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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-28-07 12:45 PM
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What the fuck? The country is going to hell, and our senators hold hearings on hiphop lyrics & an ad
Jesus fucking Christ.

No wonder we're fucked up.

I've not been paying much attention to the world with my cold, but just watched last night's Daily Show and he showed clips of a hearing about hip hop lyrics (goddamned waste of our government's time, even though I, too, would love to see that ugly shit disappear) and a completely legal newspaper ad (the moveon.org one), also an utter waste of our leaders' (and I use that term only in its most technical sense) time.

Fucking jackasses.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-28-07 12:46 PM
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1. Nooooooo!
I'm taking a break! Today is lounge day!

x(

*sigh*



but yes... fucking jackasses indeed. :(
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-28-07 12:46 PM
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2. They did this back in the fifties with Louie Louie lyrics.
Everybody was upset when Rupert Murdoch bought the Wall Street Journal. Apparently he bought Congress when nobody was looking.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-28-07 12:48 PM
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3. And that Interfering Bitch Tipper Gore did it with her PMRC in the 80s
about rock lyrics.

This shit needs to end.
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-28-07 12:48 PM
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5. That's true.
Her and Joe Lieberman.
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Mythsaje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-28-07 01:08 PM
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9. They banned "Hell is for Children" from the radio...
Utter stupidity.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-28-07 01:27 PM
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10. And lots of other music.
The history of "freedom" in this country is pretty goddamned sad once you lift off the veneer. Or whatever the hell that phrase is the last word of which I can't remember.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-28-07 01:46 PM
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11. WHAT?!
:crazy:
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Mythsaje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-28-07 02:06 PM
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13. No joke...
I remember when it happened...
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-28-07 12:48 PM
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4. Wag the Dog.
Politicians are only ever interested in maintaining their posts. When things show up as out of control, they'll pick an easy target to provide the perception that they are =doing something=. People will calm down and smile, and politicians will continue raking in the money and favors.

War on porn.
War on drugs.
War on terror.

War on war?

"Liberate reality." -Bug Jack Barron
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-28-07 12:54 PM
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8. That's exactly it.
Yes it is.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-28-07 01:54 PM
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12. I believe that everything in my post is from other people.
I'm glad to pass it along.

Fortunately, people are getting tired of this system. Unfortunately, it's gone world-wide. Root word being "fortune".
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-28-07 12:49 PM
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6. I saw that too and my jaw hit the floor.
What the fuck? We have a war going on, and all Congress can focus on is fucking hip hop lyrics? Arrrrrgh!!!

I think it states clearly in the first amendment - "CONGRESS shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech...". God damn it. :argh:
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-28-07 12:54 PM
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7. Lieberman in action again?
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MysticalChicken Donating Member (832 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-28-07 04:26 PM
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14. Don't they hold hearings on song lyrics about once every five or ten years?
It's like the government is saying "You can listen to whatever you want, just as long as we approve of it first."
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