From a recent email..... An "Entitlement???" ----------------------------------- What the hell is wrong here? Remember, not only did you contribute to Social Security but your employer did too. It totaled 13.3% of your income before taxes. If you averaged only 30K over your working life, that's close to $220,500. If you calculate the future value of $4,500 per year (yours & your employer's contribution) at a simple 5% (less than what the govt. pays on the money that it borrows), after 49...

Source: The Daily Caller Freedom of religion has gone to a new extreme, as Austrian authorities have decided wearing a pasta strainer on one’s head in a driver’s license photo is a state-protected form of religious expression, according to the BBC. Austrian Niko Alm told reporters that he recently won a three-year battle to wear a strainer-hat in his license photo as a type of religious headgear. A self-described “pastafarian” and member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Alm dec...

paranoid delusions." Yep. that is it in a nutshell....pun intended.

Some folks are doing to Clinton what the repukes do to Reagan.

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are living on the edge...from day to day, after working our entire lives and trying to make sure that when we do get old enough to retire, we can.. My SS does not even cover my rent...and the salary I earn from the only job I have been able to find in 6 years does not cover the rest of my expenses. Every month it is another panic attack. And yet..we have not gotten a cost of living increase on SS for two years...I am at the end of the line...truly

 

Your thoughts are shared by many of us. I have had several discussions about this recently with various friends. It is sad and scary as hell.

I hope that Weiner comes back from this stronger than ever.

and sadly, the population seems to be more and more ignorant and gullible. (Link) <snip> The best part of the article is the contribution by Thomas Frank, the author of What’s the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America. Here’s a highlight: ….Right-wing politics has become a vehicle for channelling this popular anger against intellectual snobs. The result is that many of America’s poorest citizens have a deep emotional attachment to a party that serves the...

I always look forward to your posts. When are you getting started on your book?

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Would it be unkind to say that compassion is missing in many of the people of this country...and it has been demonstrated over and over and over. "I got mind. Screw you!" There are, of course, exceptions...but sadly, they are few and far between, and mostly happen during major disasters.

You are very lucky to live in Canada....

On the radio this AM there was a comment that this is what comes of middle aged folks fooling around with the internet. They just have no concept about the universality and permanence of what they do. Even if he had not mis-sent that pic, eventually it would have all come out....Just plain stupid and arrogant. What a shame. What a waste of potential....which puts him in the same category as Spitzer and Edwards, and even Clinton. They could have been contenders. They had such potential....a...