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Sep
4
Finally after months of e-mails, phone calls, unwanted deliveries, over payments, snail mail letters, and the like, it’s over.
I mailed a letter (required by Poland Springs) to stop automatically withdrawing from my bank account. You have to send a letter to Kentucky for this. No other form of communication is acceptable for this. And it has to be dipped in spring water.
This gave me a little bit of an edge, but if you’ve read the other Poland Spring posts on this blog you know that it didn’t give me much of an edge.
Finally I got a letter. A letter notifying me that I was behind on my payments. From a water company that I’ve been trying to cancel deliveries from for six months. The letter warned me that if I didn’t pay they would stop delivering water to me. PERFECT! Except there were late charges.
We called. Actually my wife called and dealt with them. Pointed out that we have in fact paid for 12 months (16 actually) and have honored our side of the deal, that we currently have 50 gallons of water in our closet, basement, and garage, and that we are tired of their customer service and bull shit. Long story short. They terminated our contract. Now I can concentrate on bitching about something else. Mortgage companies, credit cards, cars, mechanics, telemarketers, pedestrians, other drivers, neighbors, in-laws, family, Obama, McCain, Palin (I like Biden a little), and anything else that pisses me off. At least the water debacle is over. Now I just have to drink 50 gallons of water and figure out how to deal with the bottles. Come to think of it. They’ll probably charge me for the bottles, or a pick up fee. Maybe it’s not over.
Sep
4
Her voice grates on me, is the first problem I have with Palin. That she’s against abortion (under any circumstance) is another, doesn’t condone birth control, even in marriages, and put a small town $20 million in debt after keeping her promise to lower taxes if she got elected doesn’t help either. But this article (posted below) tips the insanity scale.
Palin: Iraq war ‘a task that is from God’
By GENE JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer Wed Sep 3, 7:23 PM ET
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told ministry students at her former church that the United States sent troops to fight in the Iraq war on a “task that is from God.”
ADVERTISEMENTIn an address last June, the Republican vice presidential candidate also urged ministry students to pray for a plan to build a $30 billion natural gas pipeline in the state, calling it “God’s will.”
Palin asked the students to pray for the troops in Iraq, and noted that her eldest son, Track, was expected to be deployed there.
“Our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God,” she said. “That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that plan is God’s plan.”
A video of the speech was posted at the Wasilla Assembly of God’s Web site before finding its way on to other sites on the Internet.
Palin told graduating students of the church’s School of Ministry, “What I need to do is strike a deal with you guys.” As they preached the love of Jesus throughout Alaska, she said, she’d work to implement God’s will from the governor’s office, including creating jobs by building a pipeline to bring North Slope natural gas to North American markets.
“God’s will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that,” she said.
“I can do my job there in developing our natural resources and doing things like getting the roads paved and making sure our troopers have their cop cars and their uniforms and their guns, and making sure our public schools are funded,” she added. “But really all of that stuff doesn’t do any good if the people of Alaska’s heart isn’t right with God.”
Palin attended the evangelical church from the time she was a teenager until 2002, the church said in a statement posted on its Web site. She has continued to attend special conferences and meetings there. Religious conservatives have welcomed her selection as John McCain’s running mate.
Rob Boston, a spokesman for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, lamented Palin’s comments.
“I miss the days when pastors delivered sermons and politicians delivered political speeches,” he said. “The United States is increasingly diverse religiously. The job of a president is to unify all those different people and bring them together around policy goals, not to act as a kind of national pastor and bring people to God.”
The section of the church’s Web site where videos of past sermons were posted was shut down Wednesday, and a message was posted saying that the site “was never intended to handle the traffic it has received in the last few days.”
