Anonymous
Post 02/21/2012 07:37     Subject: I love the "who is John Galt" lululemon bags
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Anonymous wrote:Libertarians annoy the hell out of me. Especially when some college kid tries to tell me with a straight face that they are a libertarian-while going to school with student loans.


Well, you're going to need those annoying libertarians to help march on Richmond after the new Va abortion bill goes through. You know what's annoying? The Obama stickers on SUVs, minivans and other terrible has mileage cars.


Yeah, the only Libertarian in the running, Ron Paul, is against abortion. Pretty sure they are going to be of no help

What annoys me is that we have to drive high mileage cars. When Bush came into office, the price of gas was $1.60 a gallon. And that's where it stood until we invaded Iraq. Way to go, Republicans.


http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/la-fi-gas-prices-20120221,0,4632441.story
Anonymous
Post 02/21/2012 07:35     Subject: Re:I love the "who is John Galt" lululemon bags
Anonymous wrote:This thread is so full of people who consider themselves SO smart. It makes me giggle. If you spouted off like this in real life people would be rolling their eyes everytime you turned around.
Unbunch your panties, Dagny Taggart.
Anonymous
Post 02/20/2012 22:31     Subject: Re:I love the "who is John Galt" lululemon bags
This thread is so full of people who consider themselves SO smart. It makes me giggle. If you spouted off like this in real life people would be rolling their eyes everytime you turned around.
Anonymous
Post 02/20/2012 21:03     Subject: Re:I love the "who is John Galt" lululemon bags
Anonymous wrote:Thanks for the wiki paste, 16:52.


Was it really necessary for her to put it in her own words, or are you making a statement about plagiarism.
Anonymous
Post 02/20/2012 20:54     Subject: Re:I love the "who is John Galt" lululemon bags
Thanks for the wiki paste, 16:52.
Anonymous
Post 02/20/2012 20:36     Subject: Re:I love the "who is John Galt" lululemon bags
Anonymous wrote:Ayn Rand books are idiotic, callow fantasies.

-- Signed, a former winner of the Fountainhead Essay contest (when I was 16 and stupid!).


Love it! Nice job - I entered that as well, although I didn't win. It's so easy to believe that everything is black and white at 16. Love the Krugman poster too!
Anonymous
Post 02/20/2012 17:01     Subject: I love the "who is John Galt" lululemon bags
Well that stinks.
Anonymous
Post 02/20/2012 16:59     Subject: I love the "who is John Galt" lululemon bags
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Anonymous
Post 02/20/2012 16:52     Subject: I love the "who is John Galt" lululemon bags
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Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:I find it hard to believe that anybody over age 14 is an Ayn Rand fan.


have you been living in a cave or what?


Maybe her cave has a library with books written by real philosophers.


Yeah maybe she lives in The Cave.


Don't we ALL live in The Cave? I thought escape from The Cave was theoretical, or perhaps aspirational.



In the Allegory of the Cave, Plato described symbolically the predicament in which mankind finds itself and proposes a way of salvation. The Allegory presents, in brief form, most of Plato's major philosophical assumptions: his belief that the world revealed by our senses is not the real world but only a poor copy of it, and that the real world can only be apprehended intellectually; his idea that knowledge cannot be transferred from teacher to student, but rather that education consists in directing student's minds toward what is real and important and allowing them to apprehend it for themselves; his faith that the universe ultimately is good; his conviction that enlightened individuals have an obligation to the rest of society, and that a good society must be one in which the truly wise (the Philosopher-King) are the rulers.

The Allegory of the Cave can be found in Book VII of Plato's best-known work, The Republic, a lengthy dialogue on the nature of justice. Often regarded as a utopian blueprint, The Republic is dedicated toward a discussion of the education required of a Philosopher-King.
Anonymous
Post 02/20/2012 16:47     Subject: I love the "who is John Galt" lululemon bags
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Libertarians annoy the hell out of me. Especially when some college kid tries to tell me with a straight face that they are a libertarian-while going to school with student loans.


College kids are supposed to experiment with puerile theories.

Although Rand tends to appeal more to high school kids, for obvious reasons. I suppose some college kids still have arrested development issues.

But I do find it amusing that such claptrap would be slapped on gym bags for yoga mamas.


lol.
Anonymous
Post 02/20/2012 14:55     Subject: Re:I love the "who is John Galt" lululemon bags
Ayn Rand books are idiotic, callow fantasies.

-- Signed, a former winner of the Fountainhead Essay contest (when I was 16 and stupid!).
Anonymous
Post 02/20/2012 14:54     Subject: I love the "who is John Galt" lululemon bags
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I find it hard to believe that anybody over age 14 is an Ayn Rand fan.


have you been living in a cave or what?


Maybe her cave has a library with books written by real philosophers.


Yeah maybe she lives in The Cave.


Don't we ALL live in The Cave? I thought escape from The Cave was theoretical, or perhaps aspirational.
Anonymous
Post 02/20/2012 14:51     Subject: I love the "who is John Galt" lululemon bags
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I find it hard to believe that anybody over age 14 is an Ayn Rand fan.



have you been living in a cave or what?


Maybe her cave has a library with books written by real philosophers.


Yeah maybe she lives in The Cave.
Anonymous
Post 02/20/2012 14:45     Subject: I love the "who is John Galt" lululemon bags
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I find it hard to believe that anybody over age 14 is an Ayn Rand fan.



have you been living in a cave or what?


Maybe her cave has a library with books written by real philosophers.


Meaning only people you believe in Lenin, Marx and Guevara.


Don't forget the teachings of the Dear Chairman Mao and the late Kim Jung Ill.
Anonymous
Post 02/20/2012 12:39     Subject: I love the "who is John Galt" lululemon bags
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Anonymous wrote:Very few libertarians go about spouting off Rand at every turn. Stop looking for a boogeyman. Most libertarians want the government to leave them alone and that doesn't mean no government it means small effective and less interference in personal lives. That means women's choice if you do choose, freedom to guard your homes with firearms, less government control over what you eat, less government intervention into the private sector an lower taxes because obviously the government is bloated and over reaching.


There was Alan Greenspan, and boy did we pay for that copy of Atlas Shrugged, like a trillion times over.


Oh god. Okay. Please educate yourself as to the true causes of our financial crises. Read the book "Fault Lines".



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/23/AR2008102300193.html


"You found that your view of the world, your ideology was not right, it was not working?" said Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), the committee chairman.

"Absolutely, precisely," Greenspan said. "You know, that's precisely the reason I was shocked, because I have been going for 40 years or more with very considerable evidence that it was working exceptionally well."



and

"I made a mistake," Greenspan said, "in presuming that the self-interests of organizations, specifically banks and others, were such as that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms."


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/business/economy/24panel.html