Donations for Ron Paul surpass 1 million dollars (Dr. Evil laugh)

Late last night September 29th at about 10:31 pm eastern the thermometer on Ron Paul's website http:\\www.RonPaul2008.com went over the $1,000,000 mark. I was interested and watching the counter went up by more then $4,000 in the last minute. The people have come out and gave Ron's campaign a million in less then 6 days which I think is pretty amazing since according to a e-mail that was sent out by the campaign the majority of the donations are between $5 and $100.

The thermometer flash program from the website which is picture above I believe helped out a ton because when people donated to the campaign they could see their own name flash on the screen and throughout the Internet. I liked watching it to see where the donations were coming from and as you can believe they came from all over from Maine to Florida from Washington to California from Huston to Saginaw. I even noticed people from around the Western NY area. I personally noticed Orchard Park NY, Rochester, and even Wattsburg PA.

After doing some math if people only donated the maximum $2300 that would mean that 435 people would have donated to the campaign to get to the million dollar amount. The thing I really wonder is how many people that donated to the Ron Paul campaign never donated to a political campaign before. I know personally I never handed my money to a politician before unless there was a threat of punishment if I did not hand over the money.

Will the main stream media pick this up?? I really doubt it they seem to do everything they can to ignore Dr. Paul and his campaign. The Ron Paul revolution is picking up speed soon it may be impossiable for the main stream media to ignore the support behind the principles this man.

All American Presidential Forum

I was watching the Presidential forum and thought the questions were very clear and intelligent. The questions were not softballs at all, they were intelligent and asked about some great topics. I thought that they should have not brought up the names of the 4 morons that did not attend that much.

During the introduction Ron Paul got a loud cheer and I think the directors were shocked about that the first time but did not make that mistake again. I noticed after every answer from Ron Paul the lowered the volume and then when they moved on to the next candidate they raised the volume. This was noticeable a few times because they moved on and raised the volume while the crowd was still cheering.

I was horrified when I heard Hunter say Americans need to be shielded from pornography. Where does he get the gall to say that I need to be shielded from anything let alone people having sex or even the naked human body. If someone does not want to see pornography guess what look away, walk away, and stay in your own little bubble.

I thought Keyes was long winded and Tavis Smiley was getting angry when he said Keyes's time was up and Keyes kept on talking. I do applaud Tavis Smiley for holding Hunters feet to the fire during the question about what reform he would support to make sure people had equal justice in the United States. Tavis seemed to verbally spank Hunter to get him back on point.

For some reason Huckabee thinks that crime is caused by drugs and alcohol cause crime and I was horrified during this answer. The saving grace was Ron Paul answering that the War on Drugs needs to be repealed.

Dr Paul was finally given a question on health care and pointed out the 400 pound gorilla in the room and the problem with health care is the corpritism between insurance companies and the government and the problem with the FDA controlling the drugs that people can use. Also Dr. Paul said a couple times that we need to end the war on drugs, get rid of the welfare, restore property rights, expanding liberty, and letting people keep the fruits of their labor.

Dr. Paul also pointed out the inequities that the War on Drugs has with black people. Ron also reiterated that he is against the National ID cards but would be fine with states requiring identification for people to vote and if Washington DC wanted representation in the House and Senate a constitutional amendment should be submitted to change the constitution.

Overall I think the time was fairly evenly distributed and was fair to all the candidates.

Customs Strikes again

After I finished work and sent some articles off to Free Talk Live I left work and headed for the interstate. I was getting on to the interstate and at the on-ramp there was a man with a sign asking for a ride West so being that I was going that way I pulled over and let the man in and we were off. While on the interstate I asked him how far he was going and he told me this story I have took some of the conversation out but the spirit of the story is still there.

He was trying to get home to Morgantown West Virgina. He was a escort and when trying to cross the border in to Canada the customs officers had him pull off and get out of his car. They took him in and that was when things went terrible. He had some baking soda and the customs thought it was coke. They seized the suspected coke and his car. He told them the stuff was baking soda but they would not believe him and they escorted him back across the border and let him go in NY. So after having his car stolen and being strip searched he started to make his way home. He started walking and somewhere between Niagara Falls and Buffalo he got a short ride from a State Trooper. He got to Hamburg and last night he was stuck there and last night a thunderstorm came through. He told me he found a truck liner and slept under that while it rained and he kept sort of dry. He got to from Hamburg to Dunkirk where I picked him up and the person that gave him a ride gave him $10. I let him off at a truck stop in PA and gave him $15 I told him that he probably could find a trucker at that stop that would give him a ride closer to home.

I have no idea what happened to him but I hope he is almost home. When I was getting off at the stop I was really thinking about taking the guy all the way. I felt bad for the guy because I know personally what can happen at that border I have been harassed similar to the guy I was strip searched (down to my underwear) and had the car that I was driving damaged while they were looking for drugs the customs slit the leather seats and threw everything in the car around.

The Fox media spin

After the September 5th debate on Fox Hannity and Colmes I noticed during the Hunter interview Fox was showing the results from the text poll and while the results scrolled through Ron Paul the person doing the graphics put Hunters name up instead of the results for Ron Paul. I thought since the results stopped at R5 they would start up again at R6 which was Ron Paul but they started back at R7.

Just now at 11:58 they said the final results and Dr. Paul got 33% and is the winner by that poll.