[SherryTX]

Hey all.
I have decided for the rest of the night to try to stay away from the news online, and not listen to it on the radio. I love news, and like to be informed, but lately it is nothing but BAD news - either Obama doing something else to kill what little left we have of capitalism, or various family murder-suicides in different parts of the country.

I am tired of it. I am not suggesting I will throw my head in the sand for long - but I don't know about you, but I NEED A BREAK!

More importantly, I would like to know about something that is going RIGHT.
Is there anything good you have to share? I don't care if it is national news, local news, or just something personal that you would like to share?

One happy thing: I was able to work on prepositions further with the 9 year old today without her getting too upset. She seems to be getting it, and is less annoyed that we need to work on grammar every day. A small step...but will make my life and hers so much easier if she keeps working on her attitude.

Anyone else?

[Selene]

Evening Sherry:

There is a lot of good news: http://www.happynews.com/index.aspx

Not in the news, is that I have been recruiting folks in much larger numbers to Ayn in the last 3-4 weeks. Over 20 people. For 5 of them the commitment was total - I am getting their copies of Atlas Shrugged tomorrow.

My deal is that if they like it they buy two copies for two friends under the same conditions.

If they do not like it they give the copy back to me.

I am also speaking at the local library book club about Atlas.

Adam

[galtgulch]

SherryTX, on Mar 30 2009, 05:56 PM, said:

Hey all.
I have decided for the rest of the night to try to stay away from the news online, and not listen to it on the radio. I love news, and like to be informed, but lately it is nothing but BAD news - either Obama doing something else to kill what little left we have of capitalism, or various family murder-suicides in different parts of the country.

I am tired of it. I am not suggesting I will throw my head in the sand for long - but I don't know about you, but I NEED A BREAK!

More importantly, I would like to know about something that is going RIGHT.
Is there anything good you have to share? I don't care if it is national news, local news, or just something personal that you would like to share?

One happy thing: I was able to work on prepositions further with the 9 year old today without her getting too upset. She seems to be getting it, and is less annoyed that we need to work on grammar every day. A small step...but will make my life and hers so much easier if she keeps working on her attitude.

Anyone else?

Sherry,

This could all be happening without our understanding in which case we would perhaps be tempted to rely on the false hope of Obama.

Fortunately, although we are in a growing minority, we have a better than average understanding of the premises underlying events and government policies. We have Ayn Rand to thank for that. And through her many of us read the book reviews of some of the works of Ludwig von Mises and others in the Austrian school.

We have reason and reality on our side and I am sure that each day our torch is passed on to the brightest among the next generation. I attribute this passing of the torch to the efforts of those involved in the many publications and think tanks which did not exist fifty years ago. The list is long and I fear if I began to list them here I would leave out quite a few.

I do appreciate some of the works of various foundations and subscribe to a few of their publications. I do let others know about these entities, e.g. www.fee.org, www.fff.org, www.aynrand.org, www.cato.org, www.atlassociety.com, www.mises.org, www.cafehayek.com.

Needless to say the one I like to watch the most is the Campaign For Liberty which is primarily educational but also promises to lead to political action in upcoming future elections.

www.campaignforliberty.com 30Mar 11PM 131,709 members; 31Mar 6AM 131868; 1Apr 132632, 9PM 132675

The efforts of the Young Americans for Liberty should be acknowledged here as well. Where once there were only forty campuses involved now there are over 125 campus chapters, all quite active. www.YALiberty.org

I know what you mean by so much distressing news each day. A few short months ago the C4L only numbered about 6000 when I joined last summer. I am impressed that the ranks of torch bearers, readers of the Austrian economists and Atlas have grown by over 125,000 in so little time.

gulch

This post has been edited by galtgulch: 01 April 2009 - 07:23 PM

[SherryTX]

Selene, on Mar 30 2009, 09:39 PM, said:

Evening Sherry:

There is a lot of good news: http://www.happynews.com/index.aspx

Not in the news, is that I have been recruiting folks in much larger numbers to Ayn in the last 3-4 weeks. Over 20 people. For 5 of them the commitment was total - I am getting their copies of Atlas Shrugged tomorrow.

My deal is that if they like it they buy two copies for two friends under the same conditions.

If they do not like it they give the copy back to me.

I am also speaking at the local library book club about Atlas.

Adam

Thank you for the link!
And yes - that IS good news!!!
We often buy used copies of Ayn Rand's works to have on hand to give to others. I tried to get my brother to agree to read Anthem or one of her other novels - I told him I would mail him a copy, but he declined. Oh well! I really like your idea of "paying it forward" or giving the book back. Brilliant!

[SherryTX]

galtgulch, on Mar 30 2009, 10:22 PM, said:

SherryTX, on Mar 30 2009, 05:56 PM, said:

Hey all.
I have decided for the rest of the night to try to stay away from the news online, and not listen to it on the radio. I love news, and like to be informed, but lately it is nothing but BAD news - either Obama doing something else to kill what little left we have of capitalism, or various family murder-suicides in different parts of the country.

I am tired of it. I am not suggesting I will throw my head in the sand for long - but I don't know about you, but I NEED A BREAK!

More importantly, I would like to know about something that is going RIGHT.
Is there anything good you have to share? I don't care if it is national news, local news, or just something personal that you would like to share?

One happy thing: I was able to work on prepositions further with the 9 year old today without her getting too upset. She seems to be getting it, and is less annoyed that we need to work on grammar every day. A small step...but will make my life and hers so much easier if she keeps working on her attitude.

Anyone else?

Sherry,

This could all be happening without our understanding in which case we would perhaps be tempted to rely on the false hope of Obama.

Fortunately, although we are in a growing minority, we have a better than average understanding of the premises underlying events and government policies. We have Ayn Rand to thank for that. And through her many of us read the book reviews of some of the works of Ludwig von Mises and others in the Austrian school.

We have reason and reality on our side and I am sure that each day our torch is passed on to the brightest among the next generation. I attribute this passing of the torch to the efforts of those involved in the many publications and think tanks which did not exist fifty years ago. The list is long and I fear if I began to list them here I would leave out quite a few.

I do appreciate some of the works of various foundations and subscribe to a few of their publications. I do let others know about these entities, e.g. www.fee.org, www.fff.org, www.aynrand.org, www.cato.org, www.atlassociety.com, www.mises.org, www.cafehayek.com.

Needless to say the one I like to watch the most is the Campaign For Liberty which is primarily educational but also promises to lead to political action in upcoming future elections.

www.campaignforliberty.com 30Mar 11PM 131,709 members

The efforts of the Young Americans for Liberty should be acknowledged here as well. Where once there were only forty campuses involved now there are over 125 campus chapters, all quite active. www.YALiberty.org

I know what you mean by so much distressing news each day. A few short months ago the C4L only numbered about 6000 when I joined last summer. I am impressed that the ranks of torch bearers, readers of the Austrian economists and Atlas have grown by over 125,000 in so little time.

gulch

It is promising how many more people seem to be paying attention to the craziness and getting interested in doing something about it. Thanks for the reminder!

[Chris Grieb]

Sherry; You refer to a problem that has been going on many years in Objectivism. Miss Rand was once asked at NBI by a student who said he got depressed when he read the newspaper what he could do about. Miss Rand's reply was when you find out let us know. That was almost fifty years ago.

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Sherry,

I once read a quip that without disasters, tragedies, betrayals and sexual exposes, there would be no news industry.

(Dayaamm! That's depressing...)



Michael

[general semanticist]

What bugs me is that they even call it news. It the same old crap over and over again and that's why it's depressing. I quit paying attention to the news many years ago. I figure if its important I'll find out soon enough.

[Selene]

Folks:

I love actual news also, GS is sooo correct here, in that a good 60-70 % is not "news", but gossip and rumor.

My ex-wife and I would go down to St. John every year for two weeks to either Cinnamon Bay or Maho Bay. Both are environmental camp grounds and the first is literally 100 yards from one of the top ten most beautiful beaches in the world. During those two weeks, we would literally disconnect from the world and lo and behold, nothing changed. Taught me a damned sharp lesson about the "news cycle".

http://www.cinnamonbay.com/home.html

http://www.maho.org/

Maho has more privacy and you literally sleep above the ground, in the jungle, in three room platform tents. It is two bays "up" from Cinnamon Bay.

Adam

[BaalChatzaf]

general semanticist, on Mar 31 2009, 08:05 AM, said:

What bugs me is that they even call it news. It the same old crap over and over again and that's why it's depressing. I quit paying attention to the news many years ago. I figure if its important I'll find out soon enough.

It is new same old crap.

Ba'al Chatzaf

[Selene]

More good news:

Rush Limbaugh just started into a 20 minute exposition of individuality, self interest, selfishness, self sacrifice, demands by the state for sacrifice and led it off by quoting from the "...brilliant novelist Ayn [he pronounces it Ann] Rand..." and then proceeded to quote her brilliant:

when someone starts talking to you about sacrifice that posits a recipient of the sacrifice ...a master slave dynamic and he knows who is going to be the master

do not have it at hand.

And that goes out to 20 million plus!

Hallelujah and hosannas!

O'Biwan's folks have got to shut this media down to have their dictatorship of the proletariat.

Adam

This post has been edited by Selene: 31 March 2009 - 12:25 PM

[SherryTX]

This certainly may not be GOOD news - but it gave me quite a laugh:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29971638/

[Selene]

Sherry:

I heard about the story, but that picture and the text made out whole place here howl! Thank you.

Now this may or may not be great news based on some of the discussions on this forum:

http://www.riskybusinessblog.com/2009/03/w...lout-movie.html

Adam

[SherryTX]

Selene, on Apr 1 2009, 12:54 PM, said:

Sherry:

I heard about the story, but that picture and the text made out whole place here howl! Thank you.

Now this may or may not be great news based on some of the discussions on this forum:

http://www.riskybusinessblog.com/2009/03/w...lout-movie.html

Adam

I hope they get a move on with the movie. If it reverts back to Ayn Rand's estate, I assume it would go back to Leonard Peikoff. Nothing against him, but I am worried it would never get maid because I don't think he knows how to deal with Hollywood (or else it would have been made before!).

[Reidy]

My understanding is that the option expired and the rights reverted to Peikoff at the end of 2008.