[CindyDawg]

The entire day has been weird. We have 2 missing journalists no one is talking about, dogs sniffing out explosives in Washington that they aren't finding, a woman who is either a terrorist with Vaseline, a screw driver, matches etc or a claustrophobic journalist running down the aisles yelling something about Pakistan. An official says the matches are allowed....What else.. Oh yeah. They are still buying cell phones . LE lets them go but the media calls them on their cell phone for an interview. Crazy stuff.

[Owen]

One thing worth mentioning. A new reality is unfolding in "normal American life" that we need to get used to, and that is people who live and work in very low cost countries. What is doing it is the elimination of defined benefit pensions.

This guy is not to retirement age, but because pension benefits are gone, there is no further point to working somewhere that the cost of living eats up income. In general, one's savings plus Soc. Sec. is the only way to retire in the future, and savings don't happen very easily in the US for the average person.

Point being, this guy living in Honduras and Thailand and wherever -- it need not be all lurid and negative. A lot of this is going on now and it's about money, not crime. It is even more common for retirees who don't discover the math until it slaps them in the face and they have to decide between living in Costa Rica or being a greeter at Walmart.

[mom4kittys]

You are so right. It has been bizarro world! I've been having to surf the net to scrape up anything I can to try and put these stories together. Usually I only depend on Fox and FR.

[stlnative]

Cell phones

See my posts on this thread...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685050/posts

why they are buying them is starting to come out now.

[Chena]

The entire day has been weird. We have 2 missing journalists no one is talking about, dogs sniffing out explosives in Washington that they aren't finding, a woman who is either a terrorist with Vaseline, a screw driver, matches etc or a claustrophobic journalist running down the aisles yelling something about Pakistan. An official says the matches are allowed....What else.. Oh yeah. They are still buying cell phones . LE lets them go but the media calls them on their cell phone for an interview. Crazy stuff.

You're Dawg-gone right! LOL! :)