REACTION

It's only a few days before the presidential primaries, and I have been bombarded and pummeled with political broadcast content and advertising to the point that I am dreading the next nine months of broadcast television viewing. Continuing the futile quest of achieving any degree of broacast veiwing enjoyment, until this November, following the election.. God save us from the mass media, and thank you for the creation of satellite & cable TV, video tapes, and DVDs, that give some releif from the voluminous presentation of pre-election political horseshit on television!

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Rosa Rosales, President of the League of United Latin American Citzens, said to Lou Dobbs in front the audience during a live television dialogue about the United States' construction of fences along the U.S./Mexico border, "...what did President Reagan tell Gorbachev? Tear down that wall (built in Berlin by the East German communist regime.)...Now we want a new wall (border of Mexico)...What did he say?" This conversation at the CNN Broken Borders town hall meeting show televised from San Antonio, Texas, brings this personal thought to my mind. I believe Rosa needs to realize that we are erecting fences on our Southern border to keep illegal entry into the U.S., not our citizens from leaving this country. There's a significant difference. Source: Broken Borders -  Lou Dobbs Tonight of CNN Cable News Channel. Historical background. On August 13th 1961, Soviet and East German troops started construction of the "Berlin Wall" to prevent the escape of people to the democratic run area of West Germany. It would stand 18 years as a symbol of the Cold War.

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A Christian evangelist on the television I was watching the other night, said something to the effect that God has ten commandments or laws...we (mankind) make and maintain a lot of laws that don't work or solve our problems...so we should look totally to God's laws as the solution to all life's problems. I think this man should consider before looking to the Ten Commandments as a total human problem remedy, that it is those laws we generate and enforce in the United Sates and elsewhere in the world that allow him in fact, to stand on stage before the audience and television cameras, and say just that. If our laws were not created and enforced, and the government, law enforcement & military defended our county, civilization and economic interests with only a Bible and God's Ten Commandments, including "Thou shalt not kill," he, with all probabability would not be able to delivery his religious views in such an open and free manner. He instead, would be totally vulnerablebe to attack, repression, and forced into secrecy of speech and assembly for worship...amen.

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After watching the unrelenting unfolding of the Anna Nichole Smith body custody fight, I thought, "The woman is dead...leave her alone already!" 

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