Ten Reasons NOT to Vote For RON PAUL on Super Dee Dooper Tuesday

Well here we are on the eve of Super Tuesday, a day I have been anxiously awaiting for many months. Tomorrow those of us here in California will join twenty-one other states and cast votes for our personal favorite presidential hopefuls. This year we have an opportunity for real change, that's why I'll be voting for Ron Paul.

If this election was a horse race, I'd be voting in the primary for McCain or Clinton. Unfortunately, most Americans DO vote with a horse-race-mentality, and that's why we always end up having horses-asses to represent us. I'd rather have a respectable president... someone like Ron Paul.
Ron Paul's message of freedom and Liberty isn't for everyone however.
Here are ten reasons you may not want to vote for Ron Paul:

1 You like what the Bush-Clinton dynasty has accomplished over the past twenty years.

2 You want to keep troops in Iraq for another four years to one-hundred years.

3 You think its a good idea to continue boycotting Cuba.

4 You like spending billions of dollars on a fake drug war.

5 You think it is a good idea to have the government monitoring all of your telephone, text and email messages.

6 You enjoy bureaucratic regulations in every aspect of life.

7 You superficially cast your vote based on appearance, religion, gender or race.

8 You think that corporations are more important than individuals.

9 You believe that liberty and free-agency are overrated.

10 You think it$ a good economic plan for the United $tate$ to borrow money from China $o that American$ can get a $ix-hundred dollar economic $timulu$ check in the mail, which, in mo$t in$tance$ will be $pent on product$ which were manufactured in China. Who'$ economy are you trying to $timulate?

Think... before you vote this time.

You've Come a Long Way Baby!

My iTunes Top 25

The holidays brought a new hard drive to our home, and with the new virtual space, iTunes has become a part of my daily life. I've been using iT on my computer for more than a month now, and out of nearly two-thousand songs, the following tunes have risen to the top, and represent the cream of my play list.

Interestingly, the top four positions go to radio stations which are scattered across the country. The streaming feed is counted once per play, even if I have it on for hours at at time.

1 In the number one position, coming in first place with forty-four plays is KSCO, 1080 AM in Santa Cruz, California. i Tune into KSCO pretty much every day, but not only on the computer. I am fortunate to live where I can listen to this local radio station at home or in the car. AM talk radio programming such as Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly help to keep me abreast of the workings of the right-wing propaganda machine. However, unlike most other AM talk stations I have heard, KSCO's political programming is much more balanced. Congratulations KSCO!

2 In second place with forty-two listens, is KRCL, 90.9 FM in Salt Lake City, Utah. I especially enjoy getting up early on Sunday mornings to listen to the Native American music on KRCL. I tune in to their political programming to keep in touch with left-wing political propaganda. KRCL has been one of my most profound musical influences, and holds a special place in my heart. I began listening twenty-five years ago, and thanks to live feed, I can hear it anytime I'm at my computer.

3 Close behind, in third place with forty-one plays is KZSC, 88.1 FM in Santa Cruz California which I listen to every Tuesday and Thursday morning... Platypus Rising, and Here There and Everywhere respectively. My favorite FM station in Santa Cruz.

4 WORT 89.9 FM Madison Wisconsin - play count 34. A fine station I was first introduced to when I lived in Madison, (before the war), and have fond memories of this eclectic, listener sponsored, left-wing voice from the heart of America's Dairyland. And thanks to live stream, I can once again Tune in for political propaganda, and a host of entertaining and informative programming.

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5 Number One - The Rutles - The Rutles - 27
6 Dust - Adrian Belew - Dust - 26
7 Click Clack - Captain Beefheart - Spotlight Kid - 26
8 Totally Wired - The Fall - 50,000 fans... - 26
9 Send in the Clown - The Simpsons - Songs in the Key of Springfield - 26
10 And She Was - Talking Heads - 12x12 Original Remixes - 26
11 Frail - The Vox Jaguars - Good As Gone - 26
12 Greensleeves - California Guitar Trio - Christmas Album - 25
13 I'm So Bored With the USA - The Clash - The Clash - 25
14 MTV Get Off the Air - Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist - 25
15 I Will Survive - Tony Clifton - Man on the Moon - 25
16 Onward - Yes - Tormato - 25
17 On the Beach Goes the Crimson King - Adrian Belew - Dust 24
18 Angela (theme from taxi) - Bob James - Man on the Moon 24
19 Coconut - Harry Nilsson - Personal Best - 24
20 Frame by Frame - King Crimson - B'BOOM - 24
21 The Robots - Kraftwerk - The Man Machine - 24
22 Trigger Hippie - Morcheeba - Who Can You Trust? - 24
23 Chase - Ravi Shankar - Tana Mana - 24
24 Kaw-Liga - The Residents - Stars and Hank Forever - 24
25 Metropolis - The Vox Jaguars - Good As Gone - 24

CBS 5 News Poll

On Saturnday night I received a call from CBS 5 in San Francisco. It was a political poll... and I found a couple of the questions to be quite strange, which is why I decided to write about it on my blog.

The first question asked whether I was a registered voter in California. "Press 1, if the answer is yes, and 2 if the answer is no." I am, so I pressed 1.

The second question concerned my likelihood of voting in the February primary. I replied that it was very likely that I would be voting of February 5th.

The third question regarded my registered party affiliation. "Press 1 if the answer is Democrat, press 2 if the answer is Republican, press three if the answer is other..." I used to be an Other, but this year I infiltrated the B-side of the dark side, to support Ron Paul. I pressed 2.

The fourth question inquired as to whom I would be voting for. "Press 1 if the answer is Mitt Romney, press 2 if the answer is John McCain, press 3 if the answer is Ron Paul..." and so on. I was surprised that Paul was listed third... actually I was surprised he was listed at all. I pressed 3 firmly.

I was then asked if I had voted in the last general election four years ago. I answered in the confirmative.

Next I was asked who I voted for in the previous election, "Press 1 if the answer is George Bush, press 2 if the answer is John Kerry, press 3 if the answer is Other." I pressed 3. Don't blame me, I voted for Other.

The next question asked which issue was most important to me in the 2008 election. As I listened to my choices, I thought about how in the past few weeks, the war has been ignored, while the economy has received most of the attention by pundits. Since all of the candidates, except one, plan to perpetuate the war for another four-plus years, I knew that they would prefer to ignore it, and pretend to focus on the economy. I pressed 1 and selected war as the issue most important in this election.

I was also asked how George Bush will go down in history? "Press 1 if your answer is one of the best presidents, press 2 if your answer is an average president, and press 3 if your answer is one of the worst presidents." I put him among the worst, right there with his daddy, Clinton, Carter, Ford, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy, Eisenhower... and the rest... are here on Gilligan's Island.

I was also asked about my age, and gender. I'm pretty sure I got those two right.

One of the questions was on abortion, and allowed only two choices "anti-abortion, and pro-choice"

Another question asked if I owned a gun.

The oddest question of the bunch was concerning global warming... is it real or made up? "Press 1 if you believe that global warming is real, press 2 if you believe that global warming is made up." I pressed 1 even though it probably isn't real. If anything, we're headed toward another ice age... that cyclical menace that returns every eleven thousand years, and guess what? It is time to start cooling down again, so don't get yourselves in a tizzy about global warming. And for Greg's sake, don't do anything that's going to speed up global cooling. Silly Human race.

I have never trusted polls... A good friend of mine worked for one of the nation's major polling companies, so I asked him a bit of a leading question once:

"Tell me something Bekus, are polls used to reflect public opinion, or to manipulate public opinion?" He chuckled knowingly, and replied with the rhetorical question, "What do you think?" "That's what I thought," I said.

Who would Joseph Smith Vote For?

When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney came in first place in Nevada earlier this month, it was largely due to the huge percentage of Mormons who populate the former Deseret Territory. No surprise, polls in Utah show Romney way out in the lead, and he will without a doubt muster most of the votes in the Beehive State. The majority of Mitt's support is coming from the millions of Mormons scattered across the United States. They're the perfect people to proselytize for the wealthy self-financier.

Considering that Mormonism was founded by libertarian-leaning, constitutionalist free-agents, I find it odd that so many modern-day Latter-day Saints (LDS) have aligned themselves with Romney, and climbed on his big government, big war, bandwagon. Knowing that Mormon founder/prophet Joseph Smith made a run for president back in 1844, I was curious who he would vote for if he were here today. Here is a sample of his own presidential platform:
“I will adopt in part the language of Mr. Madison’s inaugural address, ‘To cherish peace and friendly intercourse with all nations, having correspondent dispositions; to maintain sincere neutrality towards belligerent nations; to prefer in all cases amicable discussion and reasonable accommodation of intrigues and foreign partialities, so degrading to all countries, and so baneful to free ones; to foster a spirit of independence too just to invade the rights of others, too proud to surrender their own, too liberal to indulge unworthy prejudices ourselves, and too elevated not to look down upon them in others.’”

It sounds like Joseph Smith and James Madison both endorse Ron Paul

Presidential Primary - A Prognosticative Prediction

Now that there have been a couple of caucuses and primary elections here in the good old US of A, I am prepared to make my presidential primary predictions for 2008.

Democratique Nominee

It was easy to figure out who the Democrats will choose. In fact... fifteen years ago I predicted that Hilary Rodham-Clinton would become America's first woman president... 2008 could be her year, (otherwise she may have to wait til 2016). All the anti-Republican children are tired and want an indefatigable mother-figure to fix a snack, and clean up the play room while the kids take a nap... so to speak. To her credit, she'd be a better president than the majority of the men contending for the top position in her party. I hope* that John Edwards will be chosen to be her running mate so that I can once again use a red marker to highlight the war in his name on my bumper-sticker and yard sign... a reminder that this administration represents the industrial military complex, which means prolonged war in Iraq... and who knows where next? You can't spell Edwards without war.

Republic Con Nominee

It took longer than usual for me to figure out who will become the Republican nominee. The spin in news reports, photo selections in printed media and vote fraud in New Hampshire lead me to believe that John McCain is the straw-man the party has chosen to be knocked down and defeated... the Bob Dole of 2008. My first clue was that a nobody, like McCain, was regularly mentioned in the news reports, no matter how insignificant the information, whereas other candidates with legitimate news seem to get squelched. Another big clue was the discovery of numerous uncounted votes for Romney and Ron Paul in New Hampshire. In upcoming primaries, the fraudulent vote counters will have to be careful to under-report Paul and others, rather than leave a suspicious zero tally like occurred in NH. Media misquotes subtly demonstrate bias against Romney who's win in Wyoming was downplayed and ignored.** I suppose it is no surprise that long-time career politician John McCain is the one the Republican National Committee will anoint and appoint to perpetuate the party platform. He's been a loyal and obedient servant to the power elite for decades, and will gladly play the puppet in the public drama, where Hee Haw meets Passion Play.

*Not a prediction. Rather, a selfish wish. I love to mess with bumper stickers.

** Romney, using an Olympic metaphor said, "We have a gold and two silvers, we would have liked another gold..." FOX News reported that Romney said, "We have two silvers... we would have liked a gold" a considerable reconstruction that perceptively strips Romney of his victory in the Cowboy State.

Best One Won't Be Seen?

Today on the FOXNews.com Web page, the headline ironically reads:

May the Best One Win

The article draws attention to the upcoming presidential debate on FOX Sunday night, but unfortunately FOX viewers won't be seeing the Best candidate because he has been excluded from attending, even though he came in six percentage points ahead of Giuliani who has been invited to attend. Once again, Ron Paul is being ignored by the national media in order to prevent US citizens from seeing that they actually have a choice this time, and don't have to be beholden to the special interest influenced candidates. Shame on FOX for not allowing America to see all of their choices, and for stifling free-speech at a time when this country needs true leadership, and honest reporting.

FOX claims that their coverage of issues is fair and balanced. However, it is blatantly evident that they are neither fair nor balanced when it comes to Ron Paul... so why should I trust them on any other issue? I suppose that FOX could claim that they're not ignoring Ron Paul more than any other network. I guess that FOX is just like all the other networks now.

So much for honesty and fairness in reporting.

lowa Caucus - Circus Klowns

In an ideal world, Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul would have been the winners of the first presidential caucus of 2008. Welcome to the real (dumb) world. Last night Iowans made it clear that they don't understand the proper role of government when they caucused for Huckabee and Obama.
Born Again Christian Beats Mormon

It shouldn't be a surprise that a boring again Christian won the Republican caucus. After all, back in 1988 televangelist Pat Robertson came in second, ahead of George H. W. Bush, and in 1996 Pat Buchanan made a strong second place showing. No doubt the Baptist churches all across the state preached about the Mormon boogyman to scare voters away from supporting Romney. As usual, Ron Paul experienced a near media blackout, and still managed to come in ahead of Giuliani, and walk away with a tithe of votes. At least ten percent of Iowan Republicans have a clue.
Black Man Beats Woman

It is wonderful that a black person has won a caucus, the first in the nation... ever. Although Hillary came in third, (behind EdWARds), it should be remembered that in 1992 Bill Clinton came in third place in the Iowa caucus, and still became president. We haven't seen the last of Ms. Rodham-Clinton.
War Mongers and Circus Clowns

None of the big top winners in Iowa have plans to end the war any time soon... not even the self proclaimed Christian minister who came in first place. As I recall, a week or so ago, someone was saying something about peace on earth and good will toward men?

Walls

I took this photo from the Amtrak Zephyr as we rolled out of Reno heading East.

Jesus Played Dreidl - Holly Daze

Since a goodly portion of the Earth's population is celebrating the birthday of Jesus Christ today, I thought I would make a few relevant points, in an attempt to put the historicity of said event it into context.

First - Jesus was not born on December 25. The shepherds watching over their flocks by night, were making sure that their investments (birthing lambs) would survive and make it to market by Nisan 14. Passover comes in the spring, around the first week of April... an appropriate time for the Lamb of God to be born.

Second - There never was a person named Jesus Christ. What would a good Jewish boy be doing with a Greek name? That name was ascribed to him later on as replacement theologians stripped him of his Jewishness in order to justify their corrupt and counterfeit religion's assault on Judaism. His real name , (the one his mother, Miriam, gave to him, and his peers knew him by), was Yeshua ben Yosef, (Joshua son of Joseph). Later, the title Rabbi was added to his name.

Third - Jesus was Jewish. He was NOT a Christian... as many believe. He never denounced his religion, and remained obedient to the Torah, and his ecclesiastical authorities.

Fourth - Jesus played dreidl during the holidays.

Blasphemy? No, TRUTH!

It seems a bit inconsiderate to celebrate the birth of someone who didn't go by the name he is remembered by... on a day that he wasn't even born. How would you like it if someone did that to you? Surprise! Happy birthday!

Maybe it's time we put the X back in Christmas... Where's Linus?

A Picture $ells a Thousand Words: Propaganda/Ipso Factoid

Would you like to know how to predict which candidates the two major political parties will nominate to be President of the United States of America? Consider this:

How are the images of individual candidates presented in the popular media?

Remember flipping through the mainstream glossies back in 1991, and seeing pictures of Jerry Brown's contorted goofy face on one page, while Bill Clinton was pictured standing messianically with a glowing face and upraised hands, on the opposite page? Who won that primary election? There were hundreds, maybe thousands of photos of both Clinton and Brown for the Timely News-weeklys to chose from, yet they chose to portray Brown in an unfavorable way and subtly promoted the chosen one.

A picture $ells a thousand words.

Weapons of Natural Destruction - Who's Side Is God On Anyway?

Since September 11th the US policy towards terrorism has been, "If you're not with us, you are against us." Most countries have denounced terrorism, and those who haven't have been warned, sanctioned, threatened and/or conquered. On numerous occasions, President Bush has said that "We're winning the war on terror... God bless America." However, recent global cataclysmic events such as the tsunami in Thailand, and the hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes in the United States which have killed and displaced so many innocents, have the state department questioning who's side God is on, and has drafted a policy denouncing any deity who commits acts of terror. A complete list of deities is not yet available, but sources indicate that some of the gods who's most favored deity status is in question include Jehovah, Allah, and even Mother Nature and Mother Earth. No deities have commented on the new policy.