Thursday, February 26, 2015

BloggeRhythms

Much clamor’s arising in the media regarding today’s vote on new Internet regulations. nationalreview.com reports that the FCC’s two Republican commissioners have asked to delay the vote to allow more time for review. The changes would allow the commission to regulate the Internet like a public utility, setting new standards that require the provision of equal access to all online content.
 
Published items regarding the vote, however, indicate that the proposed regulation changes will likely be held up by court cases and lawsuits for several years to come before taking any real effect. But, nonetheless, this is another case where it came down to the wire before anyone in Congress woke up as another freedom was almost spirited away by the government. 
 
With little else changing much in the news, the Washington Examiner published an article titled, “Early Warning” regarding Bill Clinton’s earnings from speeches while his wife was in office, as follows:
 
“Bubba’s overseas buckraking raised eyebrows last summer, as reported by WashEx: “A joint investigation by the Washington Examiner and the nonprofit watchdog group Judicial Watch found that former President Clinton gave 215 speeches and earned $48 million while his wife presided over U.S. foreign policy, raising questions about whether the Clintons fulfilled ethics agreements related to the Clinton Foundation during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state. …State Department officials charged with reviewing Bill Clinton's proposed speeches did not object to a single one.”
 
Added to that is another article, this one from FoxNews.com yesterday, saying, “The Clinton Foundation was on the defensive Wednesday after disclosing that it had accepted millions of dollars from several foreign governments while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, including one donation that violated the foundation's ethics agreement with the Obama administration.
 
“Most of the contributions -- which had not previously been detailed by the foundation -- were possible due to exceptions written into the organization's 2008 agreement with the White House that limited donations from foreign governments, according to The Washington Post, which first reported the contributions. 
 
“But foundation officials acknowledged that they should have sought approval from the State Department's ethics office in one instance. In a statement to Fox News, the foundation said it had received an unsolicited donation of $500,000 to its Haiti earthquake relief fund from the Algerian government in 2010.”
 
So, with the next presidential election still almost two years away, the story's keep surfacing regarding Bill, his wife and money they glom. Which suggests that at the rate both of them are raking bucks in now, neither will be happy with the income cut caused by the chump-change earned as POTUS, despite all the perks and power of the job.
 
That’s it for today folks.
 
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