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Call It 'Atlas Snubbed'
Wall Street Journal ^
| 7/17/2011
| Al Lewis
Posted on 07/21/2011 3:45:14 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
Some of her ideas are central to the American Dream.
*But*
Ms. Rand did much of her writing while hopped up on amphetamines and nicotine.
And like most people who abuse this combination,
*she went too far.* Interesting way to frame. Is Propaganda 101 a core requirement at 'Journalism' school nowadays? Do they teach anything else? And from the Wall St. Journal, too.
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posted on
07/21/2011 5:09:54 AM PDT
by
GBA
To: marygam
Well. It didnt take long for this to rear its ugly head! Now we know Ann was a pil popper. I feel so much better now. Course, she can never defend herself to the author of this piece of crap.They were diet pills, which a lot of people took in those days. When another doctor questioned her on her routine, she mentioned those pills, the doctor told her to stop and she did.
And she criticized Gov. Reagan for his teaming up with the Moral Majority.
And even though I was something of an admirer of Ayn Rand, I voted for Reagan anyway.
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posted on
07/21/2011 5:10:39 AM PDT
by
Stepan12
(Palin & Bolton in 2012)
To: Mr Ramsbotham
Newton didn’t have a wife. He had other issues including regularly having nervous breakdowns, wanting anyone who steals something to be summarily executed, and believing in alchemy. By all accounts not a very nice guy but a total genius.
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posted on
07/21/2011 5:15:18 AM PDT
by
Mercat
To: Colonel Kangaroo; Publius
Publius, here is one for TheList ;)
and ColK, it certainly is a given that those of us on this side of the political spectrum, had better be prepared for the reality that Lock Step Thinking is NOT something that we do ; }
May God give us strength.
Tatt
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posted on
07/21/2011 5:22:43 AM PDT
by
thesearethetimes...
("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." DorothyBernard)
To: Mercat
and most of our founding fathers cultivated and used various (now illegal) drugs.
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posted on
07/21/2011 5:35:11 AM PDT
by
absolootezer0
(2x divorced tattooed pierced harley hatin meghan mccain luvin' REAL beer drinkin' smoker ..what?)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
“”But she did not imagine executives would loot their shareholders, cause an economic crisis and then beg for government help.
Her brand of laissez-faire capitalism led to corporations growing bigger and bigger until “too-big-to-regulate” became “too-big-to-fail.” She never imagined big business telling big government what to do or a government that only takes over failing businesses — not successful ones.””
Whoa. I wonder what color the sky is in the author’s world? Wasn’t it Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, aka “Big Government” who told “Big Banking” that they had to loan money to unqualified buyers, that grew the housing bubble, and of course, brought about the inevitable collapse of said bubble?
And don’t forget “Big Unions” wielding their none too inconsiderable clout to dictate to “Big Auto”? Not to mention their political influence, (see the ultimate in Big Government, aka Barack Hussein Obama).
Unbelievable really, the kind of stuff that gets presented as reality.
May God give us strength.
Tatt
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posted on
07/21/2011 5:37:56 AM PDT
by
thesearethetimes...
("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." DorothyBernard)
To: Mercat
Newton also used and abused his position as President of the Royal Society to discredit and slander his literary and scientific rivals. (He would have called them enemies.)
Not a nice man at all.
To: KarlInOhio
KarlInOhio posted -
“”Corporations were happily using government to crush competition all the way through the book.””
Right to the point Bump!
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posted on
07/21/2011 5:45:30 AM PDT
by
thesearethetimes...
("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." DorothyBernard)
To: KarlInOhio
And then having the abrupt, and decidedly unpleasant reality dawn upon the weak entities, that Government then went on to crush them in turn, in order to gain complete control.
It would be a an even better story, if it were not unfolding before us today : /
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posted on
07/21/2011 5:51:42 AM PDT
by
thesearethetimes...
("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." DorothyBernard)
To: DainBramage
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posted on
07/21/2011 5:55:09 AM PDT
by
LS
("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
To: Colonel Kangaroo
The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently: they are most helplessly in its power.
The men who are not interested in philosophy absorb its principles from the cultural atmosphere around them from schools, colleges, books, magazines, newspapers, movies, television, etc. Who sets the tone of a culture? A small handful of men: the philosophers. Others follow their lead, either by conviction or by default.
For some two hundred years, under the influence of Immanuel Kant, the dominant trend of philosophy has been directed to a single goal: the destruction of man's mind, of his confidence in the power of reason. Today, we are seeing the climax of that trend. Ayn Rand
To: JACKRUSSELL
...politics is not the cause, but the last consequence of philosophical ideas. It is not a communist conspiracy, though some communists may be involved as maggots cashing in on a disaster they had no power to originate. The motive of the destroyers is not love for communism, but hatred for America. Why hatred? Because America is the living refutation of a Kantian universe.
Today's mawkish concern with and compassion for the feeble, the flawed, the suffering, the guilty, is a cover for the profoundly Kantian hatred of the innocent, the strong, the able, the successful, the virtuous, the confident, the happy. A philosophy out to destroy man's mind is necessarily a philosophy of hatred for man, for man's life, and for every human value. Hatred of the good for being the good, is the hallmark of the twentieth century. This is the enemy you are facing.
A battle of this kind requires special weapons. It has to be fought with a full understanding of your cause, a full confidence in yourself, and the fullest certainty of the moral rightness of both. Ayn Rand
To: cripplecreek
Anyone who agrees with anyone 100% of the time is an idiot.I completely, absolutely, 100% agree with you on that.
Ahem. Although I might well disagree with you on some other things.
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posted on
07/21/2011 6:37:27 AM PDT
by
coloradan
(The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
To: newfreep
"She dubs government redistribution of wealth immoral." And a atheist's ability to discern the moral from the immoral derives from......?
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posted on
07/21/2011 6:42:05 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Her fans — including Republican Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, talk radio’s Rush Limbaugh and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas — would be crushed to learn she might never love them back, either
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That’s right, them conservatives are too stupid to know anything about Ayn Rand other than she wrote “Atlas Shrugged”.
Why they probably don’t even know how to pronounce her name!
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posted on
07/21/2011 6:47:42 AM PDT
by
free me
(Sarah Palin 2012 - GAME ON!!)
To: coloradan
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posted on
07/21/2011 6:53:11 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard also sells millions of badly written books. Ms. Rand is just like him. She's become something she also wouldn't love: a religion.Al Lewis writes poorly-reasoned articles full of flawed analogies, foolishly believing that they make him appear to be intelligent and erudite.
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posted on
07/21/2011 6:53:48 AM PDT
by
Zeppo
("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Truth is truth, no matter the source. Conservatives are smart enough to find the diamonds and discard the dirt when it comes to ideas.
It also amazes me that the Left doesn’t think we know who Ayn Rand was...as if these revelations are simply earth-shattering!
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posted on
07/21/2011 6:59:37 AM PDT
by
scott7278
("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked..." - BHO)
To: KarlInOhio
Did the author even bother to read a summary of Atlas Shrugged? Corporations were happily using government to crush competition all the way through the book. The beggars on the street played a very small part in the novel compared to the ones in the board rooms.It's called 'crony capitalism'. Obama supports it in spades. Perry appears to be a big fan too, so the powers that be will likely be covered by both parties this election.
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posted on
07/21/2011 8:25:27 AM PDT
by
zeugma
(The only thing in the social security trust fund is your children and grandchildren's sweat.)
To: ADemocratNoMore; Aggie Mama; alarm rider; alexander_busek; AlligatorEyes; AmericanGirlRising; ...
This article on Rand is written with a pen full of acid. But it’s interesting nonetheless.
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posted on
07/21/2011 8:43:20 AM PDT
by
Publius
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