Ron Paul: Because Doing Nothing Will Fix Everything.

Also, anyone who believes Ron Paul's nonsense might want to do some reading on the pre-Fed economy in the United States, especially the Panic of 1907 and the Panic of 1873. There's your "unfettered free market" fully at work.

I think "In God We Trust" was on money earlier than that, blankfist, but it became the official national motto in 1956 (what was E Pluribus Unum?). According to Wikipedia, it was first used in 1864 and wasn't mandated by Congress until 1908. Interestingly, Teddy Roosevelt was against it.

"My own feeling in the matter is due to my very firm conviction that to put such a motto on coins, or to use it in any kindred manner, not only does no good but does positive harm, and is in effect irreverence, which comes dangerously close to sacrilege ... it seems to me eminently unwise to cheapen such a motto by use on coins, just as it would be to cheapen it by use on postage stamps, or in advertisements." - TR 1907

I agree with him. It's a strange idea that putting God's name on money does anything good.

Tried to post a tribute to Mr. Zarat, who penned this song, and died last week, less than a month from his 100th birthday......but no takers.....(think there are some folks that just dislike the dose of light they get, when choggie starts in to gouging)

http://www.videosift.com/video/Hy-Zaret-1907-2007-Unchained-Melody-DominicBirmingham

Agreed that we could have had a viable electric car by now that could go hundreds of miles on one charge IF the big car companies set their R+D brains to it and it was fully backed by the government. You know it only took our engineers approx. seven years to develop a "vehicle" that took three men to the moon (in 1969 for a nice moon walk on the surface for two) and back here to Earth.

Our government needs to require the car companies to produce a workable affordable vehicle starting NOW to get out from under the need for Middle Eastern oil which is ruining the environment. It is a absurd situation we are in.

I do wonder what our world would be like if the inventions of Nicola Tesla were allowed to be developed. Wireless free energy is quite a concept. He had hundreds of patents for his numerous inventions---a true genius. It is a shame that his competitor, Edison, resorted to Mafioso thuggery to stamp out the ideas of any competitor he viewed as a threat (including Tesla). It is hard to fathom the fact that the man who developed + invented the electric light bulb as well as the "recording arts" of 35 mm film movies (around 1888) and audio recording had a group of thugs sent out to stop his competition. Edison was inspired by the work of Muybridge in 1888 who made some rudimentary "movies" which had some very beautiful nude+natural females in them as the very first movie actresses. Edison went on to invent 35 mm film and the first Movie Production Studio. He was an enigma who had genius none the less.

It is also an amazing fact that Edison actually developed+produced Electric Cars from 1907 to 1915--the Bailey-Edison Electric Phaeton Cars which ran on electricity A CENTURY AGO ! They could go 100 miles on a single charge purportedly. Amazing, isn't it ?

Who killed the electric car a century ago ?

"goal of the Fed is long term stability"

Pre-Fed
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Panic of 1819-1824(4/5 years)
Panic of 1837-1843(6/7 years)
Panic of 1857-1860(3/4 years)
Panic of 1873-1879(6/7 years)
Panic of 1893-1896(3/4 years)
Panic of 1907-1908(1/2 years)
1776 to 1914(137.4 years[July 4 founding]) Total = 23 to 29 years - 21% of our time(max) spent in economic turmoil
OR(if you want to be technical) 1819 to 1914(95 years) - 24%(min) to 30.5%(max)of our time spent in economic turmoil

Post-Fed
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Post WW1 Recession - 1918-1921(3/4 years)
Great Depression("The Great Contraction") - 1929-1937(8/9 years)
Post Korean War Recession - 1953-1954(1/2 years)
1973 Oil/Energy Crisis - 1979-1980(1/2 years)
1982 - 1983(1/2 years)
1988 - 1992(4/5 years)
2000 Recession - 2001 - 2003(3/4 years)
1914 to 2007(93 years) Total = 21 to 28 years - 22.5% of our time(min) spent in economic turmoil

How has the Fed helped us establish "long term stability?"

Sure, not ALL of them were CAUSED by the Fed, but they haven't exactly PREVENTED any of them, either.

As a matter of fact, the very fact that they purposely CAUSED at least one of them should be enough for our government to deny their charter and to repeal the Federal Reserve Act.

But the Wright Brothers DIDN'T invent the modern airplane. Virtually none of their inventions are used in modern airplanes. Their concepts like "wing warping" were unstable and one of the main reasons the Wrights were responsible for the first passenger fatality. The more I learn about the Wrights, the less respect I have for them. They built a glider, stuck an engine on it, launched it with a catapult, published the resulting "powered flight" in a beekeeping magazine then spent the next five years suing everyone else who was actually building real airplanes that could take off from the ground on their own power, had ailerons and a rudder and were controllable and safe to fly.

Read about the REAL father of flight, Glenn Hammond Curtiss, a man so far ahead of the Wrights technically that he built a 8 cylinder motorcycle and set a land speed record of 137 mph...in 1907.

Considering that the Geneva conventions have nothing to do with weapons, I would venture to guess that DU is not mentioned in them. If you really wanted to find some sort of big name treaty that the US is violating, I would recommend looking in the Hague Conventions. Unfortunately, those came out in 1899 and 1907 before DU was even fathomed as a weapon.

But yes, Rabble, rabble rabble, US, rabble, rabble Geneva conventions, rabble rabble.

Considering that the vast majority of tank battles of desert storm and OIF1 occurred in the deserts of south-western Iraq, I would venture to suggest that DU isn't hurting that many people.

If this were 1907, they'd be part of the faction mandating that you have a man march in front of your car with a red flag to wave and warn off others.

They must have a crack team of crackheads running... everything.

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Yeah well, they were already removed from YouTube - so discarding the posts here was no biggie. I'm always surprised that companies prefer to shut the door on this kind of publicity rather than capitalize on it.

If this were 1907, they would be bullish on buggy whips.

Wikipedia to the rescue as usual:

Newfoundland English is a name for several dialects of English found in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, often regarded as the most distinctive dialect of English in Canada. Some specific Newfoundland dialects are similar to the accent heard in the southeast of Ireland, while others are similar to those of West Country England, or a combination of both, mainly due to mass immigration from a limited number of ports in those specific regions.

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Newfoundland English was recognized as a separate dialect by the late 1700s when George Cartwright published a glossary of Newfoundland words. Newfoundland remained separate from Canada as a British colony until 1907 when it became an independent country in the Commonwealth. Newfoundland is an island in the Atlantic Ocean separated by the Strait of Belle Isle from the mainland portion of Labrador, a large region of sparsely populated sub-arctic land.

I am not sure what this video hoped to prove. It is easy to find intelligent people on both sides of the debate. However, I would submit, that the following list of THEISTS is far more impressive than the people mentioned in this video.

• Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543)
Copernicus was the Polish astronomer who put forward the first mathematically based system of planets going around the sun. He attended various European universities, and became a Canon in the Catholic church in 1497.

• Sir Fancis Bacon (1561-1627)
Bacon was a philosopher who is known for establishing the scientific method of inquiry based on experimentation and inductive reasoning. In De Interpretatione Naturae Prooemium, Bacon established his goals as being the discovery of truth, service to his country, and service to the church. Although his work was based upon experimentation and reasoning, he rejected atheism as being the result of insufficient depth of philosophy, stating, "It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion….

• Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
Kepler was a brilliant mathematician and astronomer. He did early work on light, and established the laws of planetary motion about the sun. He also came close to reaching the Newtonian concept of universal gravity - well before Newton was born!

• Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
Galileo did his most useful theoretical work, which was on dynamics. Galileo expressly said that the Bible cannot err, and saw his system as an alternate interpretation of the biblical texts.

• Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
Descartes was a French mathematician, scientist and philosopher who has been called the father of modern philosophy. His school studies made him dissatisfied with previous philosophy: He had a deep religious faith as a Roman Catholic, which he retained to his dying day, along with a resolute, passionate desire to discover the truth. Descartes was to establish the near certainty of the existence of God - for only if God both exists and would not want us to be deceived by our experiences - can we trust our senses and logical thought processes. God is, therefore, central to his whole philosophy.

• Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
In optics, mechanics, and mathematics, Newton was a figure of undisputed genius and innovation. In all his science (including chemistry) he saw mathematics and numbers as central. He was devoutly religious and saw numbers as involved in understanding God's plan for history from the Bible. He did a considerable work on biblical numerology, and, though aspects of his beliefs were not orthodox, he thought theology was very important. In his system of physics, God is essential to the nature and absoluteness of space. In Principia he stated, "The most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion on an intelligent and powerful Being."

• Robert Boyle (1791-1867)
Boyle gave his name to "Boyle's Law" for gases, and also wrote an important work on chemistry. Encyclopedia Britannica says of him: "By his will he endowed a series of Boyle lectures, or sermons, which still continue, 'for proving the Christian religion against notorious infidels...

• Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
Michael Faraday was the son of a blacksmith who became one of the greatest scientists of the 19th century. His work on electricity and magnetism not only revolutionized physics, but led to much of our lifestyles today, which depends on them (including computers and telephone lines and, so, web sites). Faraday was a devoutly Christian member of the Sandemanians, which significantly influenced him and strongly affected the way in which he approached and interpreted nature.

• Gregor Mendel (1822-1884)
Mendel was the first to lay the mathematical foundations of genetics, in what came to be called "Mendelianism

• William Thomson Kelvin (1824-1907)
Kelvin was foremost among the small group of British scientists who helped to lay the foundations of modern physics. His work covered many areas of physics, and he was said to have more letters after his name than anyone else in the Commonwealth. Interestingly, his fellow physicists George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903) and James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) were also men of deep Christian commitment, in an era when many were nominal, apathetic, or anti-Christian. The Encyclopedia Britannica says "Maxwell is regarded by most modern physicists as the scientist of the 19th century who had the greatest influence on 20th century physics; he is ranked with Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein for the fundamental nature of his contributions.

• Max Planck (1858-1947)
Planck made many contributions to physics, but is best known for quantum theory, which revolutionized our understanding of the atomic and sub-atomic worlds. In his 1937 lecture "Religion and Naturwissenschaft," Planck expressed the view that God is everywhere present, and held that "the holiness of the unintelligible Godhead is conveyed by the holiness of symbols." Both science and religion wage a "tireless battle against skepticism and dogmatism, against unbelief and superstition" with the goal "toward God!"

• Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Einstein is probably the best known and most highly revered scientist of the twentieth century, and is associated with major revolutions in our thinking about time, gravity, and the conversion of matter to energy (E=mc2). Although never coming to belief in a personal God, he recognized the impossibility of a non-created universe. The Encyclopedia Britannica says of him: "Firmly denying atheism, Einstein expressed a belief in "Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the harmony of what exists." This actually motivated his interest in science, as he once remarked to a young physicist: "I want to know how God created this world, I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details." Einstein's famous epithet on the "uncertainty principle" was "God does not play dice" - and to him this was a real statement about a God in whom he believed. A famous saying of his was "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."