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Thank you for joining us. I am sure you can find some Rand writing to translate into Spanish.<br><br>I wonder what Rand's position on Las Islas Malvinas would be.<br><br><br>

<br>"Obviously you did not read anything else."<br><br>I read the Slate article, in addition to, earlier in my life, some Aristotle, Plato and Jane Austen. Now I have two questions.<br><br>1) Why would you assume that anyone who undertakes a long commute must be crazy?<br><br>2) Why would you assume that anyone who asked you that question "obviously" could not have read the linked article?<br>

<br><br>The answer to Question #1 was in my first post. You didn't even have to read the article. Reading my first post would have been enough. I have cut and paste it here for your convenience:<br><br>"...Commuting is a migraine-inducing life-suck—a mundane task about as   pleasurable as assembling flat-pack furniture or getting your license   renewed, and you have to do it <i>every day</i>. If you  are commuting,  you are not spending quality time with your loved ones.  You are not  exercising, doing challenging work, having sex, petting  your dog, or  playing with your kids (or your Wii). You are not doing  any of the  things that make human beings happy. Instead, you are  getting nauseous  on a bus, jostled on a train, or cut off in  traffic...."

It is a war on men and a war on the family as an institution. Here is Tom Ball's "declaration of war":

http://www.sentinelsource.com/news/local/last-statement-sent-to-sentinel-from-self-immolation-victim/article_cd181c8e-983b-11e0-a559-001cc4c03286.html

It has some flaws, but the message is what is important. Any man should read this.

The benefits of the G.I. bill were a small repayment for the danger and pain we put our fighting men through. They were dragooned and shanghai-ed into service. Paying for school and giving them a small break on buying a house was a very small compensation and indemnity for the wrong with did them. The dead could never have been compensated, the living not half enough.

The troops may have been boys when they went off to fight (and some of them killed and maimed) but they all came back men. It is an insult to imply their adolescence had been extended. They were robbed of their adolescence and youth.

This is not how I mean that the GI Bill was destructive. It was destructive in the sense that I created a boom in college attendance which has never really stopped since then.

Before WW2, a man was often expected to get a job after high school. In many respects, it may have even been after the eighth grade. And people actually did do quite well in many professions with just that level of schooling.

In a word, we have been sucked into the vortex of the Forever War. The United States and Americans do not have the balls the Romans did. We are unfit to pursue a Pax Americana. We just do not have the cojones for it. We should have taken the advice of George Washington and avoided entangling alliances. Not because it is moral, but because it is practical.

Our downfall was this: 1. We won WW2 almost intact with relatively small losses.

I disagree completely. I am largely convinced that WW2 was very destructive for this country, in spite of "victory." WW2 gave us income-tax witholding. It gave us more lasting bureaucracies than the New Deal did. It probably indirectly destroyed the American auto industry--as they became crony capitalists who produce cars that aren't half as good as Japanese. After WW2, we got the GI Bill. WW2 basically resulted in a long extension of adolescence. Worst of all, WW2 gave us Rosie the Riveter and working women, which led to the modern feminist movement.

That's how the "victory" destroyed this country.

The U.S. Killed over one million Japanese non-combatants in the Pacific War. So sorry. Maybe the Japanese should have thought of that before they bombed Pearl Harbor.

In a word, collateral damage does not bother me one little bit.

Maybe the USA should have considered all this before it put an embargo on Japan.

That is how it is to be Jewish. The Muslims are out to get my pink Jewish ass. They have said so many times and I believe them.

Do people know that you are Jewish simply by sight?

Perhaps this is a better way to say this: John McCaskey has better things to do than hang out with the ARI crowd. Most people like him do have better things to do. I would say the same thing for people like Neil Peart of Rush or Mark Cuban. I would love to see those people get involved. But I think they this kind of stuff and decide to go somewhere else.

It's Gresham's Law: the bad drives out the good.

The better question is why did someone this smart get involved with them in the first place. I suspect it's because he just saw the words Ayn Rand and thought that these people actually took reason and reality seriously.

Anybody who has a brain and integrity isn't going to get involved with ARI. Most of them have better things to do.

I'm giving this a few more days. It looks like I will not be going though. I am still looking for a room share.

http://www.lp.org/ne...inee-dies-at-93

http://reason.com/blog/2011/06/13/john-hospers-rip#comments

http://www.ballot-access.org/2011/06/13/john-hospers-first-libertarian-party-presidential-candidate-dies-at-the-age-of-93/

Sheldon Richman has also posted this news on his Facebook status.

I haven't found anybody and probably should have had started sooner. I really shouldn't be all that surprised. And if there is nobody to share a room with, I'm not going.

Baker wrote: "In my humble opinion, if you spend more than half an hour going to your job one way, you are crazy."

Why?

Obviously you did not read anything else.

By the way, posting my Facebook link here does not mean that I am interested in random friend requests.

I am sick and tired of friend requests from total strangers on Facebook. My profile says this quite clearly. I posted my Facebook link here because it is another way for people to contact me.

This comes as absolutely no surprise at all. You already spend forty hours or more working. Why do you spend an insane amount of time driving to and from your job, especially when gas prices are out of this world?

http://www.slate.com/id/2295603/

In my humble opinion, if you spend more than half an hour going to your job one way, you are crazy.

"...Commuting is a migraine-inducing life-suck—a mundane task about as pleasurable as assembling flat-pack furniture or getting your license renewed, and you have to do it every day. If you are commuting, you are not spending quality time with your loved ones. You are not exercising, doing challenging work, having sex, petting your dog, or playing with your kids (or your Wii). You are not doing any of the things that make human beings happy. Instead, you are getting nauseous on a bus, jostled on a train, or cut off in traffic...."

I am looking for a room share at Free Minds. If you are interested, please write me at:

chris(at)chrisbaker(dot)net

You can also PM here or post here.

https://www.facebook.../#!/chris.baker

Andy teaches Opie a lesson about the Fourth Amendment

Sometimes the way you defeat your enemies is not only to sink to their level, but even lower.

Is the motto for the Objectivist movement today? It certainly does not seem consistent with Peikoff's comment that "evil is impotent."

http://www.slate.com/id/2295603/pagenum/all/#p2

Here's an article about studies which have shown that a long commute can create a lot of problems for you. Is the insane commute worth it?

If you wonder why California is so screwed up, well here's a good reason why. Full-time beach lifeguards in California make six figures:

http://dailycaller.com/2011/05/15/brian-calle-lifeguard-100000-club-goes-way-beyond-newport/

We need this Palin to run for President. He can't cut hair, but he can sing:

And he keeps his cheese shop very clean:

Rick Perry is not a friend of capitalism. I live in Austin. This son of a bitch signed an executive order requiring the HPV vaccine. He did it, of course, because he took a bunch of bribes from pharmaceuticals. He is a typical conservative who supports the corporate welfare state.

Here's yet another hatchet job on Rand. It comes from the left and lies in so many ways.

http://www.alternet.org/news/150971/3_fatal_flaws_in_ayn_rand%27s_perverse_%27moral_philosophy%27/comments/

Rick Perry is just a typical neo-con son of a bitch. He actually signed an order requiring HPV vaccines for girls. That, of course, was at the behest of pharmaceutical companies. He has not gotten very good ratings from Cato either.