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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court Tuesday seemed split over the threat that vulgar words broadcast on television might pose to American children.
A liberal justice questioned the Bush administration's crackdown on broadcasters, while a conservative justice suggested television had helped desensitize viewers to offensive language.
since my kids are now old enough? i don't care not!
seriously? why are filthy words not OK, while the ads for viagra and cialis are explicit and legal? oh and on ten times every nite at primetime.
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"seriously? why are filthy words not OK, while the ads for viagra and cialis are explicit and legal? oh and on ten times every nite at primetime."
And a thousand times a month on every email address in the world! Kids email too.....
Then, every time I arrange the filters to find and stop them, they figure out how to bridge that gap.
It does no good to just erase them, thinking that after enough of us do that the expense of the mailing will bog them down or, as with surface mail, scratch on "return to sender", so they have to pick up that cost too, as the cost of a billion emails is negligible.
Any way, my dingle doesn't dangle when I need it, so they offer nothing I can use.
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Glass... You clearly are not taking your "Enzyte" or you would be smiling just like Bob
I like the "Extenz" commercial... You know, the one with the woman who closes her eyes every time she claims it will "make you larger, regardless"...
Vulgarity doesn't bother me, and truth be told, kids probably learn cuss words from their friends at school and slips of their parent's tongues before they learn them from watching TV. I know I did when I was a kid, and we didn't even have the "TV Parental Guidelines" back then.
Personally? I'd rather have my kids see a comercial with sexual content than watch a show or movie with death, guns and violence that seems to be the norm these days...
Seriously, instead of wasting time trying to be parents, the Supreme Court should let parents be the parents and spend their time deciding more important issues.
JMO, though. NR.
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It is politics, dirty dishonest Party line politics, that brought the case before the Court.
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"Personally? I'd rather have my kids see a comercial with sexual content than watch a show or movie with death, guns and violence that seems to be the norm these days..."
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I would rather not have had kids or my grandkids see any of the above to the extent they are today.
As far as desensitizing viewers, i am not sure that is a good thing if it is a constent thing like today, because the true reality and the consequences of death and sex may become tainted.
Of course it is really about dollars and cents and not about whether it is good or bad for anyone like so many other things today.
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I'd rather have my kids see a comercial with sexual content than watch a show or movie with death, guns and violence that seems to be the norm these days...
Miss. Public TV has hunting shows on several times a week and they akshuully show kill shots, bow and gun...
i've always hunted and fished, heck i had to pith everybodies frogs in biology class...
but i can't imagine them showing kill shots on TV where i grew up in MD. or quite few other places... in the 80's ted nugent produced a bow-hunting video that created quite stir cuz it showed kill shots..
on cable? sure, but on public TV?
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What is missing in it all is that almost all kids today grow up in town and, unlike it used to be, don't get to see the cattle and the chickens and the pigs just being what they are.
Those once upon a time kids knew where puppies and horses and chickens came from and what made it happen by the time they were 4 or 5 years old. They had to, because when they grew up (happened a lot sooner then, maybe by 14 or 15 or even less), they needed to understand how to do it in order to feed their own kids.
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