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2010-12-05 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Pappy 2010-12-05 00:32|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 For some reason, I don't think Congress should be meddling here. It's as if they do it just to validate the fact that they can, even if they don't really have the power to.

Posted by gorb 2010-12-05 01:44|| 2010-12-05 01:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Meanwhile, Congress STILL hasn't adopted a budget -one of the primary responsibilities of Congress according to the Constitution.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2010-12-05 02:35|| 2010-12-05 02:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Picture perfect.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2010-12-05 05:48|| 2010-12-05 05:48|| Front Page Top

#4 The commercials are annoying but there is the mute button or the "off" control. Just another one of too many areas where Congress meddles.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-12-05 08:40|| 2010-12-05 08:40|| Front Page Top

#5 How about A mute button for congress?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-12-05 08:55|| 2010-12-05 08:55|| Front Page Top

#6 It helps establish precedent.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-12-05 09:05|| 2010-12-05 09:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Channels that support 'loud' attention commercials invite my channel surfing to other venues. That doesn't require an 'act of Congress'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-12-05 09:12|| 2010-12-05 09:12|| Front Page Top

#8 Some departing congressman or congresswoman should slip in the bill a requirement to 'mute' the volume on CSPAN

Posted by airandee 2010-12-05 09:15|| 2010-12-05 09:15|| Front Page Top

#9 Billy Mays already did much to prevent this scourge on humanity by dying

Posted by Frank G 2010-12-05 10:13|| 2010-12-05 10:13|| Front Page Top

#10 Record it, play it back later, fast forward through the commercials.

Posted by Abu Uluque (new computer) 2010-12-05 11:10|| 2010-12-05 11:10|| Front Page Top

#11 Television? Oh, how quaint.

Posted by rammer 2010-12-05 14:05|| 2010-12-05 14:05|| Front Page Top

#12 This is much ado about nothing. Regulating the content of what goes out over the public airwaves is definitely within the powers of Congress. Big F Deal.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-12-05 17:49|| 2010-12-05 17:49|| Front Page Top

#13 I'm surprised that with modern TV sets the output volume isn't automatically regulated, regardless of the volume on the input signal. This would be trivial to do.

Posted by Aussie Mike 2010-12-05 17:56|| 2010-12-05 17:56|| Front Page Top

#14 And all this time I thought it was my bloody telly!

Posted by Besoeker 2010-12-05 18:10|| 2010-12-05 18:10|| Front Page Top

#15 modern TV sets the output volume isn't automatically regulated Well, it is, but the creators of the offending material learned to get around the built-in regulation by fiddling with the audio spectrum of their material so that it SOUNDS louder than it is. Certain audio pitches (and probably rhythms) seem much louder & more piercing than simpleminded measurements would indicate. You can reproduce a similar effect by using sound editors like Audacity on a sound clip. People can do similar things with their voice, like some of my former girlfriends.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-12-05 18:18|| 2010-12-05 18:18|| Front Page Top

#16 Human infants are well designed to produce loud, piercing audio signals with very low power inputs.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-12-05 18:19|| 2010-12-05 18:19|| Front Page Top

#17 "Regulating the content of what goes out over the public airwaves is definitely within the powers of Congress."

That covers ABC, NBS, CBS, public TV, and Fox (I think they're broadcast) but not Fox News, and any other channels that are broadcast over the airwaves.

Nothing gives them the right to regulate cable/satelite, which is not broadcast, but delivered to paying customers by whatever means is used.

We'd all be better off it ReCongress would just butt out of our lives; do the mininum they are authorized/required to do by the actual Constitution (not the liberal one that lives in their heads), get their grubby hands out of our pockets, tell the whiners around the country to shut up and man- (or woman-) up and LEAVE US THE HELL ALONE.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-12-05 19:55|| 2010-12-05 19:55|| Front Page Top

#18 Never happen Barb. Congress and our "leadership" are too interested in authorizing bum buggering for the military, feeding the "poor", and interfering globally at every opportunity.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-12-05 19:59|| 2010-12-05 19:59|| Front Page Top

23:13 49 Pan aka bag-fob-rat
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22:51 Pappy
22:15 Scooter McGruder
20:12 Matt
20:10 Procopius2k
20:02 M. Murcek
20:02 Barbara Skolaut
19:59 Besoeker
19:59 Barbara Skolaut
19:55 Barbara Skolaut
19:49 Alan Cramer
19:31 Dale
19:18 Dale
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18:55 Besoeker
18:54 Anguper Hupomosing9418
18:44 Dale
18:36 Besoeker
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18:16 Dale