Peter James chats with Ron Paul's cocker spaniel

"Peter James is our Republican candidate in Maryland's 4th Congressional District. Peter faces a special election on June 17, which provides a unique opportunity for us to pick up this seat. There will likely be low voter turn out, so it is absolutely essential that Republicans, and liberty-loving independents and Democrats, go out to vote for Peter. Time is short and this election is rapidly approaching, please do what you can to help Peter today."

-- Ron Paul

Peter James: I can't tell you how tickled I am to get Dr. Paul's endorsement.

"Dr. Paul's" Cocker Spaniel:

Peter James: You know, this is big. Really big.

"Dr. Paul's" Cocker Spaniel:

Peter James: Because there's no one in the world more highly regarded by the voters in Maryland's Fourth Congressional District than Dr. Paul.

"Dr. Paul's" Cocker Spaniel:

Peter James: I mean, just the other day, I went into a grocery store in District 4, and all they could talk about was monetary policy and the private banking monopoly.

"Dr. Paul's" Cocker Spaniel:

Peter James: It was in District Heights. You know the store I'm thinking of, right?

"Dr. Paul's" Cocker Spaniel:

Peter James: They just love Dr. Paul.

"Dr. Paul's" Cocker Spaniel:

Peter James: They agreed with me that it was outrageous how Dr. Paul was blamed for the things someone else wrote in Dr. Paul's newsletter under his name.

"Dr. Paul's" Cocker Spaniel:

Peter James: It was just like the way people are punishing Barack Obama now for belonging to Jeremiah Wright's church.

"Dr. Paul's" Cocker Spaniel:

Peter James: You can't expect a man to know what his pastor has been saying for 20 years, and you sure can't expect a man to know what's being written in his name in his own newsletter.

"Dr. Paul's" Cocker Spaniel:

Peter James: Because Dr. Paul's a busy man.

"Dr. Paul's" Cocker Spaniel:

Peter James: Fighting efforts to cover up the answers to what happened on September 11.

"Dr. Paul's" Cocker Spaniel:

Peter James: Not that he believes that George Bush personally ordered the destruction of the World Trade Center.

"Dr. Paul's" Cocker Spaniel:

Peter James: Just that questions have been raised, and if you can't trust the government to tell the truth about monetary policy, how can you be sure it's telling the truth about controlled demolition?

"Dr. Paul's" Cocker Spaniel:

Peter James: And all of the liberties we've lost since that day are nothing but attempts to provide an unattainable security for us.

"Dr. Paul's" Cocker Spaniel:

Peter James: Because the only way for us to have complete security is to build a maximum-security prison for all of us.

"Dr. Paul's" Cocker Spaniel:

Peter James: And if we can't have complete security, then we should surely have none.

"Dr. Paul's" Cocker Spaniel:

Peter James: At least if it interferes with our liberties.

"Dr. Paul's" Cocker Spaniel:

Peter James: Like our God-given right to use controlled substances.

"Dr. Paul's" Cocker Spaniel:

Peter James: And our right to sacrifice animals.

"Dr. Paul's" Cocker Spaniel:

Peter James: Only kidding about that. Because, you know, Santeria was the official state religion of Maryland for five years.

"Dr. Paul's" Cocker Spaniel:

Peter James: Google it.

"Dr. Paul's" Cocker Spaniel:

Peter James: You'll find it on my official campaign website.

"Dr. Paul's" Cocker Spaniel:

Peter James: So it's obviously true.

"Dr. Paul's" Cocker Spaniel:

Peter James: I'm sure Dr. Paul would agree with me.

"Dr. Paul's" Cocker Spaniel:

Peter James:

"Dr. Paul's" Cocker Spaniel: Yeah, I'll bet. The man probably paid as much attention to your endorsement as he did to what appeared in his newsletter. You beat that Zionist Likudnik "Moshe" in the primary, which was more than enough for him. And it's my considered opinion that you have as much chance of joining the man in Congress as you have of seeing over 4000 vaginas, like the man himself.


UPDATE (5/13): In my previous update below, I said that I didn't take a screenshot of the Peter James campaign website before it was redesigned and the Santeria statement removed. But upon checking one of my other computers, I discovered that I actually did take a screenshot. Click on the image below to see a larger version.




UPDATE (5/10): Pillage Idiot gets results? I'm not sure, but...

Sadly, I didn't take a screenshot of James' website, because James's re-designed site now leaves out his claim that Santeria was once the official state religion. But I can leave you with this, from the site of Steve Schulin, the District 4 candidate of the Maryland Independent Party, whatever that may be:

Congratulations to Peter James for removing Santeria story from his web page

My opponent has removed the Santeria story discussed below from his web page. He has also removed his disclosure of how he intends to spend most of his time if elected to be our Representative. I don't know if he has changed his mind about his priorities. I hope he'll publicly elaborate on the matter.

Schulin's entry (the "story discussed below") is this:

A call to Peter James to back up what he says about the Santeria story

As part of trying to verify the interesting story offered by my opponent (as highlighted here a couple of days ago), I called up the Library and Legislative Services librarians at the state Department of Legislative Services in Annapolis. A very nice librarian named Anette found no evidence for the specific claim about the 1987 rider or the 1992 repeal. She also looked through the entire record of who had served in the state legislature and there is no Charles Highweather amongst them. She also searched her Department's clippings during the alleged repeal timeframe from Baltimore paper the The Sun. No mention. So I respectfully ask Peter James to back up the story or stop spreading it as if it were fact.

And here's a small screenshot from Schulin's site (in case that gets re-designed) quoting James's claim about Santeria. I've outlined the key part in red:




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Paulnut calls radio show

This was making the rounds yesterday, so you may well have heard it already, but here it is: An audio file of a Ron Paul supporter calling in to a radio talk show.

I urge you to follow all the way to the end. Trust me, it'll be worth your while.

One commenter at HotAir suggested this was a prank caller, and it may have been. Then again, it doesn't stretch the imagination to believe it was a real Paulnut.

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As knitters go, so go the mah jongg players

As Jimmy Durante might have said, "Everybody wants ta get inta da act."

I saw a bumper sticker this morning -- on a BMW, an SUV, no less -- that read "Knitters Against Bush: Don't Unravel Our Rights." Link here, if you want to buy one, you sick human being.

SOMEWHAT RELATED: Darleen Click at protein wisdom quotes some of the commenters at Huffington Post on the wedding of Jenna Bush, now scheduled for May. Speaking of sick human beings suffering from BDS.

BONUS: Click here to Ace's to see a political teeshirt that gave me a chuckle: "Pot Makes You Vote Wrong."

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Obamao

A few days ago, I was fiddling around with Photoshop to create a Ron Paul bumper sticker. The slogan was going to be "You can't spell 'International Zionist Conspiracy' without J-E-W." But I wasn't satisfied with the way it looked, and I let it drop.

Today, I noticed that Michelle Malkin, in criticizing the Citroen company for apologizing to China after using a (distorted) image of Mao in a car ad, had invited submissions of photoshopped images making fun of Mao.

There are a lot of ways to go about this, most of which involve a whole heck of a lot more photoshop ability than I have. So I went a different way, moving the O in Obama to the end to make it Oba-mao and replacing the O with Mao's image. This is not a knock against Obama -- let's not exaggerate our criticisms of the man's positions by comparing him to a mass murderer -- but a knock against some of his supporters. So I picked an image of modern-day SDSers, who actually are wearing SDS shirts.

Like this:


I'm not sure I've complied with the rule that we make fun of Mao. I've just made fun of his supporters. But here it is. Take it or leave it.

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Bizarre quotation of the day

"The officers swiftly booted any troublemakers, as one fellow kept pointing out, 'Ron Paul has seen over 4,000 vaginas' - which was technically accurate I guess, but certainly not allowed."

Little Lost Robot, describing the way Ron Paul supporters dealt with hecklers in their virtual political march in World of Warcraft.

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Ron Paul chats with his cocker spaniel, Part 4

"Dr. Paul": I'm getting so tired of having to enlighten these ineducable members of the establishment.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": Why can't they see that the assassination of Benazir Bhutto was simply blowback?

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": It never would have happened if we hadn't started a foolish and illegal war in Iraq.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": And propped up Musharraf after September 11.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": Which, by the way, was itself blowback after we stationed our military in Saudi Arabia, which people like Osama bin Laden consider holy land.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": Not to mention our wholly unbalanced support for the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": We had no business fighting with Saddam Hussein in the 1990s, anyway.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": After all, we were supporting him against Iran in the 1980s.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": Because we didn't understand that the Iranians in the American Embassy were simply upset about our support for the Shah.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": I mean, why did we think that installing a foreign leader who didn't have the support of his people was any of our business?

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": That was the same mistake that led to the illegal war in Vietnam.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": And, to a degree, to the illegal war in Korea.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": We somehow got the idea during World War II that foreign intervention was a useful form of domestic policy.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": But there never would have been a Nazi party at all in Germany, nor would there have been a ground for our intervention in World War II, if we hadn't foolishly meddled in World War I, which really had nothing to do with us at all.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": People revere Teddy Roosevelt for some reason, but he made his name in the Spanish-American War in 1898, an incredibly misguided intervention that still reverberates to our detriment in the Philippines today.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": If Abraham Lincoln hadn't tried to take dictatorial power by starting the Civil War, we could have bought all the slaves and freed them, sparing the 600,000 lives squandered in that war.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": And we would not have had 150 years of race problems ever since.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": Blowback.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": And don't even get me started on the War of 1812.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": How mind-bogglingly short-sighted was it for President Madison to ally with the French against the British?

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": We would never have had British troops getting back at us by burning Washington if we had only stayed out of foreign interventions!

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": The way the framers provided in the Constitution.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": Like James Madison.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": You know, it's all blowback.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": Just what you'd expect.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": And you know what's really funny?

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": About the only prominent person who understands this, besides me, is Noam Chomsky.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": Which is sort of ironic.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": Given that "Noam" is such a Zionist Likudnik name.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul":

Cocker Spaniel: So you say. But for us retromingent mammals, the only blowback we care about is a really strong tailwind, if you know what I mean -- which I'm sure you do, given those wet spots I've noticed on your pants.

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Ron Paul chats with his cocker spaniel, Part 3

"Dr. Paul": Did you see me on Oprah on Monday?

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": No, sorry, I don't mean Oprah.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": What's that other lady named?

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": The one who runs that show, The View, with the three other ladies?

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": Whoopi, what is it, Goldberg? Is that it?

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": Yeah, I think that's it.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": Pretty funny, isn't it?

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": I mean, a black lady named Goldberg.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": Which, I think, is really a Jewish name.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": Like those two spies, Julius and Ethel, who were executed in the early 1950s.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": And Whoopi's a pretty amusing name in itself.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": One of those cushions that when you sit on them they make an embarrassing sound.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": And everyone thinks you just sliced the cheese.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": Anyway, being surrounded by adoring women is nothing new for me.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": After all, I am an OB-GYN.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": But you could tell they really liked me.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": Even though they're liberals.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": Because even though we don't agree on abortion, we really have a lot in common.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": Like opposing the war.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": And what we think of this President.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": Who, by the way, never seems to have enough sovereign nations to invade.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": So he's busy prosecuting a supporter of mine who produces the "Liberty Dollar."

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": You know, the coin that has my picture on it?

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": That's exactly the kind of tyrranical behavior you'd expect from this President.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": Retaliating against a decent, upstanding citizen.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": Just because he thinks the Federal Reserve Board is unconstitutional.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": Which it is, by the way.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": I've known that since I was in third grade.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": During World War II.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": Which was the last time Congress made an explicit declaration of war.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": So that war was actually legal under the Constitution.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": Although in 1943 I still wanted the President to bring the troops home immediately.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": I mean, what business did we have meddling in a dispute between the Germans and the British?

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": People were saying, anyway, that it was the big European money men who were behind it.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": Not that I necessarily agreed with that, but it raised questions that should have been looked into.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": And we really should have examined what we had done that made the Germans hate us.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": You know, I really wish I had raised this with Whoopi.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": Because I'll bet she would've agreed with me.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul": Given her obvious interest in Austrian economics.

Cocker Spaniel:

"Dr. Paul":

Cocker Spaniel: Yeah, whatever. In my experience, no left-wing chick is ever going to be into you if you can't stop Hayek-ing her chainik. If you'll pardon my neocon language.

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