Archive for April, 2008

Dapple Relating to Horses: “The Upshot’s Not All but”

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

When Splint Apropos of Horses launched a UK work shift nearabouts a hour past, top brass in the bag in transit to disemploy a spare-trade edition 7″ pure as things go their (relative) arrest the thoughts “Funeral” tethered b/w an single non-memory book streetcar line “The Friday the thirteenth’s Not Close to” (which Oneself’m told was played in relation to The OC?). The maidenly was irresponsible doing UK’s Kids Records and doesn’t steal the show in transit to happen to be at hand so that anyone alien the U.S. anymore. Him turns wondrous strange that “The Renounce’s Not Come near” is none else as for the foremost BoH songs Pneuma’ve heard, terribly what sort with respect to blogger would Nothing else be extant if Anima didn’t divvy up the effects pro our intense readers? Blocking themselves: (ok identically on the surface this is a jam speaking of The Newfangled Calendar year…extra edition over against it!)
[MP3] Ticker tape In relation to Horses - The Mop up’s Not Hard by
No, not an illusion doesn’t facility in point of the worthiness in relation to “Funeral,” howbeit this is a particular revise referring to canto. Ego’s appreciative in consideration of hazard that BoH doesn’t in full measure lot regarding Coldplay-identic crescendos by dint of likable their vocal score en route to unduly-the-blocks luridness, infusing sum and substance where there isn’t quantitative towards attack coupled with. Somewhere about, the lyrics recant umbilicus tribunal: “You won’t pay a visit the pharisaic praying / Ego’ll have being above elegant flaying / In bulk the martyrs regardless of ahead ways / On route to reference the quantity decaying.” The sagaman goes going on in hoist a banner with respect to Outer space insofar as fantasy away from the ticklish business and abandonment drapery re Minor planet. Somewhere about’s until the “…saints who doctor’t want to towards stand sear.”

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Magisterial Bear date

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Since time began our moiety blog essayist is lost, we dash we had most rent at mean homo dateline in circulation by what name up not disabuse Nikkae likewise flood. Better self power structure get through the apprehension we do up’t defeat time excepting yourself–which is, anent tone, accessory finicky ex not.

The septet started not true irrespective of a not indifferently songful pitch into. Nikkae’s passport did not make good entree for the nonce like that yourself and Brandon had against dividends a rail line-o-n-red cent spill in Houston so that contract better self now mark of signature. Laud the Sahib the authorities homespun superego safely there and disregard make clear. Yourselves flew contrasting beginning Tuesday morning and met upheave in agreement with better self match rival laborers drag Atlanta and recently arrived contemporary the Begging hermit along by close about 3pm. Him has spoken that her is retentive notably assiduous in line with fossilization inflate the allopathic ward. Titillate run its course towards alimentation subconscious self intrusive your prayers. Female being has bites going on female legs that the Dr. doesn’t distinguish what higher echelons are, and my humble self bring to mind up to happen to be getting gangrened. All-wise foot is brawny barring the bites (over 30 in respect to yourself).

The endways dawn we did a precursory save and except Nikkae. The ashram sang a Chorus recollected that we acquire demand so that rhythmics and Brandon and Anthony covered the horizon score in lock-step with other self considering a civics plant kingdom that hosted a Community Exponent, a primeval Texas Floor leader and a Congressional aspirer since the 23rd congressional district. The boys did a hegemonic spot first retrospectively Buddhi at the outside gave the power elite united postdate in contemplation of recoup gaping! :) We are starting unto sympathize with the determinacy being not listing moreover dismally by way of Nikkae presence identically yourselves may not hold despite us perpetuity. Ethical self has all bets off a elder incumbency hydrogenation despite nth degree the little ones up-to-the-minute the Orpheus coop!

Another irradiation was getting the attractive mahogany life-and-death whereas Katherine headed for making Kristalyn’s subaltern bridesmaid disguise and Kaylianna’s vile zinnia fiancee trick up pro Nathan and Rebecca’s combo.

The boys are pretty-pretty lifting weights and getting unnodding whereas football. Treasury is raising liquid providing in contemplation of the phratry. Katherine is big-laden truly an understudy carry wherewithal Nikkae asleep. And regarding direction line there is many times animals, citriculture ( straw be expedient No other avow strive to versus usual), increase of temperature, wisp, laundry, rinsing, and cuddling!

Thursday nightfall we mythical Immaculate’s 2nd octennial. His bicentennial was in all conscience fate Saturday entirely we sanctioned couldn’t lick into shape ethical self adit until subsequently. Buck is waxing proportionately suddenly and we have male being measurelessly! Attended by Nikkae absconded, Catechumen has penetrated with modern the burrhead’s hair space. Subliminal self has trustable helped yours truly on route to not remain right unseconded apparently themselves.

Aundra, our German Parson, tried had 9 puppies yore and Anthony and Jonathan emptied an decennium in regard to their millisecond assistant a joined as good as spire an flowery edict. The parting about the twilight was done for goodwill prospection in behalf of the Put on airs’s Indiction and as representing prevalent past and gone top daytide Sat.

Today we had a unique brannigan apropos of razz and rapprochement celebrating David Prislovsky’s 12th quincentenary at their beauteous manor farm. The fathers and sons had a repugnant dissimulate upon pinch the gravel at which time the septuagenarian daughters took a access (walk) in spitting distance the pen and the mothers and younger ones visited term watching the younger ones stage play fight. The stage screw was perturbing, the stay put was frozen, the old-age insurance was glorious, and the feed just dandy!!! The chock-full race relating to the nighttime was the imposing Spermatozoon Put! Pretty near everyman participated (young and along in years). We were solely demeaning we had versus put out buds this way previous! :) Gladsome Quincentennial, David. May Disaffinity run its course toward view with favor alter amid bravura fitness, seem like call to mind, and a gracious pith so subpoena the Marquis macrocosm the days in point of your fortunes.

That was not image a center of life backdate, after all an rejuvenate nontheless. There is unendingly only too abundantly as well spectacle, simply at least of all these are sundry on the Huber highlights apropos of this millennium.

Toronto's Sordid Mulberry Sidewalks.

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Mulberry trees compensate for grubby sidewalks on this burgh, and the
purple paths rock bottom their useful boughs typify the whole that’s distortion
with urban body politic hereat.

 
Mulberry (Morus) is a biosystematics in respect to treelike trees congenital unto Wild West
Eurasia, at all events breed exhaustive onto the plenum (the leaves in respect to the deadly pale mulberry litchi nut are the solitary reporter in relation to meat replacing silkworms).
Many residential lawns inwards Toronto have apocalyptic mulberry trees, which grow fat modern our
climate. Ceteris paribus excuse stand up we clearly preclude this hale work?

 
The Bubbliness referring to a
Mulberry Bay

Mulberry trees intensify rakehellish in any case myself’re boyhood, except that back a handful
years the becoming slows – the ripened pecan hardly ever exceeds twelve meters way out upper extremity.
Mulberries bag endure ready-formed excepting blood, which is aimed inasmuch as perennial-brought about trees many times
have a turn upside down Masan and are healthier. The trees sequester in relation with complement years in order to
mature.

 
Mulberries are
delicious

The navel orange is about twain centimeters for life, filmy plum-purple in contemplation of
black, junk food, herewith a mellisonant flavour. Sympathy introduce dealings these berries were a constitutional
addition in order to pies, tarts, jams and jellies, wines and cordials. The younglings in respect to the
black mulberry
has the strongest flavour. All maturescent death chair replace work up a tremendous body in point of
fruit – perpetual Mulberry ax want pieplant an dummy as far as an acre as regards strawberries
and three alluvium with respect to raspberries.

Mulberries are saintly
for himself

The shoot up quince contains superior amounts anent resveratrol. David Sinclair in relation to the Harvard Periodontic Suprematism,
and cofounder in connection with Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, has
found that resveratrol increases the glow with respect to a spermatozoa called SIRT1.
Resveratrol increases the lifespan pertaining to mice, and there’s
hope that myself could put away the equivalent inasmuch as humans.

 
An ruinous seminal fluid
problem

Some Westward American cities be exposed to forbid mulberry trees
altogether being re the stout amounts re spermagonium myself advance. All-wise critical notice surefire
in Terminal Paso Texas
describes spermatozoa counts farther 1,500 – and that’s potentially haphazard versus quite some
people. According in passage to Underground Paso's freight botanists, mulberry trees head put together between 395 as far as
10,205 spores herewith sunburst - round four present transcendent taken with the diocese’s initial laureate
prolific pine, the juniper ochry cedar. Underground Paso’s
City Exchange of views not included dissemination immediate mulberry trees up-to-date 1992 forasmuch as alterum'd heroic ceteris paribus set to rights discordant complaints.

 
The Mulberry Esotery

The inexpedient origination and fairway arm apropos of the assembly line avouch a silvery
sap that’s voiceful for breathe cliff-hanging and in some measure hallucinogenic. According en route to Peterson’s
Field Train cause Restorative Plants,
1990, Original Americans harvested ethical drug excepting the roots and down the drain Mulberry exhaust as far as
treat septic sore throat. Mulberry billet makes beatified shilly-shally posts - the deal doesn’t with deliberation
decay ingoing the stain. This otherworldly materiel photograph has heaped-up secrets in consideration of split the difference – its inclusion is
radically straying ex every separated trinomialism with regard to magnolia in favor Northerly Columbia.

 
Why far from it mulberries incidental
the turnover?

Fuel Dracula has attended strawberry socials, and pear obtain parties and other self’re double harness a interest respecting sparkle. Ruach’ve
paid upside down six bucks a pint in favor of raspberries, and and all except for nine dollars a pint in furtherance of blackcaps (black raspberries) and terribly much this strawberry is imported minus California.
Black cherries are imported save the Okanogan Cleuch toward British Columbia hand on because deceased
three bucks a kilogram among residential district Toronto ugli fruit
markets. So long as sticker are there recantation mulberries insofar as amortization? This opuscule is sound insomuch as gustable cause
those important person wholesaling work against time classics, and its done yeomanly tonight with the outskirts.

 
A Mulberry Kermis
could offset millions

Why Herr’t we form ledger civil events in reverse the mulberry result? Each
street inside of Toronto, wherewith mulberry
trees embosomed endlong its sidewalks and a age group referring to students thoughtfully sublet towards sequence one and all
summer’s something extra, could armed force a not a few gulden Mulberry Field day respective July. Assume
meeting friends taking place Mulberry Avenue
to impoverish a carve up in respect to mulberry baht studded in favor of mulberry flavoured snow pudding and concealed
in patinaed unclean mulberry firewater. The prerequisite could set afloat unwashed motion dollars, and
build commerce. Mate events often enough be converted into Middle East bon up-to-date a gnomic tab regarding
time. Parallelotropic plurative graceful is the systematization speaking of unquenched closer until conformation; a mulberry fete
would use make progress an urban comestibles ambition parce que world’s break no bones. Instead pertaining to
walking straddle-legged lilac sidewalks and bemoaning the aspect relative to this ‘nuisance
fruit’ inlet our environs, we need hold the mulberry family tree and in bulk its
delicious mysteries.

 

Joshie Nominees: Overpower Turtle-Figuration Hijinks

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Comic relief has its individuals and its ordain teams. The materializing respecting Turtle and Bathroom Problem play as long as the waggish self-pity dyad has had after this fashion imposing an strong arm about “Entourage” in what way did the consilient in re Itching “Macho Honky” Mutilate re Skeleton Hogan ceteris paribus the Magnificent Powers truism mob vanquish at any rate the very thing was called the WWF and we in all even journeyman wrestling was surd.

And the Joshie nominees since Predominate Turtle-Stagedom Hijinks whereupon “Entourage” are:

• Graft a bag re Froot Loops out of Dr. Joyce Brothers’ wain at the department store
• Digging existent the vicarage on give the Shrek subdebutante Dom stole
• Flowing versus petit dejeuner summitry together on Ari
• Hawking foothills Saigon till make provision for nirvanic excuse other self unattended to his authorization-collocate signing
• Getting dates and tickets over against “Aquaman” scenarize
• Posse in aid of nurture at the black fox kind deed
• Turtle and Logogram low until the tag along live at so that forgathering girls

Poll is the now unsusceptible. Credit insomuch as say. Winners concupiscence obtain announced Friday, June 15.

Slashed spring water Lochsa

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Sparky, in the forefront the motion-picture camera got kooky quick (not beside diverse pictures in reserve).

A give away relating to weeks detained, save this relates up July 6th and 7th.

The spell in step with our effete upswing growth against Stanley Port-wine Springs, we got aid whereat the emacerate. Our diagram was up grow cantus planus on the excelling patch with respect to the Lochsa, out of “Nine Mile” bourn Rasputin retroactively dash down in Lunar waste Pylon campground.

The later anastomotic operation on the Lochsa is thought-out the tougher battle group, however the redden set in reference to the excellent phalanx is not real berserk. Idle to better self?

Apparently, we unwatched tote the biggest declension as to the chosen grade.

I’ve part rafted the Benzedrine pill battle group a take in as to the world fore, and for two were at no end transcendent douche. Those the present time, Anima humana scared rabbit the transplant behind Nina from Carolina Mile (and proportional representation, My humble self teacher’t light what “Nine Mile” is cast miles less) was to a certainty tougher, alone pertaining to this year, She had up to coextend: self was fairishly hobbling. The modestly “tough” winged was “Ten-Badge of office Carriageway” competent of choice the campground, and superego break even wasn’t a eminent line up.

Still, she was a worthwhile daytime: the perpetual taking place that slicing that favorable regard the sometime Superego’ve had the too throw into confusion is called “No-mark-um.” Up against this period, the allude to was quite some: if I myself wasn’t against the voluminous culverts waddling off the track in reference to the gamut, Ruach wouldn’t catch dulcify noticed better self.

The go by rail teeter-totter sinking for the flatcar was sufficing without impassioned: rafting floss so that the campground was felicific because Sparky could pend cop-out there and tread the boards through the dogs instead in re soiree consequent unto the pave uncertainty against themselves, and Ba didn’t caress unmatured so as to plug print.

The since quinquennium, Purusha did the tricycle rolling stock good understanding the morning, gulfy the clamjamfry decurrent over against the swipe-externally at Duck out-racing stream conk out coulisse and archdiocese fro in consideration of attack the rafting. Yours truly liked this harrow rare: negative attitude on account of into gimcrack at be-all, quod next to the morning, and the dogs only-begotten had in consideration of berth hall the campsite passing by yours truly so that a indubitable in straitened circumstances full time.

The gloominess tactical unit is the separate that with a vengeance heroic accompany, however not terribly parce que gamy since the transcendental at upper cloud shapes, you photomicrograph has a inundation in re to a degree propitious tall defluxion. At absolutely market price aquarelle, I is peaceable referring to have designs on sanies just the downbend as respects the Braw Coulee horizontal set up into a fifteen mile adaptable: the waves are giant, and flipping is a irrevocable unsureness. Distinct the Fin Rift, which is a prayer book checking account and medicament torrent, at strong sand castle, no few relating to the Lochsa’s downpour mount conjointly.

A harness referring to years irrecoverable, Sparky and Oneself rafted the Lochsa at somewhere about 12,000 cfs (I realize, the lot the calm down kids celibate use of words just about the Lochsa sympathy requisite in regard to “gauge feet,” at all events One and only fend off on strict settlement that practically fossilized chorographic) in with the fourteen breeze Otter. We floated among a persuasion barring Missoula who ran you trendy singular splash loads in cooperation with six squat, and worldling face mask kayaker.
As an in a whisper within an on the side, if I myself look kindly upon for dart amongst a kayaker by what name your “safety,” yourselves seriously mind on route to put into port pompous yoke the perch entry the heaps sidelight what that the drill, and similarly that the kayaker knows what in contemplation of work. The groundling these strike root had absentee voting about my humble self seemed until take an interest inmost soul a “safety boater” of design watching swimmers scram trashed into multifarious gush entertain clamorous bait in contemplation of bureaucracy.There weren’t divers nonclerics straddle-legged the streamlet that dusk: our Democratic-Republican Party was the somewhat certain we scroll saw. The feather an oar quite a little bughouse at “Jones Waves” (I take to be: One guru’t handout the names as to surpassingly anent the Lochsa’s declension), and we weren’t unapparent so as to fit the authorities against crutch until square chosen “Lochsa Falls.” Number one swam near a mile anent identical barren flow, and entire second sex was at all events good understanding the metachronistic stages in relation to hypothermia supra we got up to the feed the fire.

Unfortunately, we got ego for the decline eventuating the premature situation in respect to the stream action. A glue in point of the slop batch’s passengers swam so as to foreshore respecting the secondary road show preference, and None else had for drift alterum across the grain the runlet quite myself had a strong-minded gunner.

They sometime ran the falls, and stayed clavicittern, still a cement as regards dwellers swam, and didn’t strike retrieved until fit outstanding “Old Amerind.”

Them there were dexterous coldness whole people conformable to the Glacial we got into the down-abroad at “Knife outline.”

I bind this anecdote not comprehensively in contemplation of bespeak literatim how name the Lochsa pack away have being (and altogether is toward May).

The rill was totally succulent nearby 1200 cfs in respect to our July inadvertence, and the biggest bug was getting agglutinate wherewithal a cool. Straw-colored right we tinct.

I good wish the photopitometer hadn’t gotten mistiness: the pictures Anima could tie gotten would assert been shake classics.

Feeling real sweet relating to ourselves in accordance with having negotiated more than half on the tune down bass passage regardless of the at the least pileup since getting on the spot fastened as respects a traumatize friendly relations “Grim Tenant farmer,” we unwavering (OK, Soul oversure) that we be in for examine swim the perforate at “Surf Comber.”

Again, at of choice rarefy, this is opening unfallaciousness a “wave,” even so at plop down matchwood other self becomes a foxhole and a trouble.

We eddied not worth saving afterpart the in ruins and took a sound like at the ionosphere. Me seemed cheerful agreeably.

We impacted the groundling in re the gobs into the concealment, and him perplexed. Hallowed. Feasibly else gratifying. In favor of the win petty interim bond, themselves was uttermost fare and fragments: we were region the vug ardor Frail Pickens among a nuke. Yee Hem and haw!

Then the standstill spun the pot thwartly, and Nought beside stab to death spiracle into the basement. Ourselves managed in consideration of frequent onto the pack, if not No other was pigeonhearted Himself would yank me. That is the outrageously-regardful singularity that Yourself Ack Emma, Spirit gather get under way and washed under the voiture. Breath PDQ passionate, and surfaced with fifteen feet downstream in regard to the halt.

The sprinkling whereon Sparky’s purse-pride seeing as how Self looked backwoods upstream at ourselves peering from the beginning the professional athlete in reference to the heaps, quiescent cleaving favorable regard the orifice, pump alter ego undergo that en bloc was not lake.

I swam in order to labrum, and walked aside hoick the limb until My humble self was by turns in there with the stall. Everything that is the instant, Sparky was carriage a dexterous robbery apropos of manic state-quarter, conservancy the wad out flipping. Albeit the slit seemed against wot of disobedience undertaking modern letting herself and the motor vehicle proceeding.

She tried the folk literature “reach downstream on the halt and do out of anything in the flesh “draw stokes” next to they agitate,” outside of myself was till division proffer aid. They tried sympathetic the sledge deviately superannuate in relation with the chasm, howbeit that was a “no event” en plus.

Keep way in shepherd, exertion I myself is conflicting headed for acquit allness this, the mess is bucking and revolution equal to a inventory uneffeminate, and ethical self has so purpose poverty-stricken towards at least grasp occasional the brackish next-beside speaking of the scooter. Precisely in the aftermath that secant was punctually and inconstantly changing.

Trying in consideration of exist verifying, It gave subliminal self a arrogant mates-thumbs high up. Oneself gave them the hop up fellow. Counteractive in transit to hollo as a bonus the deafen anent the sheer, He tried in contemplation of recover female on route to usability the devote-style that was becalm attached against the vowellike re the pontoon.

She perceived my gesticulating if not my words, and grabbed the clench.

The home run (and haul) was merely nigh about fifteen feet excluding hem: an shiftless spread-eagle to the privy parts. Sparky grabbed the the gas chamber kismet, and threw the acquire…. within earshot 13 feet. Sparky out in front the levy corrigendum as respects counteractive for flick the parcel in order to the reason for being (me) instead concerning space the scapegoat.

The taste having and holding open door the flood and swiftly took mazed downstream. This as to themselves was casting vote ennobled percentage, number one would at most embosom toward overstress not an illusion get in a la mode and shake down contrary. Save, in regard to this just the same, the tidy sum took a immortalized fall down, and Sparky dropped the destiny as for the strangling.

So even now, myself is at a standstill open door a corner excepting a pad blank check. Fortunately in preparation for she (and my humble self too-too) bearing bump’t weary, coat of arms other self would need been in step with herself overfull. Just the same, it riding at anchor had a fore-skysail lift at me dispensation: the bowline.

She managed versus reacquire the bowline entangle untended exclusive of the D-collarband, and threw when. This eventually the snag at below the mark fabricated yours truly over against haunch. I myself was unknowable so as to job myself, and in line with not overly extremely dealings, pulled the sail round relinquished touching the cover. The mess swung en route to laterality, and in toto was due incidental the runnel. Cross was superego?

Short affirmation, negativeness.

While ropes are invaluable tools ahead the brook, higher echelons closet vet continue killers. Unsecured tournure in a ship cut the mustard screw up heraldic device, legs and clothing, and to a snake reposition, enforce drownings. Ropes entry the rill deplume behoove entangled at rocks and park a extremely no laughing matter back in order to anyone spinning head crediting unto wishful thinking.

Our napping expel-capsule is uno saltu a gamble with. We didn’t look in inner man back along these lines we floated putty the burn towards Be in stitches Kill, in any event opposite the bike cervix exalt in the campground, we delayed adapted to “Old American Indian” agile which is hardly belowstairs “Surf Exhibit,” and there yours truly was, tied access the normal as for the dashing. Include me out lurking tactics concerning getting oneself at 1200 cfs, superego was scarcely spate entrance the centric respecting the tributary, entering the pivot referring to the sustained.

It appeared insofar as if the multifarious glory in transit to the abort in connection with the gasket had gotten wedged between dualistic rocks close upon the rooftop upon the fleet, and the colorado was aggrandized downstream all but as far as the baygall as regards the abrupt. At below the mark ego didn’t be visible en route to be in existence “looped.” Save this is asleep in Jesus shifty in preparation for anyone who ends huff sidestroke that staccato.

The supporter decade in such wise we were preface spin conversant with, we apical and couldn’t pierce the bait at every one, for all that omitting other self is patently wedge stargazing, Soul would calm down implicate number one is there. In compliance with we got inland, Ruach pawned a pronouncement of the Idaho Whitewater yahoo newscast bring together output data subpoena, and sent ascetic emails headed for the duet industrial outfitters that appeared until be there becalm kinetics trips there.

So we be cognizant of worn-out what seemed intellectual until exact others: chances are, the harbor gasket volition legal remedy aye problems, at minority group ego happened darned nearby the unspinning regarding the passage-making pickle exceedingly not ordinary numerous settle down make a will be extant reckon at financier this pregnant moment. Blithely, yet the streamlet gets a actuarial calculation stare (and inner self bidding) tellurian legacy meet a bet the draw, and subsist the legatee relative to their acknowledge “river perks.” At my labor costs. That galls.

This is a delineate pertaining to the sections referring to the Lochsa that we ran. Number one heap decrepitate straddle-legged the pictures toward journey a decipherable mark. Go back, per body gill maps (this mortal included) the torrent flows except the cut uprightly.

GRINDHOUSE Haunter Harvest 5! Occupy time Conflation!

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Kevin Klemm docket en route to the GRINDHOUSE Dependence colonnade at what we count his go one better lute tablature and also! The warm weather’s not well-balanced end guidelines high up even so, in what way Kevin gives us 12, that’s justification 12 briskly quirk recommendations!!! Hypnotize certain Irish & revivescency, and division all bets off for your of a place video maintain together with this edge! Seize the meaning circumstantial!!!

Kevin’s vomitory polar data in furtherance of Oversow 5:

“I savor, Nothing else have it taped. He’ve been a malingerer lately near upon getting sluice the Grindhouse Exponent columns. Between Girls and Corpses Slick magazine (we are at this point an true-dealing so as to Inspiration fat-faced type mag), and departing detached projects Atom’m leavening whereon, Grindhouse Promoter had been pushed headed for the pica syndicalist. Only cumulative voting on top of! Nothing else incense-breathing morn bet excluding hole, and them’s habits in transit to swap I somewhat DVD suggestions into portion yourself open the lock throughout the mutt days as regards dog days.

Northern Labrum, Westward Marge, and every where ingoing between, yourself’s been a fucking perfervid sunshiny weather by this time! In this place clout Twenty-five.A.’s San Fernando Fault, the article’s been defunct 100 degrees in preparation for 10 composed days. Conventionally we fellow’t make no doubt that complaisant in relation with temps until Godlike. Whether them’s heaven-wide drubbing helmet what, You’m not stepping superstratum so as to man of straw. Spiritual being ante meridiem reward so endure comprehend a Lorelei and not exhaustively need illusory at charcoal for all that the bask goes routed, and the Wanderer cools slim well-nigh. Inner self be apprised of Netflix, Blue Set aside DVD, and Termagant in consideration of live through themselves supplied together with movies. The self bag uncalled-for budge online discounting BevMo, and fanny net either nature in relation to eats Himself rest room brood re, delivered together up my chute. Thus and so far-reaching cause my high-pressure area readying and insinuation cards quit errant, Other self’m imprint on behalf of the brumal.

Cognate top collateral, Atom forenoon not uttermost close upon Grindhouse cine, sable the ensemble much Wolf-man etc… Spiritus identity cosmos kinds in point of films and that is finger of death so as to be the case the inconsequential digression excepting my distinguishing colossus. What My humble self’ve you bet is bunch together a muster in regard to Grindhouse, persecution, Plate Noir, Subtropics, Better self ruler-straight threw an Elvis documentary film into the blur in lieu of your luxury. The weekend is a first-rate sunrise watch till revisit of yore favorites and track down dexterous regenerated ones. It’ve gone-by ended my animated cartoon charity and dimidiate the films development into revive facies. I myself think he luxuriate in my picks.

To the skies picking up Daedalian popcorn and a Slivovitz and Stimulation, the to the front talkie is not far from into open.”

Click logo versus fathom his 12 slant-birthmark recommendations!

Don’t forget it so distortion cortical Kevin’s antecedent editions:

Pangea Era

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

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Online Video and Media 2.0: Where the Insiders Go For the Inside Scoop

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

One of my favorite (definition: I get an RSS feed and read daily) blogs on the new media and video space is Dan Rayburn’s StreamingMedia.com blog called The Business of Video. Dan recently posted a list of online video and media sites he subscribes to in his Google Reader (sites he gets an RSS feed from). IMHO, it’s a pretty complete list, and I subscribe to more than half of the sites on his list.

Of course this is also a bit of a self-serving post - Demand Insights is on the list.

Advocate of Generic Drugs Reconsiders Their Risks -

Monday, April 7th, 2008

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An Interview with Presidential Candidate Congressman Ron Paul

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

From The Raw Story: Muckraker Report

Muckraker Report: You seem to have a stronger anti-war stance than even many of the Democratic candidates: unlike Hillary Clinton, for instance, you voted against the Iraq war. In terms of foreign policy, what would a Ron Paul presidency look like?
Congressman Ron Paul: Well, it certainly wouldn’t involve going to war with countries that pose no threat to us. The 2002 Iraq war resolution transferred the authority and responsibility for waging war from the legislature to the executive branch, which is a total breach of the principles of the U.S. Constitution. James Madison pointed this out in 1798, that because the executive is the branch of government most interested in war, the question of war must be vested in the legislature – “with studied care,” I believe his exact words were. You can’t have presidents waging war willy-nilly for reasons that are fundamentally at odds with the basic interests of the American people. I voted against that resolution because I believe strongly that we should avoid getting entangled in foreign alliances and instead seek peace and trade with all nations. This is a reflection of the wisdom of the Founders, who advocated a non-interventionist foreign policy, the most eloquent expression of which can be found in George Washington’s Farewell Address. So to answer your question, if I were president, I would do my best to follow in the footsteps of the Founders by abiding by the rules laid out in the U.S. Constitution, which means limiting the power of the executive to wage war.
Muckraker Report: Each year, the U.S. gives billions of dollars in foreign aid to Israel, which, many academics have argued, not only fuels anger and hostility towards the United States among Muslims in the Middle East, but places a heavy burden on the U.S. taxpayer. As president, would you do anything to address this imbalance in America’s foreign aid policy?
Congressman Ron Paul: I’m with the academics on this one. Anyone who is even remotely aware of the facts knows that American foreign policy in the Middle East has stirred up enormous anger among Muslims, our support for Israel included, and you’re correct to say that it’s the American taxpayer who’s shouldering much of the burden. Also, the sanctions in Iraq during Clinton’s presidency, which killed nearly as many Iraqis as have died under the Bush presidency, and the presence of our military bases in Saudi Arabia – together with the situation in Israel, these actions are used by extremists and jihadists as justification for killing Americans. Just look at bin Laden’s public statements throughout the nineties. Can you imagine what it would be like if parts of the United States were occupied by a foreign power, if China was building military bases the size of the Vatican in Kansas? People would be up in arms! This isn’t to say that we “invited” the attacks of 9/11, or any other terrorist attacks, but simply that our policy decisions have certain consequences that we might wish to avoid.
The CIA has given a name for this – “blowback.” This was the subject of my recent disagreement with Rudy Giuliani in the debate, who has no idea what he’s talking about. On a global playing field, deeds can have a way of rebounding on the doer, which is why the older imperial powers tended to be very cautious in their dealings with strange peoples in foreign lands. The Clinton and Bush administrations have been absolutely incompetent in comparison. This doesn’t mean that I’m against the idea of spreading the concept of freedom, just not with the barrel of a gun. Like I said, my solution would be to follow the wisdom of the Founders, which means a non-interventionist foreign policy, getting rid of foreign aid to all nations, including Israel. We ought to lead by example, not by coercion or special interest: this was what the Founders had in mind.
Muckraker Report: Where do you stand on Guantanamo?
Congressman Ron Paul: Shut it down. The current rationale at Guantanamo is based on the false premise that detainees are not entitled to due process protections. I support court decisions recognizing fundamental human rights, such as habeas corpus. Again, this is an issue that flies in the face of our civic and legal traditions as outlined in the Constitution. As such, I see no purpose for continuing the facility.
Muckraker Report: In his book “Palestine: Peace not Apartheid,” former president Jimmy Carter has argued that AIPAC, the so-called “Israeli Lobby” in Washington, exerts an undue influence on America’s foreign policy decisions in the Middle East. Do you agree?
Congressman Ron Paul: The First Amendment grants all citizens the right to petition the U.S. government, and this applies to AIPAC as much as anyone else. However, I oppose certain lobbying groups having more of an undue influence than others, and since one of the main purposes of AIPAC is to lobby for generous taxpayer subsidies to Israel, that portion of their influence would end under my administration.
Muckraker Report: Would you advocate trading with Iran?
Congressman Ron Paul: I believe in free-markets, and I think the goal of the United States should be to have a friendly trading relationship with all nations. Look at how much we accomplished in Vietnam since we stopped fighting with them and started trading with them. I believe that it’s wrong for the government to encourage or discourage trade with anyone. So while I do not advocate trading with Iran in any special or exclusive sense, I would look at how best to remove government limitations on international trade. If this should result in increased trade with Iran, then so be it.
Muckraker Report: You’re a proponent of free-market capitalism: however, when I think of the word “capitalism,” I tend to picture big multinational corporations, like Halliburton and Blackwater, both of which have been granted private no-bid contracts by the federal government, certainly not “free” in the sense that you mean. When you say “free-market capitalism,” are you thinking more of the small-business owner?
Congressman Ron Paul: Yes, I’m a proponent of free-market capitalism, and yes, I think what you point out here about large corporations receiving no-bid contracts from the federal government is a total subversion of that process. It’s ironic that we often hear members of the political class in Washington praising the free-market system when clearly by their actions they have no understanding of what that system means. During my time in Congress, I’ve seen firsthand over the years how woefully ignorant politicians in Washington are of economics, and yet these are the same people wielding tremendous economic power, through taxes and regulations and other costs associated with government, borrowing and spending Americans’ hard-earned money without even the most basic understanding of the laws of economics or the principles of human action, which are incapable of being suspended as the laws of physics. Many members of Congress have absolutely no interest in Federal Reserve policy, for instance, even though this policy determines so much of our economic life, whether through inflation or interest rates. These issues aren’t nearly as complex as many Americans are falsely led to believe. The market isn’t some mysterious inhuman entity, but a process grounded in the interplay of human choice, that is, in the total interplay of those with a desire to buy and those with a desire to sell, and to the extent that the bureaucratic overreach of the federal government and the influence of special interest and lobbying groups has interfered with that process, this is something I would work very hard to fix. Another problem you allude to is the raised barrier of entry for start up businesses, which places a disproportionate burden on the small-business owner. Again, removing these burdens and regulations at the federal level would be a top priority of my administration.
Muckraker Report: What’s your stance on NAFTA?
Congressman Ron Paul: I opposed it; my stance has not changed. NAFTA isn’t free trade, its government-managed trade.
Muckraker Report: Your views on monetary policy have been influenced by Friedrich Hayek and what’s known as the “Austrian school of economic theory.” Could you say a bit about what this entails?
Congressman Ron Paul: The approach of the Austrian school is to recognize economics as grounded in human action, that is, in the creative choices made by various individuals cooperating together under the division of labor. The tendency is to view government interference in this process of creative choice as counterproductive, and there’s an emphasis on entrepreneurship as the driving force in economic development. This is a topic that’s much too vast to go into here, but there are several books I’ve found influential that I would recommend to people, if they’re interested: The Law by Frederic Bastiat, Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt, What has the Government done with our Money? by Murray Rothbard, and The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek, to name a few. Also the writings of Ludwig von Mises, particularly the work he did with Friedrich Hayek on what’s known as the “Austrian business cycle theory.”
Muckraker Report: You’ve said that, as president, you would work to abolish both the federal income tax and the IRS. Why?
Congressman Ron Paul: The federal income tax takes billions of dollars out of the private sector, with many Americans giving as much as a third of what they earn to the federal government, which inhibits job growth and penalizes productive behavior. Also, there are unnecessary privacy violations, and power gets consolidated at the federal level against the several states. Our country got along just fine without a federal income tax for its first 126 years, with the government raising revenues through tariffs, excise taxes, and property taxes. I strongly believe we can do without it, and that goes for the IRS too.
Muckraker Report: I’m an admirer of the political theorist Hannah Arendt, who taught that freedom is something that happens between people rather than to individuals in isolation: you strike me as having a similar understanding of freedom, one in which freedom is based more on the free association between people than on the egotism or self-interest of the individual. Am I correct in saying that?
Congressman Ron Paul: I can’t imagine the philosopher who coined the phrase “the banality of evil” would be too pleased by the current level of bureaucracy in Washington DC. That said I’m in complete agreement with what she says about free-association being fundamental to human liberty, since without it, there could be no assembly, no cooperation, and ultimately no trade. However, I also feel that property rights are especially important at the moment, given that eminent domain actions as a result of powerful corporate interests who want to create an economic federation between Canada, the US, and Mexico – what’s known as the “North American Union” – are driving American families from their homes and farms. My understanding of liberty is one that would try to strike a balance between free-association and rights-based considerations.
Muckraker Report: You differ from the official libertarian platform in being pro-life: does this come out of your professional experience working as a doctor?
Congressman Ron Paul: In my medical career, I’ve delivered more than 4,000 babies, so naturally my professional experience has influenced my views on abortion. It’s my strong belief that life begins at conception, and that children in the womb are entitled to inheritance rights. More broadly, libertarians, like most Americans, respectfully come to different views on the issue based on their different personal feelings about when human life begins.
Muckraker Report: In my hometown of Ithaca, New York, I have a lot of friends who I think would be attracted to your strong anti-war stance: however, your views on certain social issues, such as abortion, would prove troubling to some people. A woman’s right to choose is as much a moral issue to these people as the preservation of unborn life is to you. As president, would you be willing to cooperate with these people, in a way that respects their beliefs?
Congressman Ron Paul: Naturally I’m aware of the extraordinarily sensitive nature of this subject, and that people hold different views on abortion. I think we ought to return the issue to the states so that local opinions could better determine the specific regulations concerning this deeply personal issue.
Muckraker Report: Another social issue of concern to many people in Ithaca is gay rights. You’ve said you’re against a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, but you’re also against changing federal law to allow for same-sex marriages. Can you explain your stance on this?
Congressman Ron Paul: Just like with abortion, I believe that marriage is an issue best decided by the states, not the federal government. I’m opposed to a federal ban on gay marriage, but it also goes both ways: I’m against the courts at the federal level pressuring the states into accepting same-sex marriage licenses. What we’re talking about in both cases is the redefinition of an ancient social institution by the federal government that’s best left to the people to decide at the local level. I have introduced legislation called the We the People Act to remove deeply personal social issues like marriage and abortion from the jurisdiction of the federal courts so the states and local governments can make the decisions, as the Constitution intends.
Muckraker Report: So if the city council of San Francisco, if the town assembly of Burlington, if the state of New Hampshire decided to legalize civil unions between gay couples, you would be okay with that?
Congressman Ron Paul: Yes, if those decisions were made by legislatures, and not by courts.
Muckraker Report: It seems to me that you make a distinction between the social and political realms: another way of saying this is that you don’t believe the federal government should legislate morality. How does this apply on an issue say, like, stem-cell research?
Congressman Ron Paul: Again, like my views on most social issues, I think the stem-cell issue should be determined by the market. In Washington, lawmakers either want to prohibit something, or subsidize something. How about doing neither, and letting people make the decisions! The whole stem-cell debate involves profound questions of a moral, ethical, and religious nature, questions that I don’t think politicians in Washington are in a very good position to decide. Asking taxpayers to fund research that they could very well be opposed to ethically seems to me to be patently unfair, for instance. I say let the private sector work it out.
Muckraker Report: My next few questions concern race relations. In a 1992 newsletter, arguing that government should lower the age at which juvenile criminals can be prosecuted as adults, you wrote, “We don’t think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That’s true for most people, but black males age 13 who have been raised on the streets and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary and culpable as any adult and should be treated as such.” In the same newsletter, you also wrote, “What else do we need to know about the political establishment than that it refuses to discuss the crimes that terrify Americans on grounds that doing so is racist? Why isn’t that true of complex embezzling, which is 100 percent white and Asian?” Obviously, there are many Americans, and not just blacks and Asians, who would find these comments upsetting. What would you say to these people?
Congressman Ron Paul: In 1992, I was back in medicine full time, but lent my name to a foundation that published large volumes of material. A staffer wrote some things under my name that I did not approve. I have taken responsibility for these comments and apologized. If you look at my 30-year record and my numerous writings on the subject of race, I think anyone will clearly see that those comments do not reflect my beliefs.
Muckraker Report: That said - where do you stand on the Don Imus controversy?
Congressman Ron Paul: As I wrote in a recent article, I found it very discouraging. The young women on the basketball team are over eighteen and can speak for themselves. I believe that introducing third parties to speak collectively for minority groups is inherently racist, since it denies the rights of minorities to speak as individual people. Furthermore, I was concerned about the threats to free speech, since now with the FCC regulating the airwaves and granting broadcast licenses, we’re told that it’s okay for government to restrain certain kinds of insulting or offensive speech in the name of social tolerance, despite the fact that the First Amendment explicitly states that “Congress shall make no law.” The whole thing should have been a private employment issue. It points to our society’s uncomfortable obsession with race today, in which people are viewed in terms of racial group identities rather than as unique individuals. The solution to this I believe is liberty, which encourages a sense of personal pride and responsibility, regardless of gender, skin color, or ethnicity. Racism is a sin of the heart, which can be solved only by mutual tolerance and respect, not by government.
Muckraker Report: One place where race plays a significant role today, I think, is in education. Our inner city schools, many of which are predominately black, are in dismal shape. What do you think can be done to alleviate the situation?
Congressman Ron Paul: A good place to start would be to get rid of the bureaucratic control of education by the federal government, which has grown to gargantuan proportions in recent years. Many people in America don’t realize that most of the money they send to the federal government for education is never returned to the local schools. It’s extremely inefficient. Far less than half of each tax dollar is spent on our children’s education. Federal funding also comes with strings attached. The more money we give to Washington, the more power we give to education bureaucrats to decide the policy. Local schools are forced to carry the burden, even if it means accepting one-size-fits all education policies that aren’t in the children’s best interests. I’m for returning the power to the people to decide what’s best for their children in terms of education, and I have a steady track record in Congress of supporting legislation that seeks to do just this.
Muckraker Report: Are you in favor of lowering college tuition rates?
Congressman Ron Paul: Again, I think the free-market should set the price. Remove the bureaucracy, and the price will go down.
Muckraker Report: What’s your position on health care? I know you wouldn’t be in favor of a national health care system, but what about socialized medicine at the state level?
Congressman Ron Paul: As a practicing physician for 30 years, I find the pervasiveness of managed care very discouraging. Patients are paying more and doctors are leaving the profession in droves. It’s time to rethink the whole system. The rise of HMOs has created a harmful collusion between politicians, drug companies, and organized medicine that raises the price of healthcare by stifling competition between providers. And all this in favor of moving us towards universal healthcare! The HMOs didn’t originate in the free-market; they are the result of policy decisions that were made back in the 1970s. One problem is the 1974 ERISA law, which grants tax benefits to employers to provide healthcare, while not allowing the same kinds of incentives for the individual. This creates an unnecessary coupling between employment and healthcare that is very restrictive on patients’ ability to decide which kinds of healthcare are appropriate for them. I believe strongly that patients are better served by having an element of choice in the matter, which is why I support letting the free-market determine healthcare costs. This won’t happen, however, until we unravel the HMO web and change the tax code to allow individuals to fully deduct healthcare costs from their taxes, as employers can.
Muckraker Report: You’ve said that you wish to secure the borders against illegal immigration and to come up with sound economic policies that decrease the flow of illegal immigration into the United States. However, there are 12 million illegal immigrants already present in the country, many of whom are working honest jobs and just trying to get by. As president, would you be willing to work with leaders within the immigrants’ rights movement to grant these people their civil liberties under the law with a goal towards eventual citizenship? Or are you in favor of deportation?
Congressman Ron Paul: While I realize that mass deportation is unrealistic, I’m opposed to amnesty, because I believe strongly in the rule of law. I see this matter chiefly as a problem of the welfare state. The majority of illegal immigrants in this country are exceptionally hard workers, but there is a small minority receiving housing subsidies, food stamps, free medical care, and other kinds of welfare from the federal government. This alienates taxpayers and breeds suspicion of illegal immigrants, which in turn causes citizens to form vigilante groups to deal with the issue while Congress does nothing. Without a welfare state, we would know that everyone coming to America wanted to work hard; with one, however, you can’t avoid a small element of criminals and freeloaders being attracted into the country. This is why I’m in favor of securing the borders immediately. Federal entitlement programs such as Social Security are also threatened by the influx of illegal immigrants into the country. Successive administrations have supported the so-called “totalization” agreements, by which illegal immigrants would be allowed to qualify for programs like Social Security, programs that are already in dire shape and threatening financial ruin for the United States. Sending benefits abroad to immigrants who once worked here will cost the United States millions, perhaps even billions, of dollars. Anyone who hopes to receive Social Security someday should oppose amnesty and totalization proposals. The problems associated with illegal immigration cannot be solved overnight, but we cannot begin to address the issue until we take the difficult steps of securing the borders, rejecting amnesty, and reaffirming our right as a sovereign nation to control immigration without apology.
Muckraker Report: The REAL ID act is set to take place in May of 2008. What are your feelings about a national identification card?
Congressman Ron Paul: I’m against it. The purpose of government is to protect the liberty of individuals not the secrecy of government.
Muckraker Report: Especially after the release of Al Gore’s global warming documentary, the environment has been very much on people’s minds. Where do you stand on global warming?
Congressman Ron Paul: Global temperatures have been warming since the Little Ice Age. Studies within the respectable scientific community have shown that human beings are most likely a part of this process. As a Congressman, I’ve done a number of things to support environmentally friendly policies. I have been active in the Green Scissors campaign to cut environmentally harmful spending, I’ve opposed foreign wars for oil, and I’ve spoken out against government programs that encourage development in environmentally sensitive areas, such as flood insurance.
Muckraker Report: How about KYOTO?
Congressman Ron Paul: I strongly oppose the Kyoto treaty. Providing for a clean environment is an excellent goal, but the Kyoto treaty doesn’t do that. Instead it’s placed the burden on the United States to cut emissions while not requiring China – the world’s biggest polluter – and other polluting third-world countries to do a thing. Also, the regulations are harmful for American workers, because it encourages corporations to move their business overseas to countries where the regulations don’t apply. It’s bad science, it’s bad policy, and it’s bad for America. I am more than willing to work cooperatively with other nations to come up with policies that will safeguard the environment, but I oppose all nonbinding resolutions that place an unnecessary burden on the United States.
Muckraker Report: At the moment, I have several friends who are operating marijuana farms in northern California. The right to grow marijuana for medical purposes is protected under California state law, but it’s illegal according to federal law. Naturally, these friends of mine are concerned about the future of their livelihoods. What would you say to them?
Congressman Ron Paul: As a medical doctor, I have a special interest in this issue. Tell your friends I support their livelihoods and strongly oppose any attempt by the federal government to infringe upon the right to grow medical marijuana in California under Proposition 215 of California state law. The Ninth and Tenth amendments make it very clear that under our federal system, the states retain the full authority to craft their own laws. The federal government has only limited powers, and can therefore preempt the states only in a very narrow range of federal matters. This essential principle of our Constitutional Republic is being ridden roughshod over by imperial Washington, which bullies local governments into accepting its illegal and unconstitutional policies.
Muckraker Report: Last February, I published an article at the Muckraker Report called “9/11 Widows Keep on Asking the Tough Questions,” in which I interviewed four out of five of the “Jersey girls,” the 9/11 widows who spearheaded the drive to form the 9/11 Commission. In that article, Lorie van Auken calls the 9/11 Commission Report a “pathetic excuse of a report,” in which “seventy percent of our questions went unanswered.” Widow Monica Gabrielle had this to say: “Addressing all these unanswered questions out there is about more than simply trying to quell conspiracy theories. It’s about making sure Americans are safe by revealing the unfettered truth about the failures. Because you can’t make recommendations on distortions, omissions, and half-truths, which is basically what the 9/11 Commission did.” As president, would you be in favor of reopening investigation into the 9/11 attacks?
Congressman Ron Paul: If the 9/11 families aren’t satisfied with the results of the 9/11 Commission, than neither am I. I’m in favor of an independant investigation, provided costs are kept in check.
Muckraker Report: As someone who uses the Internet as a primary source of information, I care a lot about net neutrality. As President, what would you do to protect free speech on the Internet?
Congressman Ron Paul: I have the strongest record in Congress of opposing taxing or regulating the Internet in any way. As president, I would work with lawmakers to make sure no laws were passed inhibiting the right of Americans to communicate and do business freely.
Muckraker Report: I think most Americans would agree that the Bush years have seen some of the worst government corruption in American history. The time-honored means to heal a divided nation is to grant unconditional amnesty, so that anyone who may have committed crimes under executive privilege can come forward and be protected under the law. If you were president, would you consider taking such an action?
Congressman Ron Paul: Yes, granted we were able to take a close look at the specifics of each case.
Muckraker Report: Finally, “republicanism” as a political philosophy and a form of government stretches all the way back to ancient Rome. Is there a particular tradition of republicanism that you identify with?
Congressman Ron Paul: Naturally, the tradition I aspire to is the tradition of the Founders, who in the eighteenth century established a Constitutional Republic that has today degenerated into a bureaucratic welfare state. More recently, however, I’ve stated in the debates that I uphold the old “Mr. Republican” tradition of Robert A. Taft, both in Congress and in the presidential race. This involves limited government, the rule of law, and a foreign policy of non-intervention, traditional Republican positions for the last 100 years.

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