He has never voted to raise taxes.

He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.

He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.

He has never voted to raise congressional pay.

He has never taken a government-paid junket.

He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.

He voted against the Patriot Act.

He voted against regulating the Internet.

He voted against the Iraq war.

 

He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program.

 

He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year.

 

Congressman Paul introduces numerous pieces of substantive legislation each year, probably more than any single member of Congress.

Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) is the leading advocate for freedom in our nation's capital. As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Dr. Paul tirelessly works for limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies. He is known among his congressional colleagues and his constituents for his consistent voting record. Dr. Paul never votes for legislation unless the proposed measure is expressly authorized by the Constitution. In the words of former Treasury Secretary William Simon, Dr. Paul is the "one exception to the Gang of 535" on Capitol Hill.

 

Ron Paul was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Gettysburg College and the Duke University School of Medicine, before proudly serving as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force during the 1960s. He and his wife Carol moved to Texas in 1968, where he began his medical practice in Brazoria County. As a specialist in obstetrics/gynecology, Dr. Paul has delivered more than 4,000 babies. He and Carol, who reside in Lake Jackson, Texas, are the proud parents of five children and have 17 grandchildren.

 

While serving in Congress during the late 1970s and early 1980s, Dr. Paul's limited-government ideals were not popular in Washington. In 1976, he was one of only four Republican congressmen to endorse Ronald Reagan for president. 

 

During that time, Congressman Paul served on the House Banking committee, where he was a strong advocate for sound monetary policy and an outspoken critic of the Federal Reserve's inflationary measures. He was an unwavering advocate of pro-life and pro-family values. Dr. Paul consistently voted to lower or abolish federal taxes, spending and regulation, and used his House seat to actively promote the return of government to its proper constitutional levels. In 1984, he voluntarily relinquished his House seat and returned to his medical practice.

 

Dr. Paul returned to Congress in 1997 to represent the 14th congressional district of Texas. He presently serves on the House Committee on Financial Services and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. He continues to advocate a dramatic reduction in the size of the federal government and a return to constitutional principles.

 

Congressman Paul's consistent voting record prompted one of his congressional colleagues to say, "Ron Paul personifies the Founding Fathers' ideal of the citizen-statesman. He makes it clear that his principles will never be compromised, and they never are." Another colleague observed, "There are few people in public life who, through thick and thin, rain or shine, stick to their principles. Ron Paul is one of those few."

May 05, 2007 Ron Paul Wins MSNBC Debate Poll

Highest Positive, Lowest Negative

In the MSNBC.com rating window of 72,419 votes at 8:10 PM EDT, Friday, May 4, Ron Paul not only had the highest positive rating:

32% Paul

30% Romney

26% Giuliani

21% McCain

14% Huckabee

9% Brownback

9% Tancredo

8% Hunter

8% Thompson

6% Gilmore

 

...but he also had the lowest negative rating:

 

29% Paul

35% Romney

37% Huckabee

40% Giuliani

42% McCain

43% Gilmore

43% Hunter

45% Thompson

45% Tancredo

46% Brownback

War Has Been Declared

2005-10-19  04:22 GMT -04:00

I am waging a war against this lame ass company that is talked about in today's show. Acacia Technologies Group is a company that specializes in taking advantage of our government's broken patent system and extorting money from major companies. Basically, they acquire or file vague technology patents and then wait for the technology to be developed before they come in and file lawsuits. They don't have to put millions of dollars into researching how these technologies will actually work, or the man hours/brainpower spent to develop this stuff...they just brainstorm vague concepts and viola...instant denero.

Apparently Rants and Raves (and therefore me, Adam Reuter) is infringing on one of their patents. Their Digital Media Transmission patent...which basically states "the transmission and receipt of digital audio and/or audio video content via a variety of means including the internet, cable, satellite, and local area networks. Elements of the DMT® transmission process include a source material library, identification encoding process, format conversion, sequence encoding, compressed data storage, and transmission." Source

That would make me a patent infringer dating back to August of 1998. I was a juvenile delinquent and didn't even know it! OH YEAH, I FEEL PROUD!

So, the war is on. I want Acacia to file a lawsuit against me, Adam Michael Reuter. You know how to get in touch with me (1-206-339-RARS). Or if they try to get me to pay their shitty licensing fees like they did for porn sites, I'll shove the bill straight up their arseholes.

If they get through my wrath (good luck), I then want them to file retroactive lawsuits against every single other webshow out there. Then I want them to file lawsuits against every Podcast that is listed on the following websites:

Podcast Alley dot com
Podcast Pickle dot com
DigitalPodcast dot com

When they do this, they will make their gravest mistake. Because A. I'm poor. and B. I won't back down without a fight. I have about $300 to my name and no group of assholes are going to get it. Not Paul R. Ryan, not Robert L. Harris II, and especially not Robert A. Berman...I heard that guy steals money from the Salvation Army Santas.

Here are some links if you're interested in reading up on these punks:

Wikipedia
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Google

Funny thing is, if you've ever sent an JPEG or GIF image file to someone via email, you've violated their patent. Or if you've sent someone an MP3 file, legal or not! INFRINGER! CRIMINAL! HOW DARE YOU????

And after all, Rants and Raves has always needed a tagline. Indeed was old and not desciptive enough...this new one seems to suit the site just fine.

MP3s from September have been deleted off the server and knocked off the RSS feed.

-Adam

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