Interesting e-mail From Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty

[flacaltenn]

Originally Posted by finnbow

He just seems like a crazy uncle character, kinda like Arte Johnson or Henry Gibson. For most people, he's hard to take seriously.

Yeah -- ob/gyn docs have no communication skills with the public. I'm sure his 20 year practice counseling and caring for pregnant women honed his "crazy uncle" personna..

What you consider indications of underlying instability are the things I PROBABLY consider most endearing. Like raising the bar for getting us entangled in foreign conflicts. Or seriously slashing corporate/govt collusions to PRESERVE the free market.

My guess is that you prefer candidates that Talk a good game -- like promising to lower the oceans -- but really wink and show you that's it mostly theatre..

[flacaltenn]

Originally Posted by Boreas

All you've done here is reveal your ignorance of California and its geology. There are active faults and fault systems all over the western third of the state. They underlie the cities of Los Angeles, San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, Santa Rosa and quite a few others. California has a population of over 35 million. Probably 20 million people live in the earthquake prone part of the state so what you have is a fait accompli. Should all those people be required to shift for themselves when the next quake hits? Should the area be forcibly abandoned?

John

No.. Not FORCIBLY abandoned.. It should be VOLUNTARILY abandoned like ole flaCALtenn did in 2005.. I fled the state even tho I was perfectly cloned to Silicon Valley because I was sitting on (what Californians considered) a $Mill property just a 1/2 mile from the San Andreas without earthquake insurance. (Because the state screwed that up royally and made it impossible to justify)
(Trust me --- the $Mill home was nothing to brag about)

AND my daughter was entering high schools that were dominated by gang bangers and functionally illiterate air heads. (those are the BRIGHT scholars)

So the move to Tenn made me feel like a bank robber and I fully expected to be apprehended at Bakersfield with the loot I carried out of the state to buy my palatial Tenn pastural bliss.

California is a failed experiment in direct democracy. The residents have no one to blame except themselves since they voted for every RAIL bond, every SCHOOL bond, every politically motivated Stem Cell Research boondongle. I got tired of authoring all those futile Libertarian objections to these ballot measures that continued to pass. (You Cali folks have read my work in those 100 pages "Voters Handbooks" that come out each election!!)

No way they will pass off that burden on me now...

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by flacaltenn

(You Cali folks have read my work in those 100 pages "Voters Handbooks" that come out each election!!)

I knew I'd seen that shrillness-bordering-on-hysteria-with-lots-of-caps style before! Glad to finally meet ya!

John

[flacaltenn]

Originally Posted by Boreas

I knew I'd seen that shrillness-bordering-on-hysteria-with-lots-of-caps style before! Glad to finally meet ya!

John

Naww.. the election board edited out all the shrill caps and MOST of the bolding ....

[piece-itpete]

Originally Posted by finnbow

And what about the 10 million folks in metro NYC? I suppose those pesky Dutch should have had flood plain maps and hurricane forecasts for the following three centuries before settling in New Amsterdam. And those folks in Tornado Alley? Or on the Gulf Coast and the coastal Carolinas? Or near the New Madrid fault or along the upper Mississippi? Maybe everybody should move to North Dakota.

Here's the heart of the matter - shorelines will change (with or without humans btw).

So it's a problem to be dealt with.

Pete

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Here's the heart of the matter - shorelines will change (with or without humans btw).

So it's a problem to be dealt with.

Pete

Turn off the Discovery Channel, Pete.