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I wrote a couple of weeks ago how their roadrunner service doesn’t hold a candle to the overall performance of DSL. Last week I experienced 4 hours of not being able to open a web page. I never had a total of 4 hours of down-time during 5 years with Verizon DSL.

Today the cable is out. I called their number provided for business accounts, since that is what I have, went through the prompts a total of 4 times, and was disconnected each time at the point I should have been holding for a live representative.

Now I have been on hold for 43 minutes. I called and followed the prompts for new service hoping that would get me to a live human quicker. No dice!

I’m going to be in bed tonight trying to sleep while hearing the following phrase running through my head.

“We apologize for the delay. Please remain on the line for the next available representative.”

At least I can have them on speaker phone while I listen to the automated apology.

[tags]Time Warner Cable, Roadrunner, Internet, service, poor[/tags]

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Joel Giambra has come up with some very good ideas, such as the consolidation of ECC downtown.  Today is not one of his good days.  He is advocating a dedicated source of funding for the arts from real property taxes.

Government funding for the arts and culturals is a bad, whether it is dedicated or budgeted annually.  It results in more people being indirectly employed by the government and distorts the true value of art and culture.  People sitting in a room doling out money to support cultural activities, sight unseen, is ludicrous at best.  Taxpayers are forced to pay for art that they may deem garbage.

If the government would just stop sticking its nose in everything and trying to control society through myriad funding projects, taxes would be lower and people would have the money to voluntarily support art and culture based on their perception of the value.

The most efficient way to ruin health care is by switching to a system of socialized, universal, single-payer government-run health care.  Here are a few examples.

• The sad story of a British man who can’t see because the British National Health care system hasn’t gotten around to removing his cataracts — for three years. (He has a kidney stone, too, and Britain’s “universal” health care system won’t fix that, either.)
• A fellow in Canada who has been waiting eight months (so far) for heart surgery.A Canadian with a malignant brain tumor who fled to New York for medical treatment, rather than (most likely) die on a Canadian waiting list. His best friend had died on a waiting list for heart surgery.
• Three stories: A Canadian girl whose heart surgery was cancelled; an Australian man who has been on a 90-day waiting list for two years; a couple who had to schedule care for three disabled family members in order for the man to have surgery — which then was cancelled.

Read the rest from  the National Center Blog.

[tags]health care, universal, socialized, single payer, government[/tags]

When you live right by Dairy Queen, there is only one thing to do when it is 87 degrees outside -

Btw, it is a raspberry sundae.  I couldn’t stop myself from sampling the sundae before snapping the picture with my cell phone  :mrgreen:

if Eric Dondero is the only thing I have to worry about, then I don’t have a lot to worry about.

- Ron Paul answering questions about the Iraq War, 9/11 and Eric Dondero

[tags]Ron Paul, Eric Dondero, Presidential Candidate, 2008, Republican, Libertarian, Conservative[/tags]

Mayor Byron Brown is holding out Ikea as a red herring in an attempt to justify the huge corporate welfare package for Bass Pro. He obviously realizes that many people are opposed to the poorly and suddenly conceived incarnation of plans for a Bass Pro store on the waterfront.

Many retail projects can be made viable with the infusion of tens of milions in taxpayers’ dollars. The corporate welfare hurts competing businesses while robbing people of money to spend to support businesses fairly. Let’s hope that not too many people are swayed by Brown’s sleight-of-hand act. The issue isn’t Ikea in our future, it is our money being wasted to the detriment of other businesses and our economy.

[tags]Bass Pro, Buffalo, waterfront, inner harbor, canal, Byron Brown, Ikea[/tags]