I Want to Vomit

I am completely disgusted with the manner that this debate has been moderated. Very lop sided and I have grown to question this nation’s democracy. My thought is, that our nation’s democracy goes only as far as the media wants it to. Disgusting, I think I’ll go shove my finger down my throat to be rid of this nausea.

My Bet on John McCain

5 Buck says McCain brings up the "bridge to nowhere" and "I will veto every pork barel bill that crosses my desk."

30 Mins Into the Debate

I like Anderson Cooper. I do, but when is Congressman Paul going to be asked a question? Maybe it’s me, but between Romney and McCain’s smug smirks and Anderson’s avoidance makes one wonder if the front runners really are decided by the media.

Also, anyone else think that John McCain is way too monotonous and completely borring to listen to?

John Edwards and Rudy Giuliani

It’s a shame that John Edwards has dropped out of the race. With no mediator between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, we all will be forced to endure more bickering and negative ads. The very thing the Democrats prided themselves against in the beginning of the primary season.

Also with Giuliani out of the race, the era of 911 politics has come to an end, hopefully. I do not see John McCain or Mitt Romney being as bad as Rudy Giuliani, yet they still attempt to inject fear as a means of governing. Even with that being said, I believe Rudy Giuliani owes the debate watchers in the Republican party an apology for his use of 911 more then one hundred times through out the debates.

With the CNN’s Super Tuesday Republican Debate tonight, there should be more time to more evenly distribute the questions. Ron Paul may actually get more speaking time. For those of you that are in the dark, Mitt Romney was given four times the speaking time at the MSNBC time, as NBC attempted to marginalize Ron Paul's candidacy. We all knows the circumstances will not change or will CNN hold a debate with honor? I suspect they will be more honorable then MSNBC.

Make sure you watch it, on CNN at 8pm EST. Get informed or who you are voting for.

Florida and The Upcoming Debate

The test has come and Rudy Giuliani is sitting nervously, tapping his chair with his foot. Looking down at his desk, rolling his pencil back and forth, desperately avoiding the inevitable bell that will soon ring, can he make a showing? With hints that Mike Huckabee and Rudy Giuliani dropping out of the race, will the two candidates attend tomorrow’s CNN Super Tuesday debate? If they plan to drop out, I highly encourage that the two do not eat away at precious debate time from the remaining candidates.

Lets face it, Rudy Giuliani’s campaign is broke, his coffers depleted on the Florida primary. With his inevitable poor showing, the only option to be had, is that of dropping out of the race. Will he selfishly take up debate time?

Mike Huckabee, like Giuliani’s campaign, is also scraping bottom. With a surprise showing in Iowa, all the remaining states has barely helped him out. If he would’ve had a strong showing through fundraising, he would be able to continue to compete. Yet, he didn’t so will he continue further with the campaign?

Will we receive the news from the campaigns tonight, on whether they are staying in? Will the continue to waste debate time with lame jokes about Easter eggs and the phrase 911.

I guess we shall see. I am no pundit and am not an expert. This is all speculation.

So Glad The Clinton's Lost

I know that this comes a few days late, yet I must say, I am so glad Barack Obama won the South Carolina primary. By won, as you all very well know, was defined by a 28 percent margin. I am not a Democrat so this does not affect me really. It’s just that I felt what the Clintons did with the South Carolina primary on the horizon, was uncalled for. It showed they are willing to pit people against one another (or so they thought) for their own personal gain.

I know it is more unlikely in today’s Florida primary for a victory to emerge in favor of Barack Obama. With a trailing polling deficit of 24 percent, victory will be extremely difficult. One could only hope that people could see through the Clinton machine for who they really are.

-- Topher Lloyd

Fiat Money Chasing Oil

***Parts have been ammended for clarity, although not affect the point***

Many of you have asked me what makes me think I know what I am talking about when I was refering to monetary policy. (Yes, I didnt write for two years and deleted all prior posts despite supporting my current opinions) I just submitted this to the Paul campaign as of 2:53 AM:

Dr. Paul, please I want you and everyone reading this, to correct me if I am wrong. I am an international finance major, who studied under (name omitted) at the University of Colorado at Boulder, who was a study of Milton Friedman at the University of Chicago. Although I disagree with a lot of what he (omitted professor) teaches, I believe in his monetary policy. We currently had a fiat standard, meaning our dollar chases the most traded commodity. I am a believer in the oil standard theory. Without oil, it would be coffee. Our dollar is currently pegged to oil, so all the other countries that have pegged their dollar to the U.S. dollar are being screwed. Not to mention OPEC who is currently mandated by their own laws to trade only in US dollars. So to keep demand for dollars high, we must keep the price of oil high, because if the price oil of falls, in dollars, our US dollar will collapse because it is artificially inflated by the mandate to trade in US dollars.


Currently our dollar is falling and they are begging to trade in Euros but are not allowed. Thus the reason why the US dollar AND gold are at all time highs.


I believe that bringing us back to a gold standard is correct. Yet some in the free markets see that our dollar is chasing the highest traded commodity. I do not see this as correct. Especially since we, through taxes pay close to nine dollars more a gallon in the mere instance to protect our shipments from pirates and other hostile governments.

There’s a reason why Europe pays more per gallon and its not because they pay the taxes to protect shipments. With Oil speculations at the rate they are and gold approaching $1000 dollars a day……… when I was in college, gold was worth its weight in pot. Now pot is cheaper then gold. But…… If we go off an oil standard to a coffee standard, how would American consumers survive? If not coffee, sugar. If not sugar, ink….. which the fed uses to print money.


Why do not people see the need for a pegged currency to a mandible commodity?