Okay, so I'm trying to join AARP online.

[charlyvi]

You go through the registration process, (God help me, I'm old enough to join AARP!) but anyway, on the last screen you check your info and press OK. A little message pops up saying it will take 20 or 30 seconds and not to press okay again. Well, I've been waiting about five minutes now, and it still hasn't taken the info. I have a broadband connection.

All I can say is there must be a shitload of people joining AARP today---Gee I wonder why?

How DARE they impugn the integrity of my parents and their generation. Hitler knew their wrath, now shrub/rove will know it!

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[OldLeftieLawyer]

1. Oh, hell, you've talked me into it

We're BOTH old enough to join AARP, and a friend of mine says their auto rental discounts are the best.

That doesn't ease my pain. Maybe it will help yours.

I spat on AARP when they rolled over and gave it up to Fuckface for his Medicare sack of shit. But, it would appear they've learned, and, when I saw on "Countdown" last night that the same people who came up with the Swift Boat Liars Who Hate John Kerry campaign have been hired to slime the AARP, I figured I'd better join, too.

Thanks for reminding me, fellow hippie-geezer. :hippie:

[murielm99]

2. I am talking to my husband this evening!

When we got old enough to join, I was in denial. I blew it off.

Then, I got mad about the Medicare stuff. Now we both have to join.

[charlyvi]

3. Bwhahahahahah!!!!

But we sure had alot of fun, huh? I wouldn't trade our time for the world. But now it's time to ease into AARP; however, let's not go gently into that good night! We never did, so why start now!

[OldLeftieLawyer]

6. Didn't we, though?

Wouldn't have missed it for the world. Not one second of it. Truly, "No Regrets."

Go gently?

Do you see the circumstances under which we're joining?

Gently.

GENTLY?????

Gently, my ass.

:grouphug:

[charlyvi]

8. Heh heh....Let me bring back some memories.....

RIGHT ON, OldLeftieLawyer! Power to the People! Damn, that felt good. Like dusting off an old piece of jewelry and discovering how priceless it is!

:hippie: :hippie:

[OldLeftieLawyer]

9. You know what's fun?

I'm a published novelist, and I'm currently working on a novel that takes me back to the late sixties, early seventies, having to do mostly with COINTELPRO, the Black Panthers, and some hippies who got involved in a murder case in 1972.

It's set in current time, though. It's about what happened to the hippies (hint: they're US).

I'm playing the music while I work, and I cannot tell you how absolutely brilliant it is to remember what it was like. But, you know, don't you?

You know what else?

It'll NEVER happen again. Just like the song. It will never happen again.

We were so lucky.................

[charlyvi]

12. Yep....

JFK, the Moon Walk (not Michael Jackson's), Viet Nam (terrible, terrible), Charlie Manson (sick, sick) and the MUSIC!---back when it was new, a breath of fresh air! Not background noise or golden oldies. For my first apartment, I had a stereo before I bought a refigerator or stove. The March on Washington, Woodstock, the Vietnam Moritorium, The Chicago Seven, and more MUSIC! No, I agree, it will never happen again.

By the way, I'm still waiting for AARP to take my info. Hell, I'll wait all day long.

PS...Good luck on your novel.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

22. I just joined

It took 15 seconds.

Here's their number, just in case: If you experience problems with these online membership pages, please call an AARP Representative at 1-800-303-4222, 7:00AM - 12 midnight (ET) Monday - Friday.

[ailsagirl]

46. Right ON, charlyvi!!!!!!!!!

Remember Woodstock (the movie)?? Hendrix playing "Star Spangled Banner?" Country Joe McDonald singing, "Fixing to Die Rag?"

Give me an F!!!!!!

[cheezus]

4. wow, if guys like you keep joining pretty soon it'll be NOPOOP

National Organization of Pissed-off Old People

[charlyvi]

5. Don't worry Cheezus....

You'll get there some day. (OMG, now I'm starting to sound like an old geezer!)

[OldLeftieLawyer]

7. Did you say

"Old"???

Huh?

DID YA?????????????

<slap>

Seasoned.

Mature. (Well, that might be a stretch.)

Experienced.

Yeah, that's it - we're experienced.

<short of breath, sitting down now>

[MsTryska]

10. Well Let me Introduce Y'all Old Folks to Cleita's blog

she set it up last night and we're working on digging up some dirt on the SwiftLiars latest front group:

http://angryoldpeople.blogspot.com/

I'm sure cleita will show up soon to explain her vision as well. :D

[charlyvi]

14. Thanks, MsTryska,

I think they bit off more that they realized, this time. Not only did they insult us, but they insulted our parents. God help 'em.

[napi21]

26. I think you're right!

Yesterday, I possted something similar to your statement. These Swift Boat phonies haven't a clue who they're dealing with. They actually believe they're going against an organization! They're wrong! The people that are members of that org. are a whole lot tougher, and can be a whole lot meaner than any org could hope to be.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

19. Hey! It's CLEITA'S BIRTHDAY TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CLEITA!!!!!

You're still jailbait.

:toast:

[MsTryska]

32. Well i'll be darned...

it is Cleita's birthday!

Happy Birthday Lady. :-)

[Cleita]

40. Thanks!

:toast:

[Cleita]

41. I don't know about vision, but I do want to expose them for

the snake oil salesmen that they are. Here's another post:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3161142

[LynneSin]

11. I think the AARP should have a giant march in Washington DC

Hell, I'd join them!

[charlyvi]

13. Oh, Honey, so would I.....

and believe me, us pissed off mature (I can't bring myself to say "old") folks know how to march. We spent our youth doing it!

[OldLeftieLawyer]

16. We invented it.

We just patterned ourselves on the crazed villagers in "Frankenstein."

<smirk>

[charlyvi]

21. Yep. Without the torches.

Well, mostly without the torches. Heh heh.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

23. heh heh heh

We carried lit things.

heh heh heh

[charlyvi]

25. Yeah.

And we're not talkin' BIC lighters.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

27. Isn't that annoying?

It's so shoddy and second-rate and unimaginative.

Of course, when you're stoned and you're at a Dylan concert, you don't feel the match burning your fingers.

Kids today. Such wusses....................;)

[charlyvi]

29. WOW.

You were conscious at a Dylan concert? You're my new hero, OldLeftieLawyer. Kudos.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

31. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

Oh, man, am I laughing ...................

You're wonderful..........

[karlrschneider]

33. I was ...well, semi-conscious at one in ~76? Norman, Oklahoma. All I

really remember is some young dude playing the fiddle so vigorously most of the horsehairs on his bow were broken, flailing about madly. Didn't stop him, though. :D

[charlyvi]

38. Are you sure that was part of the show?

You know how our consciousness was sometimes influenced by pharmaceutical or herbal ingestives. Oh hell, you know how fucked up we were on acid and weed. LOL

[karlrschneider]

42. Sorry to be so late replying...had things to see and people to do today!

:D

Yes, I'm VERY clear on that particular memory. Haha......
We weren't doing anything real heavy, just some Maui Wowie or maybe Acoulco Gold...well, some excellent smok. :-)

I have some pictures, I'll scan some of them & put on my little crap website when I have a few minutes.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

43. Influenced?

You should see what I married during that particular - ahem - stage of my evolution.

[oneold1-4u]

15. Been there nearly 20 years

And I have saved more on motels, auto rentals, auto insurance and medicines than the cost of membership. I only wish that at a certain age they would consider selling life memberships.
An old friend paid my first membership ($5) and said it would prove to be important. I really believe that today, even at more than double the cost.
When all this S___ hits the old proverbial fan, we are the ones who lived without "air conditioning". We also invented it and can teach others how to do it over, if necessary! AARP should help set up classes on rebuilding our nation after todays destructions come to an end! We cannot build anything on war and death and we are the living history of that fact.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

17. Amen, baby

I'm with you on that, and, by the way, thanks for everything you did for our generation.

:yourock:

[NewYorkerfromMass]

18. anyone 50 or older can join

and it only costs $12.50 per year.
http://www.aarp.org/membership/aarp/Articles/join.html
I have to wait a few more years.

[DebinTx]

20. Yep, turned 50 recently

and think it's time to join the mature crowd. Some people love AARP and some don't but I want to help them kick some Bush butt and take back our country.

[charlyvi]

24. Exactly.

I didn't agree with them on the catastrophic health care repeal back in the '80s; I didn't agree with them on the prescription drug benefit, but I will unite with them against the assault on Social Security. Once this battle is won, we can discuss our differences--and we WILL discuss them.

:grr:

[OldLeftieLawyer]

28. Do you realize........

..........we've just taken a step into our parents' roles?

Feels nice, doesn't it?

We're not gonna be as nice as they were, though.

Are we?

[charlyvi]

30. Hell no, OLL.

There are people in this country who are utterly helpless to defend themselves against the Bushie's assault on healthcare, education, and a modicum of financial security in their old age. Not everything comes down to profit and compound interest. I'm talking about the very young, the very old and the very sick. Of course, these Americans typically can't vote or have a difficult time believing in the power of their vote; but the power of the poor in history is awesome.

Will we be nice? With the country of our forefathers and mothers in the balance? Hell no.

[OKNancy]

34. You got me to finally do it

This whole thread made me decide to go ahead and join. I resisted more because it IS a step toward adulthood...lol.
Now both my mother and I are members at the same time. Weird.

[recovering democrat]

35. Feeling better!

Really enjoying these posts!

I joined and then "burned my AARP membership card" when they sold out on the prescription drug bill.

BUT this is the right thing to do. We can fight about our differences later - AARP needs to know how much this matters and continue their efforts on Social Security.

And AARP can only get better with a "mature" membership from among the DU community!

[coreystone]

36. The Insurance is underwritten by "The Hartford" and the rates are..

extremely low compared to "non-member" rates of anybody that I have been in contact with. I have a renters policy and reasonable auto coverage for a fancy dancy sports car. I have been told by State Farm, etc., that the rates that are offered are beyond anything that the private companies can offer.

I drove my bicycle into a truck that "blew" the STOP sign in an intersection 2 1/2 years ago. At 52 years, at that time, I was lucky that I didn't kill myself. I was about 6 1/2 feet in the air after I bounced off the truck. I landed "squarely" upon the "S1 through S3" sections of my back on solid pavement. After all of the "rig-a-ma-rol" was done at the hospital was finished, I called the AARP representative of the "Hartford". The lady with whom I spoke, took care of the whole matter as was connected with the "AUTO" portion of my insurance. I didn't really understand why my bike ride had anything to do with the "AUTO" part of the insurance, but, that's the way it was handled. My premiums did NOT increase.

Just my experience!

:-)

[spanone]

37. Don't join. I resigned over the prescription drug flap and won't go back.

When I asked to be taken off their mailing list they ignored me entirely. When I wrote them concerning my concerns for their support of W* and the medicare crap they ignored me. So screw AARP. Take the money you would pay to join and get your rental discount that way.

[charlyvi]

39. Well, as I said earlier,

They are on the right side of Social Security privatizaion; I will join forces with them on this. Once it is defeated, we can discuss, vigorously, the other issues. But for right now, anyone targeted by the bush/rove propaganda machine can't be all bad.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

44. Funny posts - oh the memories

Yes - My hubby & I will be joining AARP because of the Social Security issue. The nerve of this administration - they are beyond dishonest & greedy as hell.

Anybody remember the Filmore West in SF, the Grateful Dead (my son now plays Jerry Gracia/David Grisman mandolin pieces) & the psychedelic lights, the huge Viet Nam antiwar protests in San Francisco & Washington? We need another one of those dealing with Iraq.

Enjoying the company here - Thanks

[ailsagirl]

45. Hey-- I remember Winterland in SF!! That was something

[charlyvi]

47. I remember.

Janis Joplin--Big Brother and the Holding Company. Great. Great.