Posted by James K on January 5, 2006, at 15:56:07
In reply to Re: Oh, goooodie! I get to grumble!!!, posted by Declan on January 5, 2006, at 13:22:50
Hi, I think I remember you are Scottish? please forgive me if I guessed wrong. Maybe UK of some kind.
AT&T was the US telephone company and many years ago, I don't remember exactly, it was broken into several smaller companies because it was too big and a monopoly. Now our current administration(s) have allowed those smaller companies to merge back together. A step backward in my opinion.
California deregulated their electricity - kind of like privatizing it or opening it up to competition. Texas energy corporations then manipulated the supply and the market causing rolling blackouts and sky high prices. Some have been indicted and convicted for their activities.
As for the dates, I was thinking of Nixon and Johnson, and domestic spying on activists, and war and all that.
But yeah Hoover and McCarthy are right there waiting for us.
and nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
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