The Goat Pen

I feel really bad for your parents.
"Dad, was that a cough?"
"Maybe"
"Hello Rolling Hills, We're ready"

as long as we're building airplanes for the Air Force that costs 150 million a pop, then we are going to spend money on old people

Jungle Rat wrote:So what you are saying is that you think we should turn our back on the people who built this country back up from the great depression. Like my mom who was born in 39, her father sold newspapers on a street corner at 15 helping to support his family. She 72 now and Fighting Parkinsons for the past 22 years and stage 4 breast cancer that we just found out about. Thin the heard huh?

"Turning you back" are your words, not mine. What I said was that they should not be kept alive at great cost when a portion of that money would cover wellness for younger people.

Sure we could keep every 80+ year old alive for many more years... but at what cost?

eCat wrote:as long as we're building airplanes for the Air Force that costs 150 million a pop, then we are going to spend money on old people

Our fleet of F22s cost twice that much each, and by some accounts are as fragile as an octogenarian.

The F22, F35 and the DDG-1000s were all costly mistakes.

But Obama got two Republican votes in the Senate for Obomneycare, and Maine's Bath Iron Works got three new boondogles that are unstable in rough seas and as destroyers go are not very survivable.

NYC cops run amuk for an illegal arrest...



By the way... NSFW.

Op Ed wrote:

sardis wrote:Well, I guess you think we should lie and tell them that we can fix the budget without fixing Medicare and Medicaid...

We need death panels.

It costs too much money to keep old people alive.

That's a bit drastic; however, the retirement age to receive Medicare needs to be raised to 75. Providing healthcare for retirees for 20 years each is unsustainable.

75 will never happen. Way too aggressive. I believe that's greater than the lifespan of an American White Male. If you bypass that sweet spot, you won't get shit passed on the Hill. Good fucking luck getting the age raised to that level.

I agree with brooklyn, Whitey ought to be protected at all costs...

Well, it is going to happen eventually out of necessity because the money is just not there no matter how much the tax rates are.

On a different note, I read this poll this morning. The interesting thing to me is not who likes Romney or Obama, but the chart in the middle of the article that tells what percentage of the male population that are veterans by age category surprised me. I know the 80-89 yr olds came of age during WWII, but 73% of them served? Wow. Also from 60s-70s are high as well due to Korea and Vietnam. Sometimes I wonder if our country would be better off if more of our young men served a stint in the military. Not necessarily need to fight a war, but require two years of service.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/154904/Veter ... m=Politics

I think some sort of service (military or some other form of national service) would be good for all. Not necessarily the Israel model, but some sort of contribution back. I think it would make for more engaged pols & constituents.

I saw this comment under the youtube video of Christopher Hitchens subjecting himself to waterboarding...

"I know a man, (my mother dated him for quite some time,) he is a part of a very elite group of military. He was unable to even tell us the name of it. He said they went through water boarding, but it was worse, it involved shocking them on their taint with a taser. Now, he said the reason for this was not to develop a tolerance, that is impossible. It was to instill in them they WILL NOT BE CAUGHT. My neighbor in the airforce has heard stories of this guy. He is being truthful"

Hope he doesn't work at the Post Office. Once ya get your taint tased you are never quite the same.

I, and I'm sure BRM has as well, have blown out farts that made a taint-tazing seem tame by comparison.

Pork
Cloud
Team
Mexico
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The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S.

The intriguing the list includes obvious choices such as 'attack', 'Al Qaeda', 'terrorism' and 'dirty bomb' alongside dozens of seemingly innocent words like 'pork', 'cloud', 'team' and 'Mexico'.

Released under a freedom of information request, the information sheds new light on how government analysts are instructed to patrol the internet searching for domestic and external threats.

The words are included in the department's 2011 'Analyst's Desktop Binder' used by workers at their National Operations Center which instructs workers to identify 'media reports that reflect adversely on DHS and response activities'.

Department chiefs were forced to release the manual following a House hearing over documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit which revealed how analysts monitor social networks and media organisations for comments that 'reflect adversely' on the government.

However they insisted the practice was aimed not at policing the internet for disparaging remarks about the government and signs of general dissent, but to provide awareness of any potential threats.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1wE3p3ibW

well, now we know why Ron Mexico doesn't post much anymore

"I, and I'm sure BRM has as well, have blown out farts that made a taint-tazing seem tame by comparison."

You should have said "have blown out farts that make a taint-tazing seem like a taint-teasing"...

hedge wrote:"I, and I'm sure BRM has as well, have blown out farts that made a taint-tazing seem tame by comparison."

You should have said "have blown out farts that make a taint-tazing seem like a taint-teasing"...

Good lord, are you even trying any more?

I've had 3 farts on 3 different occasions that have almost ended my marriage. Fact.

eCat wrote:Pork
Cloud
Team
Mexico
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The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S.

The intriguing the list includes obvious choices such as 'attack', 'Al Qaeda', 'terrorism' and 'dirty bomb' alongside dozens of seemingly innocent words like 'pork', 'cloud', 'team' and 'Mexico'.

Released under a freedom of information request, the information sheds new light on how government analysts are instructed to patrol the internet searching for domestic and external threats.

The words are included in the department's 2011 'Analyst's Desktop Binder' used by workers at their National Operations Center which instructs workers to identify 'media reports that reflect adversely on DHS and response activities'.

Department chiefs were forced to release the manual following a House hearing over documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit which revealed how analysts monitor social networks and media organisations for comments that 'reflect adversely' on the government.

However they insisted the practice was aimed not at policing the internet for disparaging remarks about the government and signs of general dissent, but to provide awareness of any potential threats.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1wE3p3ibW

Pork? DS needs to be careful when he trolls the internet for babes...

Lets go ahead and make sure we have as many of these words posted on here as we can, alright?