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Stealing a march?

Congress, however, is not alone in exhibiting an inclination to doublespeak: the executive branch is suffering from a similar ailment. For example, last week, the administration signed an Executive Order for Ethics Commitments, including many restricting lobbyists, yet two days later issued a waiver for William Lynn, lobbyist, to become Deputy Secretary of Defense, citing special need, despite Lynn’s extensive conflicts of interests.

The administration seems to be saying: no lobbyists allowed-except the ones we do allow. Here’s another example. We are told by members of the administration that it’s our patriotic duty to pay taxes-except it seems, when you don’t - as in the cases of Tim Geithner and Tom Dashcle. The current administration seems determined to prove Orwell correct, that “all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.”

- Economic Stimulus: Same Old Whine in a New Bottle, FederalNewsRadio.com, February 2, 2009.

3. Amazon has stolen a march on rivals Apple and Google by launching a new cloud-based music service, enabling users to play songs on computers and smartphones.

Unveiled today, the Amazon Cloud Drive offers 5GB of free online storage for music, while the Amazon Cloud Player allows users to listen to songs via web browsers or mobile apps.

The service is currently available on Blackberry, Palm and Android mobiles, but there is currently no support for Apple’s iOS operating system on iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch.