What’s All This Then!

Let’s see, my choices are one group who wants to take more of my hard-earned money or another group who wants to tell me how I can spend what’s left of my money. Hmmmmm, the lesser of two evils. Hmmmm, that’s still a vote for evil, isn’t it? Sorry, but there’s enough wickedness in the world without my vote giving tacit validation to those choices.

What? I can’t complain if I don’t vote?! If you’re walking down a street and a mugger gives you the choice of being shot or stabbed, you’ve got every right to complain about your injuries when you pick neither. Of course, an election is different than a mugging. There’s a lot more smiling and deception involved. Still, if you vote, knowing full well the consequences that will be unleashed on the lives and property of everyone, you the one who can’t complain now, can you…

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Internet Radio has become very popular. So popular that you might not hear your favorite Internet station today. That silence you hear is a protest of the ridiculous hike in royalty fees that go into effect on July 15th. Not only will the fees go from 0.007 cents per song per listener to 0.019 cents, but they will be retroactive to January of 2006. In other words, a few tens of millions of dollars — enough that several stations will be forced off the air.

Hopefully, the musicians will get a little of this booty. But the ones raking in the money are the Record companies. Their greed could hurt the very artists that pay their salaries.

So if your favorite Internet is silent today, now you know why … or they just might be playing the greatest hits of that famous mime, Marcel Marceau.

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