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Comment on THE MERRY-GO-ROUND OF DENIAL – POLITICS & IOWA CAUCUS (Issue 691) by Braeden Newman

Braeden Newman — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:32:08 +0000

Braeden Newman…

A big thank you for your blog post. Cool….

Comment on CAYENNE PEPPER, LEATHER BRITCHES, And PRINCE WILLIAM (Issue 693) by Kent McManigal

Kent McManigal — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:26:39 +0000

Any kid who eats hot peppers gets “brownie points” with me. If your food doesn’t make your eyelids sweat a little bit, it isn’t worth eating. Haha.

Comment on How About That Snowball in Hell? (Issue 195) by Osiris Shoses 2012

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Comment on POLITICS – PUNDITS – PAST – PRESENT – PONDERING – PREDICTING (Issue 676) by My Homepage

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Comment on HAS THE SOUTH REALLY “GONE WITH THE WIND?” (Issue 680) by Mikaela Leffler

Mikaela Leffler — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:56:51 +0000

Mikaela Leffler…

This is one awesome blog.Thanks Again. Want more….

Comment on The Desiderata – Found In Old St. Paul’s Church, Baltimore 1693 (Issue 191) by Clark Byron

Clark Byron — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:27:21 +0000

I, too, love this piece and it has been a guiding force in my life since I first heard it on the radio as a teenager in 1971. True, it was found in Old St. Paul’s Church 1692 in Baltimore, but that is actually the full name of the church. The document was actually written by an American writer Max Ehermann in 1927. Some time around the year 1959, Reverend Frederick Kates, rector of Saint Paul’s Church in Baltimore, Maryland, included Desiderata in a compilation of devotional materials for his congregation. The compilation included the church’s foundation date: “Old St. Paul’s Church, Baltimore A.D. 1692.” The date of the text’s authorship is widely mistaken as 1692, the year of the church’s foundation. When Adlai Stevenson died in 1965, a guest in his home found the Desiderata near his bedside and discovered that Stevenson had planned to use it in his Christmas cards. Subsequently, the poem became widely known as having been found at St. Paul’s Church of Baltimore – but confusing the date of the church’s foundation as the date of the text’s authorship. While the document dates back only to the third decade of the 20th century, its wisdom is both priceless and timeless. For me, it is a scripture all its own, and its wisdom tried and tested and found to be true. Its principles have an obvious foundation in the beatitudinal teachings of Christ and for me, is therefore a poetic commentary on how to apply certain essential principles to my own life to the end that I might live in peace with myself and others.

Comment on HAS THE SOUTH REALLY “GONE WITH THE WIND?” (Issue 680) by Karlie Muro

Karlie Muro — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:30:00 +0000

Karlie Muro…

I really like and appreciate your blog article.Really looking forward to read more. Great….

Comment on HAS THE SOUTH REALLY “GONE WITH THE WIND?” (Issue 680) by Jase Brummett

Jase Brummett — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:28:13 +0000

Jase Brummett…

Looking forward to reading more. Great blog. Much obliged….

Comment on LATEST REVELATION BY RON PAUL AND OFFICE OF PRESIDENCY (Issue 684) by Anne Cleveland

Anne Cleveland — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:04:22 +0000

To Rippin Richie, Thank you for your question, “what specific action do you believe he should take”? Resign, apologize to the American people ,and head back to Texes.

Comment on LATEST REVELATION BY RON PAUL AND OFFICE OF PRESIDENCY (Issue 684) by Peter Rudolph Zidek

Peter Rudolph Zidek — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:21:45 +0000

Anne,

Much as I like your wonderful writings your allegation:”Ron Paul has done nothing, I mean nothing meaningful to protect and support the basic Principles of Individual Freedom & property Rights. If this were true after 24 years sitting in his seat of power, we would not be in the ditch were in to day on the verge of collapse.” is either uniformed or patently ludicrous.

Just how much power does a lone congressman that has been consistently and uncomprimisingly championing those exact principles like a voice in the wilderness for all of his political career have, compared to all the current blowhards that have merely given those principles lip service.
Moreover, as you well know, a congressman is not a monarch that can dictate policy but merely influence those decisions only by persuasion. Check his historical voting record.

Moreover, it is historical fact that both political parties have caused the quaqmire the nation is in today…..the democrats because thier entire platform is socialistic, the GOP through comprimizing principles of liberty, constitutionality, to retain power. Creeping socialism anyone? It’s been going on for multiple decades since FDR, and as an octogenarian, you should certainly be aware of that.

“he is busy with busy work to feather his nest and be re-elected”

This is perhaps the most ludicrous allegation of all. Not only has he chosen not to run for re-election as congressman, but has consistently opposed raising the salary levels of congress, but has offered that if elected as POTUS, he will take a salary commesurate with the a median income of $61k per annum. Furthermore he has never participated in the insider trading of securities that other politicians have.

It seems that the general voting public seeks an articulate, good looking persona with lots of sexy charisma and vitality for POTUS rather than basing their decisions using reason, thought, or deeply examining the issues and ideology. It is also true, whether generally recognized or not, that that criteria is what got the current POTUS elected and it reflects the sorry state of the nation’s electorate in today’s modern multimedia environment.

it is no accident that Ron Paul, despite his age, visual and articulation shortcomings has garnered such a loyal following particularly among the internet technical savvy, the educated young, the wiser older generation, worldwide financial experts, and millions of others worldwide. Far from being a so-called “cult” by the status quo, it is the realization that it is not personality slop propagandized by the powers that are, but ideas, liberty, and freedom that are the real issues….and Ron Paul symbolically reflects that.

Were it not true, the current crop of statist GOP POTUS candidates would not have stolen and co-opted much of Ron Paul’s platform and ideas and hypocritically become born again constitutionalists.

Anne, with alldue respect, I would highly recommend you investigate Ron Paul more objectively.