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Has AT&T secretly been helping the feds monitor Internet traffic (including phone customers in Ark.?) This article suggests so.

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Has AT&T secretly been helping the feds monitor Internet traffic (including phone customers in Ark.?) This article suggests so.
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At the risk of sounding like a broken record, why in modern times would anyone thing AT&T or any other big business is your friend?
They married our government in a private ceremony a number of years ago. Bush is just the actor playing the role of the bridegroom these days. If you stick one, the other bleeds too. This is why we're in a world of hurt today.
Look at it this way, it's like if Meadow Soprano married one of Big Pussy's sons. You really don't want to mess with either government or big business or you'll pull back a bloody stub.
Bush and big business are delighted there is a big war going on. They hope it lasts forever! It's win win for them....all that money....let me say that again...all that money! Bush starts the war, big business provides the tools, they all make money. The bitch of it is that we have to pay for it all. Oh, and we have to provide the kids to be ground up into hamburger meat. 2369 as of this moment.
Sucks to be us. I continue to put Bush family & animal sex acts in my Google searches when I have some extra time. When they haul me to jail they're going to have a whole lot to talk about. Same with AT&T....I can't beat em, I don't want to fight em...I just do my thing and if the jackbooted thugs come to get me in the middle of the night, me and Ann Frank will just have that much more in common.
The only comforting thing is that they can't jail all 299 million of us and they can't force all of us to go die in Iraq. Small comfort, but comfort just the same.
I will continue to pay AT&T and they can continue to report the made up filth I put into Google with their excellent DSL service. That's the only way I know to play the game. As I sing to myself a little song I made up about loving my country, I marvel that we've come to this point.
They would have you believe our enemies are all overseas, or shadowy figures with unpronounceable names lurking in allies. I know the worst enemies of American freedom and goodness live right here in our country with us. Many wear American flag lapel pins, and others are members of the Better Business Bureau and drive company trucks. Better pay close attention to your real enemies. And just for fun....Kiss my ass, AT&T.
Posted by: Deathbyinches | April 13, 2006 07:40 PM
Maybe they've seen the treacherous posts from DBI, afterall. Good for them!
Posted by: hunkahillbilly | April 13, 2006 08:20 PM
Or maybe DBI is so upset because he's afraid they've actually seen where he goes on the net late at night.
Posted by: hunkahillbilly | April 13, 2006 08:22 PM
Hunk, I'm not 12, I don't have to worry my mommy will walk into my room. I look at anything that pops into my mind. Sometimes I feel a little porny, sometimes I don't.
I like table fans, I like air conditioning, I liked cars back when you could tell them apart. But except for my family, the Internet is the most marvelous thing I've ever discovered.
Because anyone with a phone line and a modem can sign on, it means you can live in Izard County and be as smart and informed as a Madison Avenue big shot. There is no excuse for ignorance now, with your computer the vast knowledge of the universe is at your finger tips. The Internet is the great equalizer we've all been waiting for.
I think if you stick with it, in 10 or 12 years even you, Hunk might be about 2 points smarter than you are right now. And if only Al Gore had invented the Internet, I'd be tithing to him this Sunday.
Now back to Googling Naked Bush sheep Babs Jenna eels
Posted by: Deathbyinches | April 13, 2006 09:54 PM
Please. As long as the new blog is a work in progress, can't we move the "Posted by:" line ABOVE the post? Maybe that will stop me from reading a few lines into hunka's posts before realizing I need to skip it.
Posted by: Patrick, Pocahontas | April 13, 2006 09:55 PM
But except for my family, the Internet is the most marvelous thing I've ever discovered. Posted by: Deathbyinches
And, most amazing to me, it's essentially free (which is kind of unAmerican, or at least out of character).
But not really since many have gotten rich on it, and MS pretty much has a monopoly.
Posted by: Patrick, Pocahontas | April 13, 2006 10:04 PM
"can't we move the "Posted by:" line ABOVE the post? "
Good idea, that will keep me from wasting a few hours each day reading DickbyInches' long winded garbage.
Posted by: getalife | April 14, 2006 09:35 AM
You can't be 70007 serious?!?
Posted by: Mary Box | July 6, 2006 08:15 PM