An Important Message from Al Franken

By Wednesday January 12, 2011

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  1. gildersleeve says:
    1/12/2011 at 8:06 pm

    I don’t wanna watch the video – gimme text!

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  2. boupierre says:
    1/12/2011 at 8:40 pm

    Some anecdotal evidence from Canada (Great White North).

    In Canada, we have extreme concentration of cable, TV stations and ISP ownership. Although we have a regulatory framework, the regulators do not appear to be that interested in protecting consumers.

    The result is that the content available on Netflix Canada is a small percentage of what is available in the US. The reason for this is that the purchasers of content in Canada acquire all rights to the content (broadcast and digital), which means that Canadians choice is quite limited.

    Franken is right that a vertical integration will ultimately result in limited consumer choice and higher prices.

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  3. chris says:
    1/12/2011 at 9:44 pm

    #32 “Tax revenues is doublespeak. Unregulated money is quasi-doublespeak. ”

    Not so much. Tax revenues are monies collected by the government through taxation. Unregulated money in politics isn’t a new story, but it was made worse by the Citizens United decision.

    I don’t speak in code.

    #34 “Progressives are a clear and present danger”

    You seem to have inflammatory bowel to mouth disease. I’m pretty sure you’re thinking of the Tom Clancy movie where the President sends in the black ops squad. That is pretty bad, but semi-farcical.

    If you mean the term in a more historical way it refers to speech that is too dangerous to be given protection by the First Amendment. In other words political opinions you disagree with ought to be silenced.

    Either way that makes you a ghastly twit.

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  4. Alfred Persson says:
    1/12/2011 at 11:08 pm

    #43 Progressives always prove they hate free speech…anything that contradicts progressive thought…

    The recent shooting excellent example, it was used to call for a revived Fairness Doctrine, others labeled Fox News, Palin, Limbaugh…hate speech which should be banned…

    Supreme Court Kagan argued the Government has a obligation to negate free speech…skewing it in its favor…

    The FCC should be defunded. If Franken wants to legislate, that is what he should do, not bow down to a unelected bureaucracy that has already flouted the will of both Congress and the courts, and enacted Net Neutrality…which is a trojan horse for controlling the NET..

    I do not trust any government, least of all the Obama regime which is covertly subverting the constitution, to further its progressive agenda.

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  5. SCMProfessor says:
    1/13/2011 at 6:23 am

    Did someone forget the laugh track?

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  6. El Polo Loco says:
    1/13/2011 at 7:13 am

    TAXATION = THEFT

    It may be majority condoned, legalized theft, but it is theft none the less.

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  7. Floyd says:
    1/13/2011 at 9:00 am

    Alfie is his own laugh track. So is El Pollo Loco, apparently.

    There is no such thing as a free lunch, and the Feds and states have to pay for the workings of government, so we have taxes. Think about it…

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  8. tcc3 says:
    1/13/2011 at 9:35 am

    Crazy Chicken – its not theft. Its what you owe; the cost to run your government.

    If you think all taxation is theft, please feel free to pack up and go to one of the many tax free Utopias available.

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  9. Alfred Persson says:
    1/13/2011 at 10:16 am

    #47 I thought about it…bet you are a dependent, not a taxpayer.

    Those on the dole shouldn’t be allowed to speak, or vote…they should shut up, and thank us.

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  10. Alfred Persson says:
    1/13/2011 at 10:44 am

    #48 Spoken like a true non taxpayer, taxes are theft of time.

    Time is money, when they tax, they steal my time, my precious time.

    Taxpayers work months for the Government = slaves to the Government, before they are allowed to keep some of it for themselves.

    Except parasites…those on the dole…

    They talk about taxation like its fair…like it ain’t theft…because they don’t pay taxes…

    Just the other day I met a dependent, utterly shocked I didn’t like our fraud and wasteful government…he likes it…he gets a check…I don’t, I pay and pay and pay and no one bails me out…

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  11. Alfred Persson says:
    1/13/2011 at 10:48 am

    Franken didn’t steal the election to kiss FCC butt, or did he?

    He’s a legislator…if his proposal has any merit, then he should produce a bill and see if his fellow senators agree…

    What a dickhead

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  12. tcc3 says:
    1/13/2011 at 11:41 am

    A slave wouldn’t be allowed to leave. As I said before, please exercise your freedom by moving to a tax free Utopia.

    Put up or shut up Alfred. Why would you continue to let yourself be “stolen” from?

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  13. Mr. Fusion says:
    1/13/2011 at 2:34 pm

    Alphie’s prescription ran out again.

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  14. El Polo Loco says:
    1/13/2011 at 4:18 pm

    #52 Does the US government own every piece of land within its borders? If so, that would make this a feudal territory, instead of a republic. The US government does ACT like a feudal state, since you pay RENT, er, i mean, property taxes. If you ever stop paying your feudal lords, serf, you will lose your property and everything on it.

    And pray tell, where would I move? To another serfdom? Or to a country with a majority of people who understand LIBERTY and FREEDOM even less than the serfs who live in the US?

    I’d rather stay here, and try to convince people that we’re not free. At least as long as I still have the right to free speech. When that goes, so will I! Then you’ll be happy to be rid of me! ;) Will you still be happy to live in the US? We’ll see…

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  15. El Polo Loco says:
    1/13/2011 at 4:32 pm

    #48 You make faulty assumptions: 1. That I asked for these gubment services, and 2. That the free market couldn’t provide these services, or better yet, provide them in a better capacity and at lower prices. You see, the gubment is a monopoly, and monopolies are ALWAYS bad for the consumer. Instead of forcing me to pay for, lets say, schools, the gubment could allow me to choose between home schooling, a private school or their suck-butt public school. You might say, hey, you’re allowed to home-school your kids or send them to private school, but, I’d have to pay twice. I’d still have to pay property tax, then pay for the private school or stay home from work to school them myself. And if I have no kids and never plan to have any, I’d still have to pay property taxes, a large percentage of which goes to paying for public schools.

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  16. tcc3 says:
    1/13/2011 at 8:28 pm

    Crazy Chicken

    Wait, you mean to tell me that there aren’t half a dozen free market, tax free anarchies to choose from? And none of them are better than the US to live in?

    I’m shocked, SHOCKED I tell you.

    You and Alfred make it sound so simple. I figured there must be plenty, if only you had the bus fare to get there.

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  17. el polo loco says:
    1/14/2011 at 6:46 am

    Tcc3

    Care to name them? Or describe their locations?

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  18. tcc3 says:
    1/14/2011 at 8:07 am

    Wow, you’re not crazy, you’re stupid. You missed the entire point.

    Perhaps you can buy a clue on the free market.

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  19. El Polo Loco says:
    1/14/2011 at 3:20 pm

    tcc3

    No, I got your point exactly. I’m just emphasizing that there aren’t any. That doesn’t mean there never was or there never will be. It just means people don’t understand freedom or liberty, so they continue to live happily under this version of tyranny and slavery because it’s much better than the other tyrannies that are out there. It’s like the house slave comparing his situation to the field slave.

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