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

Was surprised - then realized tho I had a whole thread blocked, there were still individuals I would have to block.

No problem.  Thanks again BCO for the option to be ale to block individuals.

AARP Foundation is a 501 C4 - all of their related departments operate undere that umbrella.  Some of those are 501C3's.

Cheers.  Back tto our normal posting:

SPRING, SPRING, SPRING.....finally.  Hope all are well.  Hugs, chocolate, sugar lumps to E, Chickadee who is going to tell us all about her preparations for THE CRUISE....Athena, who is being gentle on herself.

I don't understand why some don't have our forum blocked if we irritate them so much.

I'm so glad to see Athena back and posting like her old self. 

Chickadee-yay on those boring results. Enjoy your cruise!

I, too, am stunned by the tempest that can blow up over an umbrella. Sheesh.

Mary

Sunflowers, I love you. I was going to go look up that information and you saved me a bit of work.

I've been actually living the life of a Fox News watcher lately; been watching the Jodi Arias trial or going outside and totally out of touch with reality, huh true political news, save for a few minutes here and there, enough to know the Fox News types are gorging at the troughs of what they perceive as Obama scandels.  If I pretend hard enough, I still see nothing.  Somebody, a low-leveler, at the IRS seeing "Party" in a name and deciding they might be more poilitical than providing social welfare - being efficient maybe, but not political?  Benghazi, seems like it's still about Talking Points, rather than Security.  What's the 3rd scandal?  The AP?  Honestly, when it comes down to it, the difference between this and Bush wiretapping his own citizens...I trust Obama.  I didn't trust Bush.

Ok - how far off am I for taking a political vacation?

E- you changed your avatar?  Is the cactus blooming?

Have we seen Athena the last couple of days?

Don't get the double-standard about posting here and posting there.  Seems we get chewed up for same thing.  I can take the chewing...hate hypocrisy.

Yorkie - we are in synch.  The political stuff is just getting old, and even more ridiculous.  We're arguing over talking points?  Wabbit's (?) nose hair analogy is perfect.  Or was that matching socks?  They're just spinning they're wheels in Congress, investigating nonesense, while doing nothing to help the President with real things that could help those without jobs, or tens of other important issues that need attention.  Even my Tea Party friend is fed up!  Politics 100 Governing 0.  I hope this is the beginning of the end for the GOP.

Watching PoliticsNation.  In 2009, the usual crowd, Hannity, Ingrahm, etc. ridiculing Obama for using Dijon mustard (like it is really French  ) on his hamburger and a real man would not abstain from ketchup.  Today, it's having a Marine hold an umbrella over him while speaking in the rain (mostly done for the other guest cospeaker).

Libby - how many weeks til retirement??

HL - We have similar work timeframes.  I once got unemployment for 2 months between temp and permanent service, but that was my only break.  Hired Oct 1979 permanently.  I probably would have worked another 2 years had circumstances not arose.  So far, I love retirement and I guarantee you will too.  I'm so busy.....but can choose how busy

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See her tweet below pic:

SarahPalinUSA Scandalous Hat Trick Mr. President, when it rains it pours, but most Americans hold their own umbrellas.

Thanks, Kam. I have a lot of stuff on my "to do" list -- both practical things and fun things. I have been mentally preparing for a couple of years (since my second dx, as a matter of fact), but coming down to no longer being what my identity has been for so long (public affairs officer, speechwriter, managing editor, writer) is going to be interesting. Work is so very unpleasant these days that it will be a relief to leave, to tell you the truth.



Athena, good to see you! I don't see the people who invoke Hitler comparisons (I don't go to KKK meetings), but Godwin's law says that the first person to invoke Hitler loses. I guess that makes a whole bunch of people losers, eh?



The IRS "scandal" only looks like a scandal because people don't understand how the IRS works and how overworked, lower-level staffers with little to no guidance might try to do things to make their work more efficient (like grouping like-sounding groups together to expedite processing and make sure they are all asked the same questions). The people in Cincinnati were politically clueless. When you work in the field, you are completely out of the loop as to the politics or the optics of things.



Honestly, while working at the IRS is a good job for some people, for others it is a horrible place to work (the processing centers are dreadful). I don't think there was any ill intent -- and when the higher-ups found out, they panicked and made poor decisions on how to present what they learned was happening. And oh, by the way, they asked the same questions of liberal groups as well. Where is the regressive outrage over that? And the regressive outrage over targeting the NAACP or liberal churches during the Cheney Administration? (crickets). IMO, based on what I know first-hand about the IRS, it was bureaucracy, blindness to the optics of the thing, lack of good guidance, criteria and procedures, and some good old-fashioned "oh shit, what do we do now?"



I am actually rather more concerned about the National Security Letters to the AP -- not because it was the AP, but because this Administration seems to treat whistleblowers disproportionately harshly in spite of their stated commitment to protecting whistleblower rights. But I will wait to see what comes out.



L

Whether you like Bill Maher, or not, he does have a point: