Wednesday, February 06, 2013
Free cell phones as a gov't bennie - Gov't stroking the sweet spot
Got a thing in the mail yesterday from a place called Safelink which is a service of Lifeline which is actually something to do with the Federal Government. Note the key words here - Safelink, Lifeline, Federal Government. Apparently and I've heard about this but if you're poor enough, if you're under a certain predetermined income level and already partake of certain government programs like food stamps and SSI you're ELIGIBLE, entitled to a free cell phone with 250 free minutes!!! Text your heart out. So of course they have some kind of positive blurb at the bottom of the letter from some older disabled woman saying the cell phone practically saved her life butcha just know most folks are just gonna be gabbing and blabbing and yakking on the things. Bishop Sheen warned about this way back in the day, they're gonna try to make you dependent on the federal government. Free cells and having your job be forced to cover your birth control, it's all of a thread. Maybe they should call it Flukelink (pronunciation fluck). The Obama Motto - don't let your boss decide if you can have bc or not. To me that's irrelevant, your boss has nothing to do with your personal life. During my last job interview it never dawned on me to ask in closing are you gonna cover my sex'chal needs? The ONLY thing that matters is getting paid for services rendered, that's it! You know it's become kind of gauche to point this out lately but these are the type of people who voted for Obama and yes he won the election fair and square but when his second term is up that's when we have to have The Great Rollback, the massive scaling back of liberalism and at the top of my list will be the free cell phone. Conservative post-election analysis greatly missed the point. Generally speaking Mitt Romney really did nothing wrong, the country's changed is all. BTW BB's probably entitled to a free cell:)
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You are of course aware that the cellphone programs are not new and didn't start under Obama, right?
ReplyDeleteThey started way back in the day under Bush.
Just so that's perfectly clear, that this is NOT a new program and NOT something started by Obama.
For the sake of clarity and accuracy.
Shucks, I'd take free cellphone..
ReplyDeletethey make great paperweights.
I see that 'winter storm Nemo' is going to brush by NYC. Recommend for you daily walk on the parkway
ReplyDeleteeither snowshoes or cross-country
skis. :)
Now they're naming winter storms? Yeah as usual the media here has to make a big deal of it. Was gonna stop at a Hannaford's supermarket in Carmel before but drove through the crowded parking lot and mumbled to myself "panic-stricken fucks" and decided to come here instead. Funny thing about this storm BB just two days ago there was no mention of it in the forecasts, nothing from Bill Evans and so my question is why aren't weatherpeople ever held to task?
ReplyDeleteSat I know by now, what with the two of you that if I were to allege that the free cell phones started under Obama I'd have to google it first. You must be confusing me with some other posters here. However it does seem to fit in well with his overall vision of benevolent government and he could make an effort to stop it if he wanted. Hey how 'bout one of them executive orders?
ReplyDeleteCarmel has a Hannafords???? Where at?
ReplyDeleteShit... I remember when the Shoprite Plaza was just a field.
Nothing is free save for maybe air. Cellphones don't just materialize from nothing. There are costs involved in the manufacture thereof.
ReplyDeleteSean Hannity said if things continue on this current path he sees a possibility of conservative states leaving the union.
ReplyDeleteAll this because a black man was elected fairly and squarely to be the President of the United States of America!
Speaking of Bishop Sheen, the 'free cellphone' program, according to FoxNews *, is a misnomer, for-
ReplyDelete"But even though some beneficiaries may credit President Obama for providing the phones, Lifeline is an extension of a program that has existed since
1985." Reagan was president, then
and Fulton J. was on his way through the interminable paperwork of sainthood.
* Z-Man may accept my facts, but most cons only believe FoxNews...
Pope Benedict announces resignation. First pope since Gregory XII in 1415. Quite a year, 1415: Jan Huss was burned at the stake after his safe conduct was revoked by the church..and Henry V kicked French ass at the battle of
ReplyDeleteAgincourt.
I absolutely think that we should take a lesson from the Democrats and welcome all these rappers, gang bangers, illegals, crack heads, prostitutes, welfare cheats,illegal Alien moochers, lazy food-stamp collecting bums and others like them , into the Republican party with open arms.
ReplyDeleteBecause without them our beloved GOP is doomed .. As we saw in the past 2 elections technically it works
Occurred to me today that basing one's political beliefs on The fiction of Ayn Rand is qualitatively identical with basing one's religious beliefs on the fiction of L Ron Hubbard.
ReplyDeleteAnd Darth, you are of course aware that Republican states receive far more benefits than Democratic ones right? Of course you are. All those moochers food stamp folk et al live and preach Republican, which is why they're all dirtt poor and need benefits.
Hannaford's in Carmel, say you're going east on Rte. 6 from Mahopac and you're passing Lake Gleneida in Carmel at the traffic light where the road forks to the left as Rte. 52 bear right to continue onto 6. Downaways just on your left is a shopping plaza with a Wendy's and a Hannaford's. Hannaford deli doesn't make sandwiches on the spot, my friend asked once but there are premade sandwiches there. Incidentally at the K-Mart on 6 just before entering Carmel I bought a wonderful new Trac-fone to replace my old one, the kind you flip open, not a single-face and it's got the works from going on the Web to being an MP3 player and a video and camera as well and there's some other stuff in the manual and all this for just 20 bucks. Well worth the trip!
ReplyDeleteI heard that on the radio going to work this morning BB about Benedict retiring at the end of this month. Francis Cardinal Arinze of Africa maybe? Dolan's a long shot. Good point about Hubbard and Rand Saty.
ReplyDeleteArinze, Dolan, Quellet..Santorum?
ReplyDeleteIs that the same plaza where it used to be a Grand Union, and Ames (before Ames was Barkers) and in the corner was the movie theatre, and then Walbaums was across the street and then McDonalds.... the whole thing down the hill, at the top of the hill is Adams Cordovano Funeral Home? I went to school with Nicky Cordovano.
ReplyDeleteAnd at that light at the top of the hill is the Reed Library, and then if you go up Seminary Hill is Guideposts on the left. I used to work there. Then if you keep going you come to Arms Acres on the left. I worked there too.
ReplyDeleteI've been to the Reed Library many years ago, quaint. I got to thinking about the ShopRite plaza you mentioned but that's more on 52 if you're coming from Fishkill right before you enter the heart of the village anchored by its grand white historic courthouse. Back in the day I used to go ice fishing alot on Boyd Corners Reservoir on 301 famous for its walleye. Apparently global warming hadn't kicked in then as I remember the ice being two feet thick one year and I had to augur the hole. Cooked on the ice with Sternos and folding stoves I bought at Modell's and must've been good 'cause the gulls would swoop down and steal the food.
ReplyDeleteBoyds Corners is the causeway is it not.... the closest to us was West Branch, then if you turn up Peekskill Hollow heading toward the Taconic, first right onto Richardsville, turn left at the rowboat (no shit) onto Pudding St, go up up up until you see the lake on the right, turn right, go half way round the lake, house is on the left. They changed the numbering of all the houses, I don't know why, when I was a kid it was 29, now it's 123. We were a good ten miles from town. Matter of fact, we're still ten miles from town.
ReplyDeleteOh, and when I was in highschool I had a summer job working for the county in the courthouse building and every day I would have lunch at Georges. The Carmel Diner didn't used to be across the street, it was at that corner there next to the Stop N Steal, alongside what used to be a movie theatre way way back in the day. It was dark and narrow and had like a counter and four little 2 person tables wedged between the counter and the wall and oh the best coffee and bagels ever. It just wasn't the same once they moved across the street, not as good, something about all the years of built up grease on the burners or something.
ReplyDeleteAnd right across the street from the Stop n Steal, on the same side as the post office, at the corner there, was a little garage where you could get your car worked on. And this guy I knew, Sandy, he worked there of an evening, and, well, it wasn't my car that got worked on.
ReplyDeleteOK, that might have been TMI, but you got me all nostalgic n stuff now.
George's is still there. Only took Pudding St. and Peekskill Hollow Rd. once and I remember pulling over, I think it was on Pudding St. and going for a short walk in the woods when I sees some guy walking towards me with a rifle. In Westchester they don't have hunting not with firearms so I was kinda startled at first until I realized he was a hunter and I'm in Putnam County and so we got to talking. Very pro-gun up here in the sticks, five Newtowns is never gonna change that. That's just the way it is but I've always liked Carmel. It's just the perfect picturesque American town and it's centrally located like Armonk. By that I mean you got your 84 and 684 and your Taconic and can go to Poughkeepsie or Danbury is just a hop skip and a jump away, head on up to Millbrook or cross the Newburgh/Beacon Bridge on the way to Gander Mtn. Sybil Ludington, some gal from the Revolutionary War, very big up here.
ReplyDeleteImagine how hick it was in the early 70's.
ReplyDeleteI know some older folks who still remember the days when Central Ave. in Yonkers was all woods. White Plains, I think that means great swamps or something and that's what it used to be. Sprout Lake up past Peekskill, touch of the Ozarks up here and we used to go swimming here as kids. My friend and I were gonna walk some dirt nature trail here about a year ago and the sign by the road had a bullet hole in it so we kinda did something else. I'm thinkin' lots of inbreeding.
ReplyDeleteIt was a good place to grow up.
ReplyDeleteEver read your town or city's water report which is required to be mailed to every resident? Makes for interesting reading, sometimes a little unsettling.
ReplyDeleteWe have a well so maybe that doesn't apply here?
ReplyDeleteHere in the City of Yonkers if what's called your water service line gets damaged you're on the hook for total repair costs and that can run you into thousands of dollars. Let's say there's water leaking out of the sidewalk near the curb in front of your home well some city experts come in and do some sounding to determine if it's on the city property side or YOUR side and you're just gritting your teeth stomach in knots:)
ReplyDeleteFrom a technical standpoint: if it
ReplyDeleteis funny colored or smells awful,
don't drink it.
We get a lot of sulfur in the water especially when it rains so we have a filter on the house. Our well I think is 185 feet deep and gives 12 gpm. I watched them drill it.. probably the only person in the world who would be fascinated by such a thing.
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