The Party Of Incumbents: The Oldest & Strongest Political Party In The United States

Who are you going to vote for? No matter what you answer the person who goes to Washington will join a new political party. The party doesn't have an official name. But it's hold on new arrivals is immediate and overwhelming. "All politics are local" is a truism. And the politics of our nations capitol is not immuned. Simply, the local politics in D.C. is about incumbents remaining incumbents and the incestuous players will do most anything to stay in their cushy powerful jobs. That's the explanation for the seemingly unchanged and predictably increasingly out of touch performance of our elected representatives since the founding of our republic.

The most recent example of the incumbent party trumping the democratic and republican parties is the complete capitulation of the anti-war 2006 congressional elections. That group led by Pelosi and Reid now routinely extend war funding. And what's more Pelosi and Reid will give this president all he wants and will also start the next administration with a free 6 months war funding starter kit.

As with all hypertrophies the incumbent party will only lose when an extraordinary event slams into their careful planning. In this case the extraordinary event will be the unequivocal failure of American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Time is on the side of the truth of things. Be truthful and life is a pretty easy thing to enjoyably live.

Artificial Life Or Synthetic Organism: Do We Need It ?

There's an old maxim that goes, " Give 1000 monkeys 1000 keyboards and an indefinite period of time and those monkeys will recreate the works of William Shakespeare."

Well it looks like one of we monkeys has come up with the first step in a three step process to create synthetic organisms. Dr. Craig Ventner and other nobel laureates have recently accomplished this feat at the J. Craig Ventner Institute in Rockville,M.D.. Dr. Ventner's goal is " to make artificial life forms with a minimum set of genes necessay for life. It is hoped that such organisms could one day be engineered to perform commercial tasks such as absorbing carbon dioxide from the air or churning out biofuels."

I suggest to the esteemed doctor that nature has already provided for accomplishig such a task . It's called a tree! And instead of replacing trees we should conserve them. Also the goal of reducing the genetic code to a "minimum" contradicts what nature says is best for species survival. Nature dictates that a plurality of genes is the reason species have evolved in an adaptive way. The species have all kinds of different genes to rely on. That's why we all have lived so long.

Like trying to recreate Shakespeare's work's with some sort of monkey business why try to recreate nature's plan. One Shakespeare and one natural metaphysic is all anyone neads.