The New Jersey Star-Ledger reported Friday that Lautenberg still plans to seek re-election in 2014.

I dont know but when I am 90 years old I would be thinking of retiring and not working till I was 96.

Ok Im nearly as big a slacker as Wobbie I admit it

These pols are dropping like flies!

In lieu of term limits, an age restriction would suffice. No one over 75 yrs old, period.

That being said, I wish the Senator a speedy recovery so he may exit his office with dignity.

Ok Im nearly as big a slacker as Wobbie I admit it

#1 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS

Hey, hey, hey... I'm a model employee now with these new guys (Flex hours for Fridays).

Besides, Senators make even the old Robbie look like a go-getter. If I were a Senator I'd work till I croaked too. I get why Jersey put that guy in there when Torricelli had to drop out, but why they're keeping him around still is beyond me.

Hey, hey, hey... I'm a model employee now with these new guys (Flex hours for Fridays).

#4 | Posted by Rob_The_A_Hole

So you admit then that you were definitely a slacker at the old job?

I am no doctor, much less an oncologist, but I would think stomach cancer is not walk in the park. Who knows if he'll be alive in 2014 to run for re election.

His days are numbered. Chemotherapy will finish him off.

Stomach cancer survival rates are like 20% in just about every modern country.

Except in Japan where it's historically been a big killer and they routinely 'scope for it. Survival rates there are like 50%.

A little factoid I learned while deciphering and debunking that Republican Congresswoman's claims about cancer survival in the US compared to the UK.

So you admit then that you were definitely a slacker at the old job?

#5 | POSTED BY WHATSLEFT

I wouldn't say slacker cuz I did always get my work done including dipping into the bonus pool of projects when I wanted some extra spending cash, but I certainly couldn't call myself the model employee by anyone's standards. I mean shit, there were times where I'd have both Drudge up on one screen and my development studies on the other. I'd post something here, then write a line of code... looking back its astonishing I didn't get fired, but they obviously weren't checking internet activity and only cared about getting the work done. Hell other guys just played online poker or watched Hulu all day... it was a real shit show.

and you worked for a defense contractor

Your tax dollars at work

Your tax dollars at work

Your tax dollars at work

#10 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS

Interesting sentiment on a thread about a Senator who is going to keep collecting a paycheck from taxpayers even though he'll likely be unable to continue his work that earns him the check. Just like Kennedy and Thurmond did and Byrd is doing now.

Americans are funny about when they want to be outraged about their tax dollars at work.

Good link, Snoofy.

Fox-Republicans will use this News to say that Sen. Lautenburg got CANCER so that he wouldn't have to run again against this so call Republican Wave!!!

#14 | POSTED BY CELISARY

...sigh.....

Not discussed but if Lautenberg cannot complete his term (through 2014), republican Gov. Christie would PICK his replacement.

Stomach cancer survival rates are like 20% in just about every modern country.

Except in Japan where it's historically been a big killer and they routinely 'scope for it. Survival rates there are like 50%.

A little factoid I learned while deciphering and debunking that Republican Congresswoman's claims about cancer survival in the US compared to the UK.

#8 | Posted by snoofy

Depends on the cell type---poor prognosis for the common adenocarcinoma which makes up the large % of stomach cancers---lymphoma is quite uncommonn but depending on the cell type can be quite curable.

If you haven't read How Software Companies Die by Orson Scott Card, it's definitely worth it. (And it's only four paragraphs.)
www.netjeff.com

#11 | Posted by snoofy

Love Orson--

Read the Ender Trilogy and several other books.

Wish they would do the Ender movie already.

Sorry, Senator.

Here's some pain medication, now go on home.

It's of far greater and common good to expend the resources we would have used on your treatment on a younger, more viable human being.

After all, you're 86.

Surely you understand.

#18 | POSTED BY MURPHY
"Wish they would do the Ender movie already."

I'm actually VERY surprised no one has. They've tried, and it seems to be in limbo at present.