Posted on 09/27/2007 11:13:55 AM PDT by jmeagan
CHICAGO - Late on a balmy Friday night in Wicker Park, a gentrifying neighborhood just northwest of the Loop, a small tribe of 20-somethings gathers outside a corner bar. Their leader, a petite, energetic 25-year-old named Meghann Walker, hands out leaflets to people heading inside.
"Do you guys know Ron Paul is going to be in town tomorrow?" Walker asks a short-haired young woman in jeans and flip-flops. "There'll be a lot of good people there, that's for sure."
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You forgot the second half of that provision:
by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries
Ack! You can’t truncate sentences in the Constitution and retain their meaning. Full sentence:
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
This is an outside shot at best.Just look at the reactions of some people on this forum,whom you'd think would support a candidate who wants a return to constitutional government."He can't win" is the reason most think he can't win,"so I won't vote for him",and,"He won't be able to implement those policies",so I won't vote for him.
And if he should win the nomination,believe me,they won't be squealing,they'll all have "been with him from the git-go".
..and how pray tell do you ‘promote’ (or also written in subsection 8, ‘secure’) Where in the Constitution is it declared that promotion or securing of an authorized item does not mean the representatives of the people (Congress) can fund such item they are authorized to promote?
P.S.: Were it in my power, I would hand you your goofy tricorner hat, kick you in the ass and send you on your way. But I am but a guest here, so parody and satire and ridicule of your aforementioned beliefs are the only tools I have.
NEVER MAKE LIGHT OF THE PAULINAT....
Ah, screw it, bunch of arrogant nut jobs, the whole lot of them
.. and the funding bill for NASA comes up each budgetary cycle. I would call that ‘limited time’. I would also say that NASA is quite involved with invention.
Heh, we posted the same thing basically at the same time.
One of the most dangerous things you can do to a Paulbearer is read them the actual contents of the Constitution. They become livid and unpredictable.
Keep it up and we might need to bump the Paulbearer Moonbattery Factor of this thread from Grape to Watermelon!
Not for long, we’ll be crying for the dead within a few weeks...
However, since that will in no way happen, the future dead have gained some time.
And just how was Congress supposed to promote the progress of science? Oh yes....
>by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries
Doesn't say a thing about funding a government program whose sole mission the last 20 years has been to send an outdated bus of space junk up over and over again. Nor does it say anything about funding missions to the moon or Mars (which could be done more efficiently and effectively by private industry if allowed to).
And as there is an upside for those that advocate big government under the Republican party for their sacred cows, there are those of the Democrats that could use the same argument to claim promoting the 'useful arts'.
Hot diggity, crosses in jars of urine and paid for by your tax dollars. I'm sure there's some fool that thinks that would be art
Actually, Ron Paul is probably the only candidate that could turn a solid red state blue. And a blue state even more blue.
Is that the lie you tell to get people to support Paul? I hope it hasn’t worked, only a fool would believe it.
Paul’s whacked out views on the war basically justifies democrats in opposing the war and their weak-at-the-knees policies on terrorism would automatically be a dead-issue, and his “get rid of everything that the founders didn’t mention in the constitution” views on pretty much everything isn’t supported by, well, anyone except his libertarian posse and the conspiracy kooks who are afraid the NWO will invade their trailers.
Having 2 bush-bashers, 1 a democrat and 1 a libertarian, in 2008 does NOTHING BUT HARM for the GOP or conservatives. Stop trying to sabotage Republicans with that nonsense.
Spew bile...
Well, close, go up about a foot...
That provision gives Congress a power to create patent and copyright law...that’s all
I don’t have any doubt that, if the federal government still adhered to the Constitution...if the American people still demanded a Constitutionally-compliant federal government...they could easily pass an amendment giving Congress the power to create NASA...and the power to create an Air Force (obviously, these are the types of things that could not have written into a Constitution in 1787)...but why go through a formal amendment process when its easier to just ignore the Constitution as they’ve been doing the 1930’s?
People on FR have just come to realize that a person who’s support base doesn’t believe that arab terrorists attacked the twin towers and the pentagon, and who doesn’t believe in the war on terror, and who believes in getting rid of NASA because it’s ‘not in the constitution,’ isn’t a good choice for president AT ALL.******
Well, libertarians and republicans have a lot in common. Some people complain about the libertarians party in the same way as demos complain about Nadar running on the Green Party.
I don’t doubt that some of his support comes from far out groups, but that is true for any candidate.
Ron Paul doesn’t disagree with a WOT, just with the way it is being handled.
As for NASA, I can remember when Newt and his bunch of back benchers were advocating turning the space program over to private enterprises. We are starting to see a bit of that today. Some company or group just won a prize for getting vehicle into space, back down and up again in less than 30 days, or something like that.
But we all know that the article you cite is for the making of laws pertaining to patents and copyrights.Nice try,though!
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