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“Bullcrap”.

(Only at the last minute did I change that word before posting from something else.)

And some of you still think this is a free country with a legitimate press?

Some of you even dare think that these are the people that we should give our prayers and support to?

Tonight Lisa and I watched The Remains of the Day on our DVD player. Probably Anthony Hopkins’s finest film role ever. That line he says toward the end has never failed to haunt me…

“I’m sorry sir, I was too busy serving to listen to the speeches.”

Some of us do listen to the speeches, regardless of how many other people are too damned occupied with American Idol or Britney Spears’s underwear or with the dog-and-pony show that the mainstream media and the party bigwigs and the power-mongers in our own government parade in front of us… as if ...

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But when I say “watch”, I mean that I’m paying attention in my own fashion: only listening to it, with my back to the television screen, so that my mind tunes-in to what the candidates are actually saying, without any distraction from visuals.

And it must be said: in spite of Fox News doing its damndest to manipulate things, Ron Paul is kickin’ tail and takin’ names!

He just nailed something that I haven’t seen anyone touch: the fact that people like Saddam and Osama were at one time allies of the United States. We trained them, supplied them… and then they turned on us. And maybe, just maybe, if we did as Dr. Paul suggests and stop taking sides all over the world, this kind of thing wouldn’t be coming back to haunt us as often as it does....

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Without a doubt, the support for Ron Paul has been the most passionate and creative that I’ve ever seen from regular people for a candidate for President. And it’s also wonderful to see that, unlike too much of modern-day politics, the pro-Paul campers aren’t afraid to laugh at themselves from time to time.

Check this out f’rinstance…

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It must be said: supporters of presidential candidate Ron Paul are, by the widest of margins, the most passionate and creative of any candidate for President out there right now… and perhaps ever. Look at all of the Ron Paul videos on YouTube, and everything else going on to show that we believe in Dr. Paul’s message of personal liberty and responsibility… along with limited government.

Some have claimed that this “enthusiasm” is nothing more than the work of a relatively few rabid followers working out of their mom’s basement. That’s gonna be a hella thing to claim, after tonight.

A few weeks ago some Ron Paul supporters had a great idea: “detonate” what they are calling a “money bomb” (meaning a single day of mass contributions to the Ron Paul campaign). Inspired by the movie V for Vendetta the date was set for today, November the Fifth. ...

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Okay, this will be the last post I make before getting back to my much-needed break from blogging! Because after making and publishing the Ron Price Jack-o’-Lantern pattern, I couldn’t in good conscience leave things dangling with something that scary.

So here’s a Jack-o’-Lantern pattern of the candidate for President that I’m backing: Ron Paul. Same basic instructions as the original: Click on the image to get it full-sized and print it out. Use pins or tape to secure it to the side of a pumpkin. Then use a Pumpkin Carving Kit from Pumpkin Masters, and do with this as you would do with any other pumpkin pattern.

Happy Halloween! 🙂...

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As was written about here a few days ago, earlier this week Bob Jones III – the head of Bob Jones University – came out in support of Mitt Romney for President. I had a few things to say about it then.

And now Chuck Baldwin has a lot more to say about it and he does it better than I ever could.

In his latest article, “Bob Jones Dances With The Devil”, Baldwin goes at length as to why it is wrong for any sincere Christian to support Romney (and not it has nothing to do with Romney being a Mormon). But here’s where he really nails how bad Jones has become…

Folks, here is the problem: Christian leaders such as Bob Jones III have succumbed to the temptation to become glorified politicians. They surrendered their convictions thirty years ago when the old Moral Majority married the

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Dr. Bob Jones III, chancellor of Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina and grandson of the founder, has endorsed Mitt Romney for President.

Which I don’t particularly have a problem with. Dr. Jones is free to endorse whoever he wants to for President.

Here’s where he goes totally wrong…

“This is all about beating Hillary,” Jones said.

What a wonderful Christ-like sentiment that Dr. Jones is expressing here. And yes, I am being sarcastic.

You know, so-called “Christian leaders” like Dr. Jones just don’t get it. They haven’t bothered to understand that not in a million years can they claim America for Christ. Because they can’t even let Christ take claim over their own hearts and minds. Christ cannot change America anymore than we let Him change us first.

And that is something that people like Dr. Jones refuse to do at all. To them, Christ is something ...

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I will never vote for Barack Obama to be President. Let me be absolutely clear about that. You’ll never see me trying to persuade others to vote for him either. But if he seriously believes this, then I’ll absolutely agree with the man on this much. Obama has stopped wearing the American flag pin that is seen adorning just about every politician in this country.

Why? Because since 9/11, Obama told an Iowa TV station, the pin has become “a substitute” for “true patriotism.”

He’s right.

And it’s going to be interesting to see how many “patriotic conservative” pundits come out of the woodwork to condemn him about this. I think Obama is doing something perfectly conservative: he’s choosing not to wrap himself up in the flag and portray phony patriotism. Obama’s patriotism, if it’s really there, is going to be on display for whatever it is. For however the ...

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According to The New York Times:

Alarmed at the chance that the Republican party might pick Rudolph Giuliani as its presidential nominee despite his support for abortion rights, a coalition of influential Christian conservatives is threatening to back a third-party candidate in an attempt to stop him.

The group making the threat, which came together Saturday in Salt Lake City during a break-away gathering during a meeting of the secretive Council for National Policy, includes Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family, who is perhaps the most influential of the group, as well as Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, the direct mail pioneer Richard Viguerie and dozens of other politically-oriented conservative Christians, participants said. Almost everyone present expressed support for a written resolution that “if the Republican Party nominates a pro-abortion candidate we will consider running a third party candidate.”

After reading the story, I had ...

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The Politico today has a story about why evangelical Christians – who are almost entirely registered Republicans – will be opposing Fred Thompson.

Don’t believe it.

If Fred Thompson is nominated to be the Republican candidate for President next year, you will not only see most of these so-called “conservative evangelicals” not oppose Fred Thompson, but will see them support him with their wallets and their prayers.

You will hear preachers – as much as they can get away with it – crying out from their pulpits to their congregations that it is their “good Christian duty” to vote for Thompson.

You will witness the supposed “leaders” of Christian virtue in America do an about-face and instruct their followers via websites and radio programs and “voter guides” that they “cannot turn away from their God-given task” by failing to support Fred Thompson… especially if Hillary Clinton is the Democrat nominee....

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