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From the Las Vegas Review Journal I found out that Hasbro got to use the face of Marine Col Mitchell Paige, of Guadalcanal fame, in return, GI Joe was to remain a US Marine, now that promise is being broken.

Of course Hasbro no longer exists as a real company, but no longer will GI Joe be a real American hero.  Instead GI Joe will be a EU organization (or at least based out of Brussels, the EU capital).  This is another casualty of the Global War on Terror (GWOT), the loss of respect for the American service men and women.

Is it any wonder that the world thinks little of the American service personnel when our military can’t seem to secure our borders and protect us from invasion?  Instead the US military is engaged in the very thing that George W. Bush campaigned against in 2000, nation building.

What happened to the humble foreign policy?

I guess that as Congressman Ron Paul was told about congress declaring war,  that has become anachronistic.  Supporting the troops means supporting the constitution.  Ron Paul has a consistent track record on that count.

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Over at LewRockwell.com, there is a YouTube video that exposes the Faux news pollmeister that assembled the “scientific” focus group that was run by Frank Lutz that he said proved that Americans don’t like Ron Paul. Apparently he is good at making up questions to get the answers that he wants.

Thanks to Penn and Teller for exposing this guy.

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Over in the Second court of Appeals there was an interesting decision published recently.(Suppressed court document)

It concerns a guy who confessed to being involved in the 9/11 attacks.  But then it turned out that he confessed because the FBI threatened to have his family tortured, and the only thing they had on this fellow was that a pilot had forgotten his radio in the man’s hotel room (the pilot had stayed in the hotel room prior).

Of course, to protect the guilty it seems that the FBI wants to have the part of the decision that talks about how the FBI “encourages” people to confess removed from the public commons.  Apparently part of the secret way that the FBI gets confessions is through somewhat unethical, but heck they would like to keep doing it, and if people knew that it was wrong for the FBI to do so, many more people might try suing the government.

Thanks to PsychSound.com for the original article and research.

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Actually the headline is misleading, Jane’s (of Jane’s Defense, Jane’s Ships, etc) has an article about a police officer who in one controlled test of a taser, suffered what looks like permanent spinal injuries.  Of course the TASER loving police say that normal people are faking it when they say TASERs hurt.  Much like when this decorated Marine Sgt was shot after helping with Toys for Tots.

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Over at WND.com there is an interesting bit of information:

But Mike Huckabee, even though he had been given the questions in advance, thought it had something to do with adopting Mexican laws or some such nonsense. Doesn’t his staff even know the history of the pro-life movement?

Apparently for some of these debates, some of the candidates are being given advance notice of what questions they will be asked.   Interesting.

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From EfluxMedia.com:

Hitachi Ltd. announced that its hard drive division is going to push way past today’s storage limits to 4 terabytes for desktop computers and 1 terabyte on laptops in 2011. Researchers at the company created the world’s smallest disk drive heads in the 30-nanometer to 50-nanometer range, or about 2,000 times smaller than the width of an average human hair.

So laptops will have 1 Terabyte drives in 3 years?  Sounds good to me.

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Ron Paul has a message of freedom and peace, but according to this article (from LewRockwell.com), some solid socialists believe that Ron Paul wil, gasp, allow the people of states to decide what laws the states will have, which means that some states could adopt a socialist model if they desire. While I might disagree about that (we are supposed to have a republican form of government), I think that the point is that it is better to let the states decide a lot of these issues, rather than looking to a big brother all the time.

But what do I know, I’m not paid to write my opinions, so therefore they must not be worth as much as people who are paid thousands of dollars an article (or even a word).

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From LewRockwell.com (I apologize for the extensive quote):

Reading this weekend’s Washington Post piece on Blackwater founder Erik Prince, I came across a paragraph that perplexed me:

“Prince was a White House intern under President George H.W. Bush. His political donations over the past two decades total almost $263,000 to Pat Buchanan, Oliver North, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) and former senator Rick Santorum, a Pennsylvania Republican, among others.”

What? Why would an individual who has profited to the tune of several billion dollars from the drug war and the Iraq and Afghanistan war be giving money to the most antiwar and anti-war-on-drugs Member of Congress? Catholic guilt?

So I decided to do some looking around.

First I went to the Federal Election Commission website and checked contributors to Dr. Paul’s presidential campaign. No Erik Prince.

Then I looked at Dr. Paul’s contributors to every congressional race since 2001 (pre-Blackwater bonanza days). No Erik Prince.

Then I cross-checked all of Erik Prince’s political giving, going back to 2001 on CQ’s excellent Moneyline website. Nothing.

Surely the reporter didn’t make this up?

Ah, finally found it! When Ron Paul returned to Congress in 1995 Prince gave $1,000. Then he gave another $1,000 the next year. Nothing since then. And Prince’s listed profession when he gave two grand to Ron Paul? US Navy!

That equals less than one-one hundredth of what Prince is said to have given to dozens of GOP recipients, yet somehow that same Washington Post that doesn’t seem to know that Ron Paul even exists saw fit to print it without clarification or explanation, leaving the reader to conclude that Ron Paul is just another candidate who gets money from the military industrial complex that he (pretends) to rail about.

This is called “disinformation,” and from Ron Paul to the wars they are shilling for against Iran and Syria, the Washington Post is proving itself a master that would have made Trotsky proud.
So once again we have the media smearing Dr. Ron Paul in subtle ways, ignoring him when he does well, censoring polls, and basically doing everything to maintain their roles as gatekeepers and sheep herders of the American people.

People it’s time to take your country back.  You can do it if you jut get out of your house once and a while.  Join a meetup group for Ron Paul, there are lots of events that you can go to, and they really don’t take that much time.

It’s your country, let’s take it back.

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Recently Al Gore got the Nobel peace prize for his work on Global Warming.  In contrast to Al Gore, a real meteorologist has pointed out that we have weather cycles.  Of course, he won’t get the Nobel prize, or probably any grants now.  From the Sydney Morning Herald:

ONE of the world’s foremost meteorologists has called the theory that helped Al Gore share the Nobel Peace Prize “ridiculous” and the product of “people who don’t understand how the atmosphere works”.

Dr William Gray, a pioneer in the science of seasonal hurricane forecasts, told a packed lecture hall at the University of North Carolina that humans were not responsible for the warming of the earth.

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But Dr Gray, whose annual forecasts of the number of tropical storms and hurricanes are widely publicised, said a natural cycle of ocean water temperatures – related to the amount of salt in ocean water – was responsible for the global warming that he acknowledges has taken place.

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“It bothers me that my fellow scientists are not speaking out against something they know is wrong,” he said. “But they also know that they’d never get any grants if they spoke out. I don’t care about grants.”

So here is a real scientist, who people look to for predicting hurricanes, which actually happen, and rely on his information to save lives, but he is marginalized by the politicalization of science.

The problem with Government funding of science is that it becomes agenda driven, more than verifiable results driven, examples abound, the waste of resources on the Star Wars program, the Tuskegee Syphilis experiment,  and now the forced indoctrination of the myth of man made global warming, that ignores the warming of Mars, Jupiter, etc.

The more power that is given to the government the poorer the vast majority of people become, and creating imaginary enemies (or even real ones like the CIA creating Osama Bin Laden), so that the people willingly given up their freedoms to save the planet, make the world safe for democracy, or fight for freedom is a time tested plan for despotism.

Unfortunately, as P.T. Barnum purportedly said: “There’s a sucker born every minute”.  And America seems to be the biggest collection of suckers in the world.

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I find it strange that there all these debates where different candidates are asked different questions.

It’s more of the moderators asking questions that they pick to highlight different issues for different candidates.

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Forget all the posturing you see from the republicans claiming to want smaller government, more liberty and a restoration of constitutional princpiles from FreeMarketNews:

Gambling911.com reports today

http://www.gambling911.com/Ron-Paul-New-Voting-Rules-100307.html

Many states, in an effort to shut out Ron Paul are now closing their primaries. That means that only Republicans can vote in the Presidential primaries for a Republican candidate. Many states are doing this quickly and quietly and giving people very little time to learn about the new rules. For example, New Hampshire decided only a week ago that you will now have to change your party affiliation by October 12, 2007 or it will be too late to do so. New Hampshire also has a closed primary and only Republicans and possibly Independents will be allowed to vote for Ron Paul.

Politics in America is rigged so that no real choice is available (the common lessor of two evils).  If you can vote in the primary, vote for Ron Paul, because it might be the last real choice you have.

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