Morris Broadband is a Rip Off

About 6 months ago our cable company went belly-up. It was replaced by "Morris Broadband" which I affectionately refer to as "Boob-Band" (BB). With great fanfare BB was introduced to the public. We were assured of a smooth transition, better more professional service.

The transition was anything but smooth. I had to get a new e-mail address and the instructions on how to access the new server was contained in the first new email message. If I could access the new mailbox I wouldn't need instructions on how to access the new one. This new server couldn't transfer my address book or automatically contact everyone with my new address. The service was horrible. When I was on call the phone went out. If the wind was more than a breeze the Internet went out and the cable picture had all the quality of a library DVD. Any complaint was listened to courteously (I am in the south) but nothing was ever resolved. It seems that there were more BB vans on our street than personal vehicles.

After notifying a few hundred people of my new address, I settled into the poor service. Then they started taking away the few channels I watched and filling their menu with infomercials. TV, Internet, and phone all for $90/month. Then one month the price jumped to $143 and the following month it went up to $174. This unannounced price led me to consider the drastic move of finding a new company and changing my e-mail address again.

I signed up for ATT and Direct TV. However, Boob-Band wasn't going to make the change easy. When they took over they installed locked boxes in the neighborhood and they were supposed to give the property manager the key. Of course they didn't and to get the BB guy to come out and unlock the the box for the Direct TV guy was like trying to arrange a meeting between George Bush and Bin Laden. The BB guy came and turned off his cable and hesitatingly left our wires out for the dish guy. The dish guy had to put up a separate dish just for us because he couldn't get into the locked box. So Morris Broadband is like the "Roach Motel" of cable companies. The side of our house looks like a NORAD base with two Direct TV dishes and one HD dish. The property manager is going to drill the locks off all the boxes if BB doesn't have a key in their office in a week. What a mess, Carol probably spent 10 hours trying to extricate us from this terrible cable company.

Kids Know Better

Carol really stepped in it at Sunday School.
The class has been trying to decide whether to continue the $150 per month support of a campus missionary. The young lady (who had grown up in this church) had just graduated college and wanted to work for a campus ministry doing their graphic design. After her presentation to the class, we agreed to sponsor her for a year. She promised to keep us updated on the ministry. The year is up, and now the class has to reconsider supporting her or a young missionary leaving for Iraq. Last week it was discussed and some felt we should end our support for the college girl because we haven't heard from her for awhile and when someone checked her blog it had been shut down. This week the topic comes up again and voila! a letter had shown up describing how she talked to a student who talked to another student about Jesus. Carol and I were not impressed with this take-off on the "even if only one soul gets saved argument". However, some in the class were moved by the note she wrote to us. Meanwhile, Carol and I are thinking to ourselves:

Why doesn't she just do this in her spare time?
The girl in Iraq seems more serious.
Could this be something she's doing till she finds a husband etc

I'm thinking we really need a secret ballot for this issue, especially since some of the non-supporters from the week before are absent. There was an awkward silence, but then it happened, Carol spoke out and said, "I think we agreed to support the college missionary for a year but now we should end it and support the Iraq girl". Now I'm sitting there stifling a giggle like Schwartz sitting behind Ralphie. There was another pause as I waited for the class to start calling for Barabbas, but the crowd didn't recognize their cue. Then a classmate, in true Christian goofiness came up with a plan to split the $150 class missionary budget between the college student that talked to a girl that talked to a girl about Jesus and the girl who is risking her life in Iraq.

As soon as we left I cracked up and Carol started fuming. It was sort of like the wedding where Carol was part of the talent show and everyone else bowed out. Like Ralphie says "It's always better to keep your mouth shut".

Driving with CPS (Carol Positioning System)

Carol my GPS is driving me crazy.



On our way to Charleston: Go right, we need to stay on 52 East.










Which way do I go right or left?
Yes.











Which way do I go?
Straight.

Stand Up To The Facist

Obama's next bogeyman is Toyota. Could it be that the thousands of Americans that work for Toyota are freemen? They don't work for GM (Government Motors) and they don't pay tribute through their corrupt unions. This is a not so veiled effort to crush the competition to the state run auto industry. It is also a slap down to the free south where Toyota's are made. UAW/Obama Motors can't compete in the market place so the bully pulpit is the new platform for Chicago style thug politics.

Personally I would take a Toyota with a stuck gas pedal over anything that comes out of Detroit. My 88 Toyota 4-Runner with it's 22-RE engine would routinely last for 300,000 miles. Compared to its competition, the Jeep Cherokee, it was a marvel of engineering. The Honda Fit is having a problem with their driver side power window switch overheating; boy that can kill you. Now how about that little problem Ford had with their coils overheating and causing the car to catch fire. Do you recall the Chrysler automatic transmission that lasted just as long as the warranty?

Government Motors is dead. It's like a deer with a broad-head arrow in him, he's running but it's just a matter of time. Ford still has a chance, but within ten years GM and Chrysler will be toe-up. Toyota and Honda customers will remain loyal as long as their dealers treat the customer well. Telling a free-man what car to drive will just piss him off. Support freedom and liberty, buy Toyota.

Despair Inc.

And she's not even eligible for a senior discount.

Show Us Your Guns!

Has 10% unemployment, three dollar gas, and arctic temperatures got you down, Spunky? Do what I do; go to a gun show. For seven dollars you can have your faith in America renewed.

I showed up at 9 am and the line to get in was 200 yards long. It was eight degrees and the wind was a nasty 10 mph. So we all lined up and huddled together like an Obama bread line. We looked like a rag-tag militia of armed Americans carrying everything from black rifles to Boer War Martini-Henry's.

When I got close to the door a handicapped vehicle pulled up with Vietnam Veteran plates. Two old guys got out (one was blind and the other walked with a cane). They looked at the line stretching half way to Terre Haught. I said to them "you get in line right here, no veteran is walking to the back of the line today". We finally made it to the doorway and felt the wonderful heat. The line moved slowly because everyone had to unload their firearms and have the actions banded. I really appreciated that because in a crowded place it's hard not to point a gun at someone.

I lucked out and found some powder I was looking for and some brass. I saw some old Enfields and Mausers I might have paid a hundred bucks for ten years ago going for four hundred dollars. I even saw my father's old 32 Smith and Wesson. Last time I saw that gun was when it went flying out the window because the cops were called to our door over a domestic argument.

It was better than a gram of Prozac. It was like the antidote for watching C-Span. I'm reminded of what CP says "no matter what happens in Washington our military is not going to turn their guns on us." I saw that today, as through a glass darkly.

2009 in Review

A great year:
10% unemployment
3 trillion in new debt.
5% inflation
10% drop in real estate value
crude oil $80 a barrel
3 terrorists attacks
2 U.S. automakers moribund
U.S. dollar approaching the peso
stimulus package creates 10 jobs
federal jobs increase
private sector jobs decrease
Olympics in Rio
ammunition scarce
medicare gutted
abortion federally funded
racial divide widens
policemen assassinated
jails emptied
congress for sale
president a Marxist
director of homeland security a moron
treasury secretary a tax cheat
unlimited bailout for fannie and freddy
borders wide open
supreme court justice a racist
mullahs with nukes
swine flu hoax
taxes on tanning beds
government owning banks
global warming blizzards
speech replaced by texting
language replaced by Twitter
life replaced by Wii


That's all I can think of offhand.