Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Inside Plaza Towers Elementary School During & After Tornado Strike

'Teabaggers' Seize on IRS 'Scandal' To Reinvigorate Street-Mob Hysterics

Tornado Tragedy & 'Safe Rooms': May 20th Takes New Meaning For Oklahoma ...

Rated EF4: Obama Offers Comfort, Urges Action After Oklahoma Tornadoes

Oklahoma Tornado: Day 2 Reveals Shocking Scale of Storm's Destruction (1/3)

Oklahoma Tornado: Day 2 Reveals Shocking Scale of Storm's Destruction (2/3)

Oklahoma Tornado: Day 2 Reveals Shocking Scale of Storm's Destruction (3/3)

Why 15 Million People are Addicted to Candy Crush

IRS Official Pleads the Fifth, and More

Lethal Aid: US to supply arms to Syrian rebels?

'Multiculturalism failing': Violent riots engulf Stockholm suburbs

FBI shoots dead Chechen linked to Boston terror suspects

CrossTalk: Bitcoin Revolution?

Sen. Inhofe: Disaster Relief For Oklahoma Will Be Different Than Hurricane Sandy

McCain, Collins Slam GOP Colleagues On The Budget

Lois Lerner Invokes The Fifth Amendment At IRS Hearing

Video of Woolwich Terrorist Justifying His Actions?

Sprint Customer Service is Horrible! All services offered are horrible! DO NOT USE!



Sprint's customer service is not a breath of fresh air and neither is the phone service.  When I signed up back in January, I agreed to a charge (with fees and taxes already written into that charge) of $203 a month, with the first payment being more because of a setup fee.  Well, after that first month, I was still being charged almost $100 more, and the only thing customer service could tell me was that it was "fees and taxes," even though those are already supposed to be accounted for.  It's almost as if someone was still charging me the setup fee each month, but they were too ignorant to stop the charge (or perhaps too greedy).  So I kept paying it because I felt I had no choice since I needed service, but I felt it was a breech of contract.

Then things started to fall apart even more.

I'm paying for LTE and am supposed to have it in my area (and hell, I'm only a half mile away from a Sprint tower!), but outside of the first month of service, I haven't seen anything beyond 3G (and sometimes 1x!) on my phone.  No, LTE isn't shut off, and I'm probably more technically-advanced than your technical support staff.  Either service is just that crappy, or the hardware was starting to fail in the phone.  I want to say the antenna in the phone is just bad, but no, it could be the service because this phone has pulled 4G, but only downtown around the circle, and only outside on a sunny day.  That, and I can barely get a bar on the phone signal side of things.  I've had dropped call after dropped call and often in the middle of important calls.

The microphone started having issues on my phone next (which seems to be a common enough problem with these phones that they don't tell you, but I can find it in a search on Google).  I would be talking to someone, and suddenly, they couldn't hear me.  It grew worse -- so bad I needed to replace the phone.  Plus, the audio jack stopped working on my husband's GS3.  Good thing I had insurance added to my account!

So we replaced the phones.  And everything was a little better...until this morning.  Sprint suspended my service just because my account is $40 over.  Now most people would laugh and say, "Pay the $40!"  However, after all that I've been through in this short time, I am simply done.  I am not being gouged for more, and in all honesty, I'd rather take my service to a "pay as you go" because at least I know I won't be charged more than I'm supposed to be.  I'm on Social Security, and you've had it noted (supposedly) in my account that I pay on the 1st of the month.  I've been prompt with my payments.  And I'd be happy to  pay the huge amount I'm going to have to pay now (the extra $60 a month I've been paying for no reason and this extra amount, making this somewhere over $300) on the 1st normally, but with this having happened and then being fed more bs by your customer service people when I talked to someone about this...I am just done.  Good-bye, Sprint.  Hello, Straight Talk.  (And no, I won't take your "pay as you go" services because we've had Boost and Virgin before in this area.  Boost is mediocre at best, and Virgin just plain sucks at everything -- which makes sense when people say they are on your "shit tier" of service.  No thanks.)




Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Rand Paul: Congress should "apologize" to Apple for "bullying" it?


           Rand Paul: America Needs To 'Just Apologize To Apple, Compliment Them For Job Creation'

           A Senate report released shows the great lengths Apple goes to to avoid paying taxes on profits
           overseas, defrauding the U.S. Treasury and in a essence, not paying a dime of taxes owed on billions
           in corporate profits-

            In a 40-page memorandum released a day before Apple CEO Tim Cook is scheduled to testify before Congress, the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations identified three subsidiaries that have no "tax residency" in Ireland, where they are incorporated, or in the United States, where company executives manage those companies.
The main subsidiary, a holding company that includes Apple's retail stores throughout Europe, has not paid any corporate income tax in the last five years.
The subsidiary, which has a Cork, Ireland, mailing address, received $29.9 billion in dividends from lower-tiered offshore Apple affiliates from 2009 to 2012, comprising 30 percent of Apple's total worldwide net profits, the report said.
"Apple has exploited a difference between Irish and U.S. tax residency rules," the report said.
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Xbox One Unveiled!

Sen. Inhofe: We have Oklahoma tornado victim's assistance approved

Jodi Arias' life in hands of jury

E.W. Jackson: Virginia GOP's New 'Black Pet' Compares Planned Parenthood to KKK?

'Bronx Ghetto Tours' Make Fun of the Poor! Really?

The GOP's 'Painful & Useless' Zeal To Repeal 'ObamaCare' Using The IRS Scandal

OKC Hospital Describes Treating Tornado Wounded

Obama Pledges Urgent Aid for Tornado Victims

Tim Cook Defends Apple's Tax Accounting

Okla. tornado survivor finds dog buried alive under rubble

Aerial of Oklahoma Four Tornados Distruction, Twisters Kill many

5/20/13 Moore, OK Devastating Tornado

Monday, May 20, 2013

Begin impeach proceedings for Senators Rand Paul and Ted Cruz and House Rep. Darrel Issa, for their handling of Benghazi | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government Petition!

English: Ted Cruz at the Republican Leadership...
English: Ted Cruz at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Official portrait of United States Senator (R-KY).
Official portrait of United States Senator Rand Paul (R-KY). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
                                                       Republican House Rep. Darrel Issa

Begin impeach proceedings for Senators Rand Paul and Ted Cruz and House Rep. Darrel Issa, for their handling of Benghazi | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government:

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The Latest Scandal – Republicans Sabotaging Their Own Party

The red "GOP" logo used by the party...
The red "GOP" logo used by the party for its website (Photo credit: Wikipedia)


Forward Progressives — The Latest Scandal – Republicans Sabotaging Their Own Party:

It's a GOP thing. Screwing shit up and blaming others...

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Condi Lied Under Oath to the 9-11 Widows



How is that for transparency and "the truth"?

My history lesson to the GOP and Tea Bagger's currently foaming at the mouth.

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Taxpayer Dollars Are Helping Monsanto Sell Seeds Abroad


                        Taxpayer Dollars Are Helping Monsanto Sell Seeds Abroad | Mother Jones

                             Yep, your tax dollars are helping Monsanto post record profits and in all reality, it's a       crying shame. With all of the focus on slashing deficits and reducing SNAP benefits, one would think there would be an outrage from the likes of Fox News and Congress.

Hear that? That's the sound of grasshoppers chirping, paint drying and the sound of grass growing....

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