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...this made me feel nostalgic about the 70s. It's a lost art. A streaker runs onto the pitch during the Euro 2008 Group a qualifying soccer match between Belgium and Armenia in Brussels. There's a ball joke somewhere in that photo...lol

How's a person supposed to get their rock music education without the farm?! Off with their heads and detention for them. In that order!

Jeezz...That place has always had its issues. I hope her post helps....

Everyday at my I risk exposure to something at my job -- HIV, Hep C, etc. I wouldn't be able to function, if I worried too much. I am very careful, though.

It's odd for me to see a sunrise over an Ocean.... that's what the sunsets look like on the west coast... It's beautiful, Beth.... I thought this was cool... Pipe dream: Young Brits ride the "drum" part of "drum 'n' basin," a new skateboard installation in Liverpool. The other part is a large kidney-shaped basin modeled after West Coast swimming pools.

^lol...I love your bats, Carol. I used to see this view outside of my house window when I lived in Marin.

^LOL!!! Kira has some great advice. You can't give up; a job isn't going to find you. You have to work at it. I don't know about where you live, but California is a lawsuit happy state. People have taken former employers to court because of what they said about a former employee. So a lot of HR departments won't say much -- just the time you worked there and your duties. Maybe that will work for you.

Aw...I wish I could have seen it. Our closest Best Buy is 60 miles away. (I'll have to wait for it in the mail.) I love everyone's thoughts...

My friend, a boomer, has theory... She said that this was the generation that screwed itself up with drugs and alcohol when they were younger; it has probably knocked years off their lives and the social security doles....lol

I'm scared....lol I think most of us here are at the bottom of the boom... 1st Boomer signs up for Social Security ANALYSIS: Fixes needed as big age group starts to collect benefits Dana Milbank, Washington Post Tuesday, October 16, 2007 (10-16) 04:00 PDT Washington -- When it comes to the nation's finances, Kathleen Casey-Kirschling is Public Enemy No. 1. Her offense: being born. Specifically, being born on Jan. 1, 1946, just a few ticks after midnight. That makes her, at 61, the first member of the 80 million-strong Baby Boom generation, which, starting next year, will begin to bankrupt the nation by crashing the Medicare and Social Security systems. To tout this happy milestone, the Social Security Administration called a news conference Monday and invited cameras to film Casey-Kirschling signing up for benefits. "I think I'm just lucky to be at the top of the boom," said the retired schoolteacher. "I'm blessed to be able to take my Social Security now." No kidding. As the Boomers retire, Social Security will go into the red in 2017 and become insolvent 24 years later, according to the system's Board of Trustees. Medicare, meanwhile, starts bleeding in 2013 and goes under in 2019. Fixing the two would require Medicare and Social Security benefits to be cut immediately by 51 percent and 13 percent, respectively, perhaps by raising retirement ages. And that's a nonstarter for Casey-Kirschling's generation. "Why should Boomers who have earned it and who may need that extra support in their retirement - for medicine, for food, for whatever - why should they wait if they really don't have to?" she asked. "That's exactly right," concurred Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue, standing at Casey-Kirschling's side. "And I think we ought to cut Kathy a little bit of a break here." Yes, let's. It's not her fault that, ever since Money magazine found her on the eve of her 40th birthday in 1985, she has been a symbol of her generation. If anything, the ones to blame for the entitlement problems are the Boomer presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and all the Boomers in Congress who have put off the painful changes everybody knows will be needed. Astrue, also a Boomer, spent much of the news conference whistling past the graveyard of entitlement insolvency. "There's no reason to have any immediate panic," he said. "This president, everybody running for president, pretty much everybody in Congress, all accept that there's an issue." Astrue said he expects Social Security to be fixed before his term as commissioner ends in 2013. And even if not, he added: "It's not catastrophic. ... Some of the nuclear-winter scenarios that you hear people talking about, really there isn't a factual basis for that." "What makes you confident?" asked Bloomberg News' Brian Faler. "I spent a fair amount of time talking to senior people in the White House, talking to people in Congress," Astrue said. "There is an acknowledgment that they have to step up and do it." Oh? "We're not seeing that," WJLA-TV's Rebecca Cooper advised the commissioner. "What did they tell you?" "When you're behind closed doors," the commissioner said, "there's a real expectation that it's going to happen." Cooper tried again. "You as the leader on this - what are you backing?" "Well, uh, I - I'm flattered by the assumption of your question," the commissioner said, but "Secretary Paulson has the lead." (That would be Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.) "What do you recommend?" "Well, I'm recommending what Secretary Paulson knows I'm recommending to him, but I'm not going to share that now." So the Social Security commissioner has secret ideas for fixing the system, and lawmakers secretly want to take action? No wonder the members of Generation X - born after 1964 - are more likely to believe in UFOs than in receiving their Social Security checks. Casey-Kirschling, speaking for the Boomers, counseled confidence. "I have great hope," she said, that Social Security will be repaired for "my children's generation and certainly my grandchildren's." Cooper, a Gen X-er, asked Casey-Kirschling about that famous UFO poll. "Why do you have so much confidence?" "I always like to have my glass half full," she said. The first Boomer, who lives on Maryland's Eastern Shore, opened her eyes wide with surprise as she entered Monday's event at the National Press Club and saw all the TV cameras. She put on her reading glasses, then pointed and clicked her way through the online application while television recorded her every mouse movement. "A fun experience," she pronounced when she finished, then went on to explain why she was applying for early Social Security benefits. "I'm going to take it now because I can take it now," Casey-Kirschling reasoned. "I'm thrilled to think that after all these years, I'm getting paid back the money I put in." This article appeared on page A - 8 of the San Francisco Chronicle

I love this day! HAHA...thanks Boss.

^I'm trying to hang onto mine for that reason. California real estate is the best investment. I wish my car didn't have so many problems. It's my biggest purchase regret.

Oh man...I wish I read this thread before I got my flu shot at the clinic today. I'm crossing my fingers that nothing bad happens.. Hmmm....seems to me this movie is really popular..lol. It should have a longer run, IMO.

That sounds really painful and scary. I guess that's what they used to do before there were dentists. It sounds risky, though. I'd worry about impacted teeth, infections, etc. We have government dental insurance through the state of California, and most private practice dentists won't take it because of low reimbursement rates. There's a dental practice issue, too. The government (tax payers) isn't going to pay for $600 caps. Some dentists won't pull healthy teeth if they can save a tooth with a cap, so they won't take the patients. It's a screwy rationale. Our dentists at the clinic take our state gov dental insurance. It's just basic care -- extractions, fillings and cleanings.

LOL @ Andrea...

Yeah...it could have been worse...lol

I got the confirmation for the DVD shipment today. Yay!

It has knobs...lol

LOL...ain't that the truth.. Thanks for the review... It's nice to hear about the night.

HAHAHA! Amylou... regularly

Happy Birthday!

I'm crossing my fingers for you, Toni..

OMG…I just had a high school English class flashback….lol. I remember someone in my class writing a paper about an Elton John concert for her “composition“ assignment….lol. Jeezz…he was so popular back then. I'm sure you were celebs, Toni...lol Your review is awesome, Teresa. What a great set list. I’ve always wanted to see one of his shows… "Your Song" is so pretty...

Wow...that's really interesting. It has survived for a long time. Don't worry, Linda. It's not a hallucinogenic one....lol

^So am I...lol <-- Oh god....I stopped going to that board for the reasons you quoted from that book. I live in an area where people have some really diverse opinions about things. Acceptance is a part of life where I live. It blows my mind that people believe there's only one way of thinking about something -- theirs. I gave up on that place. I think it's a waste of time to fight about a single view as the only valid one, especially online. I don't know if those arguments mean anything other than what you get out of it at the moment. If it's negative or pulling you down, walk away from the computer, I say. Some people will never change their views. Some people get off on arguing. Whatever.. I'm not wasting my time over there. Emmie...I wish you lived L.A. (I think you're buying into an illusion created by the media....lol)