Letters to the Editor
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Paul Dirks. My last post for today.
The moon is made of blue cheese.
Sneeze.
Ah shoo.
I a hobo.
Hop a train. Hop like a bunny and love a kangaroo.
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First ever letter.
Thank you, sir, for your clear headed view and researched commentary. It needs no additional comment, only praise.
Asskissing.
My husband and my immigrant grandparents arrived on Ellis Island in the 1920 - 30's.
You husband is what, 100 years old?
Our roots are Italian and Polish. We remember their stories of how...ever so slowly...personal rights and property were taken away. This is happening now in America.
Total horseshit! My parents drew up during the depression. I never heard anything like that and neither has anyone else.
A Ron Paul Presidency would restore the original Constitution's balance of power, eliminating the seemingly absolute power of the current Executive Branch and its failed foreign policy
Yes! Let's give the most powerful executive branch in history to a man with questionable mental health! Even as such, if you knew as much about the actual workings of this government as your "make believe immigrant grandparents" would, (required for naturalized citizenship and usually much better versed than your born and bred American citizen) you would know that we'd have to elect hundreds of Ron Pauls to the Congress, the legislative branch. Do you know why that has never happened? Because the district he represents in that little corner of Texas is not REPRESNTATIVE of anything!
Readers, please refer to Ron Paul's archived writings: http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul-arch.html You will find him well versed on current applications of constitutional law.
Respectfully submitted
Another asshat troll from Lewcrockwell.
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SHUT UP! Honest to God!
Ron Paul is the Second Coming of Christ!
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What's wrong with liking older kangaroos?
How old is Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse? They make a lovable cuddle.
I like to spell lawyer, layer. Old men aren't so horrible. They do lie like a musty rug. They need to be shook out from being dusty.
It's Hay and gold Straw dust from sleeping in a manure and immature old barn?
Brush it off. okay.
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non doctor interpretation of the Constitution
Do you also have a pocket bible that you interpret? Perhaps without ANY idea as to historic context, cultural issues and currents? You take it precisely at its written word with all its self-contradictions and mistranslations (you DO realize that the original language of the texts ofL.W.M. said: "...the constitution needs to be interpreted by lawyers appointed to the highest court in the land, not doctors..." the current version of the bible have been translated multiple times? And often erroneously? And with NO concept of cultural forces and historical context?). So you think the Founder wrote things like the 9th Amendment into the Bill of Rights but intended no "moving interpretation"? That the word is the word and that context, historical forces, the actual thinking and writings of the various Founders (particularly those that actually wrote the Constitution that the rest simply signed off on)? A monolithic script like your bible perchance? No subtlety, no nuance (those Founders were unimaginative and very literal, no nuance there at all eh?)?
Sure, you and I can read our Constitution and Bill of Rights but you know who I trust on deeper interpretation based on historic context and cultural forces? Constitutional Scholars. If I have any interest in actually getting into the actual meaning and the hows and whys of the bible, I don't go to my neighbor biblethumper either. I would read the texts of biblical scholars.
Ron Paul is not the end-all, be-all interpreter of the Constitution. He obviously picks and chooses the parts he likes as well (he has particular ire for the well-thought-out part about treaties since he has sought to pass amendments and bills to gut what the Constitution actually says concerning treaties and how they are the Law of the Land. Period. Get over that. There is no room for a fortress USA anymore in any case. Like it or not, the world is global now with global forces, global pollution, global crises. Retreating back to our borders and hiding from any and all treaty obligations wont work and cannot work.
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@Glenn re Update III
Thank you for that. Niewert et al. fail to understand that Ron Paul will not vote for anything that he believes the Constitution does not authorize Congress to fund or involve itself with. Period. From that one should not make any inference about whether he thinks the particular project or program proposed to be funded is a good or bad cause in and of itself.
Yes, he broke with his federalist principles on abortion. His view has been that Roe federalized the issue and that only a federal response could "fix" it. But he has also said he may have been wrong to let himself come to that conclusion.
In any event, if Roe is overturned tomorrow, the vast, vast majority of states, including red ones, are still going to legalize at least first trimester abortions. South Dakota just demonstrated that. All the hysterical shrieking about women as slaves and bodies lying dead in alleys in "Ron Paul's world" is about as reasonable as those who think we have to make a glass parking lot of the Middle East to ward of the Caliphate.
Paul is singing from the Lord's hymnal on the most critical issues of the moment, and smearing a man who holds enormous potential to change the terms of the national conversation in the right direction is very, very stupid, not to mention sleazy.
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@Glenn Greenwald
The inestimable Dave Neiwert at Orcinus calls you out on your misrepresentation of both what he wrote about Paul yesterday (NOT a smear, fact) and your narrow, disingenuous defense of Paul. Give it a read.
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My dear deceased grandmother Carolyn...
...gave me a early 1800 German bible. It's a foot thick. It fits into my back pocket. Each trip to my favorite male gynecologist, we read it to each other in black crow jabbers tongue. He always is powdered with oak sawdust.
He's always so distressed to see me at those annual visits. I never have any money to donate to a presidential grinning dentist. I will give what I can to a female podiatrist and wash her dirty feet.