Gadhafi Dead! What does this mean for gas prices? Are Alternative Fuel Cars Practical? True Capitalism Does Work!

That former terrorist supporting scumbag dictator Muammar Gadhafi was killed when rebel forces seized his hometown of Sirte. What about gas prices? Will the United States, China & the rest of the world make more energy domestically? I sure hope oil can be domestically produced in the United States as well as Canada. Canada looks like it produces just under a little as much oil as Saudi Arabia. I also heard there is more natural gas in the United States of America than there is oil in Saudi Arabia. I also favor free market environmentalism to create jobs & produce domestic and renewable energy such as hydrogen fuel cells. I sure hope that dependence on petroleum is decreased in decades to come, because petroleum is a fossil fuel that is not renewable & hydrogen & electricity are promising alternative fuels that are renewable. I’ve heard some criticism about electric cars and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles but the same level of criticism would be used 110 years ago with automobiles. I respond to comments about electric cars being a joke. However, technology will evolve over the years & well should we continue dependence on petroleum or even foreign oil? 120 years ago, horse drawn vehicles were becoming less popular due to problems concerning horses pooping & going ape *&*%! When spooked. By that I mean horses could not be controlled when in fight or flight mode. Oldsmobile was four years old when they created the first mass produced automobile in history in 1901. Just seven years later in 1908, Henry Ford introduced the Ford Model T which would make automobiles more affordable & popular amongst the average lower to middle class American worker. The 1900’s decade marked a race for improving automobiles and promising their practability. I credit Oldsmobile as much as Ford for making automobiles practical. Ransom Olds, Oldsmobile’s founder was the first automaker to use assembly lines for automobile production. Henry Ford came second & was credited for making the automobile more common, affordable, and a popular alternative to horse drawn vehicles that have been used for centuries. Although automobiles have been experimented with since the late 18^th to mid-19^th centuries, it was Ransom Olds who made the automobile a market product but only as a luxury where Henry Ford made his Model T the first economy car in history. Before the 1900’s, automobiles were merely prototypes, concepts & experiments of science & technology.

                Karl Benz made the internal combustion engine practical, but Ransom Olds & Henry Ford would forever change transportation forever. The United States had the highest production of automobiles & highest ownership of automobiles. In fact, most of the world’s automobiles were owned by American & Canadian citizens in the USA & Canada in the early & mid-20^th century.

                The same stories of success happened when Milton Hershey created a formula to make milk chocolate from an expensive luxury to a good the lower class can enjoy. After numerous trials & errors, it was finally made a reality in 1900.

                Another great wonder that made these success stories a reality was there were no government grants given to make these successes reality. This proves true capitalism works & that government cannot create innovation. The rise of communism in the early to mid-20^th century begged to differ. However, capitalism works & government can only destroy jobs. Taxation is the power to destroy & low taxation, less government & more freedom have helped increase the standard of life which can only be lowered in communist countries like the former Soviet Union, which had heavy taxation, poor quality products & services produced by the government, lack of freedom, especially under the totalitarian regime of Josef Stalin.

                The United States of America went from a land of self-managing farmers in 1800 to an industrial powerhouse in 1899 with new technologies & products introduced to the market such as telephones, electricity & running water in homes, modern medicine as examples which were not available in 1800. From the late 19^th century until 1933, America was a free as it ever was with slavery being abolished; woman having the right to vote, foreign intervention being strictly limited to the Panama Canal, limited taxation, spending by congress was limited as examples. The progressive era sought to destroy the prosperity free-markets produced in the late 19^th century & early 20 century with labor laws & regulations crippling business, a nightmare which would become a reality starting in 1933 with the “New Deal” of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whom I consider one of the worst presidents in US history.

                No inventor that was known to man in the United States of America ever received any government subsidy in the 18^th to mid-20^th centuries & became successful in advancing technology while increasing the standard of life without government to play other than being a referee. I will list Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla & Karl Benz as examples of inventors who have changed the World and it’s standard of living. Karl Benz was a German citizen and invented the first petrol powered automobile.

                Karl Benz’s wife Bertha in 1888 was the first person in the world to complete an entire road trip by automobile & Horatio Nelson Jackson becoming the first person to drive across the United States from California to New York in 1903, when paved roads were non-existent except in major cities. Jackson successfully proved the automobile was not just a mere toy for the rich to drive around in the cities. There were also many privately financed roads in the 19^th century.

                Enough about cars, I’ll talk about the victory the Libyan rebels enjoy. Qaddafi was injured & bloodied moments before he was about to be sucked into the fiery depths of hell. Qaddafi was a murdering scumbag terrorist aiding prick who was officially overthrown by Libyan rebels. October 20 is likely to become a national holiday for Libya, the day the 2011 Libyan civil war ended, or at least Qaddafi’s reign of terror ended. The United States of America has had its fair share of tyrannical regimes. I reject the idea that government can always be controlled democratically & that it is absolutely unacceptable to overthrow a government that is very tyrannical. There are two types of overthrowing a government. One is a Coup, where the administrations of the government are deposed but the structure & certain laws of government remain active, such as a constitution. A Coup de at is where the entire structure of government along with its administrations are deposed. It can have some elements of both such as the overthrow of some administrators & certain laws through force. I believed that the US Constitution should be protected in all aspects including its foundations, originalist & textualist interpretations, & it’s preservation as the highest law of the land just below the laws of nature.

                Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely & those in power tend to become bullies with power. The former Soviet Union was everything the United States in our founder’s view was not. The state in the Soviet Union was considered to be god on earth, answering to nobody but themselves. The United States of America was founded on principles of popular sovereignty, individual liberty, privacy of the individual citizen, & rights of the states & the people with a federal government of limited & enumerated powers. In the Soviet Union, there was no such thing as natural & inalienable rights & states’ rights. In the Soviet Union, rights came from the benevolence of the state, including rights that are services that must be provided such as health care. If rights were to come from the state, then the state has total control over its subjects like a dictatorship, regardless of if there are democratic elections or no elections whatsoever.

                The death of Qaddafi is not the end for the Libyan rebels. Libya after Qaddafi must hold a constitutional convention and open up their history books and learn about how the Founding Fathers of America established their Constitution. The new constitution of Libya should be identical to the US Constitution in the late 19^th century. It would be a tragedy for Libya to have their new country after Qaddafi has a revolution like the violent French Revolution of 1789 & for another tyrant to rule Libya or any other country trying to overthrow their tyrannical dictators. I’m also glad that the rebels overthrew Gadhafi without US military intervention. President Barack Obama’s proposal to use military intervention in Libya was blocked by the House of Representatives, most of whom voted against Obama were Republicans. I really don’t appreciate US foreign aid to Israel. If Israel wants US help, it should join the United States as a US State & pay taxes like all the other citizens of America. The federal government’s main role is to protect against foreign enemies & protect states from invasion & domestic violence. That means national security.

NJ Governor Chris Christie’s Endorsement of Mitt Romney Should Disturb Fiscal Conservatives

Well, Chris Christie has endorsed Mitt Romney, former governor of Taxachussetts, I mean Massachusetts, which had the highest taxes of any state during Romney’s reign. Christie was elected in 2009 and defeated incumbent Democratic governor Jon Corzine on a fiscal conservative platform & seen as a fiscal hero. I guess Christie is either ignorant or actually as moderate progressive as Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney is a Rockefeller Republican in every way from being pro-abortion, anti-gun rights, pro-amnesty, fiscally irresponsible, and finally in 2006 signed socialized health care named after him. RomneyCare is a predecessor to ObamaCare only Romney Care was signed by a Republican governor at the state level & ObamaCare was signed by the incumbent Democratic president just a year and a half ago at federal level.

                Currently in the 2012 presidential race, Mitt Romney & Ron Paul are the two most major competitors and they are almost polar opposites with Romney being a big government liberal progressive & Ron Paul being a Libertarian Constitutional Conservative. If you don’t know about Christie he endorsed staunch progressive Republican Mike Castle running for US Senate in Delaware over constitutional conservative Christine O’Donnell last year. What is Christie thinking? Either he’s ignorant of the candidates he endorses or he’s not a true conservative & is a Schwarzenegger Republican. Christie should be best described as a moderate. He along with nearly all politicians in the US and the World are reluctant to abolish public education and steer it towards a free market, anarcho-capitalist status. Public schools have sucked bad & No Child Left Behind act passed in 2002, signed by George W. Bush has really been pulled by the very depths of hell. Even Satan wouldn’t accept the reckless spending in Washington DC & 14.5 trillion dollar debt!

                And do you know which so called “conservative” is a joke? Rick Santorum! Yes, rubber stamps for George Bush along with Arlen Spector. In 2004, Santorum claimed Spector was no progressive! Are you kidding me sir?! Were you saying that Pat Toomey was less fit to lead Pennsylvania in the US Senate than Bush Republican Arlen Spector? Arlen Spector & Rick Santorum were perfect stupid dick brained neoconservative progressive Bush Republicans and they were proud of it! Any true conservative would have supported Pat Toomey over Arlen Spector in 2004 & Christine O’Donnell over Mike Castle & Chris Coons in Delaware in 2010. The Barry Goldwater Republican Party has lain dead since 1989-90. Hell, George W. Bush made Bill Clinton look fiscally conservative. At least there were budget surpluses when Republicans dominated congress and Bill Clinton was president. The budget surpluses quickly turned to deficits when Bush Jr. took office in 2001. The Republican Party is close to going to Barry Goldwater days once again! Vote Ron Paul-Gary Johnson ticket 2012!

Steve Jobs Eulogy & Proof Capitalism Works with P.S. on 2012 Presidential Election

Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Inc. and computer scientist plus inventor died on Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at age 56 from pancreatic cancer. Jobs created Apple Inc. and created the Apple computer Macintosh which was introduced in the 1984 TV commercial “1984”. Today, Apple computers are like state of the art for making & editing movies. What makes Steve Jobs great is he never used politics & lobbying to help with his business.  Steve Jobs is proof as well as Ford Motor Co. that capitalism works and government grants are unnecessary. Without government grants any business that fails goes out of business. With government grants any business that fails still keeps on going because as long as the grants are still active and can always be paid with tax money, that business doesn’t have to care about the quality of their products.

                Steve Jobs is an old school entrepreneur and by old school I mean one who separates the state from business entirely. When Chrysler Corperation and General Motors received bailout packages from the federal government, Ford Motor Company refused bailout money. As a result, Chrysler Corp. was saved by Fiat, General Motors filed for bankruptcy and Ford Motor Co. was successful and the business was unaffected negatively. These are proofs that government grants only send a message that it doesn’t matter if you fail because the government can bail you out which is a form of paternalism. US President Grover Cleveland vetoed hundreds of bills passed by Congress. He championed limited government and is quoted: “I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the general government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. A prevalent tendency to disregard the limited mission of this power and duty should, I think, be steadfastly resisted, to the end that the lesson should be constantly enforced that, though the people support the government, the government should not support the people. The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow-citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.” Grover Cleveland is tied with Thomas Jefferson as the greatest presidents in American history for following the Constitution and limited government. Many politicians think on the contrary to the constitution’s original meaning today. With the recent murder of American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki by President Barack Obama’s order, the president has shown not only contempt for the US Constitution, but for criminal laws that bound ALL citizens, regardless of if they govern or not. Obama is not only a horrible president but a criminal! This murder of an American citizen is an impeachable offense and Obama’s lawyers are willing to fight to the legal death to defend Obama’s actions. The reason is al-Awlaki is a suspected terrorist. The 5^th amendment guarantees that life, liberty & property cannot be deprived without due process of law. I think this guy might be a bearded scumbag but I would have liked to see al-Awlaki arrested & tried for his actions and if convicted face capital punishment. The assassination of al-Awlaki sent a horrible message that the president can have anyone, regardless of US citizenship assassinated without due process merely because he thinks the target is a terrorist.

                BTW, Obama WILL get re-elected unless Ron Paul wins the Republican nomination for president. With Rick Perry and Mitt Romney tearing at each other over programs like social security, Ron Paul is not one to resort to mudslinging like Perry and Romney. With Rick Perry losing support because the truth is spreading throughout the campaign, Ron Paul; gains momentum and will send a message to the media that we don’t need your help! Romney is Ron Paul’s most powerful rival in the Republican nomination campaign for president in 2012. However, with Ron Paul gaining momentum and support, Romney will soon see a decline in support for his campaign while Ron Paul speeds to first place. Paul’s message of limited government, competing currencies, non-interventionism & peace, and prosperity.

               

Who Learns From History Better? The Auto Industry or the Government?

Automobile safety, fuel efficiency, style and reliability have increased since the early days of the automobile. The United States federal government went from one of limiting itself to its limited, enumerated powers delegated to it by the US Constitution in the late 18^th century to early 20^th century to a government acting with unlimited and broad powers which are mostly unconstitutional which was intensified by the American progressive movement of the early 20^th century. The automobile industry has learned from their mistakes and improving newer vehicles as to ensure that the newer vehicles don’t end up like the older lemons. Safety has been a concern since the automobile was a mere prototype invention. In fact, some of the worst vehicles in history have served as examples of what automakers should avoid when making cars. A notorious example of a dangerous car was the 1973-1980 Ford Pinto. Although the Ford Pinto was advertised as being an affordable compact car with 27mpg city/39mpg highway, what made the Pinto so unsafe was the design of its gas tank which would explode in the event of a rear-end collision where the Pinto was rear-ended. Despite Ford Motor Corporations knowledge and awareness of the dangerous gas tank design of its monstrosity and how many casualties the Pinto would create, Ford decided it would be better for people riding in the Ford Pintos to die of fire than to spend a few more dollars per vehicle it sold. This did not come without consequences for Ford Motor Company. Ford was pictured as a psychopathic company with disregard for human life and eventually recalled all Pinto models 1976 or earlier. Ford also paid for all damages people suffered from the defective and dangerous product.

                1973 saw an oil crisis where gasoline & diesel fuel had to be rationed for the first time since World War II. This was due to the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries consisting of the Arab members of OPEC, plus Egypt, Syria and Tunisia imposing an oil embargo with the United States in response to US resupplying Israel with fuel during the Yom Kippur war. Every US president since Richard Nixon argued that the US must end its dependence on foreign oil. Neither Nixon nor his successors lived up to that promise. US dependence on foreign oil is still a primary to secondary problem and a threat to our national security since 1973. 37 years have passed since this economic horror ended in March of 1974 after seven months. The 1973 oil crisis started in October of 1973. Since then, the US government has failed to eliminate dependence on foreign oil from the Middle-East and Venezuela and instead have blamed energy and auto companies solely for polluting the environment. The auto & oil companies have countless times failed to learn from their past mistakes and instead look for a way around those realities. In the 1960’s, Chevrolet released its rear-wheel drive and rear engine Corvair. The Corvair was given a bad reputation most notably by Ralph Nader in his 1965 book Unsafe at Any Speed. The Corvair was the poster car for more auto safety. Corvair riders were furious with General Motors and started suing for damages and what made the Corvair dangerous was the disastrous handling and flammable gas tank. It was easy to lose control of that car and crash. There was no mass produced car which had airbags before the mid 1970’s and side airbags weren’t manufactured until the mid 90’s. The first car to have airbags was the 1974 Oldsmobile Toronado and first with side airbags was the 1995 Volvo 850. The first car to come with seat-belts was the 1958 Saab GT 750. The Chevrolet Corvair’s rear axle suspension was crap and anyone driving/riding in this hell of a safety hazard was more vulnerable to serious injury or even death in a car crash. Its steering column could impale the driver in a head-collision. Its heating system would pump toxic fumes into its cabin and oil leaked like hell. This was before the Ford Pinto. Although the US government has regulated the automobile industry since LBJ’s Great Society in the late 1960’s and demanded better quality cars, the automobile industry in some senses have included new safety features even without the force of the government. Indeed, the recession of 1958 saw a fierce battle for the auto industry and people wanted more fuel efficient vehicles and Ford’s Edsel brand failed after three years in business (1957-1960). Fuel efficiency standards weren’t mandated by California under low emission requirements until the 1990’s.

                Ford repeated the same mistake made in the 1970’s with the Pinto model when making the Crown Victoria (1992-2011). When the Crown Vic was rear-ended in a rear-collision, it would set on fire or even explode! Some law enforcement officers driving Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptors were even killed by exploding gas tank due to high speed rear end collisions. In 2005, Ford introduced a fire suppressor option to all new Crown Victoria’s but was optional. 1973-1987 General Motors pickup trucks suffered the same problems as the Ford Pinto. GM Pickup trucks had side saddle gas tanks and were prone to truck fires. By 1992, the total cost of GM truck fire injuries were $2 Billion. Medical technology has advanced and automakers have done little to reduce these safety horrors. It’s not normal for safe cars to just set on fire after a crash! The last thing you want after a car crash is for the car to set on fire!

                Prohibition was known as the “Noble Experiment” that started in the US in 1920 and ended in 1933. Before the start of Prohibition, it was not uncommon for many states to have no drinking age at all. A school-aged child at the early turn of the 20^th century could walk into a drug store and buy narcotics that were legal over 100 years ago. Drug & alcohol abuse were not seen as much of a problem 100 years ago as inhumane child labor conditions were. Prohibition was a great fiasco that resulted in organized crime from bootlegged alcohol sales underground, wild partying & alcohol abuse, adulterated liquor that killed people who drank it(set by mad prohibitionists) and wide contempt for the law. The 18^th amendment banning alcohol was lifted in 1933 but was not completely abandoned. Most states set their drinking ages at 21, but a handful set the drinking age at 18-20, most notably in New York. In the late 1960’s and early 70’s saw the demand for a lower voting age to 18 which was achieved in 1971 and 29-35 states by 1975 have had a drinking age of either 18 or 19. Something never before in the history of this nation besides Prohibition of the 1920’s to early 30’s would be passed on Capitol Hill in Washington DC. The MLDA act of 1984 required states to adapt a drinking age of 21 or lose 10% of highway funds that were gained through taxes paid by the people of the US states. In 1987 in South Dakota v. Dole the mandate was upheld and Wyoming became the last state to raise the drinking age to 21 in 1988. By 1990 for the first time in US history, no state had a drinking age below 21 and it had to be strictly enforced. US Senator from New Hampshire Gordon Humphrey despised the legal drinking age of 21 arguing it was discriminatory and unnecessary to fight drunk driving. Instead, he argued that money should have been appropriated to fight drunk driving instead which is more effective and logical because it targets drunk drivers! Mothers Against Drunk Driving was the monster behind this new Jim Crow/Dred Scott of a law! In order to control impaired driving, you have to target the impaired drivers, not responsible social drinkers regardless of age. Canada has a drinking age of 19 (18 in Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec) and yet problems with alcohol abuse & drunk driving are minimal to non-existent compared to the United States because drunk driving is treated way more harshly than the United States. Quebec has the toughest drunk driving laws in Canada and has a drinking age of 18 and less alcohol abuse problems and alcohol abuse & drunk driving at any age are considered taboo. Although there are more drinking occasions in European cultures, there are less problems with alcohol abuse because of drinking in moderation. Perhaps the United States can learn from Canada and “wet” European countries on drunk driving & alcohol. Automakers should try to make a car that would drive itself. I predict Lexus will be the first automakers to accomplish making the first mass production driverless car. Driverless cars can solve the problem of dangerous driving and yet Ford and GM still couldn’t fix the exploding gas tank problem to as late as the late 1990’s since the 1960’s and 70’s. Both the auto industry and the government have had a fair share of repeating the same mistakes over and over again.

Arguments in Favor of Drinking Age 21 Rebutted: It helps youth make responsible decisions and Saves Lives/9/11 tribute included

Women must not depend upon the protection of

man, but must be taught to

protect herself.

- Susan B. Anthony, July 1871

“Any Society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both”- Benjamin Franklin

“Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.”-Benjamin Franklin

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences of attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.”- Thomas Jefferson

“If the people let the government decide which foods they eat and which medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.”- Thomas Jefferson

“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves”- Ronald Reagan

“What is right and what is practical are two different things”- James Buchanan

“Poverty is uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that be done to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim”- James A. Garfield

“The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the government, the government should not support the people”- Grover Cleveland

“It is just as important that business keep out of government just as government should keep out of business”- Herbert Hoover

“If you want total security, go to prison. There you are fed, clothed and given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking is freedom”- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”- John F. Kennedy

Enough with Quotes now! Let’s just start with this. I’ve read about how the legal drinking age of 21 has “saved lives” and “helped” youth make responsible decisions about alcoholic beverages which by the way are a total piece of donkey! First of all, the “help” the pro-21ers are trying to push down the throats of youth through gun toting SWAT like law enforcement officers. This sounds a lot like what an oppressive regime would do to suppress peaceful political protest that’s protected by the rights of free speech and peaceful assembly. They’ve tried to make underage drinking look like a “crime worse than theft or even manslaughter”. I know for a fact that what is supposed to be the freest country on earth does not have an underage drinking problem but an excessive alcohol use problem for all ages. I will address why this fact is being ignored and why the pro-21 cowards are scapegoating youth in another blog. Anyway, the “help” argument is protecting you for your own good. But it is rational to commit an act of initiating force against someone in order to “help” them into forced treatment when they are neither incompetent nor dangerous? I just want to quote Justice Louis Brandeis’ dissent in Olmstead v. United States in 1928:

"if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means—to declare that the government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal—would bring terrible retribution. Against that pernicious doctrine this court should resolutely set its face."

Does a civilized society legalize assault, theft, kidnapping, rape and/or murder? That’s anarchy and it’s happening in Somalia! For the people who say “The Law is the Law” maybe it’s misunderstood as believing that any law the legislator makes should be enforced no matter how unconstitutional some of the laws mean and regardless if the law or laws are an assault on our inalienable rights. Is life worth anything if we are safe & NOT free? Did our founding fathers and all who fight their own government which was back in the American Revolution the British Empire to achieve independence in order to be healthy & safe?! Did Patrick Henry say “Give me health & safety, or give me death”?! no!

P.S. My 9/11 Tribute

A decade has gone by since the twin towers collapsed at the hands of hijacked planes. This tragedy united this country like never before. The bearded scumbags who committed this horrible most gruesome crime can go to hell! What’s a bigger concern is remembering the victims and heroes who made rescue efforts on that dark day. Al-Qaeda’s motive for the crime was retaliation against the US for its actions on Muslim lands, bringing into discussion the interventionalist foreign policy. US policing the world has cost more lives and money than saved. Does any preemptive or retaliatory war really save lives? The 1970 single “War” by Edwin Starr calls out war as horrible in the form of musical lyrics. War should only be declared when a country is threatened by another country. Al-Qaeda doesn’t have an industrial complex and proper characteristics to be a state. Letters of marques should be issued so as to capture and bring to justice those who have harmed others like going on a mission to hunt down 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden who was taken care of for good on May 1-2, 2011 in Pakistan. War is an enemy to all man kind and takes lives which is why war should be strictly limited to defending the country against true threats from other nations and the last time in American history that US military involvement in terms of sending troops was during World War II in order to defeat Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan who strived to conquer the world. No other nation on Earth since 1945 has ever strived to use military force to conquer the United States or the world for that matter.

Arguments in Favor of Drinking Age 21 Rebutted Series: Introduction

Hello everyone. I have decided to make my case against the unified drinking age of 21 in what is supposed to be the freest country in the world. I am about to work on a project in my video class and the theme is In My Opinion. I also have to have sponsors. I can name the following contenders for sponsors: Choose Responsibility, National Youth Rights Association, Coors Beer, Libertarian Party, International Police Chiefs Association, a few very very famous and beloved celebrities and public figures. I will rebut and debunk the horrible, disgraceful, false and embarrassing law that extorts states into enacting a legal drinking age of 21 with strict authoritarian enforcement under threat of losing 10% of transportation funds that the states themselves paid through taxes. I will argue against the highway funds “incentive” in one of my blogs in this series later on. I will also make non-rebuttal arguments and common-sense and well thought out alternatives and solution that does not infringe on popular sovereignty and people young and old’s ability to become more responsible. MADD which is abbreviation of Mothers Against Drunk Driving is the primary tyrannical, powerful and self-centered lobbying group with six-figure paid lobbyists. I will use my sponsors and friends to put twice to thrice more pressure than MADD on public officials and the courts to repeal and strike down the legal drinking age and hand the issue over to the parents! With Congress, I will intensly lobby Congress with the brave help of concerned citizens and allies to pass a law prohibiting conditional funding when it requires restricting individual behavior. Hopefully, bribing the states and people with their own money will be repealed entirely. History speaks for itself that prohibition did not work and the lessons of prohibition are not yet learned today.

Ron Paul Gains Momentum, Pawlenty leaves race and Rick Perry Throws Hat Into the Ring in 2012 Presidential Race

Ron Paul placed 2^nd in Iowa straw poll just less than 1%(<200) of votes behind Michele Bachmann with Tim Pawlenty placing in third. Rick Santorum and Herman Cain placed in 4^th & 5^th. Pawlenty left the race last week and Rick Perry entered just hours before Pawlenty’s withdraw from the presidential race. I say good riddance to Tim Pawlenty. I hope the same goes for all others. Texans actually prefer Ron Paul over Gov. Perry and despite media neglect, Ron Paul is gaining momentum and if this keeps up, Paul will eventually win the Republican nomination for presidency. The three major candidates as I see it now are Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann, and Rick Perry. Ron Paul actually did better this year than Mitt Romney did in 2007. Mitt Romney is starting to become a lost cause in the race and is being ignored more and more by the media and public every day. It’s likely that if Romney keeps being ignored like a lost cause, then Romney will drop out of the race like Tim Pawlenty, which would be awesome considering the fact that the last thing we need is a pretender like all of the major candidates in the race except for Ron Paul. There are other neglected candidates like former Gov. of New Mexico Gary Johnson. But I’d like to expose the “anti-establishment” candidate Michele Bachmann. Bachmann in the past has supported bailouts and reckless spending and neoconservative causes like Bush-Era foreign policy. Bachmann has improved since the Tea Party movement started and even wrote a bill to repeal Obamacare the same month after it was signed into law. The only candidate I can trust is Ron Paul because he has ALWAYS truly kept his word and is the most honest well known politician I have ever known. Smooth talking pretender politicians are the last thing we need. Debt is $14.5 trillion, the debt ceiling was raised and America’s credit rating was crapped down, despite what Obama claimed would happen should default happen. Printing of money devalued the dollar to the point of raising prices 22.5 times in the past century. TSA engages in molestation and degrading searches at airports which were unjustly upheld by the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. circuit. WTF! Troops are being sent to fight in undeclared and unjust wars which are unconstitutional. About one third of the US military are 18-20 year olds who are treated like children but punished like adults in terms of alcohol and firearms other than rifles and shotguns. The US military’s favorite presidential candidate is Ron Paul due to the fact that Paul’s views on non-interventionalist foreign policy is very popular with the military of the US. Most US military personel are 2^nd amendment supporters and crusaders of the US constitution. The 2^nd amendment protects the individual right to keep and bear arms. Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann fully support the 2^nd amendment but Ron Paul also supports the ninth and tenth amendments which limits the federal government to enumerated powers. Bottom line is Ron Paul is the only trusted candidate who can do the job right. For a running mate, I believe Gary Johnson is the best running mate Ron Paul can have. I hope to see the Ron Paul-Gary Johnson ticket win Republican nomination and defeat the Barack Obama-Joe Biden regime ticket next year so that America and the World will not have to end after 2012. This is the last chance for voting to actually work. I hope to see the other candidates drop out of the race and support Ron Paul, the strongest candidate against Obama!