Wednesday - February 3, 2010
Hello again from The West Texas Vast Right Wing Conspirators Association.
TAX:
This past week I received my home telephone bill from VERIZON. Of course the first thing I noticed was that there had been a rate increase and of course there had been no prior notification of said rate increase. A couple of years back I had cancelled a number of services which I had not requested and for which I was charged a monthly charge. So once again I began to go line by line of the extra charges. Of course the charge for my two residence lines was as it should have been. Ah, but then there began to appear several items which I am not sure of their exact use and if I do understand them, why are they there.
Interstate subscriber line charge is something which I guess I understand BUT I do not make long distance telephone calls from my home phone. I either use my cell phone which service is provided by VERIZON also. Then came a few items which I am not entirely sure of.
Interstate non-primary access................. $ 7.00
Cost of service surcharge ....................... .06
Texas Universal Service .......................... 1.30
Municipal Right-of-Way ........................... 1.38
Emergency Service Charge ..................... 1.00
Federal Universal Service Fee................. .92
Federal Universal Service Fee ................ .99
Call Waiting/Cancel Call Waiting.............. 5.00
Federal Excise Tax .................................. 1.55
City Sales Tax .......................................... .79
County Sales Tax...................................... .26
State Tax................................................... 3.43
TOTAL ...................................................... $23.68
If I desire to keep a home hard line telephone I will continue to be nickled and dimed to death by these jerks.
Of course if I had a long distance service through VERIZON I would be paying an additional $4.00 per month. If I made long distance calls totaling $4 I would be charged $4. If I made $10 worth of long distance calls, I would, of course, be charge long distance charges of $10. BUT if I had long distance service with VERIZON and made NO LONG DISTANCE CALLS, I would still be charged a minimum of $4.00 per month for, now get this, a NON-USE charge.
I can recall the days PRIOR to the federal government got involved in the de-regulation of many services. Seems to me as if things were much simpler back then and all these idiotic add on charges were pretty well non-existent.
The point is, that in spite of the old commercial, any of these telephone companies ACT as if they are the ONLY PHONE COMPANY IN TOWN. All of them will do you the same way. Their original sales pitch on your monthly costs are all a pack of lies. Who in the hell do they think they are? The federal government?
EDITORIALS/HAITI
This past week on the editorial page of the (Below) Standard Times I noticed a couple of letters to the editor. Now I don't know who makes the choice on which letters are printed but I sometimes get the distinct impression that some of the letter writers and some of the staff who choose the letters to be printed all have the intellectual depth of a lima bean.
One person wrote a letter in which he first of all attacked an editorial contributor, Star Parker, because she believed in prayer. I knew from his second sentence that he and I would probably never attend a sporting event together.
But the straw which broke the camel's back was when he began to take up for Keith Olberman. According to this mental giant: "Try watching his show for a week. If you don't think he is telling the truth and isn't the smartest 'sportscaster' you ever saw, then I will not write another letter to the editor for three years."
"I feel sad about people who call who call our president names and think he's 'liberal' (that's a good one). They are taking us down a worse path than Barack Obama could even imagine."
Of course he went on to allude to the accusation that anyone who was not totally enamored with the world's most articulate and intelligent human are taking the country down a worse path than Barack Obama could even imagine.
One must wonder that if a pea fell on this person's head if he would jut bypass "Henny Penny", "Foxy Loxy" and "Turkey Lurkey" and go right to the King to advise him that the sky was indeed falling.
Then one of the local editorial writers wrote an article pretty much blaming the United States for the horrible conditions in Haiti going back to 1804 when the black slaves and "local Indians" revolted and defeated the French to become an "Independent Haiti". Of course this editorial writer neglected to tell what happened to every white resident of this Jewel of the Caribbean. If memory serves me correctly, the freed slaves killed every white person in this banana republic. Ah, but let us not forget that this freedom loving country was, in the not too distant past, ruled by Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier and then by his turd son Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier. Then they were followed by the "Democratically Elected" government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was only marginally better than team Duvalier.
In truth, Haiti is probably the most poorly governed country in our hemisphere. Now keep in mind this includes the corrupt government of Mexico and other Central and South American countries. Again, it is time to blame America and try to put us all on a guilt trip. Sorry boys, won't work with sane Americans. But if you socialist bozos want to feel guilty, feel free to do so.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Knott, Ann Fraley, Tony Aguilar, Julio Mirales - HOBBS,NM; Ella Dunlop, Frank Connelly - SAN ANTONIO,TX; George Brogdon - MIDWAY,TX; Irma & L.T. Drennan - ADA,OK; Susan O'Brien - VACAVILLE,CA; Dan Higdon - FLORENCE,OR; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak - ORLANDO,FL; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Kate Powell - LOS ANGLES,CA; Janet Smith -OR; Lanelle Kittlestad - PLANT CITY,FL; Bob Love - ABILENE,TX; Alex Barker - SNELLVILLE,GA; Alan Miller, Capt. John B. McKamey,USN,Ret - PENSACOLA,FL; John Bowcutt - WA; Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, Cpl. Brandon Robinson, SSgt. Eric Harmon, SSgt. Matthew Ross, Alex Boyd, Capt. Bjorn Thoreen, 2NDLT. Michael Rice,GySgt. James Walker, 2NDLT. George R. Zeigler - USMC; Jason Plilar, Kenneth Thomas - USCG; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1C Elizabeth Barber & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, SSgt. Aaron Brown - USAF; Capt. Brian Kriss- TxANG; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, ENSGN Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown - US NAVY; Levi English, Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES; SSgt. Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, PFC Richard Lee Bishop, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Sgt. Mark Goodwin, LTC. Robbie Bell - US ARMY; John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Cathy Fellowes Hill, Cindy Hogman, Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families - All of our men and women serving in combat zones.
QUOTES:
"Former Ambassador John Bolton has written a book titled 'Surrender is Not an Option'. But that is an option for the kind of people at the top in the Obama administration."...................... THOMAS SOWELL
"The stakes in this fall's elections go far beyond the fate of either the Republican party or the Democratic party. The fate of America is on the line. The Republicans need to understand that --- and to understand that they are not simply 'due' because of the polls.".............. THOMAS SOWELL
"It's time we reduced the Federal budget and left the family budget alone."............................. RONALD REAGAN
"I never gave anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.".......................... HARRY TRUMAN
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe (R); Henry Waxman; Vice President Joe Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee; Jack Murtha; Jimmy Carter; George Soros; Keith Olberman (MSNBC); Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); HS Secretary Janet Napolitano; White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome; Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger; Chuck Schumer; New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; Bill Clinton; White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); Imaginary Reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson; Richard Lugar (R); Lindsey Graham (R); Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al (Mr. Toad) Franken; Susan Collins (R); Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor; Linda Sanchez; Blanche Lincoln; Geraldo Rivera (FOX News); Chris Matthews (MSNBC); Markos Zuniga (Daily KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Shepard Smith (FOX News); New York Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; ACLU; THE UNITED NATIONS: ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; PETA; LA RAZA; AARP; NY TIMES; LA TIMES; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR
MORE STUFF:
This morning in our local newspaper, the (Sub) Standard Times, I spotted an article regarding the upcoming Texas Governor's race. I am not sure who is running on the Democrat/Socialist side but the Republican primary will have three candidates. The incumbent Governor, Rick Perry; U.S. Senator, Kay Bailey Hutchison, who is giving up her Senate seat to seek the Governor's office and a nice lady from Wharton, Texas, Mrs. Medina.
Anyway, Kay Bailey Hutchison found it necessary to attack the present Governor in an article in which she accused him of "listening to lobbyists". Wow! What a startling revelation. Imagine that. A politician listening to lobbyists. I'm sure Senator Hutchison has never listened to a lobbyist. What a joke. As you may have gathered I have very little use for Senator Hutchison.
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Here is a flash. Nancy Pelosi wants to "Freeze" the defense budget. Yeah, let's do that. Freeze the defense budget and send everything else to Haiti. Makes perfect sense to me.
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Wonder how much longer it will be before George Bush gets the full blame for the Haitian earthquake? Hell, the Democrats/Socialists have blamed him for everything else. Perhaps the Haitians are a bit like Obama. Perhaps they "Inherited" the earthquake from Bush, much like Obama blames everything negative regarding his administration as something he inherited from the Previous Administration.
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Last Saturday we took a group of Korean students to tour the Caverns of Sonora which is located a little over an hour away from San Angelo. We had a really good time and I believe the students did also.
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That about does it for this week.
See ya next week.
JEM
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