As well respected as the CDC may be, I still take this as a sign for very bad times ahead for the industry. Whenever studies like this are issued, almost nothing good comes out of them in favor of the parties investigated. And right now, the industry's back is against the wall. If some particularly damning piece of evidence comes out, I don't know what else they can do except not make certain types of games, which is pretty much what happened to the comic book industry in the wake of the Comics Code Authority, as Horror comics ceased to exist shortly therafter. :(
The bill itself is certainly biased, given the people behind it. We all know of Lieberman, Hillary, Brownback and Santorum and their stances on popular entertainment (Brownback, incidentally, also favored heavy indecency fines and wanted the likes of Howard Stern off the air). I don't know enough, though, about Bayh, Enzi and Durbin. Even the name, CAMRA, which I'm sure was not a coincidence, has Orwellian implications as it suggests spying and prying into confidential information.
And finally, Lieberman should just shut up and stop pretending like he still matters. He lost the primary, he's out and it's doubtful he'll still win even if running as a thrid party candidate. Besides, all he really cares about is staying in power anyway, and those are the kind of politicians you want to get rid of.
He looks particularly angry in that picture. Again, Sentator Palpatine and Lieberman: separated at birth?
"Lieberman should just shut up and stop pretending like he still matters. He lost the primary, he's out and it's doubtful he'll still win even if running as a thrid party candidate. Besides, all he really cares about is staying in power anyway, and those are the kind of politicians you want to get rid of."
you know that lieberman (unfortunately) is still up appx 10 points over Ned in the various polls right now? Lamont still can hopefully pull it out, by hammering the same messages that won him the primary, but the odds arent great for him. Lieberman is a spoiler and a poor loser with only his own personal intests in mind (rather thant he interests of his voters or his former party) there is no question of that, but he is unfortunately far from irrelevant, (even though of course his vg positions are hopefully pretty irrelevant to the CT electorate who hopefully are looking at things like his votign record etc ont he iraq war)
The bill itself is certainly biased, given the people behind it. We all know of Lieberman, Hillary, Brownback and Santorum and their stances on popular entertainment (Brownback, incidentally, also favored heavy indecency fines and wanted the likes of Howard Stern off the air). I don't know enough, though, about Bayh, Enzi and Durbin. Even the name, CAMRA, which I'm sure was not a coincidence, has Orwellian implications as it suggests spying and prying into confidential information.
And finally, Lieberman should just shut up and stop pretending like he still matters. He lost the primary, he's out and it's doubtful he'll still win even if running as a thrid party candidate. Besides, all he really cares about is staying in power anyway, and those are the kind of politicians you want to get rid of.
He looks particularly angry in that picture. Again, Sentator Palpatine and Lieberman: separated at birth?
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you know that lieberman (unfortunately) is still up appx 10 points over Ned in the various polls right now? Lamont still can hopefully pull it out, by hammering the same messages that won him the primary, but the odds arent great for him. Lieberman is a spoiler and a poor loser with only his own personal intests in mind (rather thant he interests of his voters or his former party) there is no question of that, but he is unfortunately far from irrelevant, (even though of course his vg positions are hopefully pretty irrelevant to the CT electorate who hopefully are looking at things like his votign record etc ont he iraq war)
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