I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

IllinoisLady

Oh so cute, so much so, you wish you had one of each.  Blue, you do find fabulous pictures of the furry friends. 

Pip....you should have gone to the party as Wabbit said.  There is always one in the family just as Yorkie mentioned, -- in my family it was going to fall to either me, or my sister and as it turned out....it was her.  Of course, I'm glad it was, but then as those people never recognize themselves or the impact of their actions, I would be sailing through life w/o a care. 

I think Dh who asked me about Romney, must have gotten something wrong.  I was tempted ( must be the sporting part of me ) to watch the Faux News interview, but did not get to as I had other things that could not be put aside.  In reading about it from Add Info --- very un-likely.  According to what they said.....Romney did come across as I mentioned earlier, as feeling he would have done fine if he had not made the 47 % mistake and spoken to those not in his league....ssshhh, poor people, minorities,  and possibly even immigrants. 

Both he and Ann thought he already would have had a bang-up Presidency going on --- yeah, Mittens sure.  As long as you kept your tea party hat on.  They still don't really get it.  That is rather sad, but indicative of someone who only wanted to take care of one side of the Presidency. 

See you all later.

p.s. Good Luck, Suzie

IllinoisLady

Could be me....

Jackie

Wabbit

Jackie ... LOL

bluedahlia

Jackie, Love It!

pupmom

Lol, Jackie!

Chickadee

Pip, I wonder perhaps the age of your sister. Did she experience the trauma and devastation of having a President assassinated? It is not something to joke about. It was horrific for this whole country and I hope it never happens again. The act of assassination reveals the painful knowledge that as a society we are still beholden to the lowest common denominator regardless of how much intellectual and technical progress we make.

bluedahlia

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IllinoisLady

I did not fact check this but it sure seems like an interesting take on entitlements.........Mr. Scalia

osted June, 2012

I THINK SHE IS BIG TIME TICKED OFF!
(Not my foul language)

I don't think TICKED OFF really covers it!!!!

Alan Simpson, Republican Senator from Wyoming and co-chair of President Obama's deficit commission, calls senior citizens the "Greediest Generation" as he compared Social Security to a Milk Cow with 310 million teats.

Here's a response in a letter from Patty Myers, a career school teacher in Montana ... I think she is a little ticked off! She also tells it like it is!

"Hey Alan, let's get a few things straight!!!!!

by Patty Myers

1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole (tit) for FIFTY YEARS.
   
   
2. I have been paying Social Security taxes for 48 YEARS (since I was 15 years old. I am now 63).
   
   
3. My Social Security payments, and those of millions of other Americans, were safely tucked away in an interest bearing account for decades until you political pukes decided to raid the account and give OUR money to a bunch of zero losers in return for votes, thus bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme that would make Bernie Madoff proud.
   
   
4. Recently, just like Lucy & Charlie Brown, you and "your ilk" pulled the proverbial football away from millions of American seniors nearing retirement and moved the goalposts for full retirement from age 65 to age 67. NOW, you and your "shill commission" are proposing to move the goalposts YET AGAIN.
   
   
5. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying into Medicare from Day One, and now "you morons" propose to change the rules of the game. Why? Because "you idiots" mismanaged other parts of the economy to such an extent that you need to steal our money from Medicare to pay the bills.
   
   
6. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying income taxes our entire lives, and now you propose to increase our taxes yet again. Why? Because you "incompetent bastards" spent our money so profligately that you just kept on spending even after you ran out of money. Now, you come to the American taxpayers and say you need more to pay off YOUR debt.

To add insult to injury, you label us "greedy" for calling "bullshit" to your incompetence. Well, Captain Bullshit, I have a few questions for YOU:

1. How much money have you earned from the American taxpayers during your pathetic 50-year political career?
   
   
2. At what age did you retire from your pathetic political career, and how much are you receiving in annual retirement benefits from the American taxpayers?
   
   
3. How much do you pay for YOUR government provided health insurance?
   
   
4. What cuts in YOUR retirement and healthcare benefits are you proposing in your disgusting deficit reduction proposal, or as usual, have you exempted yourself and your political cronies?

It is you, Captain Bullshit, and your political co-conspirators called Congress who are the "greedy" ones. It is you and your fellow nutcase thieves who have bankrupted America and stolen the American dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers. And for what? Votes and your job and retirement security at our expense, you lunk-headed leech.

That's right, sir. You and yours have bankrupted America for the sole purpose of advancing your pathetic, political careers. You know it, we know it, and you know that we know it.

And you can take that to the bank, you miserable son-of-a-bitch. NO, I did not stutter.

If you like the way things are in America delete this. If you agree with what a Montana citizen Patty Myers says, please PASS IT ON!!!!

P.S.

And stop calling Social Security benefits "entitlements" WHAT AN INSULT!!!!

I have been paying in to the SS system for 45 years. It's my money; give it back to me the way the system was designed and stop patting yourself on the back like you are being generous to be dolling out these monthly checks.

suzieq60

Work's ok, but I found out I'm moving to another project in a couple of weeks - I've done too good a job on this one and had most of it completed before I went away.

1Athena1

Jackie, loving your posts!

Wabbit

Is there a Patty Myers fan club?  I want to join! 

Chickadee

I remember that Patti Myers letter. After it hit the Internet there was a lot of discussion that the author is actually unknown and some of the facts are a bit off.



Anyway here's the Snopes link:



http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/simpson.asp

1Athena1

Well, someone wrote it - and the letter is more of an opinion piece, so it isn't meant to be a fact piece. I love it, parody of the fed up citizen that it clearly is. So many people are pissed off with congress that I'm sure one could find one that is named Patty Myers. :-)

Enjoyful

The SS fund wasn't raided.  I don't know how that rumor got started, but it just isn't true.  Check the financial statements.

Enjoyful

...but I'd LOVE to see congresscritters' benefits restructured.  In the job for four years and receive a very generous pension??  Really?  I don't know which tit you're on, but you should move over and share with the rest of us.

1Athena1

No one asks questions like Paul Kriguman:

Consider the case of Florida, whose governor, Rick Scott, made his personal fortune in the health industry. At one point, by the way, the company he built pleaded guilty to criminal charges, and paid $1.7 billion in fines related to Medicare fraud. Anyway, Mr. Scott got elected as a fierce opponent of Obamacare, and Florida participated in the suit asking the Supreme Court to declare the whole plan unconstitutional. Nonetheless, Mr. Scott recently shocked Tea Party activists by announcing his support for the Medicaid expansion.

But his support came with a condition: he was willing to cover more of the uninsured only after receiving a waiver that would let him run Medicaid through private insurance companies. Now, why would he want to do that?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/opinion/krugman-mooching-off-medicare.html?src=recg

Momine

Athena, to preserve the free market obviosuly, duh!

1Athena1

True - the SS money has not been raided. That is, the funds have been used for other things, but the allocation is there and the US has promised to make good on it- a longstanding and heretofore never problematic characteristic in many national budgets.

I scoffed at the idea years back of the SS fund being raided.....but with the GOP willing to let the US lapse on its debt obligations, I wonder now if they'd be happy to also let the US break its promise to its own citizens.

1Athena1

Momine, but of course! No other possible reason jumps to mind. :-)

1Athena1

E - LOVE your cow metaphors, farm girl!

pip57

Chickadee...my sister moved to Boston with her Canadian husband to pursue work when they were married in 1977.  He became an American citizen a few years later.  She did so about 6 years ago for two reasons.  She wanted to be able to vote, and, she travels a dozen times a year and had to line up in non-citizen customs line all the time.  All 3 children are American.  

I do remember visiting her when she lived in a apt just after moving.  She spent the morning watching people out her window and making comments.  I will never forget this one "Women on social aid and those making less than ?? income (I don't remember what number she pulled out of her a$$) should have their tubes tied so that they can't burdeon the society with their offspring."

IllinoisLady

I think we need peole like Patty Meyers.  Probably keeps us on our toes while our elected officials tip-toe and sometimes totally stomp through "politics".  I read some statistics ( of course I didn't save them, that would be too sane and easy ) on how much people like Boehner get paid to do so little and how much more vacation time he and his ilk have ( not even talking about the long term benefits ) than the Pres.  Too many of Boehner's group at this point seem a great waste of office space. 

Jackie

IllinoisLady

Hmmm, every time I post there is a long pause......so:

IllinoisLady

1Athena1

ETA: Jackie - we crossposted. That truck should be taken off the streets!

Very late with this, as it happened days ago....but Paris fashion week is still with us, barely, and IMO, Raf Simons showed what I thought was his best collection for Dior thus far (he's had about four).

First, a brief primer on Dior and what it's well known for. Dior came into prominence in the 50's and 60s with its flowy, then tucked in dress silhouettes, its feminine bustier, its declicate women and love of flowers, especially the rose. In some ways Dior reminds one of the "oppressed" woman of the 50s, making it very hard to think of how the brand can have survived and thrived through all the social revolutions we have had. Well, partly that is thanks to the genius of Dior himself, then that of the crazy John Galliano - and now, Raf Simons, who is actually managing to make it modern and urban:

I LOVE this dress:

This collection was partly inspired by Andy Warhol (hence the "pop art" in the dresses) but, as one critic pointed out, even that was delicately done.

This is the famous Dior bar jacket, which Simons has paired with baggy pants here:

Here, the Dor silhouette, in leather, still manages an Audrey Hepburn feel, IMO:

I wish Simons would stop choosing models with such skeletal arms - but here is a modern take on the 50s skirt:

A modern take on the sixties one....

I loved this look:

Anonymous

Athena - LOVE the first dress..makes me wanna get out my monotype printing.  really like it.  AND MEANT to ask you, asny news on the job, or did I miss that post...not on as often as I used to be.

Blue - hpeyou're feeling better - love the animal pics...

Jackie - think the Snopes agrees it's a "mixture" of voices, but sure agree with the sentiments expressed.  Also making me more & MORE in support of TERM LIMITS for all member of congress.

crazy4carrots

Your Monday morning "not-so-funny" cartoon:

bluedahlia