But if I go outside, I might offend the smokers

St. Louis-area town considers proposal that would ban swearing in bars

 

updated 4:19 p.m. ET, Tues., Jan. 8, 2008

ST. CHARLES, Mo. - What the ...? A St. Louis-area town is considering a bill that would ban swearing in bars, along with table-dancing, drinking contests and profane music...

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22559988/

 

^Wow...that's incredible.  Atlanta is considering a ban on wearing baggy pants that droop below your waist.  I know that lawyers are ready to pounce on that one should it go through.

Chance of surviving a constitutional challenge: 0%

and almost impossible to enforce...

This is the second funniest thing I've heard today (next to a Katrina victim suing for several quadrillion dollars which is much higher than our entire GDP).

Can't have your historic downtown getting too lively!

ahh a swearing ban ***sighs***

 

if only the nyc mta & the city would pass that law, you wouldn't believe the mouths on those urchins on the subway after school.

I've driven through Southern towns that had signs stating that public cursing is illegal.

CCV will ask City Beat to halt ads it sees as sex marketplace

BY REBECCA GOODMAN | [email protected]

 

FULL ARTICLE HERE: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080609/NEWS01/806090326/1056/COL02

 

A coalition led by Citizens for Community Values plans to publicly ask City Beat to refrain from accepting adult personal ads that could be thinly veiled solicitations for prostitution...

 

Fuck CCV.  They are the epitome of conservative, backwards Cincinnati.

If this is the same as the ads I see in the Cleveland Scene Magazine, then I am all for it.  Really, I can not even put one of those magazines on the coffee table for fear that the kids will pick it up and look at the pictures in the back.  I never understood how those ads were allowed to be publiched anyhow. 

I wish someone would bring that CCV down.  The public granstanding just goes to show that they are more interested in publicly decrying a magazine that they probably find offensive in many other ways, than they are in stopping prostitution.  I'm sure given that it is an alternative weekly, they have probably bashed the CCV many times.

 

Alternative weeklies are by design, an ALTERNATIVE paper to mainstream media, and therefore tend to publish stories and topics and YES advertising that mainstream media will shy away from.  That's the beauty of them.  Start to censor things that are perfectly legal (even though there is a thin line), where does the CCV stop??  They don't, they henpeck away at the next thing THEY deem offensive.

 

I can not even put one of those magazines on the coffee table for fear that the kids will pick it up and look at the pictures in the back.

 

You just solved your own problem... if it has content you don't want your kids to see, don't leave it on the coffee table.  It's not a childrens publication. 

 

 

^You are right, it is not a childrens publication, similar to the Plain Dealer or the Enquirer.  But then they throw a bunch of filth in the back of it.  Sure, I can leave it off the table which I do, but my kids can still grab it out of the news box at the top of our street, for free at that.

Freedom of speech/press/expression is something that will be extinct by the time I have kids. (If it even exists today)

To show my support, I think its time to place a personal...

Seems silly to me for the CCV to be poking around in this issue...it almost seems like they're grasping for any issue to get up on their soapbox about and stay in the public eye.

I'm sure it has to do with more content in the mag than the ads.  Does it have "Savage Love", promote bars and happy hours, publish controversial articles....and bash the CCV occasionally?  If it's anything like any other alternative weekly, I would guess that it has all these traits.  It is totally their style to find an issue to exploit to tarnish the image.  Suddenly clueless suburban mothers are telling their 16 year olds they can't read it and telling businesses that they don't like to see it displayed.  They are trying to hurt their revenue.  If they don't comply with this request, and whatever else this group deems inappropriate, they will go after the advertisers.

 

I wish someone could dig up something on them to exploit and bring them down.

Seems silly to me for the CCV to be poking around in this issue...it almost seems like they're grasping for any issue to get up on their soapbox about and stay in the public eye.

 

Bingeaux....though I'd leave out the "almost".

 

They're cultural collectivists, pure and simple.  (If you really want to pee them off, call them that). 

 

 

 

As an employee of the CCV, I find these comments very offensive.