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Retirement. This is the golden period of a lifetime of hard work, when one can actually enjoy a few of life's comforts without the confines of everyday work. It is a period celebrated by society.  It is a time of a few good years before death.  You are out of the game, having done what you have done, having said what could be said, and having lived in the active world swirling about you.  It is not a time for youth, just beginning their venture. Yet, many young folks live a portion of the retirement live - the relaxing and doing little but without reflection and with few memories, without goals and without drive.  Text-ing and Twitter-ing do not make a life, past or present, and never will. Current Legislation.  It was considered landmark legislation when a bill was passed and signed to allow the FAA to move around money to avert serious airport delays owing to traffic controller furloughs.   While Congress was giving itself high-fives on a job well done, t he United States cit

One must wonder that Andrew Jackson ascended to the highest office in American politics.  His beginning was inauspicious.  Fatherless before birth, and motherless as an early teen, he fought his way though life as that was his personal mission. He was by almost all accounts a wild and resolute boy and then man.  He gave stubborn people an icon for a model.  He put his life at risk, even as a teen, to protect lives of the rebellious soldiers.  He did this even to the distraction of his own well being.  He stood on principles, the likes of which would condemn him as an abject scoundrel today. He fought duels when personally challenged.  He endured gossip and condemnation when he "married" his wife Rachel.  Yet, he studied law and eventually could make a legal argument, though as some said, he argued mostly with passion, and not with legal precision.  It seems his new wife, Rachel, exacted upon him a vision for life. Though they spent many years apart, mostly due to his pub