Not the content, just the ads...

Update on the previous post:
The Federal Election Committee is proposing that the only internet content that would be regulated are paid advertisments on other people's web sites. This would leave blogs like this one free to say what we want to say, but keep a handle on the money that is going toward active campaigning and political advertising. This sounds like a reasonable way to go to me.

The AP article on this is linked in the title above.

Call your representative

This seen over at BuffaloPundit:

There’s a bill wending its way through the house which would ensure that blogs - on the left and right - could continue advocacy for and against federal political candidates without somehow becoming enmeshed in FEC regulations and campaign finance disclosure.

Call your rep and ask for his/her support for HR 1606 so I can write favorable things about Hillary Clinton, and Craig could write unfavorable things about Hillary Clinton, and neither of us would have to file as a PAC.

I didn't know anything about this...did you?

Paying of Debt is Security Threat

A couple paid off a large balance they'd been carrying on their J.C. Penny card, which triggered a notification to Homeland Security.

Pay too much and you could raise the alarm
By BOB KERR
The Providence Journal
28-FEB-06

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They were told, as they moved up the managerial ladder at the call center, that the amount they had sent in was much larger than their normal monthly payment. And if the increase hits a certain percentage higher than that normal payment, Homeland Security has to be notified. And the money doesn't move until the threat alert is lifted.

Walter called television stations, the American Civil Liberties Union and me. And he went on the Internet to see what he could learn. He learned about changes in something called the Bank Privacy Act.

"The more I'm on, the scarier it gets," he said. "It's scary how easily someone in Homeland Security can get permission to spy."
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The entire story is linked in the title above.

SBTB has Google-bombed Bill Napoli

Bill Napoli

To learn more about what all this means and why they set out to achieve this, read here.