"... an empty addiction to vapid notions of Establishment harmony"

Lovely summation. I'm sure there are thousands (millions?) of ego-massagers in New York who would happily work on Julius Ceasar's presidential campaign ... for a cut of the action.

How did this guy ever earn a dime? He doesn't even understand the difference between capitalism and fascism.

for sale:

vote for the candidate that will marginally guarantee me a roof over my head, a meager wage, and some pantomime of protection -- as long as i don't have to think too hard about it, or make any personal sacrifices (besides an automatic deduction of wages through taxation, most of which feeding a wartime economy in peacetime instead of paying for things i personally can use).

happy new year! i'm wasted, i hope some of you are too.

Here is the unedited Youtube of Ron Paul's remarks on evolution:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zz94-OrnXzE

Here is the highly-edited version that is referenced by Andrew Sullivan's blog:

http://reason.tv/roughcut/show/215.html

Here is a transcript, with the deleted words bracketed and in bold:

'Well, at first I thought it was a very inappropriate question, you know, for the presidency to be decided on a scientific matter, and I think it's a theory, a theory of evolution, and I don't accept it, you know, as a theory, but I think [it probably doesn't bother me. It's not the most important issue for me to make the difference in my life to understand the exact origin. I think] the Creator that I know created us, everyone of us, and created the universe, and the precise time and manner, I just don't think we're at the point where anybody has absolute proof on either side. [So I just don't...if that were the only issue, quite frankly, I would think it's an interesting discussion, I think it's a theological discussion, and I think it's fine, and we can have our...if that were the issue of the day, I wouldn't be running for public office.']

About half of Paul's words were censored. Sullivan turned his message of, 'We're fighting for freedom and can't afford to be split over a debate about fossils' into something else entirely. Did Glenn not do a post on this sort of thing not long ago? Ah, I remember now; he did and a few regulars highlighted Glenn's post by savaging Paul in the way GG was writing about. I wonder if they will start loving Andrew Sullivan now.

Maybe I'm an idealist, but I see a bit of the greatness and humanity of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt in both John and Elizabeth Edwards, and were he to become President, I genuinely believe Edwards would do his best to redistribute some of grossest transfers of wealth that have occurred in the past 25 years from the upper classes back to those of us suckers who have the misfortune of earning less than a million dollars a year.

Unless and until the war on the American people is ended then the slide toward totalitarianism will not halt. Edwards may slow that slide somewhat but he has no plank in his platform to end the war that has made "The Land of the Free" into the largest incarcerator of human beings on the planet.

Sorry, that's one issue where Ron Paul certainly deserves to be skewered.

Anybody willing to call evolution a "theory" in a context that casts doubt on its veracity is either a moron or a cynical liar.

Consider it my litmus test.

Sorry, that's one issue where Ron Paul certainly deserves to be skewered.

Anybody willing to call evolution a "theory" in a context that casts doubt on its veracity is either a moron or a cynical liar.

Consider it my litmus test.

-- Paul Dirks

Are you saying that aggressive misquoting is a tactic you support if you agree with the person doing the lying? That does not sound like you; over time, you always wanted the facts to be reported --- and then the interpretation was fair game. If the position Paul takes is so terrible, why any need to prune out words to change the message?

And then, exactly what part of Ron Paul's statement makes him a "moron" or a "cynical liar"? You toss that out as if only your views could possibly be correct. What are they?

More to the point, what what do you think Ron Paul was saying?

Litmus test....

Failed....

Moron or liar.

End of story.

Hanging out with sysprog will do that. He may have your fuzzy jacket or he swapped it at the pawn store.

You are the type of sage/fool ( same same ~ sometimes ) wise/idiot who drinks wine from fuzzy-navels. You are the party-goer who shares bad-sage-advice and demonstrates to everyone on New Years Eve etc., events how to make armpit noises?

From today until mid-May, the psychiatrist advises for you to stick your feet in a bucket of ice for one-half hour on your lunch brake to feel less-hungover.

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Just last eve the name of Julius Caesar came up. The C-section birth is controversial. A friend with a one-'l' in the name, and no hell, just became a grandmother two days ago. Her son is only 18 years young.

Julius was a C-section delivery. It's why he got he got the name, Julius? Apollo was a medical protector back then, people believed, and said all C-section births were to be named Caesar? I wish his last name was Salad.

The rumor that Julius cut his pregnant wife's child out of the womb by a C-section cut, via a naval get the 'threat' to the reign is not true?

The Apollo clan worshippers feuded with the Limpets, or the Bloomberg's, or something like that? A Julius clan fought with the Apollo clan sects. The more probable truth was If Julius didn't have a C-section he'd been dead at birth? Many women died too if labor was difficult.

In the 21st century 'We People' rarely look into the night sky to see Ursula Minor, a Big Dipper, Three sisters, Scorpio, etc., *!*

and all those 'celestial heavenly bodies'...and that's what they called then floating planetary objects in space, I've read. *!* another darn burnt pot pan up in smoke!

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To generalize is to be an idiot. William Blake.

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It was the myth of fingerprints.

I've seen them all and all, man,

They've all the same. Paul Simon.

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I guess that means we're all related. Wherever we go we can swap jackets and swap Bugs Bunny ties. I don't wear ties.

William T. does, I bet.

bethincary seems bunches of fun, not perfect, and that's what is likable. Ya's want to go somewhere skipping out of a lawyer convention and drop C-notes down a wishing well for no good reason...just 'cause you do it for peace.

I'd drop a Blamable copper penny to meet bethincary. I'd

say howdy to Bloomberg as if he's at the well bottom. I'd grab the wish-bone of a smoked fresh Amish Turkey with a few or more readers here. I'd break a smoked left-over Turkey bone. huh.

I blame bethincary and wannabee sting_3...etc., You know who you are and I'll spare ya's me embarrassing ya's. If I had lunch with Beth who would complain about a greasy spoon? Michael Bloomberg.

This Unlimited Territory is not Unclaimed Territory.

It's good therapy and it's free. You can wish ya's had the hair of Rapunzel and never ever despair. Gads. Glenns a human sheepdog? Let's be okay.