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Creating a new blog

The kids are looking to create a new blog.

Long Day

We spent the day, almost all the day, in the car. It is usually 2 days. It usually takes 10 hours from Pittsburgh to St. Louis. Between a couple of long lunch/dinner breaks and an enormous traffic jam outside Indianapolis it took

Longer hours in school

Got a letter in the Christian Science Monitor.

Harold Ford Jr. doesn't take a good idea far enough

Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford Jr. has a good idea, to let younger citizens know that they will not get Social Security. But it obviously must go further. A politically and financially digestible solution would be to first create different levels of payouts depending on age. The first step would be to take the benefit of a 65 year old and divide it by the average amount of years worked. Say around 45 years. Recipients that are 65 and above would keep their benefits at the current level and they would adjust for inflation. Those that are 64 would get most of their benefits minus about one years worth. As the age drops the benefits get lower and lower until you hit about age 20 when the benefits stop entirely. If done in this fashion the older folks that are heavily dependant on Social Security would not vote against this because it doesn't hurt them. Those that are older but not yet retried should be able to accept this because they are only hurt a little bit and they have more time to save.Let's not forget Medicare. Benefits must also be frozen dollar wise and reduced in the same fashion.

Cheney Shoots Fellow Hunter in Mishap on a Texas Ranch - New York Times

Dick Cheney bypasses congress and takes on tort reform...one lawyer at a time.

The Onion | Nancy Grace Reports Own Mind Now Missing For 83 Days

I know that this is a big thing to say, considering the sheer vastness of bad television that has spanned the last 50 years, but Nancy Grace, or whatever the name of her show is, is the worst TV show ever.