Another brainwashed young neo-con served up by FOX News! Way to go Rupert!

"Used to be a nerd"? If you think you can refute Ron Paul's "blowback" theory of US interventionism, please go ahead --- you will be the first to do so. We have vastly, VASTLY more to fear from the very real Threat of Neocon Fascism than we do from some Middle-eastern cave dwellers.

Hey kid, maybe once you take some of those badly needed poly-sci courses you'll realize what you current believe is idiotic.

My how naive our youth can be! Listen up child - Blowback is a CIA theory and not Ron Paul's. Perhaps you need to do a little reading on the subject?

If you think we can bomb Muslim countries and not incite hatred, you are living in a dreamland. To help you- if there were a country bombing America, do you think you'd hate them? Stupid kid.

My how naive our youth can be! Listen up child - Blowback is a CIA theory - not Ron Paul's. Perhaps you need to do a little reading on the subject?

If you think we can bomb Muslim countries and not incite hatred, you are living in a dreamland. To help you- if there were a country bombing America, do you think you'd hate them? Stupid kid.

wow, something about young Sir Andrew set off the trolls! I salute you, Sir Andrew!

you salute an uneducated idiot? That speaks a lot about you.

Good job Sir Andrew. You've got the trolls out of their caves.

"The pleasure one gets from schooling those smug Ron Paul supporters with their idiotic "blow back" theory is immensely satisfying."

Uh, not too terribly bright disputing the "blow back" theory which is the main reason cited by the 9/11 commission report (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/911/pdf/fullreport.pdf) for the attacks. Apparently "Sir Andew" is the one that needs to be schooled and any schooling he has done for Ron Paul supporters is only in his dreams.

it's unfortunate when people mistake education for intelligence and the ability to reason rationally. such judgements also say (or speak, hehe)alot about a person!

Wow, six trolls within 50 minutes. Good job!

Pre-happy birthday, too.

the blowback theory is a CIA theory. however thats about a bigger joke than ron paul. the CIA couldnt even foresee the collapse of the berlin wall, or the end of the soviet union. so the moral of the story is dont listen to ron paul, the CIA or liberals. stick to niccolo machiavelli. if we fought wars like he said we should we would be even richer, more powerful and control a larger chunk of earth. all the while paying an awful $.75 per gallon of gas.

Sir Andrew...you are to be congratulated! Just look at all the posts from youngsters about the same age as yours posting from their mommy's bedroom in the double-wide. Excuse them if the posts are brief and only singular...they usually only happen when mom is A.) cashing her welfare check down at the local liquor store or B.) has a "customer" over for a one hour visit...

I could use a running mate when I become president.

Andrew/Sir Andrew '28.

Secretary of Defense Cave Troll smash!

Oh ussjimmycarter, you cunning linguist you!

Implying that all Ron Paul supporters live in trailer parks and lead lives of prostitution and government assistance.

The subtlety, being the edge of a club, is incredible. Your use of the elipse (look that up in the dictionary if you don't know what it means) in writing your statements is edgy and uncompromising.

The glaring fallacy of your argument, that supporters of Ron Paul are most likely on government assistance, has the flaw that Ron Paul wants to remove those people from our backs and from under the umbrella of our federal tax dollars. You DO however have a marvelous understanding of the grimy and pathetic in life, and with your obvious talent for prose in the english language, I'm betting it is based solely on personal experience.

This is funny already. I think James be an "Apostle of Paul." Congrats, Sir Andrew, on being the first to hook Pauliticians in the Ronin Profiles!!!

I'm so confused! Pon Raul wants to disband the CIA, and discredits the 9/11 Commission report as a cover-up, but the CIA and the report validate his blow-back theory? Wow! Just wow!

Bali, Tunisia, Argentina, Spain and others have been bombing Iraq too? I never heard about their Iraq bombing campaigns. It must be because of that big media / Build-A-Burger / Rotarian conspiracy the Ron Paul supporters go on about.

Good job on your profile Sir Andrew!

Sir Andrew--being a Star Trek-watching nerd is certainly not a bad thing! I'm a female about your own age, and some of us quite like them. ;)

I think we have all learned an important lesson today: Ron Paul and "Star Trek-watching, computer programming, no social life type" should never be used on the same website.
The Paulbearers that are looking for interweb babes will come.

The 2 inch group at 500 yards refers to putting a certain amount of bullets (I use 5 shot groups out of my AR-10) into a circle 2 inches in diameter. A really good group at 500 yards would be 5 inches (which I can do).

And too bad a candidate with some admirable policies and who shows up for work regularly is several fries short of a happy meal (maybe the whole order) and supported by barking moonbats.

I just want to tell the trolls that insulting me only inflates my ego and convinces me I'm right.

I'm just cool like that...

And I love how the Apostates of Paul came out and swarmed...my ego is going to need a bigger body to live in...

Aww, Damn it. I left out the part about shooting said group with a nerf gun is nigh impossible. Only Fred can do it.

Sir Andrew, and your expanding ego,

I would value you opinion as a PolySci major, (insert your favorite Democratic platform and demographic issue here), why does Edwards want Supreme Court Justices who need Gharmed guards? And what the hell is a Gharmed guard?

P.S. This only makes any sense if you saw the three-ring on CNN tonight.

Nah, I don't waste my time with the Demoncat debates.

Dallas has noise ordinances, and I'm afraid that my screaming at the T.V. would break them.

I don't think we have the same noise ordinances in Mesa, but you may have helped me understand why there are red and blue lights flashing through my windows right now.

I was attacked by conservatives during the Dhimmicrat debate. The home rule was to consume whenever there was a negative reference to President Bush, each time an entitlement was suggested, an entire bottle when impeachment was mentioned, a shot when Reagan was mentioned, and a drink when Hillary pointed out she really was female.

Unfortunately, I've been devastatingly attacked by conservatives.

I was going to comment on the incredible number (and low intelligence) of the trolls that showed up, but I'm too astonished by that drinking game. I hope you survive the alcohol poisoning! Even just taking a drink every time they blamed Bush for something, you'd still be drunk before you got bored. And I got bored in about 5 seconds.

Cool. A righty nerd from Dallas; good people yo.

If memory serves, Bill Gates once advised a group of students to "be nice to nerds, since chances are great that you'll be working for one someday."

(LOL #26...Dimmi drinking game)

"Where do you live? Dallas, TX, USA, Earth, Sol System, Milky Way, etc..."

1) You forgot "Orion Arm." It's the galactic equivalent of a county.

2) Please reconsider your academic pursuits- I've been there (PoliSci major with 30 graduate credits in same). It's not worth it. Academic political science is a pseudo-intellectual cesspool, and long-term exposure has been shown to cause head-exploding in otherwise good-humoured conservatives. It's full of the kinds of people Lenin (allegedly) was talking about when he (allegedly) said "intelligentzia yest govno."

3) Is it just me, or does anyone else think these Ron Paul supporters are a little thin-skinned?

Nice profile Andy, er, Sir Andy.

I agree with McBain on the PoliSci issue. I'm a Business Major, but I was pursuing a Intl. Relations minor, part of the PoliSci dpt, and the classes are HEAVILY left oriented. Mostly it was just a string of professors going on diatribes on how all the pain in the world is caused by greedy Capitalists who take advantage of the Global South.

Conversely, all my business professors foster a competitive, bloodthirsty environment where the weak are killed and eaten by the strong. And they all have a sh*tloads of money.

Obviously, I've made my choice. :)

Hey James, I know I'm not the ussjimmycarter, but since you seem like such an intelligent guy, and since I thought I could learn a lot from you, I decided to look up elipse in the dictionary. I didn't find it, though I did find ellipse, so I think there may be something wrong with my dictionary. The definition mentioned cones and oblique planes and bases. I still don't get it; could you enlighten me...?

umm James, if you're going to tell us to look up a word, you may want to look up the word first yourself, just to make sure you spelled it correctly. Out of curiosity, I looked up the debacle you wrote, and the closest dictionary.com could get me to an actual word was "ellipse", but I don't see any 'geometrical figure that is a regular oval' in ussjimmycarter's post, so I'm going to have to assume that you meant "ellipsis"

you cunning linguist you

looks like some guy beat me to the spelling lesson. Good job.

I actually remembered "ellipse" from my Algebra II class, I averaged a D+ in that one, so I'll use the Wikipedia definition instead of explaining it myself:

"[t]he locus of points on a plane where the sum of the distances from any point on the curve to two fixed points is constant. The two fixed points are called foci (plural of focus)."

The article also mentions that the term is derived from the Greek work for "absence," which would indicate where the term "ellipsis" comes from.

If anyone is still reading at this point and wants to get a better idea of what an ellipse is, get a corkboard and put two thumbtacks or pushpins in- these represent the foci. Then get a piece of string (that's longer than the distance between the pins) and use the tacks to attach the ends to the board. Then get a pen and use it to gently extend the string until taut, and keeping the string taut, move the pen left & right to trace out the curve that's limited by the string. Then put the pen on the other side of the string, and repeat, extending the string in the opposite direction.

As for the reference to cones and oblique planes: when you chop off the top of a traffic cone in a direction not parallel to the ground, the (new) top edge of the (former) cone is an ellipse. If you cut the top off in a direction parallel to the ground, the top edge will be a circle- which is an ellipse with both foci at the same point. I wouldn't try this with traffic cones actually in use, but when you're driving along a long stretch of road with cones closing off an entire lane five miles from the nearest construction site, it's really tempting to hold one's trusty katana out the window... as a purely educational endeavor.

Note: this doesn't work with pyramids

Don't worry guys, I'm sticking with smaller schools for my education.

The reason I'm gonna do PoliSci is so I can learn how to use the liberals' own system against them.

The Politics department at my school is quite conservative, but then again the whole school is so conservative that the ACLU keeps trying to sue us. It's pretty awesome.

Academic PoliSci doesn't teach you anything that you can't get from Schoolhouse Rock. If you want to understand modern politics, I'd recommend classes in Cognitive Psychology, Genetics/Evolutionary Biology, History, and Mathematics. Seek out your own information on parliamentary procedure, read the Congressional Record, and volunteer to work on a campaign next year (but keep your expectations low). And listen to Rush (not the band, unless you like their music, of course)- not for talking points, but for technique.

Strange to have so many comments on a Ronin Profile. Trolls are notoriusly thin-skinned and will strike at any offense.

People here keep saying the CIA was worried about "blow back". They seem to think it's a complex political phenomenom and something complex. Has anyone tought they might have just been referring to the recoil an artillery peice has when it fires? Makes a lot more sense to me.

Hey guys,
I have a model UN conference tommorow and I have a question to ask you

Medium range taser or hand-to-hand taser?

Regrettably, I am not America, I am Peru

Pantera, be sure to tase Palestine and Iran for me.

Wow, Andrew, 40 comments. Kudos! Even if half them are trolls...