Posted by: "Dave Nalle"
> ...  It's  quite possible that like Bob Barr and some others his
political views are  substantially and genuinely different than they were 15
years
ago.

It's  also quite possible that some very libertarian people have suppressed
their  expression of liberty ideals in order to be successful in politics.
I know  several people in California that agree with me on nearly every
issue, but for  pragmatic reasons have avoided discussion of them in political
settings. They  have prominent positions in the Republican Party and enjoy
the social and  financial benefits. Perhaps they are now feeling more
comfortable about  expressing their views. Which is why I'm suggesting that
Truncale, even though  "establishment", should be given an opportunity to state
his
views.

BTW:  Another LC received in the mail and posted (Virginia  6CD):
http://www.republicanliberty.org/candid/2012/cn12_VAflh06_Kwiatkowski_LCIN.p
df

I'd  rather NOT be the receptacle for all future LC and Quiz submissions.
Has anyone  modified the documents on the website to show some other mailing
address than my  home?

Bill

Ron Paul Campaigns on West  Coast
MarketWatch
... deliver the keynote speech at the Liberty Political  Action Conference
in Nevada, ... an event sponsored by the Republican Liberty  Caucus of
California.  ...
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ron-paul-campaigns-on-west-coast-2011-09-12

 

 

I am a member of LinkedIn. I am NOT a member of Facebook, as I consider it a bit of a waste of time.

 

 

Dave,

 

Fair enough. I'll do you one better, as my recent $ contributions to RLC, et al, have been rather dormant lately.

Ron Paul wins California straw poll
September  18, 2011
(CNN) -- Texas Rep. Ron Paul won a California straw poll, the state
Republican Party announced in a statement Saturday night.
A total of 833  ballots were cast during the straw poll, the statement said.

Paul won  with 44.9% of the votes, Texas Gov. Rick Perry came in second
with 29.3% of the  votes, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney came in
third with 8.8% of the  votes.
The California Republican Party, associated members and registered  guests
were allowed to vote in the straw poll, according to the statement.

Paul was scheduled to give speeches in Los Angeles on Saturday,  including
the keynote at the Republican Liberty Caucus of  California.
...
http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/09/17/california.straw.poll/

 

Dave,

 

I have no idea what you're running browser-wise,  but I've had boo-koos of problems with IE 9 and pretty much a plethora of websites. I set it back to emulate IE 8, and that seems to solve a whole lot of problems.

Haven't forgotten about my word, just been solving a few "issues" regarding Pay-Pal. I'll look later tomight to see if the IE "downgrade" solves the problem on LinkedIn. Then onto the national RLC site, then on to FaceBook...blahblahblah.

.

 

RockMelt has eased my social media problems.  Haven’t tried it with LinkedIn, but it interfaces with Facebook, and lets you collect Twitter feeds and associated blog/website feeds all on one side bar.  I’m actually pretty fond of it.

__

 

Dave,

 

By NO means was I referring to you as an internet "cripple"...just letting you know from some "School of Hard Knocks" experience. My apologies if this was inferred.

 

.

Check this http://themagicmasters.com/info.html I like it!

Free Speech and Free Commerce Online Are In Peril

We don't do this often, but we're calling on all Republican Liberty Caucus members and anyone who values their liberty to take action and call their representatives in the House and Senate to express the strongest possible opposition to two bills which would  allow large media businesses to shut down virtually any website with nothing more than an unfounded accusation and no due process of law whatsoever.

The Senate bill is the “Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act” (S 968).

In the House it’s the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (HR 3261).

In an effort to go after media piracy these bills are so broadly written that they  would allow anyone owning a copyright to accuse any website of infringing that copyright and shut the website down preemptively, actually scrubbing its IP address from the internet, all with no due process or hearing of any evidence or ruling from a court, treating the owner of the site as guilty until he could prove his innocence, likely at a considerable cost in legal fees.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has made its concern over the potential for abuse in these acts very clear, and has raised a further concern. They believe that fear of unmerited shutdowns under the act will lead to excessive self-policing by frightened service providers, stifling free speech and many forms of commerce on the internet. They describe SOPA as "the worst piece of legislation we've seen in the last decade."

The freedom to innovate and to engage in entrepreneurial creativity which the intenet has empowered is genuinely under threat from the proliferation of this kind of legislation.  As the United States has lost the lead in traditional manufacturing, we have seen most of our growth in the online business sector.  This is where the jobs of the new millenium are and it is where most of the hope for economic recovery lies.  PROTCT IP and SOPA will have a chilling effect on this increasingly important sectory of the economy and lead to wholesale violations of the privacy rights of individuals and businesses.  It’s another bad idea from a government which has become too big and too eager to interfere in every aspect of our lives.

Pro-Liberty members of Congress led by Representative Ron Paul will be leading opposition to these bills and they need your support.  For more information on this issue and to email and call your representatives, please go to the Republican Liberty Caucus site.

Act Today to Tell the Super Committee to Cut Spending

and Not Raise Our Taxes - Midnight is the Deadline 

The unconstitutional Super Committee has until midnight tonight to decide how to resolve our debt crisis. President Obama, Congressional Democrats and socialist organizations like MoveOn.org are pushing for tax increases instead of spending cuts. They are demanding as much as a $1.6 trillion increase in taxes, targeting the most productive Americans, hitting entrepreneurs and small businesses particularly hard.

Ron Paul said of the Super Committee "You don’t get out of the problem of having too much debt by allowing Congress to spend a lot more. It never made any sense to me; it just digs the hole much deeper and then it gets harder for us to get out."

Although there are two strong RLC-endorsees on the committee, Co-Chairman Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) and Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA), they are under enormous pressure to cave in and authorize tax increases. Toomey has even put forward a plan which trades larger cuts than those previously proposed for some tax increases. But the real problem is that it takes only a majority vote to pass a plan out of the Super Committee, which means that only one Republican has to vote with Democrats to raise taxes.

What's more, in addition to raising taxes, Democrats on the committee want to give more money to Obama to launch even more phony stimulus and prop up companies which ought to take responsibility for their own mistakes and not lay their risk off on the taxpayers.

This makes it vitally important for us to remind every member of the committee, especially the Republicans that taxpayers have had enough. We don't want more debt and we don't want more taxes. We want bigger tax cuts and we want them now, not spread out over a decade where their impact is offset by ongoing interest.

The Super Committee will be voting on Monday and sending their report to Congress on Wednesday. If they cannot come up with a plan which is acceptable to Congress then automatic cuts of $1.2 trillion will be implemented. It would be better for them to come to no agreement at all and submit no plan than to offer one which doesn't have at least $1.2 trillion in cuts and no increase in taxes.

We need you to write the members of the SuperCommittee today so that when they call their offices on Monday before they vote their staff will tell them that the people want them to hold the line and make big cuts and not give in to demands for tax increases.

Write them and make sure your email insists on a minimum of $1.2 trillion in spending cuts and no increase in taxes.

Please go to the RLC website and use our form to email your Senators and Representatives and tell them to demand that  the Super Committee not raise taxes.  It would also help to take a few minutes to call to each member of the Super Committee and leave a message reminding them that we can't afford to pay more for bailouts and failed stimulus programs.

The 12 member Super Committee:
Sen. Patty Murray, (D-WA) Co-chair - Call 202-224-0238
Rep. Jeb Hensarling, (R-TX) Co-Chair - Call 202-226-4888
Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) - Call 202-224-8525
Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) - Call 202-224-9412
Sen. Jon Kyl, (R-AZ) - Call 202-224-2207
Sen. Rob Portman, (R-OH) - Call 202-228-1382
Sen. Pat Toomey, (R-PA) - Call 202-228-1229
Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) - Call 202-225-2202
Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) - Call 202-225-2313
Rep. Chris Van Hollen, (D-MD) - Call 202-225-0375
Rep. Fred Upton, (R-MI) - Call 202-225-4986
Rep. Dave Camp, (R-MI) - Call 202-225-9177

Good f*ing luck. You knew, in you heart, what this would come to.