If you happen to live in Iowa, please do me and my liberty a favor and turn out for Ron Paul M.D. at the straw poll tomorrow in Ames.
I’d really appreciate it.
Best,
Scott
Update: Way to go Ron Paulians!
1st Mitt Romney: 4516 votes
2nd Mike Huckabee: 2587 votes
3rd Sam Brownback: 2192 votes
4th Tom Tancredo: 1961 votes
5th Ron Paul: 1305 votes
6th Tommy Thompson: 1039 votes
7th Fred Thompson: 203 votes
8th Rudy Giuliani: 183 votes
9th Duncan Hunter: 174 votes
10th John McCain: 101 votes
11th John Cox: 41 votes
http://blog-reporter.blogspot.com/2007/08/final-copy-of-ad-to-appear-in-saturday.html
Great Ron Paul add.
And even if you don’t live in Iowa. Vote more than once. Hack the voting system.
And if you don’t live in Iowa, make damn sure with signatures and petitions that Ron Paul gets placed on the ballot this year in your state!!
Help Ron all ya can. The country needs Ron when ya got these Stu Buttfucskys runnin’ around
Stu Bykofsky
To save America, we need another 9/11
http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/stu_bykofsky/20070809_Stu_Bykofsky___To_save_America__we_need_another_9_11.html
Ole Stu wouldn’t be one of those “Israel First” guys now would he?
http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/stu_bykofsky/20070118_dn_M_BYKO.html
From Willliam Blum’s latest:
Libertarians: an eccentric blend of anarchy and runaway capitalism
What is it about libertarians? Their philosophy, in theory and in practice, seems to amount to little more than: “If the government is doing it, it’s oppressive and we’re against it.” Corporations, however, tend to get free passes. Perhaps the most prominent libertarian today is Texas Congressman Ron Paul, who ran as the Libertarian Party’s candidate for president in 1988 and is running now for the same office as a Republican. He’s against the war in Iraq, in no uncertain terms, but if the war were officially being fought by, for, and in the name of a consortium of Lockheed Martin, Halliburton, Bechtel, and some other giant American corporations, would he have the same attitude? And one could of course argue that the war is indeed being fought for such a consortium. So is it simply the idea or the image of “a government operation” that bothers him and other libertarians?
Paul recently said: “The government is too bureaucratic, it spends too much money, they waste the money.”[9]
Does the man think that corporations are not bureaucratic? Do libertarians think that any large institution is not overbearingly bureaucratic? Is it not the nature of the beast? Who amongst us has not had the frustrating experience with a corporation trying to correct an erroneous billing or trying to get a faulty product repaired or replaced? Can not a case be made that corporations spend too much (of our) money? What do libertarians think of the exceedingly obscene salaries paid to corporate executives? Or of two dozen varieties of corporate theft and corruption? Did someone mention Enron?
Ron Paul and other libertarians are against social security. Do they believe that it’s better for elderly people to live in a homeless shelter than to be dependent on government “handouts”? That’s exactly what it would come down to with many senior citizens if not for their social security. Most libertarians I’m sure are not racists, but Paul certainly sounds like one. Here are a couple of comments from his newsletter:
“Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty and the end of welfare and affirmative action.”
“Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the ‘criminal justice system,’ I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.”[10]
Author Ellen Willis has written that “the fundamental fallacy of right libertarianism is that the state is the only source of coercive power.” They don’t recognize “that the corporations that control most economic resources, and therefore most people’s access to the necessities of life, have far more power than government to dictate our behavior and the day-to-day terms of our existence.”[11]
Paul,
William Blum is an idiot. To wit:
Libertarians: an eccentric blend of anarchy and runaway capitalism
–No public property=all property is private. A=A is now eccentric. Better throw in the term ‘runaway’ to make sure the benefit of the doubt flows to the State.
What is it about libertarians? Their philosophy, in theory and in practice, seems to amount to little more than: “If the government is doing it, it’s oppressive and we’re against it.”
–Right. That’s all there is to it. There never have been millions of pages of writings by libertarian scholars explaining any of this. Oh, and yes, government – by definition – is an expropriating property protector. Everything they do is at least financed, most often enforced as well, at the point of a gun. That is oppressive and libertarians are indeed against it.
Corporations, however, tend to get free passes.
–That’s a wonderful assertion. Got any evidence? See, this is what leftists always do, they pretend that libertarianism is an argument for the status quo. Well, that’s horse-shit. We live in a 3 Trillion dollar a year globe spanning empire. A neo-mercantilist or, in fact, fascist system. But to a leftist, this is the fault of markets rather than the 3 Trillion dollar state. While at the same time, they pretend that this is libertarian paradise and that’s why is sucks.
–The fact of the matter is that no one opposes the true cause of our predicament – billionaires on welfare – better than libertarians, because we – unlike lefties like Blum – can tell the difference between a company competing in a market and buying up a Congressman.
Perhaps the most prominent libertarian today is Texas Congressman Ron Paul, who ran as the Libertarian Party’s candidate for president in 1988 and is running now for the same office as a Republican.
–Yay Ron!
He’s against the war in Iraq, in no uncertain terms, but if the war were officially being fought by, for, and in the name of a consortium of Lockheed Martin, Halliburton, Bechtel, and some other giant American corporations, would he have the same attitude? And one could of course argue that the war is indeed being fought for such a consortium. So is it simply the idea or the image of “a government operation” that bothers him and other libertarians?
–God! What an idiot! Really, I mean do I even need to explain this? Is it not obvious just reading the above ridiculousness? The STATE is waging war in Iraq. They are Taxing and Inflating the Money to pay for it, and they are waving a big American flag while they do it. What’s that you say? The public, democratic tax-collecting Government is doing all this on behalf of some corrupt private companies? Well, shit. We ought to abolish capitalism then.
–Seems like Ron Paul would love war as long as the Government announced it was doing it for some corporations, huh? (How dumb does a man have to be to be a state loving leftist these days? It’s like arguing with a born again who insists the Earth is 6,000 years old. Facts don’t matter. They just keep chanting slogans like a warblogger. Create their own reality.)
Paul recently said: “The government is too bureaucratic, it spends too much money, they waste the money.”[9]
Does the man think that corporations are not bureaucratic?
–Well, that’s obviously what he was saying, right?
–See, it’s like this:
–I like skateboarding.
–”Is Horton saying that water-skiing isn’t fun?”
–That is the obvious implication, no? No.
–Leftist: One entirely incapable of reason, loves government.
Do libertarians think that any large institution is not overbearingly bureaucratic? Is it not the nature of the beast?
–No, actually there are none of us who think that.
Who amongst us has not had the frustrating experience with a corporation trying to correct an erroneous billing or trying to get a faulty product repaired or replaced?
–No one. Obviously to anyone with eyeballs, even William Blum, the bigger and more centralized a system gets, the less efficient it will be.
–Now the extremely challenging part: So, do you want to give these giant inefficient corporations access to the 3 Trillion dollar U.S. treasury, have the anti-trust division stamp out their competition or otherwise regulate them out of business, granting them State-protected perpetuity or let them fail in the market and be replaced by someone who does a better job?
Can not a case be made that corporations spend too much (of our) money?
–How do they get that money? Do they bribe Congressmen for it, or do they suggest to people that they might want to invest/purchase their goods or services? If they haven’t stolen it from the taxpayer or defrauded their investors they can spend it however they want. Or what? Put a bureaucrat on the board to make sure it’s “fair”?
What do libertarians think of the exceedingly obscene salaries paid to corporate executives?
–That’s for the stockholders to decide. Going rates for good CEOs are pretty high these days. If it’s a bad deal, the stock holders will stop making it. (Personally, I think they are way out of proportion to what I would pay them.)
Or of two dozen varieties of corporate theft and corruption?
–Oh, we love it! Really, I just can’t figure out how people can be so dumb. If I was a doctor, I’d probably check all my left wing patients for giant scars on their heads from where a brick or falling anvil or something knocked all the sense out of them.
–I should start a new Yahoo group: pro-fraud libertarians. It’ll be huge in no time.
Did someone mention Enron?
–Well, I was just about to. Enron made all of their money off of government. Force, theft, fraud and most importantly: Lobbying! The myth of electrical deregulation is just that – a myth. Every Damned Thing That Every Damned Enron Employee Did Every Damned Day was spelled out in The Law somewhere. They used State power to steal.
–For my part, I’m glad they went out of business. Too bad the Governments of so many of the States invested their Public pension funds in that fascist scam. I suppose Blum thinks Bush should have intervened and saved them for the greater good.
Ron Paul and other libertarians are against social security. Do they believe that it’s better for elderly people to live in a homeless shelter than to be dependent on government “handouts”? That’s exactly what it would come down to with many senior citizens if not for their social security.
–First of all, Ron Paul has never voted to spend a single dime out of the Social Security fund on other things. Second of all, Mr. Blum, there’s this neato new thing called Google. It’s what they call a Search Engine. See? And if you had one of those (or could put that tiny little brain of yours to use on the one you already have), then you would see that Ron Paul M.D. has repeatedly called for the young to be able to opt out of Social Security and for the savings gained from abandoning the empire to be spent towards paying off ALL of those who’ve spent their lives paying in.
–He has said repeatedly that it will take “generations” to wean the people off of their dependence on the state and that “we are certainly not going to turn people out on the street in the meantime.”
–In 1996 and 2000, LP presidential candidate Harry Browne advocated a plan to sell off all unconstitutional federal assets and buy annuities for all due their SS payments.
–And besides Mr. “I have a big heart because I’m a socialist,” What are You going to do, let a bunch of people starve in the street? Taking care of others is for the State to make me do by your will, but not something you do yourself.
Most libertarians I’m sure are not racists, but Paul certainly sounds like one. Here are a couple of comments from his newsletter:
“Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty and the end of welfare and affirmative action.”
“Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the ‘criminal justice system,’ I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.”[10]
–HORSE SHIT.
–WILLIAM BLUM: Lazy, non-researching, smear recycling, Commie, Pinko Piece of shit.
–Again, for William Blum and other mildly retarded leftist dumb asses out there:
–20 years ago a staffer wrote some mean things in a Ron Paul newsletter and was immediately fired.
–Big deal, right? (If you use your Google or other favorite search machine, you can read all about this in 50 different places.)
–Even the New York Times got this story right. William Blum is a disgrace. Does someone pay that fool to write? Seems like he ought to be a janitor at a government school or something on that scale.
Author Ellen Willis
–Who?
has written that “the fundamental fallacy of right libertarianism is that the state is the only source of coercive power.” They don’t recognize “that the corporations that control most economic resources, and therefore most people’s access to the necessities of life, have far more power than government to dictate our behavior and the day-to-day terms of our existence.”[11]
–Yeah, well, she’s clearly as stupid as you. One more time for the really, really slow: Those corporations that control most economic resources control them because they control the State. With minimal or no government and a free market, the only people controlling recourses are those who can make the most money pleasing their customers – that is, those who’ve earned it.
–Sorry everyone for all the cussing, but WTF, these Democrats can’t run a simple search before smearing a man and a movement?
–I don’t know why I bother. Trying to teach a leftist is a hopeless and thankless task.
–Fine. Fine. Government is wonderful. Private people owning that which they create and justly acquire and trading those things is evil. The only man running for office on a platform of liberty secretly means to sell us all off to the plantation masters – who never have any help from the state. Whatever.
Oh, and as long as we’re going on William Blum’s standard of evidence:
He’s a bin Laden lover. So who cares what he says?
Me above: –He has said repeatedly that it will take “generations” to wean the people off of their dependence on the state and that “we are certainly not going to turn people out on the street in the meantime.”
He just said exactly that again today on C-SPAN.
…Fuck bin Laden, that and Blum’s just spouting the Old School Party Line, i.e. The State is good, its control needs only to be put back into the hands of “The People” as we are brothers under the flesh, and thus all the same. And as long as we’re speaking of “The People”—Check out the link below: Yet another example of our Democracy in action:
http://www.topix.net/content/ap/2007/08/bush-war-adviser-says-draft-worth-a-look-3?fromrss=1
Well, I heard somewhere that Ron Paul is opposed to the draft, but I also read somewhere that he hates old people and loves Halliburton, so I’ve decided to vote for Hillary instead.
…Piss on Hillary…The handwriting is on the wall Dude: They mean to re-impose conscription, and they will undertake to do so sooner than later. The only question remaining is Political. That being, will the General Public tolerate it? I would conjecture that, yes, they probably will…as I’ve maintained for the last 14-15 months. Other than Cindy Sheehan there is no comprehensive anti-War movement in the United States…This is the last straw.
During the 20th century governments across the globe were responsible for the deaths of approximately 250 million people. At least 100 million+ of these deaths occurred under communist regimes alone; i.e., regimes where only the state, absent of private business, was an existential reality. Interestingly enough, many leftists conveniently overlook this point when debating oppression as it relates to the private vs. public sector debate.
The economic ignorance is admittedly breathtaking.
…Leftists, Marxists, Socialists in general conveniently overlook most anything and everything that refutes their argument. This while sharing the ability to call mass murder a Security exercise-improvement if the State so demands, and terror common justice. Conversely unregulated Capitalism amounts to sheer predation; wherein no different than beasts, the young, the old, the infirm and helpless are priority items for sustenance. If Oppression strikes me as precisely that, oppression. Be it from any source, system, monopoly or hierarchy etc.,etc. Then the Free Market is not the Social panacea envisioned by the cannon of Libertarian thinkers. Where there is an inherent inegality amongst social animals, there is exploitation. It is an incontrovertible reality. And while I consider the worst of human behavior to a product of the collective—witness the regime of Saloth Sar aka Pol Pot in Cambodia—One cannot thrive entirely alone. It is the order of this existence.
They mean to re-impose conscription, and they will undertake to do so sooner than later.
As Bushie says, “Bring’em on!” I’d love to see them try it. I think the Amerikan sheeple would finally rise up on their hind legs and tell their government masters to F’off. There’d be riotig for sure. Hopefully the sheeple will point there anger at their government masters and not everyone else. But of course if Stu Buttfucksky’s wetdream comes true all bets are off.
…Yeah “Bring ‘em on.” That’s quintessential George Bush. He’s seen too many John Wayne movies. As for Bykofsky’s Wet Dream? I predict that time and reality will transpose it into the stuff of a Nightmare…All the symptoms for such an unprecedented transition, are present.
…I predict that Mandatory Conscription will be re-instated by 2008; Why? Because by deploying troops for up to 5, 15 month tours—They’ve nearly exhausted the effectiveness of the Combat Brigades involved, this both of The Army and Marine Corps. As this war of Occupation will continue, regardless of which Administration/Party is seated in The Executive…There is no alternative…I’ll tell you now—The Decider will tell you later. With this being the case then, I suppose the good news for Rep. Charlie Wrangel, is that it looks as if he will get his “Democratic” way…The bad news—for him anyway—is that he sure as hell won’t see any Princeton, Brown or Dartmouth undergrads playing IED Roulette in Iraq, or chasing The Taliban up and down mountains in Afghanistan. I don’t need to comment on who’ll be doing it. Trust me, this is going to get ugly.
…Hey! I just saw Ron Paul at the Iowa Caucus for split second on NBC Nightly News!—How ’bout that? At least he hasn’t been rendered to the status of an unperson…Even if comments were made about “culling” the, no account GOP candidates.
Hell, Mitt Hairdo Romney and his vneck trousers easily won the poll according to msnbc who doesn’t even mention how many votes Ron Paul got, at least in this version that they have not updated yet. This does not look good at all.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20228687/
…Mitt Romney looks like a Card Board Refugee evicted from a day time TV Soap Opera…He oughta be seen gritting his capped teeth while rubbing his shoulder on a Golf Course…He’s right out of a Commercial for Pain Relievers.
Poll results, per RP campaign.
http://ronpaul2008.typepad.com/ron_paul_2008/2007/08/iowa-straw-poll.html
Dang it. It’s bad enough that soap opera refugee hairdo boy came in first but Huckster and Brownshirt brown nose were next followed by that insane Nazi Tancredo. Republicans suck and don’t deserve Ron Paul! They deserve the lying, fascist murderer they’re gonna get.
But these results are no surprise. Amerikans are brainwashed sheep.
Hey, fifth is great! He stomped Giuliani and McCain. Tommy Thompson said he’d drop out if he didn’t get second. Tancredo and Romney spent tons of money. Ron spent very little and won big I say.
Check out all the great pro-Ron Paul propaganda on the LRC blog:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/
“…Enlightened people seldom if ever possess a sense of responsibility.”
—George Orwell
Mitt Romney looks like Johnny Carson’s imitation of Ronald Reagan. WEELLLLLL….
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jidWhJZR2Vc
bblum6@aol.com
Scott, this is William Blum’s email, how ’bout an interview?
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The Mittster is on the front page of the Financial Times’ online addition. The full weight of the “establishment” is behind this guy and he will be hard to beat.
Image of Mittster, maybe…
Paul,
I have no interest, plus I’ve already personally attacked the guy’s stupidity on this page pretty bad to now interview him.
It appears that we are not “allowed” to post images in our replies here at stress… Go here for Mitt’s pic.
“Americanz are Brainwashed Sheep”…
Americans are suckers for imagery and name recognition. It is a flaw in the human psyche that the establishment uses to herd the masses. Publish enough pics of the Mittster looking fit and tan, like he just finished up 18 holes, drop his name & pic enough on the front pages of major publications like the FT and the boy will get elected. Most of the people that vote for him will care little or nothing about what his positions on the various issues actually are… Romney looks like an “in charge” guy is supposed to look while RP looks like a bank clerk. Unfortunate but true.
>Go here for Mitt’s pic.
He looks like that slick guy who’s always trying to sell me a life insurance policy. I wish he would jus go away.
Ken, I edited your post to include the image you wanted. You are allowed to post images, but there’s a catch – you have to know how to write basic xhtml code.
Testing…
You are allowed to post images, but there’s a catch – you have to know how to write basic xhtml code.
Well what are you supposed to use? The image tag definitely does not work.
Hey Oz, for us Joe Nobodys the server strips out the image tag so we cant post images
…Jesus Christ, I hope we’re not gonna have to look at this phony, over privileged, bought and paid for, cardboard asshole of some Autocrat’s pimp for 4 years…But then think of the alternative? It leaves you with a pernicious, misandristic, borderline psychopath of lesbian beast hell bent on total power…In the end, it is enough to cause a healthy Vulture to vomit.
Mace,
Ha! Perfect.
BobB is correct. The conventional coding for posting images does not work here. Back to the “basics”, I guess…
The restrictions on tags usable in comments is a legacy from a few years ago before there were as many security restrictions as now. I will attempt to find a plugin that will allow more tags, including the img tag. It was originally blacklisted by WordPress developers because certain images could be used to execute malicious and destructive code. By manually editing comments, I can add the img tag myself, and so can any editor.
“Americanz are Brainwashed Sheep”…
Americans are suckers for imagery and name recognition.
Amerikans are f’ing idiots. There’s no other way to say it. Not only do they not get rid of the lying, crimnal, murderous thieving 2 corrupt political parties who are ripping them off and making enemies for them all over the world, the f’ing idiots re-elect them and then wave their stupid little AmeriKKKan flags and put more “Support the Troops” bumper stickers on their SUVs. F’ing, brain dead shit for brains sheep. There’s just no other way to put it, man.
Bob, you are correct. Most are dumber than posts and they will kill you for your efforts if you try and perchance manage to wake some of them up. Charlie Reese has been pretty consistent and accurate in his assessment of the so called “American Dream”. Imagine what the country would be like if the $trillions spent on wars and foreign interventions had been spent to help its citizens…? Glen Greenwald goes to some length in trying to explain that American foreign policy is based on BS. Nothing much new there… It just emphasizes how much effort is expended and the strategies involved in diverting the minds of the many for the agendae of the few.
For what it’s worth, Blum was always a staunch anti-Soviet, and his book on US military adventures since WWII is definitely worth keeping around as a reference. But like most lefties (myself included back in the day), he is much too myopic about the power of government in particular and institutions more generally to have a coherent philosophy of individual liberty and freedom.