims the office of President by judicial fiat and whose sole qualification was having his daddy’s name is so delusional at this point that he seems to believe God has granted him the Divine Right of Kings and he and his minions believe it is vested in “Executive Priveledge” a phrase not even found in my copy of the Constitituion.
We have a half-wit east coast yuppie (who thinks he’s some kind of cowboy) with a lifelong resume of total incompetence attempting to destroy the foundation of our entire system of government, the rule of law, and no credible judiciary to redeem us.
Is impeachment not the only rational response to an irresponsible war, irrational claims of royal rule, delusional assertions of divine authority, an horrific and possibly uncountable list of war crimes/human rights violations, and a legacy of a mind-boggling 14 digit national debt?
