RANT: Social Security is bust

Friday, March 7, 2014

http://www.sherrodbrown.com/petition/w140120/?subsource=CK-SB-ESS-A02-FB-FBLP.D-FKW-NA-MS256-BO-40p-T6.P1.C03

Members of Congress:

When I hear politicians in Washington talking about “reforming Social Security,” I know that what you really mean is “cutting benefits” or “privatizing retirement accounts.”

What you should be talking about is expanding Social Security — extending solvency and ensuring the economic security of our seniors.

Senator Sherrod Brown, along with some of his colleagues, is working to expand the life of Social Security for this and future generations of seniors in America — and I am calling on you to do the same.

Signed,

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Sorry, but Social Security was FDR’s Socialist destruction of America.

It enabled Grandparents to abandon their families and move to warmer climates. And, make people dependent upon the Gooferment.

Economically, it’s a Ponzi scheme. Based on unrealistic assumptions and an ignorance of human aging.

Also, by the wide-spread introduction of abortion, we have put humanity into a death spiral.

(Akin to the Chinese One Child policy or India sex-selection policies that have put them on the Road to Perdition.)

Social Security is bust. Best thing is to emulate Chile in the 1970’s. Privative for the youngsters, reassure the old folks, and screw the folks with assets.

Fact of life.

The last investor in Ponzi gets <synonym for the past tense of the procreation act.>

At least, Ponzi had the decency not to point a gun to his victims’ heads. He just appealed to their greed.

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RANT: Another reason to separate the Gooferment from the roads

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

http://users.ipfw.edu/diclemej/Learnsomethingneweveryday.htm

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If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an
average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

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Argh!

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RANT: Michael Bolton, health issues

Monday, March 3, 2014

Argh!

A cancellation AFTER we had departed to the venue.

Seriously.

The day before I received an email about the event. They advertised the valet parking and their restaurant. So we were going to do it.

We arrived at the venue and the only sign was a 8½ by 11 “cancelled”.

Argh!

Seriously? 

Did the “star” get sick 3 hours before performance?

Argh!

Oh, well, it makes for good blog post!

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Strathmore News tickets@strathmore.org
4:45 PM (16 hours ago)

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Dear Friend,

We are writing to inform you that a performance you hold tickets to, Michael Bolton, originally scheduled for March 2, 2014, has been cancelled due to the artist’s health issues. We apologize for both the short notice and any inconvenience this may cause.

All patrons will be issued refunds. Please contact the Ticket Office at (301) 581-5100 or by email at tickets@strathmore.org with any questions.

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RANT: Gooferment “standards’ or Gooferment coverup?

Sunday, March 2, 2014

2014-Mar-02

http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1089832_very-small-cars-fail-new-iihs-small-overlap-frontal-crash-test

Very Small Cars Fail New IIHS Small-Overlap Frontal Crash Test

BY Stephen Edelstein STEPHEN EDELSTEIN
6,717 views Jan 22, 2014 54 Comments

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Why haven’t we heard more about this?

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RANT: Fonda lived longer and better than the POWs she betrayed

Saturday, March 1, 2014

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2566899/Jane-Fonda-76-reveals-stop-crying-comes-terms-mortality.html

‘I have so little time left!’ Jane Fonda, 76, reveals she can’t stop crying as she comes to terms with her own mortality
By COLETTE FAHY
PUBLISHED: 14:35 EST, 24 February 2014 | UPDATED: 17:47 EST, 24 February 2014

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Wonder if she think about what she did to the Viet Nam POWs?

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RANT: Inflated page views

Saturday, March 1, 2014

Isn’t it interesting that the stats of internet clicks are inflated.

How many folk realize that Drudge’s reload inflate their stats.

At does it CRACKED that splits every page.

Argh!

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RANT: Two four year sentences for a ruined life doesn’t seem fair?

Thursday, February 27, 2014

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/02/reduce-the-prison-population-but-jail-violent-criminals-longer/283990/

Reduce the Prison Population, but Jail Violent Criminals Longer – Conor Friedersdorf – The Atlantic

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But his attackers kept up the assault. One repeatedly kicked the off-duty paramedic in the head. He was lucky to survive. After arriving at the hospital, he was put into a medically induced coma. He’d stay in professional care facilities for two years. He could’ve stayed longer, but his insurance money ran out.

Now he lives at his parents’ house.

For the rest of his life, he will suffer from brain damage and require caregivers. He was beaten so severely that, forever more, he’ll need to wear an adult diaper. “He has to be reminded why a plastic shunt juts from the base of his skull,” the Los Angeles Times reports. Yet the men who nearly beat him to death, when sentenced Thursday, got just four and eight years in prison. This despite the fact that both “had previous felony convictions, including one case each of domestic violence.”

The man who got the four-year sentence would’ve walked out of jail today, given time served for the 2011 attack as well as reductions due to prison overcrowding in California, but for the fact that the two attackers will now stand trial on federal weapons charges by a lucky fluke. (They weren’t armed at the time of the attack. But a search of their homes yielded a stash of five guns hidden in an attic that allegedly belonged to one man but were being held by the other. Neither is allowed to possess firearms because they’re both convicted felons.) If found guilty on the federal gun charge, each man could face up to 10 more years in a federal prison.

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As a little L libertarian, there should be the concept of “restitution”.

How do these two thugs restore their victim?

They can’t.

It would seem reasonable that they should have their lives “restrained” like their victim.

Maybe in a prison like Devil’s Island!

Gooferment’s only job is to protect. In this case, it failed.

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RANT: A savage beating

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

http://www.abc27.com/story/24778492/2-men-sentenced-in-brutal-attack-on-giants-fan

2 men sentenced in brutal attack on Giants fan
Posted: Feb 20, 2014 3:12 PM EST
Updated: Feb 20, 2014 7:51 PM EST

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LOS ANGELES (AP) – An angry judge lashed out Thursday as he sentenced two men who pleaded guilty in the savage beating of a die-hard San Francisco Giants fan at Dodger Stadium, calling them cowards and a nightmare for people who go to games.

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Is it me or do I just not understand?

Better to have a courtesous “rivalry”.

It’s not like the overpaid “athletes” on the field care.

Not like I have a vest interest in the results.

They will still have grazillions and I will still be hoping to hit the lotto like they did.

Argh!

It’s not like the CRIMINALS who assaulted this poor slob are on the filed getting the <synonym for excrement> kicked out of them to “win”!!!!

Why?

Makes me sad that we are so DUMB!

They can’t restore this fellow to health.

Second Amendment, not applicable in Kalifornia, says he is entitled to defend himself.

For the same reason, I would never go, or allow mine to visit, Philladelpia. It’s like the bozos never were able to recognize the difference between a “fun rivalry” and criminal behavior.

Argh!

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RANT: History is written by the Gooferment

Sunday, February 23, 2014

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/02/nick-turse/lying-about-americas-wars/

Misremembering America’s Wars, 2003-2053
The Pentagon’s Latest “Mission Accomplished” Moment

By Nick Turse
TomDispatch.com
February 19, 2014

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In 2012, the Pentagon kicked off a 13-year program to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, complete with a sprawling website that includes a “history and education” component. Billed as a “public service” provided by the Department of Defense, the United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration site boasts of its “resources for teachers and students in the grades 7-12” and includes a selection of official government documents, all of them produced from 1943-1954; that is, only during the earliest stages of modern U.S. involvement in what was then called Indochina.

The Vietnam War Commemoration’s educational aspirations, however, extend beyond students. “The goal of the History and Education effort,” according to the site, “is to provide the American public with historically accurate materials and interactive experiences that will help Americans better understand and appreciate the service of our Vietnam War veterans and the history of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.” To that end, the United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration offers an interactive historical timeline.

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Propaganda!

Lies and cover ups.

Argh!

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RANT: It makes a difference

Thursday, February 20, 2014

NewImage

IMHO it makes a BIG difference.

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