Switch to digital TV expected to be rescheduled

Switch to digital TV expected to be rescheduled
By Jim Puzzanghera
January 27, 2009
Los Angeles Time

Reporting from Washington — People who aren’t ready for next month’s nationwide switch to all-digital broadcast TV are likely to get a four-month extension after the Senate voted Monday to delay the conversion until June.

The move follows President Obama’s call for a postponement after a $1.5-billion government program to help viewers buy special converter boxes temporarily ran out of money this month. Obama’s proposed $825-billion stimulus legislation includes $650 million to help replenish the program.

The delay, approved unanimously on a voice vote by the Senate, would give millions of viewers more time to prepare for the transition. Only those who use outdoor or rabbit-ear antennas need converter boxes. Pay-television providers already handle the conversion for their customers.

“I firmly believe that our nation is not yet ready to make this transition at this time,” said Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), who pressed for the delay.

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Looks like the digital conversion could be delayed from February 17 to June 12. Well, I am long ready for the tranisition to digital. They were suppose to do it in 2006, but delayed it again. 6.5 million people are not ready. It could that some do not have TV, while some are at their vacation homes. If they do delay it, they could delay it again and they may as well not go digital. Well, I don’t watch much TV, save 24 and King of the Hill and I am ready for it. Digital signals are too weak and prone to interference. They should of made the deadline around Super Bowl because many go out and buy a TV set for it and it would be a good time to stimulate the economy. Also, there are contract issues among TV stations, telecommunication companies purchased the analog spectrum for their cell phone services, and first responders are going to that spectrum as well.

On the Money Trail: Inauguration Perks Go To the Rich

On the Money Trail: Inauguration Perks Go To the Rich
By JUSTIN ROOD, ANNA SCHECTER, and MEGAN CHUCHMACH
ABC News
Jan. 19, 2009

President-elect Barack Obama billed his inauguration an event “for all Americans.” But in the nation’s capital this long weekend, wealthy visitors are finding themselves a bit more equal — and warmer — than others.

Most Americans here to see President-elect Obama make history crammed onto buses and trains, slept on floors and fought crowds and cold. But the wealthiest Americans coming to see the event are enjoying all the perks their money and power ever warranted.

For CEOs and stars arriving by private jet, local airports have shut down entire runways to serve as parking lots for their planes. Officials are prepared to handle hundreds of private aircraft for the long weekend.

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So much for inclusion. Obama called for change didn’t he? I guess not, no? He wanted to delay the tranisition from analog to digital, which has already had been set for February 17, 2009, which I already did.

Obama Is Not America’s First Black President

The media has been talking about how Barack Obama is America’s first Black President. Let us look at it if it is really true. Obama is the first to openly admit he is Black, mixed with White on his mother’s side. Also, he looks like a Black person despite the fact he is biracial. In fact, Obama would be our seventh Black President. We had six Black Presidents in America. Granted, they looked White and largely shunned their Black relatives. Irregardless of that, they have Black blood. Now, you ask, who are they? The six Black Presidents of America are:
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
Abraham Lincoln
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Dwight D. Eisenhower

They range from Founding Fathers, President during a Civil War, and respected war general during World War II. Some are vilified for displacing American Indians and being one of the worst Presidents in American history. Actually, to be fair, Harding did down size the government and most of the corruption was in his cabinet. The last time America was so energized with a President elect before Obama was Eisenhower and afterwards, the public has never been electrified by a President elect. Even John F. Kennedy could not be that electrifying, which he won by a narrow thin margin in 1960.

Diversity Inc.-Obama Won’t Be First Black President

Happy New Years!

Happy New Years to everyone! Hope 2009 will be  a better year.