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Over the Hills: Fight at the Party

GiggleSugar — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:00:00 -0700

I can only imagine what is going through the heads of these seniors as they recite - verbatim - lines from the Shakespearean show The Hills. Here's a thought: "The Golden Girls could kick their asses!" (Every time I see "Les Deux" I hear one of these Hollywood brats saying "Les Duh!" You know that's how they pronounce it.)

Front Page: Thousands of Troops Quietly Sent to Afghanistan

TresSugar — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:00:25 -0700

Peace activists are not happy to know that President Obama has quietly sent 34,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. That's 13,000 more than he said would go in March. - Washington Post
Governor Schwarzenegger has signed tough antipaparazzi legislation into law in California. - AP
Bernie Madoff got in a prison brawl with another senior-citizen inmate. They were fighting about the stock market. - New York Post
The Senate Finance Committee is set to vote on a crucial healthcare reform bill today. - AP
Joe Lieberman might help the White House repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell with bipartisan support. Lieberman has opposed the policy since it was introduced in 1993. - The Advocate

The Senior Citizen Shake

GiggleSugar — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:00:00 -0800

They call themselves "Country Bernie and the Park Ridge Senior Stampede." I call them ahead of their time...but time flies when you're having fun and, uh, unfortunately their time has come and gone. But they still got some soul in their shake, no?

Week in Weird News: Wax Museum Might Be Stiffing GOP

CitizenSugar — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:00:39 -0700

Wax Museum Accused of Dissing GOP - Some Republicans have accused Madame Tussauds of playing favorites with the Democrats. Michelle Obama is only the third first lady to get a wax figure, the other two being Jackie Kennedy and Hillary Clinton.
Austrian Woman Fined For Calling Her Son Too Much - An Austrian court fined a 73-year-old woman $478 for stalking her son. She called him 49 times a day.
Environmental Office Pollutes Washington Creek - Sewage from Washington state's Department of Ecology regional offices have been polluting a creak near Vancouver Lake.
Liquor Store Offers Home Delivery - Hoping to boost business ChrisPy's liquor store will now offer home delivery for $5, and $2.50 for senior citizens. The owner will deliver your goods himself.
Police Chief Allegedly Tasers His Wife -A police chief in a Texas town has been arrested and charged with tasering his wife.
Obama Gets Mixed Up in Midwest Rivalry - President Obama upset Chicagoans when he called in a St. Louis pizza-maker to cook deep-dish pies for a White House pizza party last night.

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How to Help Meal Delivery Programs Hit by Food, Fuel Costs

CitizenSugar — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:30:23 -0700

It's easy to see the economic toll on food and fuel in our own everyday lives - but the effect is trickling down past commuters and bargain shoppers to silver citizens who rely on meal delivery programs to survive. Advocates for the elderly nationwide are concerned that many seniors are going or will go hungry soon - and blame the 20 percent increase in fuel and food prices over the past year, as well as leveling or reduced government subsidies and a failing economy.

According to the Meals on Wheels Association of America, nearly 60 percent of the 5,000 programs have lost volunteers, most of whom say they can no longer afford gas. This has resulted in the elimination or consolidation of entire routes and nearly 38 percent are now serving frozen instead of hot meals. Another 30 percent are reducing personal visits from five to one day per week. To see how some states are fighting back, and what you can do to help, read more.

In West Virginia, where nearly 15 percent of the population is above 60 years of age and more than two-thirds live in rural communities, lawmakers have furnished an extra $1 million to aid agencies with food and gas. Without this assistance, the West Virginia Bureau of Senior Services would be forced to eliminate nearly 113,000 meals and allow 100,000 fewer trips for doctors appointments.

Many states are facing similar hardships for the poor and elderly and in some cases like New York, they won’t be able to provide extra funding - forcing the city to cut back on services. Meetings are currently underway there to decide who will no longer receive meals and visits. In California, senior programs are facing a 10 percent cut in funding.

In the meantime, you can help a senior citizen continue to receive the food aid they need. Check out Meals on Wheels to find out how to how to donate your time, money, or start a new program of your own!

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Briefing Book! Vladimir Putin, the Sexy Black Belt Warrior?

CitizenSugar — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:30:40 -0700

Working Out: Vladimir Putin follows up his tiger wrestling performance with some flipping killer Judo moves. Be afraid. - Gawker

The Debate: Fake Undecideds? Are there audience plants to worry about in the town hall tonight? - Michelle Malkin
Senior Citizens: Don't speak to your elders like that! Treating seniors with respect includes how you talk to them. - Jezebel
Immigration: Federal agents catch 300 suspected illegal immigrants in a South Carolina raid. - Townhall
McCain Victory: Here's how McCain wins the presidency. - Politico
Scandals: Who has the hotter cast of scandalous characters? Ayers vs. Keating . . . - 23/6

Meet Japan's Oldest Porn Star!

GiggleSugar — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:00:00 -0700

For most senior citizens, retiring from your job means drifting into the sunset years by gardening, going on cruises, and hanging out with your grandchildren. Seventy-three-year-old Shigeo Tokuda, however, is not going gentle into the good night. He, dear readers, is an elderly porn star! His rep found that the older the stars were in the porn vids he distributed, the more vids they were selling. Even porn kings in the porn mecca of Los Angeles want to get in on the (senior) action. Tokuda's wife and daughter support his career - they just don't wanna know the details. I feel the same way!

McCain Attends 50th Reunion and My Exclusive Age Research

CitizenSugar — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:00:35 -0700

John McCain is heading to the Naval Academy for his 50th class reunion this weekend. By that complicated math, you can figure it means he graduated in 1958. McCain will definitely be attending the football game this afternoon between Navy and Rutgers.

The pending reunion and longtime, er, awareness of McCain's age led me to conduct a highly scientific opinion poll of his relative fitness to serve among those who might best know: my grandpa's table mates at his retirement home. To see the pretty surprising results of this survey over soup, read more.

Of the five senior citizens assembled, three men and two women, the youngest was 85 years old, the oldest was 91. When asked the question, "Is John McCain too old to be president?" the answer split evenly on gender lines. Both women said that yes, in their opinion 72 was too old to be starting a first term as president. Specifying the first term keeps Ronald Reagan in mind, presumably, who was 72 when campaigning for his second term.

The men saw it entirely differently. To them, 72 was just a "young man," and given his time as a POW, they felt he had more than proved his physical rigor, making his health not a concern. Keeping in mind the youngest man in the survey was McCain's age 13 years ago, does their experience with the age - and how they've felt since - provide a convincing argument?

While you consider that, for the record and in the interest of scientific transparency, it was a survey over spaghetti, not soup . . .

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Big Night! The Candidate Service Forum and Palin's Interview

CitizenSugar — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:36:22 -0700

It was a night of embarrassing political-TV riches: Sarah Palin's much anticipated interview with Charlie Gibson and the McCain/Obama Service Forum at Columbia University. Oh, where to start? Let's say ladies first (can we say that?) Sarah Palin's interview is being sliced and diced everywhere, from your comments, to comparing her environmental statements then and now, to giving her an overall thumbs up for looking, "resolute, confident, and in command of the subject matter."

Though Gibson was hand-selected to be the first to have a crack at grilling Palin, he didn't hold back in variety of subject. From the Bush Doctrine to invading Russia, it was all covered. When Gibson asked Palin if she hesitated over her level of experience when McCain asked her aboard the Straight Talk Express, Palin said:

I didn’t hesitate, no. . .I answered him yes, because I have the confidence in that readiness and knowing that you can’t blink, you have to be wired in a way of being so committed to the mission, the mission that we’re on, reform of this country and victory in the war, you can’t blink. So I didn’t blink then even when asked to run as his running mate.

If you missed the first batch, tonight's 20/20 has an hour-long special starting at 10 p.m.

And what were the candidates up to? A back-to-back forum on public service at Columbia University. How did it go? I'll tell you both sides, but let's just say I changed my email "status" message to "John McCain gives good forum." To see the scoop, read more.

Sitting down, much in the fashion of the Saddleback Forum last month, the two candidates answered questions on service in front of a 1,000 member audience that included students, celebrities, relatives of 9/11 victims and Joe Biden.

John McCain used the opportunity to lament how different the campaign could have been if he and Obama were traveling together, doing a series of town halls. After frank talk about his relationship with service and the draft, McCain said:

Volunteer organizations that are completely separate from the government - have nothing to do with the government - are amongst the most successful. So let's not get entrapped by the idea that the government has to run these voluntary organizations.

Obama came through with specifics saying:

I believe firmly that government should expand the avenues of opportunity. I want to create an energy corps, a clean energy corps that can mobilize individual citizens to help create greater energy efficiency in our country. I want to mobilize seniors to get involved with their schools or local hospitals and health clinics. There's going to be a whole range of ways to do it. Some of it is going to cost money, but mostly it requires government providing these opportunities and avenues.

Did you catch either TV event? What did you think?

Briefing Book! What's Happening at the RNC Day Three

LibertySugar — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:30:00 -0700

RNC Tonight: Out with the old in with the new? Huckabee, Romney, Giuliani to speak before Palin; Tom Ridge to nominate McCain. -Human Events
Palin: It's abortion, stupid? Palin reignites culture wars. - Politico
Fox: Fox and Friends? Obama and Fox News make up. - Radar
Public Transportation: The bus isn't free? NYC officials to come down on bus hopping, a practice popular among senior citizens. - Gothamist

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