The peace you experience tonight and forever--never mind the end of countless, irritable, reaches for the remote--is courtesy of the nanny state.
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It brings me no satisfaction to say I agree with Simple, and if brought about by Nanny State Democrats then good for them....
I hate having to scramble for the remote because some A*Hole is screaming at the top of his lungs on my tv. I think commercials have the right to present their goods and services, but not at levels far above the ordinary bounds...
Good legislation. Tell me where I am wrong RMG.... We are headed for a 'Fiscal Cliff' and the country just elected a dope whose motto is 'Forward'.
Over all I've waited Y E A R S for a post like this from Festus ... and here it is ... my friggin TV set is now safe from loud commercials. Good work Dems, take the rest of the week off.
Molon Labe
Now ask me how much it would cost me to re-new a gun license in MA for the last 10 years ... : )
Like I said, good work Dems take the rest of the week off. : ) Molon Labe
And you know what really bugs me about TV's, or at least all the TV's I've ever used? There is no way to fade up the volume from zero or mute, if it had been set too loud and you don't want to wake someone up when you turn it on or turn off mute, you're out of luck, or rather the person that was sleeping is out of luck (or, in my case, both of us are out of luck). You have to endure the sudden barrage of noise while holding down the volume-down button for about three seconds until it gets down to the quite volume you wanted it on to begin with. Really annoying, and there is nothing that can be done about it. Even if you successfully get it into mute mode before it starts, you can't unmute it gradually. I miss the old volume knob sometimes.
I was just looking at the stone monument on Cambridge Common next to the tree where Washington took command of the Continental Army for the first time (the tree is still alive!). I know that he was speaking specifically about their immediate common efforts in fighting the British, but it also applies to our whole country still to this day:
Washington's General Orders given at Cambridge, July 4, 1775 "The Continental Congress having now taken all the Troops of the several Colonies, which have been raised, or which may be hereafter raised, for the support and defence of the Liberties of America; into their Pay and Service: They are now the Troops of the United Provinces of North America; and it is hoped that all Distinctions of Colonies will be laid aside; so that one and the same spirit may animate the whole, and the only contest be, who shall render, on this great and trying occasion, the most essential Service to the great and common cause in which we are all engaged."
For about ten years the colonies remained sovereign states, but that didn't work too well, and so the agreed to become one nation by adopting a common Constitution and electing Washington as the first President. The Constitution is not designed to hinder the government of the new Nation, rather to help it become a "more perfect union" and all distinctions of the colonies be laid aside.
