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- How Food Marketers Are Responding to Government Pressure on Kids’ Ads
- Are Tax Increases More Important to Democrats Than Avoiding Default? Reid Won’t Say
- Ron Paul Ad – Conviction
- Ron Paul to run ads criticizing GOP on debt-ceiling compromise
- “Republican Candidate” Extends Lead vs. Obama to 47% to 39%
- The South Central LA Tea Party Proves Leftist Lies
- Comcast Bans Seattle Man From Internet for His Cloudy Ways
| How Food Marketers Are Responding to Government Pressure on Kids’ Ads Posted: 14 Jul 2011 01:58 PM PDT By: EJ Schultz, AdvertisingAge Now the real food fight begins. Amid pressure from the government, some of the nation’s biggest food and drink marketers said today they will tighten guidelines on what can be advertised to children. For the first time ever, the Better Business Bureau’s Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative said it would enforce the same nutritional standards for all 17 of its voluntary members, rather than letting companies pick and choose their own rules. And the standards will be tightened as of December 2013 to the point where one in three products now advertised to kids would be off the air, unless recipes are reformulated with less sodium, saturated fat and sugar. The new rules — which cover marketers such as McDonald’s and Kraft Foods — are partly meant to thwart a stronger proposal by the Obama administration that advertisers say would pretty much shut down kid-oriented ads for most foods. But here’s the rub: Both the government’s proposal and the industry’s effort are voluntary. So are marketers and bureaucrats simply shadow boxing, or will someone actually land a punch? Former FDA associate commissioner Peter Pitts, now the president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, said no matter what the government adopts, it will never carry the weight of law. “On Capitol Hill, there’s a lot of chest-thumping and desk pounding and sound bites delivered,” he said. “But at the end of the day, the First Amendment trumps all.” To read more, visit: http://adage.com/article/news/food-companies-respond-government-pressure-kids-ads/228739/ |
| Are Tax Increases More Important to Democrats Than Avoiding Default? Reid Won’t Say Posted: 14 Jul 2011 01:53 PM PDT
Majority Leader Harry Reid and the rest of the Democratic leadership held a press conference in the Capitol today with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to warn of the financial calamities–market turmoil, cuts to seniors and the troops–that they say will occur if the debt ceiling is not raised by August 2. If the consequences of raising the debt ceiling are so dire, why are Democrats insisting on a deal that includes tax increases? Would Senate Democrats at least allow a vote on a debt ceiling deal that cuts spending without raising taxes? At today’s press conference, Harry Reid refused to say:
To read more, visit: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/are-tax-increases-more-important-democrats-avoiding-default-reid-wont-say_576862.html |
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| Ron Paul to run ads criticizing GOP on debt-ceiling compromise Posted: 14 Jul 2011 01:45 PM PDT
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) will run television advertisements in Iowa and New Hampshire criticizing his party’s leaders for considering a compromise on raising the debt ceiling. The stylized advertisement, which looks more like a movie trailer than the standard political ad, calls the debt-ceiling debate a “defining moment” for America. “Will our party’s leaders repeat the mistakes of the past?” asks the ad’s narrator. “Will they choose compromise — or conviction?” The ad goes on to describe Paul as “standing up to the Washington machine, guided by principle.” Paul campaign manager Jesse Benton said the campaign had purchased six-figure ad buys in both states, and that the advertisements would run statewide on broadcast television as well as cable from Friday through the next week. To read more, visit: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/171443-ron-paul-to-run-ads-criticizing-gop-on-debt-ceiling-compromise |
| “Republican Candidate” Extends Lead vs. Obama to 47% to 39% Posted: 14 Jul 2011 01:40 PM PDT By Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup PRINCETON, NJ — Registered voters by a significant margin now say they are more likely to vote for the “Republican Party’s candidate for president” than for President Barack Obama in the 2012 election, 47% to 39%. Preferences had been fairly evenly divided this year in this test of Obama’s re-election prospects. The latest results are based on a July 7-10 poll, and show that the Republican has an edge for the second consecutive month. Obama held a slight edge in May, when his approval rating increased after the death of Osama bin Laden. As his rating has come back down during the last two months, so has his standing on the presidential “generic ballot.” The elder Bush held large leads over his generic Democratic opponent throughout 1991, but early 1992 preferences were more evenly divided and Bush eventually lost his re-election bid. The younger Bush also consistently maintained at least a small advantage over the Democrat throughout 2003, before winning re-election in a close contest in November 2004. To read more, visit: http://www.gallup.com/poll/148487/Republican-Candidate-Extends-Lead-Obama.aspx |
| The South Central LA Tea Party Proves Leftist Lies Posted: 14 Jul 2011 08:37 AM PDT
Since the inception of the Tea Party, its members – millions of Americans from all walks of life – have been battling the calculated and crafted lies that it, and its members, are racists. We've seen the meme repeated and supposedly proven by a series of Racers, Racists and Race-hustlers, including Janeane Garofalo, Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Al Sharpton, Van Jones and the staff at NPR. What a shock and a surprise for them when it was announced on Facebook yesterday that Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson, a black man, is leading a Tea Party rally and protest, "…to expose the lies and misinformation of the NAACP in Los Angeles…" He even announced the formation of the "black led" South Central LA Tea Party. The event is scheduled for Sunday, July 24th from 2pm to 4pm. If you don't know Jesse Lee Peterson, he is what Hard-Core Leftist Progressives would call a traitor. For those of us who are actually accepting, Peterson is the founder of BOND – The Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny. The group, as identified by their Wikipedia page, is, "…dedicated to a conservative agenda among African Americans." He is also the author of SCAM – How Black Leadership Exploits Black America. (Peterson is also the creator of the National Day of Repudiation of Jesse Jackson, just to add to his bona fides!) Often, members of the Tea Party are asked to name, point out or show off members of color to prove that the Tea Party isn't racist. That practice is absurd, as to start pointing fingers based on color takes away from the bigger picture; we're all in this together! We don't judge people on color, nor do we judge the legitimacy of our events or rallies by the number of black or brown faces in the audience. That is the purview of the Left! There is more openness and welcoming spirit at any Tea Party in America than there is at a Media Matters for America open house, or, as the NAACP recently purported, CNN. To read more, visit: http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/07/14/the-south-central-la-tea-party-proves-leftist-lies/ |
| Comcast Bans Seattle Man From Internet for His Cloudy Ways Posted: 14 Jul 2011 07:59 AM PDT By Ryan Singel, Wired.com The end of the internet comes not with a bang or a procession of four lolcats of the apocalypse, but just with two blinking lights on a modem. At least that's how it came for Andre Vrignaud, a 39-year-old gaming consultant in Seattle, when Comcast shut him off from the internet Monday for using too much data. Vrignaud, it seems, committed the foul of using more than 250 GB of data on Comcast two months in a row, triggering the company's overage policy that results in a year-long ban from using its services. "It's one of those things I never thought would hit me," Vrignaud said. "They didn't even call. I just got double blinking lights on my modem." "If I'd been foolish enough to depend on something like Skype or some other VOIP service for 911, I would have been hosed," Vrignaud said, arguing that internet service has become a utility much like water and electricity — services that can't easily be turned off, due to regulations. It was the second month in a row that Vrignaud got those blinking lights. The first time he called in and tried to figure out what the problem was. So he turned off the router he had that was open to the public, and asked his roommate to go a bit lighter on data usage, since his household is heavy on streaming media, including YouTube, NetFlix and Pandora. What he didn't count on, Vrignaud said, was that Comcast, who he was paying $60 a month for a 15Mbps download speed, was counting uploads against the quota as well. Just recently he'd switched his online backup system from Mozy to Carbonite, after Mozy put an end to its unlimited back-up service. Carbonite has no such limit, but does throttle users' uploads once it hits a high level. And Vrignaud, a hardcore geek who at one point worked as a Microsoft technology evangelist for XBox 360 and XBox live, has a lot of data he shares with the cloud. He's got his music ripped into lossless FLAC format, in addition to lower rates, amounting to about a gig a disc — which he stores in a basement RAID server that can handle 12 TB of data. (He says it has plenty of empty space.) As an amateur photographer, he saves his photos in RAW format, which can run to about 10MB per image. And when Amazon last week opened up its cloud music service to unlimited storage of music files in AAC, Vrignaud batch-converted his collection and began uploading it. To read more, visit: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/07/seattle-comcast/ |
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