3rd Place in the GOP race.

Ron Paul On Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace 8/28/2011

“I’m in it to win it…As president I would reduce the power of government, I wouldn’t seek it. I would never take the power from Congress…The Constitution was written to restrict the government, not to restrict the people, now it’s turned around. We use government to restrict the people in all manner. So I would like to reverse that.”

Amo

I never understood when my favorite married couple/humans tried to explain to me that they loved everyone as much as they loved each other. This positively did not make any sense to me. How could you love your husband or wife the same as you love your friends or your fellow human beings in general? Isn't romantic love something completely separate and distinct than love for all humanity? I've been thinking about it everyday since they planted the idea in my head. I think I had a breakthrough today.

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When I was wrestling in my head with the way I felt for a certain person and how it seemed absurd to call it love when it was so young and undeveloped, I didn't understand why I wanted to call it love, how it seemed as if it was love I felt for the person, yet it was asinine to call it such after such a short period of time. I kept going back to the fact that I have been telling new friends how much I adore and love them daily, and that didn't seem weird. So what was it that was so forbidding and distinct about this idea of "romantic love" that made it wear a chastity belt until had put in the time to deserve to deflower it?

I have two best friends who recently started dating men, one in which waited almost 6 months to drop the "L" word, and the other who is yet to, because, "it is just too soon." But I don't feel as if it was ever too soon. I think I loved this mystery man and many others for that fact, immediately. Maybe it's different, maybe a lot is to be said of love that has aged properly, but for now, I'm quite comfortable asserting that I'm in love. Not with one certain person, but with many, many things, and I don't believe that I should not be able to proclaim that simply because it isn't "kosher" to admit to deep feelings before you have been through any certain type of process or time limit. Differences in love are distinctions we create to help us organize our thoughts and understand relationships and emotions. If you break them down to raw inclinations and feelings, they aren't quite so different after all.

I'm in love.

The Illusion of Reality

"In the last in the series Professor Jim Al-Khalili explores how studying the atom forced us to rethink the nature of reality itself. He discovers that there might be parallel universes in which different versions of us exist, finds out that empty space isn't empty at all, and investigates the differences in our perception of the world in the universe and the reality."

Hearts of Gold

It occurred to me today, how lucky I have been in collecting true "hearts of gold." I have some of the best people I could have ever imagined as my friends and family. It's so beautiful to be able to reflect upon my relationships and realize how truly loving and wonderful some of those I consider my family to be.

Today was a reminder of this fact, when a good friend of mine across the country did a huge favor for me without blinking an eye or expecting anything in return. She's truly one of the most beautiful people I know and she keeps awing me with how giving and kind her heart has proven to be time after time. She's an inspiration to me.

After thinking about how lucky I was to have someone like this in my life, I realized I had collected an assortment of these people; from Ireland, to France and over to Los Angeles. I can't even believe I could be so lucky as to have known these people, let alone be able to call them my family and friends.

The lesson here is, don't stop searching until you find those people with Hearts of Gold. They're out there.