Snow performs a blues number, "Stormy Monday," with Leslie West. Although he's no BB King he puts out a respectabe showing with the flute and saxophone.




Update: My sitemeter is buzzing today thanks for the link Bill, and welcome to INDCJournal readers.

Not yet, you still get to decide where you want to surf, what to read, post to a blog or share media. Not to mention when. But there are lobbyists who are spending tens of millions to convince congress that their clients should decide. The bill is the telecommunications bill (S. 2686).

These are lobbyists for the internet providers. Those who had nothing to do with inventing or building the internet. These internet provider services want to tier the internet so that what is available to you is determined by what sites you may wish to visit will put in their pockets. Of course the bill says that they cannot deny service to any site, but if the provider doesn't make big bucks from your surfing they can give you a slower access tier regarless of your connection speed, and slow enough to make it little different from no access at all.

But rather than explaining it further watch the videos below. The first one is a documentary.




This second video clip is a graphic that lays out in simple laymans terms just what lies ahead if the internet providers get the control of the internet that they want.



This is about choice, our choices to choose our internet content. Let us not turn the internet over to people like AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre says "The internet can't be free."

You can click on a map here and find out how your Senators stand on Net Neutrality.

Or go here and find out more about how to save the internet.

Hmm prelude to another book deal?


Washington gets more crazy day by day.

H/T The Queen

Here is a great educational game based on Constitution & the Civil War. At the end will be a conclusion as to how well your decisions agree with Abraham Lincoln.

Because I don't consider myself well versed in Civil War history I was surprised to find that I agreed with Abe on 12 of his 13 crossroads decisions. More surprising as well as humorous was the resurrected Abe's conclusion:

"Congratulations! You and I see eye to eye on the issues. Perhaps you should think about a career in politics."

H/T Dean

Update: Cape Canaveral, FL had some nice Independence Day fireworks at 2:38 p.m eastern as the Discovery and its crew lifted off.

Today I could tell you what Independence Day means to me but many of you know me well enough to suspect, or have a fair idea what I might post.

Instead I am going to excerpt a paragraph from an Iraqi in Baghdad who wrote about what our Independence Day means to him.


Ali didn't know what "independence" meant growing up. Before we entered Iraq, to him independence was what paved the way to power for the Ba'athists. It wasn't until the day the Iraqis went by the millions to vote for their future that Ali started to think about independence in a new way. The right way.

If you love freedome and independence you should read Ali's entire post.