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Project Center With Two 3 Bin Cabinets
All-in-one project center sets a new standard in organizational furniture. Not only will it dramatically increase everyone's productivity but do it in style to boot. From concept thru design & production, organize your creations then relax. This project center will do the rest.
- Combines numerous convenient ways to organize and store all the materials for any project
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- Each 3 bin cabinet will accommodate 6 drawers, 3 in the front and 3 in the rear (sold separately)
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BEIJING, Feb. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China Shen Zhou Mining & Resources, Inc. ("China Shen Zhou", or the "Company") (NYSE Amex: SHZ), a company engaged in the exploration, development, mining and processing of fluorite, barite, zinc, copper, and other nonferrous metals in China, today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Xiangzhen Mining Group Co., Ltd ("Xiangzhen Mining"), based in Inner Mongolia, is on track to resume production on March 1st, 2012, following the Spring Festival break. Xiangzhen has one of the largest fluorite mine in mineral-rich northern China.
Ms. Xiaojing Yu, Chief Executive Officer of China Shen Zhou, commented, "Through its recent acquisition of a 60% ownership of three mining companies in Guizhou earlier this year, Xiangzhen has not only increased its fluorite resources and strengthened its leadership in fluorite industry, but also obtained the resources and technologies needed to enter the barite mining and processing industry and the fluorine chemical industry, which is a downstream sector from the fluorite mining and production industry. China Shen Zhou is collaborating with local governments and both upstream and downstream partners to build a high quality fluorite and barite mining processing chain as well as a barium salt processing center in China."
About China Shen Zhou Mining & Resources, Inc.
China Shen Zhou Mining & Resources, Inc., through its subsidiaries, is engaged in the exploration, development, mining, and processing of fluorite, barite and nonferrous metals such as zinc, lead and copper in China. The Company has the following principal areas of interest in China: (a) fluorite extraction and processing in the Sumochaganaobao region of Inner Mongolia; (b) fluorite and barite extraction and processing in the Wuchuan County of Guizhou province (c) fluorite and barite extraction and processing in the Yanhe County of Guizhou province.(d) fluorite extraction and processing in Jingde County, Anhui Province; (e) zinc/copper/lead processing in Wulatehouqi of Inner Mongolia; and (f) zinc/copper exploration, mining and processing in Xinjiang.
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A plot to kill area leaders in Ozark has put one man behind bars and leaves authorities looking for answers.
Courtroom cases, pleas and threats unfortunately seem to be the case at the Dale County Courthouse.
Dale Co. Courthouse Employee Rebecca Bensena said, "It's very common to have defendants' or clients that come through the court system that are not satisfied with their disposition or the outcomes of their hearings and sometimes they do tend to react in a violent manner."
Bensena has been working at the county courthouse for about six years and is not surprised to hear about the attempted murder plot against Judge Quadulbaum, Attorney Buddy Williams and other community members.
Sheriff Wally Olson said "We have an investigation going on with multiple agencies in reference to a conspiracy to commit murder for hire involving one of our circuit judges and our local attorneys and a couple private citizens."
Sheriff Olson says 35-year-old Andrew Garner was arrested Tuesday for conspiracy to commit murder.
Not much is being said about the case as it is still under investigation.
However, Olson says Garner is not the only individual involved in the plot and authorities are working to arrest others. "We have law enforcement officers that are threatened on a daily basis, but every threat you take serious and we have to provide safety to the public and that's what we're going to do," he said.
Olson says there is no word on how many others will be arrested in connection to the plot, but are working closely with other agencies to close the case.
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Olson says Garner has had little criminal history; however, if convicted, he could face 10 years to life.
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1989x01 The Book of Man
January 9, 1989 9:00 pm
Horizon looks again at the Human Genome Project which aims to decipher or sequence all genes.
1989x02 The Poison that Waits
January 16, 1989 9:00 pm
Horizon reports on the abnormally high incidence of and the early onset of diseases such as senile dementia and Parkinson's disease on the island of Guam in the Pacific. Scientists have now linked the diseases to a poison in the native cycad fruit.
1989x03 Perils of the Deep
January 23, 1989 9:00 pm
In this episode, Horizon presents evidence that even diving in relatively shallow waters can cause serious long term damage to the brain and spinal cord.
1989x04 Smart Weapons
January 30, 1989 9:00 pm
This documentary by Horizon demonstrates how smart Weapons use computers to destroy targets, that until now, were only able to be threatened by nuclear weapons.
1989x05 Wasting the Alps
February 6, 1989 9:00 pm
Horizon looks at the damaging effects of pollution and tourism on the Swiss Alps in Europe.
1989x06 In the Last Resort
February 13, 1989 9:00 pm
Horizon answers the question: What are the alternatives for the elderly in Britain who can't live at home, or in a rest home or nursing home, or part of a sheltered accommodation?
1989x07 Gaze in Wonder
February 20, 1989 9:00 pm
Horizon brings you an interview with Prof. Eric Laithwaite who presents an engineer's personal view of nature and how new inventions already exist in nature.
1989x08 In My Lifetime?
February 27, 1989 9:00 pm
In this episode, Horizon presents an investigation into the state of medical research in neurological disorders and the issues with its funding in Britain.
1989x09 Concerto
March 6, 1989 9:00 pm
This documentary by Horizon investigates new technology applied to music.
1989x10 Black Schizophrenia
March 13, 1989 9:00 pm
Horizon covers the story of the Nottingham psychiatrists who study the human race to see who is mostly likely to develop schizophrenia.
1989x11 Trial in the Jungle
March 20, 1989 9:00 pm
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April 3, 1989 9:00 pm
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1989x13 A Wonderful Life
April 17, 1989 9:00 pm
Horizon presents a biography of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein who lived from 1889 to 1951.
1989x14 Why Buildings Make You Sick
April 24, 1989 9:00 pm
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1989x15 Jubilee
May 8, 1989 9:00 pm
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May 15, 1989 9:00 pm
Horizon investigates how many of the tragedies on our roads in Britain could be avoided by the introduction of technical and legislative changes.
1989x17 The New Sixth Sense
May 22, 1989 9:00 pm
Horizon follows J. Hooper, a diabetic, as she explores various aspects of biosensor technology.
1989x18 Clive Sinclair: The Anatomy of an Inventor
June 12, 1989 9:00 pm
Horizon presents a profile of noted inventor Clive Sinclair with his family and colleagues reminiscing and analysing his successes and failures.
1989x19 Newpin: A Lifetime
June 19, 1989 9:00 pm
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Family-friendly hotel in Montreal (Chinatown) near Notre Dame Basilica
Located in the heart of Montreal, this family-friendly hotel is within walking distance of Sun-Yat-Sen Park, Complexe Desjardins, and Champ de Mars. Also nearby are Sainte-Catherine Street and The Underground City.
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In addition to a restaurant, Holiday Inn Select Montréal Centre-Ville features an indoor pool. Other amenities include a bar/lounge and complimentary wireless Internet access.
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In addition to an indoor pool, Holiday Inn Select Montréal Centre-Ville provides a spa tub, a sauna, and a fitness center. The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access.
This 3-star property offers access to a business center, limo/town car service, and meeting rooms. This family-friendly hotel also offers multilingual staff, gift shops/newsstands, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Parking is available onsite for a surcharge.
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Linux Journal Contents #159, July 2007
You have to see the movie Shrek the Third in order to appreciate what DreamWorks has achieved with Linux on 3,000 CPUs doing 20 million CPU render hours. The hair movement, detail and lighting will knock your socks off and make them dance around the theater. We've got the lowdown on how it was all done; the various stages from storyboard to final cut.
As always, there's much more. Need Optical Character Recognition (OCR) that actually works? We'll tell you about a quirky command-line tool that does an outstanding job. Have you discovered the world of vector graphics? We'll get you working with Inkscape, even at the command line. And don't miss our interview with the Photoshop clone Pixel's creator Pavel Kanzelberger.
DreamWorks Animation "Shrek the Third": Linux Feeds an Ogre
by Robin Rowe
What can you do with Linux and 20 million CPU render hours?
Tesseract: an Open-Source Optical Character Recognition Engine
by Anthony Kay
If you really need OCR.
Introducing Vector Graphics and Inkscape
by Marco Fioretti
Want scalable beauty?
Interview with Pavel Kanzelsberger, Creator of Pixel
by James Gray
Photoshop comes to Linux, sort of.
Automated GIMP Processing of Web Images
by Ben Martin
Program GIMP to work for you.
Writing Your Own Image Gallery Application with the UNIX Shell
by Girish Venkatachalam
GUI? We don't need no stinking GUI.
Programming Python, Part II
by José P. E. "Pupeno" Fernàndez
More love for learning Python.
Image Processing with QccPack and Python
by Suhas Desai
A library collection for Python image processing.
Mambo Exploit Blocked by SELinux
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SELinux catches exploits.
Role-Based Single Sign-on with Perl and Ruby
by Robb Shecter
Let the role dictate the privileges.
Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge
First Steps with Django
Marcel Gagné's Cooking with Linux
Let Me Show You How It's Done with a Little Video
Dave Taylor's Work the Shell
Displaying Image Directories in Apache, Part IV
Doc Searls' Linux for Suits
Beyond Blogging's Black Holes
Nicholas Petreley's /var/opinion
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As Linux continues to play an ever increasing role in corporate data centers and institutions, ensuring the integrity and protection of these systems must be a priority. With 60% of the world's websites and an increasing share of organization's mission-critical workloads running on Linux, failing to stop malware and other advanced threats on Linux can increasingly impact an organization's reputation and bottom line.
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Most companies incorporate backup procedures for critical data, which can be restored quickly if a loss occurs. However, fewer companies are prepared for catastrophic system failures, in which they lose all data, the entire operating system, applications, settings, patches and more, reducing their system(s) to "bare metal." After all, before data can be restored to a system, there must be a system to restore it to.
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Rachael Ray donates whopping amount of money and food for Superstorm Sandy victims and pets.
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The Vampire Diaries Review: The Hunger Shamesby Matt Richenthal at . Comments
That marks two spectacular episodes of The Vampire Diaries in a row, as "The Rager" delivered an impressive mix of action, mystery and character development.
Oh, right, and Phoebe frickin Tonkin!
But while my heart may be aflutter over my favorite former witch, Hayley didn't play too significant of a role this week. Instead, we were treated to the next step in Elena's evolutionary process, while delving deeper (and darker) into the new hunter in town.
That guy is a real jerk.
Let's start overall with the revealing character moments, because there were many.
Rebekah was at her bitchiest, lashing out after being disregarded by Klaus on the Vampire Diaries Season 4 premiere. Call me a sucker for this gorgeous blonde and/or her accent, but something about Claire Holt's portrayal keeps Rebekah's vulnerability intact, even as she's temping Elena to commit murder right in the middle of her school day. (QUESTION: Is that why women always go to the bathroom together?)
She's just lonely and now perhaps she's found a similar soul. Can't say I saw an April/Rebekah alliance coming, but at least someone is looking into that sketchy fire.
Then there was Meredith, reading Damon like she were a psychologist as opposed to an ER doctor. He's proud, he's stubborn, he may let his pride ruin his closest relationships. That sounds about right, doesn't it? This also represented the most unrealistic moment of the hour, however. Because, come on, what woman would not want to be Damon Salvatore's partner in vampire crime?!?
While Damon was scheming to take down Connor, Stefan was bonding with Caroline. These two don't share nearly enough moments together. It was like Stefan was reading the mind of every viewer out there when he ran down the changes in Caroline since she transitioned.
Simply put, she's "good at being a vampire" and we all know how true that is. It's hard to think of a character on any show that has come as far as Caroline Forbes. She's funny, she's confident, she thinks Stefan should be a guest on The View.
In short, she's everything Stefan wants Elena to grow into - but he's afraid. He's ashamed of what that hunger did to him way back in the day and he doesn't want to go all Ripper on his loved ones again. It's an understandable concern, but this is the one place where the episode lost me.
Between Stefan asking Caroline to keep him in check... and Elena seeing Damon during her werewolf bite-based hallucinations... and then Elena turning to Damon for blood sucking lessons, it all came across like another forced way to prolong the love triangle. Why wouldn't Elena be asking Stefan to work with her? She must be aware of how he helped Caroline accept her new state. The man has experience as a teacher of new vampires and, oh, right: he's your boyfriend!
Communication, people. It's the key to any healthy relationship.
But "The Rager" was about far more than characters interacting with each other and spilling their guts (or, in Elena's case, trying NOT to spill the guts of others). There was serious action, from the opening WTF moment of Connor taking Tyler's venom to the hospital storage closet blast to Elena almost sucking the life out of Matt.
And there was a major mystery, one that not even Connor himself is familiar with. He's one of The Five?!? Do I smell a flashback episode next Thursday? (NOTE: even if this TVD promo doesn't depict it, SPOILER ALERT, the answer is yes.)
Correction, Rebekah, something wicked this way has already come. A greater evil, some pastors might say. But from where did he come? That's the question we're about to find out.
There were still some holes the show didn't bother filling in. When did Jeremy tell Damon that Connor talked to him at school? When did Damon give Elena the white oak, considering we last saw him deny the request? Why were two vampire wearing helmets while riding a motorcycle?
But those aren't huge complaints.
The installment made solid use of Jeremy for a change (told you I could be a bad ass!), while grounding the action and suspense in the emotions of the characters experiencing those events. Unlike Klaus' face upon witnessing those arrow markings, none of this should come as a surprise to Vampire Diaries fans. It's what the show has excelled in from the outset.
What did everyone else think?
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@IIk-vomit Yes!!! I miss the old simple version of the into since i liked the fact that there was no cheese line in the intro.
i am going to start shipping Stefan and Caroline, i can see a romance brewing for when Delena get together.
Also I really dont like the new opening for the show,its really schmaltzy and corny.I perfer the old one with one of the characters saying "Previously on The Vampire Diaries" Anyone else ?
I can't comment on much since I haven't watched yet (getting ready to) but I can answer your helmet question. Virginia has a helmet law so riding without would draw law enforcement attention. Something vampires don't want.
I think it would be very interesting to see some Stefan/Caroline chemistry!!! Why do I have a feeling these two are about to get alot more attracted to one another?
Phoebe tonkin back on my Television screen :) #thumbsup. Rebeckah is a bitch...She needs a manfriend and needs to get dicked down majorly.
I will never buy Jeremy as a badass if they choose to make him a hunter somewhere down the line.
Wow, I was really disappointed with this episode, especially with Elena's character. C'mon, I thought she was special, not just some run of the mill average vampire. Have they switched writers?
You have obviously not watched the last two seasons. Damon is the most selfless character on that show. Elena chose Stefan, but he still sticks around to help her, while Stefan is complaining to Caroline again. Stefan, btw, is such a hypocrite! I mean, 'why don't we let the murdering to Damon?' Seriously??? He ripped people apart in the '20's and in season 3. And now he's badmouthing Damon again? And about why she wouldn't turn to Stefan, he wouldn't understand. He's so much in denial. He's not a good teacher, he just wants to force his bunny diet on every new vampire, while he can't even control himself. I mean, remember the pilot? Elen's leg at the graveyard. That little bit of blood already freaked him out. Stefan can't teach anyone how to control their bloodlust as long as he can't do it himself. I don't understand how people can feel sorry for Stefan, while hating on Damon. WTF ever happened to Stefan that makes people feel sorry for him? EVERYONE FREAKING LOVES HIM! THE HORROR!! And Damon is always being rejected and everyone thinks he's the one that did the bad thing like with the gas leak, last week. Damon's methods may be rough and radical, but in the end he's always right. And it's Damon who keeps Elena alive. Stefan's the one that let her die twice. First in season 2, then in season 3. Elena died as a human, because of Stefan, who loves her so dearly (way to show that, btw), but she's alive because of Damon. You, Damon/Delena haters, think about that before you hate on either.
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86 year old anti-gunner bought a BB-gun to atown meeting as proof as how easy it is purchase a gun.
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86 year old anti-gunner bought a BB-gun to atown meeting as proof as how easy it is purchase a gun.
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Now the left has got little old ladies on medications buying BB guns for their propoganda circus.
Comparing a BB gun to a real gun?
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Was this an assault BB gun? What if this lady was mentally deranged and started shooting – she could have put an eye out before SWAT put her down. Was she wearing body armor, or at least a heavy sweatshirt in case someone fired a BB gun back at her? And how was she going to kill herself after her rampage – swallow a bunch of pellets and die of lead poisoning?
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Who Is Ron Paul? As the Iowa Caucus Approaches, We Are Learning a Great Deal About Paul. What We Know is Not Good for Him
As the polls still show Ron Paul possibly winning the Iowa caucus, more and more people are beginning to take a closer look at what the congressman really believes. The results are not favorable to his image. Paul has his cadre of fanatical defenders, and an on-the-ground organization dedicated to producing a win for him in Iowa. But as we all should realize, the winner of the Iowa caucus is not likely to become the Republican Party nominee — except if it is Mitt Romney.
Ask Mike Huckabee, who won the 2008 caucus and went on to a resounding collapse elsewhere. Indeed, the Iowa caucus itself is hardly representative of primary contests in other states, where depending on state rules, a Republican Party primary can find all eligible Republican voters and eligible registered independents also voting. To participate in a caucus, you have to show up, spend a few hours deciding where to stand when it is time to cast your preference, and let your neighbors and friends know precisely whom you voted for. As Huckabee predicted the other day, if the weather is very bad, Paul will win. If it is good weather and easy to get about, Romney will become the winner.
As for what Paul represents, everyone should carefully read the single most incisive dissection of what drives Paul's supporters and Paul himself. It appears on the website of "The Sultan Knish," a.k.a. Daniel Greenfield. For some time, I have commented on the dangers of the supporters of a Left-Right antiwar coalition, one that some call the Red-Green coalition or the joining together of the supporters of Pat Buchanan and the last Stalinist in America, Alexander Cockburn. During the Clinton years of the intervention in Bosnia, Cockburn and Buchanan shared the speaker's podium at anti-war rallies. Today, the equivalent is the similar positions taken by Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich or Ralph Nader, who have indistinguishable policies.
On this issue, Greenfield makes the following observation:
When Ted Rall was recently dreaming of a left-right revolution against the government, the Paul Pot have been openly talking about it. Rand Paul discussed a left-right coalition for rolling back the "American Empire". That sort of crossover is what makes Ron Paul valuable. The media championed him as an Anti-War Republican because he offered a left-right coalition against the War on Terror.
For all that the wonks insist on viewing America as a red and blue state lineup, there are a lot of other colors in the mix. More than the libertarians, most of whom have a limited comfort level with Paul, there are various flavors of anarchists, white supremacists, conspiracy theorists, and people who are even further off the map. They are a politically underserved demographic and while they won't win elections, they have the obsessive nature and the time to make a difference.
Ron Paul's broad appeal is that he promises to reduce the power of government and American power in general, and that's something everyone from Communists to Nazis, anarchists to monarchists can get behind. Revolutions begin with a broad front assault on the system and Ron Paul has ended up as the symbol of a broad front of those who see some political, financial or other benefit from taking down the system.
That's why Ron Paul's generic policy positions, which aside from drabs of paranoia are not all that distinguishable from many of his opponents, are not really the issue. His pet obsessions even less so except that they allow him to speak the language of his supporters and they make him completely irrelevant on most other issues.
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1. David Thomson
Ron Paul is probably being significantly helped by Obama supporters! Iowa's rule allows non Republicans to cast votes. Obama has the Democrat nomination locked up. It therefore behooves left-wingers to hijack the GOP nomination process.December 27, 2011 - 9:59 am Link to this Comment | Reply
Higher Game
Yet, Paul is strongest amongst independents and Democrats. Republicans just grumble about him now, but he'll get their vote in 2012. Neocons would pick him over Obama, for certain.December 27, 2011 - 11:44 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Le Cracquere
Couldn't be farther from the truth. If it snows in Tartarus and Paul ends up the Republican nominee, I'll run to the polls to vote for Obama, and so will plenty of other conservatives. Better a thumbless, errant foreign policy that occasionally does the right thing out of incompetence or cynicism, than one that'd cut off our allies and serenely watch them burn out of principle.December 28, 2011 - 8:07 am Link to this Comment | Reply
Well, I have voted for Republicans every election since I was old enough to vote and I detest Obama. But I would not vote for Ron Paul under any circumstances given his noxious foreign policy positions. I'd stay home, and I bet that there are many more Republican voters like me than you think.December 29, 2011 - 7:13 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Yes indeed. The same youth who followed Obama in 2008 and voted for him, treating his like King, Saint and even an icon follow this chicken Perdu guy Ron Paul, all those who smoke pot and voted for Obama now believe that they have gained advance knowledge (hahaha…)and have become fanatic Paul's followers!!!
Hey even the NEW AMERICAN IDOL has endorsed him. This is the State of America people, a nation like sheep following one dog after another…
I always knew that Paul is nothing but a hippie at heart, a leftist dressed as a fake capitalist. Him and his fantasy bubble of world view is tantamount to America's demise for sure, if he gets the job.December 29, 2011 - 9:37 am Link to this Comment | Reply
2. carl menger
You left Sen. Robert "Mr. Republican" Taft and Congressman Howard Buffett (R-NE) among your list of "isolationist" losers.
Listen to Buffett in 1950:
"Even if it were desirable, America is not strong enough to police the world by military force. If that attempt is made, the blessings of liberty will be replaced by coercion and tyranny at home. Our Christian ideals cannot be exported to other lands by dollars and guns. Persuasion and example are the methods taught by the Carpenter of Nazareth, and if we believe in Christianity we should try to advance our ideals by his methods. We cannot practice might and force abroad and retain freedom at home. We cannot talk world cooperation and practice power politics."
And that Leftist Robert Taft:
"My conclusion, therefore, is that in the case of Korea, where a war was already under way, we had no right to send troops to a nation, with whom we had no treaty, to defend it against attack by another nation, no matter how unprincipled that aggression might be, unless the whole matter was submitted to Congress and a declaration of war or some other direct authority obtained."December 27, 2011 - 11:59 am Link to this Comment | Reply
Isolationism has been very widespread in the U.S. See for instance http://clarespark.com/2011/06/03/neo-isolationists-and-the-jewish-problem/, especially the quotes from Lindbergh's notorious Des Moines speech. And don't forget America First, a large organization in coalition with the CPUSA during the Pact period, opposing aid to England and any other involvement in the war against Nazism and Fascism.And for more on Robert Hutchins and Chester Bowles see http://clarespark.com/2010/06/19/committee-for-economic-development-and-its-sociologists/. It was not just a few cranks who were isolationists, but powerful men of the "middle."December 29, 2011 - 8:02 am Link to this Comment | Reply
3. Buzzsawmonkey
Ron Paul has been in the House 30 years. Has he any victories to his credit? I have heard of none*. Certainly he has been monumentally ineffective in persuading his fellow Representatives to follow his supposed devotion to small government and the Constitution.
This means that if—God forbid—he were to be catapulted into the Oval Office, he would be even more at odds with the Congress than Barack Obama, who has had the benefit of a large number of far-left allies in Congress to carry his water for him. In other words, if Paul attempted to do what he claims to want to do he would either be stopped cold or would have to resort to flexing powers at least as dictatorial and anti-Constitutional as those the current occupant has used.
*While I have not heard of Ron Paul winning any victories for small government and the Constitution, I have heard rumors that Paul has been adept at "bringing home the bacon" during his term of office. If true, this means that the advocate of small, lean government has spent his 30 years in the government avidly doing, for his own district, precisely what he decries the government doing for every other district—which makes him a fraud and hypocrite of the first water.December 27, 2011 - 4:01 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Chris in California
Why does he keep getting re-elected?December 29, 2011 - 5:41 am Link to this Comment | Reply
4. hoosiertoo
Yawn.December 27, 2011 - 4:12 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
5. David W
The only person I can think of to come across worse than Obama would be Paul. I've listened to some of his comments and explanations. Even without a teleprompter Obama would come across better than Paul. I can imagine that if Paul were to win the nomination the media, democrats, and other would be able to find more than enough to make a lot of people question the viability of Paul as President (and the anti-Obama sentiment would not be enough to get Paul the win).December 27, 2011 - 4:18 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Ron Wagner
Leaves Romney as the last man standing in the Republican circular firing squad. Paul will have to be one hell of a salesman to beat Romney. If he can do that, maybe he can educate the voters for better or worse. If he can beat Romney he can beat Obama. I don't see it happening though. I would be happy to see him as VP. The military industrial complex has too much say so in our government. We have little to show for Vietnam, Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. We can show enough inflation to greatly weaken our economy however, and lost many good men, and many came home wounded. We do have the greatest military in the history of the world, and the most experienced modern fighters. Do we want to be a warrior society, and maintain an empire? If not, should we continue to spend more, on our military, than the rest of the world spends together?December 27, 2011 - 5:41 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
6. Herb
The results of the Iowa cacus might say more about Iowa than about Ron Paul. It is a weird state in which a judge collaborated with the prosecution of the Rubashkin family, and in a notorious miscarriage of justice, gave him a stiff sentence. If Ron Paul wins, I recommend that we recognize the independence of Iowa and support its claim to membership as the 194th country to the UNDecember 27, 2011 - 4:40 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Lili von Shtupp
Amen to that, Herb! Lived there for two years, left last year. I love some of the Hawkeye State (it is surprisingly lovely, especially the eastern half), but some parts of it are nuttier than squirrel crap.December 27, 2011 - 10:54 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
7. win
Interesting, as I find that historians also consider WWII blowback of the Treaty of Versailles at the end of WWI. Indeed the treaty was not negotiated with Germany or any country, but demanded of them. Only in 2010 did Germany finally pay the "reparations". Wilson however had not necessarily do anything but accept the treaty to get the deed done, he apparently preferred that Europe work at rebuilding itself with Germany a part of Europe rather then punish Germany. The treaty was overly harsh and did not lead to reunification.
Republicans are not on a winning path at this point, as hard as I (an independent) find it to believe, as much as I wish it were not so, the Republicans with their constant attacks on each other have put themselves on a path to losing the Presidency and Congress. How about the Republicans quit attacking each other so venomously and instead focus on winning, on showing they can do a better job.December 27, 2011 - 5:01 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
"….historians also consider WWII blowback of the Treaty of Versailles at the end of WWI." Yes, this is the leftist historians' interpretation. However, many of us who understand military theory (and practice) recognize that the rise of Nazi Germany is owed more to the fact that they were not utterly crushed and demoralized in WWI, but allowed to back up, re-group and fight another day.
Props to you though. You're the first Paulistinian I've seen comment here who doesn't come off sounding as kooky as your dear cult leader.December 28, 2011 - 6:18 am Link to this Comment | Reply
Steve K
Maybe your historians consider WWII blowback from the Treaty of Versailles at the end of first world war. Mine consider it "blowback" for not defeating the Germans in the first world war. Mine wrote: General Pershing was set on blasting the German army out of existence, while it was (President Woodrow) Wilson's hope to stage-manage "peace" negotiations at the 1919 Paris "Peace" Conference. Wilson wanted Germany to come to the peace table with strength. "Germany must not have surrendered unconditionally. She must have an army…"
"If they had given us another ten days," Pershing complained, "we would have rounded up the entire German army….What I dread is that Germany does not know she was licked. Had they given us another week, we'd have taught them." Even as he reached this conclusion, German officers were originating the theory of the "stab in the back" — the popaganda notion so successfully exploitd by Hitler that the German Army had never really been beaten, would never have surrendered, had it never been betrayed by enemies within the German state.
You see Mr. "win," herein lies the difference between conservatives and Ron Paul and his libertarian-leaning supporters. Genuine conservative internalize the harsh lessons from history. Ron Paul and his supporters continue down dangerous paths of surrender and appeasement trod by Utopian "Wilsonians" and other useful idiots from our past.December 29, 2011 - 6:16 am Link to this Comment | Reply
8. don
It is interesting watching him troll for an Obama exemption from consequences–I had no idea Rev. Wright was preaching bigotry for twenty years. I wonder if Ron had the audacity to inhale or drop acid or do a line? A little consciousness raising could help.December 27, 2011 - 5:24 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
9. techno
I think ron paul's a kook, mainly for his economic and foreign-policy ideas. But the way the right is piling on the guy, I'm starting to actually like him. A hint: When criticizing somebody for doing something, it's a good idea to make sure they actually DID it first. People can check. The story about him "storming out" of an interview was a great belly-laugh. How long did CNN think they'd get away with that once people started demanding the unedited video? People don't believe edited videos anymore – o'keefe made sure of that (is he in prison yet?).
As for whether paul would make a good president … well, he couldn't do worse than bush. The US is still paying for what happened on his watch, and paying BIG. And none of it needed to happen. Of course, when ron paul pegs the exchange rate and trashes the economy, trashes trade agreements and provokes retaliatory export hurdles, takes his eye off the middle-east long enough for egypt and syria to attack israel, then you guys can all pin it on whichever democrat inherits the mess. That's just how history works.December 27, 2011 - 5:42 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
"As for whether paul would make a good president … well, he couldn't do worse than bush. The US is still paying for what happened on his watch, and paying BIG. And none of it needed to happen. Of course, when ron paul pegs the exchange rate and trashes the economy, trashes trade agreements and provokes retaliatory export hurdles, takes his eye off the middle-east long enough for egypt and syria to attack israel, then you guys can all pin it on whichever democrat inherits the mess. That's just how history works."
First, the total debt under Pres. Bush was $1.2 T; under Zero it has grown $5.5T and now he wants $1.2T more.
Second, Paul wants to move our economy back to the gold standard. Since moving to the dollar has done so well; the reason is that we are printing paper which is becoming more meaningless; we will become Zimbabwe sooner than you think. What do you think will happen when Japan, UK, SA, and China call in their markers??? What if China and other nations un-peg from the dollar? So why not beat them to the punch?
Third, China has recently increased their import taxes against our exports to them. Plus they manipulate their money to their advantage. So if we lower our corporate tax rates, lower regulation, reinvigorate our industry and start making our own textiles, steel, and other products, we can afford to place some restrictions on "fair trade" which is a misnomer and has not helped us.
Fourth, Egypt and Syria attack Israel?? Only Iran is stupid and irrational enough to even contemplate attacking Israel. And Iran knows what will happen. Paul was the only Congressman to support Israel when they attacked Iraq's nuke plants in 1981.December 27, 2011 - 6:27 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Going back to a Gold Standard would be problematic in the extreme. There simply isn't enough gold in existence to back any major nation's currency.December 28, 2011 - 5:44 am Link to this Comment | Reply
From "Mises on Money" Part II by Dr Gary North:
The optimum quantity of money should be determined by. . . "?
A. The national government
B. A national government-licensed central bank
C. A world central bank of central banks
D. The economics department of the University of Chicago
E. The unhampered free market
F. Allston (just kidding :^))
Who decides the central question of what is money and how much should be in circulation? Unless you answer "the unhampered free market" you are advocating some form of statism. Please do us the favor of familiarizing yourself with monetary theory before pontificating on the topic.December 28, 2011 - 7:07 am Link to this Comment | Reply
Except of course gold and silver currency does not exist as a result of an unhampered free market.
It must still be minted, according to some standards. That inevitably means a limit on how much is issued.
Each unit is inevitably assigned a value. By that very act, a specific value is assigned to a specific quantity, irrespective of the free market.
The supply, being limited, is subject to biased alterations. It can be hoarded, released, mined, not mined, and otherwise varied.
The solution to achieving a theoretical "perfect" "unhampered free market" in currency is not to have gold and silver currency, but to return to an absolute pre-currency barter system, in which case there is no currency at all.
By default, currency requires an authority, be it State or private, which will inevitably work to its own interest and aggrandizement.
Please do us the favor of familiarizing yourself with socio-econo-political function, and not merely a single ideology regarding it, before pontificating on the topic.December 28, 2011 - 8:15 pm Link to this Comment
Please. You CAN find the figures online, you know. Bush ran up 2.4 trillion in a boom time, then jumped … just as a finacial fubar struck that he should have been paying attention to and taken steps to minimize. Obama's been cleaning up that mess since day one and STILL manages to pursue a more effective domestic policy reform agenda.
Whether or not there is enough gold in the world, the US just plain can't afford to peg its exchange rate. Particularly if it spooks the world's central banks and causes them to reconsider it as a reserve currency, or leads to major commodities being priced in something else. It's just wishful thinking dressed up as 'economics' – that the US can decide what its currency should be worth globally and not pay any price for trying.
China manipulates its currency, yes. But 'advantage' depends what you're referring to. They're fixed on boosting exports, at the expense of their population's standard of living (I think they're taking advantage of a closing window of opprtunity before their population starts to get uppity about about that … after all, they're still pretty well used to it). Is the US willing to lower its standard of living to compete? Is the US willing to allow the same labour practices? The same willingness to accept pollution, medical impacts and environmental damage? Or maybe is it time to accept that there will be competition and reassess a few assumptions? Coz the gold standard isn't going to prevent the inevitable, and the world recently got a lot bigger. To me, ron paul seems like a guy who wants the country to stick its head in ground and pretend nothing's changed since 1960. It won't work, and the rest of the world isn't going to play along.
But he does seem like a nice enough guy.December 28, 2011 - 7:23 am Link to this Comment | Reply
Excellent remarks by all. What I am trying to get at is that RP wants to curtail our unrealistic spending habits. Sure returning to the gold standard is pretty much out the window, but he knows we need to do something. Something that Dear Leader, the communists (dems) and our RINOs do not want to do.
At least he is thinking of ways to help America regain her strength and status as the best nation this planet has seen. Unlike Dear Leader who wishes to destroy her. If you hold that against him then we are surely doomed.
Oh techno I was not counting the $800billion in TARP because that was right at the end of his term and everybody wanted it.
"Obama's been cleaning up that mess since day one and STILL manages to pursue a more effective domestic policy reform agenda."
After this gem I decided not to comment to the rest of your post. Obviously rationality and truth was not imbued into your character during your growth and development stages of life.December 28, 2011 - 9:03 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
"After this gem I decided not to comment to the rest of your post"
I assume then that you got to the bit about china's currency, realized that your grasp of economics and finance was insufficient and elected to vacate the field.
It's hard when the facts don't suit your ideology. I recommend that you find a new set of talking points, bring them back and I'll tell you why they're wrong.
And if you don't count the financial bailouts as part of bush's legacy, then there's really not much point arguing. You might as well believe the moon is made of cheese if you think TARP wasn't on his tab.December 29, 2011 - 9:38 pm Link to this Comment
Oh, and you're still 400 billion out, even if you add the TARP.December 29, 2011 - 9:46 pm Link to this Comment
O'Keefe is brilliant, and he isn't done yet.December 29, 2011 - 4:08 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
"O'Keefe is brilliant,"
And he makes michael moore look honest and principled.December 29, 2011 - 9:33 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
10. vcinprnc
The Mittens coalition has become completely unhinged. The Trotskyites would have it no other way. Socialist heavy vs socialist lite. Less filling to be sure. It will be just as it was in the old country!December 27, 2011 - 5:48 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
11. ricpic
Ron Paul wants to save what's left of the Republic. Which bugs the heck out of the Ron Radoshes of the world who are all gaga for the American Empire.December 27, 2011 - 6:16 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Oh I don't doubt he wants to save the republic. Nor do I doubt that Obama wants to bring people to a more equal footing with eachother.
Neither will make me object.
Until I hear how the plan is to be undertaken that is.
And that is where Paul gets shafted because his plan sounds like crap unless you're in his cabal.December 27, 2011 - 8:47 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
12. Random Blowhard
Israel IS more trouble than it's worth. HOW much MONEY should the United States be spending on defending the strongest military power in the Middle East (by a huge margin).
The United States SPENDS 40% MORE than it earns and it's debt has officially entered Banana Republic status of OVER 100% GDP/Debt ratio. Change indeed.
What happens when our creditors stop lending us money? United States of Greece/Argentina/Zimbabwe? How's the Soviet Union empire after it's collapse? How's Russia doing today or Argentina after their financial crisis due to endless "gorge the beast" spending sent them off the cliff?
Empires cannot run on hope and change or the delusion that the United States is TBTF because we say so. They require MONEY, money which the United States is fast running out of despite the denials of those who carry water for the failing ideology of endless infinite war.
The United States WILL suffer Total Economic Collapse if "business as usual", especially in foreign policy, continues much longer.
We CANNOT afford the endless, infinite wars on everything anymore. It really is that simple.
Destitute nations CANNOT maintain empires, they often struggle to even hold themselves together.
Economic collapse – Change your getting…December 27, 2011 - 7:56 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Oh, for God's sake, Israel gets $3 billion in loan guarantees which it uses to purchase military equipment made in the USA. Foreign aid in total is less than 3% of total expenditures. This has nothing whatsoever to do with the scope of the deficit, which is a function of burgeoning and unaffordable entitlement spending, particularly Medicare and Medicaid. And, with the idiotic payroll tax holiday, Social Security revenues are inadequate to its expenditures. Until someone has an intelligent plan to deal with the entitlements, the deficit will not be fixed.December 29, 2011 - 7:19 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
"Israel gets $3 billion in loan guarantees which it uses to purchase military equipment made in the USA"
You'd be shocked to find out how often that's how military equipment gets paid for
The permanent members of the security council also happen to be the world's largest arms exporters, and all of them use loan guarantees, export credits and other kinds of "aid" to underwrite their local arms industry. They all see it as a strategic investment. The US is no different, and Israel is a fairly normal sort of customer as it goes. It's a prosperous country, but it's also very small and faces a number of large challenges. So it's not too surprising.December 29, 2011 - 9:54 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Mr. Paul seems to attract the most extreme and eccentric amoungst us to his campaign.
Casper "Odinson" Crowll endorced Ron Paul back in 2007. Mr. Crowell is a celebrity dropout from the Aryan Brotherhood Prison Gang.
He whiles away his life sentence promoting both Mr. Paul & the racialist religion of Odinism from Corcoran (California) State Prison.December 27, 2011 - 8:42 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
14. myth buster
And now you see why I support a brokered convention. So, my fellow conservatives, how desperate are you? Are you willing to risk everything on one last all-in bet, or are you just going to cower and lose by attrition?December 27, 2011 - 8:50 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
15. Touchstone
Nevermind his policies. Ron Paul is too old to be President!
Watch a youtube video of Paul from the early 1990′s or before. He's much more articulate, measured, and coherent than he is now. Nowadays, at the age of 76, he's cantankerous, impatient, hurried, easily flustered, sometimes incoherent and rigidly set in his ways. He's no longer a viable candidate for a position in which he'd have to solve enormous problems, thoughtfully and intelligently. He's deteriorating intellectually, and it's becoming conspicuous. Imagine how noticeable it'll be when he's in his first year in office at the age of 78.
Add to that the fact that he's unleashing the hounds of hatred, and he's simply bad news. He's got the Stormfront vote locked up, that's for sure. Jews, blacks, gays and other minorities should be VERY troubled by the hate-spewing fanatics crawling out of the woodwork, energized by their cult leader Paul. I've never seen so much vicious hatred spewed online as I have in recent weeks, much of it coming from the pro-Paul fanatics.December 27, 2011 - 8:58 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
I will not vote for Ron Paul….period.December 27, 2011 - 10:13 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
17. patrick1
PJ Media and others are sure spending alot of time and talent on a guy who has no chance of winning anything, let alone the GOP nomination. He will not win Iowa because his support is from basement dwellers and children who will not go to anyone's house or God forbid a government building to vote.
I know what the polls say, just ask President Dean about their accruacy. The GOP nominee will be either Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich and that is what the choice will be. Time to get on with this thing and target the real threat to America, Barack Hussein Obama.
As for Iowa, they voted for Bush over Reagan in 1980. They should have lost their place in line just for that stupidity.December 27, 2011 - 10:23 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
18. Ed Wallis
Ron Paul considers World War II "unnecessary."
WELL THEN: Let's imagine Paul's little world AFTER 1945 with a victorious Nazi Germany and Japan…
*NOW*, imagine what that suggests for TODAY'S America with a NUCLEAR IRAN.
*That's* the real-world deadly consequence of this man's blindly rigid ideology…BUT HE'S "CONSISTENT"!!!December 27, 2011 - 10:53 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Higher Game
It didn't matter that the Soviets beat the Nazis; why would it matter the other way around? Europe has always been irrelevant to America. We should stick to our own hemisphere and be happy with it.
End the wars. Ron Paul 2012.December 28, 2011 - 12:00 am Link to this Comment | Reply
Actually it did matter because it was not the Soviets who defeated the Nazis but the United States.
Had the U.S. avoided WW II the Nazis would have won and the U.S. would have been Minor Power rather than a Superpower, and thus severely hampered in any attempt to resist further expansion by both the Nazis and the Japanese.December 28, 2011 - 8:18 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
*eye roll*
Seriously? The US defeated the nazis all by itself? Makes me wonder why the US took so long to get involved, if it was that easy. Also makes me wonder how the US managed to get so many russian-speaking troops into berlin.
Did the US win WWI as well?December 30, 2011 - 10:22 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
19. Sarah
I find myself asking similar questions about Paul that I asked when Obama started his campaign. Is he naive? Is he willfully dangerous? Etc. But I'm beyond those questions now because what matters is the world view and the policies they enact. I don't care about their motives. It's enough to know they are dangerous. Paul is a menace. It is deeply disturbing to see how much support he is getting. Are his supporters ignorant or naive, or are they willfully dangerous? I know not.December 27, 2011 - 11:41 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
20. Jake 'the wonder dog"
While Paul's fiscal policies are appealing to me, he loses me on ALL of the rest of his policies.
The epiphany I got about Ron Paul, his supporters and about the Ron Paul campaign was when his supporters were compared and contrasted with the supporters of Obama: Both groups of supporters WORSHIP THEIR LEADERS. This alone should be THE warning sign to all interested parties.
Whenever you try to debate one of Paul's followers, their worship of him becomes evident in their personal attacks on you. His policies can't be debated, simply because, in a supporter's mind, he is "the annointed one, the golden child, who can do no wrong, and the only VISIONARY with the solution to our problems.December 28, 2011 - 3:54 am Link to this Comment | Reply
21. hoosiertoo
I think we can officially declare the existence of PDS among Republicans. Mention Paul and the lamestream goes straight out of their minds. Most entertaining.December 28, 2011 - 6:00 am Link to this Comment | Reply
22. eon
I was surprised at Paul's sudden popularity. Somehow, I gt the feeling nobody recalled his presence in the 2008 GOP debates, when every question he was asked was answered with a screed about the existence of Israel and why it was the source of all our problems.
But even if you disregard that, Paul and his followers exist in a very strange reality tunnel. As shown here courtesy of Ace of Spades (hat tip to Real Clear Politics);
Based on this, I would have to say that neither Paul or his supporters are too tightly wrapped.
Never mind their geopolitical views. Paul and his people are living in their own parallel universe.
We have a bunch of those in the White House now. That's one of our major problems.
More of the same is not a viable alternative.
clear ether
eonDecember 28, 2011 - 6:27 am Link to this Comment | Reply
The Republicans have no principles to speak of except "it's bad when they do it and good when we do" (c.f. John McCain). Paul gets support because the Republicans more or less disowned the libertarian wing of the Reagan Coalition under Bush Sr and Jr and even the prospect of McCain, who were truly awful (and recall, o ye erstwhile guardians of liberty, who refused to veto McCain-Feingold?). So yeah, he's a kook, but creating an electoral threat is getting play as a means of forcing people to pay attention (which is, of course, the time-honored play of any political minority).December 28, 2011 - 12:48 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
23. Practical
I would not vote for RP, however in a poll I might say I am. Many of us describe ourselves these days as libertarian-leaning conservatives to separate ourselves from RINOs/establishment Republicans. Republicans know they have their grassroots (conservatives) as we would never vote for Obama (and we do vote) and feel they can choose anyone for us. After all if you think you have your base wrapped up, why kowtow? I consider this a warning shot over the bow to Republicans. We conservatives are feeling closer to Libertarian candidates these days than Republicans and as soon as there is one that is not RonPaul they may really be surprised- they ARE noticing now, aren't they? (I don't think they realize how angry many of us are about McCain/Romney and are tired of their 'fear' of democrats/media).December 28, 2011 - 7:22 am Link to this Comment | Reply
24. Joseph Rush Wills, II
I seem to recall Ron Paul having formally left the Republican Party, whose presidential nomination he now seeks. Paul is a Constitution-loving Conservative one moment, and Libertarian Isolationist spouting whacky ideas the next.
My fear is not that Paul would become the Republican candidate, but would run as an idependent and syphon enough votes away ala Ross Perot to ensure Obama's re-election, the final triumph of Marxism…and the end of America as our Founding Fathers established it.December 28, 2011 - 7:32 am Link to this Comment | Reply
The Root '83
"My fear is not that Paul would become the Republican candidate, but would run as an idependent and syphon enough votes away ala Ross Perot to ensure Obama's re-election"
Give that man a cigar!….
why else is he being covered favorably the press normally hostile to all things "conservative"?December 28, 2011 - 8:32 am Link to this Comment | Reply
You dang fools. You'll have us all hanging by the noose of the progressives for your support of candidates who have no intent of any real cuts. Take your Gingrich and your Romney, if you must! Watch them raise the debt and crush your freedoms beneath their feet. But never say we didn't warn you, and know that you called us kooks and crazies for it. We'll be in a state of perpetual war against vague, shifting enemies. The TSA will expand. The debt will grow. Your 4th Amendment rights will continue to erode. The borders will remain open. You will change nothing, because you're too busy calling people crazy just for telling the truth.
Read 1984 again and see how much of it applies to modern America, including the GOP.December 28, 2011 - 9:34 am Link to this Comment | Reply
Why is it that only the Paulistinians are smart enough to see light, and the other 90% of us are just so doggone dumb? hmmmmm….December 28, 2011 - 11:27 am Link to this Comment | Reply
26. miguelj
Ron Paul: crackbrained little quisling garden gnome. Well, at least this'll be his last real hurrah; in 2016, he'll be manifestly too old to run (not that it'll stop him trying)December 28, 2011 - 11:55 am Link to this Comment | Reply
27. Bill D. Burg
"Take your Gingrich and your Romney, if you must! Watch them raise the debt and crush your freedoms beneath their feet. But never say we didn't warn you, and know that you called us kooks and crazies for it. We'll be in a state of perpetual war against vague, shifting enemies. The TSA will expand. The debt will grow. Your 4th Amendment rights will continue to erode. The borders will remain open. You will change nothing, because you're too busy calling people crazy just for telling the truth."
Ah, yes. Everything is proceeding according to my design!December 28, 2011 - 2:02 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
28. Mr. X
Some made the mistake of thinking the Conservatives were our friends [not any conservatives who refuse to cut the $1 trillion 'defense' budget one iota or cut TSA's groping budget]. I knew that was not true. They were only interested in us so long as they thought they could use us to their advantage. Has anyone noticed how the Conservative media turned against us as soon as it looked like we might actually have a real effect on the election? Even Pajamas Media has taken a decidly anti-libertarian turn. I must admit that one surprised me a bit, but as to the rest, I fully expected it. [No surprise, but you'll notice Glenn Reynolds and Richard Fernandez, the two bloggers who made PJM a success, are not joining in the Ron Paul hate]
I still do not expect Ron Paul will win, but God Almighty, I do intend to let those [MIC whoring, endless war supporting, Fiat money printing loving] Sons of Bitches know we libertarians were there. If you are Conservative and you still do not understand why we fight after reading this missive… you are really rather dense.
Ron, you and your PJM bosses apparently didn't give Glenn Reynolds the memo. You're all on the Paul hate bandwagon, including many sock puppet commenters, until the hated Dr. No to war with Iran goes away.December 28, 2011 - 2:45 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Well, if all you're doing is arguing with sock puppets, why are you wasting your time here? Why don't ya go somewhere that isn't infested with sock puppets?
29. vangrungy
Romney is not Natural born.. hence the reason he is being pushed as the 'alternative' to Barry..
unless you can prove George Romney is an American Citizen though born in Mexico to parents born in Mexico, don't bother with a reply..
Just because you refuse to accept the 14th Amendment does not mean the rest of us have to.
Mitt Romney was born in the U.S., he is a natural born citizen.December 28, 2011 - 8:21 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
you mean as viewed through a progressive prism.. no thanks.. the 14th does not address 'natural born'.. nor was it meant for 'jackpot babies' like Marco Rubio whos parents were not naturalized yet when he was born.December 28, 2011 - 10:49 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
30. vangrungy
Ron Paul will be the President the House will crucify..
what's the point of a President that the 'ruling class' hates? Barry has the Sociodems in his corner..
Which party does Ron Paul actually command as a Democrat supported Republican President?
of course, Ron Paul supporters don't care that the Dem supporters that are buoying him are doing so that even if Obama loses they have a Stormfront target to destroy actual Republicanism forever..
btw.. Greatest vetting process EVAH!!!!December 28, 2011 - 3:16 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
31. vangrungy
Vote Ron Paul.. because if Congress impeaches him and the Senate convicts him, Dennis Kucinich will take his place!!!
Ron Paul supporters are morons..December 28, 2011 - 3:46 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
As a Buckeye, I hereby humbly apologize for Cleveland/Cuyahoga County repeatedly sending Dennis the Menace back to Washington. (NB; I'm in the other end of the state.)
I keep hoping he'll hop a ride on one of those UFOs he claims to see- and forget to come back.
eonDecember 28, 2011 - 5:41 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
32. aardunza
All I know is my pappy told me never trust a man with two first names.December 28, 2011 - 7:54 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
33. RichC.
I am ticked off and amazed at the stupidity of those arguing against Ron Paul.. Does anyone understand that he fights for our freedom?? Racist?? You got to be kidding me.. Has anyone read those articles? Is everyone out there just out of diapers therefore not knowing when our country was filled with hard working individuals taking responsibility for their own actions, and not little cry babies wondering when their next drink for the government teet will be coming?? We used to be embarrassed taking government money. I am aghast at the stupidity of everyone out there who thinks a Constitutionalist is the extremist.. Are you Americans who believe in freedom, or Marxist lovers of the Obamanation we have in the White House?? I won't even discuss the Rino Republicrats Romney and Gingrich et al.. They support government healthcare and global warming legislation for crying out loud. Ron Paul believe in you, period. You, have your money/freedom, and take care of yourself. It's disgusting and embarrassing the dumb attacks on Ron Paul.December 28, 2011 - 9:37 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
34. ApolloSpeaks
Let Ron Paul and his army of crackpot, delusional anti-Zionist zealots smear Israel with lies and pro-Palestinian propaganda till hell runs over. Let him theorize that if Israel didn't exist there would have been no 9/11, no Global War on Terror, no wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, no thousands of US civilians and soldiers injured and dead, no conflict with Iran over nuclear weapons, no hatred of America by the Moslem world. Let him scapegoat Israel all he wants and dream of a world without her, and how it would bring an end to jihad and peace to America. Let him rant and rave till the end of his losing candidacy that he alone can bring peace to a troubled world and prosperity back to America. Like Abdel Nasser, Ayatollah Khomeini, Hafez al-Assad, Yassar Arafat, bin Laden, and an assortment of genocidal Hamas leaders Ron Paul will die and go to his grave but Israel will live remaining America's closest friend and ally in the civilizational war with totalitarian Islam.December 29, 2011 - 5:11 am Link to this Comment | Reply
35. Badger Bros.
Has anyone noticed the similarity between Ron Paul and Iowa born William Appleman Williams and the Wisconsin school of American History?December 29, 2011 - 6:32 am Link to this Comment | Reply
36. aeroguy48
I wished we could clone Ron Paul with Rick Perry. That would be a killer candidate.December 29, 2011 - 7:06 am Link to this Comment | Reply
37. messup
Just imagine the scenario, Ron Paul, squeeky voice answering a 'gotcha'
question by MSM "unbaised" debate monitors and the "Voice-in-Chief" responds with his usual debate personna in front of gazillion American voters.
Question: Who looks more Presidential? Squeeky or Mr. Cool? Just take a stab at the answer!
That's what's happening in Iowa. Simple! Two-plus-two is definitely four. Two alliances (White House and everything leftist MSM) plus two experts in political machinations: Mr. Axelrod and Emmanuel, equals a resouding four percentage point spread (or more) for Mr. Obama in General Elections.
Culture of Corruption, with its birthplace in We The Elite People of Washington DC is well on its way to another FOUR years of successfully 'transforming' Our Blessed USA! Vote massively for Ms. Bachmann. Save Our USA. God Bless America.December 29, 2011 - 9:10 am Link to this Comment | Reply
38. Bernie
You still have to account for Paul's strength. I don't believe it lies in his economic or foreign policies. His positions come closest to representing the white male voter. To get up to date approximately about this voter see the book by David Paul Kuhn entitled "The Neglected Voter". The Democratic Party has been hemorrhaging white male voters to the Republican Party. The two Bush administrations did very little for him so he turned to the tea party movement. The current cast of characters offer him nothing directly but Ron Paul comes closest. That is what makes Paul a serious contender. This analysis is in line with the article (widely ignored) by Thomas Edsall which appeared in the New York Times. It is confirmed by important Democratic Party analysts Stanley Greenberg and Ruy Teixeira. The Iowa contender that promises for example to do away with Affirmative Action will surge in the polls.December 29, 2011 - 11:46 am Link to this Comment | Reply
39. Carmelo Junior
Ron Paul is a NAZIDecember 29, 2011 - 12:10 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
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