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(And, by the way, I oppose raising the retirement age, in case you thought that “intelligent discussion” had to be a code term for introducing a right-wing talking point. Liberals are allowed to have intelligent discussions.) Anyway, on the face of it,...
by EvanJellicoe
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on Sun Mar 24, 2024 at 11:21 AM PDT
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Last September, in a piece titled Where We Expect To Retire, I informed folks that we were planning to move to Kendal Crosslands Communities, the Crosslands campus, in the early summer. This was built around a number of issues, including my wife...
by teacherken
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on Sat Feb 24, 2024 at 03:29 PM PST
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As the population gets older the government looks harder at raising the age that people can collect their benefits. Let me educate people of all ages about the benefits they have earned over their life time. Social Security is money that you earned...
by myoungatheart5
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on Wed Feb 14, 2024 at 03:59 AM PST
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Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour, the place where politics meets up with religion, science, art, nature, and life. Come in, have a cuppa and a cookie (or three!) and join us.
I scrapped ...
by Aashirs nani
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on Sun Dec 10, 2023 at 01:06 PM PST
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Mark your calendars for Dec. 13, folks. The House Republican campaign arm is throwing a festive bash for prolific fundraiser, ousted speaker, and still-sitting member of Congress Kevin McCarthy. For what, you ask. Good question.
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Tue Dec 05, 2023 at 11:50 AM PST
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The so-called “legal architect” and co-defendant in Donald Trump’s coup plot says he hasn’t been able to to raise the kind of funds from MAGA land that would protect him from dipping into personal savings to pay his legal bills. Newsweek reports that...
by Walter Einenkel
229 comments
on Mon Nov 27, 2023 at 02:21 PM PST
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Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia posted a flowery farewell video Tuesday, announcing he would not seek reelection to the Senate. But this was no retirement speech. Rather, it reeked of being a preamble to a third-party presidential bid with No Labels,...
by Kerry Eleveld
152 comments
on Fri Nov 10, 2023 at 07:00 AM PST
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Today I went to the Centro para Adultos Meyor in our Pueblo Magico town some 35 minutes drive from the big city (on a good day). My wife is beginning rehab there having had a hip replaced. I went along with her because the old geezers get together on...
by Adventurist
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on Wed Oct 18, 2023 at 09:48 AM PDT
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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley retired Friday. President Joe Biden spoke at a ceremony honoring the general held at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall near Washington, D.C. ...
by Walter Einenkel
104 comments
on Fri Sep 29, 2023 at 02:09 PM PDT
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Kevin Ford worked for decades at a Las Vegas airport Burger King without ever taking an unplanned sick day. He often worked late into the night. In those years he surely worked through sickness—...
by Laura Clawson
56 comments
on Fri Aug 25, 2023 at 03:40 PM PDT
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In both 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, that “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” presented profiles of the sitting U.S. House Representative from Georgia’s 12th Congressional District, Rick Allen, who after being elected...
by republicinsanity
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on Thu Jun 29, 2023 at 02:24 AM PDT
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Friends were planning on retiring to Florida. Karen, who isn’t one, calls herself an iguana. She likes it hot, the hotter the better. She does not like cold and wet. She’s been living in Michigan since 1988, where cold and wet happens a lot. Her...
by MeJean
431 comments
on Mon Jul 03, 2023 at 06:50 PM PDT
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Senate Bill 252, a bill that directs the two biggest public pension funds in the U.S., CalPERS and CalSTRS, to phase out fossil fuel investments, passed the California State Senate full floor by a vote of 22 to 10 today. The final count is pending...
by Dan Bacher
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on Thu May 25, 2023 at 02:04 PM PDT
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein has been absent from the Senate since early March, due to a case of shingles. Since then there has been almost no evidence that indicates the 89-year-old Senator will be able to return to work any time soon. Sen. Feinstein’s...
by Walter Einenkel
123 comments
on Fri May 05, 2023 at 11:12 AM PDT
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Many people were shocked on Wednesday when the favorites for this year’s NBA playoffs, the Giannis Antetokounmpo-led Milwaukee Bucks, lost in the first round of the playoffs to the underdog Miami Heat. Following the loss, the Milwaukee superstar faced...
by BeninSC
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on Thu Apr 27, 2023 at 11:18 PM PDT
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Tuesday: �A day to: retire!
As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group gives Kossacks a safe place to check in, a daily diary where we
can let people know ...
by ejoanna
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on Mon May 01, 2023 at 09:15 PM PDT
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“What is the ideal retirement age for your health?”�The New York Times�asks in its Well�section, in a piece framing “ideal retirement age” as the age until which a person can work without ...
by Laura Clawson
134 comments
on Sat Apr 08, 2023 at 08:00 AM PDT
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All Set To Retire, Then The Moment That Thrust Dianne Back Into Service And A Decade Of Cold Sweats. She and her husband Bertram were relieved about her impending early retirement from politics, and excited of what the future was going to bring. Bertram was a neurologist and doing very well thank you very much, and Diane was digging deep on what the...
by Tevye
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on Sun Feb 19, 2023 at 02:45 PM PST
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Cliff Carlton was the 10th of 11 children and one of three still living at home when his father, a coal miner, died unexpectedly at 67. Only his dad’s Social Security benefits, along with vegetables from the family’s small farm in southwestern...
by Tom Conway
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on Fri Jan 20, 2023 at 08:46 AM PST
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An 82-year-old Walmart cashier is getting to retire after TikTok users raised more than $100,000 to make that possible. If that sentence doesn’t seem several kinds of wrong to you, I don’t know what to say. Butch Marion, the 82-year-old in question, is...
by Laura Clawson
209 comments
on Mon Jan 16, 2023 at 10:00 AM PST
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