Found this flier on the Campaign for America’s Future website. It’s lead paragraph includes “Your retirement depends on Social Security, which already is the only retirement plan for more than half of the entire workforce.”
Whatever happened to good old savings accounts? Last I heard, Uncle Sam didn’t have to do a darn thing to help me put money in the bank.
In any case, they’re spreading dangerous propoganda, which will lead to some people in Gen X not preparing for the inevitable collapse of Social Security. It’s a lack of any sort of “progressive” thinking, willing to look past the status quo.
Louis CK (creator of Pootie Tang, among other amusements) is driving his dog across the country and blogging about it
Today’s reason: anyone notice the date?
In honor of an unofficially recognized day supporting legalization of marijuana laws (and by extension reformation of our draconian and wasteful drug war) I present NORML‘s 2004 Presidential Candidate Report Card.
- Bush
- Decriminalization: Thumbs Down
- Medical Marijuana: Thumbs Down
- HEA Drug Exclusion: Thumbs Down
- Industrial Hemp: Thumbs Down
- Kerry
- Decriminalization: Thumbs Neutral
- Medical Marijuana: Thumbs Up
- HEA Drug Exclusion: Thumbs Neutral
- Industrial Hemp: Thumbs Neutral
Last weekend was the Prairie Home Companion annual Joke Show, one of the highlights of the Jank family home. On a warm, sunny Saturday evening, after a great walk in the woods, we opened the doors and windows, and sat around laughing. I’ve been in a light mood ever since.
The Boy (as opposed to the Baby) was having a blast. Don’t think he got most of the jokes, but Mommy, Daddy, and his grandmother were laughing, which, to a four year old, means that all is well in the world.
At Detroit Metropolitan International Airport today, an individual later discovered to be a public school teacher was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a protractor, a T-square, a slide rule and a calculator. At a morning press conference, Attorney General John Ashcroft said he believed the man to be a member of the notorious Al-gebra movement. He is being charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction.
“Al-gebra is a fearsome cult,” Ashcroft said. “They desire average solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in a search of absolute value. They use secret code names like ‘x’ and ‘y’ and refer to themselves as ‘unknowns,’ but we have determined they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval, with coordinates in every country. As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, there are three sides to every triangle.”
When asked to comment on the arrest, President Bush said, “If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, He would have given us more fingers and toes. “I am gratified that our government has given us a sine that it is intent on protracting us from these math-dogs who are willing to dis-integrate us with calculus disregard.
“Murky statisticians love to inflict plane on every sphere of influence,” the President said, adding: “Under the circumferences, we must differentiate their root, make our point, and draw the line. These weapons of math instruction have the potential to decimal everything in their math on a scalene never before seen, unless we become exponents of a Higher Power and begin to factor in random facts of vertex.”
Ashcroft said, “As our Great Leader would say, read my ellipse. Here is one principle he is uncertainty of: though they continue to multiply, their days are numbered as the hypotenuse tightens around their necks.”
Read more!I’ve posted some scenes from the move north over at Pedestrian Photography (Links to the first one).
Mostly, it’s shots of the dog standing near state signs.