Remember, Remember...
POSTED BY: SergeantX
UPDATED: Wednesday, November 7, 2007 10:59
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The fifth of November.
I don't suppose all of you will consider this good news, but Ron Paul raised a record 3.5 million dollars today. In one day. And there are still over two hours left. It looks to top 4 million before all is said and done.
SergeantX
"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock
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$4.5-million so far. His average day is $500,000.
www.ronpaulgraphs.com
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Ron Paul’s record beat John Kerry’s record that came two days after the Super Tuesday primaries in 2004. This makes Paul’s online fundraising effort largest single day online fund raising effort in history by a presidential candidate.
www.usadaily.com/article.cfm?articleID=151377
If you hate traffic tickets and income taxes, here's how to terminate them:
www.thisnovember5th.com
www.ronpaul2008.com/donate/
www.infowars.com/articles/us/ron_paul_on_course_raise_millions_in_one_
day.htm
As for Remember Remember the 5th of November, from the fictional movie V for Vendetta, the real Catholic Gunpowder Plot to bomb British Parliament 400 years ago was a terrorist plot perped by the ancestor of George Bush Jr. Crooked cop Constable Thomas Percy was gunned down and summarily executed for resisting arrest. The other conspirators were tortured, castrated in public, drawn and quartered, then beheaded. Bush's mommy Barbara Pierce's family changed their name from Percy.
Bush family's head on a stick in British Parliament in 2007
http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/piratenewsrss/message/174
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It's amazing to me how many naive people are willing to throw away their hard-earned money to give to these smarmy, ego-centric political candidates. Then add in all the Democrat supporters who JUST CAN'T WAIT to have their peeps RAISE ALL OUR TAXES so we all TAKE HOME LESS MONEY every week. Gee...what a self-defeating enterprise. Wise up people. You ain't gonna have nothing left in your paychecks without a Republican President there to veto the out-of-control Rangle-led Ways & Means TAX INCREASES they're just drooling about. Ya know...lotsa criminal illegal aliens NEED YOUR MONEY so the Dems plan is to take it from YOU and give it to them. How nice!
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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
It's amazing to me how many naive people are willing to throw away their hard-earned money to give to these smarmy, ego-centric political candidates.
I hope you aren't including Ron Paul in that description.
www.RonPaul2008.com
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Umm, you DO realize someone has to pay for all this insanity, right ?
By not raising taxes, politicians of today are simply eyeballing your children (who might I note, cannot vote yet) with the intent of dumping this massive crushing debt on THEM.
You wanna talk about taxation without representation, there it is in spades - they did not ask for it, could not vote against it, and paying that monster debt down will financially cripple and destroy many of em.
And you wonder why they hate us....
-Frem
It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it
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Originally posted by SergeantX:
It looks to top 4 million before all is said and done.
Mr. Paul has been 'all said and done' since the day before he announced his candidacy.
I already noted that he is running an independent campaign, probably as a libertarian again. Its not uncommon for them to amass several million dollars for their campaigns. Thats all this is...Libertarian Party using the primary process to showcase their candidate and agenda...very clever, but he's always going to be a marginal candidate at best.
H
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Originally posted by Early:
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
It's amazing to me how many naive people are willing to throw away their hard-earned money to give to these smarmy, ego-centric political candidates.
I hope you aren't including Ron Paul in that description.
No, but giving your money to him seems as worthy as flushing it down the toilet. Why give any of your money to these rich bastards? You think your $ 100 bucks stands a chance of matter and/or influence next to the George Soros' of the world's millions? Pshaw! Better to use your money to buy Firefly stuff.
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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Better to use you money to buy Firefly stuff.
Might I suggest the United Way...we just did a City Building fund raiser for them and raised $20,000.
And the United Way has a much greater chance of being elected President then Ron Paul.
H
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Looks like killing the IRS is quite popular.
Ron Paul Girl takes it off for November 5th:
United Way is a RepubliCon front, with massive overhead for their lifestyles of the rich and infamous, with very little money going to those who need it. Don't waste your money on United Way Corporation, give it to Ron Paul, so he can pay bribes to the media mafia extortion rackets to deprogram the sheeple, which is actually cheap for candidates.
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In the wake of a controversial $1.5 million pension payout to a former chief executive, the United Way of America is changing its rules to prevent such payments from happening again. The CEO, Betty Stanley Beene, had served in the post from late 1997 to 2001. The $1.5 million payment was disclosed in recent United Way tax filings, according to the Washington Post.
http://compensation.blr.com/display.cfm/id/150237
More than a decade ago, the $463,000 annual compensation of the president of the United Way of America sparked unprecedented scrutiny of charities throughout the nation. But as corporate scandals involving Enron and WorldCom grabbed headlines, salaries at nonprofits faded from the spotlight. Now, once again, nonprofit organizations are attracting scrutiny. Just last year, the IRS launched an investigation into tax exempt organizations to put an end to excessive compensation and benefits.
www.sptimes.com/2005/08/15/Business/He_s_the_highest_paid.shtml
Mr. Grassley, a federal grand jury, and the U.S. Department of Labor are all investigating the United Way of the National Capital Area, in Washington, which has been gripped by a controversy for the past year that began with charges that its former chief executive was paid an overly generous consulting contract after he left that job. Oral Suer was paid $72,000 over 12 months after retiring as chief executive, and gained another $200,000 when he was allowed to take his pension two years before he retired, The Washington Post has reported.
www.philanthropy.com/free/articles/v14/i24/24003301.htm
Information concerning a major accounting and fiscal scandal at the United Way of the National Capital Area continues to trickle out. An ongoing criminal investigation is being conducted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Alexandria, Virginia. Several investigative elements of the federal government have been involved at varying stages of this ongoing investigation, including the U.S. Department of Labor auditors, the FBI, and auditors from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. The United Way is a network of over 2,000 local organizations that raises over $3 billion a year for charity. United Way Board of Governors set up an independent investigation of the allegations against the chief executive officer, William Aramony. After a two year investigation, Mr. Aramony was indicted by a federal grand jury of conspiring to defraud the United Way, filing false tax returns and falsifying records to hide the diversion of money, [and] following a lengthy and well-publicized trial, Mr. Aramony was found guilty of 25 felony charges and was sentenced to seven years in prison. The Washington Post in an August 17th article entitled "Dealings of Charity Executive Concealed," by staff writers Peter Whoriskey and Jacqueline L. Salmon, points out that, "The financial dealings of Oral Suer, the former United Way chief accused in an audit last week of taking more than $1.5 million in questionable payments from the local charity, were first flagged by auditors more than 15 years ago but remained a closely held secret among a handful of prominent board members even as the losses mounted over time, audits and interviews show."
www.etherzone.com/2003/lang082903.shtml
Panhandling by career criminals is very profitable for charity corporations.
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The total topped $4.2 million. That's in one 24 hour period. And they aren't pledges, but actual transactions. It's a great day to be a Ron Paul supporter. :)
Thanks to Hero and Jongstraw for your heartfelt congratulations. We in the RP camp look forward to more of that kind of solid support from the party faithful.
The funny thing is, everyone (the press, and the other candidates) is trying to figure out how he's doing it. What's his secret? The articles insinuate that he's hired some web-manipulating guru who's orchestrating all of this. They can't really seem to get it through their heads that this is the real deal - a genuine grassroots campaign pushed by people who really care, people waking up from their apathy with a desire to make things better. It'll be funny watching the other Republicans trying to emulate RP's online "tactics", not realizing that it's about the message, not some clever strategy.
SergeantX
"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock
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