Date:         Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:34:56 -0700
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From:         jimt <wetwesty@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
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On 11/19/04 1:08 PM, "Gnarlodious" <gnarlodious@EARTHLINK.NET> wrote:

> Unfortunately the FCC has micromanaged the airwaves so that the result is
> entities such as Sirius. They did the same thing to Amateur Radio by choking
> it with strict regulations.
> 
> So...Sirius is now redistributing the profits so we can ALL hear Stern even
> if we don't want to. Sounds like SOCIALISM to me! You can all expect higher
> subscription rates even if you don't want Stern.
> 
> As to the constitutionality of Stern et al on the public airwaves, a
> majority of taxpayers want him on. So why can't they hear him? Because a few
> moralizers say it's corrupting the rest of us.
> 
> Reefer madness.
> 
> -- Gnarlie
> 
> 
> Entity Aristotle Sagan spoke thus:
> 
Anybody on this list old enough to remember what the original mountain dew
ads were?  Or another one called apple beer?  And why both were almost not
around anymore?  One is gone but the other is still here.

How about the recent possible FCC fine for a football ad?

And yet the viagra et. Al. Ads still flood the airwaves.

As for stern and others corrupting me, I think my childhood took care of
that.  Playgrounds without safety toys, fighting in the streets, Motorcycles
with no license, bicycles down ore dumps, skateboards down city hills,
bandit CB rigs, drinking the evil 'dew', and the even eviler 'apple', a
pfeiffers or two for lunch on summer jobs, building street rods, rockets
with warheads, and other fun stuff.  In todays world think how many times
you could send a kid to jail for just the above list.  Note I stated jail
with todays rules.
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