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Old 02-07-2013, 10:24 PM  
GrantMercury
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Originally Posted by Rochard View Post
A few years back - I think it was about the XXX domains - the Congressional Committee on Technology had a hearing on CSPAN. I watched it. I don't recall if it was a Democrat or a Republican, but he made the remark saying "I'm not sure if I have email or not. I do not remember".

Here was a member of Congress - who sat on the technology committee - and he had no idea if he had email or not.
That's funny, but it's not unprecedented. Remember this doofus Ted Stevens? He was in charge of regulating the internet.

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They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It?s not a truck.

It?s a series of tubes.

And if you don?t understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material. -- Ted Stevens
http://ohinternet.com/Ted_Stevens

And this fucking tool, who was on The House Science Committee
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?All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell,? Broun said at the Liberty Baptist Church Sportsman?s Banquet recently. ?And it?s lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior.?
And there are plenty of others:
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/08/leas...e_comm ittee/

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