Stories and nonsense

Lima Days 1-2

2011-12-22T12:33:00.000-08:00

Living in Lima is like practicing for the Primal Blueprint diet where Mark Sisson describes the best exercise as low intensity exercise like walking while mixing in a few sprints. In Lima cars don't stop for you as you cross the street. So you end up walking a lot and sprinting from curb to curb. It's no joke here (I think the worst place I've seen is still Cario where people successfully cross freeways on a daily basis).

My parents live in the San Isidro district know for it's fine Italian dining. I haven't had any of the Italian food here yet, but I did check out some menus the other day. The cuisine here is taking on Italian in a new way - fusion this and fusion that. The most interesting one I've seen was Japanese Italian fusion. Didn't look appetizing, but I think I may have to try it.

I challenged myself once already by eating beef heart. See video. I've never had beef heart. I always thought I could do Fear Factor, but I'm not cut out for it. I had a difficult time with the heart. It was cooked well, seasoned well and tasted just fine, but the idea got to me.

Pisco sour is their national drink. I'm not a big fan of it. Tastes like margarita mix, probably cuz it's a lime/simple sugar concoction mostly. I've gravitated to Cusqueno beer. Lite taste and pretty cheap. Seems to be the beer of choice.

2x Silver and 150$/oz

2011-03-31T12:02:00.000-07:00

AGQ
Today, while listening to Peter Schiff a 30yo caller asked about "diversifying" in silver. This 30yo's version of diversifying was own 50% physical silver in the form of American Eagles and 50% paper silver. The paper silver is the ETF AGQ. Here's how AGQ compares to the paper silver ETF SLV.

After checking out AGQ, I'm interested. Not sure I'm going to buy, but I probably will. Not sure if AGQ is backed by physical silver or not, but the caller's rationale was that he can ride up the paper silver gains and if there is no counter-party fraud (ie if the silver ETFs are indeed backed by physical silver) then the paper silver WON'T go to zero. If there is counter-party fraud then the physical silver will shoot up as the paper silver crumbles (I have no idea if that will be a net gain or net loss).

$150/oz
It's surprising to me that Jim Cramer buys physical silver too (video). I thought buying physical silver is just for whackos. There he mentions an article in the Financial Times (aka "FT") which I thought was interesting. In the article (available once for free and the after that you need a subscription to read) a banker predicts a price of 150$/oz for silver, which reminded me of the Stansburry fear-mongering video that's been making the rounds.

Imagine what happens if silver goes to 150$/oz and AGQ is legit. What happens to AGQ? Wow.

Here's a graphic from the Financial Times article:

Out with GOOG and in with NGD!!!

2011-03-03T23:08:00.000-08:00

After listening to Pierre Lassonde on King World News, I decided to sell my 2 shares of Google and buy an equivalent amount of $s of New Gold shares at $10.11/sh.

I don't have a bear case for Google; it's still my "search" of choice, but I just don't have a really bull case for it. And I had already held my shares of GOOG for more than 366 days, so my gains qualified as long term capital gains.

Lassonde makes a pretty good bull case for New Gold. Gold itself is returning to it's proper place in society as a money - or so the people selling gold for paper are telling us. Central Banks are printing, so gold is "rising" (it's really in part just holding it's value against other commodities, BUT it's rise, according to others, is also due to it's 're-monetization'.).

Lassonde makes a good case for Franco Nevada Corp, which I think is this stock. I'm looking to buy.

dow down on europe/greece woes

2010-05-20T09:19:00.000-07:00

10,200 - dow
1191 - gold
17.80 - silver

what am i thinking?
i'm thinking of buying the 2011 january 20$ calls on slv.
i'm thinking "why didn't i sell when the dow was 11,200ish?"
i'm thinking "i can SELL EVERYTHING right now and i'll only be down 2%."
i'm thinking "richard russel said to get out YESTERDAY."
i'm thinking "the dow broke it's 300d moving average. GTFO!"
i'm thinking "the flash crash was REAL."
i'm thinking "be fearful when others are greedy. be greedy when others are fearful."

Tito Motz - Your neighborhood handyman!

2009-12-19T14:33:00.001-08:00

My cousin is a great handyman! Give him a call. He does great work. He worked on my rental years ago, and I would definitely hire him again.
Raul Ramon S. Gonzales
Tel: 650-757-6883
Cell: 650-430-8697
Email: motz_ph@yahoo.com EMAIL HIM!

movember

2009-11-20T14:33:00.000-08:00

i'm not the only one with a strange mustache.

as you may know i'm trying my best to look like magnum p.i. by growing a "movember" to raise awarene$$ for prostate cancer. interestingly enuf, here in buenos aires, this dude here with the bald spot was trimming the movember on a manequin.

damn manequin's 'mostache looks much better than mine.

buenos (aires)

2009-11-18T18:37:00.000-08:00

arrived in buenos aires today.

first impression: es muy humido!

for those who don´t speak spanish, that translates to: gosh i need a drank! (not really, cuz i just had 2 amazing glasses of wine. the ¨glasses¨ were probably an entire bottle. i´m not complaining, i´m just saying....) i´m here in buenos aires argentina for a couple of days then it´s off to iguazu falls. pretty excited to see water fall from VERY high to VERY low. don´t know why that is as i see that happen in the shower as well.

other impressions: guys kiss each other on the cheeks as a way to say hola. the dude at the airport who brought our luggage to our taxi kissed the taxi drive (male) on the cheek when they met. both sides. the taxi driver returned the favor. maybe they´re father-son. most likely not. so that makes me feel like i´m more in a european city than santiago, chile, which seemed more american.

dinner around the hotel started at nine pm. (btw i´m 5hr ahead of u in california. that´s right. i´m in the future.) as of 11:30, it still seems like there´s a fair amount of people out at night. wish vacaville was the same way.

i´m about 218ft below sea level according to wiki. weird. a couple of days ago, i was 13,000ft above sea level and wishing mommy was there to make the pain go away.

strange. everyone here speaks mexican. just like vacaville.

The Battle of the Century

2009-11-16T03:47:00.000-08:00

pound for pound the best! or should i say "book for book the best"?

the battle had be brewing for years, with each contender claiming to have the upper hand. neither opponent wanted to lose, that's for sure. there was too much at stake, but as the weekend drew to a close, the victor emerged. the victory was decisive, if not one-sided. the vanquished was clearly overmatched. they exchanged shot for shot early, but in the end youth prevailed. yes, that's right. i beat my dad in tennis. oh yea, manny pacquiao won too.

we played tennis on clay. slid around and got my shoes dusted with red dirt. the ball - in part due to altitude and in part due to the surface - bounced up really high. threw our timing way off, but it was still pretty fun.

PERUsals

2009-11-16T03:37:00.000-08:00

some parting thoughts on peru:

tons of jehova's witnesses were on vacation in peru at the same time i was. in fact, i'm seeing a lot of them here in santiago as well. i can tell cuz they all have this distinct name tag styles. first they come to my door on sundays, now they're following me on vacation. i may just have to convert.
i've been mistaken for japanese (which is not new for me whilst traveling). what is new is that this dutch dude thought i looked like his cousin (who is dutch and white). i look so much like his cousin that he started talking to me in dutch.
the skyline of peru is riddled with re-bar sticking straight up into the sky. the reason is taxes. once ur building is finished, you begin to pay taxes. so peruvians - not surprisingly - stop just short of finishing their buildings as to avoid paying property taxes. the result is that the cities look war-torn or 3rd-worldish.
stop signs, traffic lights, and traffic lanes are all ignored. ALL ignored. it's one of those seemingly lawless places in the world (from a traffic perspective). strangely enuf, there don't seem to be many traffic accidents. are we wasting our time sitting at stoplights? are they really keeping us safer?
peruvians don't stand in line. they push and shove until they get up to the front of the line or can't progress any further. drives us americans ape sh*t, but peruvians don't seem to mind.
pisco sour is their national alcoholic drink. made with a sour grape liquor, some lemon juice, sugar, an eggwhite - ick!!! - for froth and some bitters to add some color and, well, bitterness, the drink is quenching but too sweet for my tastes.
the native andean language is pretty close to japanese. go figure.
appears that the tallest guys are 5'5" to 5'6". and the women are about 2-3 inches shorter. i'm a giant at 5'10". (5'8" if you want the truth)

Fighting Snails

2009-11-15T20:51:00.000-08:00

santiago, chile: after a marathon sleep of 12hours, first great sleep of the trip since the beginning of the trip (other marathons were interrupted by drinks of water and trips to the bathroom) i ate a great continental breakfast. then it was off north for both wine country and the beach.

santiago is about 1hr from the mountains (pronounced as "moon-tines" by the locals) and 1hr from the beaches (pronounced as "bitches" by the locals. just kidding, they say "bitch"). such a great city to live in. you can see the moon-tines (los andeas) from the city. right now, they're topped with snow. screw u al gore!

wine country was beautiful, as expected. full of grapes vines and sunshine, as expected. there were four wines we tasted, paired with four cheeses (not expected!). yum. sauvignon blanc paired with goat cheese. merlot paired with parmesan. and, not to be outdone, a blend of french style/american style wine paired with sheep cheese. i polished off my wine and dad's wine, as expected.

lunch was along the coast. it was a seafood extrodinaire, which means i had snails. i like french escargot, where the snail is lost in a butter, white wine, parsley cluster f*ck - i mean symphony. chilean sea snail is a bit like shoe leather - but tougher and not as tasty. i swear that whenever i bit down on the snail, it laughed and said "is that all you got?" (the snail was dead, but tough, in case that was vague.)

now, whenever i've seen shows like "fear factor" or "the amazing race" where contestants have to eat crazy food, i always thought to myself "chew chew. swallow. move on!" but, when it was my turn, u could say, i ate at a snail's pace. (yep, i went there.) not my favorite. it was more like "chew chew. whimper. chew. gather thoughts. chew. find a happy place. chew. maybe no one will notice if i hide this in the balls of butter. chew. drink and swalllow. move on!"

the rest of the lunch was yumscrumliciousastygasmic. salmon ceviche. clams. mussels. octopus. squid. brazilian bbq (roasted argentine beef. roasted chicken.). crab ravioli. shrimp salad. vino. chilean pisco sour (not as sweet as the pervuian pisco sour. further, i believe that the chilean version doesn't have egg white or bitters in it).

the beach was ok. none of us were prepared to take a dip tho we did touch the water. the water is from the arctic, so it's freezing. great cliff views tho.

later that evening we hunted for a place to watch the pacquiao fight.

Santiago Creek

2009-11-15T18:18:00.000-08:00

who doesn't love tree-lined streets? (i guess the answer is: people who clean up the leaves.)

i love cities with clean, tree-lined streets, cafes, sunshine, good restaurants that are open late, bars around each corner, people jogging around town keeping fit. yep, walnut creek is great. if you're not familiar with walnut creek, it's a suburb of danville, where i went to high school. so if u take the english spoken around "the creek" and replace it with spanish, add a couple of old churches and a town square and viola! you get santiago chile. i flew about 1000miles from home and ended up in walnut creek, about 35mi from home. go figure.

i've been in santiago chile for a couple of days now. i arrived two days ago, dead tired, but managed to get some sight-seeing done. on my first day, i did the usual. ya know, the regular stuff, which includes - but is not limited to - going to the tops of stuff and looking down AND standing in front of things and getting my picture taken (thanks Onion.com).

from the opening paragraph, you should discern that santiago is a modern city. so "modern" is a loaded word that means "american" as opposed to "european." so what's that mean? european to me means really old, detailed, intricate workmanship on each building, with a common theme, look and feel, to the entire city (that's what it means to me). think paris, montreal, or florence. "american" is modern, clean lines, simpler, more functional ... walnut creek.

nonetheless, the city is beautiful. the weather is like being in vacaville during the tolerable months, i mean "month." jk. ye, it's not very chilly in chile. other thoughts: we're at 1700ft above sea level or thereabouts in santiago. no annoying humidity. sun sets at 8:30pm. santiago is currently 4 time zones ahead of pacific standard time. (add 4 to your time to get my time here).

santiago is on the verge of summer! it skipped the spring rains this year. thank god for global warming, otherwise i'd be walking around w/ an umbrella. i'm going to make multiple trips to the grocery store in an SUV when i get home - get eggs then come home, get milk then come home, get bread then come home - just to make sure the weather keeps up for the people of santiago. it's the least i can do for such great weather.

on the first day, for lunch, we had argentine beef for 20$ USD (or should i say FRNs) for two 8oz filet mignons - for one person. that's right. i ate 2 pieces of filet for 20USD. soooooo good. beef in argentina is grass fed, so there was a distinct taste difference to american beef. i would describe the beef as tasting somewhere between american beef and lamb. similar gaminess to lamb but redder in color like beef. so probably more like sheep - but not as good in bed (so i hear).

Pa pa pa poker face

2009-11-12T22:59:00.000-08:00

sweet! i just had a 50% return on investment. dad and i played poker at the casino at the marriot hotel. my initial investment was 80$. so i walked away with 120$. :) (sounds better when you say "50% return")

poker is so odd. there i was staring my opponent down, i had a 25$ chip on the table and he was contemplating calling my Q6d bluff. i completely missed the flop. fold. fold fold, i was thinking. my heart was beating in my throat - which reminded me of when i was in cuzco and i had altitude sickness. oh the pain. then i realized. it's not 25$. it's 25soles. or 4$ and change. eff it. i don't care if he calls. frick, i prolly lost (or gained) that much in the stock market today and i don't even know!

but somehow, for some reason, emotion trumps reason. i care. i don't care that it's 4$ or 25soles. it's ego. it's IQ points. if he wins, he's either luckier than me or smarter than me. or worse, he's both. if he wins, everyone at the table, including dad, thinks he's better than me - at least for the moment.

he folds.

i try not to crack a smile. i act as if i knew it all a long and methodically collect my chips. "thanks a-hole! better luck next time!" that's what the upturned corners of my mouth tell him.

The Silver Maiden

2009-11-12T17:21:00.000-08:00

how do you solve a problem like maria, how do you catch a cloud and pin it down? ....how do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?

so i started buying silver coins last year. nothing fancy, just good silver bullion. pretty good holder of wealth, that shiny metal is. ask my nephew.

people were so fascinated with the idea and feel of a silver dollar that i began carrying around a silver dollar in my wallet. constitutional money as a friend described it.

fastforward to today, i'm now part of elite group of superheroes who carry around a silver coin in their wallets. our motto: wherever there is sobriety, we drown it. (any member w/o his/her silver dollar buys a round of drinks.) so i carry a silver coin in my wallet.

last july, when i was in canada, i bought a gold coin there as a souvenir. after buying it, i thought that i should buy a gold coin whenever i went outside the states. well, in peru, i thought about buying peruvian gold, but i didn't look very hard (canada mints the 1oz gold "maple leaf" and i wasn't sure that peru minted anything in gold, besides, i wasn't sure i wanted to buy another souvenir gold coin so soon). so when i saw merchants selling silver coins along with their other merchandise, i thought that a silver coin would be a great substitute to gold.

on my last day at cusco, just outside of my hotel, i was waiting for my ride to the airport when a diminutive peruvian woman, dark skin, shaped like a diamond (rhombus for u nerds) - small on top, small on bottom and wide in the middle, equal on all sides - walked up to me and asked me if i wanted to buy some coins. she showed me some uncirculated coins, but none of them were silver. in her hand tho, was a roll of silver coins that she was also selling. 50 Soles per coin. (2.87 soles to the dollar). i tried to haggle her down, but she wouldn't budge. i pulled out my silver coin and tapped my coin against one of hers to see if they made the same sound. they did. i offer her a trade. my silver for your silver, but she won't take it unless i throw in 10soles and even with that offer, she says "well, i'm really trying to sell these coins."

now, i don't know the first thing about peruvian silver coins. one usually likes to know how much silver one is buying before a purchase is made. but i'm on vacation, so eff it. i'm low on the local currency (soles) and that's all she'll take. i tell her that i want to buy some, but i don't have cash. meanwhile some other tourist starts asking her all these questions about the same coins we were discussing. the other tourist spoke spanish, so she started talking with him, trying to close a sale. i respect that.

i went off to go kill a hour. i ended up getting cash out for my cab ride, and hopeully, to buy some silver coins. oh, i also bought some sweet bracelets. i shopped around for the same silver coins, but i didn't want to give my soles to a store, i wanted to give it to a street vendor, especially that old lady.

i go back to where i met her, outside my hotel, and i ran into a girl i met the other day touring around cusco. she was waiting for her ride to the airport as well. we kicked it outside of my hotel (her hotel was just around the corner and her pick up time was 1/2 hour after mine.). i told her about the coins and the old lady. she kept an eye out as we chatted as did i. she also asked the local merchant if he knew who or where she was. he was like "oh, that old bag? she's always around here, but never when you need her!" always the case.

so about 1/2 after playin 'donde esta waldo' i get a tap on my right elbow, i turn around and i see the old lady! out of nowhere, she found me! through my friend/translator, i told the old lady that i was happy to buy 2 coins from her, and that i had been looking for her for the past 20minutes! she was REALLY happy to hear that. she was so embarrassed about the attention - you could tell by the way she laughed, slumped against the wall and covered her face as she laughed - cuz as soon as i saw her, i turned to my friend and said "this is the woman i was talking about!" my friend - irina - ran into the store to tell the clerk that the coin lady appeared - out of nowhere! that REALLY embarrassed the old lady.

long story short, the old lady sold me the two silver coins, and i thought we were done. then she asked me if i still wanted to trade my silver coin for hers - w/o me adding 10soles. i said SURE!. to top it off, she gave me another silver coin. she said that the coin i gave her was good luck and said the same about the coin she gave me. that maria, what a character.

Huh? Say What? Como?

2009-11-12T14:57:00.000-08:00

is the bathroom worried? can i have six books of carne asada?

what do you get when you mix 5 years of spanish in high school with 10 years of neglecting the spanish you learned? answer: you get spanish that translates into the english above.

how can that be?

the difference between "pounds" and "books" in spanish is one letter. pounds = libras. books = libros. you can imagine the confused look the dude at the carniceria had when i asked for six books (librOs) of carne asada instead of six pounds (librAs) of carne asada.

similarly, the difference between worried and occupied is preocupado vs ocupado. so when i wanted to know if the bathroom was busy, i really asked if it was worried. i luckily, i recovered and saved a little face: is the bathroom worried? it should be, because I JUST HAD MEXICAN FOOD!!!

neither of these incidents happend in peru. so what's that got to do with peru?

well, last night, at the pervian version of mcdonald's, called "bembo's" (loved it. the food alone is worth the eight-hour flight from LA), i ordered a hamburger and a carne asada taco. the burger was great. the taco, on the other hand looked like this:

Machu Pichu

2009-11-12T08:13:00.000-08:00

i love the way the people here pronouce ´machu pichu.´ it´s like ¨machu peeeeeeeeechu.¨ cracks me up everytime. i wonder if they crack up everytime they hear me say machu pichu.

the ruins in machu peeeechu are probably the most interesting ruins i´ve seen. it´s so frickin amazing some might say it´s a-mazing, but i protest. i wouldn´t say it´s merely a-mazing, it´s THE-mazing. that´s right. prolly the most interesting in the world (that i´ve seen).

what makes it so cool is the surrounding areas and the astrological aspect. but first, the area. on any side of the ruins are verticle cliffs. this creates for dramatic views. also, it seems like ur in the middle of a volcanic crater cuz past the cliffs are taller mountains. so you look down for great views and you look up for great views. spectacular. it´s like a miniature golf hole. on the astrological side, the incas had so many architectural features that would tell them when the equinoxes and solstices were. some rocks would cast long shadows at dawn on the summer solstice. some windows would let light in at dawn and the light would be reflected in a pool of water. sweet. i use a casio watch and i swear i can´t tell the time on it. its digital too.

i wish that i could have booked my trip a little differently. i would have spent more time in machu peeeeeechu and less time in cusco (which could be spelled like cusqo, and used to be caled cosco). there´s this other place to climb to that i didn´t get to go called wina pichu. i don´t know how to spell it. but it´s way cool looking and it sits above machu pichu.

i bought some sweet bracelets. there was this rasta lookin dude weaving all this crazy crap so i bought like five of them. they´re pretty sweet. i don´t think they look like that in the states. i keep buying crap. i´m comin home with crap. fun crap but still crap.

ate some alpàca the other day. tasted like beef, just cuter.

Cusco

2009-11-10T18:23:00.000-08:00

I´m addicted to cocain.

well actually, coca tea. i´ve had a real bad time with the altitude up here. i´m at 11,000ft. air is pretty thin. yesterday 10-nov-09, i had to call it quits before i saw the last two things on my itenerary. my head was pounding so bad. i was really missing sea level. coca tea is supposed to help with the altitude, so i drink it regularly. when i´m drinking coca tea, the pain decreases. without the tea, the pain is almost unbareable. however, i´ve created a multivariate problem. i can´t tell whether it´s the altitude, the tea itself, tea withdrawal, or the 3 beers i had on my first night here that were making me feel so bad for the next two days. oh, i also started chewing on coca leaves. the pain was so bad, i considered cancelling my tour for today and save myself for machu pichu.

luckily, i didn´t.

one of the couples on today´s tour (who happen to be grape growers in napa) gave me a diomox (sp?) pill for altitude illness. a half hour after taking the pill, most of my symptoms were gone! the rest of the day, i felt like a million bucks!

today, we went around the sacred valley. sacred to the incas cuz this weird corn with HUGE kernals only grows there. the kernals are like the size of a thimble.

fast forward to tonight. i sat with a dutch couple for dinner. we were at a bembos (peruvian macdonalds) and this peruvian family sat down next to us. this 13yo girl starts speaking to us in her broken english at the urging of her father. she´s learning english and her father thought it would be good for her to speak to us. long story short, the father is a sportscaster for futbol (soccer to us yankees). he offered us free tickets to watch the game on sunday! i´m supposed to be in santiago, chile that day. i´m going to try to find a flight from santiago to cusco and back for sunday. oh, the game is Lima vs Cusco. can you imagine? that´s THE game for cusco (maybe even for Lima). can you imagine going to a soccer game in s.america? craziness!

itenerary
11-nov: machu pichu, sleep in cusco
12-nov: leave cusco, sleep in lima
13-nov: leave lima, sleep in santiago
14-nov: santiago
15-nov: santiago (and then cusco?)

Day 1 - Peru

2009-11-07T09:28:00.000-08:00

Hey No One -

What a long day I had. After hanging with friends in Vacaville and staying up until 1pm on a school night, I had to leave home at 4am to catch a flight to LA to then fly to Lima Peru. Good times with the friends. Although I suffered on my 8 uncomfortable hours on the plane slightly hungover, I wouldn't have changed a thing.

I set my alarm for 4am and luckily for me I accidentally fell asleep next to my phone. Had I slept in my bed an left my phone in the other room, I would be blogging about how I missed my flight. Lesson learned (I hope).

We arrived in Peru at around midnight. I was utterly exhausted. Midnight local time is 9pm Pacific. So if you're counting, that's 4am to 9pm after sleeping at 1am. Yep. Exhausted. The plane ride was so horrible. Nothing wrong with the service or turbulence, it's just that 8-hr in a plane SUX!!!

LIMA First impressions:

Dad and I walked around the Lima this morning. There are a lot of security guards everywhere - private security guards, not govt employees. The people look like Incas. Slanted eyes, reddish brown skin, straight long noses and jet black hair. Strangely enuf there are also really pale people with jet black hair. They're probably of Spanish descent. Last night when we arrived, we went to a fast food joint called Bembo's. Tho the service was slow, the burgers were made with Argentine beef. Tasty! So the taste was like a more flavorful beef. Don't know if it was spices or just the beef. I'll have to have a steak and find out.

Travelling w/ my dad is great. Growing up I spoke English, Tagalog and Kapampangan. Dad and I are speaking English and Kapampangan - which I love cuz I don't speak much Kapampangan anymore. Here are my lessons for the day:
Ela mikasundu. (That was in reference to the Peruvians and Chileans. Didn't know that it was just 2 words!.) I'm usually close with my K-pow, but rarely perfect.

This afternoon we going on a tour of some ruin, but I'm really excited to see the coast. Strange that I'm excited to see the Pacific Ocean - an ocean I've taken for granted my entire life.

So glad I have my power chord for my netbook. I thought I left it at home.

Tested out the Digi-cam today to, so if I get motivated enuf, I'll post some pictures.

-Edwin

S.604 - Chart

2009-07-15T08:33:00.000-07:00

HR1207 - Chart

2009-06-11T08:34:00.000-07:00

I love charts. I'm going to try to see how many different ways I can show this important data.

Does Rep. George Miller Really Support HR1207?

2009-05-01T08:06:00.001-07:00

It's 5/1/09... George Miller is still NOT a co-sponsor!

the great depression (the one in the 1930's)

2008-12-27T19:32:00.001-08:00

http://www.economicdynamics.org/News21.htm#n1
http://mises.org/freemarket_detail.aspx?control=515
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/fox-news-historians-prett_b_153482.html

Obama saying he would attack terrorists in Pakistan

2008-01-31T00:57:00.001-08:00

Obama in Pakistan. McCain in Iran. Ron Paul is the ONLY real choice.

Ron Paul on Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer 12-14-07

2008-01-24T23:18:00.001-08:00

Ron Paul on the Economy

Glenn Beck Interview WIth Ron Paul Part 1

2008-01-24T23:17:00.003-08:00

Ron Paul on the Economy

Glenn Beck Interview With Ron Paul Part 2

2008-01-24T23:17:00.001-08:00

Ron Paul on the Economy

Ron Paul Supporters Meet Bill Clinton at UC Davis

2008-01-18T12:00:00.000-08:00

Media Blackout: NBC, Olbermann

2008-01-12T21:06:00.001-08:00

After the NH primary, Ron Paul gets ignored by NBC. Keith Olberman even mentions Duncan Hunter, but fails to mention RON PAUL.

Hit Piece: McCain On Iraq

2008-01-04T18:59:00.001-08:00

If any of you want to continue to pay for the occupation of Iraq for the next 100years, vote for John McCain.

Ron Paul: On IraN, vs Mitt Romney

2007-12-30T13:11:00.001-08:00

I can't believe anyone would vote for Mitt Romney. Romney shows his lack of knowledge about the Constitution in this clip and in other clips.

Hit Piece: John McCain

2007-12-29T21:05:00.001-08:00

Here's a good reason not to like John McCain.

Hit Piece: Huckabee

2007-12-29T01:04:00.000-08:00

here are some good reasons not to like Mike Huckabee

Edwin sat at the same table as Ron Paul

2007-12-25T22:42:00.001-08:00

evidence that i sat at the same table as the next president of the United States!

Ron Paul: Endorsement from W?

2007-12-11T23:11:00.000-08:00

If you were a Republican and you were running for the Office of the Presidency, would YOU want an endorsement from the reigning Republican in office? Most would. Well, what if you were Ron Paul and the current president was George W. Bush? Would you seek his endorsement? See what Dr. Ron Paul says below.

Ron Paul: Alone and Rosa Parks

2007-12-11T03:23:00.000-08:00

What American in his/her right mind wouldn't give Rosa Parks a Congressional Medal of honor? Listen to the good doctor, and you'll understand why.

I don't know if I would have the intestinal fortitude, the strength to go against the grain. Look at those votes. He's alone. You Kucinich fans, tell me how Kucinich voted on those issues.

Ron Paul stands alone. Ron Paul stands strong. He votes his philosophy.

Ron Paul: On Iraq and Levees

2007-12-08T19:01:00.000-08:00

Once again, Dr Paul bridges foreign policy to domestic policy. There are even better videos out there where he explains how our monetary policy affects foreign and domestic policy.

Ron Paul: On Iraq, vs FOX News

2007-12-08T11:52:00.001-08:00

Sept 07

Great fire in Ron's belly! The good doctor deftly responds to a very antagonistic, leading question from Chris Wallace.

Ron Paul: On Iraq, vs Giuliani

2007-12-07T00:19:00.001-08:00

This is how it all started.

This exchange with Giuliani started MAJOR media coverage for Ron Paul. Ron Paul has always - since the 80's at least - championed a non-interventionist foreign policy. At around 6:01 in the video, the moderator asks if 9/11 changed the non-interventionist policies. Ron Paul argues that more interventionism would antagonize our enemies. What happens when you get antagonized? Don't you want to right the wrongs done against you?

Another great point: Ron Paul brings up that the US is building 14 PERMANENT bases in Iraq bigger than the Vatican! What are we doing that for? And why didn't any one ever tell me that my tax dollars were headed over to support those bases?

Next, Ron Paul applies the golden rule. What would we say if China was building bases in the US? Wouldn't we be up in arms? Ur damn right we would. We don't even like French companies owning our Water Treatment Facilities.

So who among the Republicans or the Democrats brings up these subjects? Who in the media for that matter brings these subjects up? No one in my mind has ever mentioned these facts.

On a side note, the phrase "invited the attack" - as far as I know - comes from a book called Blowback, by Chalmers Johnson. I'ver read it. About 4 times. (Not cuz it's such a great book, but it's so difficult to read.) Blowback is on Ron Paul's reading list to Giuliani. It discusses how the US's foreign policy can incite hatred and vengeful acts against the US. And get this: it was published BEFORE 9/11.

Ron Paul: On Iraq, vs McCain

2007-12-06T21:09:00.001-08:00

What I like about this video is the contrast between John McCain's argument Ron Paul's. John tries to manipulate people emotionally. "Let us win. Let us win" he quotes the troops in Iraq, as if Ron Paul is preventing them from winning.

Ron rebukes logically, with - gasp! - DATA! Ron's response is something to the effect of "if 'let us win, let us win' is the the prevailing sentiment, then why do I get more money from active military than any of you other republicans?" As an aside, the only person to get more money from CURRENTLY enlisted military is Obama. So what's the take home message? Obama is anti war (to an extent). Ron Paul is anti-war completely and unequivocally. Today's enlisted military is anti-war. If money talks, then it's sayin "Get us out of here!"

On another point, John McCain all but BLAMES the United States for the rise of Hitler. McCain IGNORES the effects of the Treaty of Versailles. John, don't blame America. Hitler wasn't our fault. Ron Paul should have used Giuliani's line and modified it and said, "I've heard some pretty absurd explanations for WWII. And I would ask the Senator to withdraw that comment and tell us he really didn't mean that."

Lastly, Ron Paul in the post debate interview correctly assess McCain's current political career. McCain has bet his entire career on the idea that the war in Iraq was a good idea. As data comes in saying that the war and the sure WASN'T a good idea, McCain's entire political career is in question, and he's scrambling to sell it to America.

Ron Paul: On Iraq, vs Huckabee

2007-12-06T20:12:00.001-08:00

9/5/07

I LOVE this exchange. Huckabee uses patriotism to influence the crowd. I must admit, when I first saw the debate, I didn't know how Ron would respond, but Ron did BRILLIANTLY (as usual)!!!

Who would have thought to say what Ron Paul did? I don't want to comment too much, cuz I think Ron says it best.

Ad: Ron Paul Rising

2007-12-06T01:00:00.000-08:00

Wow. And I thought the "Something Big" ad was fantastic.

Ad: Something Big

2007-12-06T00:00:00.000-08:00

This is my FAVORITE commercial. EVER! I can feel the hope. This ad was made by a Ron Paul supporter and was displayed at the CNN/YouTube debates.

Ron Paul: Why are you running?

2007-12-05T19:50:00.001-08:00

Ron Paul On Bloomberg TV 6-20-07

Q: Why are you running?

A: ...the War has motivated me a lot...

Issues: Medicinal Marijuana

2007-12-05T01:00:00.000-08:00

Nov. 9 2007

What a simple, concise, principled answer! I LOVE his line at 3:30. To listen to him is to love him.

Issues: Immigration

2007-12-05T00:00:00.000-08:00

Here's Ron Paul's stance on immigration.