Horror File of Objectivist Living

[Selene]

Smart.

[moralist]

(I've used this example before...)

It's a strange phenomenon... like there are two worlds all swirled around each other like oil and water, and yet without actually combining or without each losing it's own unique identity by becoming compromised by the other. One world can be in the midst of the other and yet operate independently of it.

It's like living in an ever so subtly altered dimension...

...and the sole determinant of which world we live in is values.

Greg

[moralist]

I've often stated that government Universities are leftist medrasas... and in this case it's literally true.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/10836250/British-born-Boko-Haram-ringleader-was-radicalised-at-UK-university.html

A British-born "ringleader" of the Islamist group responsible for the kidnapping of hundreds of (Christian) school girls in Nigeria was radicalised while studying at a UK university, according to friends.

Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche, 29, was arrested on Wednesday in connection with two recent bombings carried out by Boko Haram in the Nigerian capital Abuja that killed nearly 100 people.

He is suspected of co-masterminding the attacks - one in the suburb of Nyanya that killed 75 people on April 14 and a second attack just yards away which killed 19 people earlier this month.

Interpol put out an international arrest warrant for Mr Ogwuche, who was discovered after a reward of £100,000 led to his discovery in Sudan.

He had reportedly been learning Arabic at the the International University of Africa in Sudan and was held as he tried to obtain a Turkish visa in the capital, Khartoum.

[Brant Gaede]

Joe writes:

I'm also reminded what AR wrote (Atlas Shrugged). "When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing....... you may know that your society is doomed.

That's totally true. Ayn Rand provided an accurate measure.

From where I look at it, it is impossible for society to be all uniformly doomed at the same time. There are always nooks and crannies where you don't need permission from the parasites to produce goods and services. So that's where I go...

Greg

The small scale heroic life. You end up where you start from.

--Brant

[Selene]

Khatoum's historical perspective:

The Battle of Khartoum, Siege of Khartoum or Fall of Khartoum was the conquest of British-held Khartoum by the Mahdist forces led by Muhammad Ahmad. British forces and their Egyptian allies had held the city for some time prior, but the siege that the Mahdists engineered and carried out from March 13, 1884, to January 26, 1885 was enough to wrest control away from the colonial leaders. After a ten-month siege, when the Mahdists finally broke into the city, the entire garrison of British and Egyptian soldiers (along with some Sudanese supporters) was killed.

Americans still have no clue about Islam and it's deep and diseased concepts...

[moralist]

Hey Brant,

Good to see you back.

Brant writes: The small scale heroic life.

Yes... emphasis on the "small scale".

My world is only what and who I come into actual direct personal contact. So this is where my attention is focused, because it is precisely where I possess the most control and consequently bear the most moral accountability for my actions. This approach keeps me from becoming distracted by macro "large scale" events over which I have absolutely no personal control, and for which I have no personal responsibility.

Everything outside my sphere of direct personal influence is just "the news", and comes under the heading of entertainment.

Big events are never uniform. They never affect everyone in exactly the same way. They are good or bad depending on where we are... what we do... and what we are.

You end up where you start from.

Everyone does.

In terms of this physical world, we all came from dirt and will all inevitably return to it.


Greg

[moralist]

Adam writes:

Americans still have no clue about Islam and it's deep and diseased concepts...

And neither does the politically correct US government they created in their own image...

They were stupid not to get the message the first time the World Trade Center was attacked in 1993, and their stupidity invited the Islamists to return in 2001 to finish the job they had started. It was a case of not paying attention to the gentle tap on the shoulder and getting a baseball bat over the head.

Weak feminised liberal males cannot take the proper actions to protect a nation...

...and the Islamists KNOW it.

Greg

[Selene]

Correct.

We knew about them in Tripoli...

We knew about them in the Phillipine Insurrection at the turn of the 20th cenyury...

[Selene]

This is a new one for the OL HORROR FILE:

'She’s Just a Child': 9-Year-Old Taken Away in Cuffs After Fight at Boys & Girls Club

Evan Bernick

May 13, 2014 at 9:03 am

(683)

Photo: Getty Images

When the officers came to her home, the 9-year-old girl was still wet from running through the neighborhood sprinkler. She wore flip flops, a pink towel and a swimsuit. The officers took her away wearing handcuffs.

Her mother’s response said it all: “She’s just a child.”

Yes, you read that correctly: Police officers in Portland, Ore., handcuffed a 9-year-old-girl and took her to the station in a police car. They photographed and fingerprinted her and detained her for nearly an hour before her mother arrived.

Her “crime”? Getting in a fight with another kid—a fight that took place nearly a week beforehand and ended with apologies on all sides.

According to The Oregonian newspaper, this all started with a scuffle on a basketball court at the Boys & Girls Club on North Trenton Street in Portland’s New Columbia neighborhood. Witnesses told police the 9-year-old got in the middle of a dispute between two other girls who had been arguing because one tattled on the other for drawing on a desk. The 9-year-old later ended up in a fistfight with one of the other girls outside the club. Both girls apologized to each other. The 9-year-old was sent home and suspended from the club for one week.

Done and done, right? Wrong. After receiving a call from the mother of the other girl involved in the fight, police arrived at the 9-year-old’s home to investigate. Finding the 9-year-old’s statements “inconsistent” with witness reports, the officers took her into custody, accusing her of fourth-degree assault.

http://blog.heritage.org/2014/05/13/shes-just-child-9-year-old-taken-away-cuffs-fight-boys-girls-club/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_term=readthis&utm_content=140517&utm_campaign=saturday

[Backlighting]

This is a new one for the OL HORROR FILE:

'She’s Just a Child': 9-Year-Old Taken Away in Cuffs After Fight at Boys & Girls Club

Evan Bernick

May 13, 2014 at 9:03 am

(683)

Photo: Getty Images

When the officers came to her home, the 9-year-old girl was still wet from running through the neighborhood sprinkler. She wore flip flops, a pink towel and a swimsuit. The officers took her away wearing handcuffs.

Her mother’s response said it all: “She’s just a child.”

Yes, you read that correctly: Police officers in Portland, Ore., handcuffed a 9-year-old-girl and took her to the station in a police car. They photographed and fingerprinted her and detained her for nearly an hour before her mother arrived.

Her “crime”? Getting in a fight with another kid—a fight that took place nearly a week beforehand and ended with apologies on all sides.

According to The Oregonian newspaper, this all started with a scuffle on a basketball court at the Boys & Girls Club on North Trenton Street in Portland’s New Columbia neighborhood. Witnesses told police the 9-year-old got in the middle of a dispute between two other girls who had been arguing because one tattled on the other for drawing on a desk. The 9-year-old later ended up in a fistfight with one of the other girls outside the club. Both girls apologized to each other. The 9-year-old was sent home and suspended from the club for one week.

Done and done, right? Wrong. After receiving a call from the mother of the other girl involved in the fight, police arrived at the 9-year-old’s home to investigate. Finding the 9-year-old’s statements “inconsistent” with witness reports, the officers took her into custody, accusing her of fourth-degree assault.

http://blog.heritage.org/2014/05/13/shes-just-child-9-year-old-taken-away-cuffs-fight-boys-girls-club/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_term=readthis&utm_content=140517&utm_campaign=saturday

Who will protect us from our protectors?..... comes to mind.

[Selene]

I think this one makes the grade for the OL HORROR FILE:

Photo: Wikimedia

Few workers would turn down a raise. Union members, however, can have raises turned down on their behalf.

Employees of a Pennsylvania grocery store learned this the hard way.

Managers at the Giant Eagle grocery in Edinboro, Pa., wanted to reward hard work. So they boosted the wages of two dozen high-performing employees above their union rates. But United Food and Commercial Workers Local 23 was not pleased. The union argued the pay increases violated their contract, took Giant

Eagle to court and forced it to rescind the raises.

Why did Local 23 oppose higher pay for its members? Because it upended their seniority system, allowing junior employees to make more those with more seniority. Local 23 wanted uniform pay scales—even if that meant cutting some of their members’ wages.

The author makes a perceptive point about unions today explaining that they:

function as labor cartels—they try to control the supply of labor in an industry to drive up its price. This model does not work in today’s competitive global economy. And the union focus on collective contracts with particular firms provides little benefit to workers with individual preferences (or who switch jobs).

Concluding, the authors directs unions to "reinvent" themselves:

Unions need to reinvent themselves and provide services that help workers navigate the modern economy. Instead of cartelizing labor, they should focus on helping workers become more productive and competitive.

Unions could do this in many ways. They could eschew collective bargaining and instead focus on job training and skills certification. Employers currently see hiring union members as a cost, requiring them to deal with inefficient work rules and cumbersome contracts. If employers instead saw a union workforce as a benefit—high-quality workers with a competitive edge—they would want to hire them, and willingly pay premium wages to do so.

Similarly, unions could train laid off workers in a skill they often lack—how to effectively search for work. Unions could offer workshops helping unemployed members prepare for job interviews and write attractive resumes. They could create networking opportunities for job seekers. Union “job coaches” could give unemployed members guidance and encouragement during this often difficult process.

Unions could also help their employees manage their benefits. In the construction industry unions offer multiemployer health plans that stay with the worker as they move from job to job. Such portable benefits would appeal to many workers in other sectors. Similarly, most companies have transitioned to 401(k) style defined contribution pensions. Unions could help their members manage their retirement accounts, offering investment advice to get the best return.

Unions offering such services would have little to fear from right-to-work laws. Workers would willingly pay dues to organizations that helped them get ahead. Much more willingly than to organization that might go to court to cut their pay.

http://blog.heritage.org/2014/05/18/union-oppose-higher-pay-members/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_content=DD140519&utm_campaign=dailydigest

[Backlighting]

+1

Adam, to the Horror File it should go.

Thought I was reading some chapters in AS.

oy vey

-J

[Selene]

+1

Adam, to the Horror File it should go.

Thought I was reading some chapters in AS.

oy vey

-J

When you get to some of the directives, it is scarily similar to today...

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Here's a horror:

Middle School Cancels Honors Night Because It’s Too “Exclusive”…
by Genevieve
May 20, 2014
Weasel Zippers
(curating from the East Greenwich Patch: Cole Middle School Cancels Honors Night

Citing concerns about the “exclusive nature” of the annual honors night at Archie R. Cole Middle School, school officials have decided to scrap the tradition.

. . .

The notice was sent to parents over the weekend in an e-mail signed by School Principal Alexis Meyer and Assistant Principal Dan Seger.

“Members of the school community have long expressed concerns related to the exclusive nature of Honors Night,” the email stated.

By having the recognition ceremonies during team-based ceremonies, it will “afford us the opportunity to celebrate the individual and collective success of all students and their effort, progress and excellence.”

Ah, the joys of indoctrination...

Love that name, Weasel Zippers.

Michael

[Brant Gaede]

Here's a horror:

Middle School Cancels Honors Night Because It’s Too “Exclusive”…

by Genevieve

May 20, 2014

Weasel Zippers

(curating from the East Greenwich Patch: Cole Middle School Cancels Honors Night

Citing concerns about the “exclusive nature” of the annual honors night at Archie R. Cole Middle School, school officials have decided to scrap the tradition.

. . .

The notice was sent to parents over the weekend in an e-mail signed by School Principal Alexis Meyer and Assistant Principal Dan Seger.

“Members of the school community have long expressed concerns related to the exclusive nature of Honors Night,” the email stated.

By having the recognition ceremonies during team-based ceremonies, it will “afford us the opportunity to celebrate the individual and collective success of all students and their effort, progress and excellence.”

Ah, the joys of indoctrination...

Love that name, Weasel Zippers.

Michael

But they won't do that to the 85 IQers playing team sports, so the honors kids should form a badminton team.

--Brant

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

This speaks for itself:

Outside of the entertainment value, the video is useful because of the huge amount of examples "Opie and Anthony" and Jim Norton provide that are perfect for the Horror File of OL.

Michael

[Selene]

OL at or ahead of the curve

Man Sculpture Stalks Wellesley College Woman ... well may...

A...

[Selene]

This is right out of Atlas Shrugged:

Argentina appoints new secretary of 'national thought' Cristina Kirchner appoints 'national thought' secretary, promoting criticism of the fascist overtones of the post

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/argentina/10880243/Argentina-appoints-new-secretary-of-national-thought.html

[Brant Gaede]

This is right out of Atlas Shrugged:

Argentina appoints new secretary of 'national thought' Cristina Kirchner appoints 'national thought' secretary, promoting criticism of the fascist overtones of the post

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/argentina/10880243/Argentina-appoints-new-secretary-of-national-thought.html

Even Ayn Rand couldn't have made that one up. And if she could have she would have passed on it as too over the top.

--Brant

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

The Wiscon girls stabbing and evil:

 

John Kass: Our culture behind Wisconsin girls' stabbing case

 

 

Kass believes our culture has turned traditional symbols of evil into heroes, so it seems logical that some kids are going to act on it.

 

Granted, vampires, witches and so forth are Christian symbols of evil, but Kass does have a point. When you worship evil, real evil will eventually happen as a direct result. Everything human-made starts as an idea.

 

The culture is reaping what it is sewing.

 

Michael

[Brant Gaede]

Robert Bidinotto wrote a book about how criminal thinking leads to criminality.

--Brant

and when kids aren't taught thinking their brains go off the tracks

morality is dependent on brain rigor

[anthony]

Rigor mortis?

[Brant Gaede]

Rigor mortis?

Nope; things still happen between the ears. The bodies keep moving--at least they do if they ever get out of the house.

--Brant

[JamesShrugged]

I have created a "horror file" on the popular link aggregator reddit.com

Here is the URL if anyone is interested

http://www.reddit.com/r/thehorrorfile

I haven't posted much content there, but it would be great if we could get a bunch of people involved

[Backlighting]

Dirty Harry, he keeps tickin, this champion of horror...deserves a horror file of his own.

http://www.reid.senate.gov/