Now the Pie has been Shot out of the Sky, GET ACTIVE.

Edwards dropping out of the 08 presidential race should be a clear message to anyone who cares, that THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WILL NOT SOLVE MOST OF OUR PROBLEMS. Any real, meaningful change in our country will require ORGANIZED work from all citizens, and not just rooting for whichever race-horse appears to have a chance of winning a particular election.

Don't use this disappointment as an excuse to play victim and "quit". Join us as a truly concerned citizen and help us make our world better, one step at a time. Here are some of my own ideas on areas to focus on:

http://www.americanwisdom.org/solutions.htm

I will certainly vote. I will not throw my vote away on a spoiler candidate.

(now.. where should I put these "Edwards" stickers?)

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A Flaw in Libertarian Thought

Here's a quote I found recently:

"the state acts like a band of thieves and killers... The private sector doesn't do that" --Lew Rockwell

What?

Okay, let's go back to Galt's Gulch, the fantasy Ayn Rand paradise described in "Atlas Shrugged". In Galt's Gulch, there's no government, and everything's peaceful because the people there honor their agreements with each other and are thus able to have functional commerce. Everybody honors their agreements and pays what they said they would for what they got. Nobody falls on hard times and has trouble meeting their obligations. There are no freeloaders bringing hard times upon themselves.

Galt's gulch is fantasy.

The "Private Sector" thrives on thieving and killing. Look at General Electric, Halliburton, Blackwater, Coca Cola.. the list goes on and on. If they're not defrauding you and me out of billions of our own tax dollars, they're murdering union activists who want nothing more than the ability to provide a marginally decent life for their families.

Men are not all angels. This is why we need government. Government by us, to protect good people from lying, cheating thieves.

"the state acts like a band of thieves and killers... The private sector doesn't do that" --Lew Rockwell

Gimme a break. You Ron Paul Lemmings should take notice of this.

NBC is not a human being.

If NBC were a human being, I would tell it, "who gave YOU the right to decide who can or can't run for president"? That NBC claims First Amendment protection in deciding to dis invite Dennis Kucinich from the debates on Tuesday 15Jan08 should serve as ample proof that the idea of "corporate personhood" is bullshit and must cease. It's destroying our republic. The FCC is supposed to ensure that broadcasters serve the community in exchange for the privilege of using our public airwaves. Instead here we see them actively INTERFERING with our democratic process.

Amy Goodman with DemocacyNow interviewed Dennis Kucinich and gave him the opportunity to respond to the questions in the debate here:
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/16/breaking_the_sound_barrier_democracy_now

Corporations are not persons, and they SURE AS HELL AREN'T CITIZENS. Since they are collective efforts of groups of people to support themselves, they are a form of virtual municipality. On closer examination, these virtual municipalities are governed as dictatorial gangs, and they more often than not hurt the REAL municipalities they operate in. Isn't America supposed to be different from that? Own stock in one of these organizations? Try attending one of their board-meetings to influence their decisions. They'll laugh you out of there. If the nation is an organism, then the corporation in its current form is a cancer.

The fourteenth amendment should be amended to say "natural persons", not just "persons".

Don't let these Criminals sell you on attacking Iran

Question Motives. The only winners in an illegal U.S. invasion of Iran (and they would only be short-term winners) would be the war-profiteers.. those parasites who thrive because of death, destruction and misery, and contribute to the furtherance of policies that will continue it.

Question Allegiances. Who is honoring their oath of office to support the United States Constitution? Who is not? Who has attacked other countries without justification or the support of the rest of the world? Who has not?

If the crooks in power today get us into a war with Iran, it will be the large-scale equivalent of burglars setting fire to your house after they have robbed it.

More on how cynical, criminal and just plain STUPID invading Iran would be:

http://www.freespeech.org/videodb/index.php?action=detail&video_id=10984&browse=0
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Keynote: Chris Hedges- What Will Happen if the U.S. invades Iran
Chris Hedges, former NY Times reporter, talks about the implications of a U.S. invasion of Iran.
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http://www.freespeech.org/videodb/index.php?action=detail&video_id=10984&browse=0

Edwards, but don't just focus on the Election

Out of all the clowns the system is offering up as candidates, EDWARDS is the least bad. I'd like to see him nominated as the Democratic candidate. I think he would be supported by the "Nascar Dad" former "Republicans" in large part too.

I like Dennis Kucinich and I voted for him on my absentee ballot here in the Florida Non binding primary. I'd like to see him on the ticket with Edwards.

Certainly, VOTE. But the election will not solve a lot of the problems we face. For ideas about the bigger picture, look at our main site: http://www.AmericanWisdom.org