accident at the nuclear waste facility in France<\/a>, my first thought was “accident my ass,” but then realized I was reacting they way our leaders and our ever-compliant media have been training us to react for the past ten years … terrorists!<\/p>\nI don’t know about you, but I’m ready for a little less police state and a lot more Live Free or Die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Oh lord, is it that time already?\u00a0 First the AARP membership, then the Social Security, now Medicare.\u00a0 My 65th birthday is rapidly approaching, and with it the transition from Tricare (the military’s medical insurance plan for retirees) to Medicare.\u00a0 Last month I applied for a Medicare card from the Social Security office.\u00a0 Today I drove […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7,64,16,2,22],"tags":[193,242,243,241,245,244],"class_list":["post-7478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-brother","category-culture","category-history","category-media","category-personal","category-terrorism","tag-193","tag-challenger-disaster","tag-jfk","tag-medicare","tag-mlk","tag-rfk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7482,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478\/revisions\/7482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Oh lord, is it that time already?\u00a0 First the AARP membership, then the Social Security, now Medicare.\u00a0 My 65th birthday is rapidly approaching, and with it the transition from Tricare (the military’s medical insurance plan for retirees) to Medicare.\u00a0 Last month I applied for a Medicare card from the Social Security office.\u00a0 Today I drove out to the air base to get a new ID card, one that makes me eligible for the military medical insurance supplement to Medicare.\u00a0 I’ll be a young and vigorous 64 for six more weeks … better enjoy it while it lasts.<\/p>\n