...about the idea of coming up with a voters' platform.

Anyone interested, please check it out, and feel free to chime in. [Gordon might decide to start a fresh thread for it... ]

http://tinyurl.com/37dbfl

How come everyone and everything you disagree with is labeled "little"?

Every time you post to me you sound like a middle school kid. Are you?

Josh Marshall has made that point before and I agree with him. There is no Republican, other than Dr. Paul, that is even tolerable. If he were elected, there would be many, many Democrats and Independents in his administration. In fact a Ron Paul/Dennis Kucinich ticket would be one that would restore hope in my heart that my country has a chance to stop being the world's bully. Dennis K. on top of that ticket would work also.

Pipe dream? Sure. And so is any hope that one of the others, in either party, will stop trying to dominate the world.

Is either man perfect on every issue? Of course not; but our Trillion dollar a year murder machine must be stopped before we have a chance at fixing any other problem.

This is for the benefit of the non-cult members. The cult members live in their own private reality.

Bucky...Josh Marshall has made that point before and I agree with him. There is no Republican, other than Dr. Paul, that is even tolerable.

What Josh actually said:

I know there's something of a bipartisan Ron Paul cult springing up online. And I'm not joining.But I can see why it's there. It's not just a matter of whether you think he's right on the issues. He's pretty much the only guy on the stage who is making coherent points. I watched the debate this evening. And I was actually a bit shocked at just how weak and scattered the GOP field is -- a topic I'll discuss in more depth tomorrow morning.

--Josh Marshall

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/016227.php

While it is a real pipe dream to consider a Dennis Kucinich/Ron Paul ticket. It is equally a pipe dream to hope to mainstream Greens/left libertarians or the American Libertarian Party by the time Nov. 2008 rolls around but it is necessary to keep at it. That much I will concede. However, let's not kid ourselves. In terms of the totally screwed up political lanscape of the current American political scene, "far left" is far left and "far right" is far right and never the twain shall meet except on one or two narrow single issues. What Josh later said, and I'd hardly call this an endorsement of any GOP candidate:

The GOP in Idle

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/016226.php

Your dedication to your cause is admirable if not a bit cult-like.

How come everyone and everything you disagree with is labeled "little"?--Kitt

Every time you post to me you sound like a middle school kid. Are you?

-- bucky1

Like I said, bucky, you call everyone and everything you don't like 'little'. Not just me. So your excuse, - which is an ironical excuse since your frequent use of 'little' makes you come off as childish - it doesn't fly.

By the way, I noticed that you couldn't bring yourself to say a simple 'thanks' for my having posted something you might like, in the middle of one of your tantrums, so as to lighten the tone. Not very 'big' of you.

It would be political suicide for Dennis Kucinich to be in any way associated with this:

http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php/ron-paul-just-won-aug-409024.html

Just as it is for Ron Paul and why he will never be President. Ever. Not to mention suicide for this country. We've had enough Republicans from Texas for one century, thanks. No matter how much they pander and triangulate.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22183463-5005961,00.html

From correspondents in Beijing

August 03, 2007 05:49pm

FROM next month, Tibetan living Buddhas will have to apply for reincarnation to the Chinese Government.

The new rules are "an important move to institutionalise the management of reincarnation of living Buddhas," the Xinhua news agency said.

According to the regulations, which take effect on September 1, all reincarnation applications must be submitted to religious affairs officials for approval, Xinhua said.

China is ruled by the Communist Party, which, despite being officially atheist, maintains strict controls over Tibetan Buddhism and all other religions.

Living Buddhas are an important element in Tibetan Buddhism, forming a clergy of influential religious figures who are believed to be continuously reincarnated to take up their positions anew.

Often there is more than one candidate competing to be recognised as the actual reincarnation, and the authority to decide who is the true claimant carries significant power.

This is especially true in the case of the Panchen Lama, the second-most influential figure in Tibetan Buddhism behind the Dalai Lama.

Chinese authorities detained the Dalai Lama's choice as the Panchen Lama in 1995 when the boy was six years old, and he has not been seen in public since.

The Chinese Government's choice as the Panchen Lama has, meanwhile, been paraded around the country in recent years to promote China's rule over his homeland.

China sent troops in to "liberate" Tibet in 1951. The Dalai Lama later fled to India in 1959 after a failed uprising and established a government-in-exile in Dharamsala.

If you give a government enough power, time, and technology they will demand you get permission or a 'permit' for anything. Next, a 'soul tax'. :-(

"This is for the benefit of the non-cult members. The cult members live in their own private reality."

What a comment from one who must ask William what candidate to back! From a cult member calling another fellow a cult member. Wow.

So what 'cult' do all Ron Paul supporters belong? I always like to here the bigoted view of LWM and his various sock-puppet incarnations. Yes, anytime you paint with a brish that large, you are engaging in bigotry.

"In terms of the totally screwed up political lanscape of the current American political scene, "far left" is far left and "far right" is far right and never the twain shall meet except on one or two narrow single issues."

More foolishness. Many expert political observers over the decades have always said that if you go far enough 'left'; you end up at the far 'right'. Or as the wife says, "the difference in conservatives and liberals is who they want to kill".

Note: Bigot: –noun

a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion.