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I like Ron Paul. I’d like to see him as the next President of the United States. I agree with him on most of his positions, and enjoy the open discussion with those who disagree on other points, and also talking about a host of other issues facing America.

And that, is what has been amazing about Ron Paul’s campaign. It has stimulated me. I’ve never been so interested in a Presidential race as I’ve been this year, which started immediately after the May 5th Republican debate. I’ve never even watched an entire debate before and certainly not a REPUBLICAN debate! But something changed in me that night. Ron Paul’s ideas were so far removed from the canned answers I was hearing from other candidates, and they made sense. Straight forward, clear responses to questions from the moderators with no catchy little buzz phrases designed to induce regurgitated applause from the audience.

Thousands of other people are resonating to his message of freedom and personal prosperity. Like me, for the first time in their lives they’ve donated to a Presidential campaign. They’ve attended a Presidential rally, or even attended a speech by a Presidential candidate. And, if like me, to the abysmal dismay of their spouses, for the first time they may have actually decided to switch parties and vote REPUBLICAN!!! What’s the world coming to? Such a change in tide in the thought processes of so many people should obviously garnish a story from the main stream media on just such a subject…

Hello? Anyone? Maybeeeeeeee, on a slow news day?

Over the past few weeks, Ron Paul has received coverage on the evening news broadcasts of ABC and NBC. FOX, MSBC and CNN have covered him on several occasions. The CBS television front remains all quiet, although their website now stocks a small inventory of Ron Paul articles from CBS news and other sources such as the Associated Press.

So what changed? Money.

When the media outlets discovered that the Paul campaign had raised over five million dollars in the third quarter, it was at that point that he started getting airtime. Not because Ron Paul, like many other Americans, feels that this country needs an extreme makeover and has a plan to make that happen.

In just under ten minutes from now, the third “Ron Paul Money Bomb”, timed with the efforts of a few other fund raising websites such as thisnovember5th.com, will get underway in the hopes of raising a substantial amount ($1 million?) in the course of an hour. If that happens, it should be another wake up call to the media that something is happening way beyond creative fundraising.

Update: CNN first to report

Summary of today’s fundraising effort from MSNBC

Report from ABC News

ABC News Ron Paul addresses crowd over 5th of November fundraising (video)

ABC News interview with Ron Paul (video)

MSNBC interview with Tucker Carlson (video)

CNN “The Situation Room” and the roundtable not really getting it… (video)

CBS interview on Face The Nation - November 11, 2007 (video)

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10th Feb, 2007

My Netflix ‘Watch It Now’ Service Activated

It took a couple weeks, but using the suggested method of going to Netflix’s help section and clicking on the link for the ‘Watch It Now’ service, finally activated the feature for my account.

Right off, I have to say that I’m not crazy about having to watch the movie in Internet Explorer. Also, Netflix’s inventory of online movies is pretty limited - sort of when you walk through the video store, pass all the new releases, and then see all the movies on the shelf from like ten years ago. I have no doubt that new releases will also be available for immediate viewing in the not too distant future.

I’m also curious how they analyze my download speed. So far, I have only been able to watch movies at the “basic” quality level, which is about VHS quality. I have a 1.2 Mb DSL line, and usually have that full amount available according to the speedtests at dslreports.com.

Ultimately, I would rather see a Netflix client that you download, that then caches the movie to my hard drive and allows me to watch the movie at DVD quality. As it stands, due to the VHS like experience of the streaming approach, I will likely still continue to queue up DVD’s to have sent to me through the mail.

Netflix is not charging a dime extra for this service though, and I have to applaud them for that.

I’ve been checking out other blogs, and one of the gripes I hear most is that you can’t watch the movies on your TV. Well actually, I haven’t watched a single release on my computer yet - they’ve all been piped out to my Samsung plasma television via my laptop which has been cool.

Here’s my laptop plugged into the plasma, simply using the tv as an external monitor. The color is a little hokey because of the combined light between a halogen lamp and the output of the tv.