Very inspiring post! I'm going to make more of an effort to be as authentic as I can in my daily life as well.

Could you guys put up a video of yourselves taking the stuff out and/or putting all the stuff in your backpack? It sounds like a lot of stuff when you list it, so I'm just curious how it fits in and how accessible it is.

Great list btw!

AWESOME post. Very inspiring. In fact, you've inspired me (along with your posts on the accountability forum) to adopt a similar model of focus on output, to work hard as much as possible, and to keep myself publicly accountable for my results.

Thanks!

Thanks for this post, Ty. I donated $344 yesterday myself. Ty, if you're going to donate the max $2300 you should do it asap. It will help them buy advertising more effectively if they have more money as soon as possible, so they can get the best rates (and therefore be able to get more advertising) in the early primary states and make sure to actually secure the ad time.

@Donovan - as a pro-freedom president, Ron Paul would actually have a lot more power in promoting freedom than all the statist presidents have in promoting their statist agenda. Most of the agencies in government fall under the executive branch, and as the head of the executive branch he can issue an executive order to them essentially saying "don't enforce the bad laws". So during his term, the drug war could effectively come to a stop, people could not be prosecuted for "tax evasion", he could bring all the troops home, etc.

@Hopeful - other than his anti-immigration stance (which is the *only* problem I have with him), in what ways is he not a social libertarian?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295969,00.html

Here are the results:

@hi - do you always believe what the mainstream media tells you to? There are several reasons why traditional "scientific" polls are not accurate in relation to Ron Paul

1. They only call people with landline phones. This leaves out a huge segment of the population which only has cell phones, particularly younger voters.

2. They only call registered republicans likely to vote. Much of Ron Paul's support is coming from independent voters (not to mention democrats!) as well as many other people who have never voted before.

That's pretty funny. Even though your real reason for the training turned out to be the bet, your original intent behind the statement “I never exercise. I’m going to train and run five miles.” seemed to be that you wanted to get into shape (unless you were just baiting him for a bet all along). It turned out though that even though you accomplished you goal, it really didn't help you long term as far as health since you said you didn't run again for several years!

That's awesome about going to meet Ed and Elaine Brown! I'm jealous.... a pointer though: Have you been in contact with them yet? I hear that Ed is pretty paranoid, so if you're expecting to just show up at his front door and be let in, you might be disappointed. I think his thinking is that anyone could be a fed.

I'm curious whether you think his house could really be deemed a compound. I know people who have visited him, and just describe it as a really nice house. I think the mainstream media is just sensationalizing it (as well as possibly trying to get the public to align against him) by calling it a compound.