Since I apparently did not inherit my parents’ excellent habits of saving money and planning for the future, my own idea of a comfortable retirement depends, for the most part, on winning big in the lottery. Yes, I have a 401K plan which, when I finally pay back the loans I’ve taken out against it, might (with care) get me through two years of retirement. So it looks like I’ll have to keep working until I either go blind from staring at a computer all day (too bad my health insurance doesn’t cover eyeglasses), or until I hit the big one. Medicare and Social Security had better be alive and well when I’m finally forced to retire!
This is our daily open thread — feel free to discuss any topic you’d like!
I, on the other hand, plan to become a gigolo to make ends meet when I’m old.
Heh. Good luck with that! Remember, once you’re that old and you ‘make ends meet’, it’s a surprise if anything comes of it! Sotospeak, of course. There remains, sadly, a far better chance at wealth via the lottery ticket.
How will you afford the viagra without the Medicare?
My clientele will be old ladies with poor vision. They won’t know it’s not really me.
Does Jane approve?
Perhaps she is supposed to be one of the old ladies with ….. never mind when in hole, stop digging first
I and my friends all have the same Long Term Care insurance…a Remington Nitro-Mag.
You have to be strong enough to use it.
There are several elderly couples where I live that expatriated themselves to Panama, Costa Rica, and some other places.
They bugged out when Obama got elected.
They claimed that they were retiring to a lower cost of living.
Yeah, right.
The wives are miserable and want to return to thier bridge games and social lives.
The locals hate them and they have to live in secure areas because they will be robbed or killed.
Too bad, too sad for them.
Let’s mess with Texas.
Only two people have signed this so I’m sure there are more that are simply unaware that this could be possible.
I say, let’s make this a reality!
http://www.petitiononline.com/expelltx/petition.html
Actually, not getting rich is only number two on my life’s ‘not fun’ list; getting older is the part that REALLY sucks! An old friend explained the sucky part many years ago. He said that the older one gets, the fewer prospects he has of accomplishing (or even DOING) anything interesting or worthwhile, that it really gets bad when one reaches the point where the only ‘prospect’ that sounds interesting is, as Emily Dickinson put it, to fall asleep, that soundest time, without the weariness.
I can find no cogent argument to counter that premise.
I’ve got mixed feelings on this one…
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I don’t wish any harm upon anyone who isn’t a Tea Party Republican. That doesn’t mean I wish harm upon Tea Party Republicans. I just won’t rush to their defense should harm befall them. They’ve become unreachable intellectually. And, as I recently started saying, if you can’t teach ‘em, learn ‘em.
they’re a different kind of crazy….
We have found a place to live in the Pacific Northwest. Will be closing on a house in January if all goes well. The move is going to take a little while to complete because we have to also get our wee one into college and settled before everything is more or less permanently moved.
I look forward to finally meeting some of you at some time in the not too distant future.
Hey, Zooey, if the Mountain Bluebird is the official State bird of Idaho, then why on earth is the peregrine falcon on the Idaho quarter? (I just happened to notice this last night.)
Jane, it’s Idaho.
Actually, they have a big raptor center in Boise, so that’s probably why the peregrine is on the quarter. Or, it’s just friggin’ Idaho.
And as you’ve written – Raptor Center/World Center For Birds of Prey in Boise
Headline of the Day:
http://www.timeslive.co.za/scitech/2012/12/12/male-gay-sex-turns-females-on—in-fish-study
Wait a minute ….. calling Focus on the Family – what the hell are we going to do about these heretical fish? Get me a copy of Deuteronomy…!
Happy Hanukkah!
My new semi-feral friend. I call her ET, which is short for Extra Toes — she has six toes on each foot.
In this picture, she’s looking in my kitchen window with a look on her face that says, “When are you going to let me in? It’s cold out here!”
Well, did you let her in?
She doesn’t really like my big dog.
So you’re feeding her then?
Be sure to get her fixed otherwise there will be more faces looking in the window.
Box her up and mail her to me immediately.
That face… so endearing!
She’s a real sweetheart.
That’s a Hemmingway cat.
Six toes! Yes, of course, I thought I’d heard that somewhere.
She is pretty.
I think i’ll strut down the road in my new meggings….
How am I going to get rid of that image?
Replace it with this.
Glenn Beck in meggings.
That probably didn’t help.
Yikes, no it didn’t.
No pictures, okay?
I’m almost afraid to ask but what are “meggings”?
Imagine Mick Jaggers pants on fatherbob!!
Imagine Mick Jagger in a Hoveround.
hmmmm……my wife says I need to wear underwear, or i’ll be arrested..
Off to do laundry. Meh.
do you Honeybump laundry soaps yet?
Please click on my link again. I got to get the site more recognition.
Thanks.
http://www.kikenellellc.massagetherapy.com/
there’s a dozen more for ya!
Thanks. If you come to PA, then I owe you a massage.
I matched fatherbob’s clicks.
Dang. A massage sure sounds great. Wish I lived closer.
We will be moving to Oregon, hopefully sometime next summer and you are moving to the NW so maybe that massage won’t be that far away.
Thanks.
the rude one knocks it out of the park…
~”….. when Scalia does choke on his own bile and die, the Rude Pundit wants to get all the queers he knows, every leather bear and feather twink, every chopped-haired dyke and short-skirted femme, and everyone in between, and have a great big orgy at that bastard’s wake. One great, big sodomy fest, right in front of his corpse, hell, right on top of the body in the casket, the blissful acts of cocks sucked in willing mouths, of strap-ons thrust into wet pussies, of asses filled and unfilled, over and over, celebrating that, at last, one of the last symbols of generational intolerance is gonna be put into the ground, sticky with sex and semen from the joyful fucking, from the perverted fucking, from the loving fucking, all the fucking that he would find repulsive. Now that’s what you’d call “justice.”~
Well, this sucks: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2012/12/13/susan-rice-withdraws-name-from-consideration-for-secretary-of-state/?wpisrc=al_comboNP_p
It’s about time she fell on her sword.
Well yes and no – her credentials were distinctly right of centre, she never met a war she didn’t back (including Iraq), her performance as Israel apologist unimpeachable….
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/11/susan-rice-benghazi-secretary-state
Just dont throw Kerry at it and give that toerag Scott Brown another run at Senate.
John Kerry’s ego is in the way of that advice, Terry.
True – may Jon Huntsman might be a decent choice.
Yup, that would be a pretty solid choice…. and if he needs to wave the diversity flag instead over at DoD….. Tammy Duckworth! (no not really,not yet)
Be fun if Obama puts up now, say, Dennis Kucinich for the job….. love to see McCain’s head explode….
Or Jill Stein. I don’t know which sound would be louder from the Right. Heads or butts exploding.
Zooey —
I know that I have been gone for awhile, how is the job hunting going?
“People You May Know” Facebook suggestion for me today:
Prolapsed Esophagus.
Facebook uses some strange interpersonal algorithms.
Senate Intelligence Committee Takes Up “the Pentagon Papers of the CIA Torture Program” Behind Closed Doors: Report Remains Under Wraps
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Professional Women’s Soccer is coming to Portland! Maybe this way I’ll have a chance of getting to see a match.
Track Palin and his wife are divorcing after 18 long months of marriage.
I think I’ll blame a meddling mother-in-law.
Imagine going through life with a name like Track.
Or as a Palin.
Hi, gang.
Well? The seasonal depression has kicked in. Normally it hits before Thanksgiving but, probably because I have no TV and haven’t been bombarded with holiday commercials, I got a free three weeks. That’s a good thing. Still, I will now meet all demands that I be “happy” or “merry” with “piss off” for the duration. At least I have my planes.
It was a glorious winter’s day here on the frozen tundra and I got out for an hour of flying. Despite being almost run over by a few stupid people who drive I manged some moments of forgetfulness. Now I’m just waiting for the booze to kick in.
I really hope that the president taps someone besides Kerry for the SOS job. We need every sane person we can muster in elected office.
Now? Back to the booze. I’m going to be thrust into the glow of very good friends tomorrow but you good people help too. G’night.
I almost forgot. Make your crash a glorious display, Ebb. If you have to go out? Make it spectacular and on your own terms.
http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/12/nasas-grail-mission-moves-to-crash-into-the-moon-on-purpose.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29
It was fun while it lasted.
I’m a bit upset we’re leaving so much trash on the Moon!
Have a grand time with your good friends!
Panetta signs order to send Patriot missiles to Turkey: reports