Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

Here we go again, we have some jackass Senator spouting "decency" and or "values" and such and then coming with great ideas like laws where the government enforces such. This happens so often that they end up as permanent spoofs like Bob Odenkirks "Senator Tankerbell" on Mr. Show (hilarious, but alas should be "banned" ;)).

Why is it so dumb? Well its just not the role of government, especially at a FEDERAL level, and its completely ignorant of what a "free" society means.

Ted Stevens (R-AK) has long been an ass clown, his latest take is that he can control cable and satellite television just the way he does the public airwaves (well he doesnt acknowledge the "public" part, if he understood that he might reconsider his position, and if he understood that he might not be an ass clown, but I digress).

Ole Ted says basically bring it on, and mentions he will take it to the Supreme Court. (I doubt he means that, probably just throwing bones to conservative supporters in Alaska and knows he will never get near private entities such as cable or satellite companies, but that begs the question why are their such stupid constituents that want those type bones.)

What does he want to "control"? He says cable is "indecent" (dont get me started on trying to define that, I love it when legislators dont understand how vague and nebulous the terms they use are, its "evil", its against the "sanctity" and so on). Specifically he says "There has to be some standard of decency".

What he fails to recognize is that there is, yet that standard is personal. Dont fucking like it, lets see here, what should you do, hmmm, DONT FUCKING WATCH IT.

Why is that so hard to understand and why are some people (Stevens) so insecure that they have to control what OTHER people do? (And why do those some people include supposedly educated and intelligent people such as Senators?)

Never ending story, lets ban everything, lets burn books, lets censor this and that, thats whats "wrong" with society and the government has to "fix" it.

  Senator fights cable 'indecency'