I can’t be alone in this, can I? Information and news screaming at me about the stimulus bill, health care, 401K adjustments. All very informative but I feel like screaming, stop the music! Or do I? Maybe I will just watch Dancing with the Stars (which I frankly never could get into but am now considering).
I am very impressed with the rate of response President Obama has created since just after the election. I don’t recall any president working as hard as quickly as he. I applaud him and his efforts and ultimately I believe we will all be okay. But the push to get information out in
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I usually try to write on health issues: mental, emotional and physical (sometimes financial). I refer to myself as the tempered optimist, a growing number of the 60+ population who have been tempered by life’s struggles, political ineptness, and the pursuit of happiness. Mostly we try to see the good that life offers; the good in which we should all strive to invest ourselves as that (attitude) leads to longer, more productive lives. It’s no secret that along the way, I have, perhaps emotionally, hit on topics that frankly boggle my mind. This is one of those. A feel good story, one in which Hollywood usually takes and makes those inspiring movies of…but this one has remained a local fight. It’s about a school; a small school in Pa. that has inspired hundreds of students, a town, and adults. It has actually even gotten some politicians to rally. You need to know about this school and make your voice heard. Gov. Rendell might have bigger political aspirations so hearing from people outside of Pa. may be helpful.
Look, we all know times are tough but what price can we put on a child’s head? Not fair. Here are excerpts from various Pa. papers and sites. They tell the story far better than I could:
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Today marks the new beginning for this country and for all of us. I am working today and am frustrated at the inability to watch live or listen to the day’s events. Yes, I know I am here to work and I am working but I had hoped to be able to listen to the new President’s speech. I am frustrated but will make it through. This is history in the making. As I have discussed in prior blogs, this is the start of hope renewed. I actually tear up at this spectacular prospect of hope for all. So much going on in life in this new year. Hope is good to spur excitement and defer the worry.
Last Friday I was interviewed by Reuters journalist on the postponing of retiring. I am almost retirement age; at least, what we grew up believing was retirement age. As I have aged, I
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It’s time for a new book quoting the quotable for 2008. Fred Shapiro has created a mammoth 12,000 quotes, researched to be the so-called best of the best in The Yale Book of Quotations (retail cost of book, $50). (Edited by Fred R. Shapiro; Foreword by Joseph Epstein)
Here are his Top Ten Most Notable Quotations of 2008 as an excerpt:
1. “I can see Russia from my house!” — Sarah Palin on her foreign-policy credentials, as satirized by Tina Fey, NBC “Saturday Night Live” broadcast, Sept. 13, 2008
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According to the National Center for Policy Analysis, if our US government decided to give up on Medicare and Social Security and stop them, they would owe up to $52 TRILLION to those people who have already paid in and earned these benefits.
The recently released study determined that: An estimated $9.5 trillion is owed to current retirees — an amount equal to almost $250,000 per person 65 years of age and older in 2008.
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