I found this on the Glenn Beck website while I was looking for a Twitter link so I could figure out which Glenn Beck is the actual Twitter that Glenn Beck is using

It seems that with all of the tech stuff people have lost the ideas of critical thinking & the enjoyment of political cartoons that make you stop & think – I do enjoy this cartoonists work now that I’ve come across him

Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics - Rob Smith Jr Editorial Cartoon

Obama launches effort to reduce nuclear arms - White House- msnbc.com 

Obama launches effort to reduce nuclear arms - White House- msnbc.com

OK I don’t know why this has the text 3 times but it’s my 1st time trying to use the Blog This button so I won’t touch it until after I’ve posted it & then maybe I’ll be able to figure out which extra ones(s) can be deleted

I do wonder why is it that Obama feels that our nation is the one who needs to do anything for any country? Is he believing the savior hype in the press?

In light of the recent events in the news, shootings, suicides & all the job layoffs which were at the background of those shootings - I’d much rather Obama concentrate upon our nations problems than sticking the USA into the middle of world crap

Below is the email exchange between Bob's Discount Furniture Store after we received our very expensive mattress set to see "price tags" showing a much lower price although they claim it's not a price tag that we're looking at everyone who has seen the tags clearly sees the Dollar & Cents formatting that other stores use - check the pictures & judge for yourself & consider carefully if shopping at this chain is going to be worth the risk - if they'll openly show a lower price once the item is in the home & not correct it, who knows if they'll bother to honor their warranty later on down the road

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Hi AskBob & Kim;
For future reference please consider changing the format of the delivery tickets because everyone who has seen the tickets is under the same impression that we are that there is an overcharge because it's written on the tickets in a Dollars & Cents format very predominately for people to see in bold rather than the usual small coded print companies use for their computer tracking for ordering & records by retailers
who knows who else has seen such "instructions" & just decided they'd just not shop Bob's again rather than ask for an explanation - I do know that a couple of people who said to us that we shouldn't shop there any more because of the "overcharge"
we hope that you'll consider changing those tickets because of all the confusion & bad feelings that they create

AskBob wrote:

Thank you for including the pictures. I have spoken with the president of King Koil who manufactures this line and confirmed that the numbers you are referring to are not prices. The first picture is of your queen mattress. The 295 indicates that this was the 295th mattress manufactured out of the 511 produced that day. The 99 indicates which distribution truck it was loaded onto.

The second picture is of your queen foundation. The 357 indicates that this was the 357th foundation produced out of the 511 foundations produced that day. Your foundation was also loaded onto the same "99th" distribution truck.

After thoroughly reviewing your invoice, it has been determined that you paid the discounted package price of $999 for the Black Label sleep set. The Euro top mattress has a retail value of $849. The foundation has a retail value of $249.

I can assure you that you were not overcharged for your merchandise.

Kim Peoples

Corporate Consumer Relations

Bob's Discount Furniture LLC.

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From: DjembeQueen [mailto:djembequeen]
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 7:08 PM
To: AskBob
Subject: Re: Contact from Web Site from ip:67.36.332.56

Hi Ask Bob & Kim;
Our son A who is in the Navy stationed in California got for us as a house warming gift for our 1st home a gift certificate for $1,200.00 in hopes of buying us a brand new bedroom set since we'd sacrificed so much raising him & his sister & her son - always having used furniture for ourselves making certain that the children had what they needed growing up - he & my husband planned the surprise delivery of the gift card to me
When I spoke to A to tell him Thank You & that the mattress was going to be delivered he was disappointed to learn that he wasn't able to have purchased an entire bedroom set for us - A didn't realize that the sets online don't come with the mattresses included in the price & he knew that we'd given our bed set to our daughter  L when we moved all of our stuff into storage for the months as we prepared for the home buying process - anyway it took longer to get to closing than planned so with that extra time our new furniture budget went out of the window due to our extra living expenses but we were finally able to close on Dec 31st 2008 & we moved into our 1st home to go to sleep on a low air mattress until tonight when we'll finally get to sleep on a real mattress
The delivery guys were great = in & out quickly; even helping my husband to get our bed frame put together because he was having just a bit of trouble getting the end pieces to fit so when the young man handed me the phone for the survey I was more than happy to press 1 for happy with their service
I called the customer service phone number shortly afterwards & left a message because the service center was closed & then onto the website because it was a bit upsetting that the salesgirl charged us $999 plus 6% sales tax for our mattress set & $69 plus tax for our mattress pad warranty protection with the addition of the delivery charge of $59 which I'm uncertain if that was taxed or not for a total charge on the gift card $1,195.67 leaving us with a balance of $4.33 store credit on account for us from the gift card from A.
To say that we felt that we had been cheated is a big understatement to see we were overcharged by more than a little bit when seeing the price tags on both the mattress & foundation were much less (to the tune of almost $345 plus the additional sales tax) just really left both my husband & myself with a bad & disappointed feeling about the purchase, had we been given the correct sales prices we could've purchased either the bedside tables or living room tables I had been looking at or another piece of furniture for our home
We'd like the price difference with the tax to be credited & added to the $4.33 currently on account for us at the store, we were ok with the fact that we had to wait 4 days for delivery rather than the TV advertised delivery of 3 Days or less but to have those price tags glaring at us 1st thing in the morning; well like stated above it just leaves a bad & disappointed & cheated feeling with our family & puts a bit of a damper on our son's gift giving - A could've inquired how to give us the Gift Certificate from another company where we have a membership but A choose Bob's instead because he knew that delivery would be faster & he wanted us to be able to enjoy sleeping on a new bed room set in days rather than the weeks which it would've taken had he given us the gift certificate for the other store since they have to order everything
As you can see in the pictures the sales prices on the price tags are much less than what we were charged, & they're still in place on the mattress & foundation only covered up by the bed covers since I've made the bed
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter & we hope that our family will be able to continue to do business with Bob's Furniture in the future
Sincerely
The T Family
B, T, A, L & K

Both tags shown on the 2 pieces

 

Tag on mattress = $295.99 format

Tag on foundation = $357.99 format

 

Expensive Warranty Pad Protection $69+ tax

 

Mattress Label

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Navy Son , Proud Mom & Nurse Daughter

AskBob wrote:

Thank you for contacting us. This situation is highly unusual. Please
email the pictures of the tags you've found on the merchandise so that I
may further assist. 


Kim Peoples
Corporate Consumer Relations
Bob's Discount Furniture LLC.

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From: updates@digitalbungalow.com [mailto:updates@digitalbungalow.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:24 AM
To: AskBob
Cc: Yarbrough, Dray; alerts@digitalbungalow.com
Subject: Contact from Web Site from ip:67.36.332.56


City: 
State: Connecticut
First Name: mrs t
Last Name: t
Email: t-family@comastic.com
Comments: Purchased saturday night mattress set - delivered today & the
price tags have much lower prices listed - would like to have the
differance credited back to gift card so we can buy the tables I saw
saturday - i can email pictures of the tags that are still on the 2
pieces if given an email address prior to these going up on my blogs


   

Ok this is a test of the TalkShoe badge for the community calls

I know there's not much for real info yet but give a listen & let us know how the volume sounds for you

Just a quick Hi & God Bless to everyone!

We're enjoying a quiet holiday waiting for news on the closing date to see if it's again been pushed back until Jan

I hope that everyone is enjoying friends & family

Paper Snow Flake Cutting - Video

Grandchildren are great - they keep you young & thinking - Wow it was so much fun yesterday to be working with Baby Genius trying to recall how to make paper snowflakes

I ended up going online to find directions since our cutouts were fun designs but very NOT Snow Flakes

Well to make paper snow flakes we did a search & found this picture description site with good pictures Picture Instructions for Making Paper Snow Flakes

In this day of video games & electronic gadgets of all kinds that keep the children from having imaginations I'm so glad that my 8 yr old G-son is still able to get excited about making items with pipe-cleaners & paper & scissors after we decorated our little tabletop tree from the Dollar Tree store - we used tiny candycanes for most of the decorations but also had some tiny balls & a mini-gold star & gold string to wrap around so even though it may look like we're going to be stuck in the hotel instead of our new home due to this mortgage company screwing up so badly that who knows exactly when we'll get to closing we'll at least have a tree to celebrate with here in the room

Rather interesting how so many of us take our lives for granted & fail to recognize God's Blessings as they're in front of us until suddenly they're no longer there

Our Health - did we Thank God every morning when we woke up & fell out of bed to crawl off to get ready for work or did we give God no thought & just rush off? Will it require the doctor telling us that we have some fatal disease before we start to be thankful for all of the good health that we had in the past or will we curse God for plaguing us with some disease that most likely we brought upon ourselves with the very unhealthy lifestyles that we lead now in the 21st century?

Our Family - did we Thank God for our family near & far? Yeah that son may have broken your heart or your daughter pissed you off or your mother, father, sister or your brother or wife or husband gotten on your nerves, treated you wrong or offended you in some way but consider this - at least they're alive to be able to do any of that - how many people would love to be in your position but can't be because those people are missing from their lives due to death so another argument isn't possible?

So consider God's Blessings in your life even if the only Blessing that you can possibly think of at the moment is that you're alive to be able to suffer

Well I'm not very computer savvy but these last few months I've been using Wireless Internet connections to get online with my desk top computer my husband built for me & have discovered the following...

1) dragging a desk top to different locations is quite a pain in the butt but can be done using a wheeled container to make it easier to get across the floors etc but having a laptop would most certainly be easier to do -

2) I don't know much about NetBooks which is basically a stripped down NoteBook just smaller & lighter & limited in features but I saw one for the 1st time in Oct over at Target for only $299 & being so small & it's claiming that I'll be able to access IM programs & Skype so I'm very tempted to pick one up for Christmas since it's small enough that it'll fit into one of my many purses & is about as heavy as one of my bibles but much thinner

3) I'm wondering just how much different & most importantly easy will it be to be able to use the Linux OS which is on the NetBooks that are available at Target compared to the Windows OS that I'm so used to working with all of these years - I mean "Geeks" all say on those forums how great Linux is but they really know computers but a regular person like me doesn't know all of that stuff & if something goes wrong? No one I personally knows uses anything other than Windows because that's what they have on their computers at home & work & the instant messenger programs that we use

4) I'm also wondering if I were to get a NetBook just how easy will it be to upgrade the memory so that as I get stuff online while I'm out I'll be able to use that information on my home Windows DeskTops? I mean the sales guy was showing me some little doodads that plug into the NetBook that I saw on the movie The Hulk 2 but like I said I'm not tech savvy to know just how those things work & would information stored on those things would be transferable to the DeskTop?

Today is quite disappointing for me & my family - this was supposed to be a weekend full of celebrations as we move into our 1st home but closing will not be happening early as we thought it might & from the sounds of it won't be happening even as it's contracted to

Waiting for the seller's bank to give it's final written approval for the sale to close is quite aggravating & slightly scary after we've spent so much of our time money & energy into buying this house to not yet have our keys in hand & cooking in our own full kitchen is almost disheartening but I refuse to get depressed about it or angry because it won't do any good to do either

So what am I doing - well I'm writing this here to vent & think about how is it that we handle disappointments?

Many of us get angry & mad & fussing but in the end unless the person who you are complaining to has the power to make the needed change what good does it do? Does the person who you're complaining to even care? Most likely not but they're listening so they can feel better about their own pitiful life & waiting for you to shut up so they can tell you all about the wrongs in their own lives.

Does crying help? not really unless you count the release of tears as a stress reliever but it does nothing to actually correct the problem, so if you're going to cry go ahead let the tears flow but keep from getting depressed about it & DO Something about the problem.

Me what am I doing about the disappointment that I'm facing today - well I asked my realtor to ask the selling agent if during the time period that the sellers & their bank are doing the "work out" paperwork so that they're not losing so much money on the sale of the house to us if we could just go ahead & move in.

Since the sellers are out of the house & contracted to sell to us if we'd be able to move into the house during their time of paperwork & the "rent" that we pay into escrow during the time that they're doing the work out process is applied towards the purchase price.

Realtor said he's heard of such being done so he'll ask the seller's agent if that might be something for us all to consider

if their bank approves of it & that will be a win win for all of us - the empty house won't be empty any longer so no more risk of break in, vandalism or frozen pipes (with the nights getting cold & not much oil in the tank) & it'll certainly cut down on our expenses of hotels while we're waiting for closing.

Being in our new home while they're doing their work out they can take all winter to get us to closing if they want but we'll get to spend the holidays in our new home & when we do get to closing we'll have even more money towards the purchase price so in affect less of a mortgage to pay in the long run

It doesn't hurt to ask, all they can do is say no but they just might say yes & right now that's what I'm going to pray for & I'm hoping that you will join me in that prayer so that we can have our house for the holidays, the sellers can have less expense & pressure upon them, & even CitiMortgage won't lose out so much either & the poor bank worker can have a little bit more breathing room

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This is turning into quite an adventure - one that I would've preferred not to have taken but one that I'm getting back to enjoying the wonder of how God shows Himself in our lives even when we're not looking for Him & in moments when He may seem distant He Is in Fact There & even answering prayers that you forgot that you prayed a month ago

Sometimes it's hard to hear from God because we've got too much noise in our lives around us to hear what God is telling us, Thankfully for us He's got much more patience than we humans have & He'll keep on whispering & encouraging & talking to us until we do finally hear His Voice.

Sometimes for many it's not until the very end that they perceive that God was there all along & talking to them but they were too busy with life to hear & really listen. For some others they were blessed at birth to be able to hear His voice all along & never could imagine a day without having an actual talk with God. For way too many they hear but choose to ignore His voice which is a shame because when we listen & do what he says our lives do for the most part go more smoothly - yes we may be persecuted for doing what's right in the eyes of the Lord but we can face that trial knowing that we've done nothing that is wrong & we'll have an eternal reward in the end.

God has blessed me by answering a prayer that my husband who wasn't taught all that he should have been as a child & young man, for Byron to start learning & stepping up to the plate & start being the husband that God wants him to be - well I'm seeing God working as I type, slowly just as a flower grows under ground unseen God is working on Byron as well making small changes here & there but changes none the less it might take a life changing event for Byron to fully blossom but in time he will