Much truth to that... just as Christianity was a good deal more tolerable before the Roman Empire got a hold of it and used it as an ultimate tool of aggression (even after the empire fell and the little empires grew from it's corpse). Islam in the 12/13th Century was fairly progressive for its time, these present arrogant bastards ... well, we can take the line "Jesus would smite the crap out of the people using his name" and substitute "The Prophet" for the same effect.

Ah, but in their deep dreams they want to EXPORT this psychotic need for thought-control and cultish totalitarianism to the entire world. Its like the old line about Puritanism: "The horrible feeling that someone somewhere is having fun." I don't care what you practice, stop thinking it applies to me or you may get tenfold of what you think you can dish out.

As opposed to a central corporate string-pulling government economy... yeah that was so much better (/sarcasm). Get a grip - both sides of the ocin here suck.

I have 5 phones on my family plan... at current pricing, that would be $150 extra a month for 5 data plans. Ain't happening, especially when that works out to effectively about 25GB.... that's very pricey. Even with the tiered pricing, that's still $75/month for 200MbX5. Basically, the pricing tells ME as a consumer that the telcos are unprepared for a rampage from someone like CLEAR who is positioned to offer devices with more useful data transfer volume capacity (and skype).

I'm still trying to figure out why I should pay $30/month per phone to AT&T for 5GB per phone per month (since we all know "unlimited" equals about 5GB). This is IN ADDITION to the plan rate for voice calls. Especially when a voice call is actually much more intensive an application. And no, the "tiered" plan they're introducing is bollocks as it spikes at data transfer volumes that most people will exceed by a few MB. ($15!!!! oh, one KB too many - $30) So, needless to say they have NOT reached me as a data customer with their new plans.

Well... AT&T's cost per Gigabyte certainly sold me... on NOT buying a crippled smartphone with roughly 5GB a month and they want $30 for those few GB. The cost/benefit tradeoff isn't there. I have 5 or more major cell carriers vying for my business and its more like a race to see who can charge the most and the others tag along. "Free market" ... my ass, more like Corporate Collusion. And this after getting a pile of government breaks (aka welfare) to build up their networks. Meanwhile in the rest of the technically advanced world -- things look quite different (and better).

I'd be fine with that if they'd let me bring tomatoes and cabbages to the public meetings. Then we could provide instant feedback when the village idiots tried to dominate the proceedings.

The "Parents Television Council" represents only their own bizarre agenda and its pretty insulting when they claim to represent all parents. But then they probably consider those who disagree with them as "not real parents" kind of like the wingnuts label anyone who disagrees with them "not real Americans".

It would be a real shame if StemCells mysteriously burned to the ground and all the executives, investors, and such were found to have had their brains extracted. Not that I'm suggesting anything....

Its always fascinating to me how few people *know* that little history bit about the asylums and the soon-after appearance of the terminally homeless.

Too late.... there's a lot of smoke and mirrors but its already an "empire" run by corporate heads and the plutocrats.

I'd like to say those who consider cartoons and drawings to have harmed actual children are the mentally ill ones.... but that goes right over their head.

The "think of the children" crowd strikes me as being exactly that -- THEY'RE the ones with creepy skeletons in their heads, um, closets.

Keep an eye out for the Silver Surfer

Why not just post it on one of their Facebook pages?