Deliver Us

This is so far my favorite illustration. There is a very touching story to go with it and the young lady who created this, Leah Tiscione, is extremely talented.

Really? Hillary donated to Ron Paul?

From Ron Paul Forums comes this interesting image and it is a screenshot from the Ron Paul campaign ticker.

Some of the Dirt on Huckabee Clinton doesn't want to leak yet.

Very interesting information is available via a lawsuit filed against the state board of education and the governor of Arkansas in a dispute about district funding. This Arkansas Supreme Court Decision is a gold mine of information that utterly devastates Huckabee's self-promotion as the "education" candidate.

This is from the Supreme Court's Chief Justice (by the way, the "home schooling advocate" Jonell Caldwell, named in the suit and who claims to be a pioneer in homeschooling in AK and has a much viewed video in support of Huckabee is in fact the chairman of the Arkansas State Education Board)

Results of the State's own Benchmark testing for eighth grade students in April 2000 showed that only sixteen percent were proficient or above in math statewide, and in the Little Rock School District only nine percent were proficient or above.

With respect to Arkansas high school students entering state universities, fifty-eight percent needed remediation in either English or math. For the Rogers High School students entering a university (including some students with 3.0 grade averages), forty-four percent needed remediation in either English or math.

Judge Kilgore concluded in his 2001 order that the "State has a remarkably serious problem with student performance." We agree.

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Do you remember the NEA convention speech where Huckabee is talking about making sure that teachers are valued by way of increased salaries? What an incredible, bald-faced liar. If he really thought this was a priority, perhaps he'd have pressured the legislature to increase teacher pay. Not that I am a fan of paying teachers who can only achieve a 9% competency rate amongst students in math, but it's clear that Huckabee plays very fast and loose with the facts.

Arkansas' entry level for teacher salaries is last when compared to our eight bordering states, and Arkansas spends twenty percent less than the national average for teachers across the board. The entry level salary for Arkansas school districts bordering Memphis, Tennessee was about $5,695 less than that offered in Memphis school districts, and for more experienced teachers the differential was almost $6,000. A similar disparity exists for beginning salaries between school districts in Texarkana, Arkansas and Texarkana, Texas. Arkansas school districts pay about $4,000 less than those in Texas.

HSLDA and Huckabee

Their endorsement of Mike Huckabee makes me sick to my stomach. Huckabee does not have a decent record when it comes to home schooling. My open letter to homeschoolers should be up at Lew's tomorrow is up at Lew's now

Seasons Greetings From Ron Paul and his Family

Makes you wish you were a part of this family. I wonder what it's like around the Giuliani clan at Christmans....

Vaccine Politics

I have been a bit slow in producing articles lately for Lew. My business has been taking off and I've been occupied with that. Vaccines are a subject of which I have always been fascinated. Back in the 19th century, some scientists thought that the theory behind vaccines was a "grotesque superstition."

I have been coming around to this view for several years now. My latest on the subject will be up at Lew's tomorrow. Here's a preview.

What has resulted from this unholy marriage of corporate interests and the government is not public health but political medicine. Both figuratively and literally, political medicine is poison that seeks to destroy common sense, customer choice and too often, lives. When it isn’t denying medication that has been proven useful to cancer patients, it is attempting to mandate medicine and ban food supplements.

If one didn’t know any better, one might conclude that the FDA and related health agencies of the federal government, want you to get sick.

Robert Ringer: Voice of Tyranny

Where does Joe Farrah find such idiots?

By square one, I am referring to the great paradox that few Americans are willing to face up to: In order to preserve freedom, some freedoms must be restricted.

Bob is convinced that every Muslim is going to kill us. The level of his hysteria would be hard to match even though he tries to voice his opinion as one who truly cares about freedoms. As in, I really care about your freedoms but you better just give them up because, "when someone points a gun at you and says he's going to kill you, you don't have time to engage in an intellectual dialog about free speech and civil rights. The first order of business is to kill the guy with the gun in his hand."

His logic doesn't get any better. I wonder if he would also have us all disarm as well. But his logic, and the logic of all the warmongering neocons is this:

Give up your rights, or die.

Now, it's pretty funny. The most fundamental right, is our right to life. So by giving up that right, you die. If you give up your rights, you die. That is why the founding fathers, and they weren't that original actually (see: Magna Charta), believed that the ownership of firearms was paramount to freedom.

Bob Ringer has it wrong as do the rest of his carpet-bagging, neoconservative brethren. Live Free, or die. If we alllow ourselves to be swayed by such illogic as his, then we don't deserve to be free anyway.

USA Today Ad Guy.

Writes a letter to explain why he supports Ron Paul. He also lays out the importance of December 16. Thanks to Laura for posting it at her blog

Bush: Security Genius, Isolationist.

A kid in Iceland somehow got a secret number into the White House and gave it a ring, posing as the President of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson. The White House Staff had lots of tough questions to ask to prove he was the actual President of Iceland but he made it through their gauntlet because "I had Wikipedia and a few other sites open, so it was not so difficult really."

Agents were dispatched to give him a stern talking to and to make sure he knew he'd be on the "no-fly" lists of the TSA. The report didn't mention it but I have it on good authority that they promised his baggage would be lost too if he dared to come to the U.S.

With a crack team like this, it's a mystery how the events of 9/11 could have occurred.

Why do I get the feeling that if Ron Paul were President, he'd encourage him to visit the U.S. and wouldn't be alienating him?

Help! My Ron Paul Revolution Song needs Video

I can make music, but I am clueless when it comes to making video. I recently wrote and produced a Ron Paul revolution song and would love to see it put to video. If you are a person who can do this, I encourage you to download the song (located here and use this as the soundtrack.

The song is titled "I'm Alive". "I'm Alive" can refer to a lot of things but mainly it refers to "the remnant" of freedom advocates once believed to be all but dead until the Ron Paul revolution began. Non Serviam over at Ron Paul Radio has been playing this song daily on Ron Paul Radio. He is responsible for the mastering.

Shoot me a link if you decide to pick this up. And, for what it's worth, I don't have a huge readership here. About 1k visitors a month, so I'd be much obliged if you pass this around.

[UPDATE: Somebody suggested I checkout podsafe. Much cooler than Garage Band I think and gives me the ability to embed the player like youtube.

Hillary's Economic Cluelessness

I mean....really. On CNBC(HT Lew Rockwell) she gives her plan to bail out the poor, poor people who were "lured in" by apparently unscrupulous lenders. Her plan would freeze interest rates (confiscate property of the lenders) for 5 years.

The the interviewer's credit, she asked some very pertinent questions which leads me to the conclusion that Hillary hasn't got a clue. She called the Federal Reserve an "independent body" of which she would not be comfortable dictating a strategy. She either doesn't realize that it was the Fed's horrible monetary policies which created this crisis, or does and sees it as an opportunity to further control the market.

Actually, both are probably true. She views any crisis as an opportunity to send more jack-booted thugs out into our streets to dictate what happens to us.

When asked where the billions of dollars would originate to finance her plans, she glibly responded, "it comes from where it comes: the budget."

If that isn't the most vacuous and condescending (to the people who are being robbed)response ever ......ooooohhh I can't even finish this sentence properly it makes me so mad.

Couple that with some info that Laura posted today about the Fed allowing banks to get discount loans directly from the Fed, and you have all you need to know about these corrupt thieves who allegedly represent us.

Go Ron Paul Go....

Local News Coverage

My partner and I started DriveBuy Technologies back in August. We're now in 12 states and growing. The local news ran a story this morning about the technology we've developed.

[Update: picked up by MSNBC]

And the Polls are Accurate Now?

From a yahoo news article (Reuters) on polling:

"State polls may be even more valuable ultimately because that is the primary trail. They reflect the presence of very intense campaigning that other states are not getting," Miringoff said.

Even a month before the first votes, a state poll can be extremely misleading, Donahue cautioned. At this point in the 2004 race, Democrat Howard Dean had a huge lead over John Kerry in New Hampshire, where Kerry won. At this point in the 2000 race, Republican George W. Bush led Arizona Sen. John McCain in New Hampshire, but lost that primary by 18 points, she said.

"In 2000 and 2004, the polls were so incorrect at this point in time as to be completely meaningless," she said.

Why was McCain attacking Ron Paul in the last debate? Because he knows that Ron Paul is not a dark horse anymore, he's the front runner.

Look Ma! We're on TV!

Tomorrow, December 4, 2007, my company, DriveBuy Technologies will be featured on KXAN's morning news show here in Austin. The show airs between 5 and 7 AM. We develop SMS text messaging applications (cell phone) for real estate professionals and business owners seeking to expand their reach.

If you live in Austin, check it out. I don't have a television so I'll have to wait for the re-runs on You Tube.

Salon is the New New York Times

I remember the first time I actually read a NYT newspaper for the first time. Great writing is an understatement.

I also remember during Clinton's presidency when Salon was created. It wasn't very good but it certainly has come along. Greenwald is superb. Here's a great article about Ron Paul in New Hampshire and it is reminiscent of what made the NYT a great paper.

Ronmey's Money.

So, just how fiscally wise is it to blow 160,000 dollars on straw poll tickets so that some 100 or so attendees can vote 800 times between them and phony up the results? Isn't that an awful lot of money for something so trivial as a straw poll?

The local GOP organization made a bunch of money, but can the primary be bought in the same way? Are these events the way that the campaigns have traditionally won the state primaries? Is this entire primary thing just a sham?

The GOP needs a rude awakening. The end-run is to ignore the primary popular votes and stack the national convention with Ron Paul delegates. It can be done. Ron Paul doesn't have to win the primary votes outright. He only needs to have the delegates at the convention.

The Florida Meetup is PISSED

The meetup organizer lays it out. Apparently the local GOP chairman threatened to "hurt" one of the members if she didn't keep quiet about it. That didn't seem to scare her in the slightest. (HT: Laura)

Romney supporters voting multiple times....

Not a lot of press on this....I wonder why. Ron Paul came in second but only because his supporters voted once. This guy votes at least 5 times while the camera rolls.

Democrats Can't Debate without Hollywood Writers?

I've seen some pretty bizarre things but this one makes sense....

Found at the bottom of a St. Petersburg times news article about the Florida Straw Poll:

The Democratic National Committee has canceled a Dec. 10 presidential debate in Los Angeles because of a potential strike by CBS news writers.

God knows they don't want to utter any unscripted, straight answers.

Tea Party

David Dees is quickly becoming my favorite illustrator. My Tightens the Screws article for Lew featured a brilliant illustration by David and I get at least one a week from him, every one brilliant in its own way. David's a master at combining relevant themes and you can find an archive of his stuff at his site and over at Rense.com which has featured his work. The commercial projects he's been involved with will surprise you.