Etc.

While there are people who whine about their taxes going up and crying poverty because they "earn" "only" two million a year, there are people trying to get by who live on NOTHING a nothing?

What about those who still can't find any kind of work or are underemployed like yours truly who have long since exhausted ALL unemployment benefits?
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What an idiot.

First of all, Social Security isn't part of the deficit, and number two, the federal government by definition can't ever be "insolvent."

What a maroon.
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Obituary: Actor Harry Carey, Jr., 91, has died of natural causes:

Carey's career spanned more than 50 years and included such John Ford classics as "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon," ''The Searchers" and "The Long Gray Line." Later in life, he appeared in the movies "Gremlins" and "Back to the Future Part III."

His memoir, "Company of Heroes: My Life as an Actor in the John Ford Stock Company," was published in 1994.

While he lacked the leading-man stature of longtime friend and co-star John Wayne, Carey's boyish looks and horse-riding skills earned him roles in many of Ford's films.

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Biologist Rita Levi-Montalcini, 103, has died:

Her family decided to stay in Italy and, as World War II neared, Levi-Montalcini created a makeshift lab in her bedroom where she began studying the development of chicken embryos, which would later lead to her major discovery of mechanisms that regulate growth of cells and organs.

With eggs becoming a rarity due to the war, the young scientist biked around the countryside to buy them from farmers. She was soon joined in her secret research by Levi, her university mentor, who was also Jewish and who became her assistant.

"She worked in primitive conditions," Italian astrophysicist Margherita Hack told Sky TG24 TV in a tribute to her fellow scientist. "She is really someone to be admired."

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Hillary Clinton is again in the hospital, this time for a blood clot:

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was hospitalized in New York on Sunday after doctors monitoring her recovery from a concussion discovered a blood clot, according to a statement from her office.

The statement said that “in the course of a follow-up exam, Secretary Clinton’s doctors discovered a blood clot had formed, stemming from the concussion she sustained several weeks ago. She is being treated with anti-coagulants and is at New York-Presbyterian Hospital so that they can monitor the medication over the next 48 hours.

“Her doctors will continue to assess her condition, including other issues associated with her concussion. They will determine if any further action is required.”

The wingnuts are having a field day thinking she is faking this thing to avoid questions regarding Benghazi.