Holiday Inn for retirement!

Where to live when you retire!!!

No NURSING HOME FOR me!!!





No nursing home for us. We'll be checking into a Holiday Inn!



With the average cost for a nursing home care costing $188.00 per day, there is a better way when we get old and too feeble.

I've already checked on reservations at the Holiday Inn.



For a combined long term stay discount and senior discount, it's $59.23 per night.



Breakfast is included, and some have happy hours in the afternoon.



That leaves $128.77 a day for lunch and dinner in any restaurant we want, or room service, laundry, gratuities and special TV movies.



Plus, they provide a spa, swimming pool, a workout room, a lounge and washer-dryer, etc.



Most have free toothpaste and razors, and all have free shampoo and soap.


$5 worth of tips a day you'll have the entire staff scrambling to help you.



They treat you like a customer, not a patient.



There's a city bus stop out front, and seniors ride free.



The handicap bus will also pick you up (if you fake a decent limp).



To meet other nice people, call a church bus on Sundays.



For a change of scenery, take the airport shuttle bus and eat at one of the nice restaurants there.



While you're at the airport, fly somewhere. Otherwise, the cash keeps building up.



It takes months to get into decent nursing homes. Holiday Inn will take your reservation today.



And you're not stuck in one place forever -- you can move from Inn to Inn, or even from city to city.



Want to see Hawaii ? They have Holiday Inn there too.



TV broken? Light bulbs need changing? Need a mattress replaced? No problem.. They fix everything, and apologize for the inconvenience.



The Inn has a night security person and daily room service. The maid checks to see if you are ok. If not, they'll call an ambulance . .. or the undertaker.



If you fall and break a hip, Medicare will pay for the hip, and Holiday Inn will upgrade you to a suite for the rest of your life.



And no worries about visits from family. They will always be glad to find you, and probably check in for a few days mini-vacation.


The grandkids can use the pool.



What more could I ask for?

Hat tip to Mike L!

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper

 “It’s the presumption that Obama knows how all these industries ought to be operating better than people who have spent their lives in those industries, and a general cockiness going back to before he was president, and the fact that he has no experience whatever in managing anything. Only someone who has never had the responsibility for managing anything could believe he could manage just about everything.” - Thomas Sowell in Reason Magazine

Cute

Hat tip to Austin!

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper

“It’s the presumption that Obama knows how all these industries ought to be operating better than people who have spent their lives in those industries, and a general cockiness going back to before he was president, and the fact that he has no experience whatever in managing anything. Only someone who has never had the responsibility for managing anything could believe he could manage just about everything.” - Thomas Sowell in Reason Magazine

Allen West For Vice President

This speech says all you need to know about why he should be the Republican nominee for Vice President.

Link

And after two terms he would be ready to be President.


"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper

 “It’s the presumption that Obama knows how all these industries ought to be operating better than people who have spent their lives in those industries, and a general cockiness going back to before he was president, and the fact that he has no experience whatever in managing anything. Only someone who has never had the responsibility for managing anything could believe he could manage just about everything.” - Thomas Sowell in Reason Magazine

WHAT AISLE IS THE POLISH SAUSAGE ON?

Everyone seems to be in such a hurry to scream 'racism' these days.



A customer asked, "In what aisle could I find the Polish sausage?"



The clerk asks, "Are you Polish?"



The guy, clearly offended, says, "Yes I am. But let me ask you something.



"If I had asked for Italian sausage, would you ask me if I was Italian?



Or if I had asked for German Bratwurst, would you ask me if I was German?



Or if I asked for a kosher hot dog would you ask me if I was Jewish?



Or if I had asked for a Taco, would you ask if I was Mexican?



Or if I asked for some Irish whiskey, would you ask if I was Irish?"



The clerk says, "No, I probably wouldn't."



The guy says, "Because I asked for Polish sausage, why did you ask me if I'm Polish?"



"The clerk replied, "Because you're in Home Depot."


Hat tip to Mike L!

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper

“It’s the presumption that Obama knows how all these industries ought to be operating better than people who have spent their lives in those industries, and a general cockiness going back to before he was president, and the fact that he has no experience whatever in managing anything. Only someone who has never had the responsibility for managing anything could believe he could manage just about everything.” - Thomas Sowell in Reason Magazine

Ask a stupid question

You gotta absolutely love this.

Not long after North Carolina State lost to rival North Carolina for the 11th straight time on Thursday night, reporters asked junior forward Scott Wood how frustrating it was to have never beaten the Tar Heels.



Wood's response was brilliant in its simplicity.


"Has your wife ever cheated on you?" Wood deadpanned in response.


Then after a few seconds of the most awkward silence imaginable, he responded, "that's probably how frustrating it is."


"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper

“It’s the presumption that Obama knows how all these industries ought to be operating better than people who have spent their lives in those industries, and a general cockiness going back to before he was president, and the fact that he has no experience whatever in managing anything. Only someone who has never had the responsibility for managing anything could believe he could manage just about everything.” - Thomas Sowell in Reason Magazine

Deep thoughts

One of the major problems of the Left is that it fails to understand the difference between building infrastructure, which the government does well and technology birthing which the government can sometimes do well and picking what companies to support which is known as crony capitalism and as Solyndra showed, the government is lousy at.


Notice that I moved from the affirmative “does” to the possible “can” to “the government is lousy at.”

I note the Internet. Government sponsored much of the early research in the name of national defense. (I guess all you peaceniks didn't like that!) Government was also instrumental in establishing worldwide standards and protocols.

At that point private industry took over... you may have heard of IBM, Microsoft and Apple (among others) to develop hardware and software that did what people wanted.

The next question was, how do we connect all these computers to each other?? Again private industry took over and developed SONET lightwave transport, DWDM systems and fiber optic cable to carry the signals. You may have heard of ATT, ITT, Northern Telecom (Nortel) and Cienna among others. Then we had the local telephone companies, GTE, Continental, PTI, Century, Ma Bell and the inter city transport companies, Level 3, Quest, ATT also among others.

At the same time the government expanded their previous deregulation of the network with the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and there was an explosion of capability and capacity and a lowering of prices unprecedented in the modern world.

The Internet, made possible by Government assistance, was made affordable by private industry. Many companies were started. Many failed. But the market was successful in allocating enough money to allow enough companies to succeed that I now can get local voice service, long distance voice service and 1.5 MB high speed Internet service for around $65/month all delivered over one wire into my home. If I want it I can get 200 or so TV channels via cable or beamed to me from space for an additional $75/month or so. And in many places that has become part of the same wire that has phone service.

At one time we had one TV in the living room, den as we moved up the economic ladder, with first two and later 4 channels. The medium was the message and no one thought of challenging the words of someone speaking to us over such a magic device. But more channels brought more opinions and we are now all “Commentators.” We now have four small sets in various rooms plus a 52 inch screen in the den. My wife likes Fox and watching houses being renovated. I prefer Turner Classic Movies.

We occasionally meet in the kitchen or, in the case of the Vols being on TV, the den.

Cellphone service was also impacted because if you could set at your desk and talk to the world... Then you needed to be able to talk to your customers while waiting to board a flight at the airport. And as technology expanded, you also needed Internet access. My Grandson, and millions like him, talk, text and surf the net from an instrument that has a thousand times more memory than the first computer I had or the telephone switching systems we sold.

The other day we were having lunch at the local Perkins. A few tables over was a family of four, all with their cell phones, all silently texting or playing games. If that is the new nuclear family then the atom will soon be split.

Do we communicate because we exist? Or do we exist because we communicate? As all new husbands and wives soon understand, there are things we shouldn't know about each other. A bit of mystery enhances the dream. But no matter. We are here and if an old man worries about what we will become he can be happy knowing that there is less hunger and disease than when he started the trip.

Was getting here sometimes painful? Yes. When cartographers in medieval times came to the end of the world they knew they would write on the unknown lands, “Here there be Dragons.” Of course there were no dragons but the world changed and some people became rich and successful. Others died in the attempt. It was an uncertain time but the result was a better world with more freedom and more wealth for more people than those explorers gazing at the maps with “Here there be Dragons” written across their destination could ever dream of.

We are making a new jump. One that may well be as vast as anything we’ve yet done.

Some have became just successful. Some people lost nice secure jobs and they didn't make the leap.

The question becomes, what do we do to help those who didn't succeed? And that is the issue that now is dividing us as a country.






"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper

“It’s the presumption that Obama knows how all these industries ought to be operating better than people who have spent their lives in those industries, and a general cockiness going back to before he was president, and the fact that he has no experience whatever in managing anything. Only someone who has never had the responsibility for managing anything could believe he could manage just about everything.” - Thomas Sowell in Reason Magazine

Subscription Poker

I kept seeing ads on TV for ClubWPT, a subscription site that will let you play poker for prizes and entries into various WPT tournaments. It’s all legal and for only $19.95 a month.




Not a bad price, so I joined.



But it ain’t poker. The tournaments are mostly based on a $1000 stack with short intervals and very fast play. In other words the action is forced. Get lucky immediately or you’re dead meat.



So if you want a time killer in which you might get lucky it is not a bad deal. If you want to play in a game that is closer to what you will find in live tournaments, ClubWPT isn’t the answer.



But, until the Feds figure out that legalizing poker would be great for the players and a huge revenue source it’s about the best around.




"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper

 “It’s the presumption that Obama knows how all these industries ought to be operating better than people who have spent their lives in those industries, and a general cockiness going back to before he was president, and the fact that he has no experience whatever in managing anything. Only someone who has never had the responsibility for managing anything could believe he could manage just about everything.” - Thomas Sowell in Reason Magazine