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Frontier communications charges a $6.00 Regional Sports Fee. According to Frontier, that charge cannot be removed from customer's bills. It's not a lot of money, but, it's more about the principle of the thing. According to me (and I know that I'm not the only one), I don't want to be paying for something that I don't use, while the fee goes towards supporting other people's sports viewing habits, and supporting sports teams which don't listen to how the majority feel about issues. And lately, I'm more outraged/incensed since the sports leagues have been kow-towing to Black Lives Matter and...

Shemp is gone!!! Gone from FOX. Resigned! Begone!!! Don't let the door hit ya where your fellow 'guys' love ya.

Should Hillary put a stop to the "Electoral College Stupidity"?

Today, "a lady I know" who is a social worker, told me about how she was told by several of the older folks she has as clients, were all bused to their voting site, and were assisted by those who did the busing, and all of them were assisted to vote for Hillary, exclusively. Many of those elderly are over the age of 70 and don't follow politics, and frankly, don't care one way or the other, but, their votes went exclusively to Hillary.

In a recent interview on the Politico podcast "Off Message," SNL's Weekend Update co-hosts Michael Che and Colin Jost defended Donald Trump, saying he's "super smart" and "super hardworking," and implying he doesn't deserve all the negative attention he gets. Che also said, "Let's not pretend that this guy is a mutant, you know, and he's the most evil, racist, mutant piece of crap that ever walked. Listen, there's probably somebody in your building way worse than Donald Trump, and you buy bagels from him, and it's fine." The argument that there are "worse" racists is blatantly stupid. None of...

Somebody telling it like it is, at least in Tampa.

Just got off the phone a couple of minutes ago. Phone # that called for survey: 904-274-0422, from Jacksonvilee, FL. First survey question: If election were held today, would you say you would be voting for Obama or Romney. Press 1 for Obama, 2 for Romney. Well, I pressed 2 for Romney. There was a pause, and I thought that perhaps my answer hadn't taken, so, I pressed 2 again. After a brief pause, the survey (apparently an automated poll service), shot back with: Would you say that, your support for Obama is strong (not exactly those words, or not...

A week ago, bloggers brought to light that Apple’s voice-controlled mobile assistant Siri was delivering distressful omissions when asked about certain kinds of emergency healthcare situations. Specifically, situations that relate to female sexual emergencies. American bloggers in different locations were asking Siri to help them find abortion clinics, the morning after pill, and rape crisis resources. When Siri was delivering results at all, they were often the offensive opposite. If you missed the controversy, Siri was branded across news headlines as being “pro-life” (the questionable self-name for anti-abortion crusaders, widely known for their violence, aggression and fanaticism).

Is is just me that's experiencing the problem, or are others being blocked by Websense? I can't use Yahoo e-mail, or Hotmail. A message appears saying that, "Content blocked by your organization" "This Websense category is filtered: General Email" I haven't changed anything on my computers or my email settings. However, this problem occurs on my XP box and not on my Windows 7 machine.

New poll numbers indicate that Sarah Palin is now as unpopular as Nancy Pelosi.

Read the following for your amusement and amazement about how so many liberals out there think; it's amazing to me that people with that kind of thinking actually votes to undo the votes of the much better informed. Here is a thought I had recently. Say we wake up tomorrow morning to find all the working poor and unemployed had vanished in this country. The economy would instantly grind to a STOP. All the jobs and money not being spent would instantly cause everything to stop. Now say instead of the working poor and unemployed everyone in the middle class...

If you had a business, small or large, or even a mom-and-pop type store, which you are planning to expand, or even if you have an idea for starting a new business, what are you going to do with those plans? Given that this is currently a rough environment, it may not be a good idea to either expand or start a new business, no matter who ends up being president. My belief is that, with Obama, the business nvironment will be even more gloomy than it is currently. So, if Obama ends up being president, and with the xpectation...

Can't use my main computer; '?????' - not a valid win32 application I wonder if anybody has had a problem like I'm having and can help. No matter what program I try to open, I get an error telling me that "'?????' is not a valid win32 application" I can't click on anything on the desktop, not even the virus scanners or the firewall or the registry editors or even the internet browsers. Without being able to click the browsers, I won't be able to download any fixes. I can't even start my internet connections, wireless or otherwise. As soon...

In last Sunday's Parade Magazine, in the Personality Parade section, a reader of the magazine asked the question: If Sen. Hillary Clinton is elected President, will her husband be called the First Gentleman? The magazine suggested that it be left to the readers, with the short answer of: Bill Clinton hasn’t expressed a preference. Some suggest First Man or First Husband. Readers, pick your favorite in our poll at right. I feel that the people best qualified to answeer are the FReepers. :

Ricky Martin, who was a headliner at the 2001 inauguration ball for President George W. Bush, has a message for the American commander in chief about war. At a recent concert, the 35-year-old singer stuck up his middle finger when he sang the president's name in his song "Asignatura Pendiente," which includes the words, "a photo with Bush." The gesture last Friday prompted cheers from thousands of fans in the San Juan stadium. On Thursday, the Puerto Rican heartthrob repeated his criticism of the Iraq war and explained his changed position on Bush. "My convictions of peace and life go...

Fox News Channel is preparing a new Saturday night comedy show tailored to its largely right-leaning audience. . . . The show would take aim at "the sacred cows of the left” that don’t get lampooned very much by other comedy shows, according to Joel Surnow, co-creator of "24” and one of the executive producers of the new Fox program. "It’s a satirical news format that would play more to the Fox News audience than the Michael Moore channel,” he told the Hollywood reporter. "It would tip more right as ‘The Daily Show’ tips left.”

Ann Coulter will be speaking tonight at USF (University of South Florida), a quite liberal university. The following are some typical e-mails circulating on the campus e-mail system. The best way to end Ann’s nonsense is for no one to show up. Simple as that. Don’t bother protesting as that is what she wants. When only her die hard fans appear, and hundreds of seats stay empty, that will be a better message. The determination and definition of hate speech can be highly subjective depending on who you talk to. I hear of some who felt Michael Moore or Al...

Who has controlled the Middle East over the course of history? Pretty much everyone. Egyptians, Turks, Jews, Romans, Arabs, Greeks, Persians, Europeans...the list goes on. Who will control the Middle East today? That is a much bigger question.

In another forum, somebody suggested that the U.S. pull out of Iraq because our presence there was the main cause of so many Iraqis dying on a monthly basis. I couldn't take it anymore and posted the following: I'm all for the Americans getting out. Right now. Let the insurgents and terrorists have at it. The Iraqis are incapable of rising to the task and taking care of themselves. So what if right after the Americans pull out, the terrorists and insurgents will go wild and start purging the country of those that had anything at all to do with...

Longtime CBS News reporter Bernard Goldberg had a lot to say about Ann Coulter – some of it negative – during a radio interview promoting his book. Goldberg’s "100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken is #37)” was published last year, and an updated version – upping the list to "110 People” – recently came out in paperback. The book takes to task Michael Moore, Ted Kennedy, David Duke, Michael Jackson, Jimmy Carter and an array of others on the American scene. Goldberg now says he made a "mistake” in not including Coulter as one of the...