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    Looks like he's polling pretty well. http://reason.com/blog/2018/08/20/shock-poll-gary-johnson-at-21-in-senate His Anti-Trump cred is really good coming out of the 2016 campaign. Among Trump admirers (not in short supply on OL): would you rather have an Anti-Trump Democrat or an Anti-Trump Libertarian occupying this Senate seat? It's one or the other.
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    This one certainly gets the skeptical juices flowing. If the recent data don't support warming, make the past colder!
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    This guy from ARI does a good job. Though I'm not so sure about the hairstyle.
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    Yeah, Jesus never wore ridiculous headgear like this:
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    Only a pervert would make such an association.
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    Yeah, he keeps it very measured; the headline is clickbait. Meanwhile, I just came across this. It was uploaded in February, long ago in news-cycle terms. It really blows Omarosa's credibility to hell. On any topic. Including taped conversations. And again, the headline doesn't do justice to the contents.
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    Hey we cool; it's not like I launched into a full scale Phil-ipic. William did the research, then I withdrew any suggestion that your quote was treif. Hell, I even hedged on it in the original post. Happy now? On the theme of bad quoting practices, here's a great bit from Rand herself. I love the way she says the word "contemptible".
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    http://reason.com/blog/2018/08/14/its-happening-gary-johnson-running-for-s Evidently he's taking the plunge. The New Mexico race has been slated to be an easy win for the Democrat. I'd really like to see Johnson pull off an upset.
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    Ok, that shows her using it as a heuristic herself. So it's kosher. Not too long ago I heard Yaron Brook criticize TAS for ascribing a different "villain" quote to Rand. Someone posted it on OL.
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    I wonder if, that being an Ellsworth Toohey quote, it's really kosher to ascribe it to Rand. Though I can think of some follies that aren't worth spending any time on.
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    Has anyone reached out to Lord Humungus for an endorsement yet?
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    I thought that kind of thing was all in the past. Years past. You're right that there's less activity. But here's something recent I saw there that I think you'll enjoy watching. Leonard shows off his art collection. I think a lot of forum activity has migrated to Facebook, where everyone gets to be their own moderator. And that's more attractive to the kind of people we like to avoid, leaving behind a better ratio of worthwhile contributors. Alas, Knucky is still active as ever (over at OO).
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    Love Songs

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    No, I never did get to hear him live. The first item here is adapted from Strauss. What's not to like? He was great. Just listen to the musicianship on display here:
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    I don't see how you would have gotten "unbanned". If you're hankering to join, you may as well set up a new username, probably all you need to do is have it link to a different email address. If you were banned in 2011, obviously I don't know what you did to get banned, but just look what I was able to write in 2012: http://forum.objectivismonline.com/index.php?/topic/23082-peikoff-on-date-rape/&tab=comments#comment-288348 There was someone calling for me to be banned, but it didn't happen. I posted there pretty recently, within a week or so, something about music.
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    That's not been my experience with Objectivism Online. Though if you look at old threads you'll see some of the old cultist behavior on display. I think that kind of thing, to the extent it still exists, has migrated to Facebook.
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    If you can think of more examples, add them in. Those 3 were all I could think of but it's surely not an exhaustive list. Re Muhammad Ali, I recall hearing Peikoff talk about it on one of his podcasts. Looks like someone transcribed it here: http://capitalistpig.com/news-media/peikoff-muhammad-ali/ But I must have heard/read about it somewhere else also, since I recall that she had (at some point) two cats, named Mo and Tommy. Mo was named for Muhammad Ali, and Tommy for St. Thomas Aquinas.
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    How about we look at comparable examples from her life? 1. she supported Wendell Wilkie, who was a successful businessman with no government experience and virtually no military experience. 2. she "supported" Nixon, even in 1972, because she judged the alternative to be much worse. 3. she admired Muhammad Ali, specifically for his public persona, that wild braggadocio that reminds me of Trump at his (to my taste) most repulsive. Ali pulled it off, Trump...well I sure don't like it but plenty of people must, after all he did win. I voted for Johnson, and like to think that she'd have revised her view of Libertarians by now. Abstain, Trump, Clinton, Johnson, she'd have picked one of those four options. How about a poll of the channellers? 1 for Johnson.
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    Finally we know why the unemployment rate is (presently) so low. "Everyone has two jobs". http://reason.com/blog/2018/07/17/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-unemployment I saw someone call her the Sarah Palin of the left...after a few minutes reflection I feel that's quite unfair to Sarah Palin.
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    "But I don't think of [it]...and the more I see, the less I think".
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    You mustn't leave out: Faster...Harder...Don't Stop...owowowowoWoWOOOOHOOOOO YES!!!!! All the while the male part of the sketch staves off his climax by reciting Gunga Din.
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    Superman III: Now Non-Fiction.
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    And the critics sneer at the Mickey Mouse plot.
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    I don't show a message from you. I'll try PMing you, let's see if that works.
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    BTW, a while ago I was shopping on Audible.com and came across a well-written review. It was good enough that I proceeded to check out the author's other reviews. There's no question in my mind who the writer was: https://www.audible.com/a/listener/A2M87ZUCNF11U3?ref=a_pd_Classi_c15_rvlsnl_2 The McWhorter one is the clincher.