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Brad Cahill I think he is credible - he has made some mistakes, but all in all is a good role model - you have bought into the propaganda, and refuse to actually research what you say, so obviously he is evil incarnate to you - which is what they want you to believe. 7 hours ago · Like.. Brad Cahill it is so easy to spew ignorance, but there are ways to find out what is actually happening out there, not just what one wants you to believe - it is all about seeking data before opening mouth... 7 hours ago · Like.. Cathy O'Connor Dupler this is what Ayn Rand had to say of what our government was to become years before it even happened. 7 hours ago · Like.. Cathy O'Connor Dupler There wasn’t a man voting for it who didn’t think that under a setup of this kind he’d muscle in on the profits of the men abler than himself. There wasn’t a man rich and smart enough but that he didn’t think that somebody was richer and smarter, and this plan would give him a share of his better’s wealth and brain. But while he was thinking that he’d get unearned benefits from the men above, he forgot about the men below who’d get unearned benefits, too. He forgot about all his inferiors who’d rush to drain him just as he hoped to drain his superiors 7 hours ago · Like.. Brad Cahill And SHE is a pathetic piece of shit! 7 hours ago · Like.. Cathy O'Connor Dupler LOL are u more superior than Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand? Are you calling them ignorant? 7 hours ago · Like.. Cathy O'Connor Dupler She is a pathetic piece of shit...she's been dead for over thirty years, her books are taught in college to this day. Her books sell second best to the bible, The third sequel to her movie Atlas Shrugged comes out this summer. Really Brad....thought u were smarter than that...u truly disappoint me

Brad Cahill I have seen that post now 5 or 6 times from people all over the country who found it on the internet. Just for the fun of it Cathy O'Connor Dupler, did you bother to put down your glass of Kool-Aid long enough to check the factualness of this, or run a comparative exercise to validate it? Of course not - It is on the web, it validates your anger, so it must be true...right? 8 hours ago · Edited · Like.. Cathy O'Connor Dupler This is what Paul Ryan had to say 7 hours ago · Like.. Cathy O'Connor Dupler And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly. You see, even with all the hidden taxes to pay for the health care takeover, even with new taxes on nearly a million small businesses, the planners in Washington still didn’t have enough money. They needed more. They needed hundreds of billions more. So, they just took it all away from Medicare. Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn’t even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, 7 hours ago · Like.. Brad Cahill oh and he is so credible... 7 hours ago · Like.. Cathy O'Connor Dupler what about Obama's credibility? 7 hours ago · Like.. Brad Cahill Paul Ryan wants you in slavery to the 1% - good role model for you Cathy... 7 hours ago · Like.. Cathy O'Connor Dupler Who is going to win with Obama?

Cathy: Which is precisely why he is not "smarter" than you. In point of fact, he has demonstrated his ignorance, and, frankly, his insecurity about meeting her ideas wiht better ideas. You need not sink to his insecurities. Ask him questions. Can you cut and paste the conversation with him from your facebook page? A... I will try.

I can imagine! I am just in amazement about her. She really was everything wasn't she...so many different sides to her... I am finding out the hard way and people can be so snotty about her. He called her a piece of shit...I wanted to jump through the computer screen and beat his ass! Everything she has overcame and achieved being in this country, and have someone call her a piece of shit! She is more than he could ever be!

I know what you mean ugh!!! I am exhausted from it all. I feel like he is bullying me to his thinking by calling me ignorant. He is always insulting me and others who doesn't think his view point is right. I use to be best friends with him in 7th grade. He is very smart and he is a translator for different countries. But just because he is smarter than me doesn't mean he is right. I do see now how Aunt Alice was up against...he doesn't know she is my aunt. God, I would play hell for that one if he knew! I can see certain parts of her philosophy very clear now...some of it. But I can also see why my father kept us away from it. If there were people like the one on facebook tonight, being like that back then, I don't think I would want my kids around that either. But she could hold her own...much better than I can and I hate that about myself. This certainly was a reality check for me on what she had to ordeal, and with many more people. I am starting to admire Ayn Rand thx Michael

Mikee, I agree. I want a better future for my grandkids, but nothing has changed. I do fear our country will be worse than ever. It scares me that the government will have access to everything we have. All this I believe started along time ago where our government is trying to control every aspect of ourlives...at least I feel its headed that way. Its was good to hear from you again. I hope you are doing well ~Cathy~

In February of 1963, Ayn Rand addressed a meeting of the Ocean County Medical Society, which included among its members Dr. Henriksen and his associates in the protest. Portions of her address appeared in The Objectivist Newsletter the following month. “How Not to Fight against Socialized Medicine” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hi Stephen, being a Christian, I believe all is deserving of medical treatment. I wouldn't be able to take it mentally that someone suffering, in pain, or dying, and there is someone right there to help them and wouldn't. But some emergency rooms do turn people away because they cant pay or even for religious beliefs. My Aunt Agnes also had an abortion. She was hemorrhaging afterwards and went to St Joseph hospital (the hospital where both my grand parents died at), they seen her hemorrhaging was due to an abortion and turned her away. St Joe's was a catholic hospital , which were against abortions. She almost died, and had to go a long way to a hospital that would help her. I understand the right to life, but the abortion already happened, but her life wasn't as valuable as an unborn child? I don't understand the theory of that. I hate the fact that people who live in welfare get full medical benefits, but yet the people who work,(like me and my husband) whose employer doesn't provide health insurance, or the cost would take most of their check, cant get medical through the state. I don't know what would make it better, but I don't think Obama care is the answer either. I think when it comes into effect, things are going to get really crazy for awhile. I don't think the care people will receive will be worth what they pay for it, and there will be a lot of malpractice suits, because doctors wont be able to give their full attention to one person because of being over worked. I still like the lottery example the best, and I don't think Americans would mind that. Do you think that that would be possible? I know in Georgia, part of the lottery is used for Georgia residence to get free college education, it called the hope scholarship. If one state can do that to educate its citizens, then why cant the whole country do that to make sure we have health care? I don't even play the lottery (I never win) but I would be willing to buy a ticket even if I know I wouldn't win, if it would help someone else medically. Thank you Stephen for trying to explain all this, I am so confused about why the ones who believe in Obama health care plan are so happy about it. ~Cathy~

Wait until the people who now get a bargain on healthcare have to give up their privilege and pay through the nose because the poor people in the ghetto need it for free. I don't think the USA will degenerate to that point, though. Maybe, but I doubt it. Not because the USA takes magic pills that allow it to operate with poor market practices and stay above it all. Instead, I believe Obamacare will fail as a law (meaning everybody will be screwed for a while) because a good portion of the American public is hopping mad about it, especially the way it was passed in the dead of night with dirty procedural tricks and backroom horse-trading. Note that not a single Republican voted for it. And not a single member of Congress (both houses) read the bill before voting on it. That is not a good moral foundation for such a sweeping law. On the contrary, that is an invitation to war. I dearly hope this does not get violent, but I fear it might. Not a full civil war, but instead, sporadic outrages (both sides). Michael thank you Michael. I have been very worried about all the drastic and sneaky ways Obama has ran our country. I shouldn't say I am worried about our country in a whole, some people after all voted him in. I am worried about the families I know that are struggling, including mine, that work hard to make a decent living and have the government keep chipping away at our paychecks. I have been with my company now for five years and none of us has gotten a raise. Companies feel they don't have to give one because we should feel blessed to even have a job. But every year my check gets smaller and smaller. I am worried when Obama care kicks in how much I am going to have to pay for it, because by then, there isn't going to be much left if anything at all. My husband says, there maybe a marshal law. I do agree somewhat on what Aunt Alice says about supporting lazy people. But, there are two sides of that coin for me. My daughter Kristen is getting a divorce and has 2 babies, that are only 11 months apart. She has a job and supports them, but she does get food stamps and WIC. I am relieved she gets the governments help and I am happy to pay taxes for such things like that. What I don't like is "mother's" who have illegitimate babies, who our tax dollars pays for DNA to find who the father is and they keep having them to increase their welfare checks. I hate for my money going to taxes to support these types of people and there are many of them. I haven't talked to Conny for over a week because somehow this health care plan keeps getting brought up and we argue. I hope she is right...I would love for all our country to have something good and worth the money put into it. I hope I am wrong, I would be happy if I am. But I just cant see anything good coming from this. Now the government shut down has cause a lot of problems here, trying to get in for WIC appointments, and the babies need those for formula. I just feel the government hits the weak, poor and elderly when things like this happen. I know I should never talk politics, its an open invitation to an argument, and really, I have never been political until now. The Liberal progressive vision I read, is it from Aunt Alice's book, Atlas Shrugged? I like the idea of the drain pipe being forced with water and the pipe getting bigger. I looked at it like the water is our paychecks and the pipe is the government...the more you work to get more water the government just takes the more water you get. In the end you have nothing to show for it, but a government that controls everything. I can see that we are in desperate times and its going to get more desperate I'm afraid. I just cant see why Obama cant see that. I think government is evil, I didn't use to feel this way about it, but now I do. Thank you Michael, I think I have a lot to learn. ~Cathy~

I hope the kids appreciates it...some parts of it I was going to leave out because it was so hard to put it in writing...but I wrote it anyway. Hopefully it will help them to understand me one day. But I don't think I will let them have it until after I die...I don't want all questions, and believe me they will have them. Maybe Conny will still be around and she can answer them for me ;) But then she will be force to remember, LOL, ironic isn't it? Love the thought tho

Yes I have about 30 pages and Im not even halfway through. I didn't know that I had so much to say lol! But I want my children and grandchildren to know each and everyone of them, like Aunt Agnes did for us. I don't understand why it is so important for me to have my family know about their long a go family, but it is. I guess when your older, you don't want to die without leaving a family legacy. I would do this anyway with or with out Aunt Alice. Its more of the stories Aunt Agnes told us, it was important to her, so I guess its important to me. But right now I am more concerned over our country. I never use to be...my thought use to be, whatever comes my way. But now I see my family and friends struggling, working hard and getting no where. We use to own a concrete business when Bush was in office and we thrived. As soon as Obama was elected we slowly went under two and a half years ago. I maybe be blaming Obama for everyone's troubles, but I just cant see it any other way, and I try to...hope your doing well...~Cathy~

Does anyone think they know what my aunt would say about the government shut down? I sure do wish my father would have let her tell us her philosophy! What would she say about Obama care? My sister and I do not agree with Obama, she is for him, I am against him. I am totally against Obama care. I maybe wrong, but I think the government and the insurance companies run America. I think his health care plan is a gimmick for the insurance companies and for the debt ceiling. Conny says she now receives health care for half the deductibles that they had a year ago. I'm happy for her, but I told her for now its good, wait until everyone has to have it. She says its about time the insurance companies makes it affordable for all of us. She thinks the insurance companies are going to take a loss. I tried telling her that now they are guaranteed more money because all of Americans have to pay for it. I asked her, what kind of care do you think your going to receive from doctor's who are over booked and over worked...or how long its going to take to get an appointment? I am against being force to pay for something I didn't ask for or vote in. I am against that if I don't pay for it I could be fined or jailed or both or my tax check be taken. Why cant the government over see the lottery and take a percentage of it and make health insurance free for all of us. Some people win that lottery and win more than they could spend in a life time. I just can see many other solutions to this problem than bullying Americans into something I think they should have a choice in having. How I wish Aunt Alice was alive today. Anyone with some input on this, I would appreciate anything anybody has to say about it, for and against. Thx ~Cathy~

Ginny, I should show her this and the pic lol...if you knew my sister, she is so worried about aging. She gets shots above her lips so she doesn't wrinkle from cigarette smoking, wears sunglasses, so she doesn't get wrinkles by squinting, uses Mary Kay make up and soap...me, I don't care, Ive earned everyone of my wrinkles! To each there own I guess ~Cathy~ p.s. your mother is just very old in the picture...I can tell, she have very pretty features.

Ginny, I sent you a private message

OMG Ginny, I have been so worried about you! I have prayed over and over that you were alright! I am so happy to finally hear from you! Take your time, I will be here, I just so happy you are ok! I have the information I told you I would get from my friend...I couldn't wait to give it to you. Just let me know when your up to it all...and for goodness sake, stay in touch somehow on this site....you scared the living hell outta me! Happy happy happy your back! ~Cathy~

Happy belated birthday Mikee. Sorry I didn't see it sooner. Michael is absolutely correct in saying you are one of the good guys! I am sorry I missed your day, but I hope it was as good as it gets and many more happy birthdays to come. Your friend ~Cathy~

Thank you Daunce, you are always so witty yeah it was only 20 pages...its not like it was 40 pages I think Ginny lives in Chicago. God, I hope and pray she is alright!

Thank you so much Mikee! I did take it to a computer expert...he cant find it. He suggested I call aol for help in trying to get it back. Conny says...maybe it was meant to be...that's her answer for everything lol. She is not thrilled that I am writing a memoir, but says she wants a copy of it. You see, we are a lot like the O'Connor's...our children doesn't know much of our past. My feelings about it is, I don't want the O'Connor legacy to die with us. All the O'Connor's are part of mine and my sister's children, and I am going to let them know the good the bad the ugly the everything, after all no family is perfect. Really its me that needs to thank you and the other's, when I say I would never have came this far without all of you, I truly mean it. So a BIG thx to you Mikee and to all of you!

Does anyone know how to write a memoir? I started writing one, and it went smoothly, I had about 20 pages done of it and accidently deleted it. Now I am having trouble because I am upset that I did something so stupid and I am also worried about Ginny. But my sister is remembering more and more and I write notes just in case we forget again. Ellen asked me once if Aunt Alice wore a jacket when she came to visit when she taught us the prayer. Conny said she had on a navy blue jacket and pink shirt under it when she came in the house. I must not have seen her come in, I just remember the pink short sleeved shirt. I don't know if I say this to all of you, but the saddest thing I remember about Aunt Alice was that day...and I cant get it out of my head. I asked her why she talked funny, she said she came from Russia and ask me if I knew where it was. I said no, she said it was a long long way from here and that her family was still over there. As she was talking she was smiling...but then I asked her if she missed them. The first and only time I ever seen her look sad was when she said ....everyday. I don't know what family members she had left in Russia or she was just remembering the ones she left behind, but I'll never forget the sad look on her face. I have been reading about societies opinions about her back in the time I lived in my father's house. I can understand why my father kept us away from her philosophy. But I read someone saying that Ayn Rand ate babies for breakfast. I instantly got mad! I know she preached altruism was bad and self serving was good. And in some ways she was like that...but not in all ways. She did have empathy for other's, she did have a heart and she was human. I wonder if there was anything nice that people have to say about her as a person, not just good things about her philosophies and bad things about her. Has there been anything said about her as a person? I don't want my grandchildren growing up thinking she was a bad person with a great philosophy. If anyone can help me with this part and an outline to write a memoir I would appreciate it. And if anyone knows anything about Ginny...thx ~Cathy~

Has anyone heard from Ginny yet????? Or anything about her?????

Has anyone heard from or about Ginny yet?

No I haven't and I am worried sick. My friend was looking up some information for her and I know she was waiting for it. I have the information, but she hasn't been on. Do you know of anybody who knows how to get a hold of her? I know she was sick and I pray she is ok No, not a soul - I only know her on here. Maybe MSK knows someway? Worried too, Carol I already talked to him, he sent an email and is trying to see if he can get a phone number somehow I do hope and pray she is ok! ~Cathy~

No I haven't and I am worried sick. My friend was looking up some information for her and I know she was waiting for it. I have the information, but she hasn't been on. Do you know of anybody who knows how to get a hold of her? I know she was sick and I pray she is ok

Thank you daunce and it has been a great pleasure to know you also. I hope you all know how amazing all of you are. The ones that read this and who have helped me along the way I feel so much gratitude for! If it weren't for you and others, I would have stopped fast in my tracks and would have carried on with life forgetting half of myself. I feel whole for once in my life...and I am happy ~Cathy~

I wanted to let you all know about my visit to Ohio. I had to let it all sink in before I wrote it down. I met Jim Smith who wrote an article for the Elyria Chronicle Telegram last year about my family. Frist we met him at my grandparents graves. He said that we maybe the only ones to visited their graves in over fifty years. There are four O'Connor graves together there. Both my grandparents, my Aunt Margaret, and my Aunt Mary. The only grave marker that is there is Margaret's. I am working on getting the rest a marker. Then we went to the house the O'Connor children grew up in. That's where it all sunk in at. You could almost see the children playing in the yard and putting on plays for the neighborhood children. It was like their energy was still there. If only that house could talk....all the sufferings that went on inside its walls. Two babies died at birth, Aunt Mary died there at six years old, my grandmother who got sick and never returned there, my father first wife falling down the cellar steps, died in the basement of a fractured skull. I began to think how important Dennis, my grandfather was to all his children. I had heard stories of my grandparents all through my growing up years, and just thought, it was just stories. Now I know it was real, real people, real tragedies, real lives, a real family. Aunt Alice told me that she would call my grandfather her American father, and she referred to herself as he did also as his Russian daughter. Anytime Aunt Alice would talk about my grandfather she would talk about him with a big smile...he was her father in every sense of the word. I don't know why it was written that Aunt Alice didn't bother with the O'Connor family when she did. To really know Aunt Alice is to know the O'Connor's. It was Frank, Nick and Joe who gave Aunt Alice her beginning. The O'Connor children would put on plays in their back yard, Aunt Alice Uncle Frank, Nick and Joe would write screen plays and all four of them would act them out...just like they did when they were children. Aunt Alice and Uncle Frank may have said the were Atheist, but I found out on my trip that they were the ones who paid for our tuition for a Catholic education. Uncle Frank died in 1979, my father died in 1980. When the family told Aunt Alice about my father's passing, she wrote a letter saying how sorry she was and that she appreciated still being considered family...Marna still has that letter. This visit and Jim Smith also helped my sister come to terms with our past. I can talk to her now without her getting angry. She has remember things that I had totally forgotten, the circus peanuts and Good n Plenty's Uncle Frank would bring us. Both of us remember the day Conny accidently slammed my fingers in the car door and my Aunt Alice freaked out, it was my Aunt Agnes who stayed calm and fixed me right up. All of us were a family, and a good one until my father married my step mother. All of you know Ayn Rand and what her philosophies of life are...but I know the real Ayn Rand and how life with her really was. To really know her is to know the O'Connor's, without them, she would have remained Alice O'Connor. This has been an exhausting road for me with plenty of bumps along the way. All the bitterness, anger, confusion, fear, and sadness, has lead me to acceptance. I am half way done with my memoir, that has turned almost into a book. The last of the O'Connor's will die with me and my sister, but with my memoir, my children will have the O'Connor legacy. They will know how Dennis and Mary and their Irish American Catholic children and Russian Atheist daughter interweaved as a family and created Ayn Rand and a philosophy that has lived for over thirty years after their death. I now know who I am and what I am, and I can say for the first time in my life, I am proud to be an O'Connor

Has anyone heard from Ginny, I am really worried about her. We were private messaging each other, and she went MIA, when she came back she told me she was in the hospital, and now she hasn't been on again.