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To whom it may concern:

The very next “robocall” that comes into this house, I will go out, find the candidate who authorized it, and have him/her hung from the nearest telephone poll by his/her circular reproductive units. With piano wire.

This notice is being made regardless of party affiliation.

You have been duly warned.

Thank you.

EDIT 3:14 p.m. EST: I should elaborate that this only comes after I received four such automated calls from political campaigns within a span of five minutes. So yeah, I’m feeling more than a little honked-off right now…...

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Today U.S. House member Ron Paul, who has been a candidate in this year’s presidential election, called on voters to end the “charade” of the two party system and look to traditionally third parties for leadership, citing that there was no fundamental difference between Democrat candidate Barack Obama and Republican contestant John MCcain. Paul also announced that he had refused to endorse McCain, a fellow Republican.

From the CNN story…

Instead, Paul will give his seal of approval to four candidates: Green Party nominee Cynthia McKinney, Libertarian Party nominee Bob Barr, independent candidate Ralph Nader and Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin.

Paul said he’s supporting the third-party candidates because the two major parties and media had “colluded” to avoid discussing issues and falsely presenting the difference between McCain and Obama as real.

“I’ve come to the conclusion, after having spent many years in politics, is that our presidential elections

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Read the story here.

This is, by an order of some magnitude, a much more important story than McCain versus Obama right now.

It’s also one of the reasons why I don’t believe it really matters which candidate or party wins in the November elections. If Obama wins, he’s going to immediately face a ruined economy the likes of which have not been seen since the Depression and if he stays true to the policies he’s running on, he’ll likely make the situation that much worse. If McCain wins, the state of America’s finances is going to be an automatic indictment against not just him and Palin but on the previous eight years of the Bush Administration.

Oh yeah, and another bank – this time it’s Silver State in Nevada, with $2 billion in assets – failed today. That’s the 11th big bank this year to go under. ...

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I’ll admit, it’s so ironic you have to wonder if there’s some karma at work here.

A few weeks ago one of James Dobson’s cronies made a video and posted it on the Focus on the Family website. In the clip Stuart Shepard, who does a lot of multimedia production for the “ministry”, asks Christians to pray for “abundant rain, torrential rain… flood-advisory rain” in the Denver area on the night of Barack Obama’s open-air acceptance speech at the Democrat National Convention.

Here’s Shepard’s video, which he claimed was done for humor (but I can’t find anything funny about it at all)…

As anyone who caught his speech will know, Obama enjoyed terrific weather for his address, which aired to what some are saying is one of the record highs for political speeches before a televised audience.

But if Shepard’s cry to Heaven was echoed by his fellow evangelicals, they’re ...

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I watched some of Barack Obama’s speech last night. I’m not voting for him. But I could see where a lot of people would vote for him based on charisma and presence.

(Parse that as you will…)

I’m not voting for John McCain either. And so far I haven’t found anyone jazzed about him enough to cast their ballot in his favor. Any man who by all accounts left his wife just so he could have a younger woman, is not a man that I can trust to be President of the United States under any circumstance.

In a sane world, Sarah Palin would be running for President, and I would vote for her regardless of what party she’s coming from. That’s still not enough to entice me to ever vote for McCain though, now that she’s set to be his running mate. But I’ve been following her for awhile ...

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Something I came up with after the idea hit me on the drive back from Atlanta last week.

It could also be argued that Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without really firing a single shot, or inflicting any fatalities. He defeated the Soviet Union in the only way that it could be beaten: by forcing it to bankrupt itself to death.

Not even twenty years later, his legacy is becoming undone before our very eyes. And millions of people who have never had to know such things may soon be hearing quite a bit about bomb shelters and air raid sirens....

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In case anyone’s paying attention, this is why the United States should exercise a hella lotta caution before getting involved in anyone else’s business.

I’m hearing mixed word on what started this: the Georgians claim the Russians invaded and the Russians are stating that missiles from Georgia attacked their military positions. It’s almost like a repeat of Fort Sumter.

The U.S. aligned itself with Georgia awhile back. A lot of people are saying that Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili was counting on that support when he tried to retake the breakaway region of South Ossetia. Which pretty much means that because of this damnable Gordian Knot of entangling alliances, that the United States might soon find itself at extreme odds with Russia and Cold War II will have officially begun.

Oh yeah, I’m hearing that there are currently about twelve hundred American military personnel – ironically, many from our own state ...

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And now the dirty secret of whatever success “the Surge” had rears its ugly head…

Military.com is reporting that ex-rebels in Iraq are demanding more money, or else they will go back to the ranks of Al-Qaeda and begin attacking American forces again. The money that’s been paying the former rebels to begin with has originated with the United States government.

So all this time we’ve either been funding an army of mercenaries that used to be shooting at American personnel, or we’ve been outright bribing them, depending on what your take on the situation is. I don’t know if all of the diminished violence in Iraq can be attributed to this chicanery, but it’s a safe bet that a big chunk of it will be.

I’m reminded again of the last phase of the Roman Empire, when that government was reduced to hiring barbarians to fill the ranks ...

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Ron Paul has ended his campaign for the Republican nomination for President. Instead of conceding however, Paul has shifted gears and is channeling the resources of his political aspiration into the Campaign for Liberty.

Most readers here know that I’ve been an enthusiastic supporter of Dr. Paul, what with the pictures of him that I did in Photoshop and the video that was posted on YouTube. Heck, I even made a Ron Paul Jack-o’-Lantern for this past Halloween! And last month I finally got to meet him.

So now, he’s winding-down his drive for the Oval Office. What do I make of this?

Personally, I think that in years to come the Ron Paul presidential campaign is going to be one of the most appreciated things to have happened in the era of modern American politics. But that’s not going to happen before some very...

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Why should we be honoring the memory of those who died so that we might be free, when we don’t seem to particularly care to be free to begin with?

I see what has become of our politics, particularly this election year, and I cannot but think that it is, literally, become a thing God-damned. This is not what countless men and women across two centuries and more have died to give us.

While they were “over there” fighting for us, those of us over here haven’t done a damned thing to be a free people. I now fear a tyrant in Washington more than I could ever fear a criminal cowering in an overseas cave.

There is no more rule of law in America. The Constitution, for all intents and purposes, is defunct. Government “of the people, by the people and for the people” is now government for ...

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