Every year the Conservative Political Action committee or cpac ends its convention with a presidential straw poll. No one expected that this person would win the poll. It was not anyone who was considered in the top tear. It was not Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty , Sarah Palin or Mike Huckabe. It was Texas Congressman Ron Paul.
Ron Paul is a libertarian leaning politician. He became a folk hero during the 2008 campaign. He was not considered a serious contender. He is pro life. He supports the legalization of drugs, opposes the war in Iraq and the overall war on terror. He supports the paleo-conservative view that the Monroe Doctrine should still be the bases of U.S foreign policy. He believes that the old world should not interfere in the new or vice versa.
Paul is not liked by the republican party Establishment. He was disliked by rush, hanity and Laura Ingram. Why did Paul win this straw poll? The tea party came in droves to this years cpac. The views of the tea party are more in line with the views of Ron Paul.
Ron Paul is not going to be the 2012 republican nominee! Even if he did., the party elders would probably defund the race. This could split or end the republican party. This could be a repeat of the Wilson-Taft- Roosevelt race. I don't see Him getting that far.
I agree that the President should follow the Constitution and ask Congress to declare war before sending troops into combat. I believe that the War on terror was a just war, I don't believe that the war in Iraq was. I don't believe that marijuana should be legalized.
Ron Paul's victory is a non story. Paul's people are good at organizing there people. They are not good at organizing anyone else. During the 2008 primary, they were to able to get there people out to the debates. The audience would frequently vote for him as the winner of the debates because they were his people. They were true believers. It is a good P.R victory !that is all.!Ron Paul is a good guy but he will not be President.
I agree that he will never be president. Why don't you believe in the legalization of marajuana?
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ReplyDeleteRead this in Safari and 2 spellchecks come up. Proof reading is your friend.
ReplyDeleteRon Paul shows the voters that not all republicans are of the Bush ilk. I've voted in every election since 1972 and the last 16 years have been hard.
If you decriminalize marijuana there would be a huge new source of revenue for the government, like the taxes on cigarettes and liquor. Sin taxes make good money.
Hello Dan,
ReplyDeleteI just read your wife's comments to a very generous person who spent her hard earned money buying an organic mattress pad for your youngest child. I have to say, I thought that was a very nice and generous act...I would have been thrilled to receive a gift in the mail that would have benefited my family! However, your wife was very rude and nasty to this woman...writing that she was going to sell the organic mattress pad on Craigslist, though she did sarcastically thank the woman for the box the organic mattress pad came in, as her/your children enjoyed playing in it! I've read that you are in Bible college and that you are training to become a preacher, a religious leader for a future community. Is your wife reflecting Christian values through her actions? Is this how a future preacher's wife should act and behave towards others who only want to help out however they can? Dan, as the leader of your family, and as a future religious leader of a community and church, you need to step in. Your wife's actions are not right, and do not reflect Christian values.
Please take care, and good luck with your studies!
Regarding marijauna, from what I have read, it really isn't that addictive. It also has health benefits, how do you feel about using it for medical reasons. IMO, refined sugar and junk food causes more health damamge then marijauna, and they offer no health benefits at all. Yet people would be outraged if laws were passed banning those items.
ReplyDeleteHI Dan
ReplyDeleteI just notice that you wife's blogs gone. Hope you all are OK. I will miss reading her blog, but don't blame her for taking it down. I would have done the same.
Hey Dan
ReplyDeleteIs your family OK? I see Emily took her blog down and we are all very concerned for you and the kiddos. Hopefully Emily is doing OK and is seeking help for her issues that she appears to be having. Just know that many people care about your family and it's not just picking on her or her character but rather they have been drawing attention to her poor choices. Unfortunately she seems to have obstinately refused any advice or assistance whatsoever. Please let us all know your OK.
Hello Dan, Sorry to bother you on your own blog, but I'm wondering what happened to Emily's blog? I don't pay attention to the behind the scenes drama, it's not my business but I'm hoping you can tell me if her blog will be back or is this permanent? I missed reading her post today and really hope she comes back! You have an interesting family and 3 boys just like we do so I look forward to tips and ideas from Emily. Thank you. Mama Mia
ReplyDeleteDan I hope you are all okay. Remember that what may or may not have been said to Emily was done with you and your boys in mind. People worry about all of you, including Emily.
ReplyDeleteI wish you peace.
Dan,
ReplyDeleteIt would appear that you and your wife are taking steps to make changes in how public your life has become. You seem like a thoughtful, humble man, who is working hard toward goals that will make life better for yourself and your family. Nobody could ask for more. I know from my own experience, however, that in order to do that, your home life must be stable and solid. I'm sure all this internet drama has put that stability into question. I can only hope that the changes you are making puts those concerns to rest.
There has been quite a lot of criticism, but I hope you know that a lot of it comes from many of us who also struggled during our own young married lives. When I was in my mid-20s, I was sure that I had all the answers. I am now 44 and if there is one thing I know, it's that I know very little after all. Admitting that is a huge step toward maturity.
For a long time, I was afraid that admitting I was wrong was an admission of weakness. I was pleasantly surprised - and even relieved - to find that there is freedom in admitting that you don't have all the answers.
It is one thing for adults to make questionable choices, but quite another when children are involved. Many, many of us have been in the position of having to balance limited resources with the running of a household, while we worked hard to pursue our larger goal. What has concerned many of us is that some of Emily's choices have been made to the extreme detriment of your lovely children. The bottom line is that children absolutely need good food and a good place to sleep. Without them, their very development is compromised. We have been further frustrated when our comments have been dismissed.
In the end, I hope you know that the majority of your harshest critics truly have only your best interest at heart. We are good people who actually care (e.g., the woman who sent your family a mattress for your children. There was no malice behind that. Truly). As one who has been part of the group alarmed at what we've read, my sincerely compassionate prayer for yoru family is that you find peace, abundance, prosperity - and most of all - joy.
(compassion: sympathetic consciousness of others' distress, together with a desire to alleviate it)
(abundance: relative degree of plentifulness )
(prosperity: the condition of being successful or thriving)
(joy: the emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune or by the prospect of possessing what one desires)
From my heart to yours,
Lisah
(p.s. as far as the above definitions of abundance and prosperity go, I am NOT necessarily referring to money or financial wealth.
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GO DAN! WOOP
ReplyDeleteI too hope all is well with you and your family.
ReplyDeleteI have read Emilys's blog and have some real concerns over the things she has shared.
For one, the food, or lack of healthy, fresh food in your home. Homemade noodles made of flour and water are not complete. A 1/4 of a squash is simply not enough food for anyone.
The fact your wife buys meat in a tube, at the Dollar store is just awful.Not allowing your kids to eat oatmeal because of some made up reasons is just crazy and neglectful. I am shocked the authorties have not shown up.
Why would you want to feed your kids such terrible food?
I know you have some misguided opinion about WIC and foodstamps, but you need to swallow that pride and ask for help.
Your son went to the hospital in a COMA. I would give my next paycheck that the lack of nutrition was in part the cause of his illness.
I can understand if you and Emily feel attacked. I know I would. Please HEAR the words people are offering. Listen to them. We know what we speak of. Your family is not living a healthy safe life. Soap nuts do not clean clothing. Washing dirty diapers with out real laundry soap and HOT HOT water does not clean the diapers. The blankets your family sleeps on are filthy. Your children do not have the benefit of a real mattress and sheets. That is shameful.
You may not notice, but I can not imagine your family not smelling terribly.
Please Dan, make changes in your family. Emily claims to be a submissive wife. If it is true,put your foot down and demand change.
Dan I am happy to see Emily's blog gone I am hoping you put your foot down to protect your future and safety of your children.
ReplyDeleteDan I hope things are okay at your house. I will pray for all of your family.
ReplyDeletePlease keep your blog up. We may not see eye to eye but you've got a good sense of humor and you're a good man.
I wish you peace.
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ReplyDeleteI do not think it is a con. I think they do live in a filthy house and feed their kids terrible food.
ReplyDeleteI also believe Dan has a serious learning disability. I know it will impact his ability to land a job other than working at Walmart, which is a shame. His children are doomed to live in poverty their entire lives.
I hope you swallow your pride soon Dan and get the help your family needs.
Praying you all are well! I do miss reading Emily's blog & messaged her about it on Facebook!
ReplyDeleteIf this is just a joke and a way to lure people to her blog then I don't think they realize the raft that will come to them. I have warned them and so has others that harm could come to them and their children if they don't stop all of this
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to see Emily's blog is gone. I hope it never comes back. It will be good for your family if your wife stays offline for awhile. The internet is a negative thing for her, it causes her to create battles with others which spill over into everyday life. She does nothing good for the Kingdom of Christ online. I pray that you and your family will be blessed and that Emily will devote the time she once spent online to God and family.
ReplyDeletePublis said it beautifully Emily needs to spend her time being a good mother and wife and being a good soldier for the Kindom of Christ.
ReplyDeleteDan you put your foot down and took control of your family and wife. You should be very proud of yourself.
I just read Emily's other blog why is she painting you as such a bad person who MADE her blog? Dan your wife needs to have some respect you as her husband, father of her children, and head of the household.
ReplyDeletePut his foot down? Not according to emily! ON her bellybutton blog she claims she had to beg Dan for a WEEK to close down the $1000 blog! So kind of you to "let" her Dan! I'm disappointed in you, really. Forcing your wife to write a blog when she doenst want to isnt very Christ like or pastorly! Of course, already she is calling people names (stupid!), so she hasnt changed one bit.
ReplyDeleteI'm truly sorry for your children and hope someone can do something to help them.
Anyone have a link to Emily's other blog?
ReplyDeletehttp://emilysbellybutton.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeletePLEASE, for the love of all that is good, please give EMILY permission to blog again! WE MISS HER AND HER PHOTOS!!!
ReplyDeleteOh, dont worry. She is already saying on Facebook the other blog will be back in a week or so. What a Christian wife....lies, cheats, name calls. Sigh. Really Dan, I do feel for you and the children and Emily needs help,
ReplyDeleteDan if you are not strong enough to take control of your wife and family then others will have to. Emily is bad mouthing you and it is disgusting! Maybe you teachers and members of you church need to be aware of what is going on to give you extra strength in providing a good and honorable life your for your family.
ReplyDeleteEmily is walking a very fine line right now between being a true Christian and being consumed of outside interferences.
Please tell Emily that I wish her all the best and that I will miss reading her blog.
ReplyDeleteDan, I was just wondering why you wouldn't let Emily take her blog down when she repeatedly asked you? It seems a little cruel to me :(
ReplyDeleteDon't worry Emily will be back, no doubt about it. This is controversy friends, and this is exactly what BOTH she and Dan want. It draws attention to the blog and all that controversy and attention is good for revenue. Who is Emily kidding.
ReplyDeleteEmily shut the blog down herself and blamed Dan. Not a question in my mind about that. If Emily is anything she is NOT submissive. She's arrogant, manipulative, and always a winner. Nope, Emily isn't going anywhere. Already she is blogging on her other site.
And she'd like you to believe she spends "quality" time with her children while she has two blogs herself plus Dan's Rant she has her fingers in. Those blogs take time people, lots and lots of time. Poor kids in a 450sqft apartment, bedrooms consisting of closet space and sleeping on the floor.
PRAZE JESUS --- exactly what Emily would like you all to believe.
Dona I think you are right and that is why I am feeling more and more compelled to reach out to the heads of Dan's school and church and everyone else that might be directly impacted. If they think this is all a joke and keep up with it then others will have to take control for the better of the children, family, and help them be the best Christians possible.
ReplyDeleteI am still hoping that Dan DID put his foot down and made her stop. BUT I guess that is hard to believe when you read Emily's blog and she says Dan FORCED her to blog.
DAN WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO NOT LET YOUR WIFE BAD MOUTH YOU AND PAINT YOU AS A BAD PERSON ON THE INTERNET?
she ended the blog. the other blog is not monitized. she is not going to monitize. she is only doing it once week. blogsuker tells us to sotp. we are stoping. there is no need to threten us any more.
ReplyDeleteshe does not plan to do the other blog again.
ReplyDeleteDan good for you I am happy you put your foot down. I don't think you pushed her into doing it I think she was consumed by blogging.
ReplyDeleteWere you allowed to watch Sarah Palin on The Late Night Show?
Dan too bad you don't change the password on the computer so she can only use it when you are home.
ReplyDeletePerhaps now she can turn her attention to your children, and cooking good meals that have actual recipes and not concocted in her head.
Why don't you buy her a Betty Crocker or Better homes and garden cookbook at WM and ask her to cook a recipe as written? The oven is your friend. After seeing pictures of that crockpot, well, it's not exactly clean is it?
Your kids need fresh vegetables. So do you. Dollar Tree frozen bagged food is questionable. Look at where it comes from, I bet China.
I wish you peace.
Dan, I have always liked you and you seem like a nice person, but did you really force her to blog against her will? That just seems so unloving and cold, especially coming from someone who claims to be a Christian.
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ReplyDeleteHello,, Dan?
ReplyDeleteAre you there? Are you going to answer the questions that have been asked? Exactly what happened to your child for him to end up in a coma?
Why do you not insist on clean bedding and clothing for your children? Why do you allow them to eat ROTTEN food? Are you not tired of your apartment smelling like musty clothes, dirty diapers and rotten salsa?
Why are you attending a "college" that is not accredited and wasting your money?
Do you honestly think you are going to land a pastors postion? Dan, honey, it is not ever gonna happen.
Have the authorties made a visit? I can not believe the hospital has not made a stink since Emily has not taken your child to follow up appointments///
it was a mistake on my part. i was concerned that she was maiing a desison in ahste. you should not make a desison when your upset. i am slow to change. i think i was wrong. its hapends. probibly i should not have.
ReplyDeleteWell, that sounds a lot different then she made it seem. It sounds like she said "I want to quit the blog", and you said "Don't make any hasty decisions, calm down and then think it through." Is that correct? The way she wrote about it made it seem like she was crying and begging for weeks and you told her that she had to do it regardless of the stress it was causing her because you wanted the money. She really kind of made you look like a horrible person the way she wrote it. I'm glad that you aren't.
ReplyDeleteI agree. I am so glad to hear you were just being a voice or reason and telling her to think through a decision rather than how she made it sound like she begged you to stop and FINALLY you relented and allowed her to not blog again. Man, it really doesn't sound like the same event.
ReplyDeleteDan, are you happy? Do you wake up in the morning and thank God for the new day? Or do you look around you at the mess and clutter and ask God how you ever got in such a state?
ReplyDeleteTake a day off and start to clean out your books. Keep the ones you absolutely need and throw out the rest. If you haven't opened one in 18 months toss it. You probably don't need it.
I think Emily has slandered you by lying about why the blog was taken down. I wonder about what's going on in Emily's mind as she blatantly lies about it. That's not a good Christian wife or mother.
I will pray for you.
So I see it didn't take Emily long to add ads to her other blog. How long do you suppose it will be before she's back to full time blogging?
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with the others here. Emily made it sound like you were a tyrant ordering her to blog when in reality it sounds like you were the voice of reason.
Your wife really doesn't talk of you in a positive way online. When she speaks of you she acts as though you are either a child or a petty tyrant. It's often naughty little Danny and his desire for hot dogs and snack foods. On other occasions it's bastard Dan makes me blog. She never speaks of you as the leader of the household, she never says anything positive about you beyond the generic 'he's the smartest man I know.' Most of her comments about you are negative. How does that make you feel?
Publis said everything I was thinking so I figure I would just let you answer the question.
ReplyDeleteI am guessing honesty is no longer a Christian value. Somewhere in these comments you said Emily would not be montizing her Bellybutton blog but she is! She still has ads running on the old blog which she has opened up again. Lying really isn't a very good trait for a Pastor or his wife. How very disappointing. I wonder what your professors would say? Is being deceptive something they teach a pastor should know? Think I'll go ask them directly.
ReplyDeleteAnd to blogssuckarsh...some harsh threats you spout. Are you kinfolk of Dan's?
she did not monitize the blog! there are no ads. the ads are gospel for aisa a cerity, swag bucks and the hunger sight. we dont banafit form them. that was not a lie. we do not and wil not benifit moniterily form the new site.
ReplyDeleteboth of us want it to be for fun only not for monitary gain!
ReplyDeletealrighty. thank you for the answer.
ReplyDeleteSwagbucks is NOT for charity and you DO benefit from it. Dan, Dan, Dan, you guys are playing word games. If you get gift cards (which you get on Swagbucks, I am a member. I know.) you are benefitting monetarily. You use those plastic cards to BUY items you want.
ReplyDeleteDan, Use the dictionary and/or spell check. If you can't figure out how to use spell check, ask Emily. Hopefully she can help you.
ReplyDeleteYou aren't benefiting from SwagBucks? I call foul on that one.
ReplyDeleteGoing to add to the others -- you do benefit monetarily from Swagbucks. I see a few answers here -- she told you she will not put ads up on her blog and therefore you didn't know, in which case, she is lying to you. Or you did know about the ads and you are lying about it. Either way, that is not a virtue.
ReplyDeleteAlso, if you are interested in getting help with your writing and spelling, I would be happy to help. I offer this in all sincerity. I teach, and I think you could benefit greatly from some simple suggestions that would improve your writing.
we are banefiting form swag bucks. it is not going to have other adds or be a paort of blogher or anything like it. my coments are inacuarate. either i am a lier or a fool. thats the way it is!
ReplyDeleteI'll go with fool. I don't think Dan would intentionally lie about the swag bucks. I suspect he believed Emily when she said her new blog wouldn't be for monetary gain. It is Emily who is the liar. She told her audience and her husband she wasn't going to use her new blog for profit but has put links up to swag bucks. Dan's error is that he believes his wife.
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