A Little Political Balance Would Be Nice

[jamesstew]

[RobsanX]

I wouldn't call it trolling. It was obviously satire.

[Roo]

Lol yeah, three cheers and a resounding "no shit" for sgreger. Thanks for solving the puzzle bro!

[sgreger1]

I wouldn't call it trolling. It was obviously satire.

It doesn't sound like satire, no jokes, no punchline. Just something in the form of a news article claiming a list of things republicans want.

& Roo, **** you lol. Have fun watching tv tonight, mommy won't bethere to tuck you in.

[snusgetter]

It doesn't sound like satire, no jokes, no punchline. Just something in the form of a news article claiming a list of things republicans want.

C'mon now, you've heard of subtlety...
And that's as subtle as a bull in a china shop!!

btw, isn't the bull the symbol for the new China Shop Tea Party??

[tom502]

I want some chai.

[truthwolf1]

The retirement myth – 1 out of 3 Americans has no savings or retirement account. Half of Americans have $2,000 or less in their retirement account. 401k new name for Wall Street grease.

http://www.mybudget360.com/retiremen...urity-stopgap/


This has always rattled my mind. My parents have small pensions, pretty big 401ks which have recently went to hell and social security/medicaid. They are living allright but by no means a lavish retirement of travel and leisure.

My generation has no pensions, no savings and no social security in the future while they are also going to raise the retirement age.

It might be a thought of moving to another country where you might actually get a studio apartment to live in rather then a cardboard box down by the river.

[lxskllr]

I'd like to have a yurt. Move to the mountains, and raise sheep. There's also some very interesting pocket houses that don't have much room for possessions, but have plenty of space for living. Americans have been told bigger is better for too long. A big house to vacuum, a big yard to mow, and a big tax bill to pay. All so you can have a maintenance hobby when you get off of work.

[sgreger1]

I'd like to have a yurt. Move to the mountains, and raise sheep. There's also some very interesting pocket houses that don't have much room for possessions, but have plenty of space for living. Americans have been told bigger is better for too long. A big house to vacuum, a big yard to mow, and a big tax bill to pay. All so you can have a maintenance hobby when you get off of work.

I got a book on this recently Lx, it's called "Tumbleweed houses". It's mainly pictures but it's about this guy who built this little pocket house for himself when he decided that there is no need for some huge house. It became popular and people started asking him to build them one. The book is a collection of the different "tumbleweed houses", as he calls them, that he has built for others. Little houses about the size of an Rv, some of them mobile. Great for the bachelor that doesn't want to live in a trailer lol. It also came with instructions on how to build you own!

If anyone with some land wants a copy of the instructions for a fun side project (could make a nice guest house), let me know and i'll send me to you.

http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/books/

[lxskllr]

Yea dude! I was looking around the site a year or 2 ago. I got linked there from an article some place on small houses. Very cool little houses. I'd totaly live in one of them :^)

[Roo]

Yurts are great. I got to sleep in and hang out in a few in Mongolia (they call them gers and they hate the Russian word yurt). They are amazingly weather-proof, sturdy, portable, and spacious. Just don't stand in the doorway -- Chinggis Khan's army would slaughter anyone outside or in the doorway of a ger, but usually not bother checking inside them all as they pillaged their way through the Steppe. Mongolians are very superstitious, and to this day they get really nervous if you stand in or lean against a doorway, even if they live in a house. Fun fact eh? Not really.

Gregerson if leaving your cute wife in the Bay Area this weekend and flying to Seattle to bang my 62 year old mother sounds appealing to you, I'll be on the next flight to SFO. Your wife still writes me the dirtiest letters dude, I mean she gets downright filthy, and I've been waiting for a chance to get back down there.