DO NOT, repeat, DO NOT......


....play "chicken" with your cable company!


They are soulless bastards who WILL call your bluff!


Story:

After getting the introductory offer from my soulless cable comapny (Comcast) for six months for, like, $19.95 a month, I get hit with a bill at the end of the intro offer for, like, $49.50 a month! WTF?

Allright.....so, a friend who worked for Comcast for a few years said "Call them......tell them that you got your hours cut at work....money's tight...yadda yadda yadda......and it's just too expensive! And then their retention department will cut you a deal, like....ooooh.....$29.95 per month for, like, six months or something like that!"

Tried it......

"Well, OK Mr. E, we're sorry to lose you as a customer. We'll disconnect your service on the 30th. Bye now!"


All right.....all right all right....cool. Well, that's all right! Hell....they'll call me on, like, the 28th and offer me that thirty-buck-a-month deal!




And....uhhhhh.....my Internet is WHERE, now??

Yeah.....me and my brillant ideas!


No dial-up! Got no P.O.T.S. line. (Plain Old Telephone Service - i.e. - "Landline").


COULD get DSL, but again, I'd hafta drop $30+ a month just on the P.O.T.S. line alone, plus DSL on top of that! And I do NOT have ANY need forra LandLine whatsoever!! I'm never at home!


THANX for the advice, HRD!!!


Comcast, I Love You! Thou shalt never forsake you ever again for false idols (e.g. - other Internet Service Providers). Thou shalt religiously attend Comcast religous services every time you ask me to!

.....*whimper*.....PLEEEZE take me back!

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For my two (or so) Buffalo readers.......

Now, I can't remember what dorms go for at most colleges, but I THINK it's, like, 2 G's a semester or so. OK. But whass up with this article reprinted below without permission from The Buffalo News written by Barbara O’Brien. This is RICH!! READ THIS:

Cheektowaga Town Board members Tuesday night unanimously approved a $100 million gated housing project for college students, providing the owner can qualify for an exemption from real property taxes.

“We have to make sure they’re tax exempt and entitled to the [tax agreement],” Town Attorney Kevin Schenk said.

Under the plan by Kensington Village Owner Mark Chason, MSHKenmore, a non-profit organization which is a subsidiary of Mustard Seed Housing, will buy the apartment buildings and refurbish them for 1,208 students from area colleges.

Some buildings would be knocked down, and a new community center and pool would be built. Ken-Vill Associates would continue to own the 50 acres of land where the complex is located off Eggert Road.

The new development is called Collegiate Crossings.

The Town Board approved resolutions to abandon and sell Kenville Road and sections of Marc and Betty lanes to the developer, exempt the 50-acre parcel from property taxes, enter into a payment-inlieu- of-taxes agreement, and ask the Village of Kenmore Housing Authority to issue up to $100 million in tax-exempt housing bonds.

All of the measures are subject to the approval of the town attorney and assessor that the project is exempt from real property taxes under New York State Law. Schenk said the town has asked the state Office of Real Property Tax Services
to issue an opinion letter on the tax-exempt status.

“This is an unusual project,” Schenk said, explaining why the town is asking for clarification.

The developer has told the town those eligible for the apartments will be low-income, and that it will reduce the rent for up to 20 percent of students by $100 a month, or $1,200 a year, Schenk said.

Monthly rent is expected to be $740 per bed for the twobedroom apartments and $620 per bed for four-bedroom apartments. Rents include heat.

The town sold the roads for $200,000 cash, plus an agreement to include the fair market assessment of the roads into the payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) agreement.

The PILOT agreement for the community center is for 20 years, after which the developer would pay full taxes.

Under the agreement for the rest of the project, the town, Erie County and Cleveland Hill School District would be paid taxes based on this year’s assessment for the next 33 years. The payments also would include the taxes on the assessment of the roads, which would add about $20,000 a year to the payment.

The sale of the road could be challenged by residents who file enough signatures forcing a vote on the transaction.

News Staff Reporter Dale Anderson contributed to this report.

Now, WHAT THE FUCK is up with THAT??? I mean, in thee total scarest part of the Buffalo suburbs (right ON the border of the City's East Side....niiiiccce place), in an area with NO colleges within two miles, and they are jacking $1500 a month (including heat....so knock off Two Hundred....so, say, $1300 a month) for a two-bedroom in 'Da Hood??? IN BUFFALO??? Jesus, I can fetch a niiiiicccce, sweeeet two-bedroom condo higher-rise at Gates Circle for, like less than a grand for a month!!

Define your terms meaning "non-profit" please, "Mustard-Seed Housing"!!

Typical Buffalo scam we've all come to know and love....somebody's snout is at the trough on this one.....

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NEXT POST - WHY and HOW Larry Quinn, Darcy Reiger and especially B. Thomas Golisano have just collectively bent the soul of Western New York right over!

Off to The Ocean for a three-dayer........more upon next time I snag Internet access!

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