Support From Many Places

One thing that really amazes me is how Ron Paul can raise more money in one day than ANY other candidate in history (the media latches onto money makers), have more meetups, facebook, youtube, etc friends, win more straw polls than any other (R) out there, and still the media runs these polls that either do not have his name or focus on other candidates. Then they use these polls to say he is a second tier or unpopular candidate.

HE IS DRIPPING IN GRASSROOTS SUPPORT!! The people have loaded his campaign with money, yard signs, bumper stickers, you name it. What does it take for the media pundits to actually get that this guy is not one of the long shot, snowball chance in hell type candidate?

Watch this-



Video of note about corporate abuse-

http://www.youtube.com/v/N8RsFwsODzE&rel=1

Corporate Fascism = Military Industrial Complex

Another Fox Flop

Impressive No Matter Where You Stand

RP is making yet another splash.

Far more than the ideas, money talks in D.C.

Principled politicians are marginalized and the ones that fit nicely on the cover of a magazine AND have millions in the bank are given airtime.

It's as if the media says that the less a candidate needs support, the more coverage they get.

I'd rather see political coverage be more like restaurant reviews.

That being said, it should also be noted WHERE those millions come from.

Ron Paul is getting his money from the people and not from special interests or corporations.

Lets see the media go into THAT story.

www.ronpaul2008.com

and for an interesting graph see here

Who Really Should be. . . Under Pressure?

Here are the statistics to back what Ron Paul says on Iraq.

FOX Finds Flaw in Frank Field Frackus- "Ron Paul admits to questioning a report by the government".

These ladies at FOX News really got Ron Paul where they want him, admitting he does not automatically believe everything in reports put out by the government. Glad to know that these ladies, and FOX News for that matter, have everyone thinking correctly about anything and everything the government says. Great job ladies, and GREEEEEAT work FOX News!!! Now if we could just get everyone else in America to not question anything put out by the government we will be doing fine.





Best line in this video, "Doesn't Congress have anything better to do than investigate something that, I don't really think is that much in question?"

Most telling line by FOX Talking Head in this video, "This is trouble for the Republican party, I think, having this guy on stage purporting to represent OUR party."

SO the Republican Party is the O'Reilly's Party? Wow!!!

Intel on Iran's Nukes should ruduce American Aggression

Unless the Iranians say something like, "See America, we told you so", or "Hey America, invade this!!!". We will likely not see a nuke dropped in the middle eaast for another few years.

But America has made it clear, if another country with opposing views to ours seeks nuclear weapons we are justified in a first strike. If they only HAVE nukes then we engage in a decades long expensive war of words and chest thumping.

Lord, I hope the Iranians love their children too.

Iran Nuke Intel

john mayer debates with justin long about. . . ron paul

More than likely it is a joke. . . or a spoof. . . but so what, it's interesting.

Ron Paul ~ Media Insults and Popularity Contests

Another Shooting

. . . On Omaha television broadcasts, those who knew Hawkins said he was a troubled youth who dropped out of high school a year ago. Hawkins recently was fired from a job at a local McDonald's and had been taking medication for emotional problems, several friends said. . .

. . . told the Associated Press that the youth was "an introverted, troubled young man who was like a lost pound puppy that nobody wanted." She said that in addition to losing his job, Hawkins had recently broken up with a girlfriend. . .
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It might be easy to ask, "Why did this shooter value other peoples lives so little?'

It might be harder to ask, "Who do I know, or actively ignore, that is like this?"

This poor crazy foolish kid thought that by shooting people he would become famous and at the same time he would end his pain and discomfort. I'm quite sure there are groups out there ready to claim it was the drugs he was on, the video games he played, or the music he listened to.

Sadly, it is a much larger picture of neglect and social isolationism.

These children, usually young males in high school or recently out of school, are so often expected to adapt to a bizarre and ever changing set of social norms. So often they are expected to accept that the world is just fine, and that everything will turn out alright if you just resume your place in line.

What is often left out of the equation is that medication and video games and angry music are not the issue if they are part of a full circle, or even semi-circle, of love and support from the community that we live in.

Note, I fully believe that this persons family loved him, but just as an estranged husband on rare occasions will act in a violent way towards his ex, so too will our estranged youth take aim at the society that has snubbed them.

We live in a highly transient and ever changing world. We move often, we don't allow the roots of a community to grow and we do not value friendship with as many people as we used to.

Too many people fall into the habit of retaining a small clique. This limited circle of friends reduces the feel of any open community for outsiders into the very real instances of neglect and social depravity.

I am in no way suggesting we go out and have an 'adopt a depressed neighbour' day weekend. I AM suggesting that we might want to shift our focus from making huge profits in real estate (which appears to make some people a lot of money) to making huge long lasting communities (which appears to make people build relationships with their neighbourhoods).

I thought I would save what most would feel is a punchline for the end. Like in Jerry Maguire, focus less on big money in real estate and more on what it takes to build a community.

It's not just location, location, location. It's also time, respect, diversity.

All around, this is a horrible story and no one has the right to take others life, especially in some mad quest for fame in the afterlife. Maybe this is why people used to instill a deep fear hell. Kill a bunch of people and you will go to hell.

Robert Hawkins was in hell before his life ended.

Blimps and Airplanes, and Signs, oh my.

Ron Paul: A True Underdog Story

NYTIMES article about RP

The Net finds Rp and takes him for a ride.

Ron Paul- brief interveiw on Israel and NAU

Notice how this guy does not get RP's position on restoring authority to Israel.

Enough Excuses, Bring em home!

RP's Funding Raises Eyebrows

". . . WASHINGTON (AP) - Ron Paul's head-snapping fundraising puts a new face on a campaign that the media, politicians and much of the public had relegated to the sidelines."

Story here

TV ad #2 for RP

The Democratic Debate on the issues

Students From Mich- on Ron Paul

Gee, Ron, How you gonna make this work???

Also, a snippet for you Giuliani Supporters. . .

http://www.youtube.com/v/fqG8WOZvO-M&rel=1

Love is the message

Hope for Ron Paul

Four Titanics, One Iceberg

Here is an article I wanted to post about Ron Paul's current upswell of support including the online donation of over a million dollars from people all over the country.

BBC Columnist Covers Debates. Ron Paul Deemed 'Authentic'

Here is a BBC article that covers Ron Paul in a way that better describes him than most other articles I have seen.

Ron Paul is Authentic.
Scott~

Generation Chickenhawk

Got this from my friend Rich~

Blackwater Brings Iraqi Govt Limitations to Light

The CNN article link is below and the video is here and an (additional video link is here)-


None of these Blackwater supporters would stand for an outside army to come into America and act as we do in Iraq. Clearly, if a private army of Iraqi soldiers were in America, and they shot randomly into a crowd of people the American government would take them and without habeas corpus hold them, try them, and enforce the law.

So now an American troop of private soldiers in Iraq has shot and killed many non-combatant civilians (all of this captured on video) and the Iraqi government has no authority to respond to this other than to revoke their ability to work in Iraq.

How has the U.S. made the Iraqi government so impotent as to be unable to enforce the law in their own land?

Also, tragically this is not just a Bush administration issue, this type of action has gone on since Clinton and before. Watch the video. I was disappointed to find out how long this thread of abuse has been going on with American taxpayers footing the bill.


Here is the article.

And this article is about how Blackwater focused on cost, not safety of the soldiers. This is why privatizing the military in a corrupted system like ours is not a good idea.

Scott~

When do you declare this an emergency

Vote Ron Paul

burma- another country ignored by the U.S

http://www.uscampaignforburma.org/

What's that A`boot

You can't even peacefully protest in Canada without some half hearted infiltrators trying to get you arrested for being part of a violent crowd.

Here is the article: Canada Peace Police


What is the world coming to?

Amazing candidate, amazing compilation

I do not deny that there are a few issues where I disagree with Ron Paul, but where it counts, and on about 95% of the other issues I think he is right on.

He deserves a fair review and all the support anyone that respects the Constitution can give.

Best Wishes to you RP,

Scott~

Where there's a War, There's a Way

Here in the midst of a civil war and a global attack on terrorism we have black market deals and deadly interactions this likes of which rival CIA dealings from the past.

IS this just more of the tangled web we weave when we wish to destroy our enemies?

The case for impeachment, treason, censure.

In the history of America we have never removed a president from office by impeaching him. Nixon was going to be but chose to resign his office to save his name from being the first.

Now with the latest administration we have exceeded boundaries never before imagined and we are not just stopping by for tea and biscuits, we are setting up permamnent bases. In order to get this far, many lies have been told. Dick Cheney spoke in 1994 about how going into Iraq would be a quagmire and when we finally had the attack on America he and Bush used the thrust and momentum of a nation to start going after those that attacked America, and then quickly moved us right into the heart of what we knew ALL ALONG would be a quagmire. A veritable black hole of street fighting and even civil war in a tribal war torn region.

In the two sided (R) and (D) race for president in 2008 of the U.S. of A. there are but a few candidates that have the conviction and voting record to pull the U.S. out of Iraq. I won't name names, if you actually cared about it you could quickly find them in the crowd. But I will say this, America WILL see more death and more violence the longer we continue with the failed foreign policy of nation building and meddling in the affairs of others.

Are we a nation of laws and consequences for our actions? Or are we a dictatorship or authoritarian system without any recourse when the nation gets steered into a war, into many wars over bad information and worse motivation?

Screw up, you'll be pardoned.

Cover up, you'll be exonerated and the book will sell millions.

Go to war over false pretense and assume that history will eventually be rewritten to ignore the act that resulted in lives lost over lies and an expensive bill passed on to many generations.

We have been barking up the wrong tree in Iraq for years now. Anyone who ever plotted to attack America are either in another country regrouping or in Iraq striking our troops who are acting as unwelcome police in a foreign land with a culture that has operated on a different wavelength since before the times of Jesus Christ.

What would Jesus do about this?

Or as the bumper sticker states, 'Who Would Jesus Bomb?'

What caliber rifle would Jesus use?

What rations or MRE's wold he grub on?

What web sites would he visit while on leave in the barracks?

What candidate in the states would reflect his views of peace, and respect for the soul of every creature, friend or foe?

I am not much of a religious guy, but I do wonder what the neo-con war mongers and the democrat lackeys who vote for their agenda to stay in office think to justify the vote for war, death, murder and mayhem when it contradicts the roots of what many of them preach while running for office (bible in hand on Sundays).

One last thought, people often ask me why I work with third parties like the libertarians instead of working on the (R) or (D) camps. I will let Ron Paul reflect why I flirt with and at the same time despise the idea. He gets disrespected on countless shows, he gets ignored and marginalized while standing on the most consistently Constitutional voting record in DC. At the same time he has huge numbers of grassroots supporters that have put his numbers into levels that are hard for the mainstream press to ignore, try as they might.

But see how frustrating it can be for one who voted against the war in Iraq, against wasteful pork spending, against the drive for more pollution by expanding the size of the government, and in general for the return to a Constitutional system of government and get sidelined by a quest for ratings.

America has lost respect for the underdog and moved into the winner takes all practice. America has, I pray temporarily, stepped out of line with most of the respect for individual liberty and controls over political powers that this nation originally claimed to be built on.

Of course, we started off on the backs of slaves and with incomplete respect for equal rights and treatment for all people. But must we throw the baby out with the bathwater when we have come so far?

If America is ever to become a great nation again it will be after we have restored the freedoms and responsibilities that adorn liberty. Where all share equal in the rights to interact and contract as they see fit.

Right now we are polarizing voters into activists or blown fuses who could care less about the way things turn out because 'it all goes corrupt'.

Can any of us make a difference?

I think so, and I hope so, and I work as if it were so.

I'd like to think we all want the same thing.

Most times I believe that to be true with all my heart.

Sometimes I question that.

Always I work as if I can make a difference.

Who Endorses RP?!?

fox distorts again, putting words into Dr. No's mouth

Hillary and Obama on Foreign Policy

I am always concerned by candidates that say one thing and do another. Here is a short clip where Hillary chastises Obama for an earlier comment and yet she herself on another interview responded almost the same way.

Can we at least have a personal policy as voters to never vote for someone who, "speaks with forked tongue."

How to piss off Scott

As someone who has stood behind countless third party candidates of all stripes I know how hard it is to get bodies down to an event to rally support for a low budget candidate.

I recall going to the Guthrie-Cantwell-McGavick debates and there were a TON of Cantwellian supporters and McGavickian supporters all standing on the four corners of one particular intersection outside of the KING~TV studios.

They chanted at each other across the street, 'six more years' over and over, taking breaks to breath after a while of chanting (collective breath takers?) and I happened to be walking right up to them and starting yelling 'six more war, six more wars, six more wars*'.

And after everyone looked around at me with a 'gasp'.

One lady standing near me boldly said, "But we don't want anymore war."

With a warm smile I replied, "I don't either, and that is why I'm voting for Bruce Guthrie."

So here is the EXACT opposite situation. Ron Paul finally gets a large grassroots following to come out and scream his name with passion and love, and look at how ABC portrays the event.

NO WONDER HE IS NOT HIGH IN THE POLLS!!!


HE DOES NOT EXIST!!!


Peace, for the love of God peace,

Scott~


*Honeslty folks, Maria voted for the war and the Bush agenda and Mike was hard core pro Iraq war, so I could not lose.

More debate recaps you ask??? Okay!!!

Debate Recap with RP

Here is a recap of the RP position on things.

interesting Maher footage

Ron Paul Visits Google

He has more views than Hillary (scroll to bottom of this page to see how his numbers compare to hers) in a fraction of the time. His support team on the net is growing like wildfire and I am truly amazed.

I respect his message, I respect his solid voting record, and I respect all of those out there that have reached down and supported this guy as he puts the best platform of any (R) and (D) candidate.

Thanks for watching,

Scott~

"Ron Paul is Not a Progressive."

I know Ron Paul is not a progressive.

I will amend that. He may want some of the same social programs you want, but he does not want the federal government to be the source of the social programmes.

There is a quote in Russia after they built their socialist govt system, 'we built it then we tripped over it.'

Problem is, if you expect only the government to be the provider of progressive agenda, then you will have to sit idly by as it provides the neo-con agenda with the same authority. We are not going to chisel out the west coast and create a separate state here made up of the blue states, so to get the federal government out of providing your progressive wishlist will keep later (R) Presidents/Congress` from having Halliburton provide sex education, school lunches, and healthcare.

I am a firm believer that a big part of the reasons our communities are falling apart is we keep expecting, even demanding the government to provide everything we want, just because we rename a service as a right. We want healthcare, so it is now a right the the government must provide.

He would not stand in the way of whole communities and whole states creating their own progressive system. He simply wants the fed to stay out of it.

Voluntary Communal Progressive society will only ever succeed by choice of man, never by force of law in an American two party system.

That is in fact the only way any agenda appeals to me. With we the people doing it together by choice NOT forcing a particular view on another.

Naive?

Perhaps, but NOT out of line with the Constitution which we currently still use in the United States.

If my idea is naive, is the contrary progressive or neo-con forced government not equally flawed in it's use of force to impose an unconstitutional agenda?

Paul rally draws colorful crowd

Here is an article from the Palo Alto Daily News:

Presidential candidate dubbed 'Dr. No' slams Iraq war, income tax

How to Creat an Angry American

. . . it's gotta have a montage. . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kyZT4Jv9fA

Any good campaign has gotta have a montage, just ask Team America.

1988 debate with Ron Paul (funny)

Part 2

And Part 3

This is a trio of videos from an interview of Ron Paul on the Morton Downey Jr. Show. I was truly LMAO to this video and at the same time catching gems from the show. I love the way people talk and the way they are so passionate about their views.

It is really centered around the drug war and the failure of our policy to stop drugs on the street and the level of interaction with the audience really makes this a snapshot of opinion in the late 80's.

Enjoy,

Scott~

Ron Paul Visits Google HQ

Ron Paul made a visit to the main headquarters of google on his campaign trail for President of the United States of America.

A brief review of the visit is here in the article. I wonder why journalists have to include so much of the 'he does not have a chance, but take a minute to humour him.' type attitude when covering someone who is not in the top two of the polls.

Take a read for yourself and comment your thoughts.

Go Ron Go,

Scott~

What a bumpy road

LPWA Hempfest Booth Fund

Please join me in contributing towards the LPWA Hempfest Booth.

We will be looking to support the rally for medical freedom. It has been briefly touched on by some of the recent 2008 Presidential Candidates and has been a long time issue close to many of the members of the libertarian party.

Thank you for partaking in this drive,

Scott~

Resignation, Impeachment, or Both

This link is for a video of the Olbermann article read by him. you can also read this at the same link.

Olbermann succinctly exposes the serious condition in which the United States of America is constantly, daily crossing the lines into the very types of ruling government that caused rebellion and after much struggle the formation of this nation of laws and protection of individual unalienable rights.

Nowhere in the Polls, but Everywhere on the net

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003751285_paul17.html

It has been since the Ross Perot campaign many years ago that I personally got a glimpse of alternative candidates and party structures.

The Reform Party and the Libertarian Party were touted as representing the Constitutional ideals I had been taught in school. Yet the leading papers and politicians often scoffed at or just outright (I first misspelled that as 'pout'right) ignored these alternative or third party candidates. Sometimes I am glad that third party candidates are ignored because quite frankly they do not have it altogether. But this does not excuse the total disregard for what anyone should consider a valid or legitimate campaign.

So all of that aside, forgetting any personal bias of desire for complete coverage, could you hold a 'scientific' poll and include candidates that are not yet declared and exclude candidates that are not only in the race, but getting quite a bit of online buzz?

The LA times has done so and a few others as well.

Here is a video of some polls and ideas being ignored. Tell if you think these are ideas the public of the United states are not interested in!

Read on,

Scott~

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Here is a letter from a friend to the LA TIMES:

From: Regan A.
To: timespoll@latimes.com
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 9:03:23 AM
Subject: Where's Ron Paul?

Dear Editor,
Pollster, or whomever it may concern,
I recently saw your Republican Primary poll and noticed a glaring omission: Ron Paul was not one of the choices. You listed Fred Thompson (who is not even officially running) but you decide to omit Dr. Paul? You also listed Huckabee who, according to the FEC, has raised less money than Paul in the first quarter of 2007. I have a simple question for you: Why did you do this? Was it just a mistake? If you can give me a satisfactory answer and launch another poll with Paul's name then I will be content. Otherwise, I am prepared to boycott your newspaper because of your unfair coverage of the election. Thank you and have a nice day.

Sincerely,
Regan A
San Diego, CA

_______________________________

Ron Paul Stands out again. . .

The GOP would be wise to listen to Ron Paul's message

Opinion/Editorial article in the Seattle Times

"Two-thirds of Americans can now see that starting a war in Iraq was a mistake. The majority of Republicans still do not see it. Eventually they will, but it's hard to go against their own president unless one of their own makes them do it.

That may be the usefulness of Rep. Ron Paul. There is no way this libertarian medical doctor from Texas is going to win the Republican nomination. His strict noninterventionist policy is too radical a change for Republicans. But on foreign policy the Republican Party could use a dose of criticism that gets to the root of things, and that is what Paul has to offer."

For the whole article, click on the title of this article.

Demand For Ron Paul Grows

Click on the 'Demand For Ron Paul Grows' Title above to demand more Ron Paul in your area!!!

5.27.07 CNN Ron Paul

Old Footage of Ron Paul Protesting Other Wars

Ron Paul's Foreign Policy Book Club

Confessions of a Ron Paul Junkie

Darth Vader calls the Emperor

The View from the View

The best you tube collection yet~ Two Part Ron Paul Video

Part one of the 2008 (R) Pres nod race: (R) Ron Paul

Part 1:




Part 2:

Ron Paul in the lead, but not really

The thing that is truly amazing about these videos are the fact that the commentators from major news media admittedly spin the results and the words of Ron Paul.

So it is not in the realm of FOX reality that the audience connected with the one candidate that was brave enough to take the original (R) party line instead of the lock step neo-con party line that the other nine candidates took.

What'd I Say? Bush compared to Ron Paul

Bill Maher Comes Around

5/20/07 Ron Paul on CNN

Ron Paul

My answer to the global warming concern posed by Bill Maher. Downsize the American Government as it is the largest polluter on the face of the Earth. We the people have to care about our world enough to save it. It will only be a force of human positive will, not orwellian handcuff force that will cause the type of response to the global warming problem we face.

Ron does not have the high speed internet wit of Bill Maher, BUT he does respond with honest forthright and amazing answers.

So far, He is the only (R) for which I would vote as he is not for the neo-can agenda of social intolerance and fiscal irresponsibility.

Go Ron Paul

www.cslseattle.org

Thanks Kathianne,

I have been on edge lately as a friend has been dealing recently with a stalker, and after the recent shooting at the UW and then the VT shootings we have all been concerned.

Though these events are uncommon they have the power to weigh heavy on our minds if we let them. The beauty is that we have the same amount of power to look at this with insight and enlightenment (more power if we open our hearts?). The power of perception is truly immense and often true north is neglected because it is outside of where we find comfort.

Deep down I know that we drop the ball. We fumble and people get hurt. But we would not be here if nations and generations before us hadn't, after many great hardships, stood up with aches and pains on the rain soaked field and yelled. . . "HIKE!!!".

Scott~


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Life is what you make me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.


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Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 5:39:01 PM
Subject: CSL: Let Us Be Broken Open

Dear Scott

When horrible tragedies happen such as the recent shooting at Virginia Tech. we can all feel the blow of disbelief, shock and outrage. These feelings can be followed by anger, pain, or deep sadness. These are all very normal reactions for what can seem like a world gone wild. My spiritual practice at this moment is to feel all the feelings and let those feelings fill me up to the place of overflow. I want my heart to break-to break open.

My wonderful Hindu friend, Bo Lozoff said, "Grief is only love with a bad reputation." I believe that the anger and sadness I feel when confronted with human beings seeming inhumanity is my huge disappointment in us as a species. I grieve because I know we are capable of such love and greatness. If we are all on the same team, our team just fumbled the ball.

Here's where the turning point is for me - I have to realize that the anger, sadness, and grief are the shadow side of the great Love I have for all human beings. As I acknowledge that I can embrace my feelings, I trust that Love will soon evidence itself. My Prayer becomes, "God open my heart wide open so the Power of Love can flow through me."

I share these thought with you because we aren't a church that tries to tell anyone what to think or how to act or who we can pin blame upon. (Ernest Holmes said, "We don't tell people what to think but how to think.") I hope by sharing my personal process that you may find a way and means to touch the deep reservoir of love and understanding within yourself and that you let love flow out from you to your family, friends and the people so tragically effected by this incident.

To have your heart broken open for love is a Glorious thing.

Blessings to you!

Dr. Rev. Kathianne Lewis
Senior Minister

Center for Spiritual Living
5801 Sand Point Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105
206-527-8801, ext 219
www.cslseattle.org

Floater - Apology

Be Kind to One Another

It is crucial that we de-esculate the mass tension and fighting we have going on in the world.

You may ask, what can I do to make things better, more peaceful, more harmonious?

Start by giving more of yourself to the community you live in. Follow up by giving more to the family who nurtured you into who you are. And if the ones that raised you did a bad job in your eyes. Be bold and courageous enough to forgive them and noble enough to not repeat the offense to your own children.

Meditate

Relax

Forgive

Allow people to be imperfect

Allow people to make mistakes and to grow

grow



peace,

Scott~

Louise Richardson' "What Terrorists Want"

2006-09-08b-forum.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)

A very refreshing interview. Enjoy.

MyFox WGHP | War of Words Escalates at Guilford College

MyFox WGHP | War of Words Escalates at Guilford College: "ssibly a hate crime, it has been quite a week at Guilford College. Five"


Here is how FOX covered the story.

Two more N.C. football players charged

Two more N.C. football players charged

This is the other side of the story.

Thoughts?

Here is the new donor program for the LPWA!!!

Please, try it out.

Scott~