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shawa
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 Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 6:08 pm Post subject: Gore Gets Internet Award |
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Can you believe this??? And all these years we laughed at Gore's
claim, now some LIB is making up a phoney award for Algore.
| Quote: | Gore to Get Lifetime Award for Internet
By ANICK JESDANUN
AP Internet Writer
May 5, 2005, 8:28 AM EDT
NEW YORK -- Al Gore may have been lampooned for taking credit in the Internet's development, but organizers of the Webby Awards for online achievements don't find it funny at all.
In part to "set the record straight," they will give Gore a lifetime achievement award for three decades of contributions to the Internet, said Tiffany Shlain, the awards' founder and chairwoman.
"It's just one of those instances someone did amazing work for three decades as congressman, senator and vice president and it got spun around into this political mess," Shlain said.
Vint Cerf, undisputedly one of the Internet's key inventors, will give Gore the award at a June 6 ceremony in New York.
"He is indeed due some thanks and consideration for his early contributions," Cerf said.
Gore, who boasted in a CNN interview he "took the initiative in creating the Internet," was only 21 when the Internet was born out of a Pentagon project.
But after joining Congress eight years later, he promoted high-speed telecommunications for economic growth and supported funding increases for the then-fledging network, according to the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, which presents the annual awards.
He popularized the term "information superhighway" as vice president. |
http://www.newsday.com/technology/business/wire/sns-ap-gore-award,0,4293691.story?coll=sns-ap-technology-headlines
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Tanya
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Maybe the award is a lock box 
Gore Invented the Internet 
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." (Al Gore, CNN’s "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer," 3/9/99)
"I helped to negotiate an agreement with the Internet service providers to put a parent protection page up and give parents the ability to click on all of the web sites that their children have visited lately. That’ll put a lot of bargaining leverage in the hands of parents."(Al Gore, ABC’s "Nightline" Democratic Debate, 12/16/99)
"Gore Had Nothing to Do with Internet Protection for Children. "The [Internet] industry had been working for a year with bipartisan members of Congress on putting a link to on-line child-safety resources on the front page of Internet portals - with no participation from the Vice President."(editorial, The Wall Street Journal, 5/6/99) Bartlett Cleland, a board member of the nonprofit Internet Education Foundation, said: "There was no Gore involvement. They hijacked this issue. He makes it sound like he led the project. I can’t imagine what he will invent tomorrow."(The Washington Times, 5/6/99)
Gore loves tobacco
more gore here
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/gore.html |
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Schadow
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| Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Tanya wrote: | | http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/gore.html |
The link seems to be busted (at least temporarily):
"The web site you are trying to access has exceeded its allocated data transfer."
Maybe we could get Al Doofuss to fix it.
What pains me is my long-time love of Apple computers and the knowledge that Algore is a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Computers, Inc. Oh, the shame!
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GoophyDog
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Ah, come on! What poetic justice!
Say what you will but here is the man who actually did do quite a bit to widen the scope of the internet and all that it has spawned.
Just think of it, a leading democrat is the person who has had a significant impact in ensuring that falsehoods and just plain dirty politics are exposed rapidly with the widest dissemination.
Yes, hats off to Gore. Without his help we would never have been able to corral the MSM as securely nor exposed his leftwing dingbats as fully as has been demonstrated.
Perhaps the award should be renamed the "I have definitely shot myself in the foot on this one."
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GM Strong
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Snopes has a problem in getting a little political in some of their stuff. They are not always as reliable as one thinks they should be and are not the definative source. Take it all in stride. They have been caught on a couple things where the whole infomation wasn't there and especially with some politacally oriented stuff, they should stay away from inputing opinion. This is one of them. Generally they are OK, but they are not always neutral.
I wonder if Algore will autograph a copy of "Love Story" for me?
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shawa
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Gore supported having every school in the country wired for Internet service which we all pay for on our phone bills. I'm sure you've noticed the extra fees that have increased our phone bills. It started small, but keeps increasing.
From the American Enterprise Institute:
| Quote: | Gore's Internet Fiasco
By James K. Glassman
ON THE ISSUES
AEI Online (Washington)
Publication Date: June 2, 1998
Long-distance telephone companies and consumers are beginning to fight a stealthy tax used to pay for a program that links schools and libraries to the Internet. As the objections grow louder, other problems with the program have surfaced.
It looks like Al Gore’s pet project—hooking every classroom and library up to the Internet and using a hidden tax to pay for it—is about to explode in his face. It will be a consequence richly deserved.
The political benefits to Gore of linking schools, high tech, and the doling-out of billions of dollars in cash seemed obvious. The educational benefits are more uncertain, and 80 percent of schools are already connected to the Internet anyway.
But the real outrage is the way Gore and his supporters have gone about implementing what’s called the "e-rate program"—by trying to hide the astronomical costs and charges from the public and by running the whole show through a complicated array of boards in a system recently declared illegal by the General Accounting Office.
I disclosed this hidden-tax set-up in a column last December, and it has enraged some powerful politicians, including Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-La.), who heads the telecommunications subcommittee, and Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), ranking member of the Commerce Committee.
The Internet project was part of the big 1996 telecom act, but Tauzin said on the PBS program TechnoPolitics that the FCC isn’t interpreting the law as intended. Now, it "smells like an unlimited tax upon an unlimited entitlement."
Dingell told Time magazine that he thought the "era of kings in this country ended when we kicked out George III." Apparently not. The open-ended tax circumvents the legislative system—a reason that the Supreme Court may declare it unconstitutional.
Concealing the Tax
Telephone companies, which have to collect what is now being dubbed the "Gore Tax," have been under intense pressure from the Federal Communications Commission not to disclose it as a line item on customers’ bills.
But, to its credit, AT&T announced last month that it would include a statement in customers’ June bills to alert them that, starting in July, they will be hit with a charge of 5 percent of their interstate long-distance charges to "give schools and libraries access to advanced services like the Internet." Other phone companies are already disclosing the charges on bills, and constituents are complaining to members of Congress.
This is exactly what Gore and his friends at the FCC feared. William Kennard, the FCC’s chairman, last week blasted AT&T. But why? If the Internet project is so popular, then you’d think Americans would be happy to pay for it.
But as details of the fiasco become known, that supposed popularity is coming into question. Hidden taxes are only one reason. Others:
Cost. In just 75 days, schools and libraries have applied for $2 billion in federal money. It’s a "rampant feeding frenzy," says Ron Watkins, president of Information Systems by Design Inc., in Boston, which develops technology for schools. "It’s like watching pigs in a trough. . . . Schools are getting deluged with ads and high-pressure sales people telling them, ‘Just sign here and send it back to us. We’ll take care of it, and the feds will pay.’ But the schools have no idea what they’re buying."
The FCC originally estimated that the e-rate program would cost $9 billion over four years. After plans were publicized and criticisms were raised, the FCC scaled back the first round of spending to $625 million, but it is expected this week to approve about $1.2 billion for the second half of the year.
Hot Wiring. Internet access is only a tiny portion of e-rate spending—just 4 percent of the $2 billion that the schools have requested. Meanwhile, two-thirds of the funds will go for "internal connections," including the costs of ripping up walls to install wiring, repairing carpets, painting, and putting in brand-new computers. Is that what Congress expected? I doubt it.
Scandals.
Shenanigans are inevitable when Washington tries to administer the allocation of billions to 30,000 separate schools and libraries. For example, Penny Bender of the Nashville Tennessean newspaper, in Gore’s home state, reported in April that a businessman who is a friend of the governor’s won a contract "to beef up Internet service to Tennessee’s schools, even though his bid was $23 million higher than a competitor."
The state is seeking $49 million from the e-rate fund, but the losing bidder has filed a complaint with the FCC. You can be sure it’s the first of many.
Salaries.
Members of Congress are just now learning that Ira Fishman, a former White House aide who once raised campaign funds for Gore, is being paid $200,000 a year to head the schools and libraries Internet program. Dingell, in particular, is outraged. "We did not vote to have the FCC set up a giant bureaucracy headed by someone paid as much as the president," he told Time.
What’s the federal government doing in this business anyway? Local school boards know local needs best, and local taxes should meet those needs. A couple of years ago, Al Gore probably figured such logic wouldn’t help him get elected president. But now, with the e-rate project in deep trouble, he may be having second thoughts. Heeding the Constitution could be a decent idea, after all.
James K. Glassman is DeWitt Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fellow at AEI.
Source Notes: This article appeared in the Washington Post on June 2, 1998. |
http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.9135/pub_detail.asp
But of course the SHEEPLE went along with the program.
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