Well Past Time For Age Limits

[Skidooski]

The 'senior' member of the forum seems to be taking this topic a little too seriously

[SSFB]

Maximum age of 60 on election day.

[spin_dry]

53 minutes ago, SSFB said:

Maximum age of 60 on election day.

and no one under 40. 

[Kivalo]

3 hours ago, Mainecat said:

It’s called voting.

Yeah but too many dipshits like you vote for whoever they're told to vote for.

[Carlos Danger]

I bet the Dems are proud they went into the nursing homes last election and vote mined them completely.

[hayward]

1 hour ago, spin_dry said:

and no one under 40. 

30.  Unless you're military.

[spin_dry]

36 minutes ago, Carlos Danger said:

I bet the Dems are proud they went into the nursing homes last election and vote mined them completely.

The GOP'ers aren't far behind picking a loser to a pants shitter. 

[Carlos Danger]

20 minutes ago, spin_dry said:

The GOP'ers aren't far behind picking a loser to a pants shitter. 

So the Dems best and brightest you refer to as a pant shitter? 

[spin_dry]

58 minutes ago, Carlos Danger said:

So the Dems best and brightest you refer to as a pant shitter? 

The GOP'ers best and brightest lost to the pants shitter. 

[SSFB]

6 minutes ago, spin_dry said:

The GOP'ers best and brightest lost to the pants shitter. 

Only won because he was running against Hillary and lost to dementia Joe.

 

[Highmark]

How she kept her position after having a Chinese spy in her ring for 20 years is beyond me.

 

https://nypost.com/2018/08/08/dianne-feinstein-was-an-easy-mark-for-chinas-spy/

As vice chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has been investigating allegations of President Trump’s “collusion” with Russia.

But now we learn Feinstein may be the one compromised by a foreign power.

Turns out that Communist China had a spy in her office. A 20-year employee of Feinstein’s, the agent had been reporting back to China’s Ministry of State Security for well over a decade before he was caught in 2013, according to the FBI.

A Chinese-American who doubled as both an office staffer and Feinstein’s personal driver, the agent reportedly was handled by officials based out of the People’s Republic of China’s consulate in San Francisco, which Feinstein helped set up when she was mayor of that city. He even attended consulate functions for the senator.

Feinstein says she took the staffer off her payroll “immediately” after the FBI informed her five years ago that her office had been infiltrated by Chinese intelligence, and agents had identified the mole in a briefing. In a statement, the Democratic senator insisted he had “no access to sensitive information” and that he was never charged with espionage.

In June 1996 — after the staffer had begun working for Feinstein — the FBI detected that the Chinese government was attempting to seek favor with the senator, who at the time sat on the East Asian and Pacific affairs subcommittee of the Foreign Relations Committee, which oversees US-China relations. Investigators warned her in a classified briefing that Beijing might try to influence her through illegal campaign contributions laundered through front corporations and other cutouts.

The warning proved prescient.

One Chinese bagman, Nanping-born John Huang, showed up at Feinstein’s San Francisco home for a fundraising dinner with a Beijing official tied to the People’s Bank of China and the Communist Party Committee. As a foreign national, the official wasn’t legally qualified to make the $50,000-a-plate donation to dine at the banquet.

After a Justice Department task force investigated widespread illegal fundraising during the 1996 Clinton re-election campaign, Feinstein returned more than $12,000 in contributions from donors associated with Huang, who was later convicted of campaign-finance fraud along with other Beijing bagmen. The DNC and the Clinton campaign had to return millions in ill-gotten cash.

Still, Beijing got its favored trade status extended — thanks in part to Feinstein. In speeches on the Senate floor and newspaper op-eds, she shamelessly spun China’s human-rights violations, as when in 1997 she compared Beijing’s 1989 massacre of hundreds of young demonstrators to the 1970 Kent State shootings, calling for the presidents of China and America to appoint a human-rights commission “charting the evolution of human rights in both countries over the last 20 to 30 years,” that “would point out the successes and failures — both Tiananmen Square and Kent State — and make recommendations for goals for the future.”

Feinstein also led efforts to bring China into the World Trade Organization in 1999, which gave Beijing permanent normal trade relations status and removed the annual congressional review of its human-rights and weapons-proliferation records.

Feinstein, still among the Senate’s most influential China doves, travels to China each year. Joining her on those trips is her mega-millionaire investor husband, Richard C. Blum, who has seemingly benefited greatly from the relationship.

Starting in 1996, as China was aggressively currying favor with his wife, Blum was able to take large stakes in Chinese state-run steel and food companies, and has brokered over $100 million in deals in China since then — with the help of partners who sit on the boards of Chinese military front companies like COSCO and CITIC.

China investments have helped make Feinstein, who lives in a $17 million mansion in San Francisco and keeps a $5 million vacation home in Hawaii, one of the richest members in Congress.

Feinstein has insinuated that Trump is compromised by a foreign power. But it’s clear Feinstein has an alarming blind spot when it comes to China and national security.

[racer254]

42 minutes ago, Highmark said:

How she kept her position after having a Chinese spy in her ring for 20 years is beyond me.

 

https://nypost.com/2018/08/08/dianne-feinstein-was-an-easy-mark-for-chinas-spy/

As vice chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has been investigating allegations of President Trump’s “collusion” with Russia.

But now we learn Feinstein may be the one compromised by a foreign power.

Turns out that Communist China had a spy in her office. A 20-year employee of Feinstein’s, the agent had been reporting back to China’s Ministry of State Security for well over a decade before he was caught in 2013, according to the FBI.

A Chinese-American who doubled as both an office staffer and Feinstein’s personal driver, the agent reportedly was handled by officials based out of the People’s Republic of China’s consulate in San Francisco, which Feinstein helped set up when she was mayor of that city. He even attended consulate functions for the senator.

Feinstein says she took the staffer off her payroll “immediately” after the FBI informed her five years ago that her office had been infiltrated by Chinese intelligence, and agents had identified the mole in a briefing. In a statement, the Democratic senator insisted he had “no access to sensitive information” and that he was never charged with espionage.

In June 1996 — after the staffer had begun working for Feinstein — the FBI detected that the Chinese government was attempting to seek favor with the senator, who at the time sat on the East Asian and Pacific affairs subcommittee of the Foreign Relations Committee, which oversees US-China relations. Investigators warned her in a classified briefing that Beijing might try to influence her through illegal campaign contributions laundered through front corporations and other cutouts.

The warning proved prescient.

One Chinese bagman, Nanping-born John Huang, showed up at Feinstein’s San Francisco home for a fundraising dinner with a Beijing official tied to the People’s Bank of China and the Communist Party Committee. As a foreign national, the official wasn’t legally qualified to make the $50,000-a-plate donation to dine at the banquet.

After a Justice Department task force investigated widespread illegal fundraising during the 1996 Clinton re-election campaign, Feinstein returned more than $12,000 in contributions from donors associated with Huang, who was later convicted of campaign-finance fraud along with other Beijing bagmen. The DNC and the Clinton campaign had to return millions in ill-gotten cash.

Still, Beijing got its favored trade status extended — thanks in part to Feinstein. In speeches on the Senate floor and newspaper op-eds, she shamelessly spun China’s human-rights violations, as when in 1997 she compared Beijing’s 1989 massacre of hundreds of young demonstrators to the 1970 Kent State shootings, calling for the presidents of China and America to appoint a human-rights commission “charting the evolution of human rights in both countries over the last 20 to 30 years,” that “would point out the successes and failures — both Tiananmen Square and Kent State — and make recommendations for goals for the future.”

Feinstein also led efforts to bring China into the World Trade Organization in 1999, which gave Beijing permanent normal trade relations status and removed the annual congressional review of its human-rights and weapons-proliferation records.

Feinstein, still among the Senate’s most influential China doves, travels to China each year. Joining her on those trips is her mega-millionaire investor husband, Richard C. Blum, who has seemingly benefited greatly from the relationship.

Starting in 1996, as China was aggressively currying favor with his wife, Blum was able to take large stakes in Chinese state-run steel and food companies, and has brokered over $100 million in deals in China since then — with the help of partners who sit on the boards of Chinese military front companies like COSCO and CITIC.

China investments have helped make Feinstein, who lives in a $17 million mansion in San Francisco and keeps a $5 million vacation home in Hawaii, one of the richest members in Congress.

Feinstein has insinuated that Trump is compromised by a foreign power. But it’s clear Feinstein has an alarming blind spot when it comes to China and national security.

And no one really seems to care.  There is a stark difference between people who vote D and those that vote R.  I think everyone understands that R's far and away care more about the US as a country where D's like to think more as World first, then US.

[XCR1250]

 

Sarah Knapton

Wed, April 13, 2022, 12:35 PM

 

an elderly gentleman

The mystery of why humans die at around 80, while other mammals live far shorter or longer lives, may finally have been solved by scientists.

Humans and animals die after amassing a similar number of genetic mutations, researchers have found, suggesting the speed of DNA errors is critical in determining the lifespan of a species.

There are huge variations in the lifespan of mammals in the animal kingdom, from South Asian rats, which live for just six months, to bowhead whales, which can survive for 200 years.

Previously, experts have suggested that size is the key to longevity, with smaller animals burning up energy more quickly, requiring a faster cell turnover, which causes a speedier decline.

But a new study from the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge suggests the speed of genetic damage could be the key to survival, with long-living animals successfully slowing down their rate of DNA mutations regardless of their size.

It helps explain how a five-inch long naked mole rat can live for 25 years, about the same as a far larger giraffe, which typically lives for 24.

When scientists checked their mutation rates, they were surprisingly similar. Naked mole rats suffer 93 mutations a year and giraffes 99.

 

The study suggests it is the speed of genetic damage that could be the key to survival which helps explain how a giraffe typically lives for 24 years - Thomas Mukoya/Reuters

In contrast, mice suffer 796 mutations a year and only live for 3.7 years. The average human lifespan in the study was 83.6 years, but the mutation rate was far lower at around 47.

Genetic changes, known as somatic mutations, occur in all cells and are largely harmless, but some can start a cell on the path to cancer or impair normal functioning.

Dr Alex Cagan, the first author of the study, said: “To find a similar pattern of genetic changes in animals as different from one another as a mouse and a tiger was surprising.

“But the most exciting aspect of the study has to be finding that lifespan is inversely proportional to the somatic mutation rate. This suggests that somatic mutations may play a role in ageing.”

The team analysed genetic errors in the stem cells from the intestines of 16 species of mammal and found that the longer the lifespan of a species, the slower the rate at which mutations occur.

The average number of mutations at the end of lifespan across species was around 3200, suggesting there is a critical mass of errors after which a body is unable to function correctly.

‘Ageing is a complex process’

Although the figure differed about threefold across species the variation was far less than the variation in body size, which varied up to 40,000 fold.

The researchers believe the study opens the door to understanding the ageing process, and the inevitability and timing of death.

Dr Inigo Martincorena, the senior author of the study, said: “Ageing is a complex process, the result of multiple forms of molecular damage in our cells and tissues.

“Somatic mutations have been speculated to contribute to ageing since the 1950s, but studying them has remained difficult.

“With the recent advances in DNA sequencing technologies, we can finally investigate the roles that somatic mutations play in ageing and in multiple diseases.”

[Jimmy Snacks]

12 minutes ago, racer254 said:

And no one really seems to care.  There is a stark difference between people who vote D and those that vote R.  I think everyone understands that R's far and away care more about the US as a country where D's like to think more as World first, then US.

🤣🤣

 

[racer254]

35 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

🤣🤣

 

You just proved my point.

[Jimmy Snacks]

Just now, racer254 said:

You just proved my point.

What point is that….Dems=Bad and Republicans=Good? 
 

FFS you’re a simpleton.

[spin_dry]

18 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

What point is that….Dems=Bad and Republicans=Good? 
 

FFS you’re a simpleton.

He never fails to amuse 

[racer254]

21 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

What point is that….Dems=Bad and Republicans=Good? 
 

FFS you’re a simpleton.

The dems and their deceptive ways have been long ahead of republicans when it comes to tactics and ways to legally get away with things.  Dems have relied on the moral values of republicans for a long time. 

[Jimmy Snacks]

Just now, racer254 said:

The dems and their deceptive ways have been long ahead of republicans when it comes to tactics and ways to legally get away with things.  Dems have relied on the moral values of republicans for a long time. 

Holy shit…I hope you’re kidding but doubt you are.🤣

 

[racer254]

Does it bother you when Republicans act like Democrats?  Democrats have relied on Republicans to "do the right thing".  And their belief that friends and neighbors would never stoop to the lower levels to win elections.   That's just not right.....Well, welcome to "WOKE" America.

If you need proof that our nation’s public education system has been taken over by leftist radicals who have weaponized children for political purposes, look no further than a September 16th immigration protest on the streets of San Francisco.

Hundreds of school children were filmed chanting, “Who do we hate? Donald Trump!” during a protest in support of illegal immigrants in downtown San Francisco.

Edited April 15, 2022 by racer254

[snoughnut]

45 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

Holy shit…I hope you’re kidding but doubt you are.🤣

 

Bill Clinton thinks that's cute. 

 

[Matt]

This thread kinda veered away from age limits, but if you want to know which party is more vile, that's easy.  Just look at the antics around Supreme Court nominees.  The left will accuse nominees of the right of the worst possible indiscretions.  The right might ask a silly trap question like "what is a woman?"

It ain't even close.

On psyche and mindset, there are a fuckton of hilljack repubs who are crass in their ways, but they largely love their country and are proud of it.  The left is ashamed of their country and actively aims to undermine it, apologize for it, feel guilty for it, claim it's full of rampant racism even today...

[racer254]

2 minutes ago, Matt said:

This thread kinda veered away from age limits, but if you want to know which party is more vile, that's easy.  Just look at the antics around Supreme Court nominees.  The left will accuse nominees of the right of the worst possible indiscretions.  The right might ask a silly trap question like "what is a woman?"

It ain't even close.

On psyche and mindset, there are a fuckton of hilljack repubs who are crass in their ways, but they largely love their country and are proud of it.  The left is ashamed of their country and actively aims to undermine it, apologize for it, feel guilty for it, claim it's full of rampant racism even today...

Exactly and Well Said.

[snoughnut]

4 minutes ago, Matt said:

This thread kinda veered away from age limits, but if you want to know which party is more vile, that's easy.  Just look at the antics around Supreme Court nominees.  The left will accuse nominees of the right of the worst possible indiscretions.  The right might ask a silly trap question like "what is a woman?"

It ain't even close.

On psyche and mindset, there are a fuckton of hilljack repubs who are crass in their ways, but they largely love their country and are proud of it.  The left is ashamed of their country and actively aims to undermine it, apologize for it, feel guilty for it, claim it's full of rampant racism even today...

Spot fucking on, Brett Kavanaugh is a perfect example. No doubt the Dems are far more vile. 

 

[Matt]

39 minutes ago, snoughnut said:

Spot fucking on, Brett Kavanaugh is a perfect example. No doubt the Dems are far more vile. 

 

and Clarence Thomas and Neil Bork and...  You NEVER see the Repubs stooping to that level.  Ever.  Dems have been doing it for decades.