I have no idea from which page I am bumping this thread, but I'll venture it's buried pretty deep. This "cross-tabbed" window has been open for several days.
THIS, both this request and its unceremonious burial speak to PROBLEMS WITH THE RON PAUL FORUMS COMPONENT OF THE RON PAUL 2012 CAMPAIGN FOR THE PRESIDENCY.
[ASIDE TO AUDIENCE: Does anyone else's hands shake when they KNOW they are onto something, and cannot type fast enough to articulate dots as they connect? Kinda like someone's eyes widening and them sputtering 'Oh-oh-oh, AND...']
RAPID DISAPPEARANCE FROM VIEW of fresh ideas &/or pointed criticism, I have already mentioned several times and so have other PEOPLE OF AGE, so I defer to whatever Force causes that to happen. Uncle. I am SO done repeating myself to 20-Somethings who either
A.) Don't listen to a fucking word anyone outside their INEXPERIENCED choir says OR
B.) Mumble something on the order of 'YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, GOTCHA' and proceed as tho you hadn't bothered to compose paragraphs
b.) (Dissidents of Age are NOT the parental White Noise you have grown accustomed to blocking out, like elevator muzac with EARBUDS. Time is Money, as the many LIBERTINES skulking among LIBERTARIANS well know.)
C.) Spit something on the order of 'FUCK YOU' from their lofty position of NOT having yet trudged their way through commie-socialist-propaganda-claptrap of Higher Degrees, NOT having been entirely OUT THERE ON THEIR OWN Independent, NOT having yet assumed and dispatched the responsibilities of Parenthood nor the added-kicker complexities & challenges of Womanhood or Minority-ship, and NOT having yet sustained a knock-out punch. Mike Tyson: "Everyone has a plan, 'til they get hit in the face."
Instead, in the spirit of continuing to run the gauntlet for Principles & Causes bigger than any of our puny selves, I bump the thread because it speaks to the RECYCLING someone-I-don't-recall-who-sorry lately mentioned.
RECYCLING is all the rage on the Left, as you know.
RECYCLING segues (inexplicably pronounced SEGWAY, the founder of which ironically died in a Segway accident. THAT is irony, but I digress) to a couple of other points that I believe are important but, y'know what? Many, many, many are the times I spent so much TIME=MONEY composing unwelcome paragraphs that, when I press (why do we say HIT, I wonder) the Submit key, the post disappears and a YOU ARE NOT LOGGED IN screen appears. Hitting the BACK key restores the page, not the composition. This is not INSULTING, but GALLING...rather, insulting to ME. "Many, many, many times" speaks to my not LEARNING LESSONS...fer instance, COMMAND COPY when no one knows better than ME that long I'VE been "inactively" typing long enough to have logged out by default.
Spontaneous disappearance of composed thought, POOF, like THAT, pisses me off enough when the culprit is agenda-based Censorship that could not POSSIBLY be perpetrated but for idiosyncratic power-based advantages. I don't know that it pisses me off MORE when it's my fault, but it ADDS to my Righteous Anger...I quote, "the dubious luxury of normal men, but for alcoholics these things are poison."
I am a WEALTH of hard-earned KNOWLEDGE about Alcoholics 'n Addicts. Ask around the Recovery Circuit, they'll tell you:
"...But the ex-problem drinker who has found this solution, who is properly armed with facts about himself, who is properly armed with facts about himself, can generally win the entire confidence of another alcoholic in a few hours. Until such an understanding is reached, little or nothing can be accomplished."*
Anyone who sez NATION OF ADDICTS does not apply to America is Uninformed, or in Denial, or INVESTED.
Big tent, small tent...hmmm, lemme think. SMALL. if it's a Sanctuary. HUGE, if it's a presidential election campaign. As I see it, something on the order of a POPULAR LANDSLIDE is required to beat the rigged odds. I should think no one knows better than Ron Paul Supporters, how wildly numbers can fluctuate without the Public batting an eye.
In seeking to connect with A MAN WHO MAKES THINGS HAPPEN, I do not require that HE does not drink. Some "Recovering Alcoholics" CANNOT hang with someone who drinks. That's not my story. But the Good Guy Bad Ass I seek would SELDOM drink, more than a meal-accompanying beer or two-not-to-say-six because ALCOHOL DULLS ALL SENSES EXCEPT EMOTIONALITY, IT SLOWS THE REFLEXES, AND IT IMPAIRS MOTOR SKILLS.
The day my or anyone else's immediate physical survival depends on MY reflexes and motor skills, I figger the game's over...therefore it's fine and dandy for me to smoke pot whenever I please and circumstances permit. Makes a certain self-interested sense, yes?