Freedom of the press

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081126/tv_nm/us_fairness;_ylt=Ah3VefQiSZqFbp_3lBJTuyFxFb8C

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Aside from the "fairness" doctrine being violently unconstitutional, it is also uneconomical. There are 2 reasons conservatives vastly outnumber progressives/liberals on talk radio. Number 1 is entertainment. People like Sean Hannity and Jay Severin are entertaining. Agree or disagree with their ideas, politics, values, or whatever, but they are in the entertainment business, and their business is good. Reason number 2 is profitability. Radio stations exist for the same reason as construction companys, banks, gas stations, etc. They are there to make $$$$$$$$$!!! Conservatives who are inclined to listen to talk radio tend to do so during their commute to or from work. While at work they earn income, which in turn gives them money, money that they may choose to spend at a business, a business that may pay a radio station with a top rated show that targets their demographic, a demographic that works, and spends. See where I'm going here? The reason there aren't more left of center radio programs (while on TV the roles reverse) is because they don't make money. Businesses don't buy ad space on shows that are not being heard by people that can or will patronize them. Businesses that cater to low or non earning citizens (you know, businesses like ambulance chasing scum bag attornies!) find their target demographic on television, because those who would patronize them are at home, on the couch, watching the tube.

Left wing radio doesn't work. See Air America. If there is such a thing as justice, may Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, and Chuck Schumer all be tarred and feathered for their attack against liberty!

Activists or Assholes?

Let me preface this with... I am not against gay marriage. I don't see any reason to ban it. It just doesn't make a difference in my family's life. Don't get me wrong, I'm not about to march on Salt Lake City, or protest the local Sister's of Mercy in outrage over California's Proposition 8, but if I had to vote on it, I'd say live and let live, do what makes you happy.

That said, this class action lawsuit in New Jersey, and now in California, is absolute HORSE SHEEEITE! They sued Eharmony for not having a gay section, and now Eharmony must of course pay out some cash, and set up a gay site. Whatever happened to common sense. Why can't a company single out the type of people they want to serve and serve them. This is like me suing the local Ford dealership because they won't sell me a Mazda, when there are 5 Mazda dealerships within driving range. Now I'll admit I have not researched it, but I'm willing to bet a paycheck or two that there are plenty of websites out there that cater to helping gay people find a relationship. This is obviously a case of an ambulance chasing dirtbag attorney looking to make a score, regardless of how it affects his or her client.

In the end, I am inclined to believe this hurts, rather than helps, the gay communities' cause. This is just the type of stuff that causes social conservatives to say "see, they gays won't stop until they have force fed their agenda into everyone's life". What is next, suing department stores for not selling gay enough clothing, or insisting on a gay quota of workers or student admissions?

Right is right and wrong is wrong, and this lawsuit is just plain wrong!

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A Little Q & A

Question- When the CEO of GM made 14 million last year (and the company lost almost 40 Billion), and Ford's CEO made 20, why the the hell are we even considering bailing these losers out?
Answer- Because that is the precedent we have set! As tax payers, we love to bend over and say "thank you sir, may I have another".

Question- Why is it that the whores that call themselves journalists, after several months of telling us how utterly unqualified Governor Palin was for VICE President, are now trying to convince us she is the lock for the GOP nomination in 2012?
Answer- The whores want another weak opponent. I mean, Senator McCain was the media darling while up against Rudy, Mitt, and Mike. Then came the general election and all of a sudden he is George Bush the 3rd. Only the producers of SNL would be happier than the mainstream media douche bags would be with Obama vs. Palin in 4 years.

Question- Why is a President-elect Obama who is supposedly going to "change" Washington filling his cabinet with Clinton era Washington insiders?
Answer- Even he must know that Hillary (even though she is Satan) would have been a better choice.

Question- How do CEOs like Citigroup's Vikram Pandit lay off over 50,000 people, and not forgo their own year end bonuses.
Answer- I have no F'n idea! When I figure out how to cause my company to lose BILLIONS and be rewarded with multi-million dollar paychecks, I'll be sure to share the secret!

Conservative; Not Republican

All too often people assume that to be a conservative is to be Republican. Republicans were just whooped in the national election, at every level. Conservatives were not. There was not a conservative choice. John McCain is no conservative (and for those of you who love to equate the two, neither is the degenerate deficit spending W.). While the senator from Arizona tried to appeal to conservatives, most of us saw him for what he was all along, a liberal masquerading as a conservative in an attempt to "galvanize" the GOP base. Conservatives do not fight for open borders, amnesty for criminal aliens, and taxpayer funded bailouts. Nor do they fight against free speech, fair taxation, or the rights of individual states. McCain has, does, and will.

To me, true conservatism is simply "Constitutionalism". Unlike many on the left, I believe that the founders of the United States laid a path for what has become not only the greatest nation of today, but the greatest nation of all time. A leftist might like to expound on the shortcomings of the Constitution, such as not abolishing slavery or extending voting rights to women. However, the fact that these issues were corrected, through an amendment process intrinsic to it's survival, shows us that our patriotic forefathers knew that there was work yet to be done in the name of liberty. Conservatism is believing in the United States Constitution. It is believing that we are all free to govern ourselves. I believe in the rights of the individual states, and in the collective strength of the nation. I believe that a state should be free to govern itself, without the fear of the federal government withholding monies paid into by that state's residents.

My brand of conservatism is this; The federal government owes us very little, and as such we owe it very little. It owes us liberty by ensuring no states make laws that violate the Constitution. It owes us interstate transportation systems such as highways, railroads, and airports. It owes us protection in the form of a military. It owes us peace of mind in the form of reasonable regulation of financial markets and interstate/global commerce. It owes us a sense of our heritage and culture through national parks, museums, libraries, monuments, etc. While one could make a case for a few things that currently elude me, there is not a whole lot more that the federal government was intended to do.

Uncle Sam does not owe you a job, a house, an income, a clean needle, a marriage, or a sandwich. He simply owes you the right to attain these things yourself.

This is conservatism, this is freedom, this is liberty.