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It seems that some people make arguments in "sound bites." It's really just a reflection of what political discourse has become in this country.

Many people go into politics because they aren't good for anything else. That fits the current President perfectly. I imagine it applies to Israeli "leaders" as well.

I don't think employment numbers are valid. There were lots of people in IT who lost their jobs and ended up taking jobs that they didn't want. If a computer programmer gets a job as a cab driver, it doesn't count as an "unemployed programmer." It counts as an "employed bus driver." Michigan is in the toilet. It's about as bad as any place for jobs. It may be different for your profession. It absolutely amazes me the amount of employers nowadays who still do not do any kind of background checks. Generally, if they do, they do job history checks. Some of them ask for past residences, but I don't think they formally check it. Who keeps records of where you have lived? I don't think any of my past landlords have any exact records of when I moved in and when I moved out. If they do ask for past addresses, it is so that they can check with the local police to see if you have any record. The CISSP is a IT security-related certification. I don't know if you would qualify for it or not. I have always had the impression that you have done some IT work. I could be wrong.

Gerry, Get over to Bristol in November and do this workshop. I have met Olivia Nelson (one of the leaders), and she is wonderful. It's called the Mastery: http://www.interactive-consultancies.co.uk...ops/mastery.htm It was initially designed for actors, but I'm sure you will find some value in it as well. They have them in Manchester and London, too.

For starters, Michael, you are in Michigan. You are in an area that has been economically depressed for many years. Many people are leaving the area for something better. One of my friends lived in Whitmore Lake. She didn't want to leave. She finally moved to Columbus, Ohio, last year. It's interesting the amount of Michigan people you see in the home of the Buckeyes. You are also over 50. You are getting some age discrimination. I would bet on it. Also, don't do anything that gives away your age. Have you talked to your professor, etc.? They are usually happy to help with this kind of stuff. Perhaps, they could help you get a job at the university. You are using a mailbox for your mailing address. Why are you advertising that fact? There is no point in telling your employer this. Just use the box as your address. Instead of box, just put number. They will assume it is an apartment. Back in 1998, I got my first job in Columbus, Ohio, using a private mailbox. The kicker was that I didn't live in Columbus at the time. However, I got no offers in Columbus until I used this as my address. I was rejected simply because I had an out-of-town address. Once I got an offer, I did a quick move. Get out there and talk to people in your profession. I think you might be able to get a CISSP. Have you considered that?

Let me warn you, Gerry. You are from Ireland. I am sure you have a much more objective view of America's imperialism than some people on this board. It may disappoint you to see it. However, some people who call themselves Objectivists cheer on foreign invasions of countries who are no threat to the USA. They make apologies for penny-ante autocrats like Mikhail Saakashvili and the butchers who have been running Israel since 1948. They love the fact that the US has given aid to goons and thugs like Franco in Spain. They just love the fact that people who disagree with them are getting killed for the fact that they disagree. These people, of course, are cowards. They would never openly initiate an act of violence against a person who disagrees with them. But secretly, deep in their sick minds, they absolutely, positively love the killing. They admire a murderer who acts on feelings that they have repressed. It's partially because they simply have trouble feeling anything. A coward is numb and has trouble feeling anything at all. The thing I can't figure out is what attracts these kind of people to Objectivism in the first place. Some of us have a rational and realistic view. Justin Raimondo of antiwar.com has been heavily influenced by Rand, for example. I fear that many rational people already have left the movement in disgust. Ten years ago, the Objectivist forums I frequented were much different. Thus, I'm not surprised that some people are upset that Oliver Stone is criticizing Bush. For some people who call themselves Objectivists, Bush simply gets a free pass because he is the leader of wars that they love. These same people have criticized harshly just about every other American president who has come before him.

I most respect Newman for the simple fact that he was married to the same woman for 50 years. It was his second marriage. A 55-year marriage is a very rare thing in Hollywood. As an aside, Karl Malden and his wife are both still alive. This year is their 70th anniversary.

Who is Leigh? Has Doctor Branden married yet again?

I've read Passion. It's been many years, however.

Where are you? Did you see the movie Pineapple Express?

Amazon says it's "not in stock." BN does not have it at all.

I was born in 1971, so I was never around NBI or anything like that. It seems that the worst mistake Rand made was taking on an entourage of admirers and discarding people who were her equals. Up until that time, Rand had kept different company. This included people like Isabel Paterson. These people challenged her. If Ayn Rand was full of baloney, these people would say so. When the Collective arrived, the equals disappeared. They also helped drive away people like Murray Rothbard and John Hospers. Of course, this is just a theory. Unfortunately, the people who were in the collective will never admit that they were a destructive influence on Rand. In his bio, Random House executive Bennett Cerf described them as "sycophants."

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol...icle4837158.ece We lost one of the best.

I'm confident that this list is incomplete, but it was interesting nonetheless: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longe...by_running_time A lot of them are old. Most of them are foreign. One very long novel adapation is on the list--a Soviet adaptation of Tolstoy's War and Peace. It also ended up being one of the most expensive films ever made. After I thought about it, I realized the time when the epic on screen ended for Hollywood. It was 1963, when Cleopatra came out. It starred Elizabeth Taylor and was one of the most expensive films made at the time. It almost bankrupt Twentieth Century Fox, which recovered mainly due to The Sound of Music two years later.

I was going to order this at Barnes and Noble. They couldn't find it.

Here is a summary of Sherman's attitude, which applied to everyone he disagree with: "We are not going to let a few thieving, ragged Indians check and stop the progress of the railroads.... I regard the railroad as the most important element now in progress to facilitate the military interests of our Frontier. We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children. (The Sioux must) feel the superior power of the Government. During an assault, the soldiers cannot pause to distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to age."

I don't think that most Americans are going to buy that one party is to blame for this.

If he was in the debates, the moderators would pretend that he isn't there. They would cut him off, just like they did during the primary.

He's one of the few there that is worth listening to.

It may be the only way to make it work. It could work well. What would you cut from the film? Would it be the speeches? I'm trying to think of what you would cut. I guess you could cut Cheryl Brooks and Philip Rearden. I've long thought that Cheryl added nothing to the story. I'm not surprised by this. I have heard that the Harry Potter books have been pretty faithful.

There was censorship long before the war. After an incident during Jackson's Presidency, the Post Office refused to carry anti-slavery publications. This is one big argument for the privitization of the Post Office. It has historically been used for censorship.

This is going to be the magnum opus of Diana's career?

What's this? How long does it take to write a book anyway? When you look at the overall output of ARI, you will realize that they have done very little. The same goes for the Atlas Society. One has to wonder why these organizations have done so little. It certainly does not help if these people are trying to make it in the "publish or perish" world of academia. It seems that Murray Rothbard or Ludwig von Mises put out more work than all of them. When I attended the FEE seminar back in 1994, Hans Sennholz said that they did one book a month. Finally, I happened to meet Neal Stephenson last night. He still has a part-time job and manages to do all his writing. I'm not sure how much he works though, and he certainly doesn't need another job.

When were they ever independent nations? If they were, it was a very long time ago. Unfortunately, this kind of peaceful separation is the exception, not the rule.

Some do. Interestingly enough, Objectivism has long been under-represented in the South. Neither was purely capitalist. Certainly an institution such as slavery is incompatible with capitalism. So were the mercantilist idealogues of the North. Indeed, they do. And that's the only way to check the power of a government. If you can't leave the relationship, then how do you keep the relationship beneficial to all. It's like saying that a battered spouse has no right to leave the batterer. If the men who signed the Constitution could see the country today, would they have signed it?