Ron Paul for President - Part III

Good news Ron Paul fans. Click on the December 4th video.

http://www.southernpoliticalreport.com/webcast_archives.aspx?wid=105

And then read this article: http://www.southernpoliticalreport.com/storylink_126_66.aspx

(It's a professional pollster, InsiderAdvantage.)

Lets just remember to hope it's a very cold day in Iowa and that people are intrigued by the Orange Bowl matchup that night.

 

(1) Right, but it's easiest for those the state can least afford to lose, ie the most productive among those discriminated against (or sympathetic to those discriminated against).
(2) Democracy notwithstanding, Government sucks. Rule by one's idiotic neighbors therefore sucks. Rule by idiots far away who don't know jack about or care about you or your state is potentially a lot worse. Washington management of assisted suicide in Oregon or medical marajuana in California or Hurricanes in Louisiana or welfare for illegals in Arizona or warrentless wiretapping anywhere or any internal affair in Iraq sucks.
(3) Not sure who's expanded rights you are referring to. (Punt)
(4) Actually Ron Paul calls them "scapegoats for a bad economy". He only wants to end welfare and birthright citizenship for illegals. But yeah, switching countries is hard, best to block the federal government from imposing uniform tyranny.
(5) Mrs Parks had a different idea: demonstrate her value to the economy of the region by inspiring and joining a boycott.
(6) In the end, a Constitution is no better than the people obeying it. The Founders didn't even specify a means of enforcing the Constitution. One could think of it as "commandments", ie "here is what this government is for, don't let it do anything else or you'll be sorry".
(7) Discrimination based on race/gender/creed always drives away valuable people. Perhaps Martin Luther King's greatest achievement was showing southern blacks that they had value by the success of his boycotts.
As for the small number of truly valueless, Americans have a tradition of charitable giving.
(8) It's easy to find fault with the Old South, but I don't think any of us would say states regularly engaged in ethnic cleansing.

The Articles of Confederation failed to raise war funds, otherwise, they weren't that bad. The Constitution was an improvement not a rejection.

 

Jesus, enough of trying to make Parks and King into instruments of the Invisible Hand. That ain't how it happened. The boycott ended after a Supreme Court decision, not because white Alabama cared about money.

Look, here's a selected chronology:

1776: Free market established in the United States
1865: Free market ends slavery (haw haw haw)
1871: Ku Klux Klan Act
1875: Civil Rights Act
1877: Reconstruction ends
1883: Civil Rights Act of 1875 found unconstitutional...see, it regulated private companies - fortunately, the free market was able to step in and oh wait no
1889: Fleet Walker retires from baseball
1896: Plessy v. Ferguson
1915: "Birth of a Nation" - Klan reforms
1929: Free market suffers slight setback
1936: Jesse Owens shows up Hitler
1938: Joe Louis beats Max Schmeling
1945: Fascism and white supremacy defeated in Europe, returning black soldiers and sailors start to put two and two together
1946: Rams move to Los Angeles, re-integrate NFL
1947: Jackie Robinson joins Dodgers
1949: Truman reintegrates armed forces
1954: Brown v. Board of Education
1955: Rosa Parks arrested
1956: Browder v. Gayle; Montgomery bus boycott ends
1957: Little Rock crisis; First Civil Rights Act passed since 1875
1960: Civil Rights Act providing federal inspection of voting
1961: Freedom Rides; Kennedy orders Interstate Commerce Commission to enforce desegregation
1963: "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"; Wallace bars University of Alabama to black students; Medgar Evers murdered
1964: Civil Rights Act ending most segregation in America
1965: Free market celebrates 100 years of doing jack shit for civil rights

For further reading, please consult a god-damned book or something

 

That timeline is preposterously silly.

 

Don't know the David Stewart, but Wood's Creation of the American Republic is great, literally changing how most historians understood the Constitutional moment, but kind of a slog for the non-professional historian (and truthfully, the professional ones as well. There's a single paragraph, on like page 671, that's regarded as the holy grail by grad students because he lays out his argument very concisely). His Radicalism of the American Revolution, however, is wonderfully readable.

 

If wrong were oil, George Bush would invade you

 

A good piece from the guy who paid for the full-page USA Today ad.

http://www.dailypaul.com/node/12519

 

My observations:
1. Nothing in that editorial really deals with the actual policies Paul espouses. The author is properly angry at the war, but he never gets to the question of how Paul's "non-interventionist" policy would actually work.

2. The editorial only briefly mentions any domestic policy, and then only monetary policy.

3. Does anyone else who actually WATCHED It's a Wonderful Life find it ironic and amusing that a libertarian would invoke the specter of Pottersville?

My conclusion is that Ron Paul's "Freedom" message is liberating to the author, but the author has not done the hard work of understanding the actual message.

 

I'm responding to the linked editorial, Contrarian Man. You can read it yourself and decide whether the author spends more time opposing current policies than he does supporting Paul's positions.

And you can make your own decision whether It's A Wonderful Life is the libertarian's blueprint.

 

Shocking.

 

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Paul the Blimp is airborne...

We're Flying!! 9:23 am Friday, December 14th

There is a certain airfield in NJ I recommend they avoid!

 

Oh the humanity!

by the way, anybody notice the subliminal message in the blimp they chose?



no?

it is pretty, well, um.....




WHITE!

 

I hope the Objectivist Club is getting royalties for that.

Better yet, I hope they're not and they sue to protect their intellectual property.

 

And what's with the herpes sore on the "n" ?