It was cold yesterday morning when we put these two signs up, but it was nice to have some fellow Ron Paul supporters come and lend their help and moral support.
Sometimes the mind races when one considers all the problems and issues that face our nation and (for that matter) the world. It's easy to get all wrapped around the axle, stressed out and frustrated at the preponderance of boneheads in the world and the terrible messes that confront us. 
Ban on 'Mom' and 'Dad' sparks call for exodus
"If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals -- if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is."President Ronald Reagan
Rudy has been in the public eye for quite awhile. I think it fair therefore to take a look at the man who would be president. Not just the recent attempts to re-invent himself, but also some of his past.
He would like to be the commander in chief, but he avoided military service during the Vietnam war. Hypocrisy is an unattractive trait. 
The business as usual big govt conservative wannabes would like him to go away too. He speaks with too much clarity and stands in stark contrast amongst the cast of characters that would like to be the next President.
In the early 1830s, a Frenchman named Alexis de Tocqueville came to America to examine its civil institutions. His studies were expounded in the classic work, Democracy in America. In it, he wrote,"I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers — and it was not there … in her fertile fields and boundless forests — and it was not there … in her rich mines and her vast world commerce — and it was not there … in her democratic Congress and her matchless Constitution — and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money"
"When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness."
"The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other"
"Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith"
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.
He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man...The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people.Samuel Adams
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”John Adams
I had walked life’s way with an easy tread,
I’d followed where pleasures and comforts lead,
Until one day, in a quiet place,
I met the Master face to face.
With station and rank and wealth for my goal,
Much thought for my body but none for my soul,
I had entered to win in life’s big race,
When I met the Master face to face.
I met him and knew him and blushed to see
That his eyes full of sorrow were fixed upon me.
I faltered and fell at his feet that day,
While my castles melted and vanished away;
My thought is now for the souls of men;
I have lost my life to find it again,
E’er since that day in a quiet place
I met the Master face to face.
Author unknown
“ Is this not the fast that I have chosen:
To loose the bonds of wickedness,
To undo the heavy burdens,
To let the oppressed go free,
And that you break every yoke?
7 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry,
And that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out;
When you see the naked, that you cover him,
And not hide yourself from your own flesh?
8 Then your light shall break forth like the morning,
Your healing shall spring forth speedily,
And your righteousness shall go before you;
The glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.
9 Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer;
You shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’