There is a terrific rebuttal to the so called rebuttal of the FairTax. It's the 2nd book. Try it.

FairTax does work.

Thank God I don't watch TV.

The Bill of Fair sounds absolutely stupid!

Neal, why do you have to hit the French Fry cooks? It should be... Someone has to be Vice President ... but we don't need them voting.

Anyone who at any time has ever watched Jay Leno do that segment where he interviews people on the street and asks them basic questions knows that a lot of people are dumber than dirt and should not be allowed to vote. I will go one step further. I think they have to pass a basic literacy test just to drive.

Well, Stan Gable, there are plenty of young, minority, urban, and therefore probably DEMOCRAT people who are not prepared for the DTV transition, at least according to Nielsens which is able to provide more accurate data than you are. We must assume that these Democrats whose TVs didn't work last Friday were using antennas, right? Generally, older Caucasians were the best prepared.

Those "crazy Republicans" you mentioned are the ones who believe in and support the US Constitution, including the Second Amendment.

I noticed a huge surge in converter boxes sold, and those who cant afford that are buying bug zappers as the alternative.

The snowy TV picture is gone. Now isn't it time for that crackling, "awful at night", poor-fidelity turn-of-the-last-century technology known as AM radio to go the way of analog TV? Wouldn't it be nice to hear your voice in crisp 90dB noise-free digital format?

Crazy republicans hiding out in the woods arguing the 2nd amendment still makes sense 200+ years later are the only ones I can think of who still use an antenna

I have a 20 year-old television that has been collecting dust for the past two years. I have no desire to convert, so it will just collect more dust. Can't think of anything since Seinfeld that was worth watching, and I can no longer stomach what passes as news these days. When the newspapers fold and the government takes control of the radio and Internet, I guess I'll become one of the "great uninformed" in America... though I tend to think that being uniformed may be better than being misinformed. Au revoir, TV. I hardly knew you.

I must be the only one who is glad that they delated from the February cutoff date. My father's antenna rotor had failed in December and I was not looking forward to climbing the tower in January or February to fix it.
With the Spring came the warm weather and my opportunity to replace the antenna. The anologue signal is not as directionally sensitive as the digital signal, so, no rotor = no picture -at least in our area.
I wonder what the excuse was for the other 699,999 people who weren't ready??

Wonder how many dingbats called 911 because they couldn't get a signal

Probably doesn't prove anything ... my mother's birth certificate doesn't have any kind of seal on it either. Nor does it have her correct name, and they got her gender wrong too.

Dale Jackson, one of Neal's colleagues here at the station that launched Sean Hannity, got his wrist slapped. I don't know what to think about this, and I need Neal and his erudite sychophants to tell me what our group conscience is regarding this:

OFFICIAL STATEMENT FROM WVNN
WVNN officials have announced that morning talk show host Dale Jackson will be suspended from his duties for a period of one week beginning Monday 6/15/09.

This suspension is a result of an on-air prank that Jackson carried out on 6/9/09.

We believe that there should be a very clear difference in opinion and news. Mr. Jackson has been instructed to keep that difference very plain in the future.

www.wvnn.com

With the digital indoor antenna, the analog signal was adequate. Once routed through the conversion box the scan reported "no signal."

Going up on the roof to install an outside antenna is just not going to happen to this 68 year old.

No, I will not get cable or dish, "quality programming" is an oxymoron.

ENOUGH! government dictating!
daylight "savings"
CAFE standards
buy crappy light bulbs made in China
flush with half a cup of water
pay to bail out of banks
pay to bail out car companies
pay to bribe people to buy these electric golf carts
restrict access to our own oil and gas reserves, far better to kiss Saudi butt

It felt like they have been talking about the converter box for two years. It was on TV, local news for a year, even radio. What a bunch of low IQ individual... let's see how they got their IQ..... hmmmmm... maybe watching too much tv.

This digital t.v. transition news has been all over the place for months. Who doesn't know about it? It was even given an extension from the original February changeover date! I can't believe there are people out there who are that clueless.

...long before I bought any land.

Number 4 quote was to see if we were paying attention, or he thought he was calling the Boortz Show, lol.

I could not agree more. This could be a great idea - let's find other ways to clean out the voter rolls.

Sadly, it won't work. Lefties have already shown they can work around current restrictions, like you have to be properly registered, you have to live where you vote, you have to be alive, you have to be a real person, etc.

Ramblingman
southernramblings.blogspot.com

DTV transition was determined and made public over 5 years ago!! Yes Take thier voter card! IDIOTS!

I agree with Neal, if you haven't figured out the DTV conversion by now, you aren't qualified to vote. what sucks about the switch for me though is I live in an extreme fringe area, I can barely pick up VHF but can't pickup UHF at all, and all the digital channels are on UHF, guess I'll have to quit being such a cheap a$$ and pay for cable or sattelite.

Were I the sort to watch television I would not be among those wondering about Obama's problematic birth certificate imprimis though 1 vital thing I DID get from analog television back in summer 1968 before my eighth birth day was validation of my budding lower middle class populist authoritarianism in the form of thrilling to the coverage of the police riot in Chicago at the Democrat national convention; excellent preparation for embrace of the late great George Wallace & fortification for the then starting continuous national decline. That led to appreciation of Chiang, Franco, Salazar, the Samozas, Pinochet, the junto of south Korean general officers that ousted Rhee for failing to be authoritarian enough, Joseph McCarthy, Robert Welch, Alan Stang, Lawrence McDonald, John Bricker, Jack Tenney--you know, REAL anti-communists admired by tough minded arch conservatives not the 1/2 ass posers powder puffed by Boortz. Believe it or not but before Boortz there were truly MEAN commentators on radio who were genuinely arch conservative, patriarchal, homo-phobic, reactionary, caucasian ethno-centric, nativist, nationalist, punitive, authoritarian, McCarthyite, anti-central bank, committed to repealing federal personal income tax by liberty amendment ratification &--O yes, I know this is unacceptable--ISOLATIONIST: John T Flynn, Upton Close, Fulton Lewis junior, Dan Smoot, Clarence Manion, Charles Coughlin & others. Did I waste more than a fraction of my time hypnotized on a delta wave level through my optic nerves watching television instead of reading I would know little of this & appreciate even less. Another thing I know that chronic television watching would have prevented me from realizing is back when America had federal & state legislative committees on un-American activity the sort of people behind boosting Obama or even the McChurian candidate, born in the Panama canal zone, for president would have been invidiously investigated, subpenaed & questioned before RIGHTLY losing any further claim to respectability, good repute & continued access to all the desirable stuff the populist authoritarian lower middle class, none of whom ever betrays this country no matter how egregiously it asks for & apparently deserves betrayal, can not afford. Who needs television when he can don THAT cloak of self righteousness? The Clintons did not invent the politics of personal destruction & the vaterland security minister merits rebuke for presuming to judge her ideologic betters NOT for unfairly libeling a wide class of citizens. Television BAH!

Exactly my thought!

I am proud to be one of those without TV signal now. There is no way someone could not have known this change was coming PERIOD. I chose not to get a converter box, It was not an expense I wanted to make and it is not the governments job to STEAL money from other people so I could have a TV signal. I am sure sooner or later we will either get a converter box or a new TV, but It is not a priority in life; there is so much more to life than TV.
Cason

And then there are those of us who can't figure out why the rest of you will spend thousands of dollars to get what you can get for free on the Web. No amount of cash spent on HDTV or cable or satellite TV will make "Punk'd" or "American Idol" a better show, nor will it do less to insult your intelligence daily.

Neal, you are right on. Like you I think there should be some minimal requirements to vote in a presidentail election. It will never happen, and especially w/the democrats in office.

Neal,
This conversion was the result of legislation signed by then President Clinton. So in reality, the general public has had almost 10 years to prepare. Making those complaining calls that came into the help centers even more pathetic.

Percentage wise, I wonder how many of these people were:
a: Obama voters
b: From New Orleans
c: All of the above

I called the FCC hotline after the "big switch" and got a person who could not speak english fluently. The digital quit working when they cut the analog TV off. (in most rural areas where cable is not available) They said it may take days or months to get it right, after all of the delays, the federal government was not ready. The elected officials were in no position to make this high tech decision to switch to digital to begin with. The analog had better range and better sound quality, also a more refined three dimensional picture quality. The good point to all of this is that many of the people brainwashed by the networks in rural areas are no longer going to be subject to the government indoctrination by liberal media, the same ones who are too stupid to hear a tornado comming and depended on thier TV will now be more prone to die.

I saw a news report on '11alive' on Friday evening (about 5 hours after the analog sign-off) in which several 'victims' of the digital switch were lamenting their dire straights, and standing around with their hands extended, waiting for Big Bro to hook them up.

I, um, can't say anything more without being a "hater", or "bigot", or "racist".


LOL

Informed people have known this day was coming for years. Wasn't it originally supposed to happen in 2002 or 2004?

As for the converter boxes, I can almost understand the government being involved with giving out coupons because the TV broadcasters are being forced by the government to switch to digital.

I agree that people don't have a "right" to TV signals, but do I sound like a mindless leftist by thinking that if the government's going to take away those signals then the government ought to be responsible for helping people switch?

Speaking of Obama's birth certificate have you seen it Neal? I mean a real genuine birth certificate not the certificate of live birth that doesn't even have a seal on it. What do you know that the rest of us don't? Did he have to show his birth certificate to run? I mean the real genuine signed by the doctor birth certificate or is he a bigger phoney than I thought he was? Ok go ahead and tell me what a loser I am. Nothing compared to what a loser the country is because of Obama.

someone has to cook the french fries...