Wednesday, September 30, 2009

SOCIAL SECURITY:

Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions during election years.

Our Senators and Congresswomen do not pay into Social Security and, of course, they do not collect from it. You see, Social Security benefits were not suitable for persons of their rare elevation in society. They felt they should have a special plan for themselves So, many years ago they voted in their own benefit plan. In more recent years, no congress person has felt the need to change it. After all, it is a great plan.

For all practical purposes their plan works like this:

When they retire, they continue to draw the same pay until they die.
Except it may increase from time to time for cost of living adjustments. ......

For example, Senator Byrd and Congressman White and their wives may expect to draw $7, 800,000.00 (that's Seven Million, Eight-Hundred Thousand Dollars), with their wives drawing $275, 000..00 during the last years of their lives.
This is calculated on an average life span for each of those two Dignitaries. Younger Dignitaries who retire at an early age, will receive much more during the rest of their lives. Their cost for this excellent plan is $0.00. ZIP!! NADA!!! ZILCH!!! This little perk they voted for themselves is free to them.You and I pick up the tab for this plan. The funds for this fine retirement plan come directly from the General Funds;

"OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK"!

From our own Social Security Plan, which you and I pay (or have paid) into, every payday until we retire (which amount is matched by our employer ), We can expect to get an average of
$1,000 per month after retirement. Or, in other words, we would have to collect our average of $1,000 monthly benefits for 68 years and one (1) month to equal Senator Bill Bradley's benefits!

Social Security could be very good if only one small change were made.

That change would be to:

Jerk the Golden Fleece Retirement Plan from under the Senators and Congressmen. .. Put them into the Social Security plan with the rest of us......

Then sit back.....

And see how fast they would fix it!

If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe good changes will evolve.
2010 is an election year for 1/3 of the senate and 1/2 of the house of representatives. It would be nice if congress got the message; the voting taxpayers are in charge now.
Social Security 2009

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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

The Beat Goes On.......

Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski, seen here in Warsaw in ...
Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski, seen here in Warsaw in 2006, has challenged his detention in Switzerland over a 32 year-old child sex case in the United States, as leading Hollywood figures rallied to his cause.
Can you believe this?

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Wrinkles Around Your Eyes........

All us women know that the older we get the more lines and wrinkles come into our faces. It's a matter of loosing the collagen in our skin, which repairs the cells and keep them young and healthy. To ease the lines around your eyes you can apply eye wrinkle cream and it will also help with the dark circles. Check out the above link and get the help you need.

Friday, September 25, 2009

Ha Ha........

Breakfast
1 grapefruit


1 slice whole wheat toast


1 cup skim milk




Lunch


1 small portion lean, steamed chicken


1 cup spinach


1 cup herbal tea


1 Hershey's kiss




Afternoon Tea


1 The rest of the Hershey Kisses in the bag


1 tub of Hagen-Daaz ice cream with chocolate chips




Dinner


4 glasses of wine (red or white)


2 loaves garlic bread


1 family size supreme pizza


3 Snickers Bars



Late Night Snack


1 whole Sarah Lee cheesecake (eaten directly from the
freezer)



Remember: Stressed spelled backward is desserts.

Handle every stressful situation like a dog.

Pee on it and walk away

Thursday, September 24, 2009

First Ever Blonde GUY joke

The very first ever Blonde GUY joke... And well worth the wait!

An Irishman, a Mexican and a Blonde Guy were doing construction work on scaffolding on the 20th floor of a building.
They were eating lunch and the Irishman said, 'Corned beef and cabbage! If I get corned beef and cabbage one more time for lunch, I'm going to jump off this building.'
The Mexican opened his lunch box and exclaimed, 'Burritos again! If I get burritos one more time I'm going to jump off, too.'
The blonde opened his lunch and said, ' Bologna again! If I get a bologna sandwich one more time, I'm jumping too.'

The next day, the Irishman opened his lunch box, saw corned beef and cabbage, and jumped to his death.
The Mexican opened his lunch, saw a burrito, and jumped, too.
The blonde guy opened his lunch, saw the bologna and jumped to his death as well.
At the funeral, the Irishman's wife was weeping. She said, 'If I'd known how really tired he was of corned beef and cabbage, I never would have given it to him again!'
The Mexican's wife also wept and said, 'I could have given him tacos
or enchiladas! I didn't realize he hated burritos so much.'
(Oh this is GOOD!)
Everyone turned and stared at the blonde's wife. The blonde's wife said,
'Don't look at me. The idiot makes his own lunch.'

HIV Prevention.......

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A South African patient prepares her anti-retrovirals at a HIV/AIDS clinic in Cape Town. An experimental AIDS vaccine has for the first time cut the risk of infection in a "breakthrough" in the quarter-century battle against the deadly epidemic.
I thought if you abstained from sex and drugs, maybe that would help...........I know there are many who were caught off guard, and some other instances, where the person, was innocent. How did all this shit get started anyway?

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

How Sweet of Donald Trump..........

People gather around a tent Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009 on a property ...
People gather around a tent Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009 on a property known as Seven Springs estate owned by real estate magnate Donald Trump in Bedford, N.Y. The Libyan government has pitched a tent on the property that leader Moammar Gadhafi may use for entertaining, according to a State Department official. Gadhafi is due to address the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday.
Isn't it nice that Donald Trump is entertaining strangers, or should I say terrorists..........?

A Pain in the Buttocks.........

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi beaks with protocol and walks ...
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi beaks with protocol and walks down the aisle to speak at the 64th session of the General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi walks down the aisle to speak ...
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi walks down the aisle to speak at the 64th session of the General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi addresses the 64th session of ...
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi addresses the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009.
He's making himself a pain in everyone's ass. Making himself............an ass !


Sunday, September 20, 2009

Whatever...........

Obama, found himself on the defensive, denying the plan breaks his campaign promise not to raise taxes on the middle class and insisting the public insurance option isn’t dead. And his attempt to rally Latino voters around the cause instead was met with sharp questioning from a relative newcomer to the Sunday scene, the Spanish-language network Univision.
Obama broke little new ground in how he tried to sell his own program, which has sharply divided his own party and left many in the public confused and deeply skeptical.

Why NFL Players Go Broke.........

So, figure a player gets drafted in 2009, signs for the minimum and lasts three years in the league: He will have earned about $1.2 million in salary. Factor in taxes, cost of living and the misguided belief that there will be more years and bigger paydays down the road, and it becomes a lot easier to see how so many players struggle with money after their careers end. Nobody plans on playing just three years in the NFL, you know? The average NFL career lasts just three years, you can't buy big fancy homes, cars, expensive clothes and live high on the hog. That's how the money runs out. DUH!

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Home Insurance....

If you own a home, you know that you need to be covered with proper insurance. There's a wide range of volatile weather in the US and we can expect some areas to be hit hard. For more information or a few quotes on home insurance go to this website and apply. You will get quotes from several different agencies, and then you can decide.

Now What.......

Protesters against US President Barack Obama's health care ...

Protesters against US President Barack Obama's health care plan and other policies gather in Washington, DC, on September 12, 2009. American anger at the cost of propping up the US economy will not force Obama to row back on his ambitious health care reform plans, the White House said Sunday.
Protesters against US President Barack Obama's health care ...
Tens of thousands of people have marched from the shadow of the White House to the footsteps of the US Capitol to protest against Obama and what they claim to be his "big government" policies.
I'm sure that many of these people, voted this man into office, and now their angry at the outcome. It's sort of late for them to whine now, they should have watched what they were doing before they put him there.


Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Health Care.......

While our government is fighting about a form of healthcare, these companies, are languishing in what may turn out to be one of the worst years for people to buy cheap health insurance . What can they do but try to get customers where there is already a saturated market. The government will be making many decisions, that will control how these companies, operate in the future. It is my hope that our government, handles this situation in an amutable manner.

Somali Unrest.......

A Somali refugee is served with a meal at a transit centre near ...
A Somali refugee is served with a meal at a transit centre near Thika town, east of Kenya's capital Nairobi, September 4, 2009, during the relocation of some 12,900 Somali refugees from the overcrowded Dadaab refugee complex in north-eastern Kenya to Kakuma camp in the north-west. The relocation of the refugees is part of a multi-phase plan to alleviate the chronic overcrowding in the eighteen year old Dadaab refugee camps, which currently host more than three times the population they were initially designed to accommodate.
Displaced Somali families queue for water at a camp outside ...
Displaced Somali families queue for water at a camp outside the capital Mogadishu, September 4, 2009. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced in fighting between Somalia's government and Islamist insurgents according to international aid agency Oxfam.
Displaced children in Mogadishu, Somalia, being served with ...
Displaced children in Mogadishu, Somalia, being served with food in a camp outside Mogadishu, Thursday, Sept, 3, 2009. The camp which has recently opened feeds more than three hundred people daily. According to the officials, the food aid contribution goes on until the end of the Ramadan month.
I wonder how the world can keep destroying it's people's homes just to fight wars. These people have nothing to live in, or around. They must depend on help from other sources.

Cancum Destination Weddings.......

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Patrick Looses to Cancer......

FILE - In this May 13, 2009 file photo originally released by ...

In this May 13, 2009 photo, Patrick Swayze, left, and his wife Lisa Niemi pose with their dogs, poodle Lucas, left, and Rhodesian Ridgeback puppy Kumasai at their ranch in New Mexico. Swayze's publicist Annett Wolf says the 57-year-old 'Dirty Dancing' actor died Monday, Sept. 14, 2009, after a nearly two-year battle with pancreatic cancer.
It is with profound sympathy, I offer my condolences to Patrick's family, friends and coworkers. May the Lord, give them peace and comfort, during this sad time.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

West To East........

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Saturday, September 12, 2009

DC Tea Party

Protesters Marched ......

Tens of thousands of protesters fed up with government spending marched to the U.S. Capitol on Saturday, showing their disdain for the president's health care plan with slogans such as "Obamacare makes me sick" and "I'm not your ATM." The line of protesters clogged several blocks near capitol, according to the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency. Demonstrators chanted "enough, enough" and "We the People." Others yelled "You lie, you lie!" and "Pelosi has to go."
Demonstrators hold up banners on Capitol Hill in Washington, ...
Demonstrators hold up banners on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009, during a taxpayer rally.
Throngs of people waved U.S. flags and held signs reading "Go Green Recycle Congress." Men wore colonial costumes as they listened to speakers who warned of "judgment day", Election Day 2010. They say unchecked spending on things like a government-run health insurance option could increase inflation and lead to economic ruin.

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Friday, September 11, 2009

America Remembers.........

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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, his wife Jill Biden and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg visit the reflecting pool during the eighth anniversary commemoration ceremony of the 9/11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center at Ground Zero in New York, September 11, 2009. Families of the victims are gathering at the annual ceremony to remember the attacks that killed more than 2,700 people with the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

The "Tribute in Light" is seen near the World Trade ...
The "Tribute in Light" is seen near the World Trade Center site in New York City.
Two women pose with a poster demanding information about the ...
Two women pose with a poster demanding information about the 9/11 terror attacks, Friday Sept. 11, 2009, as a group of people demonstrate outside the U.S. Embassy in Brussels to remember the September 11, 2001, attacks.
A little distasteful if I may say so.
Placards are seen, held by demonstrators in front of an U.S. ...
Placards are seen, held by demonstrators in front of an U.S. flag, as people gather Friday Sept. 11, 2009, outside the U.S. Embassy in Brussels to remember the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on U.S.


Thursday, September 10, 2009

Medical Cannabis

An Israeli worker examines medical cannabis being grown in a ...
An Israeli worker examines medical cannabis being grown in a greenhouse near the southern city of Ashkelon August 27, 2009.The 1.2-acre farm contains five greenhouses that grow cannabis for limited medical treatment in Israel.
An Israeli worker holds medical cannabis grown in a greenhouse ...
An Israeli worker holds medical cannabis grown in a greenhouse near the southern city of Ashkelon August 27, 2009.The 1.2-acre farm contains five greenhouses that grow cannabis for limited medical treatment in Israel.
There is a debate whether to allow treatment of this drug for terminally patients. California, allows it to be prescribed and has kiosks set up in certain areas for people to access it.


Saturday, September 5, 2009

Exonerees........Get Big Money........

Thomas McGowan's journey from prison to prosperity is about to culminate in $1.8 million, and he knows just how to spend it: on a house with three bedrooms, stainless steel kitchen appliances and a washer and dryer.

"I'll let my girlfriend pick out the rest," said McGowan, who was exonerated last year based on DNA evidence after spending nearly 23 years in prison for rape and robbery.

He and other exonerees in Texas, which leads the nation in freeing the wrongly convicted, soon will become instant millionaires under a new state law that took effect this week.

Exonerees will get $80,000 for each year they spent behind bars. The compensation also includes lifetime annuity payments that for most of the wrongly convicted are worth between $40,000 and $50,000 a year — making it by far the nation's most generous package.

Opium Crops Down.......

Afghans are seen as they pray next to a billboard warning against ...
Afghans are seen as they pray next to a billboard warning against growing opium in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009. Afghanistan's opium production fell 10 percent last year and prices are at their lowest in a decade, meaning 'the bottom is starting to fall out' of the world's largest opium market, the U.N. said Wednesday.
Afghan farmers work in a poppy field in Kandahar in 2005. The ...
Afghan farmers work in a poppy field in Kandahar in 2005. The United Nations has released a report claiming that opium production in Afghanistan has fallen for a second year with poppy cultivation down 22 percent despite fears that drug stockpiles were a ticking bomb.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

No Taxes.........

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Construction is seen Monday, Aug. 24, 2009, in Englewood, N.J., as workers renovate a 25-room mansion owned since 1982 by Libya. Officials are trying to prevent Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi from staying at the mansion in this northern New Jersey suburb.
Libya, hasn't paid and still doesn't pay any taxes on this property. How do they get by with that? Are they getting immunity from paying taxes on property they have owned in this country for years? We the American people don't get that luxury, so why is another country allowed to do this? Remind yourselves, it wasn't very long ago that Gadhafi, was attacking our boats in the harbor at Tripoli. Now he wants to come over here to live.........? With the Lockerbie scandal, and him allowing the guy back into Libya with open arms, I say Gadhafi should burn in hell.

Interesting Solution

This is from an article in the St. Petersburg , FL Times Newspaper on Sunday. The Business Section asked readers for ideas on "How Would You Fix the Economy?" I think this guy nailed it!

Dear Mr. President:

Please find below my suggestion for fixing America 's economy.

Instead of giving billions of dollars to companies that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan..

You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan:

There are about 40 million people over 50 years old in the work force.

Pay them $1 million apiece severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:

1) They MUST retire. Forty million job openings -

Unemployment fixed.

2) They MUST buy a new American CAR. Forty million cars ordered-

Auto Industry fixed.

3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage-

Housing Crisis fixed.

It can't get any easier than that!

If more money is needed, have all members of Congress and their constituents pay their taxes...