AT&T to Load iPhones With Emergency Alerts From Obama – That You Can’t Switch Off

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• Dear Cousins Across the Pond,
  You appear to have sunk lower in the water than we have (so far).
  We in England favour piano wire and lamp-posts as the solution. I presume that you (so far still-armed) ex-Colonials prefer the AR15 remedy for the sort of sh!t which is being thrown at you?

  • I would say it worked pretty well 237 years ago, if need be it will work again. There is an estimated 300 million privately owned firearms, owned by about 100 million Americans. I think that is a much bigger incentive for the gooberment to back off than a little piano wire.

    Thanks for thinking about us though and if you ever want to see some freedom come on over.

    • I like the piano wire idea personally....like from the movie Princess Bride..."BECAUSE IT HURTS MORE....!"

• As if there was a need for more reasons not to use AT&T, now comes their co-conspiracy in the dissemination of propaganda from the minister of propaganda himself. We need a revolution and we need it fast-otherwise we are all dead.

• AT&T is properly decoded as Asinine Through&Through.

• Well I guess in his further attempts to be a god he or those around him want to find ways to get him to reach every single individual?

• They've been trying to get this for over a year, it was included in the first attempt at a bill with a internet "kill switch". And still laughing at the headline in the sidebar,

  "Weiner's Wife Probed over Employment Status "

  • Those jokes never get old!

• The title Dear Leader is becoming more apropos every day. This is the kind of crap they do in North Korea!

  • Perhaps not only alerts from the Fuhrer, but instructions to the low intelligence, large forehead voters on where to gather and who to harass and attack. Then we can get daily Lunch alerts from the Wookie, Gun tips from that brain damaged moron Biden, maybe driving tips from the Kennedy Family, photographic tips from the Wiener family, fashion tips from the Clinton's, Drunken stupid alerts from Pelosi, Discount coupons at brothels from Harry Reid, And of course the Bloomturd food directive of the day...F*ck AT&T...

    • Apparently, Verizon is doing it too....

      Sucks...they are the only ones with decent coverage everywhere....

      • Hopefully, someone will write an app to block the messages.

• "The time has come. Execute Order 66."

  • Ha!!!! i wonder how many people got that.

    • Made me look it up. Think I'm one of the last people on the planet who's never seen a minute of any of them ;)

      Here, while I was looking (turn volume down, it's loud)
      http://images.wikia.com/starwars/images/1/16/Execute_Order_66.ogg

      • I must be the other one Ghost. I had to look it up too.

        • Star Wars? Never seen even one 'em.

• This new "Presidential Alert" function is yet another reason, along with many reasons, why I don't deal with AT&T anymore. They're just feckless, godless, miserly, crony capitalist who will only run up the RED, WHITE and BLUE when someone's shooting at them.

• Ironically, free Obamaphones don't have these alerts.

  • Gotta give you a high five on this one, crowley....albeit rare, this one deserves it....

  • While I had to give you at TU for that comment (HOLY SHIT): The sad part is the fact that you know Obummerphones don't have this feature.

  • You took your pills today? Good for you! I gave you a turd today and now I am giving you a third thumb up.

    • Well if that is what I get for TU then I won't be doing it again even if you say something normal.

      • That was not my TD

  • You actually said something worthy of a TU 1985.

• What exactly is a 'Presidential Alert'? "I can see you now(and hear you)."
  "IRS audit teams coming - prepare to pay." "Shut up!"

  • Or, more likely, "Fore!"

    • Ha, good one. That's exactly the kind of stuff we can expect from President Putts.

    • As in the slogan "fore" more years?