Nice work Franken..but many of the people of this nation are too stupid to understand the gravity of what this merger means until much later on when they open their cable-satellite bills and see the HUGE increases that will come.
the FCC did approve the merger like every other agency of the government it is bought by the corporations..the FCC commissioners should be investigated for their crimes against the people
As a conservative, usually I don't agree with any Democrat. I do listen though, And on this Issue I have to agree with the Senator. Later after this is won, I'll get back to the usual BS of picking on him and telling him he's wrong. Until then I'll support in this fight. Only this fight, no other fight, just this one, for now. I hope you'll support him on this issue also.
@nilbud That real intteligent and you give your view with so much class. So what set you off the fact you're close minded and hate anyone not like you or that mommy won't let you dress up in her clothes anymore? The only Ass I've detected here is you.
@rujiel17 wrote "and then he won" ........lol...only a liberal would call stealing an election winning. What laws are you people going to break to try and "win" in 2012?
@mytube373 Hah, you think he's *stole* an election? As if it would be one of the by far least corporate senators to be found stealing elections. You want real election theft, the republicans have continually been pushing to remove the right to vote for blacks by requiring people to bring valid drivers' licenses? One in five blacks don't have them! Do you really think Acorn was targeted for any other reason than the fact that it recruits minority voters? Please. Learn from this: v=xtkzPFxn5tc
@rujiel17 Are you kidding? Acorn targeted? They were simply video taped doing what they do. I guess they made themselves a target. And your argument about blacks needing Id is B.S. They can get state picture id's without getting a drivers license. Liberals are just trying to make if easy for illegal immigrants to vote. Thats VERY un-American.
@mytube373 And what do you think they were video taped doing? If you believed Breitbart's account, they were videotaped helping a guy dressed like a pimp. In reality (and even the mainstream media didn't make this correction for months), the guy and girl were not dressed as such when they entered the building. "They can get state picture id's without getting a drivers license.".. "can get" Well guess what, hundreds of thousand of black people don't have them, which's why that facet was targeted.
@mytube373 You're a retard. Your gullible idiotic mind wouldn't be able to understand reality any more. You're bought and sold you fucking ignorant cowardly bag of incest.
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LOL Franken you act like you are worried about the cable TV market yet just last year you help to fuck ever man woman and child in America with Obamacare.
Normally Al I think you're a Bonehead, But I have to agree with you on this one. Anything that keeps NBC from getting any bigger I'm for, On the flip side I DON'T want the Government controlling content either.
@1Guitarslayer - The only thing that was ever made mandatory on the subject was that it was mandatory for us homosexuals to take shit from pricks like you without any rights to our own dignity and humanity. Nobody's going to make homosexuality mandatory. I am much more afraid of going back to the way people like you want it to be. You're only upset because you're not getting entirely your way all the time. Surprise, asshole, there are other people in the world besides you.
@paganbear I am waiting to see how the4y handle this homosexual issue at our military academies.
Will they pair the cadets up at the military academy? Will they pair them up at the Naval Academy? Will they assign homosexuals to share a room with a heterosexual midshipman? I asked my son, a USNA grad, what he would have done had he been assigned a room with an openly gay midshipman. He said he wouldn''t do it.
@1Makyo You are making it much more complicated than it actually will be. And my question to you is, if your son really said that, what did you do in return? Did you inform him that he's a bigot? Or is that okay with you that he is one? Of course that's the problem... homos are the last acceptable prejudice, and for some reason, the one that's dying hardest.
@paganbear I'm 74. My generation was much different from the current one.. Back in the day, for me, everyone's mom was pretty much the same. Queer was a crime against nature, an abomination before God. a filthy dirty vile depraved practice. My sons are both much more liberal than I ... They are more accepting and tolerant than my generation. No credit to me for that, I still feel the same way mom did. The USNA one though, said he would not serve with an openly gay room mate assignment.
@NotEasilyRegimented - the thing is, it was never acceptable. What are we saying? Someone's different, so we hate them... everyone was doing it, so it was just the thing to do. That's the point. We can't wake up as a people if we don't realize what's wrong was wrong, whether it was wrong in a few people or wrong as a cultural whole.
@NotEasilyRegimented - Apparently you need to look up the word strawman. I'm not delusional enough to think my being right is going to change anything, especially when you clearly demonstrated you're not going to give up your wrong attitude. I don't declare myself a winner at all. History will.
@paganbear We are being turned from a JudeoChristian value based society and nation to a Secular one. We are abandoning Gods natural laws of cause and effect, for the unstable, lust, and greed of man's law. liberals are breaking down the moral values that preserved us through great wars and hardship. they no longer teach the young to aspire to higher ideals. After all the ignorant are more easily indoctrinated. now watch the death of our nation. Gays have broken the live and let live rule.
@speakoutbrad Actually, we're being turned from a nation with a separation of church & state into one with reckless religion-driven politics, thanks to people like you who think you know (rather than believe) what God wants, forgetting you aren't the only one with values, and that yours alone are not what this nation was based on. Equality for all is not a deterioration of values, but a perfection of them. Yes, you are ignorant and easily indoctrinated as your words prove. I'm not under your god
@speakoutbrad And it's absolutely laughable that gays break a live-and-let-live rule simply fighting for their equality! You just stood here telling me that somehow my way of life is deteriorating your country, as though I should be destroyed. You don't see us trying to make heterosexuals unequal under the law. I'm so sick of you people preaching about values when really all you're doing is devaluing people, saying we have no values when we most certainly do. Ours are just not based on hate.
Yeah, well, when you decide that people can be treated equally regardless of sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, etc., let me know.
Until then, and until you decide that as a member of the U.S. military, you are to defend freedom and equality for ALL, you as an individual do not have this Americans support.
@BlackBird89460 Fairly and equally applies to all who act dignified.
Anyone who has a cock stuck in his ass or mouth can no way look dignified or act dignified. Those who demand tolerance for behavior that is intolerable are lunatics. Fine to expect respect for doing things that command respect.
So you're saying that just because someone has a different sexual preference, that because their sexual orientation is different than that of your own and of that which you deem "correct", "proper" and "normal", then they don't deserve equality?
To deny anyone of equal rights is the definition opposite than that of what it means to be an American.
@1Makyo The funniest thing is, my line was factual (based on what you yourself said by calling other people animals) while yours is a generic kneejerk response for lack of anything else to say.
@BlackBird89460 I've been an American for 74 years. During those years, homosexuality was never considered normal. Never considered correct, or proper. Equality creeped into the conversation only very lately as part of the politically correct mantra that infects and infests our populace now. Being an American, and equal rights including gay marriage has never been true.
Yeah, and slavery used to be considered fine and normal. Just because you considered something one way back in the stone age doesn't mean should've been so.
Homosexuality was considered normal in ancient Greece. And homosexuality occurs and IS normal in many animal species, including humans.
So why should we deny Americans equal rights on the basis that homosexuality was believed to be abnormal in the past.
On that argument, slavery should be legal now because it was in the past.
@HeisenbergSleptHere You seem to be confusing human nature with what's right and wrong. Cannibalism and incest exist in the animal world. Your point? Even then, homosexuality can't be compared to any of those you mentioned. Just because homosexuality was a bad thing for desert-dwelling herders 4000 to 2000 years ago doesn't mean it's a bad thing for today's society. Same thing for eating pork or getting a tattoo.
@1Guitarslayer I was at the VA hospital today. There was a new brochure about trauma Can't remember the exact words they chose to describe the malady, to define it, but it said you can actually get disability if you were sexually harrassed while you were in the military and if you claim harm from it. Hell, when I was in the Navy, people said "fuck you " to me most every single day. I wonder if I can get any disability for suffering that sexual harassment.?
Controlling media giants and providers begins with removing the ability to spend anything at all on a political campaign.
There should be a set amount of aired timeslots for logically regulated debate that each candidate has access too, such that they would have a fixed amount of allowed coverage that all running mates would share in an equal portion; while a panel of judges interrupts when logical fallacies are used.
Anything less and you get the animal circus we call "debate".
My focus today is to find ten people who will post this video and the petition to their FB page and ask their friends to do the same! Anyone else up for the clicks for the cause? Hope so!
Comcast will slow YouTube to a crawl unless you pay them more. They slowed my internet connection from 7 mbps to .51 mbps because i signed up and used NetFlix for 2 weeks. They said if I wanted 7 mbps and NetFlix, I would have to pay $96.00 more dollars a year!
Comcast will slow internet access to all the internet sites it does not have a vested interest in. In other words they will have the power to slow down their competition.
I signed today ! My Internet provider, Digis.net just cut my bandwidth back to .51 mbps download because I signed and used Netflix for 2 weeks. This is called "Throttling" and they were un apologetic about it. Of course it was after I paid them $42.95 for the month. If you have NetFlix then watch out, they will limit you bandwidth also.
They said they could get me back up to 7 mbps and still use NetFlix but I would have to pay them $96.00 more dollars a year!
He's 100% correct this is just a first battle and an important one. We will need at least somewhat of a bipartisan effort from the people to push against this. I've signed it.. please do the same and pass it along to someone else you think should / would care.
Kinda funny the rats are turning on one another....Like big Corp dont already control the flow?!.. So What now... instead of 5 big corps owning all info now well have 2 ?
Here is what I know.... NONE of them tell the truth or report real news that will unite the people! They all have the same boss they all are whores to the master pimp with the fat pockets...Just throw that dam TV in the trash and start talking to your neighbor..Take care of home and the rest will work out...
I have Digis.net as my internet provider. I pay 42.95 a month for 7mbps speed. (5mbps download and 2 mbps upload)
Fir the last 24 hrs my internet speed was cut down to .51mbps download and .49 mbps upload. When I called to complain (and assumed they were just doing maintenance) they told me for the first time in 3 years that I had exceeded my bandwidth limit for the month.
They said it was due to my Netflix subscription. Evidently my new limit is 60mb download per month now.
@rainiertx I wish you knew what you are talking about. He introduced legislation to protect YOUR internet service and YOUR access to Youtube. He also went after civilian contractors who were in Iraq and had gang raped a young girl but never went to jail because they were exempt form the law. That my friend is not only credible but honorable.
@MrYoubrian I think you need to look that up becasue there is NOTHING in his record to back your claim. There is however a lot of things that suppport my claim. Go to vote smart.org.
@MrYoubrian I'm not sure I would consider YouTube as your only source of information. It's more credible to go straight to the actual records. Because someone says it on YouTube does not make it so. And what's with the verbal attacks? Someone kick you in the ovaries or steal your purse?
@rainiertx What is with the nasty comments about how I was automatically wrong? I only mentioned YouTube as a source because I figured you were ALREADY on that page and it was the fastest and the easiest for you.
I am sorry if I was rude.................((now it's your turn).
@MrYoubrian I do not peruse YouTube for valid data. They are very good at providing entertainment but in my opinion not much more than that. I will reciprocate in kind and apologize as well.
@AzureKiru A business came up to me and offered me a t-shirt. I asked the price. They said $10. I politely declined. They offered it for $5. I declined again and they left.
Government came up to me and demanded I buy a t-shirt. I asked the price. They said $10. I politely declined. I'm now serving a sentence in jail.
Thank you AL and Franny for your courageous vigilance on our behalf. PLEASE, PLEASE don't fly in any small airplanes; we cannot afford another Wellstone "accident".
I just can't get over the fact that Stuart Smalley is now a Senator, but I geuss he's good enough, he's smart enough and doggone it, people like him! Letter signed.
@100crawma: Thats your right. Its a free country and everyone is entitled to an opinion. I find it pointless to argue about politics as it rarely accomplishes anything, so I won't argue with you. I'm sure you have your reasons that you strongly believe in for your feelings. I do need to point out though, that you misspelled Senator Frankens name in your reply to me. You left out the n before the k.
I fully support the failure of this approval by the FCC and Justice Deptartment. I already find my google search results filtered by my I.P. fully identifying my location. Skewed and bias weighted search results followed later by network accessiblity with restricted access to media, knowledge, and world news let the hands of the few and preverting the original intent of the internet.
@BloodRedChorizo *** I don't drink coke. and I do drink lots of water-diabetes....I was just saying all a person has to do is buy a product that was advertised on NBC to support them...which I'm pretty sure you do. So without having to pay Comcast directly, you support the products, which in turn, indirectly supports Comcast and NBC. It will affect everyone at one time or another. And since you're sitting there at the computer yourself, I assume your experiencing the world for free too?
@CliffM85 And just what freedom is there to be lost in corporations being unable to discriminate what you and I can access on the internet? This is the bottom line of network neutrality.
@rujiel17 Complete stagnation happens when there is no competition. I'm utterly against Network Neutrality as it stagnates the industry. Options are what we need, not one government-controlled package. If you pay more, you get more. Simple as that. If you can't afford it, you move down to a lower package. I did that with my cell phone and I'm just fine with it.
@CliffM85 there is no stagnation - it just doesn't work that way for this medium. people pay for a datarate and they get a datarate for which to access all services publically available, having consumers pay companies for access to a service an individual wishes to make public is just plain wrong on so many levels.
@CliffM85 true but you can release your book as a pdf on the internet now, freely distributed via your homepage or via torrent or ftp hosting. zero costs in the latter cases.
of course, should net neutrality go through the window, this can be entirely up to your provider to block you from seeding your data (which they are highly likely to do anyway, even if your data is completely legal to destribute) or prevent you from uploading it, should they object to the content or the hosting.
@CliffM85 true but you can release your book as a pdf on the internet now, freely distributed via your homepage or via torrent or ftp hosting. zero costs in the latter cases.
of course, should net neutrality go through the window, this can be entirely up to your provider to block you from seeding your data (which they are highly likely to do anyway, even if your data is completely legal to destribute) or prevent you from uploading it, should they object to the content or the hosting.
@moralreef I could, if I wished too. I want it in paper format though. And I'll pout if I don't get it for free!
Then I'll go to another provider. That's how competition works. As if all of a sudden all the corporations will think "You know what, they'll stay with us if we charge more and give less!". *rolls eyes*
@CliffM85 it doesnt help that our ISPs unilaterally hate methods of large-scale data sharing and by allowing mergers with media corporations to happen, we will likely see the total death of the torrent, the secured sharing of sensitive human rights materials, or simply free sharing of legitimate publications. if we are to be intelligent consumers, it can't just be the tech users who are going to keep tabs on the companies methods, it has to be EVERYONE, and everyone just aren't informed enough
@moralreef Trust Big Brother. They'll never do you wrong. Freedom is Slavery.
No, it just has to be consumers. If the people don't like their provider, they go to a new one. I know, I work at a location where I sell broadband cards and internet related items (routers, modems, etc).
@CliffM85 you've just ignored every point i've made.
and you are assuming the government "owns" the internet backbone infrastructure, and also that i "love" large government. both are fatal misnomers.
and why are you assuming your shitty desk job at maplins or whatever equates to the finer points of network engineering, 7-tier network services and the history of internet ownership?
there are nuances and finer points to this, and repeated dated libertarian rhetoric is NOT the answer.
@moralreef Right, the answer is putting our trust into a government that constantly lies to us and swindles us out of our money. A government that couldn't possibly be swayed by lobbyists.
Hey Al, how about we focus on the whole freedom for Americans part first? You know, legalized gay marriage, ensuring homosexuals can adopt, legalization of prostitution and marijuana?
@CliffM85 i mean come on dude, "network neutrality"? its there in the name, a neutral network! that means people want a network that is not restricted by an ISP OR Government!
@CliffM85 i really don't think you understand network neutrality as a concept. its not some political buzzword, it's been established as a concept of then-future business service since the 70's. you have to understand it means neither government or the telecoms company should not be involved in altering certain user's privileges for the same service. i mean; i'm just repeating myself here.
i'm getting the strong feeling you're completely out of your depth on this issue. just some talking head.
Ha ha ha they bought NBC anyways.
Aethan001 1 month ago
Nice work Franken..but many of the people of this nation are too stupid to understand the gravity of what this merger means until much later on when they open their cable-satellite bills and see the HUGE increases that will come.
orland9999 7 months ago
what, did you just wake up from a drunken stupor, Franken is just a hack comedian looking to get a show in 5 years.
wakeup4321 11 months ago
This guy sure has an irritating voice. It's amazing that he made it as an actor and a politician.
MaryWaterton 1 year ago
AL we need someone like you in Canada.
Stevenio 1 year ago
This guy for prezzz!!! and that's coming from someone who live in Canada. He's right, look whats happening up north. 25 GB caps on dsl!!!
RoyaleCafe 1 year ago
We can't let Corpations Take our TV and Internet. Thank You AL..
Dockrocket1 1 year ago
the FCC did approve the merger like every other agency of the government it is bought by the corporations..the FCC commissioners should be investigated for their crimes against the people
xadam2dudex 1 year ago
This is happening all over here in the UK Murdoch's of this world need to be taken out of the media totally they have to much power.
Plus Ban all Lobbyists
Let the People decide mind you if your given no other choice what do you do.
happionecom 1 year ago
As a conservative, usually I don't agree with any Democrat. I do listen though, And on this Issue I have to agree with the Senator. Later after this is won, I'll get back to the usual BS of picking on him and telling him he's wrong. Until then I'll support in this fight. Only this fight, no other fight, just this one, for now. I hope you'll support him on this issue also.
speakoutbrad 1 year ago
@speakoutbrad You're a grade A shithead go support something else, net neutrality doesn't need the smell of ass you provide.
nilbud 11 months ago
@nilbud That real intteligent and you give your view with so much class. So what set you off the fact you're close minded and hate anyone not like you or that mommy won't let you dress up in her clothes anymore? The only Ass I've detected here is you.
speakoutbrad 11 months ago
FrankenFail!
billz1rtc 1 year ago
If you want to know where the flow of information be, then look at your address bar on this browser page.
generation1313 1 year ago
Why are people crying about the faggots when the issue at hand here is the FUCKING JEWS at Comcast and NBC trying to create a monopoly?
dotdotdash2 1 year ago
big corporations, isn't nbc a pig corporation, for 40 years spewing hate a bought most Americans to peas the far left like you.
wakeup4321 1 year ago
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@wakeup4321 ROFL you're such a bag of scum you're completely illiterate. Looks like another teabagging dimwit barely able to wipe.
nilbud 11 months ago
Well they did it Al, Comcast is going to merge with NBC. You can thank Obama for that too. Thanks for fighting Al, but it wasn't enough.
rightwingnutcake 1 year ago
Good thing i don't have comcast.
guyv00 1 year ago
A message from Senator Franken,
I'm Not Good Enough, I'm Not Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Don't Like Me!
mytube373 1 year ago
@mytube373 Funny, this sort of shit was pushed when the whole of talk radio was pooh-pooing the idea of Franken winning.. and then he won. Cry more.
rujiel17 1 year ago
@rujiel17 wrote "and then he won" ........lol...only a liberal would call stealing an election winning. What laws are you people going to break to try and "win" in 2012?
mytube373 1 year ago
@mytube373 Hah, you think he's *stole* an election? As if it would be one of the by far least corporate senators to be found stealing elections. You want real election theft, the republicans have continually been pushing to remove the right to vote for blacks by requiring people to bring valid drivers' licenses? One in five blacks don't have them! Do you really think Acorn was targeted for any other reason than the fact that it recruits minority voters? Please. Learn from this: v=xtkzPFxn5tc
rujiel17 1 year ago
@rujiel17 Are you kidding? Acorn targeted? They were simply video taped doing what they do. I guess they made themselves a target. And your argument about blacks needing Id is B.S. They can get state picture id's without getting a drivers license. Liberals are just trying to make if easy for illegal immigrants to vote. Thats VERY un-American.
mytube373 1 year ago
@mytube373 And what do you think they were video taped doing? If you believed Breitbart's account, they were videotaped helping a guy dressed like a pimp. In reality (and even the mainstream media didn't make this correction for months), the guy and girl were not dressed as such when they entered the building. "They can get state picture id's without getting a drivers license.".. "can get" Well guess what, hundreds of thousand of black people don't have them, which's why that facet was targeted.
rujiel17 1 year ago
@mytube373 You're a retard. Your gullible idiotic mind wouldn't be able to understand reality any more. You're bought and sold you fucking ignorant cowardly bag of incest.
nilbud 11 months ago
@nilbud I'm sensing that you are slightly stressed. This will make you feel better......
Palin/Bachmann 2012
mytube373 11 months ago
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LOL Franken you act like you are worried about the cable TV market yet just last year you help to fuck ever man woman and child in America with Obamacare.
Oh shut the fuck up you communist bastard.
MrSTANDFORAMERICA 1 year ago
Fox news bad,comedians Franken,Stewart good.LOL
TheKaos007 1 year ago
Normally Al I think you're a Bonehead, But I have to agree with you on this one. Anything that keeps NBC from getting any bigger I'm for, On the flip side I DON'T want the Government controlling content either.
billz1rtc 1 year ago
Video kept locking up and buffering while I watched. Coincidence?!
yoginidiva 1 year ago
video kept locking up and buffering while I watched. Coincidence?!
yoginidiva 1 year ago
Signed. And passed on to others.
paganbear 1 year ago
I'm a conservative but I agree with Senator Franken on this issue 100%...Thank you AL.
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fuck this liberal asshole... when I joined the military it was illegal to be homosexual, then it became optional and now it's legal.
I'm getting the hell out before Obama makes it mandatory!!!
1Guitarslayer 1 year ago
@1Guitarslayer - The only thing that was ever made mandatory on the subject was that it was mandatory for us homosexuals to take shit from pricks like you without any rights to our own dignity and humanity. Nobody's going to make homosexuality mandatory. I am much more afraid of going back to the way people like you want it to be. You're only upset because you're not getting entirely your way all the time. Surprise, asshole, there are other people in the world besides you.
paganbear 1 year ago
@paganbear I am waiting to see how the4y handle this homosexual issue at our military academies.
Will they pair the cadets up at the military academy? Will they pair them up at the Naval Academy? Will they assign homosexuals to share a room with a heterosexual midshipman? I asked my son, a USNA grad, what he would have done had he been assigned a room with an openly gay midshipman. He said he wouldn''t do it.
1Makyo 1 year ago
@1Makyo You are making it much more complicated than it actually will be. And my question to you is, if your son really said that, what did you do in return? Did you inform him that he's a bigot? Or is that okay with you that he is one? Of course that's the problem... homos are the last acceptable prejudice, and for some reason, the one that's dying hardest.
paganbear 1 year ago
@paganbear I'm 74. My generation was much different from the current one.. Back in the day, for me, everyone's mom was pretty much the same. Queer was a crime against nature, an abomination before God. a filthy dirty vile depraved practice. My sons are both much more liberal than I ... They are more accepting and tolerant than my generation. No credit to me for that, I still feel the same way mom did. The USNA one though, said he would not serve with an openly gay room mate assignment.
NotEasilyRegimented 1 year ago
@NotEasilyRegimented - the thing is, it was never acceptable. What are we saying? Someone's different, so we hate them... everyone was doing it, so it was just the thing to do. That's the point. We can't wake up as a people if we don't realize what's wrong was wrong, whether it was wrong in a few people or wrong as a cultural whole.
paganbear 1 year ago
@paganbear You can set up your own strawman, argue against it, and declare yourself a winner all day long. It won't change a thing.
NotEasilyRegimented 1 year ago
@NotEasilyRegimented - Apparently you need to look up the word strawman. I'm not delusional enough to think my being right is going to change anything, especially when you clearly demonstrated you're not going to give up your wrong attitude. I don't declare myself a winner at all. History will.
paganbear 1 year ago
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@paganbear Just how delusional ARE you?
NotEasilyRegimented 1 year ago
@paganbear We are being turned from a JudeoChristian value based society and nation to a Secular one. We are abandoning Gods natural laws of cause and effect, for the unstable, lust, and greed of man's law. liberals are breaking down the moral values that preserved us through great wars and hardship. they no longer teach the young to aspire to higher ideals. After all the ignorant are more easily indoctrinated. now watch the death of our nation. Gays have broken the live and let live rule.
speakoutbrad 1 year ago
@speakoutbrad Actually, we're being turned from a nation with a separation of church & state into one with reckless religion-driven politics, thanks to people like you who think you know (rather than believe) what God wants, forgetting you aren't the only one with values, and that yours alone are not what this nation was based on. Equality for all is not a deterioration of values, but a perfection of them. Yes, you are ignorant and easily indoctrinated as your words prove. I'm not under your god
paganbear 1 year ago
@speakoutbrad And it's absolutely laughable that gays break a live-and-let-live rule simply fighting for their equality! You just stood here telling me that somehow my way of life is deteriorating your country, as though I should be destroyed. You don't see us trying to make heterosexuals unequal under the law. I'm so sick of you people preaching about values when really all you're doing is devaluing people, saying we have no values when we most certainly do. Ours are just not based on hate.
paganbear 1 year ago
@NotEasilyRegimented
Bigots are psychotic.
0mikr0n 1 year ago
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@0mikr0n Are you prejudiced against bigots?. Against bigotry?.
Are you going to claim you are not a bigot? Not psychotic?
NotEasilyRegimented 1 year ago
@1Guitarslayer then why are you so eager to get fucked in the ass by NBC and Comcast?
reaperpro 1 year ago
@1Guitarslayer
Yeah, well, when you decide that people can be treated equally regardless of sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, etc., let me know.
Until then, and until you decide that as a member of the U.S. military, you are to defend freedom and equality for ALL, you as an individual do not have this Americans support.
Thank you and good day.
BlackBird89460 1 year ago
@BlackBird89460 Fairly and equally applies to all who act dignified.
Anyone who has a cock stuck in his ass or mouth can no way look dignified or act dignified. Those who demand tolerance for behavior that is intolerable are lunatics. Fine to expect respect for doing things that command respect.
1Makyo 1 year ago
@1Makyo
Tell me, who is to say that it is intolerable?
Your intolerance is intolerable. Therefore, you sir are the lunatic.
BlackBird89460 1 year ago
@BlackBird89460 Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
1Makyo 1 year ago
@1Makyo
So you're saying that just because someone has a different sexual preference, that because their sexual orientation is different than that of your own and of that which you deem "correct", "proper" and "normal", then they don't deserve equality?
To deny anyone of equal rights is the definition opposite than that of what it means to be an American.
BlackBird89460 1 year ago
@BlackBird89460 You deserve equal rights with dogs.. Same sexual proclivities.
1Makyo 1 year ago
@1Makyo
You deserve no rights. Yet I'm still willing to give you the rights you want to deny others.
BlackBird89460 1 year ago
@BlackBird89460 You have nothing to give.Minion. See you in tartarus.
GreatSatan1 1 year ago
@1Makyo Oh look, a human who thinks he isn't an animal. How quaint.
rujiel17 1 year ago
@rujiel17 Oh look, a human who acts like a dog. Licked any ass lately?
1Makyo 1 year ago
@1Makyo The funniest thing is, my line was factual (based on what you yourself said by calling other people animals) while yours is a generic kneejerk response for lack of anything else to say.
rujiel17 1 year ago
@rujiel17 You don't think people are animals? Or, you just don't think at all.
TAMARLANE 1 year ago
@TAMARLANE I do think they are, read what I responded to.
rujiel17 1 year ago
@rujiel17 Does a dog have Buddha nature?
TAMARLANE 1 year ago
@BlackBird89460 I've been an American for 74 years. During those years, homosexuality was never considered normal. Never considered correct, or proper. Equality creeped into the conversation only very lately as part of the politically correct mantra that infects and infests our populace now. Being an American, and equal rights including gay marriage has never been true.
TAMARLANE 1 year ago
@TAMARLANE
Yeah, and slavery used to be considered fine and normal. Just because you considered something one way back in the stone age doesn't mean should've been so.
Homosexuality was considered normal in ancient Greece. And homosexuality occurs and IS normal in many animal species, including humans.
So why should we deny Americans equal rights on the basis that homosexuality was believed to be abnormal in the past.
On that argument, slavery should be legal now because it was in the past.
BlackBird89460 1 year ago
@BlackBird89460 animal kingdom? you mean the same animals that practice cannibalism and eating their own young. Incestuous animals. ????
Who would deny them their rights? WE DON"T DENY DOGS THEIR RIGHTS>
HeisenbergSleptHere 1 year ago
@HeisenbergSleptHere
Elephants, bison, caribou, dolphins, orcas, penguins...
do they "practice cannibalism and eat their own young"?
BlackBird89460 1 year ago
@HeisenbergSleptHere You seem to be confusing human nature with what's right and wrong. Cannibalism and incest exist in the animal world. Your point? Even then, homosexuality can't be compared to any of those you mentioned. Just because homosexuality was a bad thing for desert-dwelling herders 4000 to 2000 years ago doesn't mean it's a bad thing for today's society. Same thing for eating pork or getting a tattoo.
rujiel17 11 months ago
@1Guitarslayer I was at the VA hospital today. There was a new brochure about trauma Can't remember the exact words they chose to describe the malady, to define it, but it said you can actually get disability if you were sexually harrassed while you were in the military and if you claim harm from it. Hell, when I was in the Navy, people said "fuck you " to me most every single day. I wonder if I can get any disability for suffering that sexual harassment.?
1Makyo 1 year ago
@1Guitarslayer fuck this liberal asshole... when I joined the military it was illegal to be homosexual, then it became optional and now it's legal.
I'm getting the hell out before Obama makes it mandatory!!!
1Makyo 1 year ago
Ah, I can't wait for the day that we can vote this boob out.
ladylordess 1 year ago
Controlling media giants and providers begins with removing the ability to spend anything at all on a political campaign.
There should be a set amount of aired timeslots for logically regulated debate that each candidate has access too, such that they would have a fixed amount of allowed coverage that all running mates would share in an equal portion; while a panel of judges interrupts when logical fallacies are used.
Anything less and you get the animal circus we call "debate".
JoshReflek 1 year ago
This is Frankens funniest skit to date.
mytube373 1 year ago
I got yo back al.
Bushiey 1 year ago
My focus today is to find ten people who will post this video and the petition to their FB page and ask their friends to do the same! Anyone else up for the clicks for the cause? Hope so!
laurasIs2c 1 year ago 2
f--k Franken and f--k all the jew haters here---
100crawma 1 year ago
@100crawma Al Franken is Jewish so does that mean that he hates himself???
terry1919 1 year ago
@terry1919 no the nobs posting here,you arent very smart are you?
100crawma 1 year ago
@100crawma gee thanks for you well though out response...
NOT!!
you may now return to your opium and hashish induced stupor
terry1919 1 year ago
Thank you Al Franken. We need a modern Teddy Roosevelt so that the world will not turn into a total Plutacracy.
Karlcarl 1 year ago 3
@FrankenForSenate may I post this on my youtube channel to you know...get it out there?
strikeah 1 year ago
And who controls all media?
Find out the difference between Torah Jews (Essenes), and Talmud Jews (Babylonian):
"The Talmud teaches that the extermination of Christians is a necessary sacrifice."
Who Is Esau-Edom? Zionism, Edomite Deception and Murderous Psychopathy:
Weblink (remove the spaces): h t t p :// w w w . scribd . com/doc/19745589 / Who-is-EsauEdom
OR
Weblink (remove the spaces): h t t p :// w w w . scribd . com/doc/46566146 / Who-is-Esau-Edom
openallstations 1 year ago
You guys think this is funny!!????
Comcast will slow YouTube to a crawl unless you pay them more. They slowed my internet connection from 7 mbps to .51 mbps because i signed up and used NetFlix for 2 weeks. They said if I wanted 7 mbps and NetFlix, I would have to pay $96.00 more dollars a year!
Comcast will slow internet access to all the internet sites it does not have a vested interest in. In other words they will have the power to slow down their competition.
MrYoubrian 1 year ago
I signed today ! My Internet provider, Digis.net just cut my bandwidth back to .51 mbps download because I signed and used Netflix for 2 weeks. This is called "Throttling" and they were un apologetic about it. Of course it was after I paid them $42.95 for the month. If you have NetFlix then watch out, they will limit you bandwidth also.
They said they could get me back up to 7 mbps and still use NetFlix but I would have to pay them $96.00 more dollars a year!
MrYoubrian 1 year ago
13 Comcast and NBC executives thumbed-down this video.
RWDixon8r 1 year ago
This is a jewish mind trick dont listen ! He wants you to think dems are here to help BS!
fixmyhvac 1 year ago
@fixmyhvac . Find out the difference between Torah Jews (Essenes), and Talmud Jews (Babylonian):
"The Talmud teaches that the extermination of Christians is a necessary sacrifice."
Who Is Esau-Edom? Zionism, Edomite Deception and Murderous Psychopathy:
Weblink (remove the spaces): h t t p :// w w w . scribd . com/doc/19745589 / Who-is-EsauEdom
OR
Weblink (remove the spaces): h t t p :// w w w . scribd . com/doc/46566146 / Who-is-Esau-Edom
openallstations 1 year ago
Why does he care? NBC is the lib's bitch.
the82spartans 1 year ago
@the82spartans This is not about libs or conservatives, alot of libs super the merger itself about freedom of the press and the distribution of it.
DSD1v57BG32 1 year ago
Thank you Senator. Corporate control of our legislature and media is bad enough without this happening. I have signed.
seamoremonster 1 year ago 2
His voice reminds me of the joker's
SgtPhysh 1 year ago
Teabaggers are really concerned about gay rights. And they want to blame Obama for that shitty taste in their mouths.
xjlmt 1 year ago
More than 50% of the comments on this channel come from a few PR firms so we know what we are supposed to think about it ...
ThingNation 1 year ago
Douchebag central ... and here's the head douchebag ...
jakedraper 1 year ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Who's side were you on when you helped to force ObamaCare on us. Now, help us repeal it, so the country can breathe again.
AryanBlade 1 year ago
I signed and contributed.
gatomjp 1 year ago
He's 100% correct this is just a first battle and an important one. We will need at least somewhat of a bipartisan effort from the people to push against this. I've signed it.. please do the same and pass it along to someone else you think should / would care.
bioshake 1 year ago 11
Kinda funny the rats are turning on one another....Like big Corp dont already control the flow?!.. So What now... instead of 5 big corps owning all info now well have 2 ?
Here is what I know.... NONE of them tell the truth or report real news that will unite the people! They all have the same boss they all are whores to the master pimp with the fat pockets...Just throw that dam TV in the trash and start talking to your neighbor..Take care of home and the rest will work out...
dmhappy2777 1 year ago
Hey Al, you gave the bailouts to the wallstreet clowns , when you could of given that cash to start-ups that could compete with these crooks.
midwestcharm 1 year ago
Didn't Al steal his election? I think we should fight back against politicians that STEAL electioncs like Al.
micsc50 1 year ago
@micsc50 good point wasnt he voted in by dead people
100crawma 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Who are the 11 Comcast employees who have given this video a down-thumb?
This is one of the most important issues of this decade and millennium, and no ones realizes it.
davidryal 1 year ago
Who are the 11 Comcast employees who have given this video a down-thumb?
This is one of the most important issues of this decade and millennium, and no ones realizes it.
davidryal 1 year ago 2
@davidryal Yes, not gay rights. Not the right to do with your body what you choose. Nay, two corporations merging trumps those two.
CliffM85 1 year ago
go fuck yourself you marxist filth,try creating some jobs, you suck
100crawma 1 year ago
NBC is Liberal TV, so what's all the Hubub Bub ? Scared they may go Conservative in the future ? LOL
hobo59 1 year ago
I just donated and signed the letter.
MrYoubrian 1 year ago
I got hit today.
I have Digis.net as my internet provider. I pay 42.95 a month for 7mbps speed. (5mbps download and 2 mbps upload)
Fir the last 24 hrs my internet speed was cut down to .51mbps download and .49 mbps upload. When I called to complain (and assumed they were just doing maintenance) they told me for the first time in 3 years that I had exceeded my bandwidth limit for the month.
They said it was due to my Netflix subscription. Evidently my new limit is 60mb download per month now.
MrYoubrian 1 year ago
5 Comcast employees didnt like this video.
CubanCangri 1 year ago 2
He was more credible as Learnard Smalley. As a Sentator he's even more of a joke.
rainiertx 1 year ago
@rainiertx I wish you knew what you are talking about. He introduced legislation to protect YOUR internet service and YOUR access to Youtube. He also went after civilian contractors who were in Iraq and had gang raped a young girl but never went to jail because they were exempt form the law. That my friend is not only credible but honorable.
MrYoubrian 1 year ago
@MrYoubrian I think you need to look that up becasue there is NOTHING in his record to back your claim. There is however a lot of things that suppport my claim. Go to vote smart.org.
rainiertx 1 year ago
@rainiertx "I think you need to t look that up"??????
Try this.
1. Look up.
2. Type in 'AL FRANKEN RAPE HEARINGS'.
3. Look at the 19 YouTube videos that will appear on the subject.
4. Learn what KBR is and who Jaimie Leigh Jones is.
5. Actually watch the videos.
And last, try not to look so stupid to everyone who reads your comments from now on. Do your homework.
If you haven't,then you are either dumb or lazy. And I am afraid they don't have an APP for that........
MrYoubrian 1 year ago
@MrYoubrian I'm not sure I would consider YouTube as your only source of information. It's more credible to go straight to the actual records. Because someone says it on YouTube does not make it so. And what's with the verbal attacks? Someone kick you in the ovaries or steal your purse?
rainiertx 1 year ago
@rainiertx What is with the nasty comments about how I was automatically wrong? I only mentioned YouTube as a source because I figured you were ALREADY on that page and it was the fastest and the easiest for you.
I am sorry if I was rude.................((now it's your turn).
MrYoubrian 1 year ago
@MrYoubrian I do not peruse YouTube for valid data. They are very good at providing entertainment but in my opinion not much more than that. I will reciprocate in kind and apologize as well.
rainiertx 1 year ago
Idiot
14blond09 1 year ago
So, against 'corporate control of the media' VS Gov'ment control of the media, eh?
The FCC must learn to obey and work for the people. It is now corrupt beyond its original intent to govern the airways, which the PUBLIC OWN!
Now, about the past mergers that NOW allow a Broadcast and a Newsprint media to own the same interests in one region?
Too late, peeps. Bastards have us by the balls.
PS. Better 'Big Business Interests in a FREE MARKET than GOV'MENT CONTROLL at any time. Kay?
the82spartans 1 year ago
WTF d00d I NEED MY NETFLIX
DargetaZ 1 year ago
f anyone needs to be held responsible its the cities giving regional monopolies to companies providing internet
klined 1 year ago
Al Franken: Douche bag liberal SELL-OUT! He's completely full of sh*t
bs1174 1 year ago
@bs1174 how is he a sell-out? this is the opposite of a sell-out, right here.
moralreef 1 year ago
@bs1174 Typical conservative taking the cock of a giant business up their ass. How's that feel, slut?
AzureKiru 1 year ago
@AzureKiru A business came up to me and offered me a t-shirt. I asked the price. They said $10. I politely declined. They offered it for $5. I declined again and they left.
Government came up to me and demanded I buy a t-shirt. I asked the price. They said $10. I politely declined. I'm now serving a sentence in jail.
CliffM85 1 year ago
Shit shit shit! Signed the letter the instant the video ended. Didn't even need to think about it.
Dammit, I think we could use another Teddy Roosevelt.
Skaarjguy 1 year ago
Signed and delivered... ty Al.
JourneyzPath 1 year ago
as michelle tanner would say, you got it dude
jawkneeboy 1 year ago
I do agree with all you say, but couldn't have possibly said this in a more boring manner.
Arrygoo 1 year ago
@Arrygoo i actually thought it was very heartfelt. i mean what do you what do you want him to do, scream at the camera?
moralreef 1 year ago
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tigerborn62 1 year ago
Signed, no hesitation. Whabam.
LostCorrectly 1 year ago
Thank you!!!
bellylaughing 1 year ago
Thank you AL and Franny for your courageous vigilance on our behalf. PLEASE, PLEASE don't fly in any small airplanes; we cannot afford another Wellstone "accident".
thatwomanwiththehair 1 year ago
I just can't get over the fact that Stuart Smalley is now a Senator, but I geuss he's good enough, he's smart enough and doggone it, people like him! Letter signed.
HeyRadialMoon 1 year ago
I fully support Senator Franken and his opposition to this merger. He's right, we can't remain silent. Thank you Senator Franken.
lloydbarker 1 year ago 26
@lloydbarker i fully oppose al fraken-- he is a clown
100crawma 1 year ago
@100crawma: Thats your right. Its a free country and everyone is entitled to an opinion. I find it pointless to argue about politics as it rarely accomplishes anything, so I won't argue with you. I'm sure you have your reasons that you strongly believe in for your feelings. I do need to point out though, that you misspelled Senator Frankens name in your reply to me. You left out the n before the k.
lloydbarker 1 year ago 2
@lloydbarker fair enough
100crawma 1 year ago
exposing the lie of feminism and supporting men: MANHOOD101. COM
thenfm 1 year ago
2 Comcast executives did not like this video.
gojirra5 1 year ago 19
Comcast and NBC-Universal voted thumbs down.
rkkim 1 year ago 3
@rkkim that was a good comment :)
nopepsicoke 1 year ago
I support. I hope others can see what consequences this merger will have in the decades to come.
sulbrij 1 year ago
I fully support the failure of this approval by the FCC and Justice Deptartment. I already find my google search results filtered by my I.P. fully identifying my location. Skewed and bias weighted search results followed later by network accessiblity with restricted access to media, knowledge, and world news let the hands of the few and preverting the original intent of the internet.
CherryStreetTheater 1 year ago
Signed and shared.
phantom6 1 year ago
@BloodRedChorizo *** I don't drink coke. and I do drink lots of water-diabetes....I was just saying all a person has to do is buy a product that was advertised on NBC to support them...which I'm pretty sure you do. So without having to pay Comcast directly, you support the products, which in turn, indirectly supports Comcast and NBC. It will affect everyone at one time or another. And since you're sitting there at the computer yourself, I assume your experiencing the world for free too?
daenas 1 year ago
i love you al franken, youre my public hero!
thegagan 1 year ago
Trust the government or trust corporations?
I'm for the merger.
CliffM85 1 year ago
@CliffM85 you are entitled to your opinion, so am I and with that said, you are an asshole.
clarencemiller3 1 year ago
@clarencemiller3 How ever shall I live with myself now?
Bush: I want to give the government more power and take some freedom from you!
Liberals: *RAGE*
Obama: I want to give the government more power and take some freedom from you!
Liberals: YAY!!! :D Desudesudesudesudesu!
CliffM85 1 year ago
@CliffM85 And just what freedom is there to be lost in corporations being unable to discriminate what you and I can access on the internet? This is the bottom line of network neutrality.
rujiel17 1 year ago
@rujiel17 Complete stagnation happens when there is no competition. I'm utterly against Network Neutrality as it stagnates the industry. Options are what we need, not one government-controlled package. If you pay more, you get more. Simple as that. If you can't afford it, you move down to a lower package. I did that with my cell phone and I'm just fine with it.
CliffM85 1 year ago
@CliffM85 So you're okay with giant corporations owning all the gateways of information? You don't think there is a conflict? You sir, are a moron.
grapenutsrbt 1 year ago
@grapenutsrbt Owning all gateways to information? No, absolutely not. Thankfully this is nothing like that. Hyperbole FTW!!!! :D
CliffM85 1 year ago
@CliffM85 also dont do that ftw crap. you just work in that whole "goon in a pork-pie hat" image
moralreef 1 year ago
@CliffM85 there is no stagnation - it just doesn't work that way for this medium. people pay for a datarate and they get a datarate for which to access all services publically available, having consumers pay companies for access to a service an individual wishes to make public is just plain wrong on so many levels.
moralreef 1 year ago
@moralreef I want to make my book public. Perhaps the publishers won't charge me for their time or materials to get it out into the market?
CliffM85 1 year ago
@CliffM85 true but you can release your book as a pdf on the internet now, freely distributed via your homepage or via torrent or ftp hosting. zero costs in the latter cases.
of course, should net neutrality go through the window, this can be entirely up to your provider to block you from seeding your data (which they are highly likely to do anyway, even if your data is completely legal to destribute) or prevent you from uploading it, should they object to the content or the hosting.
moralreef 1 year ago
@CliffM85 true but you can release your book as a pdf on the internet now, freely distributed via your homepage or via torrent or ftp hosting. zero costs in the latter cases.
of course, should net neutrality go through the window, this can be entirely up to your provider to block you from seeding your data (which they are highly likely to do anyway, even if your data is completely legal to destribute) or prevent you from uploading it, should they object to the content or the hosting.
moralreef 1 year ago
@moralreef I could, if I wished too. I want it in paper format though. And I'll pout if I don't get it for free!
Then I'll go to another provider. That's how competition works. As if all of a sudden all the corporations will think "You know what, they'll stay with us if we charge more and give less!". *rolls eyes*
CliffM85 1 year ago
@CliffM85 it doesnt help that our ISPs unilaterally hate methods of large-scale data sharing and by allowing mergers with media corporations to happen, we will likely see the total death of the torrent, the secured sharing of sensitive human rights materials, or simply free sharing of legitimate publications. if we are to be intelligent consumers, it can't just be the tech users who are going to keep tabs on the companies methods, it has to be EVERYONE, and everyone just aren't informed enough
moralreef 1 year ago
@moralreef Trust Big Brother. They'll never do you wrong. Freedom is Slavery.
No, it just has to be consumers. If the people don't like their provider, they go to a new one. I know, I work at a location where I sell broadband cards and internet related items (routers, modems, etc).
CliffM85 1 year ago
@CliffM85 you've just ignored every point i've made.
and you are assuming the government "owns" the internet backbone infrastructure, and also that i "love" large government. both are fatal misnomers.
and why are you assuming your shitty desk job at maplins or whatever equates to the finer points of network engineering, 7-tier network services and the history of internet ownership?
there are nuances and finer points to this, and repeated dated libertarian rhetoric is NOT the answer.
moralreef 1 year ago
@moralreef Right, the answer is putting our trust into a government that constantly lies to us and swindles us out of our money. A government that couldn't possibly be swayed by lobbyists.
Hey Al, how about we focus on the whole freedom for Americans part first? You know, legalized gay marriage, ensuring homosexuals can adopt, legalization of prostitution and marijuana?
CliffM85 1 year ago
@CliffM85 i mean come on dude, "network neutrality"? its there in the name, a neutral network! that means people want a network that is not restricted by an ISP OR Government!
moralreef 1 year ago
@moralreef Dude, "Patriot Act". It's PATRIOTIC! It's right there in the NAME!!!
CliffM85 1 year ago
@CliffM85 i really don't think you understand network neutrality as a concept. its not some political buzzword, it's been established as a concept of then-future business service since the 70's. you have to understand it means neither government or the telecoms company should not be involved in altering certain user's privileges for the same service. i mean; i'm just repeating myself here.
i'm getting the strong feeling you're completely out of your depth on this issue. just some talking head.
moralreef 1 year ago
@CliffM85 equating the patriot act to network neutrality proves you understand very little of this