Posted on 10/18/2008 10:09:26 PM PDT by Lisa_from Buckeye Country
I'm just trying to find answers......
wonder how much the obama/tv default channel costs?
Cancel .
WE did.
Go to direct tv and your free from that 1984 hell !
I apparently don’t have the service that has this channel, but my sister called and said it’s creepy. She said that if she didn’t know better (I’ve educated her), that listening to him on there would make her want to vote for him.
There are actually *2* channels, now.
[73 and 5890]
They are keeping track of complaints.
Call and complain.
Pitch a fit.
There’s also an Obama movie running now about his trip to Kenya.
[no, I did not sit through that gag-provoking piece of cinematic dreck]
check out ripoffreport.com to see if similar stories are being posted. I have not looked there. FYI
Our answer is to cancel Dish network.
I went to Direct TV as well when I found out about it! I love it now!
Interestingly enough, the tech I talked to said they were getting LOTS of complaints and that he himself thought the channels were a travesty.
I can’t cancel, because I don’t have Dish. My apt. complex won’t allow it.
That said, this is so concerning to me.
Imagine one having to take calls consistently during a long shift, like I said before, with all these strange things happening....almost like this channel is being forced on customers. Believe me, for someone who has this job as their livlihood, it’s enough to want to bang their head against a wall.
And the company line is “Sen. McCain has the same opportunity to buy a channel”.
5890 must be the hi def channel. Funny, you knew that before I did!
And I can’t call and complain....for obvious reasons.
We have Dish and I am going to experiment and see if we can block the channel. Heheheheh...
Did it show how he campaigned for his murderous cousin Odinga?
Unfortunately, that tech could be in alot of trouble if the call was recorded. Probably lose his or her job over it.
Look for a FReepmail from me.
Has anyone done the research on why Obama chose Dish Network?
And the fact that this channel is turning up everywhere at random for subscribers is driving me up the wall!
I wish I could delve into this more. Like I said before, this is very disturbing.
I looked up dish network and Obama but didn’t see anything on that site. I will do a Yahoo search next.
The few minutes I watched showed him wandering around in some impoverished village.
I turned it off.
He’s also on DirecTV now, but only as a video uploaded to DVR receivers. They also upload movies and informational videos to their DVRs. It’s not an actual channel, so you wouldn’t normally come across it.
I have read others have demanded the station be blocked on there set and other demanded a refund for this channel.
WE pitched a fit and talked to a supervisor and they canceled with no penalty.
The thing that bothers me is, again, why when other channels are not available, it reverts to the Obama channel. It’s not just about him having his own channel, more disturbing is why, for some reason it’s trying to be forced on people. That scares the heck out of me.
It’s happening to me too, so I’ll be cancelling my service with Dish network today! To heck with complaining. The only way to really get their attention is to hit them where they live and that means cancellations!
What is even more insidious is, that high number channel is the actual satellite channel. 73 is a mapdown so it appears down there among your locals.
Really?
Hmmm....I guess Monday I’ll call DirecTV and Dish and see who wins....:)
Yeah and it usually appears right above a Twilight Zone marathon....LOL!
[little do they know that other than watching House, I NEVER go below the 100s+ because that’s where all the “egghead channels” are...that’s why I didn’t even know it was there til some FReeper mentioned it]
I just punched in channel numbers that don’t exist and my DVR just jumped up to the next available channel.
Is this something with newer units?
We did have the HD units but the hookup connections -sucked- so we went back to the regular 500 series DVRs.
I’ve got 73 on now.
Blah blah blah.
We’re so in love.
They’re such nice people.
Community service.
Gifted leaders.
Yada yada yada.
[in this show, he is almost totally gray...what’s up with that??]
What’s next? Are alarm clocks going to be programmed to play the Obama kids’ song when they go off?
What is the name of that movie again? Might need to buy it. Of course, for entertainment purposes only.
They Live, with Rowdy Roddy Piper, 1988 John Carpenter film.
Perhaps that is the mission of the backers of our potential President. Well, I've always had the mindset, as a patriotic American, that you respect your President, regardless of their political party. However, Barack Hussein Obama will NEVER be MY president, no matter how this potentially fraudulent (ie, ACORN) election goes.
Here’s an excerpt from a 1938 booklet written by a conservative about the New Deal. The thread has the entire booklet which is VERY interesting and VERY relevant to our times.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/929392/posts
An excerpt discussing the New Deal - sort of related to the movie:
No individual life escaped, unless it was that of a desert rat or cave dweller.
It was thus that the hand of paternal government, leaving first seized economic power, traced the indelible outlines of the American Welfare State.
In the welfare state the government undertakes to see to it that the individual shall be housed and clothed and fed according to a statistical social standard, and that he shall be properly employed and entertained, and in consideration for this security the individual accepts in place of entire freedom a status and a number and submits his life to be minded and directed by an all-responsible government.
When New Dealers speak in one breath of a welfare economy and with the next breath bitterly denounce pressure groups it may seem that they involve themselves in an ironical dilemma. It is easy to say: “What would you expect, since you have made division of the national income a matter of political bargaining where before it had been always a matter of economic bargaining?”
Yet they are right, the New Dealers. In the welfare state pressure groups, representing willful political action, cannot be tolerated. They will have to be suppressed at last, because in the welfare state the government cannot really guarantee social security until it goes to the logical end, which is to ration the national income in time of peace just as all goods and satisfactions are rationed in time of war.
Geophagy masquerading as gravitas, it’s a mineral thing.
Saw this tonight - some total 100% tin-foil hat stuff on the hypnosis of Obama speaking. If there’s .001% of truth to it, it explains the need for satellite TV stations devoted to “the one.”
Saw this tonight - some total 100% tin-foil hat stuff on the hypnosis of Obama speaking. If there’s .001% of truth to it, it explains the need for satellite TV stations devoted to “the one.”
My dream boat, either this or a similar or larger sailboat, no way I am living in a welfare state, this is my dream.
On a recent flight to Alaska and looking at all the water, fiords, fishing and hunting areas I was thinking the same thing. Lots of places to get lost to and survive. Although I’ve never sailed - I think a sailboat would be the most self-sufficient.
There’s a thread about it (maybe a few!):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108325/posts
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Here was my post regarding a speech from earlier in the year:
http://neoneocon.com/2008/03/03/having-an-epiphany-about-obama/
March 3rd, 2008
Having an epiphany about Obama
Somehow I’d missed the following extraordinary statement (HT: Obama Messiah) made by Obama in a speech he gave at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, shortly before the primary in that state:
“My job this morning is to be so persuasive…that a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany, and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Barack.”
I can only assume—I can only hope—(and would it be inappropriate to say I can only pray?) that this sentence was delivered in a tone of gentle mockery, showing that he’s able to poke fun at himself, his hype, and those who seem to think he just might be the Second Coming.
Trouble is, I can’t find anyone describing him as speaking in that sort of tone. And if this line was delivered straight, in all seriousness—then be afraid. Be very afraid.
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Thanks...I started that thread.
You should go read the whole article and all the replies.
He’s eating rocks?
I have some experience but it was on Lake Tahoe CA as a ships engineer on a 112’ 500 passenger tour boat the Tahoe Queen.
My goal is live and play on boat in warmer waters in winter,most likely Floriduh, I stay in Alaska all other times.
Clay, its a southern thing, probably picked it up as he swept through following Sherman’s path; not to worry, harmless - it’ll go away once he gets back to a steady diet of lobster and caviar by the hearth.
sorry - thanks I’d like to read the thread - will find.
For zerObama, would you consider a friendly amendment?
Murder your babies, born & unborn.
So I take it you don't have the Dish Network local channel package? My lowest channel is 2.
No I didn't press select I was afraid I would get junk mail form Obama. I can't stand to look at him he creeps me out. During the debate I had to close my eyes when he was on. shivering...
Fin.
Mr. niteowl77
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