It’s Time for fellow Ron Paulers to accept reality

  Until recently I had been an avid Ron Paul supporter, though I do find his foreign policy idealistic and naïve his domestic policies are exactly what we need. I know a lot of folks who are upset with some newsletters he allegedly wrote eons ago, one supporters contest the authenticity of… I don’t know, whatever the case he is right about our need to reign in the Federal Reserve and restore our God given liberties.   However, Ron Paul will not be the nominee. I am watching as Ron Paulers eschew sanity for plans to get their delegates elected and vote against the man who has been winning the vast majority of the States at Convention this summer. In other words, they are planning to vote against the will of the people they will be representing. Isn’t that our chief complaint about Obama? I don’t mind the honest and decent endeavor to impact the Party Platform and Ron Paul should be given a speech at convention and a decent time slot at that. We should not be trying to force a brokered convention. Keep in mind we are Libertarians from the Republican Party, we do not represent the Libertarian Party, therefore we do need to keep the health of our party which IS Republican in mind. We should not pine for things which will damage us in the run up to the November General Election. Beating Obama needs to be our central priority now. Other battles can wait until 2014.

UTGOP 2012 convention: What the Hell?

I want to first offer my congratulations to the winners of last night’s convention, as well as support. Though we “radical libertarians” are often accused of stuff we’re not doing we do our due diligence for the party, as will I. While I am disgusted with David Kirkham who spent the last several months trashing Governor Herbert only to endorse him after being knocked out in the first round. Morgan Philpot had a philosophical and financial argument to make, that I believe was indeed a good one that would have resonated in a primary. We do need to get the state financially independent of federal dollars, but if there was inflammatory rhetoric it came from Kirkham who discredited himself, and Utah’s Tea Party by backing the very governor he was slamming. Whatever credibility the Tea Party had left in Utah it’s done now.

Saving Silent Hill

Silent Hill Downpour hit shelves last month, it was an installment I was looking forward to because it not only would feature full Stereo 3D support (and 3D TVs are not that expensive, I’m poor and I have one) and upon first glance looks to be a back to basics return to formula. Sadly this game, developed by Vatra games has gotten panned by critics. According to IGN it only netted a 4.5 out of 10 possible whereas the HD re-release of part 2 and 3 fared much better despite replacing the bad voiceovers of the originals with even worse ones. Years ago I’d have bought anything Silent Hill day one, I’m glad I didn’t get Downpour yet. I will when I can get it for about $20 or as part of the Gamestop buy two get one free sales.

Is it time for a national caucus?

   Obama is massively ahead, even in the polls I trust. It’s hard to imagine because he has been the worst president of my life time, brutally partisan and blatantly dishonest. This guy has gotten everything he has wanted even with a GOP controlled House. The House picks a fight, but inevitably yields. Obama has in four years added five trillion to the deficit, when Bust did that in an eight year time frame Obama questioned Bush’s patriotism… Ironically I agreed with Obama back then, but now he has made things so much worse, but fear of another 1994 has kept the Republicans in check, and being in check will likely create another 1994 as the mood of the public is different now than it was then. We put our trust in the Tea Party to stop Obama’s reckless spending and their fear of Obama overwhelmed them and they did nothing to stop this train wreck.

Republicans Should Go On Strike

Once more John Boehner has proposed a rubber stamp on something Obama wants. An extension of his gutting of Social Security for a full year… basically what Republicans proposed from the beginning but without finding offsets. The leadership complains that they can’t do anything else because we got hurt politically in the last round on this issue… No John… let me explain this since we “right wing extremists” seem to be the only ones interested in winning in 2012…

A Tale of Two Attitudes

   There’s an old story about Thomas Jefferson. Once upon a time the president of Mexico arrived at the White House to meet with Jefferson but he arrived in the middle of the night. When he learned that the President had retired for the night he offered to just come back in the morning rather than disturb the POTUS. Jefferson appeared in his pajamas and assured his guest that it was fine to meet at the late hour as he wasn’t able to sleep any way. The President of Mexico apologized profusely for causing him to have to appear in his pajamas, a move so disrespectful toward a leader of the young country. Jefferson shrugged it off and replied, “In America the President is only one among equals.”

Obama’s behavior not normal for a president of the USA.

Things are bad, the world is on fire and there doesn’t appear to be a lot of hope for us on the horizon. There are nonstop protests on the street, civil unrest on the left and the right, increased regulation stifling business and economic growth, wars on multiple fronts against the will of the people, wildly out of control spending and the threat of looming massive tax hikes.

  Many doomsayers are running around screaming “end of days, but gold, buy gold,” and while I collect silver (gold is too expensive) I am not convinced we’re seeing the end of the world. We seem to move through cycles throughout history, we start free, then we prosper, then we become complacent, then apathetic, then debauched, then despotic and then finally we become enslaved to the monstrous governments we create. Then we always seem to look back and ask ourselves, “how did we get here?”