In another step towards the Glorious World of Next Tuesday, both the House and the Senate have passed bills that require TV commercials be broadcast at the same volume as regular programming. It is good to know that in the midst of a crippling recession, and two foreign wars, that our Congress can take time to deal with such important matters.

Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), a co-sponsor, says it's time to stop the use of loud commercials to startle viewers into paying attention. 'TV viewers should be able to watch their favorite programs without fear of losing their hearing when the show goes to a commercial.'

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I'm at a loss for any commentary at all. I couldn't believe I read something so Cube-esque like that from a US Senator. In fact, I had to read it twice to make sure it was a real quote and not a joke...

I wish Chucky had informed us of how many jobs this will create or save. Two? 2000? Buy, this will be more glorious enhancements for dearest fearless Leaders resume, will it not? And, oh my, the green energy it will save from all those battery sucking volume ups and downs we won't have to make. Maybe this is the tingle Chris Matthews had run down up his leg??!!

Which party hack dedicated servant of the people will assume the position of Czar of Equalization of Volume?

This is preemptive strike for the people to control wasteful outlay on carpal tunnel from glorious remote controller abuse. Splendid!

Fraulein Pulloskies wrote:I wish Chucky had informed us of how many jobs this will create or save. Two? 2000? Buy, this will be more glorious enhancements for dearest fearless Leaders resume, will it not? And, oh my, the green energy it will save from all those battery sucking volume ups and downs we won't have to make. Maybe this is the tingle Chris Matthews had run down up his leg??!!

I must admit that Congress dealing with such vital legislation as "volume control"
just before the elections will revitalize the people's base and lead to a Democratic Party sweep in both Houses. Brilliant !
( I'm so glad they weren't distracted by that trivial " budget" nonsense.)

I applaud Congress for passing this law!

I'm sick of having to search for the remote control every time a program breaks for commercials.

It's hard to keep it by my side when it wants to keep sliding off the arm of my sofa to the floor. And it's hard to keep it on the coffee table, because then I have to reach for it, and I end up pulling muscles which causes me enormous pain, forcing me to visit the doctor which in turn drives up health care costs.

I'm sick of grabbing the remote only to hit the wrong button, and I end up either having to re-program the TV, or turn the whole thing off and start over.

I'm sick of the ugly little red indents on the pad of my thumb from having to press on the button hard enough to bring down the volume.

I'm sick of being so frustrated by my remote control related issues, that I'm forced to use profanity in front of my children.

I'm sick of my children's school complaining about their use of profanity, and my having to explain to them that it's the fault of evil corporations producing loud commercials and remote controls that are too confusing to easily operate.

Finally, I still suffer the anguished memories of the days before remote controls were invented, when we had to actually get up and walk over to the TV to turn down the volume! And then when the commercials were over, we had to repeat the process! Over time it wore a path in the carpet straight through to the dirt floor beneath, and this was back in the pre-Obama days, when there was no government program offering tax rebates to replace carpets worn by constant marching back and forth to the TV to adjust the volume because of loud commercials.

Thank you, Congress, for doing the right thing and saving me from irreversible hearing loss, which threatens to drive up health care costs even more.

And now I shall celebrate by going to see Metallica live in concert. Since I'll be waiting in line for quite a while to get tickets, I think I'll keep myself amused by inserting my earplugs and listening to their greatest hits on my MP3. One great thing I really like about MP3's--I can crank up the volume as high as I want, without being hassled by those who would deny me my right and my choice by yelling at me to "turn that crap down!" Like, don't they know how rude it is to yell at people?

I am too pleased that I no longer have to be startled and am glad that such foresight has been thought out carefully to protect my hearings. Could we have the volume turned up a little bit more for Dear Leader, though? Please?

Commissarka Pinkie wrote:And now I shall celebrate by going to see Metallica live in concert.

Oh, girlfriend, we have to get you with the progressive scene, Metallica is so like Angry White Male™. For a good progressive Jiffi-Lobo we reccommend this hot band born in the heart of the Flower Power central of Amerika...


Just listen, do you feel those corpuscles in your synapses popping and snapping? That's Haight-Ashbury fresh Jiffi-Lobo!

This ain't Love & Rockets, it's all about the Deerhoof.

Peace, Love, & Flowers!

Now I may better ignore republican political ads without the hassle of pressing "mute"

WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?

I certainly hope Democratic party commercials are exempt from this new law! We have to shout loudly and often to get our message across!

60's Sweet Pea Flower wrote:Oh, girlfriend, we have to get you with the progressive scene, Metallica is so like Angry White Male™. For a good progressive Jiffi-Lobo we reccommend this hot band born in the heart of the Flower Power central of Amerika...

How 'bout "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"?

Commissarka Pinkie wrote:How 'bout "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"?

I denounce Iron Butterfly for contributing to delinquency of a generation of aspiring percussionists by encouraging notion of hoarding musical time with useless drum solo and encroaching on Geetard's rightful grimaced/tweedly/wanking/fuzztone/wahwah/overblown sonic space. The peoples drummer must provide beet beat.

The Party approves of placing The State's heavy boot on the neck of Evil Capitalism. Media has too long abused The People with excess volume. Technology can control this problem but it is far better for the economy if we develop another bloated bureaucracy to govern commercial volumes. After all, technology is limited in the number of jobs it can create by the natural efficiency demands of profit structures. Government bureaucracies experience no such limitations.
- Commissar of Restrictive Capitalist Encroachment (Government Bloat Division)-

Seeing this picture is not how I wanted to start my weekend. I bet this could get "60s Sweet Pea Flower" a hefty grant from the Nat'l Endowment of the Arts..........along with an exhibition in both San Francisco and Boston. Now if you will excuse me, I'm off to get this image deleted from my download files. After that, a hot shower with lots of soap and then a change of clothes. Gack ! I better open the windows while I'm at it ........

!! ! Now I know where comrade SweePea got that material!!

Commissarka Pinkie wrote:

60's Sweet Pea Flower wrote:Oh, girlfriend, we have to get you with the progressive scene, Metallica is so like Angry White Male™. For a good progressive Jiffi-Lobo we recommend this hot band born in the heart of the Flower Power central of Amerika...

How 'bout "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"?

Ummmm.... not quite. The Iron Butterfly was fly back in the day, but up in this progressive day and age, congruity has given way to the disjointed.... the Iron Butterfly has given way to the....

Colonel 7.62,

I resist the urge to report your transgression, of daring to question Comrade Schumer, who (we all know) knows whats best for the collective, by asking a simple question:

Do you NOT find your sleepy time Olbermann Transmissions disturbed by Cealis advertisements?

Comrade Buffoon, I suggest you slowly put your hands in the air, and step away from your desk. Good. Do you hear the clicking sound? Excellent. The one that sounds like the hammer on a Makarov being drawn back? Yes. That's the one. You suggest that I questioned the wisdom of Schumer, when in fact all I did was report on his brilliance. I'm not sure what is up with you thoughtcriminal, or what you did with the real Buffoon, but we have ways of making you talk. You should be flattered I'm dealing with you personally. Usually I just throw suspects out the wormhole, and see what happens. I'm also open to bribes. Just so you know.

Dear Comrade Colonel ....... on behalf of C. Buffoon, I offer you this token of esteem for your benevolence in not shooting him just yet..... I'm trying to remember if he borrowed my shovel.

Colonel 7.62, Forgive my insolence, I have been toiling in the fields and last night was the first chance at enjoying an adult beverage (or 12) in many, many moons! I am flattered that you pointed your shootin' stick at me, but we all know, that after a few, we're bullet proof! Please enjoy the fresh slab of pork that should arrive via that wormhole thingy any day now as reparations. We all know how much us progs enjoy reparations.

Krasnodar, I'm finished with your shovel but I need to power wash and disinfect it before I bring it back. Don't want any cooties moving from place to place now do we?

C.B......don't bother.....just leave it where it is. Next week, I have been honored to take your place in servicing the political officer's latrine.

Comrades, why are we surprised? For decades the French have had a law regulating the volume of television ads. Why haven't we had it before? I thought that the very reason that we elected Barry Hoohoo Obozo was so that we could be more like France.

Isn't it?

Let me present some evidence. Old joke: For sale. French rifle. Only been dropped once.

Barry bows to the King of Saudi Arabia. Now I ask you, which act hurts a nation more? Dropping a rifle or bowing to the king of a thuggish theocracy which funds people who want to kill you?

Of course we must give Barry credit. If it weren't for the Saudis, how many presidential libraries would not be nearly so grand? I admire the Saudis. At times I wish I'd bought Apple a $20 a share, compared to where it is now. But that investment is nothing like buying a presidential library.

You get to fund madrassas which train people to murder the very people who defend your liberty.

Pardon me. I need to go to the bathroom to clean up. Yes, it was that/i] good.

Once again our so-called Progressive Congress has dropped the ball by compromising with the Capitalist oppressors.

If they truly believed in CHANGE then they would have mandated turning off the volume entirely during Capitalist commercials (as well as campaign commercials for Republicans) and FoxNews.

So you see, in the end I will still have to dive for the mute button. Thanks for nothing Congress!

Whoopie, do not be disturbed. I recall in 2006 when I heard GE making great noises about going green. I figured then that GE had managed to suck on the tit of the United States. And they should--after all, it's only Bitter Clinger money. And people who don't hate Sarah Palin.

There are no capitalists any more. All the big boys are big enough to have a lot in common with the ruling class. So I never turn off the commercials. Because I know that for ever wind turbine and GE and BP ad there is some majorly great fucking of the taxpayer going on to made profits to justify the salaries of the CEOs.

[ off] You know that I am not a pink but my god there are times that some corporations make it hard to be a capitalist. "The problem with socialism is socialism. The problem with capitalism is capitalists." Just so. But then he who said that didn't know that socialists don't see themselves as having a separate identity from their movement.