Ron Paul: Right on All Issues in Two Sentences or Less
The following is a summary of Ron Paul’s stances on 18 major issues and an explanation why he is right in two sentences or less. The arguments are heavily linked for full explanations from Ron Paul himself and are ordered loosely by popular importance.
1. End the War In Iraq
Its inception violated Congress’s sole constitutional authority to declare war and the original authorization of force has lapsed. Due to mounting casualties coupled with lack of meaningful progress, withdrawal is the best way to achieve a positive long-term result based on the empirical evidence of Vietnam and the Law of Opposites and should come as soon as possible.
2. The War On Terror is a Trademark, Killing Terrorists is a Strategy
“We should arrest or kill the perpetrators abroad, use our armed forces more wisely to defend our borders, and reform immigration laws to keep terrorists out.” [cite] While congress spends on the endless War on Terror, thus unconstitutionally expanding Government at the expense of personal liberty, the Constitution has a specific, simple, and sufficient provision dealing with non-state ‘terrorists’: letters of marque.
Suitcase Nuke Turns Up Empty at Clemson U.
Clemson University just sent out an all-points-emergency-bulletin email letting everybody rest assured that the latest terrorist plot has been foiled:
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ALERT: Abandoned briefcase posed no threat [7/10/07, 1:41 p.m.] Clemson University police received a call of concern about an abandoned briefcase in Barre Hall early today (July 10). Officers retrieved the briefcase, took it to the university police station and called the Anderson bomb squad as a precaution. The bomb squad came and checked it in the parking lot outside the police station. It was found to contain no threat. “As a matter of fact, it was empty,” Chief Johnson Link said. “We encourage Clemson employees and students to be cognizant of their surroundings and report any suspicious items or people to the police. Safety is our primary concern.” Clemson University Police Department can be reached at 656-2222. – —————————————————————- For additional information, contact the Clemson University Police Department VOICE: 864/656-2222 TTY: 864/656-1833 FAX: 864/656-0714 |
Post 9/11 has generated countless instances of holy indignation and overreaction by officials to what we civilians consider trivial and silly. See:
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Student’s History Project (Replica Civil War Musket) Puts TWO Schools on Lockdown,
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Boy Passes Exam Even After Bomb Squad Blows Up His Coursework,
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Bomb Squad Detonates Suspicious Ball of Paper With Tape on It,
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Police Mistake Six-Pack of Beer For Explosives, Call In Bomb Squad,
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(Near Clemson): Bomb Squad Removes Beer Can From Porch,
Could it be that the many bomb squads are stretching to justify their existence, or do they just love blowing stuff up?
Even so, you have to somewhat admire Clemson’s zealous over-compliance with The Clery Act, which is another unconstitutional federal program that schools are required to comply with to get federal financial aid funds (there is no federal power to dole out monies to educational institutions, and is expressly forbidden by the 10th Amendment). Nevertheless, the law:
. . . requires institutions to give timely warnings of crimes that represent a threat to the safety of students or employees. . . . The institution is only required to notify the community of crimes which are covered by the Clery statistics.
It would be amazing to learn how the abandonment of a suitcase is either a crime or imminent threat, or even why notification to the student body after it was learned that the suitcase was entirely empty complies with the Clery Act. Solve this riddle on your own and call the Clemson University Police Department if you think you’ve found the answer.
Fred Thompson & John Tyler’s Trophy Wives
Let me start by saying that Ron Paul should be the next President of the United States. However, if the political race is run on the basis of how hot one’s wife is, Fred Thompson may be leading the pack.
“Mr. Thompson’s supporters – have been wrestling with the public reaction to [40-year-old] Jeri Kehn Thompson, whose youthfulness, permanent tan and bleached blond hair present a contrast to the 64-year-old man who hopes to win the hearts of the conservative core of the Republican party.”
Fred Thompson would have precedent for success, if John Tyler, our tenth president, is any indication. At the age of 54, he married Julia Gardiner, age 24. Not only was there a large age difference, but he picked her up by swooping in to comfort her when they both witnessed the death her father due to an explosion on the USS Princeton during demonstration.
Julia was notoriously smoking hot, as depicted here.
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| Juila Gardiner: Simply Pulchritudinous | John Tyler: Mack Daddy |
For more: LewRockwell.com: Of Presidents and Trophy Wives.
Music Video Roundup
I’m collecting the music videos that correspond to the tracks that I’ve put together thus far this year. Among the ones I have been able to find:
- B15 Project - Girls Like This
- Benjamin Bates - Whole
- Dannii Minogue - He’s the Greatest Dancer (Fugitive Remix)
- DJ Mehdi - Signatune (Thomas Bangaltier Edit)
- Goose - Whipass (video is work in progress)
- Sophie Ellis Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor
- The Source - You Got the Love
I need help finding these - please post comments if you find any of them:
- Denis the Menace & Jerry Ropero vs Francesco Diaz - Time to Turn Around
- Etherfox - Something Different to Say
- M1 - Electronic Funk (Show Monkey’s Radio Edit)
- Starchaser - Love Will Set You Free
If they don’t exist, Patrick, you’ll have to get to work.
Hit Him Again Welcomes IE6
Throughout this site, you may notice that certain headings and titles are stylized and not simple html text. This is by virtue of a flash/javascript solution going by the name of sIFR that is integrated throughout. This was causing problems in IE6 due to 6’s quixotic implementation of padding and margins that does not interface well with <embed> objects. The root of the problem was that the whitespace surrounding title words such as “Archives” and “Comments” were 25 pixels wider in IE6, causing the right sidebar with the primary title of “Recent Posts” to be pushed to the very bottom of the page when the increased width resulted in rollover. To resolve this issue, I wrote up some quick javascript to detect IE6 browsers and lop off the extra 25 pixels from all of these flash elements. You can ‘view source’ and inspect the javascript solution for yourself, as it can be found at the end of the html code.
I have also noticed that IE6 will improperly unload these objects, causing a ‘flicker’ or ‘momentary hanging’ effect when moving from one page to another. This is an unavoidable drawback of using IE6, and, if you can, I recommend you upgrade to IE7 - or, better yet, start using Firefox.