Ladies and gentlemen,
Boys and girls,
Cats and dogs,
Forget the Olympics…THE REAL GAMES ARE IN DENVER!!!!

I thought of all kinds of ways to make a quick movie snippet or something multimedia, but in my YouTube raw meat search…something caught my eye, flipped my trigger, and just seemed SO PERFECT for the occasion. So please, press play on this 1992 ode to confusion, chaos, and searching rather than accepting. It’s a throw back to a time when Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Jessica Simpson, and so many others were still playing with their Barbie girls. A time when Saddam had just had his ass kicked and people believed he was contained (yeah, ’cause dictators learn their lessons and never hold grudges). A time when the Clintons were taking DC, and a generation was realizing those student loans had to be paid some day….and that someday was approaching fast. Read the rest of this entry »

The Democratic Party and far left theme is that President Bush somehow allegedly gave up on the war in Afghanistan. US forces and intelligence agencies know better. The anti-Bush/anti-war theme extends to claim that somehow or another President Bush isn’t fighting Al Queda in Afghanistan or going after Bin Laden. Of course, both aren’t really in Afghanistan. They’re in the lawless mountains in Pakistan that border Afghanistan. So, what about there? Well, not a lot can be said about the fight in that area. Reporters and sightseers aren’t just discouraged. They’re arrested or killed or both. However, the skies above are very active-as active as the hunt for Al Queda leaders always has been despite the political PR from the left.

Today, we’re getting reports that another covert (well, it WAS covert) air strike has taken place in that region. If so, it’s the FIFTH time this year that we know about. How many do you think we don’t know about in this secret war’s most secret area and against the most top secret targets?

More here….

UPDATE by Curt

Some updated info here:

Taliban and Afghan National Army backed by American forces have traded severe firing in Sooran Dara area of Mehmand and Bajaur Agencies on Afghan border late Tuesday evening.

Sources told this correspondent that Afghan National Army backed by American forces and gunship helicopters clashed with Taliban when the former on a tip-off attacked a Taliban hideout in the Sooran Dara area.

Unconfirmed reports receiving from the Dara revealed that dozens of Taliban and Afghan National Army are feared dead in the clashes.

Pakistan Tehrik-e-Taliban spokesman Maulvi Umer talking to this correspondent via phone from an undisclosed location said that clashes erupted in Sooran Dara area when American and Afghan National Army backed by gunship helicopters and jets attacked Taliban on the Afghan border.

He said that Afghan National Army and American forces and their jets also violated the territorial limits of Pakistan and continued to fly over Mehmand and Bajaur Agencies for few minutes.

Ok, now here is where some speculation comes into the mix. The US would fire a drone missile at a high value target. No way they are going to do that for just a bunch of regulars. The attack happened in the Mohmand area of Pakistan:

The missile was thought to have been fired into the Mohmand ethnic Pashtun tribal area in northwest Pakistan where this year, U.S.-controlled Predator aircraft have struck at least four sites used by al Qaeda operatives, killing dozens of suspected militants.

Who has some family in that area?

It is pertinent to mention, however, that al-Zawahiri is reportedly married to a woman from the Mohmand tribe who lives with her father in the border area between Bajaur and Mohmand agencies

James Robbins believes the target may have been OBL:

This is some of the baddest of the badlands in Pakistan, and a great place to hide if you are Osama bin Laden.

Obviously, this attack was targeted at someone high value….but just how high value was he?

What is the “peace movement” doing wrong?

• It failed to prevent the war in Afghanistan.
• It failed to prevent the war in Iraq.
• It failed to change power in the executive branch.
• It failed to end the war in Iraq.
• It was duped by Democrats in 2006 who promised “A New Direction In Iraq” without ever having even formed a committee to brainstorm ideas until 2 months after being elected.
• It failed to prevent The Surge offensive.
• It failed to stop cannibals in the Congo [and was silent while 4-6million died as UN peacekeepers raped and sold children en masse].
• It failed to stop the bloodshed in Darfur.
• It speaks out against the efforts (war) of US forces to protect people from terror.
• It speaks the same rhetoric as the enemy’s propaganda. It is silent in response to terrorist attacks.
• It is openly embraced by Islamic holy warriors.

What is the “peace movement” doing wrong? Read the rest of this entry »

Hard to believe an article at The Huffington Post is worthy of mentioning as a good piece but here it is. It’s by Michael Shermer about the nuts in the 9/11 twoofer movement and how he has been hounded by them after a article appeared in the magazine he edits, The Skeptic, which delved into that crazy movement:

What’s going on here? As Bill Maher discovered one day during the taping of his HBO series “Real Time,” their goal is just to be heard–in any venue at any time under any circumstances. In spring of 2005, for example, I gave a lecture at the Los Angeles Public Library, after which I was buttonholed by a documentary filmmaker with Michael Mooreish ambitions of exposing the “truth” about the 9/11 conspiracy, and he wanted to know if he could interview me. I responded, “you mean the conspiracy by Osama bin Laden and his nineteen Al-Qaeda operatives to fly planes into buildings?”

“That’s what they want you to believe,” he said.

“Who is ‘they’,” I queried.

“The government,” he whispered in hushed tones, as if “they” might actually be listening in at that very moment.

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Technorati Tags: 9/11, al-Qaeda, bill maher, holocaust, huffington post, michael shermer, truther, western capitalism

You know things are bad with the media when Osama bin Laden is releasing a new video in which he rails against how Al-Jazeera “misrepresented” what he had said in a earlier tape:

An Islamist website said it would carry a new recording from al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden about “foiling plots” in Iraq.

The website said the 56-minute recording would also be about the Islamic State in Iraq, an al-Qaeda linked group in the country.

It did not say when the video or audio recording, produced by al-Qaeda’s media arm As-Sahab and entitled “The Path to Foiling Plots in Iraq”, would be posted.

Al-Qaeda messages have been often released within three days of their announcement on websites.

“May God expose the cover-up by Al Jazeera, the channel of the infidels,” said the website, which is often used to issue messages from al-Qaeda.

It was not clear whether this meant bin Laden would speak about a controversy in which his supporters have accused the popular news channel of misrepresenting his comments on Iraq.

Some Islamists have said Al Jazeera misrepresented bin Laden’s views by airing excerpts of comments he made in October that insurgents had made mistakes in Iraq because of fanaticism.

Kinda curious timing to release it on the day his group assassinated Bhutto don’t ya think? 

On the assassination itself Bruce Riedal states the obvious:

It was almost certainly the work of al-Qaeda or al-Qaeda’s Pakistani
allies. Al-Qaeda has been trying to kill Ms. Bhutto for decades. She
has been the target of assassination attempts by al-Qaeda before. They
were most likely responsible for the attack on her when she first
returned to Pakistan. Their objective is to destabilize the Pakistani
state, to break up the secular political parties, to break up the army
so that Pakistan becomes a politically failing state in which the
Islamists in time can come to power, much as they have in other failing
states where al-Qaeda knows its chances for success are higher.

And Mark Steyn reminds us of some facts that should of been obvious, but wasn’t:

Benazir Bhutto’s return to Pakistan had a mad
recklessness about it which give today’s events a horrible
inevitability.

Since
her last spell in power, Pakistan has changed, profoundly. Its
sovereignty is meaningless in increasingly significant chunks of its
territory, and, within the portions Musharraf is just about holding
together, to an ever more radicalized generation of young Muslim men
Miss Bhutto was entirely unacceptable as the leader of their nation.
“Everyone’s an expert on Pakistan, a faraway country of which we know
everything,” I wrote last month. “It
seems to me a certain humility is appropriate.” The State Department
geniuses thought they had it all figured out. They’d arranged a shotgun
marriage between the Bhutto and Sharif factions as a “united”
“democratic” “movement” and were pushing Musharraf to reach a deal with
them. That’s what diplomats do: They find guys in suits and get
‘em round a table. But none of those representatives represents the
rapidly evolving reality of Pakistan. Miss Bhutto could never have been
a viable leader of a post-Musharraf settlement, and the delusion that
she could have been sent her to her death. Earlier this year, I had an
argument with an old (infidel) boyfriend of Benazir’s, who swatted my
concerns aside with the sweeping claim that “the whole of the western
world” was behind her. On the streets of Islamabad, that and a dime’ll
get you a cup of coffee.

And lastly is the news that Ron Paul blames the US for the assassination (big shocker there!) and also said that al-Qaeda has reason enough to be annoyed with us.

But in Ron Paul’s world, all problems are the result of the US taking
action. Any action. Anywhere. Against anyone, doing anything. In the
case of Pakistan, he says we should cut off aid to our “puppet” in
Pakistan and make sure not to march in there with troops. There is, of
course, at most a neglible possibility that we’ll send troops into
Pakistan to do anything beyond taking on al Qaeda or securing the
nukes. India might, but even that’s highly unlikely. And never mind
that Pakistan’s history with democracy is sketchy, to say the least.
Should we not have attempted to work with Musharraf against al Qaeda,
Patriot Paul? Paul also tosses out the canard that we supported Osama
bin Laden. Someone really needs to disabuse him of that notion one of
these days. Someone should bone him up on the history of al Qaeda as
well. It didn’t form because we support Musharraf, as Paul seems to
think.

Disabuse him of that notion?  Hell, it’s hard enough getting to him through his wall of twoofers and neo-nazi’s. 

As if we didn’t know already, here is further proof that The Jersey Girls are nothing but twoofers: (h/t Screw Loose Change)

Our government’s official story regarding the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, tells us that 19 Arab hijackers successfully defeated the United States military by hijacking four commercial airliners within two hours on a budget of approximately $400,000. These men, armed only with small knives, box cutters and Mace, were able to knock down the World Trade Center towers in New York City and strike the Pentagon.

Which implies that the official story described by Mindy Kleinberg is bunk.  How else can you read this letter?

So if you follow this implication to the finish line then she must believe the interrogation tapes of KSM and friends would of told them that Bush did it?

Whoakay….

Oh, and they didn’t knock down those towers with a few box cutters.  They knocked them down with giant fuel laden bombs.   Kinda figured you girls would of known that already but whatever.

This post is for all the Rononymous commenters, Paulbots, Paul Pots, Paul Reverists, Ronulans, and even the reasonable Ron Paul supporters out there.  There’s something here for everyone who reveres or reviles the self-proclaimed Constitutional Messiah.

From the CNN/YouTube GOP Debate Wednesday night:

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I love this line from Patrick Ruffini:

In the past few months, Ron Paul has dramatically raised the profile of libertarianism inside the Republican Party.

He sure has that right.  He has raised the profile and showed us how out of touch with reality they really are. 

The newest backers of Ron Paul to go along with his Twoofer fans, his white supremist fans, and all the other nutjobs is brothel owners: (h/t Hot Air)

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, an underdog Texas congressman
with a libertarian streak, has picked up an endorsement from a Nevada brothel
owner.

Dennis Hof, owner of the Moonlite BunnyRanch near Carson City, said he was so
impressed after hearing Paul at a campaign stop in Reno last week that he
decided to raise money for him.

“I’ll get all the (working girls) together, and we can raise him some money,”
Hof told the Reno Gazette-Journal. “I’ll put up a collection box outside the
door. They can drop in $1, $5 contributions.”

Hof and two of his prostitutes, Brooke Taylor and a woman who goes by Air
Force Amy, attended a Paul news conference.

Bryan points who we should thank for turning this brothel owner onto Ron, MSNBC’s own Tucker Carlson:

Hof was accompanied to the Paul news conference by television news personality Tucker Carlson, who is traveling with Paul for a magazine article he is writing.

“Dennis Hof is a good friend of mine, so when we got to Nevada, I decided to call him up and see if he wanted to come check this guy out,” said Carlson, who hosts the show “Tucker” on MSNBC.

How sweet of him huh?

Actually, I think Ron Paul’s run for President has done more damage to libertarianism than anything else
in recent history by connecting it to the appeasement of
fanatical Islam rather then what their movement was supposed to be about, limited Government.  The ridicule he has exposed himself to has given the MSM more then enough reason to dismiss those that support smaller government, less taxation and the rest as just a bunch of loons.

But I will thank him for the run.  It’s been entertaining and I’ve learned that I would never, ever, become a libertarian.

UPDATE

Jackie Mason’s response to the PaulBots:

A Happy Thanksgiving to all Flopping Aces readers, and to celebrate this day in typical Flopping Aces fashion I would like to present some stupid stupid people. 

On Michael Medved’s show yesterday he had on Russell Means, a Indian activist, and a smattering of callers that alleged the holiday, Thanksgiving, is a afront to the Indian people and that the indigenous people were far superior to the European people.

Seattle school officials are telling teachers that Thanksgiving actually is a time of “mourning” since it represents “500 years of betrayal.”

The message to all “staff” in the Seattle Public Schools comes from Caprice D. Hollins, the director of “Equity, Race & Learning Support,” and other officials including Willard Bill Jr. of the “Office of Native American Education.”

“With so many holidays approaching we want to again remind you that Thanksgiving can be a particularly difficult time for many of our Native students,” the letter said.

The school letter refers educators to a website, Oyate, run by an outside organization that promotes Indian culture, and recommends teachers explore it.

“Here you will discover ways to help you and your students think critically, and find resources where you can learn about Thanksgiving from a Native American perspective,” the letter said. “Eleven myths are identified about Thanksgiving, take a look at No. 11 and begin your own deconstruction.”

The website’s “Myth No. 11″ is that “Thanksgiving is a happy time.”

“Fact: For many Indian people, ‘Thanksgiving’ is a time of mourning, of remembering how a gift of generosity was rewarded by theft of land and seed corn, extermination of many from disease and gun, and near total destruction of many more from forced assimilation. As currently celebrated in this country, ‘Thanksgiving’ is a bitter reminder of 500 years of betrayal returned for friendship,” the website describes.

I guess we shouldn’t expect anything better from a city which spends 8 million to build a housing area for drunks to get drunk in.  Not to help themselves get off alcohol but to enable them to continue their abuse. 

What a city.

As far as the European takeover of North America goes it’s just the nature of this world that a
society with a superior technology will displace those with a far insuperior and almost caveman type technology.  Real life means the strong survive.  It is simply foolish to assume that the lesser of two societies have the absolute right to advance.

Now given all that the Indians were definitely treated badly.  But Thanksgiving
is not a holiday to celebrate our relationship with the Indians instead
its a day established to thank GOD for His abundant blessings on our
GREAT nation.  That’s it.

By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation.

Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of
Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and
humbly to implore his protection and favor– and whereas both Houses of
Congress have by their joint Committee requested me to recommend to the
People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to
be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal
favors of

Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity
peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and
happiness.

Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of
November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the
service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author
of all the good that was, that is, or that will be– That we may then
all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks–for his
kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to
their becoming a Nation–for the signal and manifold mercies, and the
favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the
course and conclusion of the late war–for the great degree of
tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed–for the
peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to
establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and
particularly the national One now lately instituted–for the civil and
religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of
acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the
great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.

and also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and
supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to
pardon our national and other transgressions– to enable us all,
whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and
relative duties properly and punctually–to render our national
government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a
Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and
faithfully executed and obeyed–to protect and guide all Sovereigns and
Nations (especially such as have shewn kindness unto us) and to bless
them with good government, peace, and concord–To promote the knowledge
and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease of science
among them and us–and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a
degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.

Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.

Go: Washington

Political correctness be gone, celebrate what this day was meant to be celebrated for….being thankful.

Happy Thanksgiving all!

Mona Charen writes a beautiful editorial detailing everything wrong with Ron Paul, and there is plenty to work with: (h/t bRight & Early)

1. Ron Paul is inconsistent. Though he calls himself a man of principle and is apparently admired as such by his ardent fans, his principles seem somewhat elastic. He rails against the Bush administration for its supposed assault on civil liberties, yet when he was asked at one of the debates whether Scooter Libby deserved a pardon, he said no. “He doesn’t deserve one because he was instrumental in leading the Congress and the people to support a war that we didn’t need to be in.” Notice that he didn’t say it was because Libby was guilty of committing a crime. No, because Libby argued for a policy with which Paul disagreed, he deserved to serve time in prison. Ron Paul, the libertarian, who presumably values liberty above all, is willing to deprive someone else of his because of a policy disagreement?

2. Ron Paul is historically challenged. He argues that by embracing isolationism, he fits within a Republican tradition stretching back to Eisenhower “who stopped the Korean War” and including Nixon “who stopped the war in Vietnam.” Let’s recap. Eisenhower threatened to use nuclear weapons against China. It was the Eisenhower administration that had a hand in toppling Iran’s Mohammad Mossedegh (an intervention that Paul has elsewhere cited as causing the U.S. grief 25 years later when the Islamists took power). Eisenhower also intervened in Guatemala, Cuba (planning for the Bay of Pigs began during his tenure) and Lebanon.

Nixon, an isolationist? Most observers, whatever they may make of detente with the USSR and the opening to China, agree that Nixon was an emphatic internationalist. For the record, he intervened in many countries including Chili, Peru and Cambodia. And he saved Israel by resupplying her during the Yom Kippur war. Neither his successes nor failures grew out of a Paulesque policy of “minding our own business.”

3. Ron Paul is unserious. Suggesting that you will eliminate the IRS, the CIA, the FBI and other government agencies within weeks of taking office is ridiculous. These are bumper stickers, not serious reform proposals.

Mona also goes into one very serious aspect of his candidacy.  His crazy supporters.  From neo-nazi’s, to twoofers, to the Alex Jones cultists who believe that the Bilderbergers are taking over the world.  Many of his supporters say you can’t fault the candidate himself for crazy fans but as Mona states, he plays a game with it.  He doesn’t endorse their beliefs but he doesn’t disavow himself from them either with his tales of the big bad government coming to get you, and his appearances on the Alex Jones show doesn’t help.

Instead his campaign attracts these kind of messages:

On Oct. 4 Will Williams, a former leader of the National Alliance, a
neo-Nazi group, posted on the neo-Nazi Vanguard News Network that white
supremacy supporters should support Paul for president.

“Till then
I recommend folks get involved in the Ron Paul ‘revolution’ and work
with political activists in your communities who are attracted to his
anti-globalist message,” Williams wrote. “Be disciplined. Blend in; find common ground with them and artfully radicalize those who are receptive and avoid those who are not. … Most
of you would be surprised at how many good people can be exposed to a,
let’s say, ‘pro-majority’ message among the remarkable groundswell of
fed-up, mostly white Ron Paul supporters — many, early on, from the 9/11 truth movement. They
are finding their backbones as they are exposed to more and more hidden
truths, especially about the hidden hand of Jewry behind every foul
venture.”

Which tells us that many are using the Ron Paul campaign as a recruitment drive to find those who could find common ground with them.  They care little about RP, but his followers could be fresh meat for their movement.

Kinda makes the the argument made by the Paul campaign against sending money back to neo-nazi’s kinda moot wouldn’t you say?  “If they want to waste their money on us we will take it and use it to promote freedom and individual rights, not their agenda,” doesn’t help any when they are using your campaign to get new recruits.

No, I think her best summation of him is that he is unserious.  His candidacy is unserious, his followers are unserious, and his politics are unserious.

Hey look, Ron Paul got a bunch of money today:

Today, Nov. 5, marks not only Paul’s best fundraising haul in a single day –
approximately $3.75 million by 11 p.m. EST — but online observers say it’s also
the most money raised by a candidate on the Web in a single day. And the day’s
not over yet. “Damn. Wow. Um, that’s pretty awesome,” said a stunned Jerome
Armstrong who served as Howard Dean’s online strategist. Armstrong, the founder
of the popular blog MyDD, said Dean raised as much as $700,000 in one day toward
the end of the primary race. “But not a million,” Armstrong added. “What Paul is
doing — or what his supporters are doing — is really impressive.”

If I remember correctly they wanted his supporters to each donate one hundred bucks, which would make about 38,000 supporters donating. 

I can feel Rudy, Fred and Mitt shaking in their boots already. 

Sigh….

And this is quite interesting from Screw Loose Change:

Now it turns out that some of the money that Paul is raising may be coming from
overseas as well. Check out
this post at the Looser Forum:

Unfortunately only Americans can donate due to election
laws.

Unless you can find a Ron Paul supporter in the US, that you trust,
that you may want to “BUY” something from at a very inflated price.

Oliver links to this post over at the Ronulans
message board suggesting the same thing:

I know you can’t donate to the campaign, but you can donate to
individual Americans. Money is always of concern and your meetup groups want to
help, we could sure use it.  We need to do all kinds of advertising -
television/print/radio I’m pretty sure that if you wanted to, you could send
your money to a trusted American and ask THEM to donate to the campaign I’m
sure there are many ways that we could put your money to use that would help us
get Ron Paul’s campaign an asist.

I’d be willing to be a collection point
(if you will) to distribute funds for various advertising projects, or to the
campaign if that is what you wanted. PM me if you are interested.

The Ron Paul campaign getting foreign donations?  How come this doesn’t shock me?

But wait for it, within seconds of this post going up a PaulBot will be all over it claiming a conspiracy to keep RP down. 

Keep the conspiracy quiet please.  We wouldn’t want them to find out that this post was secretly written in the bowels of the Banking Conglomerate Headquarters.  That would ruin everything.

And finally check out some of the comments to the above WaPo article on his fundraising:

I am a Republican and voted for Bush (sorry U.S.A.) but recently woke up
to the fact that our country is in danger of turning into a fascist
state, with global bankers pulling the puppet strings.

i voted for kerry last time in hopes that he would put and end to the bush
bulls**t, but as usual the do nothing dems did nothing. go ron paul you have my
vote any day over the neocon hillary

I said I would NEVER vote for a
Republican again - but I would vote for Mr. Paul before that “other”
Republican, Hillary Clinton.

If not, I will support Edwards or Obama.

Go Ron Paul!

Pali, why don’t you just get chipped now so the government can track
you like cattle. Bahhh-bahhh, you’re as retarded as the others who will
vote for Romney or Clinton. Protest while you can! If Dr. Paul looses
this election no dissent will be tolerated. The North American Empire
will be one step closer to accomplishing their goals of destroying the
middle class.

Ron Paul does take the award for the weirdest supporters tho.  I will give him that.  Twoofers and neo-nazi’s.  Militant anti-government nutjobs and those who think Hillary Clinton is a neo-con.

I’m telling ya, if I had not seen it myself I would have thought this was all a made up story but it sure makes this election entertaining.

UPDATE

Even more from the Ronulans message board:

A guy over in the UK bought some tshirts from me, and “inadvertently”
added $20 to the order. So whadya know, when it came time to contribute
again to Ron Paul, I had an extra $20 to spare. Go figure.

I’m taking donation from Foriegn Nationals at marchacrossamerica so far
we have had a great response…you just have to let them know you are
out there.

Here are a few things that I would suggest for foreigners who would
like to help with the campaign. Contact the organizers of RP Meetup
groups, maybe in a favorite American city of yours if you have one.
Student ones are even better, students are always broke! They are also
more likely than older supporters to plaster signs and stickers
everywhere. See if they would like to receive a box of stickers, signs,
etc. Order some merchandise and have it shipped to them.

News that some Ron Paul supporters have committed computer fraud to further his run for President will not shock many Flopping Aces readers:

If Texas congressman Ron Paul is elected president in 2008, he may
be the first leader of the free world put into power with the help of a
global network of hacked PCs spewing spam, according to
computer-security researchers who’ve analyzed a recent flurry of e-mail
supporting the long-shot Republican candidate.

“This is clearly a criminal act in support of a campaign, which has
been committed with or without their knowledge,” says Gary Warner, the
University of Alabama at Birmingham’s director of research in computer
forensics. “The question is, will we see more and more of this, or will
this bring shame to the campaigns and will they make clear that this is
not a form of acceptable behavior by their supporters?” Warner pointed
to provisions of the federal Can-Spam Act.

~~~

The finding is significant, because Paul’s online support
– as gauged by blog mentions, friends on social-networking sites such
as MySpace and popularity in online polls — has garnered him wide
mainstream print and television coverage, despite his relatively poor
performance in offline polling.

The spamming allegations are based on a slew of e-mails captured by contributors to the university’s Spam Data Mining for Law Enforcement Applications
project, a research venture that receives 2.5 million spam messages a
day, and selects about 100,000 a week for analysis. The project
receives its spam from other researchers with ties to ISPs, and in some
cases from “trap” addresses that have never been used for any other
purpose.

They were received by the lab following the latest televised Republican
debate Sunday afternoon, and had 16 different subject lines, including
“Ron Paul Wins GOP Debate! HMzjoqO” and “Ron Paul Exposes Federal
Reserve! SBHBcSO.” The random string of characters at the end is a
common spammer’s technique to circumvent bulk e-mail filtering.

The spam went to “several hundred” e-mail addresses harvested for the university project, says Warner.

The e-mails had phony names attached to real-looking e-mail addresses.
When lab researchers examined the IP addresses of the computers from
which the messages had been sent, it turned out that they were
sprinkled around the globe in countries as far away from each other as
South Korea, Japan, the United Kingdom, Nigeria and Brazil.

“The interesting thing was that we had the same subject line from the
same IP address, and it claimed to be from different users from within
the United States,” Warner says.

Sure, he doesn’t go out and recruit the kooks to do the spam but the views he has attract them like flies to a fluorescent lamp of death.  Views like this vast government conspiracy: (h/t Right Wing Nut House)

A lot of times they think subsidies and welfare goes to poor people.
Now there’s some welfare that goes to poor people, but sometimes I
think they’re crumbs. The real big welfare in the system that we have
goes to the military-industrial complex and the big banks, that’s where
it goes. [applause]

attract the nuts, the twoofers, and those who believe that spamming a online pool actually accomplishes something:

After the debate 34% of Fox News viewers said that Ron Paul won the
debate with 27% saying that Mike Huckabee won the debate. That was in
stark contrast to the Fox News focus group who when asked if Ron Paul
won nobody raised their hands.

So now we can add hacking personal computers to spam people about the great “conservative” Ron Paul

How do they do it?  A post to a Ron Paul forum provides a glimpse:

It is easy.. our meetup has some tools that are pretty cheap. We use
ipipi, you can send several thousand messages for about $100 and the
best part is because it doesn’t use phone numbers, it bypasses poll
secuirty.

The reasons they do it?

This is a rEVOLution, not a business as usual campaign. What they call
‘dirty tricks’ we call fighting the system. We hvae to do everything we
can to overcome the media blackout of our candidate and fight the
establishment media!

And the result?  Incidents like this one where CNBC had to pull their online poll due to the hacking:

So there was our after-debate poll. The numbers grew … 7,000-plus votes after a couple of hours … and Ron Paul was at 75%.

Now Paul is a fine gentleman with some substantial backing and, by the way, was a dynamic presence throughout the debate , but I haven’t seen him pull those kind of numbers in any “legit” poll. Our poll was either hacked or the target of a campaign. So we took the poll down.

The next day, our email basket was flooded with Ron Paul support messages. And the computer logs showed the poll had been hit with traffic from Ron Paul chat sites. I learned other Internet polls that night had been hit in similar fashion. Congratulations. You folks are obviously well-organized and feel strongly about your candidate and I can’t help but admire that.

But you also ruined the purpose of the poll. It was no longer an honest “show of hands” — it suddenly was a platform for beating the Ron Paul drum. That certainly wasn’t our intention and certainly doesn’t serve our readers … at least those who aren’t already in the Ron Paul camp.

Some of you Ron Paul fans take issue with my decision to take the poll down. Fine. When a well-organized and committed “few” can throw the results of a system meant to reflect the sentiments of “the many,” I get a little worried. I’d take it down again.

But rest assured dear readers, the Ron Paul supporters will quickly counter this with more conspiracies:

I find it far more likely that this botnet spam attack is not the
design of the Paul campaign or any of its supporters. It is far more
likely that this is the release of a first round of direct cyber attack
against the Ron Paul campaign. 

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This is nefarious and demonstrates the kind of tactics that the
establishment could use to serve their interest in stopping the advance
of Ron Paul and the Revolution for freedom that he is leading as well
as his Presidential bid.

Sigh….

Other’s Blogging:

• Blue Crab Boulevard
• IMAO
• JammieWearingFool

We’ll lookie lookie.  It appears some white supremacists love them some Ron Paul.  This comes from Lone Star Times:

A LoneStarTimes.com investigation has conclusively established that a leading
figure in the American neo-Nazi / White-Supremacist movement has provided
financial support to Ron Paul’s 2008 Presidential campaign.

The individual in question is Don Black, the founder, owner and operator of
Stormfront, a “white
power” website that both professional journalists and watch-dog groups have identified as the premier
English-language racist/hate-site on the Internet.

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- Black proudly and openly identifies himself as Stormfront’s guiding hand,
and publishes a contact address on the Internet– PO Box 6637, West Palm Beach, FL, 33405
 
- A search by LST of public databases indicates that there is only one “Don
Black” residing in West Palm Beach, Florida, zip code 33405

- A 7/16/01 USA Today article identifies Black’s wife as being named “Chloe”

- That same article identifies Chloe as being the ex-wife of close Black
associate and former “Grand Wizard” of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke

- Minutes of a 9/7/07 City of West Palm Beach code-compliance
hearing identify “Chloe H. Duke” as owning a residential property located at 203
Lakeland Drive

- According to Federal Election Commission records, on 9/30/07
the Ron Paul presidential campaign received a $500 contribution from a Mr. Don
Black, who lists his address as 203 Lakeland Drive and identifies his occupation
as “self-employed/website manager”

Not only that but it appears his website, Stormfront, has widgets on the page that lead to donation pages for Ron Paul.

Shocker?  I think not.  You have the twoofers and militia nuts who love the man, not a stretch to have some big time racists mixed in.

What a candidate.

Kevin Barrett, the twoofer who believes the holocaust was a Zionist lie  and never saw a conspiracy too crazy to  dismiss has set up a new website where he will post people’s home addresses: (h/t Screw Loose Change)

WHERETHEYLIVE.ORG is founded in the spirit of Thoreau, Gandhi, King, Abdul-Ghaffar Khan, and the many other heroes of principled nonviolent resistance. It will publicize the home addresses of those who are alleged to have seriously abused their power over others, for the purpose of facilitating legal, NONVIOLENT demonstrations on public property outside those home addresses, in accordance with the people’s right to petition for redress of grievances as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States of America, international law, and principles of universal justice.

Each posting will include a summary of the evidence that the individual whose address has been posted has seriously abused his or her power over others, along with the home address and a call to nonviolently picket that address. While WHERETHEYLIVE.ORG will attempt to publish accurate information, we cannot guarantee against occasional mistakes. Posted power-abusers should be viewed as suspects who are considered innocent of specific crimes or cases of abuse until proven guilty–that is why we are shaming them nonviolently, rather than bringing in the law to lock them up. In many cases, these individuals should be charged with crimes, but cannot be due to pervasive power imbalances in the legal system. It is hoped that WHERETHEYLIVE.ORG will contribute to redressing these power imbalances, and gradually become less necessary than it is now.

This will end badly.