Be A Centenarian

Would you want to live forever? It is more possible now than ever with the explosion of the bio-technology growing industry. For as little as $25,000 dollars your entire body can be mapped and watched and steps can be taken to intervene defects in your genetic code to create a healthier body. It is expected that anyone born in the next decade will probably live to be over 100 years old. We are now in the age where we are engineering immortality. We all have been living longer throughout the century. In 1920 life expectancy was only till the age of 50 years old. Now life expectancy is much higher to the age of 75 years old. Bio-technology is making it possible for the next generations to live much longer than 100 years old. Can our minds adjust to our healthier bodies?

It is believed that the first person to live to the age of 150 years old has already been born. Advances in science and medicine is making this all possible. Are you healthy enough to be a centenarian? Now living to be 100 years old is the people of Okinawa, Japan where there are very low rates of cancer, heart disease and dementia than Americans. The reasons why are no longer a mystery. In the past 30 years more than 1,000 centenarians are alive there. Researchers believe that there are four main reasons people live so long there. The people eat a plant based diet high in proteins and vitamins, they participate in physical activity; self-help and mutual help. No one is ever neglected. The elderly is not warehoused into old age homes but still live with family members and are more vital.  

In America, research into aging is working on making old cells into younger functioning cells. Waiting FDA approval is the diabetes drug that could be an anti-aging miracle called Metformin. It can delay life shortening diseases by 30%. There are now stem-cell clinics. Doctors believe that stem-cell treatments have orthopedic help and may also extend our lives. If you are in a constant state of healing chances are that you will not get sick at all. They are putting fiber optic cables into veins. More than 500 boutiques are in business in America without the need for government approvals. Wealthy investors in these businesses like Peter Thiel expect to live till 120 years old. Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin plan to cure aging with biotech ventures.

At Human Longevity Inc. for $25,000 you can get your mind, gait and mental state  tested  instead of just your height, weight and blood pressure. All your traits are tested for possible medical issues now and in the future. The extensive data lets you take steps to control your diet and other well- being factors to avoid potential upcoming diseases before they ravage your body. Interventions can be taken to stop stage one cancers. Massive computers are tracking your genetic codes. The answers to finding a  longer life, lives within your body and knowledge of all aspects of your body is the key to prevention of deterioration of your body. 

Secrets and Lies

If we can, try to not be so outraged over anything Trump does for a change. However, it is easy to move over to being outraged over the actions and decisions of his son-in-law Jared Kushner that no one ever elected to any office. Now we have discovered that the kid asked the Russians for a “secret line of communications” that would be undetected by any American intelligence agency. How much of Russia really owns this family? So now Congress has to waste their time investigating this jerk too. He had or probably still has “undisclosed contacts with a Russian envoy” during and after the Presidential Campaign.

FBI investigators are examining whether Russians suggested to Kushner or other Trump aids that relaxing economic sanctions would allow Russian banks to offer financing to people with ties to Trump, said the current U.S. law enforcement official. So, there you have it all you red necks who voted for the “deal Maker” Trump. Trump is the Russians bitch and now they want payback for helping him get elected. Did he really think that all that hacking on his behalf was simply because he is a nice guy? Jared is under scrutiny because he never disclosed his contacting Russia before and after the election. The spider web of secrecy included Michael Flynn, Trumps first national security advisor and the Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak.

The cornered liars continually change their story. Originally the White House denied that there was any contacts with the Russians and then they changed their story by admitting to a few contacts. Why the lies? What is our elected President hiding from his own people? By disclosing his tax returns we might get to know just how much money he shares with the Russians through his business money laundering real estate   deals. Young Mr. Kushner is already saying that his memory fails him in reference to Russian phone calls and contacts. How dare this group of thieves think they could just close the door on the American people and go on with their wheeling and dealing for their own personal wealth and position.

It has been found out that Kushner told the Russian Ambassador that he wanted the Russians to set up a secret communication channel with the Kremlin. Even they thought this kid was “extremely naïve or absolutely crazy.” Doesn’t Jared know that the enemy really doesn’t care to protect their informants? That they just want to use them for their personal gain? Every stupid spy movie has this scenario in their story plots! Jared must be extremely naive and absolutely crazy too.

Jared Kushner could be convicted of a felony and be sentenced to five years in prison for not revealing his meetings in his security clearance form.

Is there criminal intent with this guy? This is the worst news yet for the Trump family. The FBI is now investigating Jared Kushner and wants a time line of possible treason from him too. Trump has put Jared pretty much in charge of everything in our government anyway. How much is this kid throwing us under the bus in terms of wanting to talk to the Kremlin more than any agency in our government? Should we have leaders in our White House that don’t trust America? We need to throw all these bums out and soon!

Hey You!  Put that burger and beer down for a minute and shut up and say to yourself something that resembles a prayer or some form of thankfulness to people you never even knew who were real dare devils and went to some foreign country where they couldn’t   even speak the language held up a gun that failed to save their own life.  Yeah!  That is what Memorial Day is all about.  Not the latest sale at the department store or a nice   barbecue with   your buddies.  It is about saying thanks to all the strangers you never met who died with an American flag sewed onto their clothes with their own blood soaked into the stars and stripes.

You say to yourself, who in   their right mind would do something like that?  Who would risk the    one   life   they have for anyone no less for some cause in some foreign country?  It does sound crazy but we call those American soldiers brave representatives of our country and it can make you sick when you realize the amount of   handsome and beautiful able bodied young people died in some war somewhere.  Go to Washington and visit Arlington National Cemetery and just look out at the sea of thousands of white tombstones lined up tightly and efficiently of rows and rows of some of the most famous soldiers who have died fighting for this country. It   will make you feel sick.  Then you have to think about all the unknown soldiers   scattered all over the world without a proper burial and the soldiers who are buried next to their wives and moms.

I love to look at the old veterans of war.  Those old guys that stand in front of supermarkets wearing those little triangle hats, proudly wearing an American flag sewed to their clothes still.  They might be near 80 years old but their demeanor is still of a proud soldier.  They still have a toughness and a roughness to their faces and can still remember in detail the day and the time they gallantly fought and survived some senseless   battle somewhere in the world.  On Memorial Day we should thank those guys and listen to their stories and donate money to whatever cause or battle they are   representing for us today.

Unfortunately there are many young soldiers who have fought in recent wars that we need to thank too.  I wish war was just a  part of foolish history.  I wish humans who are supposed to be at the top of the food chain would have the bravery and the intelligence to work out our differences without a single act of violence.  I want to thank President Jimmy Carter who was the only recent President who is still alive who never sent a single soldier to war during his presidency.  That took a lot of courage and intelligence in a world where there seems to be always someone killing somebody somewhere sometimes for no reason at all.

Here are the number of people we need to thank in recent wars:

The Civil War  498,332   dead soldiers

World War I    146,516   dead soldiers

World War II   405,399   dead soldiers

Korea              36,574    dead soldiers

Vietnam          58,220    dead soldiers

Iraq                 4,476    dead soldiers

Afghanistan        As of October 18th, 2016, there have been 2,386 U.S. military deaths in the War in Afghanistan. 1,834 of these deaths have been the result of hostile action. 20,049 American service members have also been wounded in action during the war. In addition, there were 1,173 U.S. civilian contractor fatalities. This year there are more deaths and now a threat of nuclear war with North Korea and the Libyan government is burning the American flag in their governing halls.

Read the words inscribed in the stone base of the statue at Arlington’s Confederate War Memorial that say, "Not for fame or reward. Not for place or rank or lured by ambition or gone by necessity but in simple obedience to duty.as they understood it."

Every single person who has stepped forward to go to a place like Afghanistan or any war deserves that respect. Ok, Now you can finish your burger and drink your beer and enjoy the safe Memorial Day weekend of fun and pleasure with people you love and want to be  safe and sound in our backyards.