Comments on: And now: The $250 million Boob Tube bailout

By: Brass Knuckles › Infantile Analysis Syndrome

Brass Knuckles › Infantile Analysis Syndrome — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:05:10 +0000

[...] for the left-wing Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, which is buried in the larger Boob Tube bailout for digital [...]

By: Michelle Malkin » Another stimulus slush for liberal activists

Michelle Malkin » Another stimulus slush for liberal activists — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:26:05 +0000

[...] for the left-wing Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, which is buried in the larger Boob Tube bailout for digital TV: The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (”LCCR”) is a far left interest [...]

By: Help poor families by not subsidizing their TV? — Cranach: The Blog of Veith

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:30:25 +0000

[...] The airwaves are going digital, so the government is giving out coupons to help people who need them buy converter boxes. Now the program is out of money and the government is looking for more. [...]

By: Obama lowers expectations, raises taxes; Surprise Surprise! « Riggword Weblog

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:55:15 +0000

[...] So I guess this means that we all will be paying for his programs, government bailouts, stimulus packages, welfare increases, wilderness expansions, the greening of America, boob tube buyout….etc. [...]

By: robert537

robert537 — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 02:22:46 +0000

What am I going to do when Blu-Ray replaces DVD?

Will the gubmint start handing out $40 coupons to help buy a Blu-Ray players?

Oh, and Windows 7 might be as big a resource hog as Vista and my PC is old and slow… perhaps a coupon I can used to buy a newer and faster PC?

I’d like an iPhone too…

Amazing what I can find in the penumbras and emanations in my copy of the Constitution.

Really, they should just remove the malarkey about protecting and defending the Constitution from the oaths our dear leaders take.

By: ButAsForMe! » And now: The $250 million Boob Tube bailout

ButAsForMe! » And now: The $250 million Boob Tube bailout — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:31:19 +0000

[...] And now: The $250 million Boob Tube bailout Quick Read: [...]

By: Jeremiah Films

Jeremiah Films — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:04:14 +0000

Trillion dollar job creation would make a lot of people rich but will it create jobs…

Are tax payers going to trust but not verify these people? If we due-diligently look at history, this will fail. We will go down in history as the generation that squandered our children inheritance; if not judged for something worse. …

By: purplepeep

purplepeep — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:50:53 +0000

Kairee_Anne said:
Was just reading my Constitution and nowhere in there was there the right to T.V. Could someone help me out here?

I don’t think you really wanna follow that line of reasoning, Kairee. Aftterall, there’s no right to highways in the Constitution either.

There’s also no right to go to the bathroom, But I expect most folks can’t hold it in all their lives!

By: Pickle

Pickle — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:29:13 +0000

I’m not one to defend bailouts, but it’s the federal government’s fault that people are going to need these converter boxes, so yeah, it’s only right that the stupid government pay for them. They’re mandating all television be digital, even free-to-air antenna signals.

By: Jeff2161

Jeff2161 — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:03:38 +0000

I think wareagle82 is hallucinating on the Blue pill.

By: Kairee_Anne

Kairee_Anne — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:45:42 +0000

Was just reading my Constitution and nowhere in there was there the right to T.V. Could someone help me out here?

By: RW_the_original

RW_the_original — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:58:43 +0000

This program is a scam anyway. I ordered a couple of coupons to hook up to stand alone DVRs and never got them. When I went online to see what was going on it said I had been sent coupons with serial numbers on them but they had expired unused. They can tell that they were never used, but they still won’t replace them. It sounds a little too convenient to have a policy like that.

By: happyscrapper

happyscrapper — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:28:13 +0000

On January 9th, 2009 at 2:06 pm, WarEagle82 said:

I know my theories are crazy and are just a product of a lot of current events all converging at the same time. I will get over it. But there sure are a lot of very strange coincidences going on here, starting with that convenient economy collapse just in time for The One to win the election. Things are accelerating. Maybe some of my thoughts are a bit crazy, but some many not be so far off the mark.

By: WarEagle82

WarEagle82 — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:06:32 +0000

The government has never stopped playing with the electromagnetic spectrum. They have made changes to the way frequencies are allocated since they first started allocating frequences. This is just the latest round in changes and the most major change to the UHF and VHF frequencies ever.

Note to happpyscrapper. Why do you suppose digital broadcast signals make government control of content any easier than analog signals? You may not have gone off the deep end but you are certainly close to the edge!

By: The Trillion Dollar ‘Stimulus’ Pork Barrel And Your Taxes « The Underground Conservative

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:58:16 +0000

[...] the fund to give a free digital TV converter to anyone who wants one — paid for by taxpayers — is broke and needs a bailout to the tune of, oh, say, $250 [...]