Thinking Of Retiring?

My dad received one of those information pamphlets in the mail from the social security administration.  As we’re all sitting at the table eating dinner, he’s reading the pamphlet, then he starts reading it aloud:

“If you retire early, you may not have enough income to enjoy the years ahead of you.  Likewise, if you retire late, you’ll have a larger income, but fewer years to enjoy it…So do your patriotic duty and just die.”

I nearly choked on spaghetti.  People wonder where I get my morbid sense of humor and all I can do is point at my dad and laugh.

Red, White, and Blues

But It Is Patriotism

Image by B Tal via Flickr

It seems that every time some sort of American holiday is close by on the calendar (Memorial Day, Independence Day, Veteran’s Day) stories about people being asked to remove the American flag begin popping up in conservative media outlets.  This is the most recent one that I’ve seen:

Colorado Student Says He Was Told to Remove U.S. Flags

If someone ever asked me to take down my American flag, I’d ask them for their green card.

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