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http://boomersberg.com/baby-boomer-retirement-planning-is-in-constant-change/ Also I have added a newspaper compilation to boomersberg.com of who I follow on Twitter "The Snarky Boomer Express".  Look for a page in menu of Boomer helpful links. These are sites on the net that address baby boomer interests. Adding more as I come across good ones.  Trying to make it easier to navigate through the blog posts by having similar post links after each new post. If you use Firefox, IE, Safari (not Chrome) you are able to highlight words or phrases that will search the net for more info in a pop up window while you stay on the blog.  Helps you to learn more. Say you want to know more about Betty Friedan, you highlight her name and information about her will come up.  Also have a contact me form now up in menu. Thanks for following my blog and just because I went to my own domain, you know you are just as welcome on boomersberg as here (really more so) as I make my investm...

  This article is posted on the boomersberg.com   blog and all future posts will have a link to it.  http://boomersberg.com/baby-boomers-depressed-overweight-combo-can-i-super-size-that/ Please follow me there as I am adding more as fast as the brain will allow.  Everyday is a learning curve as I try to do this solo and learn from articles and postings on the internet. My relationship with my blog: It’s complicated .

Betty Friedan, Legacy -In 1966, Friedan founded and was elected the first president of the National Organization for Women, which aimed to bring women "into the mainstream of American society now [in] fully equal partnership with men ". Warren Jeffs, Legacy In 2003, author Jon Krakauer published Under the Banner of Heaven , a nonfiction book that explores some of the history of both the LDS church and its spin-off sects, focusing largely on the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The book describes illegal activity in the (Fundamentalist) Church, mainly polygyny, statutory rape, murder, and rape. Escape by Carolyn Jessop with Laura Palmer is a personal account of the deterioration of human rights (especially women's and children's rights) and institutionalized abuse in the FLDS organization under Warren Jeffs' leadership. Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall with Lisa Pulitzer is an autobiography about a girl inside the F...

In a previous blog post Will boomers ever admit their to blame .  Today I picked up this off the net   Showing no empathy Quote from the article: The lack of empathy for others confirms what psychologists have reported about the implications of baby boomers treating their kids like royalty, raising them to think about themselves and their success above anything else. In The Narcissism Epidemic . Baby boomers have destroyed every cultural institution in America they have touched: marriage, family, public education, government, financial markets, healthcare, and more, say some critics, whose views may be supported by a Personality and Social Psychology Review study.  Read more: Baby Boomers lack empathy, ability to care . When I first saw the title of the blog article above, Baby Boomers lack empathy , ability to care, of course I was curious as to what it had to say.  Then as I am reading the article it goes on about how we (boomers) have created all the ...

Korean baby boomer delima   This was enlightening for me on at least two fronts. 1. We are not the only country with “Boomer Problems” near retirement and 2. as quoted from the article “The ministry this year launched a pilot program that offers “civic engagement jobs” such as managers or advisors at welfare facilities and mentors for young students to former salaried workers.” It is a Korean problem and they are taking steps to address it, it is called being proactive .  I commented earlier today on another blog about our current countries financial woes that the focus needs to be on education and training.  Those on any subsidized program should be enrolled in SOME KIND OF EDUCATIONAL, TRAINING/RETRAINING PROGRAM .  If you get money from anything other than a job it should be mandatory that you are taking some classes or retraining program.  Those hiring, need incentives to take a person in for mentoring or job skill training.  Only the most severely ph...

USA today discouraged workers Quote from article: It's a product of something the government calls "discouraged workers," or those who were unemployed but not out looking for work during the reporting period.  Word for the Day-Week- Month- Next two years - Discouraged- Merriam Webster online definition- : to deprive of courage or confidence : dishearten <was discouraged by repeated failure> Another dirty little secret that is a part of the jobless stats is ageism.  As the numbers continue to stay high, those that are hiring, get to pick from the best of the best.  Like grading a young bull, the owner looks at the characteristics of the bull to determine whether he will remain a bull (get the job) or become a steer (stay unemployed). For those of us not blessed with the “optimism gene”, the current daily dose of bad news makes for extra effort to smile and put one foot in front of the other. I take extra b12 just so I will have energy enough to thin...

Intelligence Lost: The Boomers Are Exiting - BusinessWeek . The author goes on to give eight steps to ensure that boomer retirement doesn't leave a knowledge vacuum On the top of my resume' was a quote "Experience that works".  Alas, living in a small town and the current job market   only served to fuel my frustration.  That’s another blog already covered http://goo.gl/IwiBr   Boomers are retiring. Years of hard data and soft know-how  is preparing to leave your organization. Are you prepared to avoid the vacuum? – stated in article In my humble opinion (uuhhmm, clearing of throat) the vast majority of boomers have been devalued by the younger generation for the most part.  The soft know-how mentioned above is something that is either intuitive or takes years of practice.  I understand that computers, data, technical knowledge is fueling the future, I use and appreciate the advances made.  The things we do not learn from previou...

  gulfnews : Will Boomers ever admit to being wrong? .  I picked this up off the net and actually had seen other articles over the last week having a similar theme.  Obama blames Bush, left blames right, conservative blames liberal, Democrat blames Republican. Now, we have a generational blame. OMG – stop it already!!!  Stop wasting ink, breath and energy blaming and come up with a plan, a solution!  We could just as easily be faced with an asteroid strike or mega sun spots or any number of events way beyond anyone’s control. This is not a kiss the babies and huddle in prayer event.  All we need right now is intelligent leadership. Leadership that has not and will not sell out to votes or money. I guess that is too much to ask. Again, I am just a dream’n old hippy, hoping the knight will come by to slay the Hydra Monster.  The above issue of generation blame is not new, it was certainly a staple of my generation. My recent post as reference. “Wild ...

I have to share this with my boomer friends.  Courtesy of Brian Gore http://youtu.be/UXIZmAlWeOw Please click on the link for a treat of riding through Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming. His description of himself: Decrepit, cranky Ol' Motorcycle Ridin' Cowboy... If it's got more than two wheels... it's a cage. I write two websites: www.rv-boondocking-the-good-life.com and www.motorcycle-touring-the-good-life.com Working at completing a couple of Western Fiction 'Novels'... have a lust for wandering... and a greater lust for Splitting the wind on two wheels...

http://activeemptynesters.com/blog/regrets-of-the-dying/ I share this with Boomersberg.com boomers- this is a great post (no need to mess with perfection) and the site is another great boomer support site.  I like the social network feel and extras that are a part of the site.  A lot more is planned for the future as I understand from the Author.  Come on boomers, let's use these places that invite us, therefore we don't have to infringe on the youngsters.  I have started a group called "Pink Slipped Boomers" http://activeemptynesters.com Just another day floating on my berg.  See you in cyber space friend.