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Old 03-01-2005, 05:26 PM   #4066
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  • WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens said on Tuesday he would push for applying broadcast decency standards to cable television and subscription satellite TV and radio.

    "Cable is a much greater violator in the indecency area," the Alaska Republican told the National Association of Broadcasters, which represents most local television and radio affiliates. "I think we have the same power to deal with cable as over-the-air" broadcasters."

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/...&w=RTR&coview=
Next they'll come after the internet. Fuc . . . I mean, yay!
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Old 03-01-2005, 05:43 PM   #4067
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Which would suit the Ted Stevenses of the world just fine.
I'd rather have an idiot windbag Alaskan cowpoke like Teddy Stevens around to make sure we get the right kind of judges and justices and lower taxes.

I can always using my tax cut money to buy porn on DVD. regardless of what they do to cable.
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Old 03-01-2005, 06:06 PM   #4068
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I'd rather have an idiot windbag Alaskan cowpoke like Teddy Stevens around to make sure we get the right kind of judges and justices and lower taxes.

I can always using my tax cut money to buy porn on DVD. regardless of what they do to cable.
Are you going to have that sock made a mod? I've been lonely.
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Old 03-01-2005, 06:08 PM   #4069
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German unemployment rate hits 70 year high

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4307303.stm
Wait a second, this impossible, how can massive socialism result in an unemployment rate so high? This must be more of the Bush lies!

However, if true, perhaps they can hire JFKerry to implement one of his plans to help save them. Or they can try the French model of a 24 hour work week with 4 months of vacation and lower that UE rate to 10%.

Eitherwhichway, these soursocialistkrauts dug their own hole by telling us to fuck off over Iraq so I say let it burn. Now is the time for Rummy to pull all of the bases out in one clean shot. Move em to Poland.

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Old 03-01-2005, 06:36 PM   #4070
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Wait a second, this impossible, how can massive socialism result in an unemployment rate so high? This must be more of the Bush lies!
In defense of Germans (I can't believe I just typed that), much of the gain was from reclassifying a ton of "I don't feel like getting up today so I must be permanently disabled" slugs from "unavailable" to "unemployed", as they try to limit or shrink the forever-entitled class.

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Old 03-01-2005, 06:43 PM   #4071
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In defense of Germans (I can't believe I just typed that)
Sounds like the bratwurst and beer have gone to your head billmore. Watch who you listen to or you may end up like this patsy:

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Old 03-01-2005, 07:12 PM   #4072
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Wait a second, this impossible, how can massive socialism result in an unemployment rate so high? This must be more of the Bush lies!

No more suckling at Uncle Sammy's Tit!
Oh, this post is so hot!
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Old 03-01-2005, 07:22 PM   #4073
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In defense of Germans (I can't believe I just typed that), much of the gain was from reclassifying a ton of "I don't feel like getting up today so I must be permanently disabled" slugs from "unavailable" to "unemployed", as they try to limit or shrink the forever-entitled class.
Who knows? Once Schroeder decides to take a look at the superior American model, they may adopt the "no longer actively seeking employment" classification and those pesky employment insurance numbers (and unemployment numbers) will come right on back down, too.
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Old 03-01-2005, 09:07 PM   #4074
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German unemployment rate hits 70 year high

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I am probably stating the obvious (and of course my opinion comes from the Economist) is that Europe has such high unemployment, especially Germany, because it is so hard to fire or lay someone off in Europe.

It is so hard to get rid of employees, employers don't hire anyone until it is absolutely necessary. I used to work in Paris, and it was absotuley impossible to fire anyone. My secretary faxed confidential documents to the opposition (yes-believe it) and they could not get rid of her. The hiring process took forever (tons of interview, background checks, handwriting analysis - yes that is hand writing analysis) because the firm knew that once they hired someone they were never going to get rid of them. Germany is the worst offender at this.
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Old 03-01-2005, 09:14 PM   #4075
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I don't know why it took the Iraq war before people realized France was the enemy. My father was provost marshall at Templehoff airbase in Berlin (before the wall). If any of his troops got out of line he would threaten to send them to an American base in France (this was before De Gaulle kicked them out) and that was enough to scare anyone straight.

He was there right after the war, and the Germans, who we had bombed into the stone age were very friendly to Americans, and the French were jerks.

When Billy Crystal went to Moscow during the cold war he said that both countries did not see who the real enemy was: France.

That is why I had a bumper sticker made when I was living in Paris that said "Make Spain an Island".
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Old 03-01-2005, 09:41 PM   #4076
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whacked out rant about France
stick to the economist.

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Old 03-01-2005, 09:43 PM   #4077
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Old 03-01-2005, 09:55 PM   #4078
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Old 03-01-2005, 10:04 PM   #4079
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the French were jerks.
What do you mean by "French"? The only “French” I know of is a salad dressing, and a not so tasty one at that.

LOL!

Seriously, France is a nation of unhygienic ungrateful anti-semitic socialist 250 flavor cheese eatin’ pussies.

Ironically, my dad was stationed in France when De Gaulle quit NATO and kicked the US military command out of the bases in Saint-German-en-Laye.

At that time my two sisters and I were living in Paris attending a French school, where coincidentally we were each the top student in our respective class. I have to admit I enjoyed living in Paris as a youth, but hated the smelly frogs who made up the local populace. Not dissimiliar to living in Boston and having to put up with Red Sox and Kerry and the Kennedys.

Eitherwhichway, in another 20 years the French will be an afterthought as the country now known as France will by then be the Hezbollah Republic of Merde.
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Old 03-01-2005, 10:05 PM   #4080
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I feel like I'm being lectured to. The Word, according to Spanky. Received wisdom. Thank Spankyness he's here!
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