More on Trump and Sanders and Representative Democracy.

Apparently some columnist wrote that Trump and Sanders were this years Ron Paul and that their ideas were things that the "majority" of Americans did not support. Hmmm. Do you really believe that the majority of Americans are against controlling the borders and keeping out illegal immigrants or regulating banks better? I then read another article that said that Trump had not stated his policies. These two things seem to contradict one another. Either he has policies that would not be popular with the majority of people or he has no policies, you cannot accuse him of both.

I am much more liberal than most of my friends of my age and they are almost exclusively Republicans with many being ex-military and not one of them has been upset by Trump. They don't feel they are being listened to by their party and why should they when they are ridiculed along with Trump for believing that they are not being well represented?

I am not an Obama supporter and disliked Clinton and the Bushes as well. Having said that, I will ask a question that Ronald Regan asked when running for President. Were you better off after Bush was elected? Remember the stock and housing crashes occurred while Bush was in office. The answer is slightly different for Obama as when Bush left we were losing hundreds of thousands of jobs a month and under Obama we have seen "some" job growth; but, my question about him is different. Did he do the things he promised he would. I can only thing of one and that was the healthcare change, you may not like it but he at least kept one promise. Neither put the countries interest ahead of business and big money.

The battle ground today is a very simple question. Who do you think will attempt to keep their election promises? Let us say for the moment that 60% of Americans were in favor of becoming a "social democrat" nation where there was universal healthcare, government control over the printing of money rather than the Federal Reserve (a private bank) controlling the money supply and getting the interest from the government and a guaranteed minimum standard of living. Now as an ardent anti-socialist and Republican against all these things, if 60% of the people voted for it and their candidate was elected, would you support him doing the exact opposite of these things? Would you support him not representing the people who elected him? I am sure you can flip this question on Democrats fairly easily, my answer would not change. I believe in Democracy and think that if we vote for someone, they should do what they were elected to do.

While I personally would vote for Sanders over Trump, I think Trump has a better chance of being effective than Sanders at getting his policies through. The real issue in this election is not whether or not we lean left or right; but, whether or not we force our elected officials to represent us or accept the way things are. Does it matter who you vote for if they don't try and do what they were voted to do?

The Confusion Over Donald Trump

I am immensely amused by the media's inability to understand the attraction of Donald Trump to voters. If I were to vote Republican, I would chose him above the others myself. If I were to vote Democrat, I would vote for Sanders. I would not vote for Bush or Clinton as they are already owned and (Ayn) Rand Paul is no better. Trump and Sanders are not just a new approach they are the outgrowth of the Tea Party and the Occupy Movement, they are the building frustration of those who know we are all being screwed by the system which has been purchased by the financial system. That is the one thing the media will not discuss about them.

How can we call ourselves a democracy when only 11% of the people approve of congress? The truth is that we don't trust the politicians and we don't trust the financial leaders, they have all sold out the United States. Here is the essence of the problem, who do you believe our politicians will work for, big business and the financial industry or Americans when their interests differ? We would like to think that they would put the interests of Americans first; but, we all know that they do not. That is why companies that outsource jobs to foreign nations still get tax breaks. Think about it.

Odd Videos About Strange Things

YouTube - World's 10 Most Incredible Discoveries.

YouTube - Earth's 10 Most Mysterious Lost Worlds.

YouTube - Top 10 MYSTERIOUS Events on Earth.

I am still trying to figure out where, if anywhere, this blog will go in the future. Hope you enjoy these in the meantime.

Coming Attractions

Business Insider - Why America should start making drivers pay per mile.

Huffington Post - Yes, a Computer Will Take Your Job. Can We Handle the Transition to a Jobless Future?

Wired - Self Driving Cars May End The Fines That Fill City Coffers.

Bloomberg Business - Robot Cars Get 32-Acre Michigan City to Hone Driving Skills.

Yahoo - Oil Price - Oil Sands: Is Utah The New Alberta?

Musica, musica de los Pink Floyd

Music; but, not Pink Floyd the title is actually a line from a tv show called "Fridays". Some songs while I continue to think about what this blog will be next.

YouTube - Howard Jones - No One Is To Blame.

YouTube - jefferson starship - take your time (1978).

YouTube - Carly Simon - Anticipation.

YouTube - Blondie - Rip Her To Shreds (lyrics).

YouTube - Whenever I Call You Friend.

YouTube - Draggin the Line - Tommy James.

YouTube - Manfred Mann - Mighty Quinn.

YouTube - Heart - Down On Me.

Lists and Lies

In the last few days I have come across multiple articles which claim to know what millionaires have in common. These lists are nonsense as many people do the same things and fail. Ignore them when they are posted. I will prove it. Ask yourself if lottery winners have certain traits in common and I assure you that they do.

The first thing that lottery winners have in common is that they buy lottery tickets. I don't. Oh, once in a great while I will buy one but I don't keep track of the payoff or usually know what it is. Many people share traits with the wealthy and never make it. Nicola Tesla was a brilliant scientist who created the method we use for making electricity today, it is called alternating current or AC. He met all the rules that they tell you will make you rich and still was not. Lots of people have the same traits as lottery winners and never win too.

The question is not what all winners have in common, the question is what percentage of successful people in any endeavor have that is unique to the successful. I broke a world record and was in the top ten for another. I worked hard, practiced everyday, never gave up... and a lot of other things; but, in the end, I was physically built to be able to succeed. My body shape, balance, distribution and many other things were part of what allowed me to be successful. There can only be so many world record holders, there can only be so many billionaires. Luck is always involved along with timing. Be well.

Changes to the blog

Hi, not quite sure where this blog will end tonight. I guess we just have to see what comes. The starting point is figuring out if I will kill off all the prior posts (minus the ones on Pastor Daniels as I have already promised to leave those up) or just move in a new direction.

I was on this website years ago and was talking in one of the forums and someone stated that my writing had become more "spiritual". I couldn't figure out why as I had not written about God as far as I can remember. I am not an Evangelical. I figure God will lead you to others and we just have to be ourselves. We don't save people, God does. The bible says we are to have an answer for the hope that lies within us and I do; but, you get there by yourself. Others just help when you ask them questions.

The first years of this blog were dedicated to philosophy and religion. I then got off into how the world works and the third iteration of the blog has been about the news and looking deeper. I'm pretty sure that I am going to cease writing about the news as much. Here are some last news tidbits.

Rolling Stone - Matt Taibbi - The Democratic Party Would Triangulate Its Own Mother.

Rolling Stone - Matt Taibbi - Why Are So Many Pundits Trashing the Pope?

Yahoo - Business Insider - There's one glaring flaw with Microsoft's futuristic headset that no one's talking about.

Yahoo - Reuters - JPMorgan builds up apartment-loan leader from WaMu rubble.

New York Times - Calpers’s Disclosure on Fees Brings Surprise, and Scrutiny.

Smithsonian - A Genetically Modified Sheep was Sent to a Slaughter House and Sold for Meat.

Yahoo - Cars.com - Toyota Camry Tops Ford F-150 as the Most American Made Car.

Huffington Post - What About a Jobs Program?

These were the most important articles in the last two weeks, if you understood why then you would not be foolishly fascinated by the supreme courts decision that congress actually meant to pass the Affordable Healthcare Act or say that states cannot prevent consenting adults to marry. The links I provided were to things that actually do and will continue to effect your life.