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Paul's their all
The Boston Globe ^ | September 27, 2007 | By Lisa Wangsness, Globe Staff

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


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To: hubbubhubbub

Whatever, troll.


121 posted on 09/27/2007 12:56:13 PM PDT by GOP_Raider ("I guess I like to do things that bother people." -Urban Meyer)
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To: Petronski
You are the one who is having problems reading the entire sentence regarding HOW congess could promote science.
122 posted on 09/27/2007 12:57:10 PM PDT by Abcdefg
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To: Petronski; Greg F; uxbridge; mnehrling
The Constitution does indeed say that that Congress has authority to promote science by patent.

The Constitution also says that Congress is empowered to make laws necessary and proper for carrying such powers out.

Moreover Congress is authorized to defend the nation and enact all laws necessary and proper to that end as well.

One Constitutional question might be: what if a patent conflicts with national security?

Another might be: what if patents are not promoting science and useful arts, but impeding them?

Is the end that Congress is authorized to attain - "the promotion of the progress of the sciences and useful arts" trumped by the means, namely copyrights and patents?

123 posted on 09/27/2007 12:57:26 PM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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To: John D

Well there is the third of the post from Paul supporters.


124 posted on 09/27/2007 12:57:38 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (I don't use a sarcasm tag, it kills the effect...)
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To: Greg F; mnehrling; wideawake
It's all there in "Ron Paul Headlines in American History" - third front-page.

prior post 41

Thank God Americans of yesterday did not tolerate these nut-job ideas!

125 posted on 09/27/2007 12:57:59 PM PDT by drpix
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To: billbears

Nice to be on the same side of this issue with you. How about Americans amend the Constitution to allow the things we want the government to do, that are not currently provided for with a reasonable reading of the Constituion, and with a serious debate on principles and pragmatic considerations, all nice and neat and legal and respectful of the Constitution, and respectful of our brief flirtation in this country with limited government before we just chucked principle and the Constitution in the dust bin for the sake of expediency!


126 posted on 09/27/2007 12:59:29 PM PDT by Greg F (Duncan Hunter is a good man.)
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To: Petronski
...embrace the deflationary and irrational gold standard

You'd rather the public treasury be the private playground of the private Federal Reserve Bank?

...abandon Israel...

This is ludicrous.We've been holding the Israelis back.If we were to pull out of the middle east and let the world know that it must straighten out it's own problems,the attacks in Israel would stop forthwith.Those Arabs would know that they are now dealing with the Israelis without the US to interfere.

127 posted on 09/27/2007 12:59:49 PM PDT by hschliemann
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To: wideawake

It seems ludicrous to me to suggest that constitutional authority for NASA cannot be found solely in national defense, even if the original legislation founding NASA does not site it.

But we’re dealing with nuts who believe the Air Force is unconstitutional because the Constitution did not foresee and specifically mention flying machines.


128 posted on 09/27/2007 1:01:02 PM PDT by Petronski (Congratulations Tribe! AL Central Champs)
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To: uxbridge
why go through a formal amendment process when its easier to just ignore the Constitution as they’ve been doing the 1930’s?

The question is whether the amendment process is necessary for these measures or whether there already exists constitutional warrant.

You seem to imply that an Air Force in the absence of an amendment is unconstitutional.

It obviously is eminently constitutional - so I'm not sure what interpretive criteria you are operating under.

129 posted on 09/27/2007 1:01:02 PM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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To: mnehrling
DAMN YOU!

How DARE you have the temerity to question our Truth with your pathetic facts...

130 posted on 09/27/2007 1:02:34 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (I don't use a sarcasm tag, it kills the effect...)
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To: wideawake

Ron Paul will inform you what the Constitution says, and what it doesn’t say, when Ron Paul is in the mood to do so!

Got that?

(chuckle)


131 posted on 09/27/2007 1:03:57 PM PDT by Badeye (How's that job search going, Sally?....(chuckle))
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To: Petronski
kick you in the ass...

The level of discourse I've come to expect from the hysterical.

132 posted on 09/27/2007 1:04:00 PM PDT by hschliemann
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To: John D
If cut and run won the nomination you bet I would be squeeling, and the terrorists would be dancing in the streets.

Yeah I remember hearing you squealing back in '82 when Reagan cut and ran from Beirut!

133 posted on 09/27/2007 1:04:18 PM PDT by hschliemann
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To: wideawake

Damn it Wideawake, you beat me to it.. :->

What good is opening a door if someone else jumps to it first..


134 posted on 09/27/2007 1:04:26 PM PDT by mnehring (!! Warning, Quoting Ron Paul Supporters can be Hazardous to your Reputation !!)
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To: Abcdefg

The “entire sentence” was not posted.


135 posted on 09/27/2007 1:04:50 PM PDT by Petronski (Congratulations Tribe! AL Central Champs)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

RuPaul (the real one, not Ron) is more of a man than most of the candidates running. Duncan Hunter is not one of those, of course. :-)


136 posted on 09/27/2007 1:07:15 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Oh, Geesh, not THIS crap AGAIN?!?)
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To: drpix
Shiites have their differences with Sunnis and Arabs with Persians but Jihadis of every strip are united when it comes to Infidels.*****

Yes, common enemies can unite people. However, you have to reconcile that with the fact that we haven’t had a lot of problems with the Muslims raised in the US.

137 posted on 09/27/2007 1:08:01 PM PDT by jmeagan (Our last chance to change the direction of the country -- Ron Paul)
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To: wideawake; uxbridge; mnehrling; Petronski; billbears

I would say that when you need to take that many steps to justify spending under a document that is meant to define a limited Federal power (the Constitution) then you need an Amendment. That is not the way we’ve operated for approximately a hundred years, we’ve ignored reasonableness in our reading of the Constitution, and ignored the Amendment process when we wanted to expand the Federal government. But look at the bloated monstrosity of a government it has given us and ask yourself if you want to continue the tradition of sophistry in Constitutional reasoning.


138 posted on 09/27/2007 1:08:08 PM PDT by Greg F (Duncan Hunter is a good man.)
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To: mnehrling

Im watching a nasa-sponsored television program about space on PBS, coincidentally. It’s very interesting and informative.

So I guess NASA’s been doing other things besides sending “junk into space,” ... like monitering weather patterns, using powerful telescopes to better understand the forces of our universe, testing new propulsion systems and aircraft, funding universities and scholarships in science and math...

yep, completely useless, just sending junk into space...


139 posted on 09/27/2007 1:08:23 PM PDT by Tears of a Clown
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To: jrooney

here you can see all of her here.

http://www.metacafe.com/channels/Liv+Films/


140 posted on 09/27/2007 1:08:44 PM PDT by CJ Wolf
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