Don't use the lounge bathroom for a while.

[texas1928]

There was a knock at the door and it was Agent Mike and I was trying to flush the evidence and well...

[FuzzySlippers]

1. Gawds! We really need to redecorate bad!!!

[texas1928]

2. Yes it is kind of 70's drive-in motel in there.

it is sad.

[azmouse]

3. Help me out. Who's Agent Mike?

I've heard him referred to before but I have no idea who he is. Help!

[FuzzySlippers]

9. According to DU lore, Agent Mike is the FBI agent

who monitors the site.

[TheBaldyMan]

37. check out the 'Equal Time' slot at DU's home page

IIRC Agent Mike is the Secret Service agent that monitors Bob Boudelang. (But don't tell Bob)

Equal Time with Bob Boudelang

[LynneSin]

4. I pray and I pray that's chocolate pudding I'm looking at

:puke:

[texas1928]

11. At one time it might have been.

:P

[madinmaryland]

5. What died inside of you????

:hurts:

[texas1928]

14. I tried to hold it.

But Shit happens.

[madinmaryland]

20. Why does Sundog hate your smilie?

And where has sundog been recently?

[texas1928]

22. I changed my smilie

It used to be the sad walk smilie. I don't know where he is, probably on one of his breaks.

[momophile]

6. what's worse is when you live in an apartment building...

and you know that most of that shit isn't yours... but there it is anyway... backing up in your bathroom because you live on the first floor and the main pipe out of the building gets clogged by roof tiles that the construction guys let drop down the exhaust pipe... you can hear the people above you flush... and then you get to see what they just did...

:puke:
sorry...

[texas1928]

13. Thanks for the image.

LLOOOOOVVVVVVVVEEELLLLLLLLLYYYYY

[momophile]

27. you started it!!

:hi:

[texas1928]

28. NUH UH!!!!

Did not!!!


:P

[Deja Q]

7. Why does the brown look more inviting than the turquoise?!

:wow:

[texas1928]

12. Well brown goes with blue.

I don't know.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

42. Yeah, so people say...

But ewww, still. I'd never wear it together...actually, I never wear brown. Brown is not a good color on a lot of people.
Duckie

[hfojvt]

8. is that anywhere near

the mod's hot-tub?

[texas1928]

10. No you have to have the gold key to get into the Mods bath and orgy area.

We are not privvy to that.

[Hardrada]

44. Not privy to their privy?

[riona]

15. lock him in with a snorkel

[texas1928]

17. Who?!?

ME?!?

What did I do?!?

[riona]

23. jeez, agent mike

unless you'd like to stay while he's looking around

[texas1928]

24. Nope

I got out of there as soon as it started backing up.

[hfojvt]

29. I thought you meant

JPGray since he is all pysched to clean bathrooms and all

sigh - somebody will probably call the lounge janitor :hide: but screw ya, I'm going on break.

[texas1928]

30. You are the lounge janitor?

Man

[hfojvt]

35. who's more qualified?

it's my job IRL.
I just like the status of having keys to the place.

[texas1928]

36. So is the Mods Bath and orgy area as filthy as we hear?

Give us the poop.

[BikeWriter]

16. Just like VietNam, it brings new meaning to the term deep shit.

[texas1928]

18. It's about knee deep.

so I guess that is deep.

[Oeditpus Rex]

19. Don't tell the Freepers

They'll want to come over for a pool party.

[texas1928]

21. I will keep it down on the low down.

:D

[MrScorpio]

25. That looks like someplace in Europe

Just saying

[texas1928]

26. Nah the two toilets are for

well you know. So we can give each other support.

[riona]

32. i'm confused

which toilet overflowed - and what's that in the one on the right? you'll need waders until roto rooter arrives.

[texas1928]

34. Well go in there and look.

Agent Mike was in there for a while.

[matcom]

31. your soap holder doesn't match

i'm just sayin'

[texas1928]

33. Talk to the management around here.

They set it up.

[In_The_Wind]

38. Darned that Agent Mike!

He gets around.

[texas1928]

39. Yes he does.

Scared the crap out of me.

[In_The_Wind]

40. I know just how you feel.

I've got one lil thing scaring the crap out of me about now.

[texas1928]

41. What's that?

[In_The_Wind]

43. I can't reveal any deep dark secrets ~ Agent Mike is listening!

[norml]

45. Memo to Kevin Martin: GROW UP.

Thursday, March 16, 2006
Memo to Kevin Martin: GROW UP.


This latest round of indecency penalties is chock full of absurdities. A PBS documentary on "The Blues" gets slapped? Does the FCC chairman think he is doing any good with idiot rulings like these?

On the jump, Jonathan Rintels and the group TV Watch put the matter more elegantly.

Time's Jamie Poniewozik runs down the list of alleged miscreants and notes that Oprah was not, in fact, fined for her midday sex talk. "Lesson: The American people must be protected from indecency on extremely popular programs that they have overwhelmingly chosen to support--even at the cost of millions to broadcasters and taxpayers. But at the cost of ticking off Oprah? Let's not get crazy here."

The following statement was issued by Jonathan Rintels, Executive Director of the Center for Creative Voices in Media, in reaction to today’s FCC decisions on "indecent" television programming.

“Today’s FCC indecency decisions put creative, challenging, controversial, non-homogenized broadcast television programming at risk,” says Jonathan Rintels, Executive Director of the Center for Creative Voices in Media.

“These decisions illustrate the significant problems with the Commission’s enforcement of its indecency rules. They are vague, arbitrary, insufficiently attuned to the context and quality of the program, and bear no relation to “contemporary community standards,” as the Commission’s own rules require. They substitute the Commissioners’ creative and artistic choices for those made by media artists. And they will undoubtedly result in increasing amounts of self-censorship of protected speech by media artists and broadcasters.

“The Commission correctly notes that it may regulate indecent material ‘only with due respect for the high value our Constitution places on freedom and choice in what people may say and hear.’ That ‘due respect’ is not evident in these decisions.

“Especially alarming is the Commission’s fining of Martin Scorsese’s acclaimed documentary, ‘The Blues: Godfathers and Sons.’ Scorsese, one of America’s most respected filmmakers, produced ‘The Blues’ for America’s public television stations, a remarkable series of films directed by such greats as Clint Eastwood, Charles Burnett, Mike Figgis, and Scorsese himself. By using their often rough language, Scorsese’s own film accurately and beautifully captured the unique character of the bluesmen. The context and quality of this real-life documentary film should have mattered to the Commission, as it did when the Commission held that the scripted rough language uttered by actors playing fictional soldiers in ‘Saving Private Ryan’ was not indecent. That the Commission today held that ‘The Blues’ is indecent sends a clear signal to media artists and broadcasters alike that challenging and controversial broadcast television programming, already in short supply, bears a higher r! isk than ever before of being censored by the FCC. The likely result is that to avoid FCC sanctions, artists and networks will self-censor, or that their edgy programming will migrate to cable.

While some argue that the FCC’s actions protect America’s children, nothing could be further from the truth. As Creative Voices Advisory Board Member Peggy Charren, founder of Action for Children’s Television, and winner of the Peabody Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom has written, “Government censorship is not the way to protect children from inappropriate television. The right to express what some consider offensive speech is the price Americans pay for freedom of political speech and we cannot afford to risk losing that freedom. It is not in the best interests of America’s children to “protect” them from expression that is itself protected by the First Amendment -- unobjectionable and appropriate creative works that are challenging, controversial, original, and important.”

Unfortunately, these protected and salutary works – the very works many parents want their children to watch -- now risk being left on the cutting room floor as a result of the Commission’s expansion of indecency enforcement.


snip


http://blogs.kansascity.com/tvbarn/2006/03/memo_to_kevin_m.html

[texas1928]

46. WHAAAAT?!?

[norml]

47. I needed to print that article for my radio show.

Your thread was handy.

Tonight's topic is the FCC.

Thanks for the use of your thread.

[Nevernose]

48. Are there 2 toilets in there, or is that a bidet?

Those were really popular in the 70s, which would match the colors on the ... everything. Please, soemone tell me what I'm seeing!

[texas1928]

49. In that pic, probably a bidet.

But for our purposes it is two toilets. So that we can encourage each other.