Re: Radio, was prayers needed

They shouldn't have fired good ol' Bob Edwards.  I liked that guy!  I also
wish they would find a different sponsor besides ADM (Super Market to the
World)

David Franzman
A Touch of the Tropics
www.atouchofthetropics.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 2:29 PM
Subject: [CHAT] Radio, was prayers needed


> Speaking of radio, did anyone else hear the NPR news staff and
> commentators read the Declaration of Independence this morning? At
> first I was annoyed [I am easily annoyed at 6:00 AM], but by the end I
> was quite taken by it. If you want, you should be able to hear it at
> www.npr.org [click on "archives" and look around]. There seem to be
> some policy similarities between George the III and George the
> W--particularly regarding habeas corpus.
>
>
> On Friday, July 2, 2004, at 03:36 PM, Andrea H wrote:
>
> > Marge and Judy, you are both so right. Sometimes I'm appalled at what I
> > myself accept as "not so bad" or "normal" these days. I usually back
> > up and
> > go wait a minute, that's a horrible thing to show on TV, or say on the
> > radio, etc. Even the morning shows now are full of things that were
> > simply
> > not tolerated when I was a child. I can remember the first time I
> > heard the
> > word 'damn' on TV and was amazed.  And yes, freedom of speech has
> > turned
> > into say anything you want, no matter how vile, obscene (although those
> > REALLY smart people in DC still haven't clearly defined that word) or
> > even
> > ludicrous. That's another thing that amazes me, the TV shows that
> > people
> > watch not for the violent content, but for the sheer stupidity of the
> > content. Just don't get it.  OK, I'll stop.
> > A
> >
> > Andrea H
> > Beaufort, SC
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Judy L Browning" <judybrowning@lewiston.com>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 11:36 AM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Prayers needed
> >
> >
> >> Marge, you stated this very well, may I quote you? I am apalled my
> >> what my
> >> grandkids all preteen, accept as "normal" based on what they see on
> >> the
> >> tube.
> >> From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt@hort.net>
> >>> Personally (showing my age), I think TV and Hollywood are
> >>> exacerbating the situation and our freedom of speech (which I value)
> >>> has been distorted as a permission to produce worse and worse violent
> >>> trash for consumption by younger and younger humans...after a while,
> >>> the horror subsides and they become inured to violence; think it is
> >>> normal...then, that spills over into other aspects of life.  Consider
> >>> the prevalence of road rage and other sorts of "rages" that seem to
> >>> happen every day now.
> >>
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