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Taking on Al Gore and his Carbon Tax Propaganda @ OSU

May 7, 2008 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Thanks to Anthony‘s hard work, I now have a video to share of our trip to see Mr. Carbon Tax himself: Al Gore.

A Libertarian friend of mine recently pointed out that questioning Global Warming is now one of the top 3 politically-incorrect things a person can do, along with questioning 9/11 or questioning U.S. support of Israel. So before anyone freaks out (though since when do I care about being politically correct?), I’ll preface by saying NO— I’m not denying Global Warming completely. I don’t know what to believe yet, I haven’t researched it enough myself.

If it is real– well, I’m a vegan, I recycle, and I try to be a conscious consumer just because I like the idea of taking care of the Earth, regardless of whether or not it’s trendy and/or government-mandated.

Real or not, I have some other issues with the Global Warming religion:

  • If they’re going to shove solutions down our throat, they should be preaching vegetarianism, not driving a Prius. Not eating meat is WAY more beneficial for the environment than driving a hybrid vehicle (but you don’t get campaign money from the auto industry for saying that.) Albert Einstein himself said, “Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances of survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”
  • Federal Government intervention (aka Carbon Tax) is NOT the solution! Since when has MORE government solved a problem?? Look at how successful the War on Drugs has been, or the War on Terror, or the Department of Education. We still have drugs, terrorism, and the public schools isn’t learning our kids too good. Get my point?
  • People need to look into WHY this is being propagandized across every media outlet you can think of. In what other instance do you see this happen? When they’re selling something, of course— like a Pepsi or a new car. Who stands to profit from everyone going green? Does Al Gore happen to have personal investments in carbon-credit companies? Does he stand to profit from the widespread adoption of ethanol as fuel? Hmm, these are relevent questions, no?

Anyway, I’m rambling. Here’s the video:

“They must find it difficult… those who have taken authority as truth, rather than truth as the authority.”
- Gerald Massey

UPDATE: We got some coverage on Infowars.com!

An inspirational weekend for sure

April 25, 2008 0 Comments Tags: , , .

What a great (and busy) weekend it’s looking to be!

Tonight: Reading my newly-arrived and long-awaited copy of Ron Paul’s new book, “The Revolution: A Manifesto.”

Saturday: Some Earth Day volunteering with my World Can’t Wait and Ohio Freedom Alliance friends.

Sunday: Going to see a play called “My Name Is Rachel Corrie” depicting the life and work of a 23-year-old American peace activist, one of my heroes, who was killed trying to stop Israeli bulldozers from tearing down a Palestinian home.

This is an amazing opportunity for people in Columbus, we’re very fortunate that this play is being performed here! I highly encourage you all to come out and see it (it’s free!) It’s at the Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Ave., at 3pm.

Last but not least…
I finally sat down and fixed my computer (bad power supply which = completely dead), just in time to download Ubuntu 8.0, just released yesterday. So nice to have my precious computer back in my life!!

Let the weekend begin!

Snow Day

March 9, 2008 0 Comments Tags: , .

I feel like I used to include a lot more personal posts on my site, then it became taken over with 9/11 Truth and Ron Paul all the time. Great topics, indeed, but perhaps it’s time for a personal post or two?

Like mostly everyone I know, I’ve been completely snowed in all day. My car is blocked by 20 inches of snow— I’m not going anywhere.

Being holed up inside for the past 24 hours, I’ve learned just how many things I’m addicted to. As addictions go, I’ve only realized their existence once I was unable unable to satisfy them. I’m house-sitting and forgot my phone charger, so my phone is dead, hence I haven’t talked to anyone or sent a single text message all day. That’s hard to fathom, yes, but the hardest tribulation I’m experiencing— I haven’t had coffee all day!! Though there’s a Caribou Coffee and a Starbucks within a mile, without a car and with 20 inches of snow to walk through, they’re still out of range. And lastly, I’m hungry. I’ve been subsisting on lots of toast and orange juice, but my newly veganized body is craving so much more and I just can’t get it right now. What I wouldn’t give for a veggie burrito bowl from Chipotle and a vanilla soy latte from Starbucks! That’s such a snotty American thing to say, I know, I can’t help it.

Thank goodness I have some semblance of an internet connection or I would be going totally crazy. That is one addiction I’m well aware of.

Perhaps this blizzard would be more fun if I hadn’t just read “The Power Failure From Hell” yesterday? I did enjoy standing outside and watching the snow fall last night, however. I love the silence that comes with storms, when everyone is inside hiding. I’m always amazed when Mother Nature decides to remind us who is in charge. We can build Space Stations. We can fly across the country in four hours. We can decode the entire human genome. But a foot of snow falls from the sky and entire cities come screeching to a halt. Whole newscasts become devoted to marveling at the ramifications of such weather phenomenon. Humans are strange and inconsistent creatures indeed.

In closing, I haven’t yet commented on Ohio’s Primary Day, I know. I guess I have too much in my head right now to try and express. As Rand Paul has pointed out, however, it’s not over.

“Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”
- Mark Twain

The MSM is of course jumping all over Ron Paul’s latest campaign video update, saying the campaign is done and over.

If only it were that easy! We have only just started educating ourselves. Meeting other like-minded citizens. Convening. Brain-storming. Inspiring. Planning. Building. I’ll say it again: we have only just begun. The real work for real change lies ahead of us still, daunting and unflinching as ever. And it will most certainly not be over by November 4th.

More thoughts on all that to come later…

Today’s the Day, Ohio. VOTE RON PAUL!

March 4, 2008 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

RON PAUL 2008

“In this possibly terminal phase of human existence,
democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued —
they may be essential to survival.”
- Noam Chomsky

It’s Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 — Primary Day in Ohio!

Today is the day Ohioans will be tested. Will they vote with their hearts? With their common sense? With their conscience? Will they vote for the man who will bring ALL our troops home NOW? Will they block out CNN, the biased newspapers, and the talking heads? Will they forget the buzz words like “electability”, “long-shot”, and “poll numbers?” Will they realize those are the media’s words, and the media is not voting today, WE are?

You don’t have to tell me twice that our voting system is jacked up. Especially in Ohio. It’s 2008 and we can’t make a machine that can print out a receipt of who we voted for??

That’s no excuse. YOU know who YOU voted for.

I hope my fellow Ohioans will maintain a hint of American idealism and head to the polls for Ron Paul.

By law the polls are required to be open from 6:30AM – 7:30PM. If you’re in Franklin County, click here to find out your polling location information. Union County, click here. Delaware County, click here. Anybody else I missed, if you need help finding out your information, please contact me and I’ll get it for you ASAP! You can also search the Ohio Secretary of State’s website.

“Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.”
- Agnes Repplier

This is your day, Ohio. Do you want heroic possibilities, or sorry achievements?

I’M VOTING FOR RON PAUL TODAY.

Bill Clinton confronted by Ohio 9/11 Truthers @ Hillary rally

March 2, 2008 0 Comments Tags: , , .

My friends Anthony and Cody had a chance to teach Bill Clinton about 9/11 Truth at a recent Ohio rally.

But wait— I thought Bill Clinton was a good guy? The peace-keeping Democrat who was so much better than W? My friends often cite his involvement in the creation of AmeriCorps, a program near and dear to my heart.

That’s great and all but what about when he bombed Bosnia? And bombed Yugoslavia? Passed NAFTA? Passed DOMA? Passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996? Passed the Line Item Veto Act? Approved the use of Extraordinary Rendition? And don’t forget, he bombed Iraq too. And what’s this I hear about “Arkancide” and the “Bilderberg Group“? Yes, all great and wonderful moments in Clinton history…

“You know what this guy thinks? This guy thinks 9/11 was an inside job. You know what I think? I think 9/11 was murder committed by foreign terrorists associated with Al Q’aeda.”

Well, Bill you have a point, I mean the CIA does match that description…

Cody and Anthony, I love you both dearly, you’re an inspiration!
Keep fighting the good fight. Truth always prevails.

Fourth Down and Inches.

February 29, 2008 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Touchdown for Ron Paul!

THIS IS IT FOLKS.
All eyes are on us and Texas.

You really want Ron Paul for President? — It’s time to EARN IT!

Get your butt out there. One last weekend. If not the two events organized by the Columbus Ron Paul Meetup, do something else, ANYTHING. There are over 106,000 of us in Ron Paul Meetup groups across the country — compared to 19,600 for Huckabee, 7,200 for Obama, 1,750 for Hillary, and zero for McCain. The numbers are in our favor, we just have to convert them to ACTION.

As we’ve heard before, it’s all a game of inches.

Time to push on for a few more critical ones, just enough to get the first down. If you don’t wanna push on for yourself, push on for everyone in Ohio. Everyone in our country. All the soldiers overseas who are COUNTING on us to get them back home safely. The 3,973 soldiers who came back home in boxes.

You need more motivation? Download some Ron Paul R3volution music, I’ve uploaded a dozen great songs to my website just for you, turn up the volume, rock out, then hit the streets this weekend!

“We’re in hell right now, gentlemen. Believe me. And, we can stay here, get the s–t kicked out of us, or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb outta hell… one inch at a time.

The inches we need are everywhere around us. They’re in every break of the game, every minute, every second. On this team we fight for that inch. On this team we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch. Because we know when add up all those inches, that’s gonna make the f–king difference between winning and losing! Between living and dying!

I’ll tell you this, in any fight it’s the guy whose willing to die whose gonna win that inch. And I know, if I’m gonna have any life anymore it’s because I’m still willing to fight and die for that inch, because that’s what living is, the six inches in front of your face. Now I can’t make you do it. You’ve got to look at the guy next to you, look into his eyes. Now I think you’re going to see a guy who will go that inch with you. Your gonna see a guy who will sacrifice himself for this team, because he knows when it comes down to it your gonna do the same for him. That’s a team, gentlemen, and either, we heal, now, as a team, or we will die as individuals. That’s football guys, that’s all it is. Now, what are you gonna do?”

- Any Given Sunday

I’m looking at YOU. Will you go these last few inches with me?

John McCain in Columbus tomorrow

February 18, 2008 1 Comment Tags: , , .

John McCain, the supposed Republican front-runner Presidential candidate, will be in town tomorrow evening.

Probably to raise money— considering he has less than $3 million cash-on-hand and is over $4 million in debt (compared to Ron Paul’s $8 million cash-on-hand and ZERO debt.) How is a supposed front-runner so strapped for cash? Can we blame this on the inflation tax too?

You may remember McCain saying that he wouldn’t mind staying in Iraq for 100 years. That easily explains why the troops donate the most to Ron Paul, they’re sick of endless war!

Despite the cognitive dissonance that gets stirred up when one contemplates the candidacy of John McCain, some people are still considering voting for him!

>> They think they have no choice anymore.
>> They think it’s already been decided.
>> They don’t seem to realize the Ohio Primary is still two weeks away.

Please join the Columbus Ron Paul group at tomorrow night’s event to remind our fellow voters that there is a MUCH better choice. One your conscience — and the troops — can live with.

When: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 at 7:30 PM
Where: The Hayes Grand Ballroom, The Columbus Renaissance Hotel – 50 N 3rd St. Columbus, OH 43215

Bring your signs, banners, and I also recommend printing out copies of this great flyer. And of course, be sure to bundle up! The forecast is calling for highs in the mid-20′s with snow in the evening. But nothing warms your soul like a little Ron Paul R3VOLUTION!

Speaking of Revolution — Today is President’s Day, which means it’s a MONEY BOMB day!

If you haven’t done so already, pledge your donation at PresidentsDayMoneyBomb.com, then head over to RonPaul2008.com and make a contribution.

“The holidays are over, primaries are past, and money has been spent – so let’s give Ron Paul another boost of fundraising to break all records!”

In closing, please check out today’s Columbus Dispatch “Web-Only Letters to the Editor” page, my letter is right at the top! Perfect timing.