ron paul

Ron Paul represents everything that's wrong with the internet. His supporters spam every poll available in a thinly-veiled attempt to suggest he as actual support amongst Americans with jobs. They're the rabid, the unwashed mashes, the dark part of cyberspace you know exists but try to avoid. They spam message boards at every mention of his name in dire hope that comments on YouTube somehow translates into votes. Don't be fooled. The Internet has a disproportional amount of Paulies, but it also has a disproportionate amount of pedophiles as well. Representative of America, it is not. Need more help imagining what a Ron Paul supporter looks like? They were the guy in high school who always said "you know, Hitler was a pretty good leader if you think about it".

Ron Paul has consistently shown around 3% support in nation-wide polls. Given his considerable financial backing, he undoubtedly spends an inconceivable amount more per-percentage point than any other candidate. Why is this? Because his message is wrong and sane people understand this. Ron Paul is your crazy pot-smoking uncle who owns too many guns and is just waiting for the day the government collapses so he and his pool tavern buddies can come out of their dome-shaped bunkers and fight for the wealth the "International Zionist Bankers" have so long denied them.

"Dr." Ron Paul's zealots claim he has the most "pro-constitution" stance of any candidate. He says this with the a straight face as he claims that pretty much every law ever passed is unconstitutional. FDA? Unconstitutional. War on drugs? Unconstitutional. Federal Reserve? Unconstitutional. Since the Supreme Court has vehemently rejected all these claims, a true Ron Paul supporter must believe that they, in their first year as a political science major, have cracked the code of constitutional law that so far has eluded the all the J.D.s that have sat on our nation's highest court.

His views are just plain immature. Claiming that the gold standard will fix the American dollar? Immature. Like trying to solve a famous mathematical problem using only high school algebra, his childish take on a complex situation illustrates he has no understanding of sound monetary policy. Fiat money may be unfair, but is flexible to a fast-paced growing economy you need the ability to quickly adjust the money supply and the gold standard would be an elephant-on-the-back of the economy itself. Not to mention that the US GDP far out values the entire stock of gold in the world. The only way to bring the two in line would be for an apocalyptic depression in the market. But Paulies don't care because the only rich people are the Jewish bankers anyway :rollseyes:.

And let's not forget about his foreign policy. It manages to come across as sounding both like co-dependent victim of domestic abuse making of excuses for their abusive partner and like something out of Mein Kampf. No, don't say Godwin's Law. You're retarded. Ron Paul truly believes that if we just let the Arab world get along with the destruction of Israel than everything will be okay. His "constitutional" backing for this is that several founding fathers were isolationists and, therefore, this is how current day foreign policy should be. "Thomas Jefferson warned us of foreign entanglements!", they cry. No shit. He also was an alcoholic and liked having sex with his slaves on the side. God, he is not. Once again, the whole thing reeks of immaturity.

Want some other crazy tidbits? He supports homeopathy and other "alternative medicines". I wouldn't be surprised if he were a UFO nut as well.

Ron Paul is not wrong or bad in the classical way a politician is wrong or bad. Ron Paul is clinically insane and anyone who supports him has a personality disorder.

never say never

video of president clinton taking on a heckler

Now, I never thought I'd say this, but I'm quite proud of how he handled the situation. 9/11 Truthers need to know there is no way their disgusting ideology will be put up with anywhere.

i heart huckabee

This past weekend I had the chance to meet most of the Republican presidential candidates on Mackinac Island in Michigan. They all gave speeches and to be honest I was a bit starstruck by the whole thing. However, after reflection, I realized that I still was a little apprehensive in giving my endorsement.

Romney, who won the straw poll there, gave an excellent speech on family values but I couldn't help feel reproached about his big-government spending and mandating while he was governor of Massachusetts. McCain, who gave a crowd-inspiring fire and brimstone speech on the war talked nothing about the future of our country in domestic fiscal and social issues. Thompson felt dull and uninspired, speaking only in polite generalizations. And Giuliani, who by the way is extremely personable and a great fiscal conservative, wisely forgot mentioning his stance on social issues that are important to most of us on the right.

Who, then? Mike Huckabee. Mike Huckabee is a true conservative. Compassionate in his upbringing, truthful in his message of fairness, and a great servant to God and Country. I could enumerate his stances here but he's done it best on his site. Go there with the link above and click on "Issues". Find me a real red-blooded conservative who can't agree with his message.

Conserve Thought endorses Mike Huckabee for President of the United States.

more thoughts

Even though faith is above reason, there can never be any real disagreement between faith and reason, since it is the same God who reveals the mysteries and infuses faith, and who has endowed the human mind with the light of reason.

God cannot deny himself, nor can truth ever be in opposition to truth. The appearance of this kind of specious contradiction is chiefly due to the fact that either the dogmas of faith are not understood and explained in accordance with the mind of the Church, or unsound views are mistaken for the conclusions of reason. Therefore we define that every assertion contrary to the truth of enlightened faith is totally false.

Not only can faith and reason never be at odds with one another but they mutually support each other, for on the one hand right reason established the foundations of the faith and, illuminated by its light, develops the science of divine things; on the other hand, faith delivers reason from errors and protects it and furnishes it with knowledge of many kinds.

--from the Catechism of the Catholic Church (Session III, Chapter IV, Canons 5, 6, and 10)

Fear the Post-Apocalyptic Dystopian Cyberpunk Future

Okay, here's my beef. Hillary Clinton was recently talking about how she's been standing up to "big business" (as she rides a yacht to the Hamptons, I'm sure) and it got me thinking about the strong emotional knee-jerk response you get from typical liberals when you invoke the scary satanic enchantment of the "corporation". What is it about the idea of a company that illicits such strong irrational responses?

I suppose first we have to discover who Hillary was really aiming that to. Part of me wants to write it off as a power grab to the WTO-protesting, hemp-wearing, laughably inconsequential radical wing of her party. Such a play by her is expected but pointless in the long run because it a) appeals to a segment that'll probably be too baked or can't afford gas to actually vote and thankfully b) represents a statistically insignificant portion of her party (American anti-capitalists are retarded for reasons I won't fully go into now but I'm sure nearly everyone understands). So who was she talking to? The main fund raisers for her campaign? Certainly not, because I'm sure that laundry list contains quite a few industry bigwigs. It must be to the working-class democrats, those who are most likely to feel victimized by the Great White Satan of the West, also know colloquially this side of the Euphrates as "The Man".

So who is The Man, and why do so many working-class democrats hate Him? I've often wondered if people who subscribe to this ideology really believe that Steve Jobs is out to oppress them and rape them for their money and labor. Do people really believe there's so Illuminati type organization keeping you from moving out from that studio apartment? Looks a little ego-centric to imply that anyone even cares. Sadly however, The Man is much more complex than this. Like Holden's red hunting-hat The Man is literary symbolism at it's best. To many, The Man and corporations and the UN and whatever authority figure they can dream up really represent the angry feelings they have about themselves; their own disappointment with their life manifests itself as this overshadowing entity from which all trouble comes from.

Corporations aren't evil. Some do bad things, but the entire way of life all of us enjoy is integrally interwoven with capitalism in all it's myriad faces.

War Funding

I don't know exactly what the Democrats in Congress expect to gain by their recent stunts with the troop's livelihood. Their carrot dangling (in this case the carrot is armor) merely shows how little respect they have for our military -- and by association our country in general. People often say that times of pressure show true character. When the going gets tough, the democrats get running. It's this specific American-hating policy, that the war is lost and that we should damn Iraq to 20 years of Darfur like civil war, is evidence that our legislator's leadership has a sad lack of a backbone.

If we leave Iraq we it WILL be another Darfur. Of course, Myspace won't have ads telling people to "do their part for Iraq". There won't be any trendy hippie fests for where U2 will demand that we help the poor Iraqi people. And George Clooney won't demans from the UN that we intercede in Iraq. Why is that? Because liberals don't care about truth. They care about the illusion of truth. Since they can ignore and write off Iraq as a Republican-caused problem then they can ignore the basic truth that their poster-child humanitarian issue is not isolated. In short, they don't care if people are dying, they just care when U2 talks about it.

You Nappy Headed Republicans--- Episode Two: "We pray for this in the name of Jon Stewart, Amen."

Our story begins in Nick's basement. Nick and Dylan just got done reading the first episode of You Nappy Headed Republicans, and decided it was their civil duty to comment.


Nick- "THAT IS SOOO WRONG!"

Dylan- "OH I KNOW, JUST BECAUSE WE WORK AT STARBUCKS, DOESN'T MEAN THAT PRESIDENT BUSH IS SMARTER THAN US!"

Nick- "YEAH, AND JUST BECAUSE WE MAJORED IN POLITICAL SCIENCE, DOESN'T MEAN WE HAD TO WORK AT STARBUCKS! THEY JUST HAD BETTER BENEFITS THAT TEACHING AT THE LOCAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE!"

Dylan- "YEAH, AND GEORGE BUSH HAS REALLY LOW RATINGS, AND THAT MAKES HIM A JERK! BECUASE LIKE EVERYONE IN AMERICA IS LIKE NARROW MINDED, AND LIKE THEY HAVE TO HAVE THEIR MAKE-UP, AND THEIR NICE CARS, AND LIKE THEIR REALLY BIG PAY CHECKS, BECUASE LIKE THEY'RE TOO NARROW MINDED TO BE POOR, THAT'S WHY WE SHOULD LIKE ELECT A POOR GUY TO BE PRESIDENT, BECUASE LIKE HE KNOWS HOW IT IS TO BE LIKE POOR, AND LIKE TO LIKE SERVE IN LIKE WAR, AND LIKE HE'S MORE REAL, AND LIKE YOU CAN IDENTIFY WITH HIM, BECAUSE LIKE, POOR PEOPLE ARE LIKE BETTER IN LIKE EVERY WAY, EXCEPT THE WHOLE NOT BEING RICH THING, BUT THAT'S JUST BECAUSE REPUBLICANS WON'T LET THEM BE RICH, LIKE THEY GO TO THE BANK, AND THE BANK'S ALL LIKE, "SRY, WE'RE OUT OF MONEY, BECAUSE THE REPUBLICANS IN CHARGE SAID THAT LIKE, WE SHOULDN'T LIKE GIVE ANY MONEY TO POOR PEOPLE, BECAUSE LIKE, IT WOULD CHANGE THINGS, AND LIKE MAKE THINGS MORE REAL, AND LIKE OPEN EVERYONE'S MINDS THAT WOULD JUST SCARE THEM INTO LIKE NOT BELIEVING IN GOD, BECAUSE LIKE GOD DIDN'T CREATE US, LIKE WE CREATED HIM."

Nick- "YEAH, LIKE THEY LAUGH AT US, BECAUSE WE'RE DIFFERENT, BUT LIKE WE LAUGH AT THEM, BECAUSE LIKE THEY'RE ALL THE SAME."


Dylan- "DOOD, LET'S LISTEN TO LED ZEPPLIN!"

Nick- "YEAH, BUT WE HAVE TO LISTEN TO A LITTLE RAP, BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO OFFEND ANYONE BY LISTENING TO ALL WHITE MUSIC."