Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:46:17 +0000, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> 
>>>> politics don't quite mix with geek humor... :P
>>> Oh, I don't know, I found the whole series to be very entertaining. :-)
>> Oh, it's *definitely* entertaining. I just have _no clue_ what the hell
>> they're on about... :-}
> 
> The politics of the 'net in the US was my read.  It helps to know that 
> Ron Paul was on the Republican ticket and is still running for president 
> but with a different party.
> 
> Jim

Had a long chat with the "supporters" of this guy on a science blog. In 
fact... They won't fracking shut up, even after pointing out to them 
that their "claims" that the government is supposed to only protect 
against things like fraud, theft, violence, etc., wouldn't have done 
anything to **stop** the current financial crisis, because nothing the 
companies that caused it did falls into **any** of those categories. In 
point of fact, what caused the problem was the government opting to 
believe the banks, when those entities told them, "We know the market, 
and know what we are doing", and opted to **not** regulate them, place 
any new limits on what they could do, or in any way restrain them from 
loaning out more money than they had, in absurd amounts, to people only 
an idiot would believe had the means to pay them back. Oddly, the only 
people that one could "claim" where committing, say fraud, for example, 
might be the people filling out the applications for credit, and most 
sane people would ask themselves, "Well, if the banks 'knew' it was 
fraud, why the hell did they accept the applications?!"

But, somehow, Ron Paul supporters, and other "Libertarians" still insist 
that the solution is smaller government, less regulation, privatization 
of *everything*, including, in the extreme cases of delusion for some of 
them, the military (apparently the Blackwater incident was something 
they missed completely), while the government, more or less, doesn't do 
anything at all.

At this point, the very idea that "any" of them will be elected scares 
the hell out of me. But, its just a choice between that, mild, empty 
stomach feeling you get when you think something is wrong, or a sweat 
soaked nightmare you get when you are sure you are about to be hurt 
**really** badly by an accelerating car, or a charging rabid animal.

Me, I opted to go for the only candidate with a chance of winning, who 
merely made me very uncomfortable. My parents.. have apparently both 
bought into the bullshit idiocy of the theocrats, who have spent the 
last 20+ years shoveling every sick idiot in the country onto the 
national news, whined about failing morality, and exaggerated every 
minor hiccup into a sign of the end of civilization, and are opting to 
vote for the ones who have made it their mission this election to kiss 
the asses of the same idiots that have been lying about these things for 
decades. I'd bang my head on my desk, but the bruise is already so large 
at this point that the next hit would probably do brain damage.

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