RonPaulGraphs.com’s “preliminary” analysis of the 16th — raised online: $6,023,995. Looks pretty darn good. Now if only Paul can win in the primaries, we will have our liberty.
Wow, how impressive is that? And, I notice that the liberal media, talking heads, and Drudge are virtually ignoring it!!
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/callahan/callahan168.html
Solving the Abortion Conundrum
by Gene Callahan
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Is there no way out of this impasse? I suggest there is, and will begin my effort to indicate the direction to head with an analogy. Imagine you are sailing your boat along at sea, minding your own business, when you hear a noise behind you. You turn around and find a bedraggled looking man climbing from out of the waves onto your craft.
“Thank God you happened by!” he says. “My ship sank, and I’ve been clinging to the mast for a day now. I had almost given up hope.”
You nod solemnly at him, walk across the deck, pick him up, and throw him back in the ocean. “You see,” you explain to an imagined audience of shocked onlookers, “he was trespassing. I came out here for some solitude, and the idea that now I’m compelled to accommodate him makes me into kind of a slave, doesn’t it?”
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I like looking a difficult problems thru the lens of humor.
The current “system” is a disaster. Putting the gooferment “in charge” of anything isn’t going to “solve” any problem.
If one is “pro-life”, as I am, you must deal with all the children in the foster care system. If you are “pro-choice”, then you have to deal with the “right to life” enshrined in the Constitution. Regardless of side, I think we can all agree that the gooferment has done a terrible job of whatever the problem is?
Yes?
If “no”, please explain the current mess to me.
So, we have turn down the temperature of the debate. As libertarians, the first principle is non-aggression. So no one will be forced to do anything.
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/casey/casey12.html
An Interview With Ron Paul
by Doug Casey
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DC: Much of the politicking this campaign season has certain religious overtones. Are you a believer in a strict separation of church and state?
RP: Yes. However, I believe state and local communities have the right to adopt policies such as school prayer without interference from the Federal Judiciary or any other branch of the federal government.
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Now don’t get me wrong, I am not wavering in my support for Ron Paul. He’s closer to my thinking than any politician that I can EVER remember. I can only think of one fellow who I think might have been a better President and that would be Harry Browne.
That being said. Lest you think I am a mindless sheep.
I disagree with Ron Paul on the role of gooferment in education AT ANY LEVEL. Federal, state, or local. I see ZERO difference between the radiclization of Muslims in their subsidized schools, the communist “reeducation” camps, education in totalitarian regimes, and our gooferment skoolz in the good old US of A.
Remember that the purpose of “gooferment skools”, as designed in Prussia and imported to the US by Horace Man and his ilk, was to make easily led soldier for the army and factory workers for the elite.
No, sorry, every human is an “elite”. The Intelligent Designer put parents in charge of children. That’s good enough for me. Parents had them and they should provide for them. It’s not the gooferment’s job to eddycate them. And, no one should be forced at gunpoint to pay for it. That’s theft. Socialism at its best.
Ron’s right on abortion. It’s is a very hard issue. But, sticking the Federal Gooferment in the issue hasn’t helped at all. It’s very tough because the one role of gooferment is to protect our rights from foreign and domestic “enemies”. One of the rights enshrined in the Constitution is a right to life. But, we are a long way from calmly sorting that one out.
SO we have Big Gooferment in all sorts of stuff it shouldn’t be in and failing in its duties in the things is should be in. That’s a “big stable” to start mucking out. I’ll be happy if Ron Paul gets elected. It’s a very big load of “barbara streisand” to shovel out. Regan said something like a President can only get a few things done. He admitted a list of three things of which he only accomplished two. (Honest fellow!) If Ron can get two done, we’ll be much better off.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKZmIzEMUN8
I have my Cnote ready to sing. It’ll be the “opera” of the schmoes. Let them know that we are coming to clean “house” … the white house, the congress, the goofermnet in general. Time to delouse the places where all the “elite” plan “what’s good for us”. Argh!
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On December 16th, 1773, American colonists dumped tea into the Boston Harbor to protest an oppressive tax. This December 16th, American citizens will dump millions of dollars into the Ron Paul presidential campaign to protest the oppressive and unconstitutional inflation tax.
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Looks like it’s at 1.5 after the wee hours of the morning!
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Posted by reinkefj
FROM A LINKEDIN CONTACT ABOUT “LIVELINESS”
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I decided to perform a small test of my own today… by simply sending out recommendation requests to those people I have actually worked with (as opposed to all the recruiters that are in my network). I’ll et you know the final results… but I’m already getting replies from people who have taken over colleagues email addresses at companies asking me who I am!!! Not a real good sign.
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Amazing what you find out when you look!
Here’s another reason why you should never ever use your current employer’s email in LinkedIn.
I rant about this all the time. Not your current employers! Not your ISP! Not gmail, yahoo, or whatever! It has to be from your own domain name.
Like “reinke.cc”!
No excuses. No reason not to. You’re supposed to be a pro, professional, it can be done for well under $100 bucks a year. It’s probably in the 60$/year range. That’s a little more than a dollar a week.
There’s no excuse for it.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPiDvB2Tcqw q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOv8b438LrQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnR0P9BsN-I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDNUGPB6wfs
Absolutely great. He asks Ron Paul tough questions and lets him answer.
Makes sense to me!
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FROM AN MLPF EMAIL
>Re: Hilary For President
>Posted by: “Verdegem, Luc”
>Fri Dec 14, 2007 3:58 pm (PST)
>Sorry for this question,
>I was just wondering why there are not more “smart” politicians that use
Interesting.
“Ron Paul” is also on LinkedIn. I’m one of “his” loons. But, I would know more think of doing the old Star Trek Vulcan Mind Meld with that pseudo person
(I have to update my taxonomy of “Trolls you find on LinkedIn” with a new one “political alter egos”! — POLITICIANS. Sort of the opposite of ABILLGATES that high value target. This is imho a low value target.)
LINKEDIN: Updated taxonomy of LinkedIn “identities”
https://reinkefaceslife.com/2007/11/29/linkedin-updated-taxonomy-of-linkedin-identities
http://tinyurl.com/25b5mw
Those have to be a violation of the LinkedIn TOS, contrary to the spirit of LinkedIn, and injecting your politics into an inappropriate venue. IMHO.
I can’t see any upside to doing this. What’s next? Linking to your favorite cartoon character.
(Shaking my virtual, not virtuous, head in amazement.)
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maJz0kTQJyI
http://samspoliticaltruth.blogspot.com/
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Ron Paul interviewed on political chowder part 1
this is an older interview but very important
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An excellent interview of Ron Paul. I’m told that she’s a liberal, but I thought she was quite good and quite fair. She asked so very tough questions.
Thought you might find it amusing,
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I think there are some very tough questions that could be asked of Ron Paul.
But that won’t happen. It’s be interesting. See it would take a real understanding of libertarianism to knife tot he heart of some tough issues.
How do you KNOW that what you prescribe will work? How do you get Congress to cooperate? How will you deal with an economic dislocation on a par with the end of ww1 or ww2? How will you pardon all non-violent drug offenders? Abortion goes back to the states; what about a right to life as enshrined in the Constitution? Isn’t the Statue of Liberty is inconsistent with troops on the border?
But, today’s “interviewers” are all about making themselves, or their choice for prez look good. Most interviewers are biased and lame. At least this lady pitched some high hard ones at him.
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http://www.workingcogs.com/interruptron/
Interruptron
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In the attention economy, what matters is your attention. Modern life is plagued with interruptions, some self-imposed (do you have a popup that lets you know when new mail arrives?), some not (phone ringing, people knocking on your door). The axiom is simple: your productivity is inversely proportional to the number of interruptions per hour. There exist psychological research that proves that doing two tasks -A,B- in an alternating sequence -ABABAB- is a lot harder than doing them on batches -AAABBB-. This is called task switch cost. Some research on economics proves that the same concept –switching tasks often is bad for productivity- is true organizations.
This is so simple it’s staggering. We thought: well, we don’t know how often we are interrupted, but we should! That’s how the interruptron was born.
The modern knowledge worker has a very short average time between interruptions. Some estimates are as low as 10 minutes. We need to be aware of when we have been interrupted and try to stretch time between interruptions as much as possible. Also, it’s important to be aware of when we are floating into ‘unproductive time’ and have some method to nag us back to work. This is the goal of the interruptron. Run it always, and you’ll have a good gasp of where your time goes.
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It’s impossible to get any serious thinking done in the office with all the noise and interruptions. This will just help you quantify it. Now if it could just get you into the “zone”.
Donation ware, so how big a risk can it be?
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