SPEAKOUT

Friday, August 23, 2013

Going up?

We just got a recorded message from Charter Cable saying the Speed Channel, Channel 43, is now going to Fox Sports 1. We understand that the cost Charter will have to pay Fox Sports 1 will have to increase. It just makes sense that our cost of paying for cable will go up. I wish Charter Cable would tell us how much our cost will increase. Be prepared for another rate hike.

Call Charter Cable TV at 1-877-922-0751.

Out again

Surprise, surprise, surprise. Charter Channel 204, major league baseball, and Charter Channel 179, Flix Movies, are both out in primetime on Friday night, Aug. 16, Elvis Presley's memorial day. How ironic. I don't know why we keep paying all this money for channels that continuously go out in primetime. I guess it's time to call the satellite channels. Does not one Charter employee in Cape Girardeau or Sikeston ever watch their own channels to see these ongoing outages?

Turn the beat around

I have been hearing so much about deadbeat dads and child support. How about the deadbeat moms? Most dads want to and do take care of their children. There are some that don't and won't. But if they do child support, mommy spends it on another man or herself. What man wants to keep up another man and buy mama stuff and the kids just running around wearing whatever? They need to get on some of these deadbeat moms, get them off the couch and get them to work. Or just let the dads buy what the child needs, take the receipts to the judge and do it that way. That way mommy and lover won't get to spend the kids' money.