It’s a small world after all
Posted on May 12th, 2008 at 3:27 pm by Contributor ArchiveSeveral years ago, I read a book about the ‘evils’ of the Walt Disney Company. I don’t necessarily remember the basic tenets of the book, but it ranged from such claims as the benign (the Disney company doesn’t treat its employees very well) to the absurd (the Disney company is actually a cult). How preposterous! How ridiculous! The Disney Company isn’t evil! It’s not as if, sometime in the 90’s, the Disney Company actually went and built a town in Florida, complete with its own zip code!
Big deal. So a few people are such fanatics of All Things Disney that they actually move to a town designed by the Disney Company. Good riddance, I say. As far as I’m concerned, people who are such fanatics of any one idea or company or person should have every right to move to a town of like-minded people. Besides, it’s not as if any of the current presidential candidates’ supporters are such fanatics that they’re actually designing in town in Texas that was inspired by their candidate!
The world just recently learned about Paulville, Texas – a town being designed and built by Ron Paul supporters (I should probably stop referring to them as Ron Paul “fanatics,” as I’m too young to die). The town will consist of 500 acres of “freedom and liberty lovers” and will give citizens “the right to wield semi-automatic weapons and the abolition of income tax.” All one needs to in order to become a citizen of Paulville, aside from being crazier than a box of crazy people, is to be a huge huge huge supporter of Ron Paul and really really really love freedom and liberty.
That’s what’s great about the United States – we have the freedom to choose where to live:
If you’re crazy about Disney, you can live in Celebration, Florida.
If you’re crazy about Ron Paul, you can live in Paulville, Texas.
If you’re just plain crazy, you can live in a mental institution. Or in Celebration or in Paulville.
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When it comes to currency, are they using paper money, or just handing out gold & silver nuggets?
Gold and silver nuggets only, we wipe our collective @sses with paper money.
You should see our vending machines, they operate off of scales that weigh the nuggets instead of taking coins…but don’t try to fool the scales with rocks because the vending machines have semi-automatic weapons mounted inside them.
Slow news day huh?
May I suggest a thread about Bob Barr. Fox saw fit to put a video of him on the front page of their politics section. He’s not a Rep or Dem but he does have the potential to be a spoiler in the race (Nader only received 2.7 percent in 2000 and now lots of Dems hate him for it).
oops, didn’t mean to post that as a reply to Shawn. Must be all the pot us Ron Paul supporters smoke
Maybe they’ll use his new book as their Bible….
Great…Paulville.
An entire town where everyone sleeps until noon.
Somehow I cant imagine Paulville being anything like Galt’s Gulch. Galt’s Gulch was a community of great minds who created a paradise to escape dictatorial government persecution. Paulville will be made up of jobless tattooed college kids escaping Dad’s demand to cut the lawn and get a job.
As I have said numerous times….KOOKS
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Brian wrote: “Galt’s Gulch was a community of great minds who created a paradise to escape dictatorial government persecution.”
Umm, you are aware that by your definition, all the poeple living in Gault’s Gulch would be labled KOOKs? I mean, they only used gold for a currency, they secluded themselves in a secret paradise, created secret weapons to keep out intruders and aid them in their practice of extream isolationism. Why Brian, they sound like Ron Paul on steroids. Which is it were they “great minds” or KOOKs? You can’t have it both ways.
Many conservatives hold up Atlas Shrugged as a great novel trying to sound like educated conservatives, up on their required reading, but then turn and run screaming from anyone who sounds remotely like John Gualt. Why is it that certain conservatives will agree with certain principals as long as they are only expressed in fiction? The same is true for the Constitution, it sounds great on paper, but don’t mention it during a political campaign. As soon as Constitutional principals are presented in real life the presenter is labeled as a KOOK by people like you. I’m not saying Ron Paul is a John Gault. Gault’s a fictional character. But if you want to disagree with Paul do it with substance, not name calling. Express yourself in terms of ideas not ad hominem attacks. You sound like a Moveon.org ad.
Are there really no adult Libertarians who are embarrassed by this guy and his cultish clan?
Brian, I hope you realize how insane you, yourself, are starting to look. All the SCREAMING and loon and kook talk has branded you as unreasonable. I get what you’re trying to do, but now most of us (even fellow conservatives) are laughing at you. Disagreeing is one thing, but you’re acting silly and childish. And as for the facts, you can’t possibly think that EVERY SINGLE person who’s voted for Paul is a KOOK and LOON. As I’ve said before, I wouldn’t vote for Paul, but I know a lot of Paul supporters that are good, honest, normal people that think the GOP has gone wayward. And Paul has received their support in HUGE numbers.
So all your ranting on this site has really only done one thing, made us all think YOU’RE the KOOK and LOON.
I could say the say the same thing about members of Liberty Church. They too are mostly made up of “supporters that are good, honest, normal people”.
I am sure you will not hold ANY of the members of Liberty Church, including Obama, to the same standard of no-guilt by association.
All I know is that I’ll vote for Bob Barr as a protest to the GOP to get off its collective butt and get back to the principles of Goldwater and Reagan.
I respect Barr, as I do Libertarians. As I have said before, I share many of their concerns. What I dont respect are Anti-War, Anti-Jew, Anti-American ignorant high school and college kids who give the Libertarian brand a bad name by supporting Paul, a man in which they have NO understanding of regarding his political ideologies. Libertarians should be more outraged than I am that their brand has been hijacked by these….yes….LOONS, these 9/11 “Truthers”. Is that what honest Libertarian thinkers want to be associated with?
I also understand the desire to send protest votes in an effort to send a message to your party, but elections DO have consequences. Losing a war, liberal judges, high taxes, big govt. social programs, partial birth abortions, etc. etc will be determined by the next election. Call me a “KOOK” but these things matter to me. I dont have the stomach to allow this to happen so I can get the Republican Party to “get off its collective butt”. It never works out like that in the end. When parties lose elections they move further away from their core beliefs because they try to moderate their positions in order to regain power. My goal, like many Libertarians, is for smaller smarter govt., individual liberties, and sane economic policies. None of which will come from a President Obama. Either Obama or McCain will be the next President. Pick Your Poison…I have picked mine already.
In 1976 Republicans had Ford and lost to Carter. In 1980 they elected Reagan. I’m not saying a similar thing will happen for sure in 012 if the GOP loses in 08, but political loses do not always move the a party to the center, sometimes it jolts them to the right (or I guess if your the Democrats to the left. We can both agree on our dislike of Bill Clinton, but he’s a moderate compared to Obama).
I understand you argument for McCain. Sticking with the poison analogy, I can see how McCain can be viewed as a trip to the emergency room, as opposed to the morgue. But I can’t in good conscious vote for someone who doesn’t share my core political philosophy. He might be closer than Obama, but I don’t want either to represent me. If I vote for someone who I don’t want representing me, then what is the point of voting at all?
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” And maybe even Republicans.
Unfortunately that blood will also consist of aborted children, as Obama will most assuredly repeal the ban on Partial-Birth-Homicides and appoint Liberal judges that will swing the court in their favor. My principals and desire to “refresh liberty” ends with the murder of children….
You have a strong argument, but Obama can’t repeal the ban on partial birth abortions without the Senate’s approval… you can’t blame Bob Barr for getting liberal Senators elected because he’s not running for Senate. If the democrats have a super-majority in the Senate it is because McCain failed to unite Republicans and bring out the vote- if he could do that than Barr potentially taking away votes from McCain wouldn’t be an issue.
As for the judges, I doubt McCain, of McCain-Feingold and McCain-Lieberman, would nominated conservatives despite his claim. Look at the justices the first President Bush, another “moderate Republican” nominated. Heck, even Reagan nominated two justices that turned out to be liberal leaning.
McCain would not be “as bad” but he would still be bad. I repeat, why bother to vote at all if you can’t vote for someone you actually want to represent you?
The Power Rankings are said to come out on May 7. What happened? Where are they?
Blame me Dan, I’ve been a little busy with the real job to get them done. I’ll have something out soon, I promise.
Break out the Cat of Nine Tails and give David a good flogging! How dare he let something so unimportant as a real job get in the way of Power Rankings!