Did you read Paul Krugman’s latest column in the New York Times?

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If the establishment had its way, there would only be one Republican left in this race – and the National Convention would just be a massive rally for Mitt Romney.

There would be no talk about individual liberty.  No mention of trillion-dollar deficits, real spending cuts, and the out-of-control Federal Reserve.

And there would be no questioning the cost of utopian nation-building schemes or policing the world.

But thanks to your hard work and dedication to the cause of liberty, the establishment isn’t getting its way.

Not this time.

I’m planning to take my campaign to Restore America NOW all the way to Tampa, Florida, for the Republican National Convention.

But to do so, my campaign must have the funds to continue picking up delegates all across the country.

So can I count on you to help me fight all the way to the National Convention bypledging to make a generous contribution to my campaign’s Money Bomb on April 15?

So far, my campaign’s delegate strategy has paid off.

Dedicated supporters of mine have been turning out at their local caucuses and conventions to run as delegates to their Congressional District or State Conventions – where National Delegates will be elected.

It’s these delegates who will choose the Republican nominee at the National Convention in August.

That’s why it’s absolutely crucial my campaign has the funds to continue organizing and winning delegates in many states around the country.

And there are also important primaries in Texas and California coming up where hundreds of delegates will be up for grabs.

That’s why I’m counting on you to pledge to contribute to my campaign’s Money Bomb on April 15.

You and I have fought tooth and nail against the establishment for nearly an entire year now.

And the most important battles are happening right now.

So please, help me take my campaign to Restore America NOW to the Republican National Convention by pledging to make a generous contribution to my upcoming April 15 Money Bomb.

Let’s take our fight all the way to Tampa.

For Liberty,

Ron Paul

P.S. My campaign is holding a Money Bomb on April 15.

With the Republican National Convention fast approaching, my campaign must have the funds to continue winning delegates in many states all over the country.

So please pledge to contribute to my Money Bomb on April 15 to help me take our fight all the way to Tampa!

One of your editors flew out of SFO on Thursday and had a chance to visit the Yoga room.  How was the experience, you ask? Well, the pictures speak for themselves.  Please note that the lights for the $15,000-$20,000 room went on and off at random intervals:

The light shows the way

Jackpot

Rules are meant to be respected...

...so I respect

$15,000-$20,000 at work

And I head for the exit

P.S.:  No one bothered me as I was taking the pictures inside and outside of the room, even though I was next to the security checkpoints, looked young and somewhat middle-easternish, and only had a backpack on me.  AMERICA!

P.P.S.: The plane from SFO to LAX was over 20 minutes late thanks to Obama Jam.

P.P.P.S.: No Yogic Flying, sadly.

Man, those Occupy Wall Street people just keep getting bad news.

The title of the lecture is “From Ayn Rand to Ken Feinberg — How Quickly the Paradigm Shifts.  What Should Be the Rationale for Government Participation in the Market?”  We guess he will talk about how different New York would be if he could take down Wall Street and whatnot.  That and/or prostitutes.  [Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard] [Office of the Arts at Harvard]

The post is titled “Día de la Constitución y la Ciudadanía,” which is Mexican for “The day we give up our constitution to Mexico and give citizenship to Mexicans,” and in the Spanish version of the proclamation (which was placed before the English), Obama calls himself:

EL PRESIDENTE DE ESTADOS UNIDOS DE NORTEAMÉRICA

So Obama has given away the Southern half of America to Mexico! Get this on Lou Dobbs’ desk RITE NAO.

Click here to view the embedded video.

[Wonkette via Mother Jones]

The wrestler in the video is Glenn Jacobs (a.k.a. Kane), a hardcore Ron Paul/libertarian/Austrian economics fan.  He even blogs about those things here and here.  Given that Linda McMahon is running for the same seat that former Ron Paul adviser Peter Schiff wants, putting two and two together is easy.  Kane saw the neo-con oozing out of McMahon years ago and tombstoned her.  The “storyline” was just a cover.

Now McMahon is getting her revenge by becoming the anti-freedom establishment candidate, or so says diehard Austrian Lew Rockwell:

The powerbrokers who run the Republican party in the US and CT want to stop Peter Schiff’s run for the federal senate against Crook Dodd, so they are ginning up the campaign of the very wealthy Linda McMahon, head of the World Wrestling Federation, since the other Republicans are such losers.

Duh.  After all, is it really a coincidence that McMahon’s announcement comes when the latest poll shows Peter Schiff getting a whooping 1% of the vote among Republican primary voters? [Capitol Watch]  To be fair, Dodd is failing so miserably that another poll shows Schiff almost neck and neck with Dodd were Schiff to become the Republican candidate. [Rasmussen]  This is a big if now that Linda McMahon is there to use all her wrestling monies to ensure the power elite maintain the Connecticut seat.  Or maybe she is a zooprise Ron Pauls kandidates that will split the neo-con vote in half and give Schiff the victory or something.  Let the internets debate begin. [Ron Paul Forums]

The real question is:  who will be McMahon’s partner in her tag team match against Kane and Schiff at WrestleMania 26?

Kane and Ron Paul in happier times.

]]> http://kitsch-posh.com/2009/09/17/ron-paul-fans-react-to-mcmahon-senate-announcement/feed/ 0 http://kitsch-posh.com/2009/06/22/hope-comics-revived/ http://kitsch-posh.com/2009/06/22/hope-comics-revived/#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:15:04 +0000 L http://kitsch-posh.com/?p=685 The recent JibJab video portraying Barack Obama as a superhero is probably the best Obama caricature floating around the Internets.  Watch:

Click here to view the embedded video.

This video awoke some memories.  Last year we designed Kitsch-Posh’s HOPE Comics series [OMG Kitsch-Posh].  We worked only on one issue because we figured that Obama would lose (no, not really; one of us wrote the issue at 3AM when he couldn’t sleep).  This was also before Obama appeared in Spider-Man and other comic books.  Since we don’t like to recycle old content too often, we have given the comic an alternate ending with an alternate font.  See if you can spot it:

It’s too easy to make a religious joke about the concept of “Obama Water” so we won’t even try.

Click here to view the embedded video.

We didn’t really know or care why the other guy thought the minimum wage bill was such a big deal for American Samoa. But then recently this came up [Reuters]:

Chicken of the Sea, the tuna company, announced this month that it will close its canning plant in American Samoa in September. The culprit is 2007 legislation in Washington that gradually increased the islands’ minimum wage until it reaches $7.25 an hour in July 2009, almost double the 2007 levels.

In 2007, the hourly minimum wage in American Samoa for fish canning and processing was $3.76 and the minimum wage for government employees was $3.41. Shipping had the highest minimum wage, at $4.59. Garment manufacturers got the lowest, at $3.18 an hour. A $7.25 wage is a substantial increase for most residents.

Chicken of the Sea will lay off 2,041 employees—12 percent of total employment, almost half of all cannery workers. And the 2,700 workers at StarKist, the other American Samoa tuna canning company and Chicken of the Sea’s rival, are probably concerned that their jobs are the next to go.

We have been writing about this for several months.  This particular graph shows M0 through the decades.