Nobody’s Got a Beef With Cable TV
Nobody’s Opinion
“Irresponsible spending” …that’s all we’ve been hearing every day, for the last four years. If you are like me, and you are the one who takes care of all the household bills, you can’t help but be very angry when you see John Kerry give $250 million dollars to Egypt, while we here at home, are being forced by our government to cut corners. 
And today, I have certain complaint that just gets me going: How to keep paying for Cable TV?
I can remember when my dad bought our first TV set. It was black and white, and I was completely bored with it, although I do remember watching my brother, every Saturday morning, sitting in front of it…watching cartoons while he ate a whole pan of Sara’s Lee’s chocolate cake.
And no, he never got fat. Back then, kids were outside the whole day, running around in the woods. We’d go home for supper. And back out again until dark. Parents back then didn’t have to worry about the kids being picked up by child molesters, or getting shot on the corner. We lived in a America that was free, and most kids had both a mom and a dad.
Someday…all birth certificates will say: Origin: Lab at UCLA… (Warning…Do not mix with methane )
But..I’m getting off the subject: which is…TV. Back then, television, was FREE! And that’s why I’m using my blog to complain about what I feel is another rip-off of the majority of Americans.
I don’t remember when Cable Television really got going, but I have tried all the cable providers offered here in Missouri, and they ALL do the same thing. They give you a deal when you first sign up with them, and then tell you…not much else. And most people don’t think to ask. (Like me)
It doesn’t matter whether it’s DISH, Direct TV, CHARTER, or AT &T, they are all the same: And I’ve had them all.
And they ALL –rip you off.
Now, like most Americans, with every passing month, I am trying to cut corners..simply because, while wages haven’t gone up since Bill Clinton bombed a pill factory, everything else that you need for daily living has. And budgeting is almost a daily chore.
Not too long ago, I dragged my husband to the local bank to refinanced our car from 4.0 (Which is all the dealership would give us) down to 1.0,…and I was real proud of myself to find out I’d be saving over $50 dollars a month on our car payments.
But..then I got my Direct TV bill. It went from $76.00 to $95.00 in one statement. The savings that I was getting from refinancing, just disappeared. That’s just…BUGS me—especially when there is NO reason for the rate increase…no extra stations, it’s all the same…they just felt like raising it.
I called DIRECT TV.
“Why are my rates jumping up? I wasn’t told this would ever happen when I signed up!”
“Well, you have a DVR and your subscription is up.”“Okay…I had no idea I had a subscription.”
“Is this the last time…$95 is all I will ever pay?”
“Yes.”
(Sigh.) Here’s the problem. I know so many people who have figured out how to get free TV. They bounce off their neighbors, or they get HD antennas, and here I am going to be paying back up to $120 by next year, (Yes, I guess my 2nd subscription will be up by 2014) And I am paying twice the price in two years for the same service.
Every single cable company I have been with does this. Every single one. They let you slide for a year, then BAM. You’re screwed.
They do the same with cell phones.
Can somebody tell me what this is called? I can think of no other name but “rip-off.”
The very next day, after I was told that $95 would be the final price, I got a bill for $100.10
I called them up…
“Hey, the girl yesterday told me the price would never go up!”
“Well, in February the price of your DVR when up 3 dollars.”
“She said that was included in the price YESTERDAY!”
…..silence.
You see, what is so frustrating is: they don’t have to tell you a damn thing. You can quit if you like, they really don’t care.
I’m starting to wonder if I’d be happier to go back to being like it was when I was a kid. I hardly ever watched TV. And TV CAN be deadly. My mother had a stroke watching Bill Clinton, and my good friend Pattie told me she thinks that her husband suffered his heart attack due to the stress he was having with Charter. He had been fighting with them all day. To this day, she blames them for his early demise.
If that had happened to my husband, I would put his ashes on the mantle with a sign,
Here lies Charlie (not real name) killed by an encounter with Charter Communications.
I doubt if there is anyone in the country who has NOT gotten furious with a cable provider.
If so, speak up.
I’m not sure how to solve this problem, (all ideas are welcomed) but I am getting tired of the game. Somehow, 500 channels and more commercial time than actual program time s is getting old. There’s Netflix, I know, but I like to keep up on politics, and news, so I do want my cable. I love cable.
I just don’t like the lies, deception, and theft.
But then again…aren’t we all getting used to getting ripped off?
Nobody Remembers Florence Nightengale
Nobody Remembers
“How very little can be done under the spirit of fear” Florence Nightengale
Everybody was watching the retiring Pope today, hoping into his helicopter, and tweeting the millions below him goodbye. His legacy is evidently, not a good one, but then again, the Catholic Church has been full of corruption almost since its beginning. (That’s what happens when you put one god at the top.)
But—while the Pope leaves visions of just a nice old guy going to rest in some nice garden somewhere, I couldn’t help thinking–what don’t we know about him? After all, I found out something today that I never knew about Florence Nightingale.
From “The Lady Tasting Tea”
Florence Nightingale a legendary English Victorian figure was a terror to the members of Parliament and the British army generals whom she confronted. There is a tendency to think of her simply as the founder of the nursing profession, a gentle, self-sacrificing giver of mercy. But the real Florence Nightingale was a woman with missions. She was also a self-educated statistician. One of Nightingale’s missions was to force the British army to maintain filed hospitals and supply nursing and medical care to soldiers in the field. To support her position, she plowed though piles of data from the army files. Then she appeared before a royal commission with a remarkable series of graphs. In them she showed how most of the deaths in the British army during the Crimean War were due to illnesses contracted outside the field of battle or that occurred long after action as a result of wounds suffered in battle but left unattended. She invented the pie chart as a means of displaying her message. When she tired of fighting the obtuse seemingly ignorant army generals she would retreat to the village of Evington.
So, think about that next time you see a pie chart.
Who knew? Not me.
There has always been a belief that men are better at math than women. According to this book, (The Lady Tasting Tea- How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century by David Salsburg) women have always played a very strong role in statistical sciences.
The Statistical Laboratory and Department of Statistics at Ames, Iowa became one of the most important centers of statistical research in the world. Lots of stuff was delegated to woman, women could be more docile and patient so went the belief and could be depended upon more than men to check and recheck the accuracy of their calculations. A typical picture of the Galton Biometrical Laboratory under Karl Pearson would have Pearson and several men walking around looking at output from the computers or discussing deep mathematical ideas, while all about them rows of women were computing.
So today, Nobody Remembers Florence Nightingale, and the women who did the computing. We need MORE ladies getting into math and less into Beyoncé, don’t you think?
GOP Comes Up with New Plan: DUCK!
Nobody Wins
Since the GOP seem eternally helpless in attacking Obama for the “madman” that he is (According to Bob Woodward today), they’ve come up with a fantastic idea!
Why…just give the President more power! (Politico) 
Days before the March 1 deadline, Senate Republicans are circulating a draft bill that would cancel $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts and instead turn over authority to President Barack Obama to achieve the same level of savings under a plan to be filed by March 8.
The five- page document, which has the tacit support of Senate GOP leaders, represents a remarkable shift for the party. Having railed against Senate Democrats for not passing a budget, Republicans are now proposing that Congress surrender an important piece of its Constitutional “power of the purse” for the last seven months of this fiscal year.
Wow. What “out of the box” thinking. It reminds me of the time Rush Limbaugh was rallying the nation to go and vote for Hillary Clinton. How did that work out?
In other words, the system is so broken, and our leaders in Congress so impotent, they can’t think of what they really SHOULD have done long ago.
Supreme Court or not…impeach. Do what Obama does….get out of Washington and travel to all the cities and attack, attack, attack.
But no. We have wusses. Obama has committed so many “crimes and misdemeanors” over the American people, all you would need to do is stand him up and read him the Constitution.
Where’s our Jefferson? Where’s our Washington? Who ARE these people?
Wusses.
Perhaps John Adams had it right: Without an educated populace, the tyrants will rule, as they always did in the first half of the history of humanity.
“In the earliest ages of the world, absolute monarchy seems to have been the universal form of government. But the fact is certain: and wherever a general knowledge and sensibility have prevailed among the people arbitrary government and every kind of oppression have lessened and disappeared in proportion.
The poor people it is true have been much less successful than the great. They have seldom found either leisure or opportunity to form a union and exert their strength: ignorant as they were of arts and letters. They have seldom been able to frame and support a regular opposition.”
So even back THEN, it was known that if you keep the people stupid, you will have no problem taking control over them, and to this Nobody it seems we are going back to the ages of tyrants.
So right…go ahead and give him more power: Do you think he will EVER give it back? You not going to convince any democrat at all, of how Obama has done anything wrong.
To them, he’s a god.
Idiots.
Nobody Remembers Alice Addertongue
Nobody Remembers
It’s said, Sam Adams started the Revolution, and he did it with the mighty pen. And since he really didn’t want his name on all his ranting against the crown…he made up all kinds of names for his penname:
Philo Patriae and Paces, Vindex the Avenger, Determinatus, Decant Ara Togae, (weapons are under my cloak!) Principiis Obsta: (principle obstacle) , Valerius Poplicola, Candidus, and Populus. He was also: An American, A Tory, Alfred, A Son of Liberty, A Puritan, and A Religious Politician– among many.
And Sam wasn’t the only one who wanted to remain anonymous.
Alexander Hamilton pens names included Publius, Pacificus, Catallus, Americanus, Metellus, Horatius, Philo Camillus, Tully, Monitor, Phocion, The Continentalist, and H.G.
Benjamin Franklin was Silence Dogood, and Polly Baker and Richard Saunders and Anthony Afterwit, Martha Careful, Alice Addertongue, Celia Shortface, Harry Meanwell, Fanny Mournful, Obadiah Plainman, Busy Body, and Sidi Mehemt Ibrahim.
John Adams was Sui Juris, U, Davila, and Humphrey Ploughjogger…and my personal favorite: Novanglus. (which means New England.)
James Madison was Helvidius and Cato…
After Thomas Paine wrote an anonymous pamphlet criticizing President George Washington‘s policies, John Quincy Adams (John’s son) wrote a series of anonymous articles called “Publicola”, defending the president. They were so well done people assumed his father wrote them.
And I even write under a pen name…Joyanna is a combination of my first name and my grandmother’s name…and Adams is not my married name, but I picked it out of respect to the founding Adams, as I am a direct descendant of that family on my mother’s side. 
I really didn’t want anyone to know my married name.
In this country, writing under a pen name, thus remaining anonymous, has been protected by the Supreme Court.
In its 1960 decision in Talley v. California, the Supreme Court ruled that a law forbidding individuals from distributing handbills without identifying their identity unconstitutionally infringed on the First Amendment’s guarantee to free speech. The Court declared:
Anonymous pamphlets, leaflets, brochures and even books have played an important role in the progress of mankind. Persecuted groups and sects from time to time throughout history have been able to criticize oppressive practices and laws either anonymously or not at all. . . . Before the Revolutionary War colonial patriots frequently had to conceal their authorship or distribution of literature that easily could have brought down on them prosecutions by English-controlled courts. . . . It is plain that anonymity has sometimes been assumed for the most constructive purposes.
SO…what in the world is this new bill being proposed in the Illinois Senate all about?
A new bill proposed in the Illinois State Senate looks to completely wipe out any form of anonymity on the internet by requiring that the operators of basically any website on the entire internet take down any comment that isn’t attached to an IP, address, and real name-verified poster.
It’s called the Internet Posting Removal Act and was introduced on February 13th by Illinois General Assembly veteran Ira I. Silverstein [D]. Not wanting to leave any bases uncovered, Silverstein includes that an “Anonymous Poster” means “any individual who posts a message on a web site including social networks, blogs, forums, message boards, or any other discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.”
If James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay were alive and publishing under the false name “Publius” today, they would be prime candidates for prosecution under Virginia’s anti-spam law, and the Internet Posting Removal Act. They would most likely be using the Internet to get their message out to as many fellow citizens as possible. They could be arrested for speaking their minds on important issues of the day.
Clearly, Obama’s government wants to know WHO is writing the essays and blogs against them. Sure, there are some bad people out there spamming, but making it a crime to not sign your real name is not how are country was founded.
It is a right, given to us by our founders. If not for them, we wouldn’t be here.
And I’m sure Alice Addertongue would agree with me 100 percent!
Nobody’s Fool: Charlton Heston
Nobody’s Fool
I remember driving one afternoon during the years when Bill Clinton was President…and as usual, I had the radio station tuned to Rush Limbaugh. He was talking to Charlton Heston who was telling Rush how shocked he was at how Hollywood, and so many of his friends there, had succumbed to this tyranny called political correctness. I also remember thinking “You’d better pull off the road woman” because tears were flowing so hard down my face, I was having a hard time seeing. FINALLY …finally I thought, a man has spoken out against this insanity that is happening to our country.
That night, I wrote Charlton Heston a four page letter, pouring out my heart about his thoughts on the radio, and how deeply I was moved. About 3 weeks later, I received this letter, one that my family said was just a form letter, get over yourself…(notice the stamped name) but in my heart, I have never believed that. I think, since he was just getting sick, his wife probably read it to him. This letter is in my office, framed and on my wall where I see it every day.
As I listened to the above speech by Heston, given at Brandels University, I can’t help but imagine what our country would have been if Heston had run for the Presidency. We would have had another Ronald Reagan.
That generation is gone: But Mr. Heston planted the seeds…even back then, that we all must think for ourselves and speak out. (at the end of the speech he gets into it.) And boy did I take his advice. I started writing a daily blog and haven’t stopped since, and so have millions of others. The people’s voice in on the internet.
Wayne La Pierre is still being attacked, and Charlton is not here anymore to protect him…but we CAN post his words, his voice and his ideas, because they are truly American. The Clinton’s tried very hard to get universal health care passed. Obama did it. The Clinton’s wanted desperately to disarm the American people. Now, Obama is going to try to get that done too. He has put up a website inviting gun victims to tell their story. They have all their best minds working around the clock trying to get it done…state by state. And if the day comes when they threatened to confiscate our guns, we should remember the man who gave us the words to say, should that day come;
“From Our Cold Dead Hands.”
(And I have to laugh because I’ve only shot a real gun at a practice range a few times…but I’ll be ready to learn!)
I thank God he graced us with such a great man, —as Charlton Heston.
Rep. Mike Leara Comes To the Rescue!
Nobody Knows
We have a tradition here in Missouri of being a very “divided” state when it comes to politics. In fact, the second battle of the Civil War was fought in Missouri (Wilson’s Creek) and it was here that Dred Scott, the slave, was told that he was still considered property by the Supreme Court. Missouri was divided right down the middle in the Civil War, between the North and South, literally.
So, it comes as no surprise that it’s here in Missouri that the great divide is happening again.
A few weeks ago, Rep. Rory Ellinger (D) introduced a very draconian gun control bill, encouraged of course, by ‘President’ Obama:
Under the assault weapons ban introduced by state Rep. Rory Ellinger (D-University City), Missouri residents who own assault weapons and high-capacity magazines would have 90 days to remove them from Missouri after the bill takes effect. Among the provisions:
(1) Remove the assault weapon or large capacity magazine from the state of Missouri;
(2) Render the assault weapon permanently inoperable; or
(3) Surrender the assault weapon or large capacity magazine to the appropriate law enforcement agency for destruction, subject to specific agency regulations.
(4). Unlawful manufacture, import, possession, purchase, sale, or transfer of an assault weapon or a large capacity magazine is a class C felony.
So essentially the law would turn a law-abiding gun owner today, into a felon tomorrow.
And that would be more than half the population here.
BUT…Missouri, thank God, has a Republican majority in Congress, and they were not about to go down without a fight. Rep. Mike Leara (R) has introduced a counter bill—to put the lawmakers in jail if they even INTRODUCE such a bill…
Rep. Mike Leara said Tuesday that he considers his bill a statement of principle. It would make lawmakers guilty of a felony punishable by up to four years in prison if they introduce legislation restricting gun rights.
“I have no illusions about the bill making it through the legislative process, but I want it to be clear that the Missouri House will stand in defense of the people’s constitutional right to keep and bear arms. We seem to be having a lot of people willing to further restrict our constitutional rights and take our rights. It is a push-back to the people who don’t believe in our constitutional rights. There have to be consequences to removing our constitutional rights.”
You gotta LOVE this guy!
Nobody Knows if the fight will stop there, but the Democrats say they are willing to go to jail if the bill would ever pass. I think that is a GREAT idea! The Republicans should PASS this bill! NOW! LET them all go to jail, and keep them there. Maybe we could all get some sleep.
But…why stop with jail time? Make them all pay hefty fines too.
You know, it was the democrats who fought to keep slavery. I think it’s time we start making them and THIER children start paying reparations, to the whole country. What we need is MORE men like Mike in Congress. He wins the Charles Heston award…for sure. 
In fact, I going to go send him a “Thank You ” note…because I live here.
Nobody Remembers W. Edwards Deming 1900-1993
Nobody Remembers–
W. Edwards Deming. How about It—-Does that name ring a bell? Yeah, me neither. I just found out that this one American…was one of the causes of America disappearing manufacturing base.
How so Joyanna? Well….
Remember when everything that was made in Japan was considered cheap? Remember in the 1970’s when Japan kicked our butts in making just about everything that WE invented? Automobiles, radio’s televisions….back in the 1970’s Japan not only made better cars, but cheaper ones. Basically, they broke the car industry here in America. Ford, couldn’t compete.
What many people don’t know, is that the Japanese success was due to one guy, an American named: W. Edwards Deming. And he came up with the concept of “quality control.”
In 1939, Deming had been invited many times to help the American automobile companies with quality control. He had developed some thoughts since leaving the U.S. Department of Agriculture, about how to improve industrial methods, but senior management in these companies had no interest in the “technical” details of quality control. They just hired experts.
Even back then the American CEO’s were thinking too much about their own stock.
After we won the war, Douglas McArthur forced Japan to adopt a democratic constitution and called in experts on the “American Way” to educate the county. His staff found Deming who was an expert on statistical sampling methods, and he was invited to go to Japan to show them how to do it.
The president of the Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers was so impressed with Deming’s work, that he was invited to teach statistical methods in a group of seminars organized for a broad range of Japanese industry. Deming told them they could go from the cheap “made in Japan” and change all their industries in five years. He told them, that he could show them how, with the proper use of statistical methods of quality control, they could produce products of such high quality and low price that they would dominate markets all over the world.
He was surprised because…the Japanese did it in two.
When Deming came here to give the same advice, nobody attended his lectures. He said it was management’s fault that the American’s were failing to compete, and they didn’t really want to hear that. His points was that all too often management sets impossible standards and makes no efforts to determine if those standards can be met, or if they had the right equipment to meet those standards. They wanted “zero defects” and Deming knew that was impossible.
Basically, he was saying that the way to manage was to expect imperfection, and have the proper management in all aspects of the company to sort of put out the fires as they arose. Quality control becomes a continuous process where the most variable aspect of the production line is constantly being worked on.
So, thanks to the stupidity of our “American” leaders..the Japanese now dominate the automobile market all over the world. It might have been invented here, but it was one American man who helped Japan take over much of American’s manufacturing base.
All because, the rich CEO’s at the top corporations…did not think.
My family believe in the American way…but we all own Hyundai’s, Toyota’s, and Mitsubishi’s…and we love our cars. Thanks Mr. Deming!
We conquered a nation, and spent more time building up Japan, than concentrating on our own country.
Deming gave the Japanese a panacea of knowledge, that his own countrymen did not want…and it’s one of the reason’s the United States no longer is a manufacturing nation.
We are a “service” economy. And Nobody Knows if that was the plan. I wonder what Deming would say today?—–>
Canada Sends a Dire Warning to Americans….
Nobody Reports
In a few hours, we are going to see the biggest show put on by the Democrats of the need for gun registration, that has ever happened in our history. Obama will bluntly lie, and say that he believes in the right for everyone to be able to protect themselves.
BUT…I hope you watch this warning from our good neighbors, the Canadians. They want you to register your gun, so they can come and collect them in the near future.
Today, Obama just met with his state propaganda machines, so he can be sure they give just the right spin to how great this “gun” control speech will change America and make us all safer:
President Barack Obama had lunch today with members of the press. But we likely won’t find out what was discussed: The entire luncheon was off the record.
“The anchors of all three broadcast evening newscasts — NBC’s Brian Williams, ABC’s Diane Sawyer and CBS’s Scott Pelley — will be in attendance,” Huffington Post reported today.
Former aides to Democratic politicians who are now working as journalists were scheduled to be in attendance, too. “Some cable hosts will also be on hand, including MSNBC’s Chris Matthews. George Stephanopoulos, co-host of ABC’s ‘Good Morning America,’ is attending.”
The lunch is an annual affair. “The annual lunch, which is off-the-record, allows the president to frame his upcoming speech before influential figures in TV news, all of whom will be leading or part of their networks’ coverage later on.
And as we watch a nut-case liberal right now…on the news, shooting up anyone who comes near…all the news anchors are making him out to be extra evil because he is TRYING to kill police.
We can’t help but wonder just how propitiously this will play into Obama’s hands to disarm the nation.
Obama has put the old on death panels…now he will put us all in danger.
He is already out with grand words of “decade of war” …the man is an abomination…
God help us all..I don’t even have to listen to the speech…already his minions are out in droves pushing his tyranical agenda’s…
Nobody hopes the American people rise up in sheer outrage and shout at anyone who is near. “You can NOT have my gun. It’s my American right given to me by all the men that died for this right. And YOU cannot have it.”
We must stand now. NOW.
George Bush VS Picasso
Nobody Flashes
Have you SEEN the self-portrait that X-President George W. Bush painted of himself? Well, some guy who calls himself Guccifer hacked into the Bush’s emails and found these two very interesting self-portraits. Obviously, the President…is trying to tell future historians that either (1. He can’t take enough baths to cleanse himself of all his sins, or (2 He wants to be the first President to show that no matter how powerful one man becomes, he still has to take a bath. (3…The parts he most admires about himself are his back and feet or (4. He wants Laura to know how very lonely he is. And if you have read me, I have said before, I don’t think Laura and Bush live together anymore. Just like the Clinton’s, they do their events together, act all lovey, and then go their separate ways. But unlike Bill Clinton, George W. is miserable without Laura. I could be very wrong…but…
While many people admire his painting ability, I find it almost…sad.
But that’s just me. On the other hand, we can all compare it to Picasso’s self-portrait…(One that is NOT pornographic, because Picasso did a lot of those.) and I think I would prefer the bathtub, if I had to pick one to hang on my wall…how about you?
Nobody Remembers the Land Mines in Japan
Nobody Remembers
When America dropped the bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the argument for whether that was a humane thing to do, is still being debated. Many people said that we should have continue the war and sooner or later we could have overtaken Japan as we did Germany, rather than killing all those innocent lives.
But..what many people don’t know, is that the Japanese had developed a nonmetallic land mine that could not be detected by any known means. They planted these mines in random patterns across the beaches of Japan and along all possible invasion routes. Estimates of deaths from those land mines alone ran into the hundreds of thousands. They tried in vain to find a way to destroy them. Dropping bombs from airplanes in Europe failed.
According to Richard Anderson, a renown staticist who was working on the problem with the Defense Department at the time—
One of the reasons why the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Japan was that all their experiments and calculations showed that it was impossible to destroy these mines by any other means.
So…if history repeats itself…we may all wonder about Iran: Will we ever see another nuclear weapon used in our lifetime?
And is the reason why our Congress approves such an unconstitutional measure of using drones on our home soil—is because they know something we don’t? Are there terrorists in the United States already with nuclear material? Some experts say it’s entirely possible.
Ahmadinejad has threatened to hit the ‘heart’ of America with some kind of devastation weapon. North Korea…is threatening New York. Obama says nothing.
Today we find out that when Obama was told about the attack happening in Benghazi, he told Leon Panetta to do whatever they felt necessary, and then Obama took off at 5 o’clock and nobody spoke to him again, even though the attack went on for hours… which means:.
1) He’s the most incompetent President ever in the history of the United States and just went off to have his big dinner and watch basketball…or
2) He ordered the stand-down in Benghazi and sacrificed those men because he didn’t want it to get out that the ambassador was helping supply Al-Qaeda with arms and weapons before his elections, and everything that happened following that was a cover-up.
3) Both of the above.
Nobody finds it less than funny that after all these years, our government couldn’t have come out and just admitted that the Japanese had land mines that so well protected their island, we couldn’t defeat them from the ground. It would have made a lot more sense. Was not revealing this fact a way to make us look big, and invincible?
“What we pretend to be defending as the “truth” is really our own self-esteem.” Thomas Merton “No Man Is An Island:
So..what is the truth? Obama lies. Panetta lies. Hillary lies. Who do we believe? Dick Cheney, the most hated man in America for years, said that his worst nightmare was to wake up to a nuclear attack on an American City. 
Nobody Thinks….Hell, I’m not sure what I think, but I do know one thing…I’d rather be drinking Rum & Coke on the beach in Hawaii than thinking about any of this…care to join me?
The “I Won’t Get Mail on Saturday!” Blues
Nobody Wins
We have ANOTHER FIRST in the Obama’s reign of prosperity and change! The Post Office is going to stop delivering mail to you on Saturday, and of course, to show that Americans support this new cut in service, something that is a FIRST in the History of the Post Office..they are showing people on TV who are in full support.
“Oh..that a great idea! I don’t get anything but junk mail anyway!”
Nobody mentions whether the people who were working on Saturdays will get less pay, which might not hurt them too much because the average salary for the 650,000 American postal carriers is $80,000 a year. And the Post Master General makes more money than Obama, he’s not going to suffer.
Frankly, I think this stinks. Since we became a “service” country, everyone who used to get a weekly check, was forced to get a bi-weekly check, delivered of course…online into your bank account. One day they all said, “You will get your paycheck online.” If you didn’t have a computer…you had to get one.
So, every other Friday is payday, and the supermarkets plan their big sales around the two Fridays of every week in every month.
As for myself, to save time and effort, I pay all my bills as soon as I transfer the check on Friday, and then put them in the mailbox, and if the mailman comes BEFORE I get them all paid, which sometimes happen as they never have the same hours…I HAVE to get them in on Saturday, or else, since THE POSTOFFICE IS NOW SO DARN SLOW, I will get charged a late fee. You have to allow at least 12 days to be sure that your check gets there.
Which means, I will have to do it all Thursday night, in order to get them in the mail by Friday.
(What if they come before I get up on Friday?)
Then I have to go to the Post Office….and I’ll have to buy gas to go to the Post Office which will pollute the planet.
Nobody Wins, when the Post Office hours are cut, but they all got a raise anyway, thanks to Obama, so nobody is hurt but the American Citizen.
And just to make it all seem okay:
Outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta reportedly believes the military should receive a pay cut in order to respond to the budget cuts facing the Pentagon — a position that might strengthen the Republican push to reverse President Obama’s executive order raising the salary of Vice President Joe Biden and other federal officials.
Right..who here believes that President Obama’s going to reverse his executive order? Raise your hands……mmmm…..not seeing any here……
Nobody Thinks the real purpose behind this is to get everyone to pay all their bills…online. They really don’t care if the Post Office makes a profit. And while it seems so wonderful not to have to bother with writing that check, someday, you will look in your bank account and someone would have drawn out more than you wanted them too—-and you might never see that money again, because YOU have given them permission to go into your bank account and grab money.
And to think–they complained about Jesse James.
It Started In New York….
Nobody Knows
Someday we might be telling our grandchildren…. “It started in…New York.”
And the President has given himself full power to kill any American he sees fit.
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I am a nobody. If the different classes of America were color-coded, I would be in the yucky brown, one rung up from the bottom. I grew up in Naples, Florida and live near the Mississippi River now with my husband and two dogs. I am part of the slowly disappearing middle-class. I was a musician most of my life: drummer/singer/keyboards—but I retired before the plastic surgery flu hit. I have no degrees, which could be a good thing…depending on how you view our educational system. I do have three patents…but that really doesn’t make me a somebody. The one thing that is constant in my life is my OPINIONS, which i have more than perhaps even Carl Sagan could have imagined…mostly political. (yes…my ancestors were crabby buggers)
Hopefully other nobody’s will put their opinions on my site. But, if you happen to be a somebody, you’re more than welcomed to help out.
It’s my Nobody Opinion that Nobody’s Perfect, and Nobody Cares, that Nobody Knows why Nobody Wins, and when that happens, Nobody Wonders, why Nobody Flashes, why Nobody’s Fooled, but then Nobody remembers that Nobody ALWAYS Reports the truth.
You can email me at joyanna_adams@yahoo.com
Joyanna Adams
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