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Seeing that some sort of tribble has crawled waaaaayyyyyy too far up Darth’s arse butt backside, and I really don’t have much else to put up then here goes….

Don’t know how many of you out there have AT&T u-Verse for your television viewing service (or any of their bundles), but they recently pulled one on all of their TV subscribers that pissed off the Generalette so much that I had to put in the calls the very next day to make other arrangements.

Here’s the jist of the story.  Seems last week that the broadcast rights contract between AT&T and Scripps Networks LLC reached its conclusion and negotiations that had been ongoing had reached an impasse (gee, where have we heard THAT shtick before???).  The usual mud-slinging commenced.  AT&T claimed that Scripps was demanding too much in royalties and fees.  Scripps countered that AT&T was demanding that they basically be given all-out total ownership rights to the Scripps footage.

At this point I’m betting you’re going, “So who the heck is Scripps Networks LLC”?  Well, they are the media service that owns the channels like HGTV, DIY channel, The Food Network, The Cooking Channel, and GAC.  Well four of the five networks consist of about 70% of the viewing time here in the General’s household.  So that can sort of clearly explain why the Generalette was boiling.  We’ve also been dealing with a 3 month long episode of flaky system freeze ups that affected all of the services we were getting through AT&T.  Needless to say, we both felt this latest annoyance was the last straw. 

AT&T doesn’t know it yet, but they are being purged from the Southern Command.  Completely.  As in 100% hasta la vista, baby.  As of 1700 hours today, the ISP and telephone services have been replaced with other providers.  The ISP service was replaced with one that for just pennies more a day we have now increased our download speeds by 150%.  The telephone service cost was reduced by 20%.  The television service will be replaced tomorrow with a new provider who will have a package that has 5% more channels than the u-Verse package, while reducing our costs by nearly 50%. 

Ain’t the free market just grand!!!!!

And not to trivialize the day with small things, lest we forget how we as Americans are afforded the ability to have such a free market society.   With all proper pomp and circumstance, with strict concordence to protocol and etiquette all of us here at the Southern Command salute each and every man and woman who have served, or are currently serving in the Army, Army National Guard, Army Reserves, Navy, Naval Reserves, Marines, Air Force, Air National Guard, Air Force Reserves, or Coast Guard.  Without the sacrifice and blood, sweat, and tears that each of you have given to this great country of ours — we the citizens of this land would not enjoy the freedoms we our offered each and every day of our lives, not over the past 230+ years, not today, nor into tomorrow.

The Southern Command also offers up a special salute to our brothers and sisters of the United States Marine Corps as they continue to celebrate their 235th year of protecting these United States of America.  All of us here are certainly proud of their service and vigilance to this country and the Constitution.

God Bless America!

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