Sanders solution to money in politics is too narrow, too small.

The rich buy the Representatives in the House and Senate of the United States before the Representatives even run for their office. Being 'supported' by the rich, after they call you in and flatter you about being one of those who "think alike" with the decision members of this party, is the only way the Representative can accept the 'donation', talk himself into believing the flattery is true, and then faithfully climb into the rich 'supporters' pocket, like the 'good man' they believe themselves to be.  Nothing on Earth can stop this scenario. Revolution after revolution has replaced the corrupt receivers of bribes with the 'good men' who have revolted to 'stop the corruption' only to see the new 'good leaders' get corrupted and another generation or two later a new Revolution is required.

Now, Bernie Sanders wants to take money ojut of politics, take the influence of the super rich, out of politics, take the 1% that corrupt the Representatives out of politics. Not very much of a new idea.

The only way to end this cycle of revolution and corruption is take the Representatives out of the equation. There will always be rich and powerful men ready and willing to bribe any and all
legislative Representatives. Who make the rules, rules. They rule the country by getting the laws they want enacted by their corrupted Representatives. So you stop them by making the laws YOURSELF. You vote for the laws, not your Representatives. Not your Congressman and not your Senator. The people vote directly on the laws under which they live. This take one small Amendment to the Constitution; something like this:

 1. The legislative function of the United States shall be performed directly by the people according to Article I of the Constitution and legislation that the people enact. If a bill is passed it is then sent to the President for signature, veto, or pocket veto, following Article I Section 7 of this constitution.

And, if you're going to bother to change the Constitution section on voting, whcih has been changed 7 time already, Then add:

  2. The President and Vice President of the United States shall be directly elected by the people to four year terms and shall not serve more than two such terms.

3. One ninth of the Federal Judiciary shall be elected every year by the citizens of their respective jurisdictions. Currently filled judgeships will be elected in reverse order of their years of service, longest serving is next to be elected until all have been elected.
4. The right of citizens Of the United States to directly vote for the laws under which they live, to directly carry out all other legislative functions stated in Article I of the Constitution, to directly vote for the President and Vice President, and to directly vote for the Judiciary, shall not be abridged by the United States or by any State.

Then, Senator Sanders, hyou have a real revolution, that will end with an ACTUAL DEMOCRACY, With the people running their own government, and everyone being EQUAL BEFORE THE LAW, which is the very function of a government with a Constitution. Unless you are one of the Rich and Powerful or a Representative.

See: assocactualdemocracy.com.

Obama = Worst President: NOT TRUE

Wrong. Bigoted Untruthful. Saved us from a depression. Killed Osama Bin Lauden when the Republicans let him hide in Pakistan. Health care for millions more. Unemployment rate from 12% down to 5%. Millions and millions of jobs created. 5, sount them, 5 American service died from conflicts they were in or around last year, not thousands. Torture, you remember no " cruel or unsusual punishments" prohibited by the 8th amendment. Stock market tripled in value. Car production largest in history in U.S. Which of these FACTS make him the worst President? Just your believing lies because a "Republican" talking head said them. You let yourself be used and they use you. Look this stuff up. Don't repeat stupidity because you're lazy.

Greed is not good...

The founding fathers said all men are created equal, knowing it to be true,.But nonetheless kept slaves and killed damned near all the Indians. Our intelligence did not overpower our greed. Greed is not good. Greed says others are objects for improving the life of the greedy and damn all the other people. It is the basis of all immorality: Me before all others is immoral, stupid, and built in to us by evolution. When the churches say our Nature must  be overcome it is this selfish, greedy, portion of our nature, coming from greed and fear, that they mean.

Note on Trump

Trump is the worlds greatest WHINER. He makes himself the victim every time he opens his mouth. He makes America the victim of other countries. The American People the victim of other peoples. He is wrong. We are far better off than others and working hard to make their lives better too.We have shown the world equality at work can lead to poorly educated, over forceful, self-centered people can become billionaires.

Gypsies, Trumps,  and thieves.

Trump has flip-flopped so many times the pancake is a ball.

Rejuvenation and longevity

In 1989 I started by delusional thinking. Very long life is thermodynamically possible, probable, and therefore inevitable.
If the nominal chemical content of the various cells of the 25 year old body are maintained then the whole body will work as the 25 year old body works. Molecular content can be kept nominal by adding energy to the cellular process that will maintain the nominal concentrations of the thousand or so molecules of each of the 20 to 40 or so types of cells in the body. The concept is simple and clean and rests on the second law: you can do what you want in a chemical system if you pay the energy and matter price to do it. The 25 year old body does it so it can be done. But it isn't easy.
De Grey's method looks attractive because it points to why the molecular nominal concentrations fall below nominal, garbage collection fails to keep up. Help it keep up an you get closer to nominal.
But the De Pinho and Sahan telermerase experiments show that you can keep things near to nominal by keeping the cells from stepping on themselves by unwinding the chromosomes and having genes corrupted.
The stem cell research shows that if we can keep them working their daughter cells will be closer to nominal than aged cells concentrations are.
Parabiosis has shown that the young body produces molecules that keep the bodies various cell types with nominal concentrations. The Harvard group under Amy Wagers, and other groups, says gdf11 and other protein concentrations fall off in the body as it ages and papabiosis pushes the concentrations back toward nominal in the old body with the greater concentration from the young. More than other procedures this tends to support the idea that nominal cell molecular concentrations for each of the various cell types is something that bio-engineering can accomplish.
Rejuvenation and longevity are an information problem: the nominal concentrations need to be documented, their maintenance needs to be understood, and natures failure to maintain them needs to be corrected. The young body does it, naturally. Science will assist the body to maintain nominal concentrations once the research concludes what nominal is and how nature keeps it nominal.

Posted by: Roger Duronio at May 8th, 2016 10:05 AM

Republican War on Women

The Republican's war on women is an old long policy: The great "Ronald Reagan" personally propagandized against the women's rights Constitutional Amendment while he was President and kept it from becoming the law of the land. The Republican's shoved the lying and incompetent Justice Clarence Thomas, who knowingly lied on the Senate floor about his sexual discrimination illegal actions he committed while running the executive office that heard such cases, down America's throat in 1992, George Bush's last year in office. It was a disgrace to Truth, Justice, and all of America, but especially to the Women of this nation. And now the Republicans won't do their Constitutional Duty to address Obama's Appointment to the Supreme Court.
They say women should die before having abortions and they mean it. And they have written state laws saying just that every year since the Supreme Court ruled on the Constitutionality of Abortion in 1972, making abortion totally legal. There is a War on Women and woman's legal rights and the Republicans are running it. Just like they have run the Racial discrimination policy against President Obama.

Republican revolution.

The Republican 'revolt' against being the majority party in the 10 poorest and 10 worst educated states is easily understandable. The Republican base isn't the religious, rich, and conservative: it is people hoping to get rich, have a local minister, and contact with someone who can get them a patronage job. And for the last 8 years they haven't gotten the jobs, become rich, or seen a new minister. But now, the "revolutionary' candidates have really shown what the leadership really is: lacking dignity, without respect and totally lacking in honor. Trump and Cruz have no dignity, no respect, and totally lack honor, not honorable in their views, their speech, or even their background.