Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Bloggers Backlog 2

Ain't It Grand!
Objectivision in the Age of InfoGlut



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Whoop-Dee-Doo

"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
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Ayn Rand


Type A personalities make the world go round... with dizzying consequences.




What Goes Up...

"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see." Ayn Rand

The idea that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks has been an article of faith for public officials and the mainstream media.




Carrousel of Progress

"You'll Get Me Out of My Car When You Pry My Cold, Dead Foot from the Accelerator."
bumper sticker

Our solution to rush hour gridlock is not to demand public transportation but to transform our immobile automobile into a temporary office, bank, restaurant, bathroom, and stereo system.


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Gomer and Goober, a Hole in One.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
Ayn Rand

Monsanto and the U.S. government are dealing with unanticipated hazards of the pesticide Roundup in the South American drug war.




America's for Health

"The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap."
Ayn Rand

With the passage of H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, proponents of health care reform took an important step forward...


.... and blacks and women would know theyre place. people would be on there own to make or break themselves. No more government charity. If they were hungry, too bad, they can work. Thats what made this country so great before but the dems screwed it up.
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Fancitecture on the Beach

"A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom."
Ayn Rand

The Twisting Torso sculpture is a white marble piece based on the form of a twisting human being.




Time of the Signs

"Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself. "
Ayn Rand


They paved paradise and put up a parkin' lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got till it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.



Yield to the Preposterous

"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. "
Ayn Rand


Anything that can possibly go wrong, does.





Part of the Problem

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. "
Ayn Rand

It is now abundantly clear that we have at our fingertips all of the tools we need to solve the climate crisis. The only missing ingredient is political will.




Fountainhead Swamp Resort

"When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is. "
Ayn Rand



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1 comment:

  1. "Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself. "
    Ayn Rand

    I guess Rand's quote above explains Mountain top mining. It also explains how even the animals can no longer adjust themselves to a destroyed background.

    http://www.coal-is-dirty.com/files/images/blogentry/mountaintop%20mining%20coal.jpg

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