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Saturday, August 31, 2013
Baby Boomers define retirement as still working
It’s a new world for retirees, reports TIME Magazine’s Dan Kadlec, as the baby boom generation is trading in its idealized vision of retirement for something that looks like: “I’m 67 years old and suddenly I’m taking crap from a 29-year-old manager again?”Once common and easily defined, the idealized retirement is now highly individualized based on:
How fucked did you get in the Bush crash of September, 2008?
How much money did you lose by taking Glenn Beck’s advice and putting all your money into that Goldline scam?
Did you listen to Donald Trump and sell all your stocks in 2009–only to watch the S&P 500 soar 100% under Obama?
How concerned are you that Paul Ryan will realize his dream of killing Medicare during your lifetime?
Most important: instead of retiring to the beach or golf course, would you rather work the next 25 years in telemarketing or as a Walmart greeter?
Thirty years ago, tens of millions of hard-working Americans bought into Reagan’s promise that “trickle-down economics” would create a brighter future for us all. Instead the top 1% have $32 TRILLION stashed in offshore accounts and the rest of us are trying to remember to keep smiling as we squeeze into our Walmart uniform or read from that hard-sell telemarketing script.
Happy Labor Day!
Full story: http://business.time.com/2013/08/29/redefining-the-ideal-retirement/?iid=biz-main-lead
WHY OBAMA IS TO BLAME FOR THE KATRINA RESPONSE
WHY OBAMA IS TO BLAME FOR THE KATRINA RESPONSE
Liberal BiasThe lefty pinko socialists at the Being Liberal Facebook page have posted this meme in response to the new storythat 29% of Louisiana Republicans blame Obama for the federal government’s response to Katrina:
To liberals, this seems like some kind of “contradiction” or “nonsense” or “stupidity”, just because Obama wasn’t President yet when Katrina happened–President Bush was. As a result, they are touting this meme as a way to make fun of Louisiana Republicans.
However, we good-hearted folks at LiberalBias.com have actually long been aware of this kind of poll result, and it is not an indication that Louisiana Republicans are out-of-touch or crazy… as long as you know how to interpret the poll results correctly.
As we reported several months ago, in our article “GOP TIP: How to answer opinion polls“, the correct conservative way to answer a poll IS NOT to merely answer the question that is asked. Instead, it is to find a way to use the poll to simply express your complete outrage with and hatred of President Obama.
Therefore, the correct way to answer any poll question is to find out which answer most closely corresponds to “OBAMA SUCKS!!!!”, and choose that answer.
In a poll about whether you think the stock market is higher or lower now than it was under Bush, the correct answer is “lower” because that answer translates into OBAMA SUCKS!!!
In a poll about whether you think the deficit is higher or lower, the correct answer is higher, because OBAMA SUCKS.
And in a poll about who is to blame for the federal government’s response to Katrina, well isn’t it obvious? The correct answer is: OBAMA SUCKS!!!! …..or whatever answer is available that matches that as closely as possible.
So as it turns out, when Louisiana Republicans say that Obama is to blame for…. well, just about anything… it isn’t because they don’t understand politics, or history, or causality. The answer is much simpler: they think that Obama sucks.
WinkProgress: Why Obama is to blame for the Katrina response http://t.co/XcvmEjiKmc #Articles #Memes
DEFUND OBAMACARE … OR ELSE! (UPDATED)
DEFUND OBAMACARE … OR ELSE! (UPDATED)
Tea Party Cat
Guest post by Rancid Pissant (Reince Priebus)
Stopping Obamacare is the primary mission of the GOP today, but since it’s already law, we must be creative to find ways to keep it from happening. And we don’t have forever– on October 1st people can start buying policies, and in January they’ll have coverage.
So far having the House vote to repeal Obamacare hasn’t had any effect. Whether the first or the 40th time, the law just marches on, indifferent to the hurt feelings of Republicans.
Now at the latest Republican leadership meeting, the main ideas for were threatening a government shutdown or destroying the country’s credit. These are both good ideas, but it turns out the business community isn’t thrilled about them, so I’ve been tasked with finding other options.
So, I ask you, what else should we threaten to get Obama and Senate Democrats to accede to our demands to kill Obamacare?
So far we’ve got:
- Steal a US missile and threaten to blow up the San Andreas Fault
- Put Gotham City under ice
- Refuse to do nothing about climate change
- Get a rare orchid deadly to humans but harmless to other life forms and threaten to wipe out mankind
- Refuse to pass jobs bill to hurt the economy and instead focus on bills to harass women that can’t pass
- Let Monsanto destroy the world’s food chain with genetically modified crops
- Trick the elite assassins in The Fraternity into thinking that the Loom of Fate is saying to kill anyone who supports Obamacare
- Pass laws designed to discourage and suppress voting
- Borrow Ming The Merciless’s ship to pull the Moon out of orbit to cause climate change
- Put a giant laser on the Moon and blow up the Earth
- Poison the water water so much that it’s flammable
- Block all bills, all nominees, to stop the government from working
- Take hostages in a new skyscraper in Los Angeles
- Hijack a plane
- Strap a bomb to our chests and blow up the Capitol building
- Put a bomb in a school somewhere in New York City
- the GOP will blot out the Sun in Springfield
- Rand Paul will lecture black people on why they should be Republicans
- Ted Cruz will use his tesseract to release the Chitauri army on Manhattan
- John Boehner will pull this car over right now. He’ll do it!
Please add your suggestions to the comments below, or use the hashtag #DefundObamacareOrElse. Remember, as Ted Cruz says, “This is a fight we can win.”
UPDATE: Suggestions from Twitter
I asked conservatives on Twitter to use the hashtag #DefundObamacareOrElse to suggest more things for the GOP to threaten, and the loyal faithful came through. If these suggestions don’t put fear in Obama and the Senate Democrats, then nothing will!
Lenny @DimeStoreNinja
Ben Affleck will play every cartoon superhero in every movie.
Shermaclay @Shermaclay
My elderly father-in-law will keep yelling at the television.
Nutcrack a'lackin' @Nutcracker_man
they'll vote to repeal it again
DC @Skuuterz
the poors will live long enough to elect king Obama again.
WinkProgress: Defund Obamacare...OR ELSE!!! Now updated with the #DefundObamacareOrElse suggestions from Twitter: http://t.co/wBCtlevpXK
GOP Bullshit to English: Tort Reform:
GOP Bullshit to English: Tort Reform: Corporations have the right to rob, cheat, steal, and kill!
#p2
#p2
Friday, August 30, 2013
RAND PAUL DECIDES TO EDUCATE THOSE POOR, IGNORANT IMMIGRANT FOLKS
RAND PAUL DECIDES TO EDUCATE THOSE POOR, IGNORANT IMMIGRANT FOLKS
Liberal Bias
Rand Paul knows that the GOP desperately needs a way to win over minority voters. He can’t get on board with things like a social safety net, or immigration reform, so he asks himself: “What do those foreign illegal non-white people really need?”
Education, of course. So he’s now pushing charter schools. In order to win over minorities for the GOP.
Of course, when Rand Paul thinks “charter schools” he’s not really thinking about the same things that Democrats think when they think “charter schools”. In fact, he’s not thinking of the same types of things that Democrats think when they think “schools”.
For years, Republicans have been ramping up efforts to shift public school funding to charter schools owned and operated by conservative and religious crusaders, bypassing publicly elected school boards and national standards and practices for education.
But hey, Rand Paul probably figures that immigrants and racial minorities won’t even realize that the “schools” he is offering are basically conservative Christian Sunday-schools.
I mean… it’s not like “those people” are smart enough to know the difference, right Rand?
READ THE STORY AT HUFFINGTON POST: Rand Paul Teaming Up With Dems? For This Cause, He Thinks It’s Worth It
WinkProgress: Rand Paul decides to educate those poor, ignorant immigrant folks http://t.co/JMx7RN4tnh
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