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Thoughts on Ron Paul's Great Victory in Iowa
Posted by Daniel McAdams on August 13, 2011 05:30 PM
Less than 200 votes separated Ron Paul from the media's beloved Michelle Bachmann in today's Straw Poll in Iowa. (Why do they love Bachmann? Because they know they can destroy her in a second when they decide she is no longer useful to detract attention from RP). Some may have felt dejection as they saw the late surge of Rep. Paul and suspected outright victory. I felt my heart sink as well when I saw the numbers -- so close!!!! Then I started thinking a couple of thoughts:
1) Bachmann's victory ensures that the media will not fall back to their damage control mode had RP won: the poll means nothing. So it does mean something.
2) And if it means something it means that RP has decimated the rest of the dismal lot who sneered at him at the debate the other night. Santorum "schooled" him? Well most Iowans disagree! The "Catholic" warmonger received a third the votes of Ron Paul.
3) Iowans are a more nuanced people than some have suggested in the past days. They are not a monolith neo-con bloc. Remember, they elected and re-elected the great gentleman (and fellow Republican) Jim Leach to represent them in Congress. He was a strong antiwar voice and one of Dr. Paul's few allies on the House International Relations Committee.
4) Iowans very nearly gave victory in their straw poll to a Ron Paul who ran as the real Ron Paul. His message was undiluted and unadulterated. It was 100 percent unpasteurized, unfiltered, hardcore Ron Paul who took Iowa by storm! That should hearten all of us! Ron Paul as Ron Paul is pure power!!
This is a great day for liberty! America is ready for President Paul!
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how about this one?
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Yep....Nobody is buying tea party crap no more! It is left to rebel!
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Wheeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is no government like no government at all. There no business
like no business
at all! Yippieeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You better hide with your guns!!!!!!
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Wheeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is no government like no government at all. There no business
like no business
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You better hide with your guns!!!!!!
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So if more cities have riots, will urban, gentrifying gays be likely targets
This harassment happened in DC, which like London, has been disarmed by gun control for decades, only now beginning to end.
Twelve years ago or so I was walking with a group of lesbians, 4 or 5, a very petite couple and their much larger friends, down 16th Street along Meridian Hill Park (Malcom X Park), in which there are bashings of whites and gays (including gay people of color), and which has hosted gangs of kids who throw rocks at cars driving by (mine was hit, creating a $1600 repair bill, and only not causing traffic fatalities by sheerest luck). A man reached out from the bushes and grabbed the smallest woman off the sidewalk, pulling her in. We were walking along rather stretched out, not clumped together, and he thought she was alone. The bigger women ran in and confronted him and he let her go and ran away.
If the economic dislocations of late stage disaster statism and the envy-infused "ethics" of the nanny state and the media continue, will we see more urban riots with gays being attacked? In the story below the DC police seem somewhat feckless, like the London police.
Twelve years ago or so I was walking with a group of lesbians, 4 or 5, a very petite couple and their much larger friends, down 16th Street along Meridian Hill Park (Malcom X Park), in which there are bashings of whites and gays (including gay people of color), and which has hosted gangs of kids who throw rocks at cars driving by (mine was hit, creating a $1600 repair bill, and only not causing traffic fatalities by sheerest luck). A man reached out from the bushes and grabbed the smallest woman off the sidewalk, pulling her in. We were walking along rather stretched out, not clumped together, and he thought she was alone. The bigger women ran in and confronted him and he let her go and ran away.
If the economic dislocations of late stage disaster statism and the envy-infused "ethics" of the nanny state and the media continue, will we see more urban riots with gays being attacked? In the story below the DC police seem somewhat feckless, like the London police.
Teen Charged In D.C. Lesbian Attack Held Without Bond
August 11, 2011 | 
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2 Comments By Lou Chibbaro Jr. on August 11, 2011
A D.C. Superior Court judge on Wednesday ordered a 19-year-old District man held in jail without bond following his arrest one day earlier for allegedly assaulting five lesbians on July 30 on the sidewalk next to the Columbia Heights Metro station.
Judge Karen Howze issued the order after prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's office charged Christian Washington with one count each of hate related simple assault and hate related threats to do bodily harm. Both charges are listed as misdemeanors.
A report of the incident prepared by an officer with the police department's Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit says Washington allegedly called the five women "dyke bitches" before he and an unidentified male suspect allegedly punched each of the women in the face and head.
Police said the incident took place at 14th and Irving Streets, N.W. about 3 a.m. Police said they are continuing to investigate whether others were involved in the attack.
Two of the victims told the Blade that one of the two suspects became enraged when the women politely spurned his attempt to flirt with them and one of the women informed him she was with her girlfriend. The two women said a second suspect joined in the attack and a third man who was with the attackers used his cell phone to capture the incident on video.
In a court hearing Wednesday, Washington pleaded not guilty to the two charges.
Howze scheduled a follow-up hearing on Aug. 17 to determine whether Washington should be released while awaiting trial or continue to be held. The judge set a status hearing on the case for Sept. 6.
Court records show that Washington was arrested on July 26 — four days before his alleged role in assaulting the five women — on a charge of unauthorized use of a vehicle that police say was a motor scooter. That arrest took place near the 1300 block of Columbia Rd., N.W.
A police report shows that Washington and a second man riding on the scooter with him led police on a Hollywood-style chase through streets and alleys before the men dismounted the scooter and attempted to flee on foot. The report says police apprehended Washington but the second suspect escaped.
Court records show Washington was released on his own recognizance at a July 27 court hearing after being formally charged with unauthorized use of a vehicle.
The attack against the five women drew widespread media attention when news surfaced that police officers arriving on the scene refused to take a report of the incident and released a suspect they apprehended upon their arrival.
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier released a statement calling the officers' behavior "appalling." She told members of the D.C. group Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence that the officers could be fired for not taking a report depending on the finding of an investigation of the incident.
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Ron Paul Wins Iowa GOP Debate; Is Right On Iran
Scott Rubin,
Friday, August 12, 2011
The verdict is in - Ron Paul won last night's GOP Presidential debate in Ames, Iowa. Much to the chagrin of the neo-cons at Fox News, the polls, and applause, overwhelmingly showed that the people thought Ron Paul won the debate. Fox News was even forced to take down its own poll from its website after Paul crushed the competition in a landslide. Readers can can view that poll here. This is the largest online GOP debate poll, and just under 30,000 Americans have voted. Ron Paul has received a whopping 16,188 votes thus far, which is more than triple the support of runner-up Newt Gingrich.
In fact, Paul is winning nearly every single online GOP debate poll, many of them by a very wide margin. It was also obvious who the crowd preferred last night in Ames, as Ron Paul supporters were clearly the loudest and most influential contingent at the event. Still not convinced? During and after the debate last night, Ron Paul was #4 on Goggle Trends, well ahead of the other candidates. At last check, he is still #4, which is quite a feat. Furthermore, he remains one of the top trending topics on Twitter, which is a very reliable gauge of interest.
Even TheHill.com is declaring Paul victorious. Last night, was a huge boost for the Texas Congressman who has emerged as one the GOP front-runners, and is polling third nationally, only trailing Mitt Romney and Rick Perry. It is becoming quite clear that the American people are gravitating towards Paul's honest and principled positions which emphasize peace and personal liberty. Unfortunately, the rest of the field is made up of Establishment figures whose pandering is determined by which way the wind blows. Clearly it is blowing in the direction of Dr. Paul, as his influence continues to shape the course of the GOP primary, with candidates such as Newt Gingrich and Michelle Bachmann now parroting many of the ideas that he has been promoting for the last thirty years. Gingrich actually attacked the Federal Reserve last night.
The problem that these other candidates have, however, is that their records simply don't lend them much credence, whereas Paul has an unblemished, and unimpeachable, Congressional voting record. Despite the best efforts of the media to get Dr. Paul to flip flop on his libertarian views, he just won't do it - even when the questions are tough. Last night, when he was asked what his response would be to the possibility that Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons, Paul stuck to his non-interventionist position and said that he would prefer more diplomatic discourse and trade with Tehran, as opposed to just relying on threatening rhetoric and war mongering.
While this may have seemed like an extreme position to Americans whose only source of information on Iranian/U.S. relations is media propaganda, it is in fact quite sound, and part of an already existing strategy. The Obama administration has acknowledged that Iran deserves a seat at the international table. In 2009, he told the Iranian people that "The United States wants the Islamic Republic of Iran to take its rightful place in the community of nations. You have that right-but it comes with real responsibilities." Iran and the United States also are trade partners.
Furthermore, the Obama administration has been warned in no uncertain terms by a panel of academics and ambassadors that a military attack against the country would be a mistake, and that the only viable course of action was unconditional negotiations. This panel included former special envoy to Afghanistan James Dobbins, former ambassador to the UN Thomas Pickering, and Middle East scholars from American universities. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continues to claim that his country's nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only, and Iran is a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty along with the United States. Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has issued a fatwa against the production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons.
On the terrorism front, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan has said that Iran is "a helper and a solution" for Afghanistan and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of Iraq stated that Iran has a "positive and constructive" role in helping the Iraqi government improve security in that nation. Another thing to note about Iran is that it is a democratic country, and the hard-liners may not be in power much longer. Ahmadinejad's 2009 re-election caused significant debate and protest in that country, and it is becoming ever more clear that he is losing the support of the Iranian populace.
We have seen this trend throughout the Middle East in countries such as Libya, Egypt, and Syria. None of this should be interpreted as an endorsement of Iran as a shining beacon of peace and freedom, but it does underscore where Dr. Paul is coming from. Under his foreign policy, countries such as Israel, and the Europeans, would have much more latitude to deal with the Iranians as they saw fit, without U.S. meddling.
The American people have absolutely no desire to engage countries such as Pakistan and Iran in war, yet the government's rhetoric suggests otherwise. Ron Paul is the only candidate that can guarantee the American people that we will not preemptively engage in another war of aggression such as Iraq, which is now viewed as a mistake by the majority of U.S. citizens.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/08/12/benzinga1854956.DTL#ixzz1UuzS4VLR
New Labour's toxic legacy
Tony Blair created a generation without hope or aspiration – and we must pay the price.
Rioters drag plastic bins towards a burning car in Hackney - New Labour's toxic legacy
Rioters drag plastic bins towards a burning car in Hackney Photo: EPA/KERIM OKTEN
By Peter Oborne
8:37PM BST 12 Aug 2011
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The rioters who have rampaged through the streets of Britain over the past seven days were the children of Tony Blair. Many of them were born under Tony Blair. They went to school under Tony Blair. They learnt their system of savage values and greed under Tony Blair. They are the product of the policies of Tony Blair.
So what happened? What explains the savage irony that New Labour, a movement that was supposed to do so much good, created instead so much evil and despair? This is the urgent question that David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband must each try to answer as they get to grips with the horror of last week.
At the heart of this problem lies New Labour's approach to the welfare state. Gordon Brown developed a social security system that entrenched dependency and trapped the unemployed in poverty. Certainly he gave them more money – the benefits to which a single mother is entitled rose by 85 per cent under New Labour. But he made one crucial mistake as he set out to create a Labour client state. He did not give people hope or self-respect. Indeed, as Iain Duncan Smith, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, is starting to discover, Brown made it economically irrational for many people to seek work, thus turning unemployment into a way of life. I would guess that many of the young men and women drawn into last week's frenzy come from families where there have been no jobs for generations.
Shamefully, New Labour knew that form of dependency was a by-product of its policies. It did not care. I once sat on a panel with Lord Giddens, a social theorist and one of the architects of the "Third Way". I drew attention to the phenomenon of intra-generational unemployment and he replied that, statistically, it was fairly insignificant. Well, we are experiencing the consequences today.
The second New Labour failure concerns education. Blair promised the earth, and his government poured billions of pounds into the creation of gleaming new school buildings. But New Labour did not challenge the culture of failure in British schools. It did not improve discipline in the classroom.
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Instead it created the illusion of change. Year after year exam results would show a marked improvement, and ministers would claim that this reflected an underlying improvement in what they called "standards". Of course nothing of the sort was taking place, as employers and universities knew all too well.
Fundamentally New Labour lacked the will to take on the teaching unions, partly because the education profession provides such a high proportion of their party activists. This meant that they never took the brutal and necessary step of sacking useless or idle teachers. Only at the very end, with academy schools – a reinvention of John Major's city technology colleges which New Labour had abolished when it first came into office – did New Labour take a step in the right direction. But this move came too late to save the generation of rioters and looters.
Most disturbing of all was New Labour's teaching on the family. Behind much of the outrage of the past few days lies the absent father, and the collapse of traditional marriage. Young children, boys in particular, need male role models. If they cannot find such figures at home, they will look elsewhere. Horrifically, this means joining the gangs that caused such mayhem and destruction.
New Labour simply refused to acknowledge this basic truth of human nature. It is true that Tony Blair loved to parade himself as a family man to send out a reassuring image to the voters of middle England, but behind the scenes party policy was captured by feminists such as Patricia Hewitt (who became health secretary) and Harriet Harman (eventually elected deputy leader) who viewed the traditional two-parent family as an instrument of male, patriarchal oppression. Any attempt to bolster marriage or the traditional family was repulsed on the grounds that it would stigmatise single mothers.
So New Labour in office ended the married couples allowance. This happened in one of Gordon Brown's early budgets, cynically entitled "a budget for the family". By the end, marriage itself ceased to be a category recognised in Whitehall, meaning that when data were analysed for policy purposes it was impossible for civil servants to make any judgment about whether marriage had better outcomes for children.
What New Labour was doing was encouraging a remarkable social experiment. Traditional marriage has been at the heart of British society since time immemorial, providing stability, security, a bulwark against an overmighty state, and the ideal framework for rearing children. The riots of last week show the devastating consequence of that leap into the dark.
Fourthly, New Labour promoted a divisive and unequal society. Within months of entering office, Peter Mandelson, then trade secretary, made his infamous pronouncement that Labour felt "intensely relaxed" about people becoming "filthy rich". Meanwhile, Gordon Brown pioneered a series of tax breaks that have enabled a tiny group of men and women to make personal fortunes of a kind not seen since the plutocrats of Edwardian Britain. A significant proportion of these hugely rich men feel the identical sense of impunity and entitlement as the unemployed youths who plundered shopping centres last week. Every bit as surely as so-called feral youth – and with far less excuse – they have played a malign role in generating the moral disequilibrium of modern Britain.
New Labour could not see this. It believed – and this is perhaps understandable in a party that lost four elections in a row from 1979 – that the only thing that mattered was election victory. So Labour strategists only concentrated on those sections of society who voted. Unemployed black youths in Tottenham, or the white working class in Manchester and Liverpool, were simply taken for granted. Crucially, they tended to congregate in constituencies with large Labour majorities, not the vital marginals where elections are won and lost.
So for 13 years they were the invisible and the forgotten – until last week's eruption. Successive British governments, through wilful neglect, have created a monster, and now we have to live with the consequences or, better still, to find a solution.
Paradoxically, I believe that the Conservatives are best placed to do this. To their enormous credit they used their long years in opposition to ponder the problem of an emergent urban underclass. Iain Duncan Smith, during the wilderness years that followed his humiliating assassination as Tory leader, led this work – with the full backing of David Cameron. In a series of reports from the think tank Centre for Social Justice, Duncan Smith identified the factors that lead to social despair – drugs, alcohol, debt, unemployment, family breakdown. He argued that the answer to social collapse does not just depend on the injection of large sums of money, which was Labour's answer to any predicament. Far more important is the restoration of people's independence, pride and self-respect. This is hard, for there are now many parts of Britain where the tradition of work has vanished, and entire communities that have become dependent on the state.
Changing the welfare system so that there is a genuine economic incentive for the unemployed to go out to work is one part of the answer. Restoring hope and aspiration is another. Rebuilding the family, and the values of independence and steadfastness it brings, is perhaps most important of all.
Iain Duncan Smith's programme of change and renewal means redefining what it is to be a human being and a British citizen. It means widespread moral regeneration – and not just for the poor. All of us have to acknowledge that we are part of society, with the obligations and duties that involves. It also means recognising the power of virtues that have been unfashionable for much too long: decency, courage, discipline, duty and self-sacrifice. Only if we rebuild those age-old values can we come close to confronting the disaster in Britain's inner cities.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8698033/New-Labours-toxic-legacy.html
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