STAND WITH RAND. In 2012, was it 'sit with Mitt'?

A QUICK JOURNEY through the valley of the shadow of gun control.

DAILY KOS CAN'T DO MATH. Or can't read, I'm not quite sure which. In a post keying on the Social Security debate, diarist Joan McCarter makes this claim:

[Caremark CEO Larry] Merlo has a retirement fund of $46 million, and if he invested that in an annuity starting at age 65, he'd get $263,169 a month for life. If he took Social Security, too, he'd get $267,445 a month.

The figure $263,169 is a bit high, but roughly on the mark, since a single-life annuity at age 65 generally pays between 6% and 6.2%. But the Social Security amount, $4,276 [$267,445-$263,169] is wildly off the mark, since as a simple Google search will show, the maximum Social Security benefit payable to anyone retiring at age 65 in 2013 is $2,513/month. It's also taxable.

Time for the Kos Kidz to go back to school.

JUST ANOTHER AIRPLANE JOKE:

An airplane was about to crash; there were 5 passengers on board, but only 4 parachutes.

The first passenger, Holly Madison said, "I have my own reality show and I am the smartest and prettiest woman at Playboy, so Americans don't want me to die." She took the first
pack and jumped out of the plane.

The second passenger, John McCain, said, "I'm a Senator, and a decorated war hero from an elite Navy unit from the United States of America ." So he grabbed the second pack and jumped.

The third passenger, Barack Obama said, "I am the President of the United States and I am the smartest ever in the history of our country, some even call me the 'Anointed One.'" So he grabbed the pack next to him and jumped out.

The fourth passenger, Billy Graham said to the fifth passenger, a 10-year-old schoolgirl, "I have lived a full life and served my God the best I could. I will sacrifice my life and let you have the last parachute."

The little girl said, "That's okay, Mr. Graham. There's a parachute left for you. America 's smartest President took my schoolbag."

America's smartest. Yes.

SARAH PALIN sends not-so-secret coded message to Michael Bloomberg.



Here's her address to CPAC:

OBAMA FLIES AIR FORCE ONE to Chicago to deliver a speech about saving fuel.

BILL O'REILLY: How the Feds Are Conning You. O'Reilly thinks a robo-squirrel should be the new symbol of the Democrat Party. I think it should be a vulture, since vultures feed primarily on the (brain) dead.

THE NUMBER ONE RULE FOR SURVIVAL, for vulture capitalists and politicians alike, is: Don’t kill the host. At least not until you've sucked it dry. Then seek a new host.

FINALLY! Spring sprang.





The trees haven't started to bud, though.

I MIGHT BE INTERESTED if investors are allowed to retire and live aboard.

SENIORS: be rich or be dead. More at John Goodman's Townhall column.

AT SOME POINT, you have to ask whether sending your kids to a government school not only puts them at risk of a substandard education, but also is a form of child abuse. Many of us are asking.

I'm close to the point of offering to pay the tuition if my children will send their children to private schools

COLORADO (inadvertently?) bans all semiautomatic handguns.

MICHAEL MOORE is an ass for proposing the Newtown crime scene photos be published. But it's not news that he's an ass. This is:

I suggest that, rather than releasing the pictures of slaughtered children ... he should release a naked photograph of himself.

Because, by his rationale ... a full view of his obese torso could motivate people to stop drugging themselves with copious amounts of food and might put an end to a fair amount of heart disease.

A mere photograph of him fully clothed is enough to make me rethink the cookie jar....