Ron Paul Comes to Rock Hill!

Ron Paul came to Rock Hill and signed my shirt.

He spoke at the Freedom Center in downtown Rock Hill. The crowd is estimated to have been around 600.

He was scheduled to arrive at 11 AM, but I heard from a fellow Paul supporter that people were expected to start showing up at 10, which meant that I had to be there at that time.

As I drove past in search of parking, there were already a bit over a dozen supporters on corners of the block waving signs and cheering at cars passing by. Supporters would hand out campaign literature to all who dared to stop.

The event contained people of all walks of life (except minorities, oddly, despite Paul being the most popular Republican among black voters, but they were probably on their way to Columbia for the Oprah/Obama rally), from college students with Mohawks, to the elderly.

Interesting thing to note. If you do a Google News search for "Ron Paul + Rock Hill", you will find a few news articles about the rally held yesterday. In every one of those that I read, it mentioned the college student with a Mohawk. The neat thing about this is that my friend, Jared Philips (mentioned in my very first blog post), was the only person with a Mohawk. As a result, he had dozens of photos taken of him (go to Flickr.com, search "Ron Paul + Rock Hill", and enjoy), and was quoted in the Star-Telegram.

Besides the picture of me in the crowd (my face oddly the only one blurred), the only other pictures of me at the rally so far are of the back of my head while talking to Ron Paul. The campaign said no personal pictures because of time, but that the event photos would end up on the campaign's flickr.com page, but as of this writing they aren't there.

To fulfill my journalistic duty, I asked Ron Paul one question. It went as follows:

Me: "Congressman Paul, recently the wife of Congressman Kucinich said that he would 'absolutely consider' choosing you as his running mate. My question to you is, when you receive the nomination, would you consider choosing Congressman Kucinich as your running mate?"

Paul: (Paraphrased) "Right now I'm concentrating on winning the primaries and haven't given it much though. However, Dennis is a good man and I've spoken to him a couple of times. I can't think that far in the future however."

With that, he signed my shirt, I shook his hand, I got a group photo with him (not posted yet), and was off. It was magical.

Paul places third in Iowa Independent survey

The question was asked "If the Iowa Caucuses were held tonight, what would be their results?"

Granted, the poll is unscientific and is based on some individual's assessment of how candidates would do based on the current political environment in the state, the campaigns themselves, amount of support, how active the support is, etc.

It had this to say about Paul, who placed third:

Ron Paul -- The more we think about it, the more we conclude that none of the remaining candidates on this list have a strong base of support the way Rep. Paul does. His unlikely coalition of supporters does not include many typical caucus-goers, but they are devoted. And to top it all off, the campaign appears to be fairly well organized here, with paid calls, visibility (television, radio, billboards), and direct outreach efforts. Much about the Paul campaign will remain up in the air until caucus night, but a third place finish would certainly raise some eyebrows heading into New Hampshire.

Victory is surely on the way in Iowa, and then onward to New Hampshire.

Ron Paul Straw Poll results

To follow up the post about Romney rigging the straw vote, I thought I'd point out that Ron Paul has done fairly well in all other straw polls.

Of the 47 straw polls, Ron Paul has come in first place 24 times. He has come in the top 3 80% of the time, which seems pretty ridiculous and I'm questioning my math. But after looking at it for a bit I've confirmed that I'm making perfect sense.

If anyone has followed past elections they would know that normally the MSM and Presidential candidates talk about straw poll results all of the time. Since Paul is winning them all, no one seems interested. Well, scratch that. You hear a lot about the Iowa straw poll in which Mike Huckabee came in first and Paul didn't do so hot. That, however, is about the only one they can talk about.

Romney supporters cheat at Florida straw poll

After the CNN/Youtube debate, Florida held a straw poll. Hundreds of Ron Paul supporters came in on buses and the like (paid for by supporters, not by the campaign) to vote in the poll, and "dominated the crowd of 1000 or more guests" at the event.

In the video posted on here from Youtube, and the other 2 youtube videos that you can search, we see Romney supporters cheating by voting multiple times.



In another video, a woman who voiced her complaint with the Pinellas County GOP chairman and straw poll organizer Tony DiMatteo claimed that he threatened to harm her.

"Tony's exact words on the phone to me was, 'If you make a big deal out of this, you will get hurt,'" Sofie Lefebvre said in the video. "And I was shocked. At that point, I realized that there was a lot more corruption going on than we even realized before."

In the end, Romney won the straw poll with 893 votes, with Paul in second with 534. The closest third place contender was Giuliani with a paltry 39 votes, but at least his supporters only voted once!

CNN's Soledad O'Brian lying about Ron Paul

After the November 5th money bomb, in which Ron Paul raised $4.3 million in one day, members of the main stream media (MSM) were surprised and confused.

How could a candidate who had been polling so badly in their polls, and receive hardly any media attention compared to the other "top tier" candidates do so well?

Luckily, the huge donation day couldn't be ignored by the MSM. Unfortunately, the MSM still did their best at attempting to discredit the good doctor. Enjoy the video. Is it a conspiracy? Who knows? Seems that way.

Ron Paul raises over $4 Million in 24 hours!

Today Grassroots supporters of Congressman Ron Paul donated over $4 Million to his campaign, as party of a money-bomb organized from outside the campaign.

A Web site that is unaffiliated with the Presidential campaign set November 5th as the day for supporters of Paul to donate.

Trevor Lyman, the creator of the Web site that organized the donation date said that the date was chosen because it corresponded with the movie V for Vendetta, in which the people of Britain rise up against a totalitarian government.

"If you look at the pop culture feel-good message of the movie," Lyman said, "the people in the end say we are the deciders. That's the best way to describe it. And this is a country of and by the people."

Granted, the way CNN described it one would get the impression that the date was honoring a terrorist attack. But again, the main stream media doesn't seem to want Paul to win anything.

There were over 35,000 individual donations.

I personally donated $25.

Ron Paul holds rally in Columbia, South Carolina

Despite CNN.com's blog not mentioning his coming (Seriously, look at that link and tell me it isn't a conspiracy), Congressman Ron Paul met with supporters at a rally in Columbia, SC on Friday.

The rally drew upwards of at least 500 (ball parking here) dedicated supporters, some coming with home-made signs, with many other signs saying "Google Ron Paul", or "Ron Paul: Hope for America."

The diverse crowd included young and old, boring white people, zany minorities, and men and women. Take that, McCain crowd in Rock Hill a few weeks ago that was pretty much all white old people.

When Paul emerged to take the stage he was met with applause and cheering, and the chant "RON PAUL! RON PAUL! RON PAUL!"

Paul spoke about America's need to get out of Iraq, and how he's more anti-war than Hillary Clinton. He spoke of bringing troops home from Korea, Germany, and pretty much the rest of the world. He said that he would restore and protect our civil liberties, and in general he promised to follow the constitution.

When he finished speaking the audience was invited to come up and meet Ron Paul, and yours truly was the very first person to do so.

Unfortunately, I couldn't think of any clever questions to ask, as Dr. Timbs suggested, but I did say "Good golly, Congressman Paul, you're awesome, I'm totally voting for you." He said that he was glad to hear it and we posed for a picture. Needless to say, I can die happy now.

Ron Paul in South Carolina!

Republican Presidential candidate and Internet Front-Runner Congressman Ron Paul will be in South Carolina from Thursday November 1 to Saturday the third. He will be in various locations as the campaign opens new offices this week in Greenville, Columbia, and Charleston.

The schedule is as follows:

Thursday, November 1

• Greenville Campaign Office Grand Opening - 402 North Pleasantburg Drive, Greenville, SC - 4:00 PM ET
• Spartanburg GOP Meeting - County Council Chambers, County Administrative Office Building, 366 N. Church Street, Spartanburg, SC - 7:00 PM ET

Friday, November 2

• Clemson University Rally - Strom Thurmond Institute Bldg - 1:00 PM ET

• Downtown Columbia Rally - West Columbia Riverwalk Amphitheater, 121 Alexander Street, Corner of Alexander and Gervais Street - 7:00 PM ET

Saturday, November 3

• Columbia Campaign Office Grand Opening - 1911 Hampton Street, Columbia, SC - 8:30 AM ET

• Address to Student Legislators - Embassy Suites, 200 Stoneridge Drive, Columbia, SC - 10:00 AM ET
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I am planning on being at the Downtown Columbia rally at 7:00, so feel free to come.

Also, the picture is from MSNBC's coverage of the Democract Party debate on Tuesday. You might notice there are more signs there for a Ron Paul than any other Democrat candidate.

It's my birthday!

That's right, today, October 23rd, 2007, is my 20th Birthday.

These past two decades have been a blast. In a very short time, I've gone from a tense individual who was terrified of making mistakes in school and elsewhere to someone who might be just a little bit too laid back when it comes to school and work. For example, it's 4:16AM and I have a short paper due in 10 hours and here I am tapping away a useless blog post that should normally be reserved for class assignments.

To celebrate my birthday I've added a new poll, which I'm looking forward to seeing the results to. For your gifts to me, just vote in the poll and post a comment on this site. I mean, seriously, I go through a lot of effort once a week to find sources to support my loony claims. It takes minutes of effort that I could be spending on Facebook or a game.

Right then, rambling, paper, then bed.

Ron Paul wins CNBC debate

There is no link to this topic because CNBC took down their online poll after, in their view, it was flooded by organized Ron Paul supporters.
They expected one of the "top 4" candidates to win the debate, Giuliani, Romney, McCain, or Thompson. So when their poll came back showing overwhelming support for Ron Paul, they felt like it must have been rigged.

Here is an interesting video about how the poll was taken down, though I don't totally agree with everything that the narrator says. Give it a watch anyway.



Paul was treated unfairly throughout the debate.
A good example is here in the 30 second lightning round.


So here you see that all the candidates, except for Ron Paul, are allowed to speak for longer than 30 seconds (and Huckabee seemingly can talk forever), as well as get relevant questions. When it gets to Ron Paul, he gets a bullshit question, and then gets cut off at exactly 30 seconds.

Do you want those jerks at CNBC to win? How about the other Republican candidates who giggle when Paul says that we can't afford to have an empire.

Exactly. Of course you don't. So be sure to register and vote for Ron Paul!

Top 10 reasons why Ron Paul will win the Republican Nomination

This blog isn't something that I personally came up with. I found it at another blog (link in title), and that blogger found it on a forum.

However, this is in response to Dr. Timbs who said, in a comment on one of my blogs, that Ron Paul hasn't got a prayer of a chance of winning. Well, good sir, here goes the reasons why he will win!

The picture is by Nick Danczyk, posted in the Ron Paul Facebook group.

#10-“Ron Paul” is the second most searched term on Technorati, which measures blog search traffic. (38% of Americans as of 04 rely on the internet for information about politics, political issues and elections. 15% of all Americans use the internet as a primary source for political news)

#9- Ron Paul’s website attracts the most visitors out of all the Republican candidates.

#8 He has won almost every Republican debate according to the polls, and came in second for the ones he hasn’t ranked 1st in.

#7- Ron Paul is leading the Republicans on popularity on Social Networking sites and Meet up groups. With over 55,000 friends on Myspace, and over 25,000 subscribers onYoutube, Ron Paul is clearly the most popular candidate amongst internet users.

#6- He currently has more cash-on-hand than John McCain. Ron Paul has the funds to compete with the “tier 1 candidates”

#5- He has 75% Support of the Libertarian party (The third largest political party in the nation)

#4- He has a dedicated base of supporters. With a mere 25% voter turnout in the last election’s primaries, Ron Paul’s dedicated supporters can make a big difference. It’s fair to assume that 75% of Ron Paul supporters will vote in the primaries. Unlike traditional voters, Ron Paul’s supporters seem to be a bit over zealous to say the least. Libertarians also tend to have a higher voter turnout then traditional political parties, and with recent surveys showing that 75% of Libertarians support Ron Paul over their own Libertarian presidential candidate, its safe to say that Ron Paul has been heavily underestimated.

#3 -Ron Paul won an early New Hampshire straw poll put together by the Coalition for New Hampshire Taxpayers. Ron Paul placed in 1st with a remarkable 65% of the votes. Giuliani came in second with a mere 8%

#2 -He has support from the U.S. Military. Military contributions among Republican presidential candidates place Ron Paul on top at 49.5%, which is nearly as much as all the other Republicans combined.

#1- America will vote for freedom, Ron Paul.

Paul Campaign raises 1 Million dollars in 6 days!

The Ron Paul campaign held an internet fund drive to raise $500,000 in one week, to finish up the fund-raising quarter that ends September 30th.

In only a few days, that goal was reached, so the goal was raised to 1 Million, which was reached in 6 days since the original fund drive.

Now, 1 million dollars in 6 days may not sound like much. Just a week or two ago Oprah held a fund raiser for Barack Obama in which his campaigned earned 3 million dollars in just one day.
The news in this story is that the Ron Paul campaign is a genuine grass roots campaign that doesn't rely on gigantic donations from celebrities and big business. The hyper-link in 'big business' is extremely useful and I suggest you check it out.

Last quarter, the Ron Paul campaign ended up with more cash on hand than Senator John McCain. Yet McCain is considered a top-tier candidate and Paul is not?

Even more interesting, Ron Paul received more money from active - duty military than any other candidate.

The point here is that the Ron Paul campaign is doing well and deserves some more coverage than it is receiving from the main stream media.

Should Conservatives be allowed to vote?

A new study out of New York University shows that the brains of Liberals and Conservatives work differently.

The study showed that liberals are more able to adapt to a change in routine where change is needed.

Another study that came out of University of California - Berkeley 4 years earlier showed that went through 50 years of literature and documents showed that Conservatives tend to live in fear and aggression, as well as have tolerance to inequality.

Historically Conservatives have always resisted change. In recent history Conservatives have opposed ending slavery, giving black people the right to vote, giving women the right to vote, ending segregation, and just recently have wanted a constitutional ban on gay marriage.

Despite conservatives being irrational, they have always felt that their opinions should matter and have had a powerful influence on the United States, as well as around the world. Anyone over the age of 18, unless they are a convicted felon, is allowed to vote.

The new study that shows that conservatives are mentally handicapped may give reason to not allow conservatives to vote.

One has to be 18 to vote because children are unable to make reasonable decisions. Conservatives, studies prove, are also unable to make reasonable decisions. Thus, should conservatives be allowed to vote even though they can not make a reasonable decision?

Ron Paul Wins Fox News Text Vote

As of 11:21 PM, Ron Paul is winning Fox News' text-vote with 33% of the vote.

Will update as events unfold.

11:31 - Paul still in first with 33%. Alan Colmes says that the "Paulites just keep redialing and redialing."

Why is it that whenever Ron Paul does well in polls his supporters are accused of spamming or some how rigging the vote?

Paul stands out in crowd of Republicans saying more of the same

Republicans clashed with Ron Paul over the issue of Iraq in tonight's debate.

Ron Paul is the only Republican candidate for President who says that American troops should leave Iraq as soon as possible.

Paul said that U.S. military presence in Iraq antagonizing the people in the region and U.S. presence in Saudi Arabia was part of the reason for 9/11.

Paul was then asked "Are we supposed to take our orders then from Al Qaeda?"

"No!" Paul said "we take our orders from the constitution," noting that the Iraq War was illegal in both American and International Law.

Later Paul and Mike Huckabee clashed over what should be done about Iraq.

Paul said that it was the Neo Conservatives that lead the U.S. into the war. Huckabee said that "we are one nation under god" and that we should stay united.

Paul said that when elected representatives make a mistake it is the obligation of the American people to hold their elected leaders accountable and vote them out of office if they make a mistake.

Republican Debate this Wednesday

Republican Presidential hopefuls will debate in New Hampshire Wednesday, September 5th. The debate will air on Fox News.

Fred Thompson will not be attending the debate, but will instead air his first campaign ad.

The Debate will air at 9 PM Eastern on the Fox News Channel.

Winthrop Labors on Labor Day

Winthrop University in Rock Hill will be in session on Labor Day for seemingly unknown reasons.

Winthrop, the premier education facility in York County, the last county in South Carolina to recognize Martin Luther King Day despite having no room for racism, has had the policy to labor on Labor Day since the beginning of time.

The University of South Carolina, as well as local high schools, do not have classes on Labor Day.

“I’ve gotten used to it”, Dr. Laurence Timbs, Associate Professor of Mass Communication said.

Timbs, who has nothing better to do than teach at Winthrop or pet his Dog Roadie, unquestioningly see’s the policy as part of his job. When asked whether he would prefer to party all night Sunday before Monday instead of go to bed early to get up to work, he said that “At my age, you don’t want excitement.”

And while 59 year old college professors may prefer the simple life of working until the bitter end, young people like Jared Philips prefer the non stop party all night long idea.

“Going to school on Labor Day is gay”, he said. “I want to stay up late and play computer games but can’t because I have to get up early for class. What a joke. Ahhggg!”

Jared’s sentiment was shared by many of the students at Winthrop, minus perhaps the part about computer games, which can be exchanged for drinking heavily, more than likely.

Timbs, attempting to shift the reasons for why he is teaching on Labor Day away from his complacency with the policy (similar to the way the Germans looked the other way during the Holocaust) to the students.

“Maybe student activism could lead to a change in the policy,” he said.

Ron Paul places third in Texas Straw Poll

The official results are as follows:

41.1% Duncan Hunter (534 votes)
20.5% Fred Thompson (266 votes)
16.7% Ron Paul (217 votes)
6.4% Mike Huckabee (83 votes)
6% Rudy Giuliani (78 votes)
4.7% Mitt Romney (61 votes)
.46% Sam Brownback (6 votes)
.62% John McCain (8 votes)
.46% Tom Tancredo (6 votes)
2.2% Ray McKinney (28 votes)
.23% Hugh Cort (3 votes)
.77% John Cox (10 votes)


Congressman Paul has placed well in straw polls all over the nation, despite little media attention and polling at 3% in national polls.

Fred Thompson, a bit of a jerk?

I found this from another blog but felt like it might be interesting to post in my own, and to try out embedding video.

Here we see Senate candidate Fred Thompson in a debate acting a little less than polite.

Teens reformat computers to varying success

29, August 2007

Two teens in Rock Hill, South Carolina reformatted their computer's last night in what they said was a "reformat party".

The teens, Jeff Patterson, a student at Winthrop University, and Jared Phillips, a college drop out, were both having difficulty with their computers when they decided to reformat their computers together.

"Reformatting is pretty dull," Jeff said, "but we had to do it, so we figured why not go to one location and reformat together?"

Jared brought his computer to Jeff's house after Jeff got his mom's permission, popped in their windows disks, and sat back and relaxed relaxed.

Jared got off to a quick start since he has a Core Two Duo Processor, and 2 gigs of RAM, so he was able to reformat and install windows faster than Jeff.

However, he did not have his original Windows disc, so he came upon problems when his original CD Key didn't work with Jeff's XP disc from 2001.

Jeff on the other hand, with his AMD 3400+ 64bit processor and 1 gig of RAM, slowly but steadily was able to reformat and install windows with no hitches.

In the end, Jared was angry, gave up and went to bed, while Jeff enjoyed World in Conflict until the wee hours in the morning.