I thought I would put together my own little “dream ticket” for 2012.
It’s easy to get discouraged by some of the big-name, media frontrunners.
I’m concerned, for instance, about Sarah Palin’s eagerness to endorse John McCain in his Arizona primary race versus the clearly better J.D. Hayworth. I’m also concerned about Palin’s decision to endorse Carly Fiorina over the clearly superior Chuck DeVore in California. [She did the same thing in Texas, promoting Bilderberg attendee Rick Perry over the clearly superior Debra Medina (though Farah probably doesn’t like her openness to 9/11 truth) – ed.] I also worry about her squishiness on illegal immigration. [But she is plenty pro-war for Farah – ed.]
Then there’s Mitt Romney, whom I have described as the worst possible president to follow Obama. Romney is an impostor. If he wins in 2012, he will roll back none of the Obama initiatives.
So who else is out there?
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If we had to vote today for president and vice president and could choose anyone for those positions, I can tell you who would get my write-in votes – Sen. Jim DeMint and Rep. Michele Bachmann.
RonPaul2008dotcom — May 16, 2010 — 05/17/2010 – Secret debts incurred by central bankers without the consent of the people should be declared null and void, argues Ron Paul in his latest Texas Straight Talk update.
Ron Paul is America’s leading voice for limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies.
Jesus commands us to love ALL people as much as we love ourselves:
One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together. Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the greatest of all?” Jesus answered, “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one: you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” – Mark 12:28-31
Christians must be peacemakers. Jesus said:
“Blessed are the PEACEMAKERS, for they shall be called the CHILDREN OF GOD.” – Mt. 5:9
Jesus commands us to love our enemies, that we may be His children:
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, LOVE YOUR ENEMIES, BLESS THOSE WHO CURSE YOU, DO GOOD to those WHO HATE you, and PRAY FOR THOSE WHO MISTREAT YOU and persecute you, THAT YOU MAY BE CHILDREN of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same? If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same? Therefore you shall BE PERFECT, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.” – Mt. 5:43-48
Sarah Palin Says Only Americans Worthy of Rights?
Feb 21, 2010
The recent Republican talking point that US constitutional rights are only for Americans citizens was nowhere so jingoistically and hypocritically expressed as it was by Sarah Palin in her appearances this month on “Fox News Sunday” and at a national Tea Party Convention, as I show in this video.
The clip I use of Sarah Palin appearing on “Fox News Sunday” comes from the segment broadcast February 7, 2010, available online at http://media2.foxnews.com/020710/0207…
The clips I use of Fmr. Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) delivering the closing keynote address of the first-ever National Tea Party Convention, held in Nashville, TN comes from the program broadcast on CSPAN on February 6, 2010, available on CSPAN’s YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7gVp3…
3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
4 Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
5 Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.
6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
7 Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
9 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God. …
43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you, 45 that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust. 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same? 47 If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same? 48 Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
Paul said in Romans 8:14
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.
My favorite 9/11 truth post (there are over 100 more at ToBeFree)— in case you’d like to find out what really happened — who really were responsible. All of this hate and anger for what?? When are we going to be true Christians? They’ll know us by our love.
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from this MSNBC interview
“On foreign policy – Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran – Ron Paul and Sarah Palin are on opposite sides completely. Any chance that your point of view can prevail in the Republican party on foreign policy, or is that hopeless?”
– Pat Buchanan
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrpHvhnlfXU]Ron Paul “We Have Only One Party! And They Fight Over Power & Influence!
“Vitter Federal Reserve Audit Amendment Falls”, how did your Senators vote? Does this change how you will vote in NOV?
An amendment offered by Senator David Vitter (R-LA) to the Restoring American Financial Stability Act (S. 3217) has been defeated by a vote of 37-62.
It would “remove a section of U.S. code that protects the Federal Reserve from meaningful audits,” according to OpenCongress. …
If your senators voted no, tell them their vote puts them on the side of endless bailouts and an unelected and unaccountable Federal Reserve whose destructive policies wrecked our economy.
AK Sen. Mark Begich ~ Nay
Sen. Lisa Murkowski ~ Yea … Sen. John Rockefeller ~ Nay
The timing of the sellout by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) last Thursday, May 6, on legislation to audit the Federal Reserve could not have been more auspicious — or more suspicious. After pledging for months that he was going to offer an amendment in the Senate identical to “Audit the Fed” legislation in the House (H.R. 1207) authored by Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas), Sanders caved in to pressures from the Obama administration and the Federal Reserve.
In a last-minute switch, Sanders agreed to substitute a watered-down version of the audit as an amendment to financial reform legislation sponsored by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.). The new Sanders amendment would provide the administration, the Fed, and Members of Congress with a certain level of cover, allowing them to claim that they had supported auditing the Fed, while at the same time allowing the Fed to continue most of its operations in secret, beyond the scrutiny of Congress and the public. The effort to push the Sanders amendment through on a rush vote on May 6 failed thanks to the efforts of Senator David Vitter (R-La.), a fierce Fed critic, who insisted on a side-by-side vote of the Sanders sellout amendment with the original audit amendment. Those votes could come as early as Tuesday, May 11.
The Sanders flip-flop came less than 72 hours prior to the Federal Reserve announcing that it was opening a credit line to European central banks and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to bailout bankrupt Greece and the crumbling euro. The massive bailout, which the Associated Press described as “a bold $1 trillion rescue by the European Union,” buoyed world markets, but is sure to be a very temporary fix.
Audit the Fed! No More Bailouts!
by Ron Paul | 05/10/2010
It doesn’t come as too much of a surprise that the measure to audit the Fed is coming under continuous fire from the central bank and its cronies.
For the first time since the Federal Reserve was created nearly a century ago they have hired an actual lobbyist to pound the pavement on Capitol Hill. This is a desperate effort to hang on to the privilege of secrecy and lack of accountability they have enjoyed for so long.
Last week showed they are getting their money’s worth in the Senate. At the very last minute, on the floor of the Senate, supposed compromise language was agreed to and substituted in the Sanders Amendment to the financial reform bill. This language was acceptable to the administration, committee leadership and to the Fed. The trouble is, while it is better than no audit at all, it guts the spirit of a meaningful audit of the most crucial transactions of the Fed.
In fact, rather than still calling the Sanders amendment an audit, maybe it should instead be called more of a disclosure at this point. The new language of the Sanders amendment requires a one-time disclosure from the Fed of 13(3) facilities, foreign currency swaps and mortgage-backed securities. Basically, their sins of the past would be revealed and Americans would know more about who got bailed out by the Fed and under what terms. This would be good, but it’s not nearly enough.
Taxpayers are sick and tired of bailing out privileged dysfunctional institution that should be allowed to fail in order to stop their ability to wreak havok on our economy. Perpetuating these corporations at taxpayer expenses is not just wasteful, it is actively harmful. It would be good to know what went on int he past, but what about accountability in the future? A one-time disclosure now will not do us a lot of good down the road when the cycle repeats itself and friends of the Fed find themselves in trouble again. More importantly, agreements with foreign central banks are not touched by the new Sanders amendment language.
At a time when Greece, Portugal, Spain and other countries are experiencing dire financial crises and have their hands out to the international community, we need to know if our Federal Reserve is at all involved in bailing them out. As weary as we are of bailing out companies, the American people would not stand for bailing out entire countries. Our government is wasteful enough in its own affairs without contributing to the waste of other countries.
Yet the Fed currently has the tools it needs to do just this, and to do it in secret. If we cannot take away the Fed’s ability to waste trillions of taxpayer dollars on failing companies and failing countries, at the very least we can take away their ability to do this without transparency and accountability to the American people.
Senator David Vitter has introduced an amendment which contains the Audit the Fed language that passed the House last fall. The Senate must pass both of these amendments in order to achieve full disclosure of the past and full accountability in the future.
Bernie Sanders has sold out and sided with Chris Dodd to gut Audit the Fed in the Senate. His “compromise” is what the Adminstration and banking interests want: they’ll allow the TARP and TALF to be audited, but no transparency of the FOMC, discount window operations or agreement with foreign central banks. We need to take aciton and stop this!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuVBAMQ0j4A]Senate Sellout Threatens Ron Paul’s Audit the Fed Bill
Christian conservative leader James Dobson withdrew his endorsement of Kentucky Senate candidate Trey Grayson Monday, switching his support to Rand Paul’s campaign and accusing “senior members of the GOP” of misleading him about Paul’s record on abortion.
Dobson said in an audio recording that he made an “embarrassing mistake” as a result of misunderstanding Paul’s position on abortion.
“I was given misleading information about the candidacy of Dr. Rand Paul, who is running in the Republican Primary for the U.S. Senate. Senior members of the GOP told me Dr. Paul is pro-choice and that he opposes many conservative perspectives, so I endorsed his opponent,” Dobson explained. “But now I’ve received further information from OB/GYNs in Kentucky whom I trust, and from interviewing the candidate himself.”
Dobson’s reversal is an embarrassment for Grayson’s campaign, which touted the religious leader’s support last week and had planned to highlight an endorsement from Republican Rep. Hal Rogers Monday. Grayson, who serves as Kentucky’s secretary of state, has struggled in the polls against Paul, an ophthalmologist, with the primary just weeks away.
Now, Paul’s campaign is featuring Dobson’s support in a wave of radio ads across the state, on news and Christian radio stations. The campaign is also planning to put up a television spot with Dobson’s endorsement starting Tuesday.
“Have you ever made an embarrassing mistake? I did just that last week. I was given misleading information about the candidacy of Dr. Rand Paul, who is running in the Republican Primary for the U.S. Senate. Senior members of the GOP told me Dr. Paul is pro-choice and that he opposes many conservative perspectives, so I endorsed his opponent.
But now I’ve received further information from OB/GYN’s in Kentucky whom I trust, and from interviewing the candidate himself.
I now know that he is avidly pro life. He believes that life begins at conception.
He opposes earmarking and supports Israel. He identifies with the Tea Party movement and believes in home schooling. Sounds like my kind of man.
If I lived in Kentucky, I would vote for Dr. Rand Paul. Would you consider sending him to the U.S. Senate to shake things up in Washington?”
“Blessed are the peacemakers:
for they shall be called the children of God.”
– Jesus
From: adn
Anchorage statue personifies the world’s watchman ‘HABITAT’: Artist sees work as a geometric view of man being sentinel to the world
Love it or loathe it, Antony Gormley’s “Habitat” puts Anchorage on the international arts map in an unprecedented way.
The giant metal sculpture — 24 feet tall, 13 feet wide and 17 feet from toe to tailbone — prominently situated on the grounds of the Anchorage Museum, cannot be idly encountered. The viewer is compelled to react the instant he or she encounters the stylized human sitting on his haunches, apparently waiting or contemplating.
We can expect this Percent for Art piece to draw serious out-of-state attention. Gormley, of England, is one of the world’s most famous living artists and “Habitat” is his first permanent artwork in America.
The squatting pose has led some wags to suggest that the man is answering the call of nature. But its crossed arms and straight-ahead stare seem more legitimately suggestive of a watchman patiently waiting for a signal or a hunter silently scoping for game. …
Whether one chooses to interpret “Habitat” as monitoring global warming, keeping an eye on big government or something else, it supplies a unique and conceptually new symbol with which Anchorage will be identified.
“I’ve worked with John DeCamp on this case in Nebraska in the late ’80s, early ’90s, where they were flying children out of Omaha, Nebraska. They were actually driving them to Sioux City, Iowa, 180 miles away, putting them in private jets, flying them to Washington D.C. for sex orgies with congressmen and senators.
Then Rusty Nelson, the official photographer, who I interviewed, by the way — I have him on tape — would take pictures, and then they’d blackmail the congressmen and senators and tell them how to vote. And that’s what’s happening today.
And we don’t have enough people like Kucinich and Ron Paul to stand up. And these other people, many of them have been blackmailed through children and through sex and through drugs, and what have you. And of course, they’re only interested in being reelected.” .
We supplied Osama bin Laden ‘Tim Osman’ surface-to-air missiles which they used to shoot down Russian helicopters, which won the war for them. .
“We’re in a spiritual war all the way.”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQS5NXKaxeY]Ted Gunderson Reveals Gov. Corruption & It’s Ties to “Tim Osman” on Alex Jones Tv 1/4
Alex also talks with Ted Gunderson, a former United States Federal Bureau of Investigation agent who believes the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was destroyed not by a truck bomb, but by a highly classified government pineapple-sized “barometric bomb” that was developed by Hercules Manufacturing in Silicon Valley, California, under a government contract. Gunderson was honored as Outstanding Law Enforcement Officer in America by the AFL-CIO Metal Trade Counsel Los Angeles, CA in 1977.
Newt Gingrich 18% (321)
Mike Huckabee 4%
Gary Johnson 1%
Sarah Palin 18% (330) Ron Paul 24% (438)
Tim Pawlenty 3%
Mike Pence 3% Mitt Romney 24% (439)
Rick Santorum 2%
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ74CLFeIbQ]Ron Paul on the Dylan Ratigan Show
Ron Paul was interviewed on the Dylan Ratigan show today. The Congressman commented on the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Stevens, Mitt Romney’s vote-buying for the SRLC straw poll, and his ongoing efforts to audit the Federal Reserve.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwJM910v3ro]If Ron Paul Wins Another Straw Poll Republicans May Stop Using Them!
RonPaul2008dotcom — April 09, 2010 — Ron Paul won the CPAC straw poll earlier this year. If he also wins the straw poll at this weekend’s Southern Republican Leadership Conference [Ron Paul basically tied for first place, this time, trailing Romney (who bought votes) by just one vote, 438 votes to Romney’s 439 – ed.], “look for a big movement among the other Republicans to try to discourage other Republican organizations from even holding straw polls, because they don’t want to see Ron Paul continuing to be able to win these things.”
Ron Paul is America’s leading voice for limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies.
A coalition of neocons, oil industry executives and religious extremists want to redraw the boundaries of the Middle East. But it’s not going to turn out the way they want: Afghanistan is a no-win situation, and reports of war crimes and torture continue to do irreparable harm to America’s reputation all around the world.
Ron Paul is America’s leading voice for limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies.
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from this MSNBC interview
“At least in education, as bad as it is with public education and what they’ve done to it, you could opt out. You could teach your kids at home; you could still go to private school. But now, in medicine, you can’t opt out. And that is why the medical care quality is going to deteriorate, and why the cost is going to escalate ….”
– Ron Paul
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrpHvhnlfXU]Ron Paul “We Have Only One Party! And They Fight Over Power & Influence!
Ron Paul slammed Obama’s unconstitutional healthcare package on Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Freedom Watch. The Congressman announced that he will introduce legislation to stop the government from forcing people to buy health insurance.
Ron Paul is America’s leading voice for limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies.
Last week, Congress debated a resolution directing the President to withdraw our troops from Afghanistan no later than the end of this year. The Constitution gives the power to declare war to the Congress, so it is clearly appropriate for Congress to assert its voice on matters of armed conflict. In recent decades, however, Congress has defaulted on this most critical duty, essentially granting successive presidents the unilateral (and clearly unconstitutional) power to begin and end wars at will. This resolution was not expected to pass; however, the ensuing debate and floor vote served some very important purposes.
First, it was important to finally have an actual floor debate on the merits and demerits of continuing our involvement in the conflict in Afghanistan. Most congressional action regarding Afghanistan has concerned continued funding for the conflict. Thus, members of Congress have cloaked their support for an increasingly unpopular war in terms of financial support of the troops. But last week’s resolution had nothing to do with funding or defunding the war, but rather dealt directly with the wisdom of an open-ended commitment of U.S. troops (and hundreds of billions of tax dollars) in Afghanistan. Members opposing the resolution had to make their case for the ongoing loss of American lives as well as the huge expenditures required for an intractable conflict.
In my opinion, this was an impossible case to make.
Supporters of the war made the same intellectually weak arguments for continuing our occupation of a nation with a long and bloody history of resisting foreign occupation. Ultimately, the war supporters in Congress prevailed in the vote on the resolution. Still, the vote was significant because it places every member of Congress on the record as supporting or not supporting the unconstitutional, costly, violent occupation of a country that never attacked us. This vote should serve as an important reminder to the American people of where their representatives really stand when it comes to policing the world, empire building, and war.
The War Powers Resolution was passed in 1973 in the aftermath of Vietnam. It was intended to prevent presidents from slipping this country so easily into unwinnable wars, wars with indistinct enemies and vague goals. Unfortunately, it has had the opposite effect by literally legalizing undeclared wars for 90 days. In the case of Afghanistan, 90 days has stretched into nearly a decade. The original purpose of the initial authorization of force to pursue those responsible for the attacks on September 11 is no longer applicable. Al Qaeda has left Afghanistan; we are now pursuing the Taliban, who never attacked us. The Taliban certainly are not our friends, but the more of them we kill, the more their ranks grow and the stronger they become. Meanwhile, we are spending hundreds of billions of dollars in Afghanistan and accelerating our plunge toward national bankruptcy. Whose interests do we serve by continuing this exercise in futility?
Osama Bin Laden has said many times that his strategy was to bankrupt America, by forcing us into protracted fighting in the mountains of Afghanistan. The Soviet Union learned this lesson the hard way; and ultimately was forced to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan in defeat and humiliation. This same fate may await us unless we rethink our policy and resist any escalation of our military efforts in Afghanistan. Our troops should be used for defending our country, making us safer and stronger at home – not for occupying foreign nations with no real strategy or objective.
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Ron Paul is America’s leading voice for limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffKwx_XGC4c]G. Edward Griffin: CIA Takeover of The Mafia and its Ties to Harvard on The Alex Jones Show
Alex also talks with film producer and author G. Edward Griffin. Mr. Griffin is the author of The Creature from Jekyll Island, a best selling landmark book on the Federal Reserve system. Griffin founded Freedom Force International, a libertarian activist network, in 2002. http://www.freedomforceinternational….
