Rush Limbaugh and Reagan.com E-Mail Address: Security from the Government Scanning Your E-Mails

Ronald Reagan and Rush Limbaugh are two names that have had a huge influence onme. Granted I don't get to listen to El Rushbo very often anymore, but recently, when I have, I have hard a misleading advertisement promoting the Reagan.com e-mail addresses.

My first thought when I listen to it is Rush is actually attacking the free market. Let me explain.

Rush sells the Reagan.com e-mail address as a symbol of freedom. He leads listeners down the slippery slope  their e-mail isn't secure and is being constantly scanned. He then explains a Reagan.com e-mail address is protected from these scans. Rush uses words like freedom and liberty, and as you listen you might mistake that he is implying the federal government of scanning your e-mails, even though he never actually says it.

What Rush is really talking about is pure American capitalism at play, and Rush actually attacks that practice with this ad. What Limbaugh is really getting at is free e-mail address, like Gmail, Yahoo!, or Hotmail, aren't exactly free. They are paid for by advertising, which you agree to when you sign up for the e-mail. Yes, it is true these free services scan your e-mail for keywords so they can place advertisements on their Web site geared towards your interests--just like the advertising you see in the movie Minority Report.

This is all legal based on you accepting the terms of the e-mail service. You have the freedom to get an e-mail address somewhere else if you have a problem with it. It seems a bit strange to me that someone who supports capitalism on the level Limbaugh does, would mislead you into a Reagan.com e-mail address which isn't free from government scans based on laws like the Patriot Act, which was passed by the same politicians Limbaugh praises day in and day out. The Patriot Act gives the federal government unconstitutional powers to track you without a warrant, and this includes e-mail. Reagan.com e-mail addresses are subject to these Fourth Amendment violating scans by the federal government(federal invasions of your privacy).

While I think having a Reagan.com e-mail address would be very cool, I just could not let another commercial air without pointing out the obvious. Of course, Reagan.com is another great example of capitalism at work. I just think Rush Limbaugh's commercial is a bit misleading.

Ron Paul Wins the 2012 Louisiana Caucus

Funny how the mainstream media has quickly lost interest now that Mitt Romney declared himself the unofficial nominee of the Republican party. For there is still a battle for delegates and few delegates are official. As well, you may have heard about a few primaries where Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum were named the winner, like Iowa, which then eventually declared Dr. Paul the winner. So it's very likely you didn't hear what happened in Louisiana this weekend where voters when to choose a Republican for president.

Mike Church, a Louisiana Constitutional conservative talk radio host, provides the good news:


If you were too buy watching FOX News this weekend you may have missed the news that Ron Paul secured almost all of the delegates from the state of Louisiana in this weekends caucus. Well, what does this mean? Now these delegates get to meet at the national convention in Tampa to choose who represents the state. They also meet to write and to vote on the party platform for the 2012 and 2014 election.

Eric Cantor's Richard Mourdoch Attack Proves Cantor's Hypocrisy

Decepticon Eric Cantor

Richard Mourcoch is the true conservative Republican running against Richard "Dick" Lugar in Indiana for Senate. In recent weeks, the not conservative Republican establishment has attacked Mourdoch. Most recently Eric Cantor's Young Guns and PAC laid out an attack against Mourdoch's push for limited federal government citing that Mourdoch hopes to end the unconstitutional Department of Education, which the Politico reported.

As if this wasn't disgraceful enough considering Eric Cantor claims to be a Young Gun Republican riding to Washington to slash big government, it also shows another hypocritical side of Cantor that is just as disgraceful. There were plenty of Tea Party candidates who went to Washington promoting the same return local control of our schools platforms. 

Take for instance Congressman Billy Long, who during a Congressional debate hosted by the Ozark Chamber of Commerce told voters he too believed in taking control of our schools from the federal government and returning them back to the state and local hands. 

How did Cantor react to Long's statement? Well he didn't put out a flier promoting big government attacking Long for his comments. Nope, Cantor instead wrote a check through his PAC in the amount of $5,000 in support of Billy Long's campaign. 

The Conservative Congress Web site reports Billy Long signed their pledge which:

Conservative Congress supports candidates who are committed to de-regulating and dismantling wasteful federal social agencies and programs. Specifically, Conservative Congress supports candidates who seek to dismantle the Department of Education and Social Security, by and through constructive reforms, and who firmly oppose the expansion of federal control over our nation’s healthcare industry.

Of course, Billy Long has bought into the belief the federal government is the solution as his Congressional Web site is full of information about how the Department of Education can solve all your educational problems.  In fact, Long has a statement about how he fully supports the Federal Student Loan program, which robs Americans of a free market education system by flooding the education system with "boatloads of federal dollars", while driving up tuition costs, lowering the quality of education thanks to the reduced competition that follows when a market doesn't have to compete as hard for dollars, and of course creating professional debtors enslaved to tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt--further hurting the economy by reducing needed disposable income that creates jobs and keeps small businesses going.

I believe that education is the backbone of America. The student loan program allows students and parents to borrow the money necessary to make higher education a reality for so many students in our communities.--Billy Long

So we can conclude from this Eric Cantor is neither interested in conservatives, small government republicans, and people of character in Washington. 

International Baccalaureate Indoctrination Will Include Push for Abortions

I have been amazed that in my little town of Ozark, Missouri, with one of the largest churches in the state of Missouri, James River Assembly, the concern and desire to protect our values has been mostly absent from the International Baccalaureate push by Ozark High School. Parents hear better education and don't dig much deeper to find out what will influence this better education. This baffles me especially with the word "international" in the title of the program.

With so much bitterness towards American ideals and values, one would think parents would be a bit concerned about an international governing body who will soon shape the educational values of its local high school. I guess as long as they have a stadium backed seat for the Ozark Tiger football game against the Nixa Eagles, well, that's all that matters. At least that's what I am taking away from this.

The International Baccalaureate (IB) is an educational agenda pushed by the United Nations through its UNESCO arm. It teaches the values of the UN, which usually aren't even close the values you would teach your child in a conservative community like Ozark. Take for instance the UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon's latest call to accept and push the practice of abortions and pushing contraceptives among teenage girls.



Very interesting knowing Christian County Missouri is a red county, how many people are probably offended at Obamacare and it's push to subsidize contraception through a scheme that would force employers to cover birth control, and yet many of these same people are rolling out the red carpet so Ban ki-Moon and his cronies at the United Nations can shape the educational direction at Ozark High School with THEIR beliefs. 

Karl Marx said it best. The key to revolution begins in the classroom.

Why We Will Miss Newt Gingrich on the Campaign Trail...

Because it was just too easy to expose this man as a big government maniac.

Breitbart Coroner Dies As Autopsy Results Expected for Release

The death of Andrew Breitbart just got a little weirder. We know he was to release some video that was supposed to be damning to Obama. What the world got was far less once the supposed video was released after his death.

Now, just days before his autopsy results were expected, the Breitbart story takes another interesting turn. WND reports:

Medical examiners in Los Angeles are investigating the possible poisoning death of one of their own officials who may have worked on the case of Andrew Breitbart, the conservative firebrand who died March 1, the same day Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced probable cause for forgery in President Obama’s birth certificate. 

Michael Cormier, a respected forensic technician for the Los Angeles County Coroner died under suspicious circumstances at his North Hollywood home April 20, the same day Breitbart’s cause of death was finally made public.

 “There are mysterious circumstances surrounding his death,” said Elizabeth Espinosa, a news reporter for KTLA-TV. “We’re told detectives are looking into the possibility that he was poisoned by arsenic.”

Washington is Hollywood for Ugly People: MSNBC Takes Swipe at Billy Long #auctnr1

MSNBC put in a cheap shot last night at the White House Correspondents Dinner against the Southwest Missouri Congressman. You can see at about 55 seconds in this video where the reporter says, "Washington is Hollywood for ugly people," as Congressman Billy Long walks towards the camera. That a cheap shot! A cheap shot!



Of course if Billy Long was facing Southwest Missouri voters last night where two challengers met at the Christian County Lincoln Day rather than embracing the belt way establishment that rules Mordor on the Potomac, the camera's eye would have never caught him enjoying time with Barack Obama.

Billy Long Called out on MSNBC

If you don't want to watch the Presidents jokes fast forward to :55 and listen and watch. Did MSNBC just call Congressman Billy Long ugly? I think so.

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More Proof Eric Cantor and the GOP Love Big Government: Cantor a Statist Like Obama

Karl Marx wrote, “The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.” Apparently Eric Cantor and the Republicans who attack Obama for being a socialist believe in the words Marx considering their latest piece of campaign rhetoric that proves once again Republicans are central planners just like Democrats who believe the federal government (the state) should have control over as many parts of your life as they see fit. Marx also believed the key to socialist education begins in the classroom through indoctrination.

This time Cantor and his Young Guns advocate for the central planning, one size fits all education solution called the Department of Education, which has overseen the disastrous decline of the quality of education across the United States as more control of your schools have been taken out of the hands of the community at the hands of statists like Cantor who push the state model Marx believed in.

A new piece of campaign collateral paid for by Cantor's Republican Young Guns attacks Richard Mourdoch, and Indiana conservative Republican, for actually wanting to shrink the size of government by getting rid of unconstitutional bureaucracies like the Department of Education. Of course, Cantor is one of those Republicans who runs on the idea of fiscal responsibility and shrinking the size of the federal government. Here's your proof Eric Cantor is a fraud--a fake phony conservative who is nothing more than a RINO supporting big government.

According to Politico, Cantor's Young Guns sent the above flier to Indiana Democrats encouraging them to cross over in the primary and vote for the moderate RINO Richard Lugar. So remember the next time you hear Cantor talk about budget cuts and shrinking the size of government, like most Republicans he isn't serious about it. He's lying to you in hopes you will continue to fall for the idea Republicans are the solution to the problem.

Eric Cantor Encouraging Democrats to Help Beat the Conservative in Indiana

The Republican establishment is doing everything they can to defeat conservative Richard Murdock. You may remember a couple weeks ago establishment Republicans attacked Murdock for a necktie he about at a Republican state convention, which the establishment tied to the Confederacy.

Now decepticon Eric Cantor is asking Democrats to cross over in the primary and vote for the moderate Dick Lugar. My friends at Left Coast Rebel report:

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) is recruiting Democrats to help him defeat a conservative running for the U.S. Senate from Indiana:

The Young Guns Network, a group affiliated with House Republican majority leader Eric Cantor, is encouraging Democrats in Indiana to vote in the May 8 GOP primary for incumbent senator Dick Lugar. Politico's Maggie Haberman first reported that the YG Network has been sending mailers to Indiana voters reminding Democrats and independents that they can register to vote in the open primary and encouraging those folks to vote for Lugar and against his conservative challenger, Richard Mourdock...

...the rest of the mailing criticizes Mourdock's conservative views on eliminating federal education spending and says the choice is "between extreme cuts and mainstream Indiana leadership"

The GOP's new "big tent" philosophy: Big enough to include borrow-and-waste Dems, small enough to keep conservatives out.

Contact Eric Cantor and his "Young Guns Network" via email and on Facebook and Twitter:

Email: info@ygnetwork.org

Facebook: YG Action Fund

Twitter: @EricCantor

Twitter: @GOPLeader

Web: GOP Young Guns

US Russian Military Exercises Center Around Denver Airport Takeover

From The European Union Times comes a strange report of Ruskies taking over the Denver Airport in this strange joint operation drill next month. If the report is correct, the Russians will be playing war games within the continental United States for the first time ever. How do you feel about that?

A bizarre report prepared by the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation that is circulating in the Kremlin today on the joint US-Russia military drills taking place next month in the State of Colorado says that the plans received from the Americans call for Russian Airborne Troops (VDV) during this strange exercise to “take and hold” the Central Intelligence Agencies (CIA) main facility, the NationalSecurity Agencies (NSA) main facility and the Denver International Airport (DIA).

The Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation is a federal body of executive authority responsible for monitoring and supervising the Russian Federation’s international military-technical cooperation.

Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Colonel Alexander Kucherenko publically announced this 24-21 May “anti-terror drill” this Friday past noting that this will be the first time Russian airborne forces have held exercises with the US airborne forces on US territory. Colonel Kucherenko stated, “According to the exercise scenario, soldiers of the two countries will hold a tactical airborne operation, including the reconnaissance of imaginary terrorists’ camp and a raid. After the operation, a helicopter will evacuate the soldiers.” He further added that Russian airborne troops would be training with US special service weapons in these drills in Fort Carson, Colorado.

Puzzling to Russian military analysts about this exercise, this report says, are that according to the American plans, Russian airborne troops (using US weapons that they had previously trained with at Fort Carson) will fly to and than parachute from their planes having the objectives of seizing the CIA’s main computer facility in Denver, the NSA’s main computer facility in Bluffdale, Utah, and taking control of main runways and terminals of the Denver International Airport.

The purpose of seizing the Denver International Airport, this report continues, is for the evacuation of the key personal and equipment previously “freed” from the CIA’s Denver base, and the NSA’s base in Utah, who were, supposedly, under “imminent threat” from an unspecified enemy, according, that is, to the American scenario for this war game.

Not known to many Americans is that over the past decade both the CIA and NSA have transferred their main bases of operations to the Western US. The CIA announced their transfer to Denver in 2005 with many speculating their main base of operations has been placed beneath the Denver International Airport. The NSA, likewise, has transferred their main base of operation to Utah and created what is now called the United States biggest spy center in Bluffdale.

Weapons of Mass Destruction Readied for London Olympics

Armed Forces at Lexington Building Water Tower Can any good come out of this? The UK Telegraph reports English troops will occupy apartment buildings during the London Olympic games. This of course would be a violation of the Constitution in the United States, but it gets worse.

  Residents in the private, gated flats in Bow, east London, have received a leaflet warning them that a team of 10 soldiers and police will be stationed at the building – home to 700 people – for the duration of the Games. 


The leaflet also warns residents of weapons systems they are placing on the homes of these Londoners.


 The Ministry of Defence (MoD) leaflet says the missiles will only be fired as a last resort, said resident Brian Whelan. 


He said: ”They are going to have a test run next week, putting high velocity missiles on the roof just above our apartment and on the back of it they’re stationing police and military in the tower of the building for two months.

Business Insider Reports Ron Paul Winning Many More Delegates Than Reported

Mitt Romney is the nominee, right? I mean the fat woman, I mean Mitt for Brains has sang, hasn't he?



Well not so fast. The delegates that show Mitt Romney will win aren't even committed. In states like Iowa, where Romney was once declared the winner, well those delegates aren't so ready to cast their support for Mitt for Brains. It turns out one media source if finally letting the dogs out, and they aren't being forced to ride upon the roof.

 

Let me answer that for you Mitt for Brains. Business Insider has let the dogs out about a large chunk of delegates Romney once thought were his that are being directed towards Ron Paul's corner as the final numbers come in.

Paul is still quietly amassing delegates at district and county conventions, and is now poised to take a real bite — or at least a big nibble — out of Romney's delegate total. 

In just the last week, Paul locked up 49 delegates, including five in Pennsylvania and four in Rhode Island, two states thought to be firmly on Romney's turf. In Minnesota, Paul won 20 of the 24 delegates awarded at last weekend's district caucuses, an impressive sweep that guarantees that Paul will control a majority of the state's delegation at the Republican National Convention. 

And despite staunch opposition from the state Republican Party, Paul took 20 of the 40 delegates awarded in Missouri last weekend, according to campaign chairman Jesse Benton. 

In at least five other states — Colorado, Nevada, Iowa, Washington, and Maine — Paul has done remarkably well at county and district conventions, and his supporters are expected to win a big chunk of the RNC delegates at the state conventions later this spring. 

Autism: Diet Coke (Aspartame) Dangerous for Pregnant Mothers?

Aspartame, more commonly known as NutraSweet, failed FDA approval again and again until its parent company Searle hired Donald Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld, a Washington establishment type, knew the right strings to pull to get the controversial no calorie sweetener through the FDA approval process.

The problem with aspartame is your body turns the methanol into formaldehyde, a poison, as it processes the diet sweetener. This has long term effects on the human body the FDA knew about when Rumsfeld was pulling the strings. A new report shows like smoking and drinking alcohol, pregnant mothers should also stay away from diet soft drinks and other foods which contain aspartame.

Now it appears the rising rates of autism in the United States may be due to Donald Rumsfeld power in Washington that was used to get aspartame through the FDA.

While Science Sleeps reports:

Something very wrong is going on, something that is killing good people and causing untold suffering to families and communities around the world. Never has such a high percentage of us been afflicted with so many tragic and wasting illnesses. In the past thirty years, a group of diseases has reached epidemic proportions in the United States and many other countries. These afflictions, often collectively referred to as diseases of civilization (DOC), include multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, breast cancer, lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, melanoma, and autism, a once rare birth defect. Because the incidence of these diseases has increased gradually over three decades, we are inclined to accept this as a natural, if unfortunate, part of modern life. But such a lethal trend is not natural;the changes that we have witnessed over the last generation are unprecedented in the history of medical science. French physician Stanislaw Tanchou, the first to observe that cancer was rarely found in hunter-gatherer populations, is credited with coining the term “diseases of civilization” in a paper presented to the Paris Medical Society in 1843. His descriptive term survives to this day because certain diseases have still not been proven to have existed before the “civilized” era, and these conditions continue to be largely absent in modern hunter-gatherer societies.

These are the worst of times, as mankind endures a plague whose point of origin distinctly coincides with the Food and Drug Administration’s 1981 approval of aspartame—an artificial sweetener containing methanol, which is metabolized into deadly formaldehyde within the brain and sinew of all who consume it.

Billy Long: Obama Before Christian County Republicans

Congressman Billy Long was noticeably absent last night from the Christian County Lincoln Day event. I guess he had better things to do that schmooze the county Republicans from one of the district's fastest growing counties.

Rather than face Christian County Republicans and his Republican competitor Mike Moon on a number of not so conservative votes he has cast in the House, from the debt ceiling increase, to the Patriot Act, to the National Defense Authorization Act, to HR347 and its limits on free speech, to recently voting to give Obama more power over the Internet, Long flirted with the Washington establishment to spend an evening with Barack Obama last night. I guess Billy thought that would be safer territory where he would have to explain his record to conservatives--of course that is if there is really conservatives in the Christian County Republican Committee. I have my doubts considering recent behavior, their absence in community issues of importance that will have long term effects on conservatism, and some of the childish antics displayed by a couple members who probably know who they are.

Fed Up Billy Long Embracing Washington and Obama Tonight

When Billy Long went to Washington, he went claiming he was fed up riding a wave of anger against Barack Obama and the Democrats. He told us we could count on him to do the right thing and not be lured into all that is Washington.

 Once again tonight I am reminded how much Billy Long loves Washington and despises Southwest Missouri. CSPAN just scanned the crowd tonight at Obama's White House Correspondents Dinner. They paused their camera to feature and recognize Billy Long sitting at a table full of food yukking it up with Obama and the main stream liberal press core. Really "fed up" right?

 All the while Billy Long refuses to face Southwest Missouri constituents with a real town hall meeting, and calls those who call him out at the few events he does show up at like a meeting about the future of the Springfield Post Office liars.

 So Obama, who has told plenty of vicious lies gets plenty of applause and laughs from the fed up auctioneer tonight, and Long still hasn't apologized to those postal employees who called him out for privatizing the post office.

 

Sad that Long gives this horrible president who has trampled all over our Constitution more time than he gives his constituents.

Dana Loesch on Iraq Attacking the US and the Kurds

I keep asking myself how Dana Loesch rose to national prominence as a conservative/ Tea Party voice. She is the ultimate decepticon, who if I were a betting man, made a Faustian deal with the Republican establishment to become another deceptive voice in the conservative movement.



Here's a video. Two things I find interesting. Number one, when asked if Iraq was going to attack the United States she says "yeah" and quickly changes the subject rather than explain her answer. Once the reporter explains who he is, she begins talking about the Kurds, the people Saddam gassed back in the days when the US was friends with Iraq.

We obviously didn't care enough about Saddam's character back in 1983 to worry about WMDs like poisonous gasses that he would use five years later on the Kurds. It just seems like a weak recovery on the part of this woman who really isn't qualified to be in the position she has been placed.

It's Not a Tough Question Dana Loesch: Just Look at Their Records

Ron Paul is the only presidential candidate who has a plan to slash over a trillion dollars from the federal budget. Mitt Romney is calling for spending increases in certain aspects of government while reducing spending from Obama levels, which isn't nearly enough. Of course we know how Obama loves to spend money. So why is it so hard for Dana Loesch to admit that Ron Paul is the man with the plan?




 She looks pained to say it. What's a matter Dana? Afraid Blunt and the establishment won't let you play anymore if you speak out against their pick? Anyone else tired of this decepticon?

Even after three grueling hours on the radio, you poor thing, it shouldn't be hard to be honest and point out Dr. Paul's tough stance on government spending and his promise to begin slashing. No other candidate is talking aggressively cutting government spending on this level. If it's really this hard for you Dana, you are in the wrong business.

P90X Core Synergistics Week Four Day Two

Bonus round? Not today. I have been humbled by P90X just as I was starting to get a little sure of myself after completing the first three weeks. Leave it to Tony Horton to humble me.

The first three weeks are over, and I was under the impression this was supposed to be a rest week. I think I sweat more today than in any other workout.

Core Synergistics has you moving in so many new ways that it's hard. It's designed to strengthen the core--front and back. It also has you working all the muscle groups. Here is a break down of the workout:

Stacked Foot/Staggered Hands Push-up

Banana Roll

Leaning Crescent Lunges

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Squat Run

Sphinx Push-up

Bow to Boat

Low Lateral Skaters

Lunge & Reach

Prison Cell Push-up

Side Hip Raise

Squat X-Press

Plank to Chaturanga

Walking Push-up

Superman Banana

Lunge Tricep Curl Press

Towel Hoppers

Reach High & Under Push-ups

Steam Engine

Dreya Roll

And then there is the bonus round. Trust me, I was dead after the Sphinx Push-Ups. I will attempt once I get stronger on this, but I needed to be realistic my first time through this workout.

Plank to Chaturanga Iso

Halfback

Table Dip Raise

There are some really tough moves on this DVD that will really test you, especially if you are like me and have ignored the core muscles most of your life. I have already mentioned the Sphinx Push-Ups, where you do push ups resting on your forearms. Then there is the Lunge Tricep Curl Press, which is alternating lunges complete with a tricep move followed by curl and press. I didn't finish these two movements my first go.

Of course, there are a few others I didn't complete either. This one works you and it's going to take time and hard work to get through it for most people who start P90X out of shape.

Lorena Bobbit More Dangerous than a Meth Lab to the Male Member

Lorena Bobbit is still more dangerous than a meth lab. We know this because some Okie turned his pants into a meth lab.

KTLA reports:

A portable meth lab exploded in an man's pants Friday during a scuffle with a state trooper.

Local TV station KOTV reports that David Williams was running from authorities after a traffic stop when one of the officers noticed a chemical smell.

When the officer caught up with the 54-year old, an "active meth lab" he had been hiding in his pants burst, Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper Shiloh Hall told the station.

Williams was not injured when the so-called 'shake and bake' device exploded.

I think this story deserves some banjo music!

Any bets that the 'Media' will push this issue?

The GOP's Four Year Old Ron Paul Game

Four years ago I chose Mitt Romney. Back in those days, before the Tea Party and discovering Mike Church, I believed Republican good and Democrat bad. I didn't think much about looking into a candidates record, for me it was more, "wow, they sounded good on Sean Hannity's show today, so that's my candidate." Which is exactly why Mitt Romney got my vote. In fact, four years ago, I probably would have voted for Billy Long too.

Then the transition came and I realized Republican doesn't equal good. Republican no longer equals small, limited government that adheres to the Constitution. Of course, four years ago, I hadn't opened up that dusty document since I took my Constitution test at Political Science 101 at Southwest Missouri State University, where me and the guy who sat next to me argued all day with the professor, Republican good and Democrat bad. Of course one of the things they try to teach you in college is the world is never that simple. It took me a little while to get that memo because like most sheeple, I had bought into the two party system wearing my colors like they were the Chicago Bears.

In 2009, I attended my first Tea Party and was in my first year of listening to the Mike Church show on Sirius Patriot. A little light bulb went off as Church was justifying many of my feelings over the last eight years as I found myself constantly making excuses for George W. Bush and his big government, big spending ways that looked to the federal government for answers. They conflicted with Ronald Reagan's message, "government is not the solution to the problem, government is the problem."

So I began paying attention to the Constitution, and all of a sudden there was this 180 reversal. That Ron Paul guy, whose supporters painted rEVOLution on their cars, on signs in their yard, and about every place else they could, didn't seem so crazy anymore. In fact, Ron Paul was one of the few people who actually made sense when it came to saving my country, while I began asking myself why I didn't realize I supported a gun grabbing, socialized medicine advocate, statist named Willard Mitt Romney who really didn't support any of my conservative values but sure sounded great with the sound bites.

As I have paid attention, my eyes finally opened to the founder's intent, I began to realize the party that I once idolized, even going as far as having a room decorated with elephants and red, white, and blue, really wasn't this party that I would want anywhere near my family values. They have played a dirty game this year in trying to suppress Ron Paul support, and they have been caught many times. Cheats--only the Democrats did these things they taught me.

It turns out this was going on in 2008 too as the Republican party's quest for power tramples the Constitution just like the Democrats. Let me share with you and article by Randall Stufflebeam and Audrey Queckboerner that points out the GOP establishment shenanigans that were played in 2008 to keep Ron Paul and the Constitution away from the White House and keep more big government Republicans like John McCain in positions of power.


Why the Constitution Party is Not Endorsing Ron Paul For 2012
by Randall Stufflebeam and Audrey Queckboerner
MidWest Regional Chairman and Indiana State Party Chairman

Recently a question was asked of our Party why we were not endorsing Ron Paul for his 2012 Presidential bid.  The following is our response written by the State Chairman of the Constitution Party of Indiana, Audrey Queckboerner and our Midwest Regional Chairman, Randy Stufflebeam: 


Point One – No amount of help from the Constitution Party will result in the Republican nomination of Ron Paul for president.

I’m unsure how familiar you are with what the Republican Party did to Ron Paul and his supporters in the last primary season.  I (Audrey) was not one who was watching from the outside through the glass, but I was personally on the inside as a state delegate for Ron Paul and saw first hand how the Republican Party used every tactic possible to keep Ron from being their nominee.  They changed their own state party rules three days before the convention so that we could not nominate from the floor.  They disregarded Roberts Rules of Order and were very rude to us.  (The complete story of our experience can be found on my page under my notes section).  This happened in 14 other states and that doesn’t include the Nevada state convention which they completely shut down by turning off the lights and locking the doors before the convention even began or  Missouri where they denied delegates their credentials because they discovered they were on Ron Paul meetup sites and supported his nomination.  They stopped at nothing to stop his nomination.  Even at the National Convention when Boehner asked if there were any other nominees besides McCain you could clearly hear 2 or 3 delegates call out Ron Paul’s name and Boehner blatantly disregarded the nominations from the floor, banged his gavel and announced McCain as the winner.  This is what they had planned all along.

 Now what makes you think they will not pull out all the stops once again to stop his nomination?  I can tell you right now that the Indiana State Party rules have never been changed back, so delegates are still unable to nominate national delegates in their caucuses.

 Even if the Constitution Party went all out to endorse and totally support Ron Paul, the fact remains he is running as a Republican.  As demonstrated above, it is those who control the Republican Party who will keep Ron Paul from being nominated.

 In 2008, many (probably most) in the Constitution Party endorsed and supported Ron Paul with their time and money.  Remember that Ron Paul is running as a Republican and it was the corrupt Republican Party that denied him the nomination and they will be even better equipped to stop him this time around.  Although, Ron Paul gave a bland endorsement of Chuck Baldwin for President, it didn’t matter because everyone had spent all their money and time on Ron Paul and had nothing left for Chuck Baldwin.  Take Illinois for instance.  They have to get 25,000 uncontestable signatures to get on the ballot.  They were promised money to help them get ballot access for Chuck Baldwin’s candidacy.  However, because of the support of Ron Paul, there was no money in the coffers to help, and Ron Paul sure didn’t release any of the money that Constitution Party members had donated to his campaign.  He didn’t even do anything to encourage his supporters to spend their time and money to get Baldwin on state ballots.

 Even if the Constitution Party endorsed Ron Paul for President and dumped its entire treasury into Ron Paul’s Campaign and managed to persuade every one of its supporters to throw all their efforts and finances, forgoing ever other candidacy and focused everything on getting the nomination of Ron Paul, at the end of the day, the corrupt Republican Party would still reject Ron Paul.

 Point Two – The need for an alternative when Republicans fail to nominate Ron Paul
 Wouldn’t you agree that if Ron Paul doesn’t get the nomination there should be a place for all his supporters to go?  What happens if the Republicans elect someone who is the antithesis to Ron Paul?  Where are Paul’s supporters to go?

If the Constitution Party spends all its time and effort to nominate Ron Paul and he doesn’t win, then what?  Just like in 2008, we’ll have nothing left to provide an alternative.  In terms of ship building, we wouldn’t even be able to provide a raft for people to go to because we will have failed to get ballot access in crucial states and will have lost ballot access in states where the CP is ballot qualified because we will have not provided a presidential candidate.  If there is to be a legitimate alternative to the Republican nominee in the Constitution Party, we have to be putting every resource at our disposal into that effort.  Waiting to see if Ron Paul receives the nomination in 2012 would be equally devastating because there are some states that don’t even hold their caucuses until August.  By then, it would be too late and the opportunity to get an alternate party candidate will  have been lost.

 The Constitution Party must be about building a great ship for people to jump to when they discover that corruption has once again reigned supreme in the Republican Party.

 Point Three – Ballot Access and a Great Candidate of our own
 Unlike the two major parties, third parties have a far greater and in most cases daunting challenge in getting ballot access.  Republicans and Democrats take ballot access for granted because it is so easy for them to achieve.  In Indiana, it takes over 34,000 signatures to get on the ballot.  If we supported Ron Paul and did not concentrate on getting signatures for the Constitution Party, it would be impossible to do so later.  In fact, in order to get signatures, we have to declare a presidential candidate.  As a Republican, it would be impossible for Ron Paul to sign on as the Constitution Party’s Presidential candidate in Indiana.  It would be ludicrous for us to say we are supporting Ron Paul and trying to get another Presidential candidate on the ballot.  Of course this conversation would be unnecessary if Ron Paul decided to run as a Constitution Party candidate, but he has made it quite clear he has no intention of running as a Constitution Party or a Libertarian Party candidate.

 Further, it is our intention to run a candidate who is every bit as good as Ron Paul or even “constitutionally” better.

 Point Four – The Constitution Party is not merely a ideological advocacy group.
The Constitution Party is a Partisan Political Party that NOMINATES candidates for election.  Endorsing a candidate for president of another party would seriously damage the credibility of the Constitution Party.  So why would we be a political party if all we are going to do is act like a PAC, endorsing candidates from every other party because we can’t find one of our own?

 Point Five – Breaking the Two-Party-Duopoly
By supporting Ron Paul, we would be asking our supporters to vote in the Republican Primaries and “declare” themselves as Republicans, or in some states, they would have to register Republican, thereby asking people to betray their political convictions for the sake of expediency.  The Constitution Party is NOT about building other parties.

 The Constitution Party believes it is time to break the two-party-duopoly.  With 52% of the Republicans saying they are willing to vote for third Party candidates and over 45% of the Republicans saying that they are dissatisfied with the presidential choices that have been put forward so far, it’s going to be even more difficult in 2012 than it was in 2008 to elect a principled nominee such as Dr. Paul.

 The Republican Party has done much to destroy this nation and cares nothing about Constitutional Government.  Ron Paul would do better to understand that and run in a party that supports his Constitutional views.

Congressman Billy Long Fails to Take a Stand on Springfield Post Office

A couple months ago, Congressman Billy Long threatened to seal off his office from anyone who spread the "lie" that he wanted to privatize the United States Postal Service. The problem is, it wasn't a lie. In fact, looking back to a series of pledges Long signed while running for Congress, the Grover Norquist pledge shows Billy Long took the time to write out on paper that he wants to privatize the post office.


Billy Long's No Pork Pledge
Now caught in a political pickle, embarrassed because he was called out and hoping the matter goes away, Long isn't taking a side one way or the other to privatize or protect one of Springfield's postal facilities. Busplunge has the coverage:

Billy Long straddles the fence on Springfield USPS closing

and we all know what happens when you straddle a fence...

The Springfield News-Leader, in a story Deidre Shesgreen (Bill would spare Springfield mail center) reports from Washington:

WASHINGTON — The Springfield mail processing center would be spared from closing under legislation approved by the Senate on Wednesday to overhaul the U.S. Postal Service.

The Senate bill, passed by a 62 to 37 vote, does not include an outright ban on closing mail processing facilities. But it does include a provision that would bar the USPS from easing its current overnight delivery service requirement, which would have the effect of forcing the USPS to keep Springfield and about 100 other such facilities open.
“The Springfield facility provides good-paying jobs and vital services to the community, and I’m proud the bill the Senate passed would likely keep these folks at work and mail arriving in a timely fashion in the region,” said Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.

Both Senators McCaskill and Blunt voted for the final bill. (at the bottom of this post you will find a link to what Billy really thinks of Roy Blunt.)

Shesgreen adds that "Rep. Billy Long, R-Springfield, hasn’t taken a position on either the House or the Senate bill. “All the proposals I’ve seen so far use conflicting numbers,” Long said. “I have tried for months to drill down with postal officials and get real numbers. Postal officials have been less than forthcoming to all of my questions to date.”

Of course Billy Long hasn't taken a position on either bills--- these bills would save the Springfield Postal Service Center which is counter to Billy's position, as delineated by his own words, has been all along to privatize the USPS---

On June 10, 2010 Long signed his name signifying his agreement with this statement: "I will support legislation aimed at protecting taxpayers by privatizing government-sponsored corporations and enterprises such as the United States Postal Service, the housing government-sponsored enterprises such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the Tennessee Valley Authority."

Further, Long added the following handwritten comment: "Entities like the USPS,Fannie and Freddie are proven economic failures that operate at losses constantly. Service and profitability would be enhanced by privatization."

When reminded of his position on privatization, Long said, "You catch a lot more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. So, when you tell stories about me through some of your representatives that I want to privatize the Postal Service, which is an out and out lie, that doesn't help you any with me or my office. So...."

In the later part of March, 2012, Rep. Billy Long’s office issued a statement from the congressman  indicating the congressman was supportive of keeping the USPS facility in Springfield open and running at capacity.

“I am deeply disappointed with the decision by the United States Postal Service,” Long stated. “As I have said all along, I want to make sure the Springfield Processing and Distribution Center got a fair shake during the evaluation process. I do not believe it did.”Long indicated he has a number of questions about the closing plan.

“I am not pleased with the Postal Service’s process and their apparent lack of care and concern,” Long commented. “I still have many questions left unanswered, such as why the Postal Service wants to close a facility in the fastest growing part of the state, and that is why I have asked the Postal Service Inspector General to conduct an investigation."

http://bus-plunge.blogspot.com/2012/03/congressman-billy-long-is-liar-date-set.html

Hot diggity dog, Billy, hot diggity dog!

btw-- the Washington Post quoted our congressman "Just call me Billy" in a story earlier this week that didn't seem to fit in the local papers:

Summing up the attitude of many freshmen, Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.), a former auctioneer, reportedly told lobbyists early last year that party elders such as Boehner and Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), a former House leader, should not be trusted. “John Boehner and Roy Blunt are what’s wrong with Washington,” he said. Bret Funk, Long’s spokesman, said Sunday: “Rep. Long denies this incident ever took place and has nothing but the utmost respect for both Speaker Boehner and Senator Blunt.”

http://bus-plunge.blogspot.com/2012/04/billy-longs-explanation-of-why-he-gave.html

With Mitt for Brains Claiming Victory, Ron Paul Supporters Continue to Show Up in Large Masses

When Mitt for Brains Romney talks, there is little to get excited about. He is a central planner with a liberal record and voters aren't flocking to his rallies in mass. This of course has the GOP a little nervous as the words unity are heard throughout their rhetoric after Newt Gingrich dropped out leaving just Ron Paul, a man who is continuing to rack up delegates and has won states once declared for Romney and Santorum like Iowa, Colorado, and Minnesota.

If the Republican primary is over, Ron Paul supporters weren't sent the memo by the Republican establishment who handpicked gun grabber, healthcare statist Mitt Romney.

Over 6,000 people showed up in Austin, Texas, to hear the good doctor speak about why he is the best man for the job.

Thousands of chanting, cheering supporters flooded the University of Texas campus to show Ron Paul some love Thursday night, undaunted by the prospect that the Texas congressman is a long shot for the GOP presidential nomination.

There is more to winning than victory at the polls, Paul told the crowd, which broke into occasional chants of "President Paul."

"I'm convinced a revolution is going on. It is an intellectual revolution," Paul said.

"It is going to be difficult, but it is always glorious to have success. And we will have success," he said. "Regardless of what happens next week, next month, November — the spirit of this revolution is not going away."

Joe Biden States Obama's Stick is Big

Makes you want to know what's going on in that little room Bill Clinton used to play with cigars in...

Amanda Liberty

CISPA: Billy Long and Tea Party Reps Votes to Expand Federal Cyber Police State

The Constitution gives the federal government no policing rights. The founding fathers left this up to the states knowing it would limit tyranny from a federal level. Apparently Billy Long didn't understand that as he read his rode hard and put up wet pocket Constitution. He has voted to expand federal control over the Internet. There is a reason we dismiss him as "fed up". He is "Big Government Billy".

 We shouldn't be surprised. Billy Long's record of turning bloggers he found worrisome to the FBI and having their backgrounds investigated to intimidate them was evidence Billy Long would support something like CISPA. It should be noted too it wasn't just Billy Long. All Tea Party members of Congress, you know those like Billy who said they were going to Mordor on the Potomac to protect the Constitution and then swallowed the Mordor punch, also voted for this intrusive piece of legislation, including Michele Bachmann (who we know is a fake phony fraud).

 Now just a couple months ago, Billy Long said he was concerned about protecting the rights of people online. That must have been for good soundbite purposes only because here's what Billy and the Republicans in the House of Respresentin' voted for yesterday according to Techdirt:

Basically this means CISPA can no longer be called a cybersecurity bill at all. The government would be able to search information it collects under CISPA for the purposes of investigating American citizens with complete immunity from all privacy protections as long as they can claim someone committed a “cybersecurity crime”. Basically it says the 4th Amendment does not apply online, at all. Moreover, the government could do whatever it wants with the data as long as it can claim that someone was in danger of bodily harm, or that children were somehow threatened—again, notwithstanding absolutely any other law that would normally limit the government’s power.


So Billy and the Republicans don't stop at killing the 4th Amendment just at the Patriot Act. Nope, they take it to the digital world and provide the federal government with more unconstitutional powers.

Way to go Billy Long! You are the equivalent of a modern red coat bowing down to King George. Don't even try to play the Tea Party game when you come back to the district, even though we know Tera Sukman and her Tea Party Patriot HQ will give you a pass once again for your crimes against the Constitution.

Republicans Love Insurance Mandates When It Keeps Ron Paul Supporters Out

Republicans say they will fight the insurance mandate in Obamacare. Of course it was the Republicans who came up with the idea in 1994 as an alternative to Hillarycare. Let's not forget, Mitt Romney took that and created Romneycare in Massachusetts, which also had a mandate. I have to think that Republicans just love forcing people to buy insurance. Take a look at the following video.

More Shenanigans From the GOP Establishment to Silence Ron Paul Supporters in Washington

The GOP establishment is making one group of Ron Paul supporters pay for insurance on the leased building before they can represent Ron Paul at their caucus. Take a look at how the evil GOP establishment attempts to keep Ron Paul supporters out of the Washington state caucus. Only Democrats do these things right? Well that's what I once thought. Now here's the irony of this. The GOP is trying to silence this group of voters and why? Because they didn't pay for the mandated insurance.

The Federal Reserve Profited $77.4 Billion Last Year Loaning Your Money the Federal Government

Do you own federal income taxes? Do you know where your money is sent after it is confiscated from your paycheck or when you owe Uncle Sam? You don't really owe Uncle Sam, you owe a group of private bankers who make up the Federal Reserve. They in turn loan the money to the federal government, and they collect interest from that money. This has been the scam since 1913 when Congress turned over their power over money to these evil bankers. Guess what? These bankers made huge profits last year. $77.4 billion to be exact. Doesn't that make you sense?

The Fat Lady Hasn't Sang Yet, Mitt Romney

Fox 19 says not so fast Mitt Romney. It's premature to declare victory and this could go undecided all the way to Tampa as conservatives that supported Santorum and Gingrich must decide to give their delegates to liberal Mitt Romney or conservative Ron Paul.

Ozark High School Ready to Push International Socialist Agenda

The caption by Dr. Sam Taylor read, “… Ozark has officially been accepted into the IB program and will become a fully-authorized school.”

What our school principal did not say is, “… any school willing to pay the exorbitant fees to the Switzerland based corporation can become a fully-authorized IB school.” If you pay, you play.

The sense of accomplishment is a hoax, no different from the process by which the Ozark School District was led into becoming a U.N. partnered, IB school.

IB schools are required to teach and reinforce the doctrine of international socialism in each and every subject offered to its participants. It is this requirement that makes IB an indoctrination program and not an educational program, as our misleaders would have us believe.

In the very same week that Ozark became an IB school, the state of New Hampshire approved a bill allowing parents to pull their children from any school using the International Baccalaureate program and it also established a committee to study that same IB program.

You see, the facade is coming off of this U.N. educational system being implemented by those of the political left.

Sadly, our incompetent school board, with a wink and a nod from our high school principal and superintendent, implemented this foreign program without a word of input being entertained from the public—before—it voted to pursue the IB program. Each and every meeting was closed. Each and every participant of those meetings was a subordinate to, and chosen by, the principal and superintendent. And, all of this was accomplished ignoring the advice and recommendations of the IB program, which is why I used the word incompetent.

This is a very sad commentary on what should be an inclusive and congenial small community.

Bernie Kennetz

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