Brian:

After watching the video about "Net Neutrality" I attempted to follow up with a "comment" to the FCC about this latest assault on our freedom and sanity. To my surprise, the FCC site came up quickly, looking for all the world... as an informative and easy to access site. Just try to contact them. You will get more Obama shield defenses than a cat in a cage with a pack of wild dogs. They don't want to hear from commoners... only lobbyists with fat wallets.

These blithering idiots in Washington are the problem. They set things up for their cronies... the networks and cable companies plus the satellite providers. Remember the day when you could turn on your TV and get anywhere from two to sixteen local stations for free (depending on where you live)?

Then we let them "go big" with cable and satellite TV for a fee.
Now, with the most inexpensive package they offer, you can get 125 channels that include 90% commercials, 9% adware laden, halfway decent shows and 1% of your local TV broadcasters. All of them are hellbent on "dumbing us down" as a nation and as individuals. If that is not bad enough... at least 10% of the channels on my satellite provider (pick any of them) or go to cable and get the same thing... spanish language broadcasts and shows with spanish language over-dubbing the english original transcript.

We are a nation of fools. The only weapon we have in our arsenal is to turn off your TV and unsubscribe to this mindless blather. It is impossible to get real news from any U.S. source via TV. In fact, if you want world news, CCTV (the Chinese Communists) provide better coverage than any U.S. source including CNN and Fox. (Sure it's slanted... but I don't have to listen to a panel of journalists trying to tell me what I need to think about the news.)

May God have mercy on us all. I pray nightly that he will send a plague to Washington DC and the band of robber barons dwelling there... including our extreme court of buffoons appointed for life by Presidents of all stripes. I'd rather see them appointed by a panel of homeless people... and then stand for election in order to keep their job after three or four years. That way we could hold them accountable for judicial legislation and striking down the will of the majority with one swoop of a judge's pen. Democracy never had a chance in America... it is only a dream. (Democracy means majority rule!)

If this is a rant... I'm sure as hell not sorry!

Dave