A friend who optimistically believes every cloud has a silver lining hopes the tragedy at Fort Hood was merely the work of a volunteer in the Insane Clown Army and not a terrorist attack on an American army base in our supposedly safe homeland.

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Jay's parents have gotten quite, uh, spendy with their retirement income, and now they've got a lot of debt they can't pay off.

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They were the first to enjoy free health care, and had the time of their lives in the Swinging Sixties. But the post-war 'baby boomers' are now paying the price. Today's 60-year-olds are the first modern generation to be less healthy than their immediate predecessors.

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It appears that President Obama is doing everything in his power to enforce laws against the majority of Americans.

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For now, there is little reason to think the Republicans are on the verge of a Clinton-like reform. But it is hard to see how they can ultimately stick to their current platform. At some point, the government will have to figure out how to pay for the baby boomers' retirement.

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To kick the can down the road a little longer, the government desperately needs huge new sources of revenue.

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Facebook's user base is nearly as large as the U.S. population and, for the first time, the site has turned a profit.

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Baby Boomers Finally Achieve Their Potential

I am a baby boomer. I really embraced the values of the late '60's - peace, sharing, living within our means, rejecting the advertising hype that tried to dictate who we were.

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No Economic Recovery in Sight: More Financial Chaos Ahead By Bob Chapman, The International Forecaster (reposted on DProgram.net)

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I happen to be a "Baby Boomer" and a viet nam veteran. I don't get high so much as before, but I do need pain meds. I know I'm hooked on prescription pain killers. I can't change that, because every time I beat the addiction, I find it very hard to walk and stand or sit.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Baby boomers, now well into middle age, are still turning on to illegal drugs, doubling the rates of illicit drug use for the older generation, according to U.S. government statistics released on Wednesday.

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Boomers, don't go quietly into the dark night

Baby Boomers, I am younger than you but have watched you all my life. I saw you fight the corporate oppression of Nixon, the death trap of the Vietnam War, I saw you fight against the very notion of greed and money and excess materialism. Some say you didn't win in that fight.

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When it happens to Democrats, it's something different: A threat to democracy, a sign of incipient fascism, and an opportunity to set up a (possibly illegal) White House "snitch line" where people are encouraged to report "fishy" statements to the authorities.

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"Sex bans in nursing homes: Is it proper, or even legal, to keep intimacy off-limits in nursing homes?"

Psychologist Ira Rosofsky, the author of "Nasty, Brutish, and Long: Adventures in Old Age and the World of Eldercare," has an excellent editorial with this title in today's L A Times.

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Some Nostalgic Baby Boomers Annoy Me

I just finished reading an article on Newsvine by Just Neli titled, "The America I Used to Know," and it got me to thinking. Seems to me there are two distinct groups of baby boomers that look back at the past with nostalgia but for different reasons.

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It is likely the strength of the future USA will bubble up from the kind of diversity the article discusses.

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his one's going to blow baby boomers' minds. It concerns a little-known law dating to Elizabethan England suddenly being enforced with gusto in Pennsylvania. The law can force adult children to pay their parents' health-care costs.

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But if the largest cohort of consumers cuts down on its spending and borrowing, what does it mean for aggregate spending and economic growth? It can only mean slower overall economic growth and some painful economic adjustments.

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Echo boomers to save the day? Who knew!

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Break Out Your Bell Bottoms and Ear Plugs: Baby Boomer Summer Music in Boston

It'll be like you're back in your dorm room at BU or Emerson, or maybe "My Old School" (Northeastern) this summer, only instead of listening to your newly cleaned (with Discwasher) vinyl LPs on your quadraphonic system, you'll be seeing the musicians live.

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When I chose to start a business in the music industry I had to ask myself how do I go from a career in trucks, planes and ships to the arts. John Nelson, co-author of the seminal book, "What Color Is Your Parachute" offers suggestions about how to make this type of transition.

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excerpt: ""Reporting from Washington -- Instead of seeing older workers staying on the job longer as the economy has worsened, the Social Security system is reporting a major surge in early retirement claims that could have implications for the financial security of millions of  …

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Gallup released an interesting report and accompanying chart showing party identification by age. At every age, more people currently identify themselves as Democrats than Republicans.

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Don't be blinded by the glint of optimism in headlines about rising consumer confidence and slowing price declines. Demographic and market realities tell a more sobering story.

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... many of us of a certain age have had a great deal of difficulty with the concept of getting older.

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