Brant Gaede

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    Born in 1944 in Tucson, AZ. SF Aidman Vietnam combat veteran. Autodidact. Can drive the big rig. Hike and fly. Weep and write. Shoot and scoot.

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  1. Sharon Presley died on October 31. A libertarian like Jim Peron captured by the cultural left. i probably had dealings with her when the Laissez Fair bookstore opened in on or about 1972 in NYC across the park from New York University. Liked her. Brant like Jim too even though he kicked me off his Facebook page
  2. There is - contra Barbara Branden, who was too Catholic - no Objectivist movement. It got a knife in the heart in 1968 and slowly died presided over byLeonard Peikoff who wasn't up to what Nathaniel Branden did in the 1960s. I saw it all after arriving in New York City in April 1968 just months before the Break of 1968 disaster. Only now do I know it was ripe for the times but vanity. But it could only have lived on for a while anyway. There was no transitional figure to replace NB, not that Rand would have tolerated such a person. Atlas Shrugged in that respect was decades ahead of its time. Now its time is becoming our time sans the psychological renderings which are wrong, confused and right. --Brant
  3. She doesn't understand she's driving against traffic. --Brant
  4. There's no real threat. You can only pretend to give up sovereignty. Take it back at will. And the SC will block it regardless. --Brant
  5. Personaljzed AZ license plate I saw last week: WMSHRK. The plate holder said DEFEND HAWAII --Brant he sure does get around
  6. Try megadosing on hydergine. The reference is Dirk Pearson n Sandy Shaw The Life Extension Companion. --Brant
  7. I mostly agree with this. My grandfather wrote a six volume biography of James Madison, but the Construction does provide for the basic Federal structure solidified by Marshall's Marbury vs. Madison. The Bill of Rights was meant to limit Federal not State power but that was changed. The Declaration of Independence is the country's foundational document but the Constitution was the foundation for the triumph of federalism in The Civil War. The immense power of the, not these, United States has made today's geo-political world from its unnecessary wars, especially WWI, but the past is not to be undone. All we can do is fight for more freedom using the right ideological tools. Stating that we don't have a Constitution is only a rhetorical flagpole for purpose of focus not discussion as such. Of course we do, what's left of it. --Brant
  8. There should never have been an Ayn Rand Institute. That was Rand's published opinion. ARI was an attempt to keep Objectivism as a movement going with Peikoff replacing Rand. --Brant
  9. She teaches skiing in Breckenridge, CO. --Brant