I know this is off-topic, but....

I gotta see what my SIL says about Kolob; she holds many Mormon beliefs.


People's beliefs are interesting; their sharing of those beliefs even more so. As I get older the edges of my own belief system are getting blurry. The basics are still there, but a lot of the "attachments" are in question.

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'Bye for now, Mama.

In a followup to his original note, Ian Lind points out that the Hawaii BBB has now issued a warning about these salesmen.

That's why it's a good idea to pretend not to be home.

My experience over here on Kauai with these men has been bad. I was working outside when they approached on foot. I had my big dog (who has taken on security all on his own and takes it seriously) with me, as he was roaming about a bit but staying close by. When I told them to please stay off my property, and that my dog was out, they just kept coming closer. I was afraid he would attack because they would not back off.

They just kept saying they wanted to talk to me and I kept telling them to go. They wouldn't go, except when my dog came to my side. I was glad he is trained well and had a collar on I could grab otherwise they would have been lunch and I would have been in the slammer. Or served. Either way, no good.

They marked things down in a little book one was carrying after they left.

I had always had a "Big Love" perception of Mormons, cuddly and soft. No more. These guys were aggressive. Now I don't smile or anything at them.

wonder what they wrote?

Ian Lind posted an update on this topic a few days ago.

http://ilind.net/2010/04/08/door-to-...ng-complaints/

Same scam, but with a different name (Frontier Home Solutions LLC).

Is there nothing that can be done to put a stop to this rip-off scheme?

From KITV (Dick Allgire):

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The Republicans wanted to let the guys on Wall Street pretty much do what they wanted. Alright? And the Democrats wanted the guys on Wall Street to lend money to anybody ... even if they couldn’t pay it back, no collateral. So the combination of both of them led to this catastrophe.

— Fox News Commentator Bill O’Reilly
Late Night with David Letterman
October 27, 2008

Will they sell me an alarm that goes off if there are salesmen at my door?

What if the salesmen are selling doors ... door-to-door?

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I think the biggest display of guts I have ever seen was once when we were on a subway to JFK and two very white Mormon missionary boys got off at a stop in one of the heaviest ghetto neighborhoods on the planet. I always wondered how their day went.

We had several come by when we first moved to our house. One of them asked if he could just put his sign in our yard. I told him I wasn't comfortable with that. He couldn't believe someone wouldn't want a free sign with an alarm company's name on it. "It will make your home safer from intruders!" he told me. I assured him that if anyone tried to break in, I had an old birthday party sign I could use for protection, then shut and locked the door.

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The world ain't gone crazy, Baby- it was born that way