Tonight was the last straw.

Tonight I felt humiliated.

Tonight is the night that I must recommend to all who follow my teachings to vote for Ron Paul, and vote as often as you can.

So, what happened tonight?

My girlfriend has a severe December head cold, so I went across the street to buy some real Sudafed - the stuff that contains Pseudoephedrine HCI.

Pseudoephedrine is the stuff that the speed cooks make methamphetamine out of, and for the last few years whenever I’ve had to buy it, I was forced to sign a joke book supposedly tracking my purchase.

In the last year I have purchased three boxes (NOT CASES!) of Sudafed and in each time I signed the names of “George W. Bush,” “Alfred E. Neuman” and “Jack N. Mehoff.”

Pretty juvenile as far as humor goes, but I didn’t want to press my luck by signing “Fuck Off Assholes.”

But tonight, my purchase was different.

The hot and young cashier at the CVS actually asked, “Do you have your ID with you?”

“Uh, no. How old do you have to be to buy Sudafed?” I asked.

“We just need a valid California ID.”

So, I went home and brought back my valid California ID.

The cashier was swiping my card and swiping my card as the checkout line built up behind me.

She said, “Your magnetic strip doesn’t work; I have to enter everything manually.”

She called for a second checker.

My knowledge of technology is limited, but when I dragged my driver’s license across a powerful stereo magnet when I first got it, I think it might have damaged the ability to read it.

As she was manually inputting all my personal information, I asked, “So where does that information go?”

“It stays with us,” she said.

“Why? For what reason?”

“Incase you buy another one tomorrow.”

“So I can’t buy another box of Sudafed tomorrow?”

“You can buy another box tomorrow, but we’ll just know about it,” she responded.

So big brother is collecting information about me incase I might decide to accumulate all the Sudafed boxes that I buy and cook up a batch of meth?

I don’t even know how to do that, and knowing some tweakers over the years and seeing how it ruined their lives doesn’t make me want to even try it.

This whole “track the Sudafed purchasers” is apparently part of the fascist “Patriot” Act that only a handful of Congressmen voted against.

The “Patriot” Act is supposed to protect us from terrorists, but how tracking my Sudafed purchases will protect the nation from terrorist attacks is beyond me.

Ron Paul is the only top tier candidate that is running for president that opposed the “Patriot” Act from the beginning; he also opposed the Iraq war from the beginning.

Dr. Paul is the only candidate with a chance of winning that would give the people back the nation, dissolve the IRS and bring our troops home.

I don’t agree with everything he says, but Dr. Paul is honest, sincere and wants to restore the United States Constitution.

Guru Jeff and The Temple Of The Holy Pinecone hereby endorses Dr. Ron Paul for President of The United States.

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I remember when I was 16 and received my Social Security card.

I felt grown up, like I was old enough to work - after all, I now had a Social Security number!

But soon after, I realized that my “number” was more important to others than my name.

For the last 10 years, I have made it a point never to give my Social Security number out unless it has something to do with Social Security or taxation - the only exception to this is when I refinanced my Temple to pay legal fees.

When Social Security first came out in the 1930’s, even people with no religious beliefs expressed concern over the numbering of individuals.

To quell this paranoia against the Federal government, the masses were assured that the Social Security numbers would not be used for anything other than Social Security or taxation purposes.

Printed at the bottom of the original Social Security cards was even the government guarantee, “FOR SOCIAL SECURITY AND TAX PURPOSES - NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION.”

According to the 1974 Privacy Act Notice, a government agency must provide you the reason why they require the collection of your Social Security number.

However, over the 60 plus years that Social Security numbers have been around, the Federal and State governments have done what they do best - they reneged on their original guarantee and redefined the role and purpose of this “NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION” number.

Now you can’t even apply for a driver’s license without divulging your Social Security number.

Can anyone explain what driving has to do with Social Security or taxation?

As far as private companies are concerned, they may ask for or even “require” your Social Security number, but you aren’t legally obligated to give it; although they aren’t required to do business with you if you don’t.

This year, Bank of America announced that they would provide credit cards for those individuals without Social Security numbers.

The media-zombied American public was outraged against Bank of America.

They assumed that the credit product was targeting and helping illegal immigrants - a segment of the population that is notorious for not having valid Social Security numbers.

But let’s set the record straight on Social Security numbers!

There is no law that requires American Citizens to have or obtain a Social Security number.

You are not required to disclose your Social Security number when you apply for a job.

It is actually better to write “will provide upon hire.”

If not, your application and your Social Security number will pass through many hands and most likely will end up in some unsecured trash bin.

Most people have been lead to believe their credit history is tied to their Social Security number.

This is actually true in some respect, but the only thing that you need to run a credit report is the name, birth date and address for the last two years of the creditor.

I have obtained a credit card, ordered utilities and signed a satellite television contract without divulging my Social Security number.

I have also been hung up on and yelled at a lot of the times when I refuse to give my number, but I don’t care.

I have always paid my obligations and have never committed fraud; I just want it to be known, that I am a name, not a number.

How to be a pain in the ass to the establishment:

• Do not carry your Social Security card with you; this is good practice even if you are willing to be a number.

• Do not memorize, or  pretend not to know, your Social Security number.

I was stopped walking down the street by the Police one night; I didn’t have my wallet, pretended not to know my Social Security number, but was able to identify myself based on my name and birth date regardless.

If you need to give a Social Security number to a company for some lame reason, like a gym membership or tool rental, just make up a number that is similar, but not too similar, to your own.

The last time I ran a credit report on myself, the back page had listed two additional Social Security numbers under the heading “Other Social Security Numbers Used.”

• Use local credit that does not require you to give your Social Security number.

Local bars, bookies and “loan sharks” tend to run tabs and provide loans for people they know.

For the real anarchist, you can also put your savings in Gold; buying and selling Gold do not require Social Security numbers.

By default, hospitals issue Social Security numbers to newborns; you can opt out of this before birth if you make your wishes clear to the hospital  staff.

Let’s hold the government to their original word about the use of Social Security numbers; let’s refuse to use the “number of the beast.”

If we don’t act now, we may soon be subject to the new Social Security card…

“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads

“And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” –Revelation 13:16-17

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