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Waxing Rhetorical On Ron Paul

Actually, I'm waxing rhetorical on the Republican response to Ron Paul:

1. How many people bashing Ron Paul as a racist for what was written in the Ron Paul newsletters, supported Charles Murray's "Bell Curve"?
2. Why are Republicans upset about Ron Paul ideas on 9-1-1 now? He's had those views for years, now.
3. If Republicans think Ron Paul is nuts, why didn't they supports candidates running against him in congress when he was running for re-election?

Just, rhetorically, asking.

The U. S. Financial Mess Stated Simply

From an article I saw somewhere, and now I can't seem to locate it:

That professionalism is evident in the GAO analysis of the net present value of the Social Security and Medicare promises Washington has made to Americans. “Net present value” means the total that would have to be set aside today to pay the costs of these programs in the future. The government puts these numbers in appendices, rather than in headlines. But the costs are real.

In fiscal 2011, the cost of the promises grew from $30.9 trillion to $33.8 trillion. To put that in context, consider that the total value of companies traded on U.S. stock markets is $13.1 trillion, based on the Wilshire 5000 index, and the value of the equity in U.S. taxpayers’ homes, according to Freddie Mac, is $6.2 trillion. Said another way, there is not enough wealth in America to meet those promises.

I think that does it.

 

Republicans: Ron Paul and Racists

How is it for all of this time that Ron Paul has been a member of congress, not one Republican has brought up the racist newsletters that appeared under Ron Paul's name:

As Ron Paul rises in the polls, he is once again fending off questions about those pesky newsletters where racist material appeared under his name. This time around, rather than expressing much in the way of regret, Paul is instead slamming the media for rehashing what he considers an old, irrelevant story.

To recap, back in the 1990s, Ron Paul produced a series of newsletters, all with his name on them, which published a ream of racist and anti-Semitic columns. Among a long list of offensive comments, one notorious column about the LA riots said that, “Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks.” Another pilloried Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as “Hate Whitey Day.” Paul has always denied writing them and insists he doesn’t know who did. He has expressed regret that the comments were printed.

but now that the "isolationist" Ron Paul appears to be picking up support, the neo-conservative Republicans NOW want to play the race card on Ron Paul? These newsletters were known the last time Ron Paul ran for the Republican nomination.

Facist Police

I keep telling the facist law & order conservatives that the longer unwarranted stop and frisk happens, the more the people it happens to will distrust the police and when those same people get into a court room, they won't believe the police and that may result in a criminal being found "not guilty."

We need change. When I was young I thought cops were cool. They had a respectable and honorable job to keep people safe and fight crime. Now, I think their tactics are unfair and they abuse their authority. The police should consider the consequences of a generation of young people who want nothing to do with them — distrust, alienation and more crime.

Last May, I was outside my apartment building on my way to the store when two police officers jumped out of an unmarked car and told me to stop and put my hands up against the wall. I complied. Without my permission, they removed my cellphone from my hand, and one of the officers reached into my pockets, and removed my wallet and keys. He looked through my wallet, then handcuffed me. The officers wanted to know if I had just come out of a particular building. No, I told them, I lived next door.

One of the officers asked which of the keys they had removed from my pocket opened my apartment door. Then he entered my building and tried to get into my apartment with my key. My 18-year-old sister was inside with two of our younger siblings; later she told me she had no idea why the police were trying to get into our apartment and was terrified. She tried to call me, but because they had confiscated my phone, I couldn’t answer.

Meanwhile, a white officer put me in the back of the police car. I was still handcuffed. The officer asked if I had any marijuana, and I said no. He removed and searched my shoes and patted down my socks. I asked why they were searching me, and he told me someone in my building complained that a person they believed fit my description had been ringing their bell. After the other officer returned from inside my apartment building, they opened the door to the police car, told me to get out, removed the handcuffs and simply drove off. I was deeply shaken.

In many areas, the police are out of control.

Hat Tip P6

Drones In The U.S.

If the military or the border patrol flies a drone over the U.S. border for the purpose of border enforcement, I think that is the proper use of a drone. I have SERIOUS reservations at the loss of civil liberties when local law enforcement agencies use drones for the purpose of fighting crime.

But I have to ask, what is the difference between the use of a drone vs. the use of a helicopter?

Not Understanding the Tebow Religious "Hype"

I don't understand all of the commentary about Tim Tebow and his Christian beliefs. Here's what I think is odd.

Ray Lewis is very public about his belief in God and after a big win this season, on national television, he praised God and gave Him the glory.

After becoming saved, Deion Sanders became very outspoken about his conversion and his beliefs.

Darryl Green, the GREAT former corner of the Washington football team, was public about his faith, so much so that he delayed retirement from the league for two years because he wanted to raise more money for his Christian based programs.

Kurt Warner was very public about him being an evangelical Christian.

Randall Cunningham was public about being a Christian.

Now that I think about it, Warner and Cunningham were in one of Kirk Franklin's videos.

Tebow isn't the first, nor will he be the last, so why all of the hype?

We Are Screwed

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that we knew the location of the drone when it went down. The Defense Department didn't want to retrieve it so as not to offend Iran.

If true, that is amazing. China and Russia will have it by the end of the week and then how much technology and advantage would the U.S. have lost?

What A Strange GOP Race

What a strange race when Newt Gingrich is being said to be a "real conservative" and not just by primary opponents.

Ginger White Is A Gold Digger

From my phone, I'll just post the link and let you read it. In her own
words, she, essentially, calls herself a gold digger.

http://bit.ly/uJMBCd