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Bernie Sanders: Why Not?

By Senator Bernie Sanders:

Our job is not to think small. It is to think big.

The United States is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world. Why are we so far behind so many other countries when it comes to meeting the needs of working families and the American middle class?

Why doesn't every American have access to healthcare as a basic right?

Why can't every American who is qualified get a higher education, regardless of family income?

Why can't we have full employment at a decent living wage?

Why must many older Americans be forced to choose between paying for food, shelter, or medical care?

Why can't working parents have access to affordable, high-quality childcare?

We should be asking questions like these every day. We have more billionaires in this country than any other nation on earth. We also have more child poverty than any other major industrialized nation. We have the highest rate of student debt. We have more prisoners, more homeless people and more economic inequality.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bernie-sanders/why-not_b_7700810.html

Rand Paul meets with criminal rancher Cliven Bundy

Sitting in the audience at a Rand Paul event in Nevada on Monday was none other than rancher and anti-government activist Cliven Bundy.

The Kentucky Republican and 2016 presidential contender met with Bundy at his question-and-answer session in Mesquite, Nevada, The Associated Press reported. There, Paul reportedly answered questions about the federal government’s Bureau of Land Management, which engaged in a standoff with Bundy in 2014.

Paul told the AP in a separate interview that he favored federally owned land being handed back to the states. “I think almost all land use issues and animal issues, endangered species issues, ought to be handled at the state level,” he said. “I think that the government shouldn’t interfere with state decisions, so if a state decides to have medical marijuana or something like that, it should be respected as a state decision.”

Bundy made headlines in 2014 for a standoff with the federal government’s Bureau of Land Management over grazing fees. Armed supporters gathered with Bundy in April of that year to help him protest more than $1 million owed to the federal government — a situation that was temporarily defused but has not yet fully resolved.

After the event, the Nevada rancher told the AP why he had come out to support Paul: “In general, I think we’re in tune with each other.”


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/rand-paul-cliven-bundy-meeting-119576.html#ixzz3eYFRdz9f

And Fuck Rand Paul

Liz Warren: “I love what Bernie is talking about"

Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren isn’t ruling out joining ultra-liberal Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on the campaign trail in New Hampshire, saying she’s not surprised at all that the Vermont senator is surging in the polls and drawing enthusiastic Granite State audiences.

“Bernie’s out talking about the issues that the American people want to hear about,” Warren, who hasn’t endorsed anyone in the Democratic primary yet, told the Herald yesterday.

Asked if she would campaign with Sanders at some point, she didn’t dismiss the idea.

“Too early to say,” she said.

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http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/us_politics/2015/06/liz_warren_i_love_what_bernie_is_talking_about

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The origin of leap seconds, and why they should be abolished

WRITTEN BY

David Yanofsky

How many seconds have there been since January 1, 1972?

While that number is extremely large, it is pretty simply calculated. Multiply the number of years (and don’t forget leap years!) by the number of days in a year by the number of hours in a day by the number of minutes in an hour by the number of seconds in a minute and voilà: 1,371,513,600 seconds as of midnight on June 29, 2015.

Except that that’s not right. We’re leaving out leap seconds. Leap seconds, you ask? Yes, leap seconds. There have been 26 of them, and number 27 is just around the corner: It will be added to global clocks at 1am London time on July 1.

The leap second is a near paradox. It befuddles all common definitions of time. Notionally, it’s a way to unify all our ways of measuring time. In reality, it’s just an attempt to preserve an old definition of time that has long since been superseded by newer methods. In the process, the leap second—through no fault of its own—puts at risk countless critical computer systems around the world. And that is forcing even the people who are charged with administering the world’s supply of leap seconds to consider getting rid of them altogether.

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http://qz.com/432787/the-origin-of-leap-seconds-and-why-they-should-be-abolished/

Is this Green Beret the last Vietnam vet on active duty?

the 1970s, he was among the last Marines sent to Vietnam.

In the '80s, as an Army Green Beret, he deployed into Honduras during the Contra Wars.

In 1991, he was gassed in Iraq.

And after 9/11, he fought terrorists in Afghanistan.

He's an environmental conservationist and holds a master's degree in creative writing.

He is not the Most Interesting Man in the World.

But with 42 years in uniform, 59-year-old Michael Jarnevic is likely the saltiest sergeant major serving in the U.S. military. And when he retires July 8, he'll likely be the last person in uniform whose service record includes a tour during the Vietnam War.

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http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/story/military/2015/06/28/last-serving-vietnam-vet-retires-after-service-as-marine-green-beret/29303763/