October 2004 - arrl-odv - reflector.arrl.org

[ARRL-ODV:11386] Re: FW: Motion for Recusal of Chairman Powell, ET Docke...
by Joel Harrison 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

That was great !!!! A good laugh to break up the day. Thanks Art. 73 Joel W5ZN

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[ARRL-ODV:11385] Re: FW: Motion for Recusal of Chairman Powell, ET Docke...
by Art Goddard 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

Objection duly noted, Joel... A high-powered Washington attorney, a hot-shot nuclear power engineer and a Quaker were riding together in an automobile when they were side-swiped by a big rig and all three were killed instantly. Being licensed Radio Amateurs, they bypassed all the intermediate waypoints and proceeded directly to the Pearly Gates for an interview with none other than Saint Peter himself. St Pete: "My brothers, I'm going to ask each of you a question. Mind your answer, as it will determine if you enter through these gates. Are you ready?" Attorney: "No continuance today - I am ready." St Pete (turning to the Washington Attorney): "What would you want people to say about you at your funeral?" Attorney: "Well, I'd like folks to say I was an honest and dedicated attorney who won 95% of his cases, a DXCC Honor Roll member and a good family man, too." St Pete (opening the gates): "Very well, Brother, welcome to the Kingdom of Heaven!" St Pete (closing the gates and turning to the nuclear engineer): "What would you want people to say about you at your funeral?" Engineer: "Well, I'd like folks to say that I assured the safety of nuclear power plants worldwide, was the holder of microwave DX records, and was a good family man, too." St Pete (opening the gates): "Very well, Brother, welcome to the Kingdom of Heaven!" St Pete (closing the gates and turning to the Quaker): "What would you want people to say about you at your funeral?" Quaker (after respectable period of silence): "Well, I'd like folks to say, Look, he's waking up!!!" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joel Harrison" <w5zn(a)arrl.org> To: "arrl-odv" <arrl-odv(a)reflector.arrl.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 7:51 AM Subject: [ARRL-ODV:11384] Re: FW: Motion for Recusal of Chairman Powell, ET Docke... > > I must conscientiously object to this discussion thread. :-)) > > 73 My Good Friend dARTh, > > W5ZN > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Art Goddard [mailto:w6xd@comcast.net] > Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 8:56 AM > To: arrl-odv > Subject: [ARRL-ODV:11382] Re: FW: Motion for Recusal of Chairman Powell, > ET Docke... > > > Remember - we shall meet again, friends... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joel Harrison" <w5zn(a)arrl.org> > To: "arrl-odv" <arrl-odv(a)reflector.arrl.org> > Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 6:39 AM > Subject: [ARRL-ODV:11381] Re: FW: Motion for Recusal of Chairman Powell, ET > Docke... > > >

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[ARRL-ODV:11384] Re: FW: Motion for Recusal of Chairman Powell, ET Docke...
by Joel Harrison 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

I must conscientiously object to this discussion thread. :-)) 73 My Good Friend dARTh, W5ZN -----Original Message----- From: Art Goddard [mailto:w6xd@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 8:56 AM To: arrl-odv Subject: [ARRL-ODV:11382] Re: FW: Motion for Recusal of Chairman Powell, ET Docke... Remember - we shall meet again, friends... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joel Harrison" <w5zn(a)arrl.org> To: "arrl-odv" <arrl-odv(a)reflector.arrl.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 6:39 AM Subject: [ARRL-ODV:11381] Re: FW: Motion for Recusal of Chairman Powell, ET Docke...

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[ARRL-ODV:11383] Re: Motion for Recusal of Chairman Powell, ET Docket No...
by John Bellows 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

Is it true that the matter is being referred to Winston Smith at the Ministry of Truth? Jay -----Original Message----- From: W3KD(a)aol.com [mailto:W3KD@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 6:37 AM To: arrl-odv Subject: [ARRL-ODV:11377] Re: Motion for Recusal of Chairman Powell, ET Docket No... In a message dated 10/12/2004 6:00:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, dick(a)pobox.com writes: Very well done work on very short notice. It's a virtual certainty that FCC Chairman Michael Powell will continue to disregard various rules and procedures in his unholy haste to jam ET Docket 04-37/03-104 through to a Report and Order... and the rest of the commissioners support his move, or are at least afraid to go against it because it has been ordered by the neocon-controlled White House to make it so. Thanks, Dick. Late last evening, I received a call from two underlings in the FCC Office of the General Counsel, somewhat abashedly telling me that they had been asked to call me, and had reviewed our complaint (they didn't yet know about the motion). They suggested that the Chairman's attendance at the BPL demonstration and presentation was not an ex parte violation, because it fell, they believed (post-hoc) within one of the eleven very narrow and, in my view inapplicable, exceptions to the Sunshine Agenda period prohibition. The exception applies where "the presentation is requested by, or made with the advance approval of, the Commission or staff for the clarification or adduction of evidence, or for resolution of issues, including possible settlement. They also said something about how the presentation was mostly technical (which isn't true, apparently; a PVRC ham shot the event for the local NBC affiliate). The above, of course, is pure Bravo Sierra, and I essentially told them so (I think I said something to the effect that their post-hoc rationalization doesn't meet the "red face" test"). I thanked them for their call, since no one else had the professional integrity to call me back. I told them that we would address the issue in a different forum because we vehemently disagreed with their conclusion. I also told them that had filed a motion to recuse the Chairman, which seemed to worry them. I told them I had served their boss, the GC. They said they would deal with that. So the coverup is continuing..... Chris

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[ARRL-ODV:11382] Re: FW: Motion for Recusal of Chairman Powell, ET Docke...
by Art Goddard 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

Remember - we shall meet again, friends... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joel Harrison" <w5zn(a)arrl.org> To: "arrl-odv" <arrl-odv(a)reflector.arrl.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 6:39 AM Subject: [ARRL-ODV:11381] Re: FW: Motion for Recusal of Chairman Powell, ET Docke... > > So noted, Art. > > I'll wait until after January 1 to continue it here. > > 73 Joel W5ZN > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Art Goddard [mailto:w6xd@comcast.net] > Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 8:11 AM > To: arrl-odv > Subject: [ARRL-ODV:11379] Re: FW: Motion for Recusal of Chairman Powell, > ET Docke... > > > I must conscientiously object to this discussion thread. > > 73, Art W6XD > Moses Brown School '59 > http://www.mosesbrown.org/ > > >

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[ARRL-ODV:11381] Re: FW: Motion for Recusal of Chairman Powell, ET Docke...
by Joel Harrison 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

So noted, Art. I'll wait until after January 1 to continue it here. 73 Joel W5ZN -----Original Message----- From: Art Goddard [mailto:w6xd@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 8:11 AM To: arrl-odv Subject: [ARRL-ODV:11379] Re: FW: Motion for Recusal of Chairman Powell, ET Docke... I must conscientiously object to this discussion thread. 73, Art W6XD Moses Brown School '59 http://www.mosesbrown.org/

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[ARRL-ODV:11380] Re: Memorandum to the Executive Committee
by W3KD＠aol.com 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

Greetings. Per Mr. Sumner's agenda for the Executive Committee meeting this coming Saturday in Big D, attached is my normal memo on regulatory and legal issues. Please note that the BPL and 2390 MHz matters (items 3 and 8 on the agenda and in the memo) are on the FCC open meeting agenda for tomorrow, Thursday, October 14, so any discussion of those items on the merits is rather premature at this point. 73, Chris W3KD

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[ARRL-ODV:11379] Re: FW: Motion for Recusal of Chairman Powell, ET Docke...
by Art Goddard 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

I must conscientiously object to this discussion thread. 73, Art W6XD Moses Brown School '59 http://www.mosesbrown.org/ ----- Original Message ----- From: <W3KD(a)aol.com> To: "arrl-odv" <arrl-odv(a)reflector.arrl.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 5:41 AM Subject: [ARRL-ODV:11378] Re: FW: Motion for Recusal of Chairman Powell, ET Docke... > In a message dated 10/12/2004 6:22:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, w5zn(a)arrl.org > writes: > > > > > > > > Does that mean they do a good job of hiding their guilt, or they're guilty > > of things not known to mortal man ?? > > > > You opened the door, so I couldn't help but walk in !! > > > > ZN > > > > >> The difference is that the Quakers aren't normally guilty of anything obv > >> ious. > >> > >> > > > > I intentionally used the word "obvious" to indicate that the event > precipitating the guilt is just not spoken of. > > Chris >

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[ARRL-ODV:11378] Re: FW: Motion for Recusal of Chairman Powell, ET Docke...
by W3KD＠aol.com 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

In a message dated 10/12/2004 6:22:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, w5zn(a)arrl.org writes: > > > Does that mean they do a good job of hiding their guilt, or they're guilty > of things not known to mortal man ?? > > You opened the door, so I couldn't help but walk in !! > > ZN > > >> The difference is that the Quakers aren't normally guilty of anything obv >> ious. >> >> > I intentionally used the word "obvious" to indicate that the event precipitating the guilt is just not spoken of. Chris

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[ARRL-ODV:11377] Re: Motion for Recusal of Chairman Powell, ET Docket No...
by W3KD＠aol.com 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

In a message dated 10/12/2004 6:00:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, dick(a)pobox.com writes: > > Very well done work on very short notice. It's a virtual certainty > that FCC Chairman Michael Powell will continue to disregard various > rules and procedures in his unholy haste to jam ET Docket 04-37/03-104 > through to a Report and Order... and the rest of the commissioners > support his move, or are at least afraid to go against it because it > has been ordered by the neocon-controlled White House to make it so. > > Thanks, Dick. Late last evening, I received a call from two underlings in the FCC Office of the General Counsel, somewhat abashedly telling me that they had been asked to call me, and had reviewed our complaint (they didn't yet know about the motion). They suggested that the Chairman's attendance at the BPL demonstration and presentation was not an ex parte violation, because it fell, they believed (post-hoc) within one of the eleven very narrow and, in my view inapplicable, exceptions to the Sunshine Agenda period prohibition. The exception applies where "the presentation is requested by, or made with the advance approval of, the Commission or staff for the clarification or adduction of evidence, or for resolution of issues, including possible settlement. They also said something about how the presentation was mostly technical (which isn't true, apparently; a PVRC ham shot the event for the local NBC affiliate). The above, of course, is pure Bravo Sierra, and I essentially told them so (I think I said something to the effect that their post-hoc rationalization doesn't meet the "red face" test"). I thanked them for their call, since no one else had the professional integrity to call me back. I told them that we would address the issue in a different forum because we vehemently disagreed with their conclusion. I also told them that had filed a motion to recuse the Chairman, which seemed to worry them. I told them I had served their boss, the GC. They said they would deal with that. So the coverup is continuing..... Chris

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