alt.education

On Mar 3, 9:54=A0pm, PseuDoeCyAnts wrote:
> on Sun 02 Mar 2008 10:23:25a
> =A0ady...@panix.com (Al Dykes) posted
> =A0innews:fqerat$8j5$1@panix3.panix.com:
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> > Pisano =A0 wrote:
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> >> =A0 =A0 Refer to the subjects of my posts.
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> >> =A0 =A0 We must NOT lose hope for Dr. Paul!
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> > Most Paul supporters only know of and support him for just one
> > of his policies, maybe anti-war (good, IMO) or gold-based
> > currency (bad, in the eyes of the vast majority of economists.)
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> > Here's a summary of all the legislation that Paul has not just
> > voted for but sponsered. The anti-war folks that back him just
> > for troop withdrawal should be in for a suprise.
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> >http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2007/11/ron-pauls-record-in-
> > congress.html
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> > he's been a busy little legislator.
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> > Anyone that shills for Paul should know what he's shilling for.
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> Fortunately "busy" is not synonymous with "effective".
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> =A0 =A0| Ronald Paul has sponsored 352 bills since Jan 7, 1997,
> =A0 =A0| =A0of which 347 haven't made it out of committee,
> =A0 =A0| =A0 and 0 were successfully enacted.
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> =A0 =A0| GovTrack.us, March 3, 2008
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> Although Ron Paul seems to think
> that "ineffectual" is synonymous with "substantive":
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> =A0 =A0| Congressman Paul introduces numerous pieces of substantive =A0
> =A0 =A0| legislation each year, probably more than any single member
> =A0 =A0| of Congress.
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> Also, the list missed a real piece of lunacy:
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> =A0 =A0| H. R. 3216: =A0To authorize the President to issue
> =A0 =A0| letters of marque and reprisal with respect
> =A0 =A0| to certain acts of air piracy upon the United States
> =A0 =A0| on September 11, 2001, and other similar acts of war
> =A0 =A0| planned for the future.
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> Somehow Paul believes that Letters of Marque, which were
> originally based upon a dubious interpretation of the law of the
> sea, and directly targeted ships flagged by an enemy nation, can
> somehow be extended presently to cover a private entitity's acts
> of violence on an airline corporation's property, and violent
> incursions into the sovereign territory of a foreign nation, which
> the US Government has not issued a formal declaration of war
> against. =A0I have a hard time squaring this position with The
> Constitution's expressed authorization of legislative powers, and
> Original Constitutional Intent. Then there is the other insanity
> of giving an American Governmental imprimatur to the Blackwaters
> of the world, so they can, on their own initiative, engage in acts
> of war on the Nation's behalf. =A0- Hide quoted text -
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Ron Paul is the best Republitard candidate, simply because he is anti-
war. But Paul has no chance of winning eh.