BEWARE T-MOBILE!!!!

This has absolutely nothing to do with the decline of democrats, but I am damned mad and want people to know about this scam.

Background:

Three and a half years ago my wife and I set up a t-mobile family plan. Two phones and 600 shared minutes. It took a two year contract and we got the phones for free. Everyone's familiar with this.

Liked the service, liked the plan, everything was hunky dory.

Last year I went WAY over our plan limit due to business and got wacked with a whopper of a bill. My fault.

I called immediately to increase my plan minutes and tried to negotiate some new phones, but sorry no. "Free new phones are only for new accounts." Okay, I just upped my monthly minutes and monthly bill because at the time there was really nothing better and I figured I could live with the old phones a while longer.

Outrage:

This year I just decided to switch to Cingular figuring that their acquisition of AT-T cell towers would probably make them the most reliable in the US. We took our numbers with us (very cool) and got two new phones which are hugely better than the nearly 4 year old t-mobile Nokia's we had been using.

I just got my final bill from t-mobile today. There was a HUGE "Contract Cancellation" fee on it.

WHAT???!!!!!!

We had been with them for almost 4 years!!! Contract Termination Fee!!! What the hell is that!!!

Disturbing Answer

When I called today to say WTF! I was told that last year when I increased my monthly limit that I had agreed to another year of contracted service.

ME: "I did not agree to that and no one explained that increasing my monthly minutes would create an entirely new service obligation."

t-mobile clerk: "It was recorded and it was a legally binding verbal contract. You switched your service 12 days before your contract ran out."

Needless to say I was a bit put out.

ME: "Wait a minute. Your telling me that in this age where cell phone companies are giving away free phones at the drop of the hat, giving millions of incentives to change service, I'm going to agree to another year of obligatory service to t-mobile and I got..... um.... NOTHING!!!!????? I would have simply switched my service to another company for their 'It's free with new service and a contract' come on."

t-mobile clerk: "Its recorded."

ME: "Okay, play the recording with the clerk reading me the contract clause and my voice saying I understand and accept."

t-mobile clerk: "Can you hold please?."

ME: "Sure."

tap tap tap tap tap

t-mobile clerk: "Okay, I talked to my boss and we are going to wave the 'contract termination fee', but we're going to charge you for service to the end of your contract."

ME: "WHAT!!!! You're going to charge me for service during a period of time when I didn't have it!!! What sort of an ass do you think I am!!!???? I'm not paying a penny until you play that recording of me accepting the terms of a contract!!!"

t-mobile clerk: "We have it recorded."

ME: "Recorded how!!!"

t-mobile clerk: "The clerk that helped you typed into the notes that she read you the contract terms and that you agreed to them."

ME: "You.. You... You have a $10 an hour clerk's typed NOTES that I agreed!!!!!!! You don't have a recording of ME saying that I agree!!!!!"

t-mobile clerk: "No."

ME: "Then you don't have a legally binding VERBAL contract!!!!"

t-mobile clerk: "Yes we do."

ME: "How do you figure??!!"

t-mobile clerk: "We have the clerk's notes in the file that she read the contract to you and that you agreed to the terms."

ME: "I'm telling you she didn't!!!!"

t-mobile clerk: "It's recorded."

ME: "Play me the recording!!!!"

t-mobile clerk: "It's documented."

ME: "By the notes of a $10 an hour clerk!!!???? What if she blew it and forgot to read that to me and after she hung up she simply typed it into the record to save her job!!!????"

t-mobile clerk: "Look, I wasn't there..."

ME: "That's right, but I was!!! I'm telling you that I knew nothing about it and I'm not paying either the termination fee or for service I didn't receive!!"

t-mobile clerk: "Well, I'm sorry things ended this way."

ME: "Ended? No, no. Just started. I'm a blogger and you might want to let your superiors know that."


I will continue to update as I get more "information" from t-mobile. In the meantime, if you make any changes to your t-mobile account, to include changing your email address, your ring tone, your cell phone face or your speed dial list, you may want to have your attorney present to review any "hidden" consequences of those changes.

Another Fascist Domino Falls

Iran appears to be the latest in a growing number of fascist dominos falling over thanks to the push the US gave starting in Afghanistan:

Iran Press News: According to received reports from various cities in Iran, today which marks the first celebration of the Iranian New Year's Festival of Fire was met with celebrations as well as huge protests and demonstrations against the Islamic regime of Iran. The protestors chanted: "We need no Sheikh or Mullah, we curse YOU - RUHOLLAH!"
A report from Tehran: Young celebrants today set scarecrows in the likeness of various Mullahs, such as Khamenei, Rafsanjani, Khatami, Sharoudi, Jannati, etc. on fire in the streets. They cried out slogans such as: "Referendum, referendum, this is the people's dictum."In various parts of the capitol, celebrations and parties rage on. As a part of this celebration which is held on the very last Tuesday night of the year, dry bundles of bramble and shrubbery are set on fire and people jump over them. This is in order to purge their spirits of all the sins and tribulations of the passing year, in order to start the new year, with a pure heart. This is an ancient Persian (Zoroastrian) tradition, one that the Mullahs have done their best to eradicate since their takeover in 1979.An eyewitness reported that despite severe crackdowns by the Revolutionary Guards and storm troopers, people bravely came out of their homes to celebrate. The sound of bursting firecrackers (which is a part of the celebrations), fireworks, toy rockets, confetti and various other celebratory trajectiles can be heard all over Tehran and smoke has filled the streets.In one of the grassy knolls, in a suburban area of Tehran, large bonfires were lit and people danced around it and continued chanting the various slogans in defiance of the Mullahs and their henchmen. It is reported that the local Mullahs in various areas of several areas have locked themselves in their mosques fearing the crowds who continually and collectively shout out their slogans.In several other parts of Tehran, revolutionary guards who have blocked off roads in order to stop cars carrying passengers of various groups from joining others. However people have begun parking their cars and have joined their fellow celebrants on foot. The guards however have become frightened by the force of the people. In this specific area several non-Iranian journalists were also present with their film crews, reporting.In another area of the city people took to setting the French flag on fire while chanting: "Europe is finished and so are their Mullahs." OR "Bush, Bush, where is Bush?" (In Persian this rhymes: Bush, Bush, kush, kush!).

But of course this all would have occurred anyway if the evil Bush would have just left those poor dictators alone.

You lefties just keep telling yourself that and have another hit on the bong. We'll just be over here making the world one big free democracy.

Oldie But Goody

I just stumbled across this video and find it hilarious so I had to post it (link credit The Daily Recycler). Lawrence O'Donnell is doing the classic "liar! liar! pants on fire!" so well, if he didn't look like a sun baked elderly monkey, you can easily picture his training pants.

Then again........

America's Universities - Corrupting Our Youth

Ward Churchill is the latest in a long line of university professors that have found a cozy little nest in the world of academia to spew the pus of their infection laden ilk. These anti-American pustules of hate and vile sentiment are appearing all too often in our "learning centers" across America.

Take, for example, Churchill's hatred mixed with the amoral views of the complete psychopath Peter Singer. This combination of anti-American hatred and the lack of any morals whatsoever is a binary explosive which will eventually turn this country into a crater of disgust and savagery.

They further the hatred of the deranged that fueled 9/11. They breed the type of pond scum that hates the very country that gives them the freedom to spew their garbage and claim that it makes them "brave" and "courageous" to rage against the machine.

Bullshit.

This filth is nothing more than hateful anti-American terrorists who choose to plant bombs ala American youth rather than strap on an explosive vest and die for their cause like the lunatics in Iraq. Mark my words they are grooming domestic homicide bombers and are no less dangerous than the bombers themselves.

In fact, they are MORE dangerous because they have an audience of young, impressionable youth that see them as authority figures.

We need to take back our universities and stop this organized "hate for credit hours" trend spreading like lung cancer through our youth.

Ted *burp* Kennedy, SHUT THE FUCK UP!

Well eddie, how'd you like them apples. It appears that your opinion about Iraq wasn't even close. Duh. We knew your whiskey cured opinion was more fumes than fact. You are dismissed you sniveling, whiny piece of shit.

'nuff said.

John Al Querry, you too need to SHUT THE FUCK UP!

MSM and All You Dumbocrats Listen Up!

For all you Gloom and Doom Moonbats, we are proud to present The Real Story of Iraq. Go read it and then shut the fuck up (link thanks to the Rottweiler).

The Dis List

So here it is. The list of Senators that are so bitter over the re-election of President Bush that they will now take shots at any occasion. We listed some of thier more noteable achievements.

Barbara Boxer, D-Calif - Most notably known for her role in the 1992 House Banking Scandal where she is purported to have written at least 143 bad checks totaling tens of thousands of dollars and some reports have it at over 800.

Robert Byrd, D-W.Va - A truly wonderful specimen of a Grand Kleagle in the Klu Klux Klan.

Edward Kennedy, D-Mass - Is very skilled at sinking women. Particularly after a 5th of Jim Beam and a fast car ride off a bridge.

John Kerry, D-Mass - A genuine war criminal with a knack for getting his fellow servicemen tortured and killed.

Carl Levin, D-Mich - Who among other things is just an out and out liar.

James Jeffords, I-Vt - Because President Bush wanted to give YOU a tax cut, Jeffords defected from the Republican party to disrupt the balance of power. How dare you people keep your own money!

Jack Reed, D-RI - Another soldier turned tyrant. Its okay for him to have them, but he doesn't want you to have guns.

Mark Dayton, D-Minn - He loves to accuse the President of "scare" politics, but then pulls this stunt. And his hysterical, screeching performace during the debate where he called Condi a liar over and over should be all you need to know about this asshole.

Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii - Anyone the ACLU likes must be watched.

Evan Bayh, D-Ind - Just a huge puzzle here. Must have taken advice from John Kerry. Evan, that's a mistake.

Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J - And DAMN!

Tom Harkin, D-Iowa - And another pathetic fear monger. He KNEW this was a lie. And Check the date of the article. Nice timing there Tommy boy.

Richard Durbin, D-Ill - And trying to get Gonzales to say that he was responsible for Abu Grabass puts Durbing firmly in the court of Ted *burp* Kennedy.

You Can't Make This Shit Up!

The sheer stupidity of the Democratic party simply boggles the mind. I have seen 8 year olds with ADD that had better forward looking strategy than the Democrats.

Never mind that they tried to run a certified war criminal for president.

Never mind that they brought down and entire news station with their antics (CBS - Rathergate).

Never mind that they performed nearly as many acts of violence before and after the election as the insurgents in Iraq.

Never mind that they embrace a Grand Kleagle of the Klu Klux Klan (Sen. Robert Byrd) into their midst.

All of that aside, a select few have the blinding foresight to challenge the confirmation of one of the most respected women in all of politics. How did they attempt this? By calling her a liar. By saying she isn't fit to be Sec State because she is so loyal to President Bush that she puts her integrity aside to carry out his wishes.

I can't think of a better way to run off a major portion of their constituency - the black vote.

You go boys and girls.

Mrs. Boxer, you just speak right up whenever you get the urge and we promise not to laugh too loud during you oration.

Mr. Byrd, you keep right on telling everyone that you really aren't a racist. Oh, and your sheet is showing.

Mr. Dayton, you keep on screaming "LIAR!!!" pointing your finger at Condi.

You are all doing a great service to your country by moving more and more Democrats over to the right. It's so nice to have you working for us. Keep up the good work.

*idiots*