Picking Your Poison

First off let me state that this is not an attempt to sway anybody's voting habits or ideology, but rather to open minds and explore other options in the political spectrum that could possibly help bring us to a place where we are not continuously being forced to settle for the "Lesser of two evils". Now, if you are one of those who is not that open minded about politics or the process that come with it, and your quite content with labeling and placing yourself in a certain political category, then by all means- "carry on". But, if you are one of the many (and I do mean many) that are sick and tired off the way things are going in this country, and would like to see an end to the status-quo, then allow me to enlighten you. For over one hundred years, we have allowed this big government- two party system to stay in power and corrupt our freedoms and way of life. Once again my friends, we have a chance to put an end to the political bullying. So, why don't we actually do something about it? Our founding fathers never intended or designed this to happen. In fact they warned of it! They preached that a government " By the people, for the people shall not perish" and somewhere along the line, it stopped being about the people. Remember that both the Democratic and Republican Parties started out as 3rd Parties and due to their enormous popularity, took over as the two major political parties. Jackson and the Democrats wanted to end the Federal Bank and cater to the small businessman and farmer. Lincoln and the Republicans wanted an end to slavery in the south. So what I am getting at here is that we need a common goal to rally around, if we are going to get a 3rd Party Candidate elected. How about, " Stay out of our wallets and stay out of our bedrooms" for a rally cry? Of course though the way that it is rigged now, it is going to be damn near impossible to do that without an all out revolution. It is going to take all of us standing up to the bureaucratic bullshit to make ANY change at this point. We allowed this to happen, so its our own fault. If you like to impose your "values" on others and are ok with global domination, then keep on voting for the GOP. Hey , at least you'll be able to keep your guns right? Now if your into raising taxes and creating government programs to watch over us and take care of us, because we just cant seem to do that ourselves, then by all means vote Democrat. If you think that we should take care of our planet at any cost by imposing laws and regulations that cripple our economy- vote Green. Or just don't vote at all. That way you cant be ridiculed or blamed for putting another dumb-ass in the White House. Like I have stated before, this really is all predetermined anyway. And we will be crowning our Queen in February. Thank you for your time.

Gary Johnson : The Libertarian Candidate (Full Bio)

I thought that I owed it to you all who are tired of the Republicans and Democrats not fulfilling their duties or their promises, and constantly lying to the American public just to get re-elected. I have believed, for quite some time now, that it is definitely time for a change not only in Washington, but on a local level as well. I have voted 3rd Party since 1988 in some form or another. Mainly Libertarian, because I agree with most of what they stand for. Fiscally Conservative, and socially Liberal. Individual freedom, and accountability. In other words, "I am capable of managing my own finances and do not require the Government in my personal or professional business! On a Presidential level, I voted for Ross Perot (Reform Party) in 1992 and GW Bush(R) in 2000. Other than that, its been all Libertarian Candidates for me. If that is something you might want to consider, then I suggest getting some info on candidates other than "Giant Douche, or Turd Sandwich". Remember, you're only wasting your vote if you vote for someone you don't like or trust, just to keep someone you dislike even more from getting elected. Hell, its all rigged anyway. You might as well vote your true beliefs, if you really want change. So without further eloquence, here is the full bio on Gary Johnson. He is the Libertarian running for the office of President of the United States. Gary Earl Johnson is an American businessman, author, politician, and the Libertarian Party nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election. He served as the 29th Governor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003 as a member of the Republican Party. He was also the Libertarian Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 election. Johnson founded one of New Mexico's largest construction companies. He entered politics for the first time by running for Governor of New Mexico in 1994 on a low-tax, anti-crime platform, promising a 'common sense business approach'. He beat incumbent Democratic governor Bruce King by 50% to 40%. He cut the 10% annual growth in the budget: in part, due to his use of the gubernatorial veto 200 times during his first six months. Johnson sought re-election in 1998, winning by 55% to 45%. In his second term, he concentrated on the issue of school voucher reforms, as well as campaigning for marijuana decriminalization. Johnson ran for president in 2012, initially as a Republican on a libertarian platform emphasizing the United States public debt and a balanced budget, protection of civil liberties, military non-interventionism, replacement of income tax with the FairTax, and opposition to the War on Drugs. In December 2011, he withdrew his candidacy for the Republican nomination and stood for the Libertarian nomination instead, winning the nomination in May 2012. Johnson received 1.3 million votes (0.99%): more than all other minor candidates combined and the most votes in Libertarian Party history. On January 6, 2016, Johnson announced his candidacy for the Libertarian nomination again in 2016. Johnson won the Libertarian nomination in May 2016, with former Republican Governor of Massachusetts William Weld as his running mate. In August, Johnson's poll numbers began to approach the 15% threshold necessary to make him the first third party candidate since Ross Perot in 1992 to participate in the broadcast, fall presidential debates. So far, they have not let him debate and truth be told, I do not think that are even considering it. Johnson was born on January 1, 1953, in Minot, North Dakota, the son of Lorraine B. (née Bostow), who worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Earl W. Johnson, a public school teacher. In 1971 Johnson graduated from Sandia High School in Albuquerque, where he was on the school track team. He attended the University of New Mexico from 1971 to 1975 and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in political science. While in college, Johnson earned money as a door-to-door handyman. His success in that industry encouraged him to start his own business, Big J Enterprises, in 1976. When he started the business, which focused on mechanical contracting, Johnson was its only employee. His firm's major break came when he received a large contract from Intel's expansion in Rio Rancho, which increased Big J's revenue to $38 million. Overburdened by his success, Johnson enrolled in a time management course at night school, which he credits with making him heavily goal driven. He eventually grew Big J into a multimillion-dollar corporation with over 1,000 employees. By the time he sold the company in 1999, it was one of New Mexico's leading construction companies. Johnson entered politics in 1994 with the intention of running for governor and was advised by "Republican Elders" to run for the State Legislature instead. Despite their advice, Johnson spent $500,000 of his own money and entered the race with the intent of bringing a "common sense business approach" to the office. Johnson's campaign slogan was "People before Politics". His platform emphasized tax cuts, job creation, state government spending growth restraint, and law and order. He won the Republican nomination, defeating state legislator Richard P. Cheney by 34% to 33%, with John Dendahl and former governor David F. Cargo in third and fourth. Johnson subsequently won a plurality in the three-way general election, defeating the incumbent Governor Bruce King (a relatively conservative Democrat) and the former Lieutenant Governor Roberto Mondragón (who ran as a Green) with just under 50% of the vote. Johnson was elected in a nationally Republican year, although party registration in the state of New Mexico at the time was 2-to-1 Democratic. As governor, Johnson followed a strict small-government approach. According to former New Mexico Republican National Committee member Mickey D. Barnett, "Any time someone approached him about legislation for some purpose, his first response always was to ask if government should be involved in that to begin with." He vetoed 200 of 424 bills in his first six months in office—a national record of 47% of all legislation—and used the line-item veto on most remaining bills. In office, Johnson fulfilled his campaign promise to reduce the 10% annual growth of the state budget. In his first budget, Johnson proposed a wide range of tax cuts, including a repeal of the prescription drug tax, a $47 million income tax cut, and a 6-cents-per-gallon gasoline tax cut. However, of these, only the gasoline tax cut was passed. During the November 1995 federal government shutdown, he joined 20 other Republican governors who called on the Republican leadership in Congress to stand firm against the Clinton administration in budget negotiations; in the article reporting on the letter and concomitant news conference he was quoted as calling for eliminating the budget deficit through proportional cuts across the budget. Although Johnson worked to reduce overall state spending, in his first term, he raised education spending by nearly a third. When drop-out rates and test scores showed little improvement, Johnson changed his tactics and began advocating school vouchers—a key issue in budget battles of his second term as governor. In 1998, Johnson ran for re-election as governor against Democratic Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez. In his campaign, Johnson promised to continue the policies of his first term: improving schools; cutting state spending, taxes, and bureaucracy; and frequent use of his veto and line-item veto power. Fielding a strong Hispanic candidate in a 40% Hispanic state, the Democrats were expected to oust Johnson, but Johnson won by a margin of 55% to 45%, making him the first governor of New Mexico to serve two successive four-year terms after term limits were expanded to two terms in 1991. Johnson made the promotion of a school voucher system a "hallmark issue" of his second term. In 1999, he proposed the first statewide voucher system in America, which would have enrolled 100,000 students in its first year. That year, he vetoed two budgets that failed to include a voucher program and a government shutdown was threatened, but ultimately yielded to Democratic majorities in both houses of the New Mexico Legislature, who opposed the plan. Johnson signed the budget, but line-item vetoed a further $21m, or 0.5%, from the legislative plan. In 1999, Johnson became one of the highest-ranking elected officials in the US to advocate the legalization of marijuana. Saying the War on Drugs was "an expensive bust", he advocated the decriminalization of marijuana use and concentration on harm-reduction measures for all other illegal drugs. He compared attempts to enforce the nation's drug laws with the failed attempt at alcohol prohibition. Johnson was term limited and could not run for a third consecutive term as governor in 2002. In the 2008 presidential election campaign, Johnson endorsed Ron Paul for the Republican nomination, "because of his commitment to less government, greater liberty, and lasting prosperity for America." On April 21, 2011 Johnson announced via Twitter, "I am running for president." He followed this announcement with a speech at the New Hampshire State House in Concord, New Hampshire. He was the first of an eventually large field to announce his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. On December 28, 2011, Johnson formally withdrew his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, and declared his candidacy for the 2012 presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party. Johnson stated that his goal was to win at least 5 percent of the vote, as winning 5 percent would allow Libertarian Party candidates equal ballot access and federal funding during the next election cycle. The final results showed Johnson polling nearly 1.3 million votes and 1.0% of the popular vote. This established a Libertarian Party record for total votes won in a presidential election and the second-highest Libertarian percentage ever, behind Ed Clark's 1.1% in 1980. On January 6, 2016, Johnson declared that he would seek the Libertarian nomination for the presidency. On May 18, Johnson named former Massachusetts Governor William Weld as his running mate. On May 29, 2016, Johnson received the Libertarian nomination on the second ballot. Johnson's views have been described as fiscally conservative and socially liberal with a philosophy of limited government and military non-interventionism. Johnson has said he favors simplifying and reducing taxes. During his governorship, Johnson cut taxes fourteen times and never increased them. Due to his stance on taxes, political pundit David Weigel described him as "the original Tea Party candidate." Johnson has advocated the FairTax, a proposal which would abolish all federal income, corporate and capital gains taxes, and replace them with a 23% tax on consumption of all non-essential goods, while providing a regressive rebate to households according to household size, regardless of income level. He has argued that this would ensure transparency in the tax system and incentivize the private sector to create "tens of millions of jobs." Johnson has said that he supports balancing the federal budget immediately. He has stated he supports "slashing government spending", including Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. As far as foreign policy goes, he has quoted Tomas Jefferson with this answer " Friendship and Commerce with all, entangling alliances with none." Johnson presents himself as a strong supporter of civil liberties and received the highest score of any candidate from the American Civil Liberties Union for supporting drug decriminalization while opposing censorship and regulation of the Internet, the Patriot Act, enhanced airport screenings, and the indefinite detention of prisoners. He has spoken in favor of the separation of church and state, and has said that he does not "seek the counsel of God" when determining his political agenda.Johnson endorsed same-sex marriage in 2011; he has since called for a constitutional amendment protecting equal marriage rights, and criticized Obama's position on the issue as having "thrown this question back to the states." He has been a longtime advocate of legalizing marijuana and has said that if he were president, he would remove it from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act as well as issue an executive order pardoning non-violent marijuana offenders. Johnson has stated his opposition to gun control and has said, "I'm a firm believer in the Second Amendment and so I would not have signed legislation banning assault weapons or automatic weapons." Johnson lives in Taos, New Mexico,in a home that he built himself.He is an avid triathlete who bikes extensively. During his term in office, he competed in several triathlons, marathons and bike races. He competed three times (1993, 1997, 1999) as a celebrity invitee at the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii, registering his best time for the 2.4-mile (3.9 km) swim, 112-mile (180 km) bike ride, and 26.2-mile (42.2 km) marathon run in 1999 with 10 hours, 39 minutes, and 16 seconds. He once ran 100 miles (160 km) in 30 consecutive hours in the Rocky Mountains. On May 30, 2003, he reached the summit of Mount Everest "despite toes blackened with frostbite." He has climbed all seven of the Seven Summits: Mount Everest, Mount Elbrus, Denali, Mount Kilimanjaro, Aconcagua, Mount Vinson, and Carstensz Pyramid—the tallest peaks in Asia, Europe, North America, Africa, South America, Antarctica, and Oceania respectively. He completed the Bataan Memorial Death March at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, in which participants traverse a 26.2 mile course through the desert, many of them in combat boots and wearing 35-pound packs. Gary Jonson has his own web site, so if you are interested in his campaign and want more information on him, check it out.

Operation Mind Crime: How Media and Big Government Brainwashed the American Voter

Hello everyone! I am back with another one of my thoughts to ponder over (and get really pissed off at!) Today's rant is over the 2 party system and how I believe that "we the people" are getting cheated out of an honest and truly fair voting process. My example will be the current political debate system and how the powers that be have rigged it so that they always win and we always loose. Oh yea, and lets not forget how dirty the so called "Electoral College" has become! Does our vote REALLY count? If it does, is the information that we are receiving via the news media and commercials rewiring our (free) thought process? With Bernie Sanders now endorsing Hillary Clinton and Ted Cruz now giving the "thumbs up" to Trump, I am totally and unequivocally convinced that the whole thing is rigged and that they're all really working together for power over us! Oh sure, they spin a great yarn against each other every election year to give us that excitement and entertainment we all so crave. In reality, its all just a rouse. Just another part of their plan to control our lives. And not only do we let this happen to us, but we also give up our power to reason and think clearly as well. Selling our souls to a particular political party, regardless of how much we actually agree with them or not. The United States presidential election of 1788–89 was the first presidential election. It was held from Monday, December 15, 1788, to Saturday, January 10, 1789. It was conducted under the new United States Constitution, which was ratified earlier in 1788. In the election, George Washington was unanimously elected for the first of his two terms as president, and John Adams became the first vice president. No political parties existed at the time of the 1788–89 presidential election. Candidates were either Federalists, meaning they supported the ratification of the Constitution, or Anti-Federalists, meaning they opposed ratification. 13 candidates were allowed to run for the office of President of the United States. Since our country's first Presidential election in 1788, the strategies of those campaigning have changed dramatically. Although the tactics that presidential hopefuls used in the early days of our country's history are still relevant, those who seek to be the Commander in Chief today must embrace a vast array of strategies that invite constant exposure and accountability. In 1796, after eight years of Washington, America saw its first exposure to a true campaign during the second Presidential election. Vice President John Adams ran against Thomas Jefferson, who had been nominated by the country's first political opposition party, the Democratic-Republicans. Four years later, the same two candidates raised the stakes during the 1800 election. Jefferson, who had lost in 1796, paid the editor of the Richmond Examiner to print anti-Federalist articles and to praise the efforts of Jefferson's Party. His supporters accused the incumbent president Adams of having a "hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman." In response, a leaflet by Adams' team called Jefferson "a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father." This sowed the seeds for our current "smear" campaigns and, begat our love affair with the 2 Party System. The first 3rd Party Candidate to successfully debate and win the election was Abraham Lincoln. So yes folks, it IS possible a Third Party to win an election. I truly believe that a vote for a 3rd Party Candidate is just that, a vote. Not a wasted one either! I am so sick and tired of hearing that if I don't vote for Trump, I'm getting Clinton elected and if I don't vote for Clinton, I'm getting Trump elected. I'll tell you all right now that I am NOT voting for either of these candidates. If that means you think I am wasting my vote, well that's your opinion. I refuse to allow the media and the government to make me think a certain way. Enough is enough! Thank you for your time.

The New American Revolution Part One: The Wake Up Call ( From the American Nightmare)

" You say you want a revolution? Well you know...we all wanna change the world."-The Beatles... So I thought that I would start my political rant with one of the greatest lines, from one of the greatest rock bands ever to set the tone a little brighter than just complaining out of the gate. This will be a three parter and my idea behind this is to hopefully educate and enlighten you all into the reality of the path that this country is headed for. I will also talk about the original American Revolution and try to make parallels and comparisons to what is happening now. I will also expose the Socialists and the fascists that are brainwashing you into thinking "they" are the answer. This is an election year, and I am convinced that this election could really be the "nail in the coffin" of the deceased Lady Liberty. After November, the "American Dream" will have been replaced by " The American Nightmare". Because of years and years of settling for second best and the "lesser of the two evils", we have created the very thing that our founding fathers had fought to end. The very definition of freedom can be subjective. Everyone has their own idea and belief as to what being free really means and how this country should be governed. This in itself has not only begat arguments and debates, but has created animosity and hatred for one another with each of us trying to will the other into submission. It doesn't have to be like this. What if...just what if, we actually lived by our own truths to be self evident and that EVERYONE is created equal. That EVERYONE has the right to life, liberty, and the PURSUIT of happiness? To quote the great John Lennon once more..." You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one..." The majority of us Americans can't stand the current government, but think that real change is only a pipe dream. I contend that if real change in our way of life does not happen soon, there will be no going back and that the only way forward from this point would be to the bottom. So what exactly is the end game here? What is the ultimate goal for America at this juncture? Well, what does "freedom" actually mean to you? To some it means complete anarchy with no rules to bind us so that we may do whatever we wish regardless if it is what some would label "good or bad". To self govern, however, doesn't mean that government can't exist on a federal level. To truly be considered a Nation, a federal government is required. My argument is that the federal government has gotten so corrupt and out of control, that we have been brainwashed into thinking that this is what it's supposed to be like and that everything is as it should be. You know with the few exceptions that "guns er bad" and "homeschooling is bad um kay". Do we truly want the freedom to decide what is best for us, or do we want someone to make that decision for us? Those of us who have raised children have taught and nurtured, and made their decisions for them until it was time for them to go out on their own. Our hopes were that they take our knowledge and values with them. We have all been through this boot camp to prepare us for the real world and for the rest of what life hands us. So, if we are supposed to be responsible adults and learn from our own mistakes, then why are we not truly allowed to do that? We go from our loving, caring, blood related parents to whom we are thankful for, to another adopted parent who we are indebted to the rest of our lives. I believe that every person on earth is different. We all have different needs, aspirations, and dreams. It should be our living right to pursue those dreams, without having to be forever obligated to a stranger that continuously tells us how to think and act. Sadly, the very notion of free thought in this country anyway, sends chills down the spines of the ruling class. To be a free thinker is to be a criminal according to them. The government has spent years molding us into obedient citizens by educating(brainwashing) us in their self evident "truths". Our wake up call was long ago and we hit the snooze button! Then, the alarm went off again, and again, and we keep hitting the damn snooze button!(Every election) Are we that tired and lazy that we wish to stay sleeping and forever stay in this nightmare? At some point we need to wake up, do some calisthenics,grab some coffee...and start a new day!