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[iski]

 

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[Twolanerider]

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[iski]

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[Hugh Janis]

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Aha!  It's a white dot!  You waster poster!

[SPIDERMAN]

Denial of your right to surf the internet is a violation of your internet rights which you may or may not have since the US Constitution says absolutely nothing about the internet.  I searched for the Amendment where that crazy guy who ran for president before he invented global warming says he invented the internet.  Nuttin'.


The bed has some foo foo fake sheepskin mattress cover pad, too.  I would lie to have a desk lamp like the one in  this room since I have never seen one for sale anywhere.

I don't give a damn about Al Gore one way or the other, but he does have a rep for being intelligent, so I'd like to hear if anyone knows what his explanation for his claim of being responsible for the internet was. He must have had some rationale for saying it or it would seem based on other things he's gotten into that he did. As I said, this isn't me rah rahing Gore nor me dissin him, just curiosity is all, so if we could keep the response to the known facts I'd appreciate it. I admit to being totally ignorant to what his response was when he got trounced for making the statement

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[miker]

I think it was that he worked with the house to get bill passed to open the bandwidth required by FCC administratium.
Taken out of context and fed to the masses for their insatiable appetite for pablum...

I could be wrong and often am....

[iski]

Aha!  It's a white dot!  You waster poster!

white dots are not a waste to the folks who like white dots

[miker]

Or wasted poster?

[elvislee]

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[iski]

I don't give a damn about Al Gore one way or the other, but he does have a rep for being intelligent, so I'd like to hear if anyone knows what his explanation for his claim of being responsible for the internet was. He must have had some rationale for saying it or it would seem based on other things he's gotten into that he did. As I said, this isn't me rah rahing Gore nor me dissin him, just curiosity is all, so if we could keep the response to the known facts I'd appreciate it. I admit to being totally ignorant to what his response was when he got trounced for making the statement

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Did not find his response to this one except for this. During an interview with Wolf Blitzer in March 1999, Gore said, 'During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the internet.'

Technically he did not say he invented it, he claimed he "took the initiative increating it".  I recall the interview & recall laughing about it since Gore was running for president at the time.  At it's worst Gore's statement was a bald faced lie, and at it's best is was sheer exaggeration.   Gore would have president if what I had predicted had come true.  Clinton would not resign, so I was wrong as I so often am in matters of politics.  If Clinton had resigned it is very doubtful Bush could have won in 2000, and the rest is history.....


There are tons of Dem & Repub talking points spinning this one, but as with a lot of urban legend type stuff, it is stuck to Gore at this point in time.

Transcript from CNN:  http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/09/president.2000/transcript.gore/

Mike

[Hugh Janis]

white dots are not a waste to the folks who like white dots

OK, I'll give you that.  White works for me.

[iski]

OK, I'll give you that.  White works for me.

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