Occupy Iowa:

Fantastic.  One of those signing statements we’ve always been concerned about.

Your nausea at Obama comes in here.:

The question therefore becomes not what Barack Obama’s Justice Department would do with the NDAA, but what a Rick Santorum or Mitt Romney Justice Department would do. And on that score, Turley’s concerns, though melodramatic, are far from unrealistic.

And with that I note the protesters I saw hitting Obama on NDAA.  I suppose this would happen with or without “Occupy”, a loose figleaf of a movement to cover “it all”.  I had to stop to catch what they were hitting at, and then people walked past and I heard this comment:
“Oh.  I thought they were protesting Whole Foods”.
Hm.  Might as well throw that into the mix as well.  It’s all connected, or something, right?

To use the logic deployed by the Larouchians at, for instance, Factnet…

The Weekly Standard must be Larouchies, huh?  Huh?  Huh?

I haven’t read the article.  The telling point would be if the author of this piece uses the phrase “cadre” to describe the Baby boomer generation.

II.  Armageddon IN 2012!  NOT JUST FOR THE MAYANS ANYMORE!
Or Jehovah’s Witnesses?

That’s what she said, right?

III.  EVERYONE’s INTERVENING TO STOP THE APOCALYPSE!!! Dave Christie, candidate for U.S, Congress in the state of Washington dissects the insanity of Her Royal Doge and how to cure it.
Dec. 21, 2011 (EIRNS)—The LaRouche movement is now moving on five continents, to avert the greatest danger mankind has ever faced: the bankrupt British Empire’s provocation of World War III. Mass leaflettings at churches, concerts, and shopping areas are being carried out everywhere, with messages from both Lyndon and Helga Zepp-LaRouche

So, the big Intevention happened in … um… Houston.  Kesha Rogers invited herself to a Libertarian Party Dinner.  And spoke.  Didn’t get to big a crowd reaction from the audience, I would say…  But here’s what they’re saying online.

gold fringe on flag.
And then there’s…
Great Speach I hope the larouche people and the libertarians can solve their minor diferences and make america great again
Yeah.  Minor differences.  The Libertarians can be pursuaded on NAWAPA, right?  As well…
It should give Mr. Hoenig some pause that LaRouchies are very outspoken advocates of Glass-Steagall, btw.)

And the Libertarians and Larouchies can surely team up for this:  All righty then.  The escalating mobilisation of the LaRouche organisation across the planet to stop the British Empire’s drive for thermonuclear World War III, is beginning to penetrate all layers of the population and its institutions, and it is throwing a monkey wrench into the British gameplan. LaRouche’s leadership is giving others the courage, and understanding, to also stand up and fight. […]
The British Empire, LaRouche has explained, has the ability to trump internal resistance to their war policy in both the U.S. and Israel, which is why he has insisted that the only durable war-avoidance option is to dump President Obama. Only in that way, can we remove British control over the U.S. thermonuclear trigger.

First layer of the population.  Well, we got Armegeddon Times, eh?.  They’re working on The Libertarians in Harris County.  And then Iran.  Here’s what they’re circulating in Iran.  And.  Manila.  The Larouche Irish Brigade can work wonders in Ireland utilizing the tools of bloggery.  Turkish Central News Agency, eh?

Rogers is the LaRouchie candidate who won the nomination in 2010. Let’s not make that mistake again, shall we? A third candidate, KP George of Fort Bend, has also filed, but since he did so in FBC he’s not in this report.
Let the sales job begin!

IV.  POST OFFICE TOUR

The Teapot Atheist:
The Lyndon Larouche supporters are two blocks away from my office parading their Hitler-mustachioed Obama posters and hurling epithets at passers-by, demanding more attention than I would even give the Salvation Army homophobes extorting money from well-meaning shoppers for their parody-paramilitary anti-gay crusade who are just one block farther. Huddling around the Park Street T stop, the Larouchers greeted me not long after a parade of ads on the side of the subway for another awful Christian scam, the Daybreak “crisis pregnancy” center, where young women who need help and honesty can be tricked into an evangelism session for the low, low price of one phone call plus their dignity and future. I prepared for work this morning while, on the news, the Beloved Successor stared dull-eyed at the casket of the bloodthirsty psychopath who recently left us to join his father in the Eternal Presidency of the DPRK. Surrounded by wailing North Koreans, I saw his eyes, no intelligence there, no glimmer of a better future for his people swimming between his chubby cheeks and his drooping brow – just a stillborn’s gaze, staring blankly at nothing in particular as though surveying faces in the clouds.  […]
The cultist-kings of North Korea are marching boldly into the next generation. Our oldest idiots (seriously, is Lyndon Larouche even still alive?) are still pestering us on the subway, when they aren’t busy sweeping away our democratic revolutions or telling us which superstitions might have the best angle on our reproductive choices.

Dateline Amesbury
They cut out cardboard and wrote signs that said: “I’m with stupid” with an arrow pointing to the other protesters, “Who got our soldiers home” and “Keep smart in office.”
There were no jeers or angry confrontations between the two sides.
“It’s mostly having fun and speaking out (about) something we believe in,” said Matt Knight of Amesbury, who graduated from Amesbury High School in June.
The two men protesting with the Obama pictures defaced with a Hitler mustache wouldn’t give their names. They gave out literature from the Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee.
As cars passed by, the two men were soliciting donations and telling motorists Obama is leading the U.S. to World War III.
It wasn’t the message the two men were protesting that drove the students to start their own protest; instead, it was the Hitler mustache.
“It’s one thing to protest (for) something you believe in, but to relate him to a very negative figure such as Hitler — it just seems a little too extreme,” Knight said. “So, we kind of felt like we should brighten it up.”

Comments:  Attention seekers of all sorts–from LaRouche supporters in Amesbury to radical Orthodox Jews in Israel–attempt to tie their opponents to Hitler because it garners attention.
What’s remarkable to me about these students is that they apparently spoke out positively, something rarely seen and not so easy to do in this winter of our discontent.

Dateline Bremerton
Ahah. Things are getting clearer. Not more rational, just clearer. I suggested to the angry guy at the post office that he had no idea what fascism was. This did not have a soothing affect on him. If Obama is trying to be a fascist, he’s making a lousy job of it. Any fascist worth his salt would be sending out goons to stomp on his opponents with heavy boots, or maybe give them 5-minute trials before “disappearing” them. If Obama were a self-respecting fascist, he’d round up this guy at the post office and we’d never see him again.

And a one and a two and a three… I have heard of high school kids cribbing their school papers from Wikipedia, but here we have an example of an editorial/blog that was written in precisely the same way. Your description of LaRouche and his views is utter nonsense. He is a Franklin Roosevelt Democrat, and has been consistently so for decades. The Wikipedia article is simply tripe recycled from poison pens like Chip Berlet.
COUNTERPOINT!

Rob, Thank you for the quick story on the larouchites, I had a similar encounter today at the Issaquah Post Office. I challenged many of their comments about the Global economy and as soon as they realized I disagreed and held my ground they told me to “Go Away” and accused me of harrassment, it was a bizarre experience. […]
The sad thing is the LPAC members actually believe they are involved in important political work when in fact they are so fringe and obscure in their beliefs and approach they make themselves inconsequential.

Dateline Sweden:
Bumper-sticker-type sticker on a rubbish bin I pass every day on my cycle ride in to university. According to someone (besides the man himself, who last ran for POTUS in 2004), the next US president will be… not a re-elected Barack Obama, not Mitt Romney, not Newt Gingrich, but… Lyndon LaRouche. Talk about leaping out of the frying pan (Obama), sailing over the fire (Romney) and the industrial-scale furnace (Gingrich), only to land in the Hellmouth itself.
I have had to deal with LaRouchites (as his extremely devoted followers are called) on at least one occasion: when Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame came to speak at Northwestern. They heckled Ellsberg mercilessly about… IIRC, the importance of building a nuclear missile shield, which had nothing whatsoever to do with the subject of his talk. At least based on that experience, LaRouchites (along with, I think, the man himself) have the teeth and the tenacity of bulldogs.

Dateline Occupy.
“At the tail end of this perplexity emerged Occupy Wall Street, a failed cause before it even started, made up of some sweet people and also some hard-line ideologues (many of whom have, let me say this clearly, an anti-Semitic bent).”
Yesterday in Cambridge, some Lyndon LaRouche people were distributing pro-occupy Wall Street literature which had pictures of Obama wearing a Hitler mustache. They accused him of being pro Wall Street,” as if Wall Street were Nazis.
I have to see an condemnation by “occupy Wall Street” of the LaRouche people.
For the record, I have.  To the degree we have structured organization, it’s in their quasi-official website forum — denying a place for Larouchies, amongst others.  Read back in the archives of this blog, which works to collect this schtuff.

Dateline Pleasanton:
Consider the source first kiddies. Lyndon Larouche has been a pimple on the ass of the political landscsape for over 30 years. Now associated with a far right wing agenda he actually began as a far left-wing, conspiracy theory slinging, “New era Roosevlt-esqe” hero of the little man.
He is for all intents and purposes a complete nut job that has less than zero credibility and even less influence than your local dog catcher would have on the political scene. The stunts he pulls and the people that support him (try to engage one of his “supporters” next time and the battle of wits will be over in less than a minute btw…) are don strictly to outrage and incite both sides of the political fence.
Go away Lyndon! Shooo! Scat!

Dateline…Have you ever voted for Lyndon larouche?  Would you? No I have not, but if he were to be in my country I may think of it for the comedy value

Dateline Seattle, from flickr user Wonderlane:

Dateline Frankenmuth
‎A group from metro Detroit calling themselves the La Rouche Pac demonstrated on a street corner in Little Bavaria. They say President Obama is instrumental in creating a global climate for World War Three.  Alan Egre, one of the organizers, said, “[Obama] just passed a bill under the National Defense Authorization Act which, you can be detained and be held indefinitely and that’s what Hitler started with.”

Memories.
The two stories I am about to tell were never broadcast thoroughly, but they are of interest to folks who follow corruption details in these United States.
My wife and I took Sherman to supper at Ginos, a Southside steak house of earned reputation. I had recently visited Lyndon LaRouche and when Sherman heard that, he told us a story about his own visit to the LaRouche cult HQ. I already suspected that Lyndon made waves because he wanted to run the Fed himself, hence he became a conspiracy maven.
Sherman said the La Rouchies were a cult, and were programmed to music. He described being on hand when members of the cult sprang to attention around the banquet tables, then ‘resembled zombies’ as the music blared. “If I could run, I would have run the hell out of there!” Sherman grinned.

Hm.  I assume this was tongue in cheek.
At the end of every radio broadcast, Skolnick would sign off with the following statement: “To Hell with the Queen of England!”

Dateline Dover

The demonstrators, who were handing out flyers and seeking donations, represent the Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee, a known anti-government entity based in Leesburg, VA, who partake in peaceful demonstrations depicting Obama as a member of the Nazi regime.

Neither of the demonstrators would comment publicly. However, one did ask for a $100 donation.

Lyndon Larouche himself is a convicted felon and how the Dickens anyone would give his organization financial support totally bafles me. He was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment in 1988 for
Actuary, the Larouche campaign organization is distinctly anti-government, anti-semitic, and generally anti most anything that does not fit his conspiracy-laden view of the world.

V.  It probably tears Ron Paul fans to pieces to see the Romney — Santorum side by side in the papers, a modification from the earlier Romney — Santorum — Paul when it became clear they’d finish a virtual tie in the Iowa caucuses.  There’s an uncomfortable trick of the media at work in this nomination — we’ve had Romney sitting there all along, the eventual nominee — and we’ve had Paul sitting there all along, trending his askew electorate.  And the anti-Romney has simply gone from one candidate to the next, as the media focuses on each one individually, and then his/her… problems come to light.  And so Santorum comes in, simply because he was the last in line.

With increased Ron Paul attention, we have increased Ron Paul comparisons to…

The biggie is Commentary Magazine, which is blunt with the title “Is Ron Paul the New Larouche?”  And here is its history:
Into the vacuum left by LaRouche came Ron Paul.
Two comments worth picking up:
When you can show me Lyndon be elected to Congress 12 times and gain the amount of support of Paul, then we can talk… Until then stop with these ridiculous articles..
 More to the point.  But we should understand that unlike Ron Paul, Lyndon LaRouche actually ran a classic cult, the real deal: top down thought control, indoctrination, self -promotion of a world-redeeming prophetic charismatic cult of personality, self-criticism of lieutenants, psychological depersonalization and directed de-indiviudualion of disciples. etc. Ron isn’t doing any of this.

This whole fascination with Ron Paul (whose prognostications on the one issue he purports to be expert – monetary policy – have been all wrong) is analogous to if Lyndon LaRouche actually, finally, managed to get the Democratic nomination, or be competitive in Iowa.

 Still, if LaRouche could get Democrats to vote for him in 1992, I suppose that Ron Paul can collect some of these true believers to form something that looks like a coalition.

From Democratic Underground forum on the Ron Paul supporters.
I remember back in the early 90’s the talk was the same with the Larouche’s
Same here. Paul is filling the void left by LaRouches’ 3 decades of not getting any attention
What a bunch of fools! I saw a bunch of them at the Boston Occupy, no they were not a majority, but they are hanger ons, sort of like the Larouchies. It’s like a cult.

Will an eccentric Texas billionaire jump into the campaign and throw everything into chaos?  (I’m looking at you Lyndon LaRouche!).

I ‘ve always seen Paulians as leftoverLaRouchies..

And Ron Paul supporters are demented cultists, a teensie bit more rational than LaRouchies, which isn’t saying much.

When it comes to the cult of personality for which Lyndon LaRouche has been accused of doing that for a very long time….it’s no wonder why LaRouche seems to be quite fond of Philip Giraldi, a former foreign policy adviser from wRONg Paul’s 2008 campaign.
Giraldi is well noted for being pro-Iranian.  He pushes regular anti-Israel conspiracy theories daily on Antiwar.com and other websites.  The fact that LaRouche is praising Giraldi and his propaganda expose there is something sinister affort.  Giraldi’s former boss is basically tied for first with Mitt Romney in Iowa.

I tell you, the whole Ron Paul thing is scary to me. Those people act and look like LaRouchies. …
Ah, yes, the LaRouchies! Yikes! I’ve had my run in with them down at Zuccotti (I’ve written about OWS – some very funny stuff, if I do say so myself). I was a Tory for one year…in 1988…when I was 10. If I HAD to affiliate with any British party, …

 possibly a Lyndon Larouche person.

Ana from NY:

Below is a fragment of a letter (painful, “separation”) I sent yesterday to a friend (former obviously):
“No, …, the crowd of “poor, poor, poor” supporters of OWS, such as Chris Hedges, Roseanne Barr, Russell Simmons, Michael Moore, La Rouche, Ron Paul, American Neo-Nazi Party, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Nicholas Kristof (G&S wife), etc. (not to mention the foreign organizers with an ugly past who designed the poster, gave the name, defined the theme and ordered to show up at a certain place and time) is not for me. I was not raised by decent parents and I did not spend decades studying, thinking and shaping myself to enjoy being among assorted demagogues, bigots, charlatans and pure, undiluted evil, dressed like the bottom of 99% (Marie Antoinette’s crowd comes to mind) and bubbling about “them,” “1%” and “the establishment” (they are not – sure). In addition to genuine revulsion, the fact that I am a convinced and consistent Social Democrat who understands the needs of this country differently than you and your favorite crowds prevents me from any participation in activities which clearly are distractions.

But here’s a novelty. From David Lindsay, who lives in some concern about an emerging Larouchie electorate.
I knew that Newt Gingrich reminded me of someone, and now I know who. Gingrich is the Republican Party’s Lyndon LaRouche. […]
Gingrich has all of LaRouche’s lunacy and none of his occasional flashes of brilliance. Mainstream Democrats need to become the party to end the bailouts, restore Glass-Steagall, bring home the troops from Afghanistan, eschew future such adventures, invest in key infrastructure, uphold the traditional definition of marriage, really fight against drugs, introduce single-payer healthcare, resist climate change hysteria, and defend both classical education and working and middle-class access to it. Or the LaRouche Movement will. But, in spite of its history even into the fairly recent past, the Republican Party will not.

Newt gets some of this love too.

So Newt wants me to believe that the system is broken even when the likes of LyndonLarouche or Al Sharpton can get the necessary signatures? That doesn’t pass the smell test to me. Does it to you?.

As does… Christopher Hitchens, like Lyndon Larouche, used to present himself as a leftist.
Fun idea: look up the verbal jousting Hitchens did to some Larouchies a few years’ back.

Alan Grayson‘s staff …  Matt Stoller, the former Senior Policy Advisor to Rep. Alan Grayson and a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute
I was called in meetings of Democratic legislative assistants a “Larouchie”, and the bill to audit the Fed was referred to by one staffer as a “piece of shit”. Yet, despite the staff opposition, the number of sponsors continued to climb, first hitting ..
Thank you, Barney Frank, for efforts on that one.  And we know he’s a Larouchie.  (Actually oddly enough Barney Frank figures in some of those wackadoodle Ron Paul newsletter solicitations.  Politics swerves in odd directions sometimes — Frank was name-checking Ron Paul in his last quasi-tough re-election campaign.)

Each cycle brings out the crazies like the LaRouche cultists, and each brings his own brand of insanity. Like most lunatic candidates, Jones will get exactly as many votes as he has family members, maybe less. The only positive the Jones campaign can hope to exploit for additional votes is that he shares a name with a member of Monty Python. That Terry Jones was born in the UK, and therefore can’t constitutionally be elected President, but he still stands a better shot next November than this nutjob.

Say… When you’ve lost Godlikeproductions and David Icke…

That douchebag and his organization are scam artists.

Lyagain, Larouche gives Obama too much gravity as being a truly decisive voice in geo-political affairs.

lyndon laroach, neo nazi and as many described him a cult leader, very suspect guy, fuck him!

Niewert’d get along great with the LaRouchies, or those who think that the Freemasons control world events.
This one’s pretty comical.  After dredging through NWO conspiracy theories and picking at Chip Berlet, we get the Larouchie comparison.

… Hm.

The next time one of the Larouchies… Schlanger, Steinberg, Larouche… goes on Alex Jones… they need to alert the masses of Alex Jones listeners to the full dimensions of the Hitler problem.  Rand Paul is Hitler too, right?  Not just Obama?

VI.  Rick Potvin Corner.
I’m now a category at Rick Potvin.
He recommends Ed Hamler.
And he gives into the Larouche War on Christmas.
“Reviewing Nero”.  Yeah, there was also a movie about fish you could compare Obama with.

 The bottom line:
“The End of the Line of the Anglo-Dutch System” makes for entertaining if not quite accurate reading. It is beyond me how a drastically weakened Britain at the end of WWII set out to “systematically the American economy” by undermining the Bretton Woods system. Wouldn’t such a weakened country have a similarly degraded bargaining position? Nor is it explained why the British Bretton Woods delegation led by John Maynard Keynes of all people would be more keen on “neoliberal” principles than his American counterpart, Harry Dexter White. Ah, but why quibble about historical accuracy when you can do creative writing?
Surely, there’s some entertainment value with this.

“Anti-ZIonists” cut into the Larouche cause of the moment:
Obama’s “work” might be concluded, but that just means that our job has only just begun. Yesterday there was message that was released concerning the beginning of World War Three by Lyndon LaRouche.Many have not heard of him, but I’ve followed his antics for almost as long as I’ve been involved in this nightmare. He has run for president many, many times, and always without even minimal success. Rumor has it that his wife is the Chancellor of Germany, but I don’t know this to be a fact. What I do know is that he has studied world Affairs for decades, and in many respects his views can often carry a great deal of weight. (1)However he began his message by suggesting that the USA use Section 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment to free ourselves from the insanity of Barack Obama. I wondered at the time why he had not bothered to quote that amendment for his viewers. Here it is:  […] (2)Of course after reading it, the entire offering from LaRouche becomes a farce because Israel has penetrated all three levels of control over the office of the presidency—with the Zionist occupiers of Israel.
There you go.  Larouche working for the Zionists.

Read number two at the bottom of the attached linked. Many younger folks here may not know of Larouche, but he even ran for president in the past, but of course didn’t win. Many of his predictions are to stir fear in the minds of his followers, but isn’t that what many folks attempt to do these days? Just do a little investigating on your own, and you will see how often this guys predictions come true.

LOL…hes calling Obama insane?Thats rich….lyndon is nuttier that squirrel crap.I’m no fan of Obama but the Mans far from an insane bumbling idiot

He’s anti Obie which is fine, but he’s still a damn loon. He’s nothing more than a wannebe “Charles In Charge.” He never has proof of what he claims…it’s all just his own tin foil opinions. He thinks his way is the only way to the absolute truth and light. He’d build a giant statue to himself if he could find a city that would display it! He needs to cut back on that red crap he’s coloring his hair with too…the Bozo look went out years ago.

Game for everyone.  What is this comment referring to, and who is this Jacque Fresco?
I can’t remember what the third one was about but basically its sort of like a pseudo-cult. It isn’t a political cult in the exact same way Ron Paul, Lyndon LaRouche, and Alex Jones are because these people do not seem to hold Peter Joseph and Jacque Fresco up to that level. Of course Jacque Fresco doesn’t really care too much for these people, but it is these movies that have increased his visibility and I give them credit for that.
Give up?  Here’s your answer. 
Personally I have mixed feelings on Zeitgeist. It has some good ideas but it sort of reminds me of the LaRouchies and what the Ron Paul people are becoming.

And finally…

Dear Editor: In response to the letter by S. Ann Robinson, Cotton Mather, along with his father Increase, were the men who stopped the Salem Witch Trials by demanding that the accusers prove their case scientifically, without “spectral evidence”. [See “Increase Mather, The Foremost American Puritan” by Kenneth Murdock, Cambridge, Mass., 1925, pp. 294, 299-301, or “How the Nation Was Won” by Graham Lowry, Executive Intelligence Review, Washington, D.C., 1987.] Cotton Mather’s book, “Essays To Do Good”, is cited by Benjamin Franklin in his autobiography as one of his greatest inspirations.

Like so many true American patriots, the Mathers have been defamed by British imperial historians, who would have us believe that the Pilgrims and Puritans left Europe not because they wanted to pursue scientific progress for the common good and the glory of God, and the European oligarchs wouldn’t let them, but because they were religious fanatics.
The truth is that the British Empire, the flagship of European oligarchy, is the chief source of religious fundamentalism, satanism and atheism in the U.S., with devils like Jonathan Edwards deployed to replace Renaissance Christianity with either Bible-thumping superstition or unabashed embrace of Aleister Crowley’s “do what thou wilt,” for the purpose of destroying our republic.
Richard Burden, Leesburg.

History comes alive?

2012.  Time to reset your vantage point based on Back to the Future.

Marty McFly is travelling back in time to 1982 now, three years before the movie was released.  He is travelling in a … I don’t know… Chevy Volt?  Doc Brown is incredulous upon hearing the name of the President of the United States.  The odd thing about the “You know that new sound you’re looking for –” That’s been parodied by The Simpsons … The Family Guy apparently … Hot Tub Time Machine apparently used the same premise for a Black Eyed Peas song played anachronistically.

And, yes, I am finding that the 80s are the new 50s.

In 2042, Marty walks into a retro cafe that plays Lady Gaga ad naseum.  Hoverboards are still the stuff of sci-fi.

Well, another day, another chance to look into the Ron Paul universe.  Take it away, Prison de la Planet!

The assertion that Ron Paul is the not only the least conservative candidate in the 2012 GOP field, but also the most liberal is beyond ridiculous. In fact, Ron Paul is not only the most conservative candidate, he is officially the most conservative member of congress and more conservative than any senator or president, not only today but dating all the way back to 1937.

Geez Louise.  That’s quite a rubric for a rather uninteresting item.  Who’s number two, you might ask?

 3319 GEORGIA D MCDONALD, LARRY 0.851

Hey!  I know him.  I think.  Wasn’t he — yeah, the man… John Birch Society President.  So, there you go… if you go ahead and define Larry McDonald as the mark of the John Birch Society… Ron Paul is to the right of the John Birch Society!

Though, the desire to assert this flies in the face of that “Destroying the Left — Right paradigm” idea that these guys are always talking about.

Hm.

After being interrupted by Occupy protesters during a veterans rally in Des Moines, Iowa yesterday, Ron Paul praised the movement, compared it to the Tea Party and declared that he was the only GOP candidate who could bridge the two causes and instill real change in Washington.

That doesn’t sound like the Ron Paul of 1990.

Having said this, I will make one comment: it’s obvious to me that the Libertarian Party would be a lot bigger than it is now if its image were perceived as more libertarian and less libertine.

Damned Hippies!

I am bluntly surprised that I don’t see anything in the Prison Planet lineup of stories ripping the Mainstream Media Conspiracy for propping up the candidacy of Rick Santorum — who is the latest in the long line of Not Romneys to be said to “surge” in the polls for a possible Iowa victory.  If he pulls something off, I get the feeling he will just be goddamned lucky to have been last in line — arbitrarily last in line, I might add — behind Bachmann, Perry, Caine, and Gingrich… and with just enough gumption to be the “Not Paul”.

I first noticed the “Santorum Surge” with a National Review post “Maybe it’s time to take a first look at Santorum”.  And so it goes.

He has a few days to “surge” onward.  Still a few more points to go.

Clean for Paul.

If I were advising the Paul campaign, I’d suggest a few other rules for their kiddie corps, such as hiding their dog-eared copies of Atlas Shrugged and learning to change the subject when voters ask about the candidate’s views on foreign policy. But in any event, it’s interesting, and a bit depressing, too see the experience of yesterday’s youthful lefties being put to the service of a cause in which both McCarthy and Dean would be thought of as among the Slavedrivers of Collectivism. 

Yeah.  If those are the Clean for Gene folks, is this analogious to the Chicago Protesters of the DNC Convention?

Five Occupy protesters were arrested Thursday outside the Iowa campaign headquarters of presidential contender Ron Paul as the group continued its protest against Republican candidates and President Obama.

History repeats itself as farce, don’t it?

Meanwhile, looking ahead to New Hampshire… The Free State Project will raise Paul to… a good second place, I’d say.
And Virginia, thank you wonkette:
 so this Super Tuesday they will be requiring voters to sign over their souls with a promise to support the eventual GOP nominee in the general election as a condition for being able to cast a ballot in the primary. Since the state has an open primary and Mitt Romney and Ron Paul were the only two candidates organized enough to qualify
All right.  You must vote in the general election for the winner of a contest pitting the two candidates that have the largest unfavorables in the Republican Party electorate.

So, to review the Republican Nominating Fight…
They’re all a bunch of nuts.  Thank you.

Random.
“Wait.  Let me see that shirt.”
Dukakis / Bentsen ’88.
“Dukakis?  Really?”
“Not a fan?”
“I can’t say I had an opinion at that age.”
“Yeah.  Well, I’m from Massachusetts, so there’s sentimental thing there.  I met Dukakis when I was 6. ”

Just one in a series of the Democratic Party’s headaches.

A random wikipedia drop.

The offspring of both Bentsen and Quayle later served in the United States House, although it was eight years between nephew Ken Bentsen’s departure (Texas, 1995-2003) and son Ben Quayle’s inauguration (Arizona, 2011).
The problem with this SNL reference is it didn’t mention the funniest SNL item with that quip:  On the eve of the election defeat, Bentsen wandering around a party repeatedly using that story to every single person “And then I said ‘–“.

I once saw an Oliver North for President shirt.  Considered picking it up.  Irony wear, I guess.

Y’know.  Reading this Ron Paul solicitation for one of his newsletters…

… The, uh, Ron Paul Survival Report?…

Actually, no.  But it is the Ron Paul Survival Package.

It hits me right with the opening…

Dear Fellow American.

This might be a preview of the themes a President Ron Paul will go in for his State of the Union Addresses.

You may not have much time left.
Next year, or next month, the New Money could wipe you out — destroy everything you’ve worked and saved for — and leave your family destitute.
It could happen any time. And I don’t mind telling you I’m scared. For myself, for my family, for my friends, for my country.
We’ve seen a lot of financial tyrannies from Washington in this century. This one could take the cake. And popping out of the cake, with a big Surprise!, will be an IRS agent with an AK-47.

Hold on.

I uncovered the New Money plans during my last term in the U.S. Congress, and I held the ugly new bills in my hands. I can tell you — they made my skin crawl.

Yeah, I kind of like the old designs better myself.

Thank goodness, a patriotic American within the Federal Reserve told me about this financial Manhattan Project. But this time, the government wants to drop the bomb on us.
To manufacture the New Money, the feds have built a colossal blockhouse in Ft. Worth, Texas, as ugly as it is evil. Designed in Stalin-style, guarded by KGB-level security, and full of three-color printing presses and spy device embedders, it belongs in Moscow, not Texas.
Stage One of the New Money — microprinting and a polyester thread — was meant to lull us to sleep, before the knife fell. But the bureaucrats’ scheme went awry when the old Bureau of Engraving and Printing plant in Washington, D.C., couldn’t handle the new technology.
They’ve fixed that now, and Stage Two will chill your blood.

“As Ugly as it is evil.”  Well… y’know… for the purpose of dramatic storytelling you can’t have beautiful architecture home of evil doing.

I’ve been told not to talk, but these stooges don’t scare me. Threats or no threats, I’ve laid bare the coming race war in big cities. The federal-homosexual cover-up on AIDS (my training as a physician helps me see through this one.) 

And yet… his training as a physician was of no use in helping him see through this one.

Hm.
 In 1988, Ron had a hardcore Libertarian supporter, Jim Peron, Owner of Laissez Faire Books in San Francisco. Jim set up a magnificent 3-day campaign swing for us in the SF Bay Area. Jim was what you would call very openly Gay. But Ron thought the world of him. For 3 days we had a great time trouncing from one campaign event to another with Jim’s Gay lover. The atmosphere was simply jovial between the four of us. (As an aside we also met former Cong. Pete McCloskey during this campaign trip.) We used Jim’s home/office as a “base.” Ron pulled me aside the first time we went there, and specifically instructed me to find an excuse to excuse him to a local fast food restaurant so that he could use the bathroom. He told me very clearly, that although he liked Jim, he did not wish to use his bathroom facilities. I chided him a bit, but he sternly reacted, as he often did to me, Eric, just do what I say. Perhaps “sternly” is an understatement. Ron looked at me directly, and with a very angry look in his eye, and shouted under his breath: “Just do what I say NOW.” […]
Again, let me stress. I would not categorize that as “homo-phobic,” but rather just unsettled by being around gays personally.
Hm.

Anyway… back to all that other crap.

The Bohemian Grove — perverted, pagan playground of the powerful. Skull & Bones: the demonic fraternity that includes George Bush and leftist Senator John Kerry, Congress’s Mr. New Honey. The Israeli lobby, which plays Congress like a cheap harmonica. And the Soviet-style “smartcard” the Justice Department has in mind for you.

There is something… something… there with Skull and Bones… and Bohemian Grove, but it’s a realm of soft conspiracy –like:  the Rich and Elite are allowed the luxury of having done stupid things that the rest of us don’t get to get away with… which, like, if you’re in a court hearing would be used against you as sort of character bloodying.  And we have just one just connector in the power structure up there.
And damned John Kerry wouldn’t let himself free himself from the grip of Skull and Bones on Meet the Press back in 2004.

Those who act decisively — and have the right information to act on — will survive the New Money and big government’s other economic calamities. In fact, history shows that bad times offer the greatest profit opportunities.
A liberal clergyman sneered: “Isn’t it immoral to benefit from catastrophe?” I told him, “No, not if you didn’t cause it.” In fact, the few who preserve and even increase their wealth in the coming chaos will be needed to rebuild America.

I suppose it’s hear that I have to ask… given that we’ve had what, I guess(?) is the Great Catastrophe and Big Economic Calamity… have the Ron Paul Investor profited and are they rebuilding America as we speak?

Surviving the New Money, the Ron Paul Investment Letter and the Ron Paul Political Report will be your survival kit, and if you act now, you can get this $224 value for just $99 — 55% off!

Wowie Zowie!

Meanwhile…

The scene is preceded by an image of of a building that’s been converted into a “United World Temple” emblazoned with UN flags, and immediately followed by images of soldiers and guerillas fighting in the streets.
This is exactly what you’d expect from the John Birch Society, an organization that has spent four decades urging the United States to leave the United Nations. It’s not what you’d expect from a serious Republican presidential candidate. It’s not even the kind of language you tend to hear from Paul on the campaign trail, where he’s more likely to talk about raw milk than the New World Order. And that’s been Paul’s best defense; the newsletters just don’t sound like anything he’s ever said. 
That’s partially true, but in the last few days, we’ve seen a clip (from 1990) of Paul embracing the idea that the Trilateral Commission and Council on Foreign Relations are secretly running the country, and now this. Josh Marshall reminds us, meanwhile, that back in September, Paul said that the border fence might actually be used to keep Americans penned in. Setting the racist articles aside, Paul really did endorse some of the more out-there arguments in his newsletters.

What?  You think that the John Birch Society and the realm of conspiracnoia took after him in a vacuum?
This is something like the tip of the iceberg.

“I disavow those positions,” he said in the interview. “They’re not my positions, and anybody who knows me, they’ve never heard a word of it.”

Ron Paul.  At least he’s a fascinating politician — unlike the most of the other ones.
And, sure, I believe that he didn’t write the solicitation letter, signed by him and employed with the first person pronoun and promoting “Ron Paul” brand items.  Yet…