Fun and Games - golly-gee I'm happy I'm 72 and not 32. Good luck to all y'all.

For some more real good FUN -- read this from "Some Assembly Required" -- then follow the link to the site -- more fun, games, and laughs -- if you are one of the "Super Rich", one of "The Masters Of The Universe" -- in other words, one of the folks who is overseeing the destruction of CIVILIZATION, the destruction of OUR HOME (planet Earth), and their OWN DESTRUCTION (when the inevitable REACTION occurs). Anyway .............................
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Tales from the Crypt: The far right would have us believe that New York state workers are retiring at age 55 and drawing over $100,000 a year in benefits. Actually, the average benefit paid by the state's main pension program in 2010 was $18,300. And New York state's pension is 100 percent funded. Damned liberal facts.

Another Good Idea: Russia plans to build 8 floating nuclear power plants in the Arctic ocean to power the search for oil and gas deposits. What could go wrong?

Lies, Polite Lies and Spoon Feeding: In an article warning, very softly, that we have seriously underestimated the amount of sea level rise that will happen this century, the claim is made that “the window of opportunity” for keeping global warming to 2ºC by 2100 “is rapidly closing.” Poppycock. We are on course to easily exceed 4ºC by then. And it seems likely that even 2ºC will be enough to trigger the complete melting of the Greenland ice sheet, which will – over several centuries – push the oceans of the world 20 feet or more higher.

“...the smell of politics in the morning.” The US military wants to keep the number of troops in Afghanistan at the current “surge” levels until September 2012. American troops are scheduled to begin their retreat withdrawal in October, coincidentally just in time for the Presidential elections.

Bears/Woods: Will the 700,000 jobs lost to the Republican deficit witch-hunt push the US back into recession? Similar reductions in Britain certainly did, resulting in real household incomes there equaling the lows of 1931. What happens when 6 million workers lose their extended unemployment benefits? Does it matter whether GOP politicians are stupid or simply lying as part of political gamesmanship?
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