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I am a day late but these were all good ones.

Borrowed the audio version from the library. Was listening to in while commuting to work. Left the box on the front seat. After work I found a note in my windshield "Who is John Galt?"

Cat with laser pointer, got me laughing again, JO. Thanks. 👍

Got me laughing (again). Thank you, OUC! 👍

Yes! And it happens without me even realizing it. Then, 20 minutes later, I'm wondering what happened....

Islamic barbarity continues into the 21st century. History shows it only slows down or stops when it receives a strong kick in the teeth from its victims or potential victims.

Thanks for posting, WDonway, and reminding us all.

Not just you, gharkness, a droning or unclear speaker gets relegated to background noise and my mind moves on...

What a great bunch today.
Guess that my favorite was the thesaurus funny. I liked loved, enjoyed, admired, and appreciated it.

I think the narrator on mine was a woman. Just didn't fit. Then again, I prefer actual reading, as I have trouble listening without my mind wandering. But that's just me.

LOL, OUC, all good ones! That guy correcting his wife's grammar should just leave it! Pocahontas illustrating the White privilege myth! Four Fs, LOL. I definitely identify with the cat in the last one. Thanks, again OUC, for a fine start to my day!

Usually, my reaction to anything that gang (NYT, etc) claims is laughter, from Israel trained lizards which detect 'atomic waves' and so locate nuclear weapons plants, to instructing rats to pollute homes in Gaza, but condolences to the leftists who appear to believe that stuff.
There was a time when NYT claimed to be 'the paper of record'.
Could have been correct, but long ago.

But how to take the descriptions of barbarism of Oct 2014?
The biggest source of info are the vids taken by the Hamas perpetrators themselves, they were boasting. The NYT chooses to discard only this major source of evidence.

Thanks to the WSJ opinion piece,
and to WDonway for this thread.


https://redstate.com/bradslager/2026/...

I had a boss who had an entire cabinet in his office full of Ayn Rand books, mostly AS, which he gave away to anyone who would take them. This was long after I had been introduced to objectivism by someone who was literally not even in the same universe with AR intellectually. I also got out fast.

My boss was much like your "true bastard," as he was one himself, though our relationship was different. I wouldn't say he was a James or a Francisco (my very favorite character, even above John Galt), but just a Galt-wannabe.

As an aside, I was absolutely astonished, knowing him as I did, and his family, and his reputation, to read his obituary. I am not sure where they hired the writer but it was definitely someone with a strong background in fiction writing. If someone had left the name off the obituary, I would not have known who they were talking about.

The narrator of my CD series is Scott Brick. He is quite good, IMO. There is at least one other version with a different narrator.

AOC ..... Alexandria Occasional Cortex.

Lmao

lol, first hand ....

OK OGC - you got me.... Was going to glance at them and then look later tonight - but they were all so good I had to spend time reading them all!
I have always wondered where the coffee filters used to go to - you have now answered that question!
Roget's thesaurus - they are still looking for words to describe~!!
And never correct the wife's grammar - or anything else - learned that one over two difficult...anyway..
And pronouncing medications - no telling what you are going to summon!
And could you imagine OC with a blinker going off? Would be like a cat with a laser pointer...
And again, getting our chili....shocking!!
Well done! I tell you that all the time, but these are great!

Thanks for the post

"... the CIA (who should not operate on USA Soil)..." Yeah, when I heard this on the radio that's the first thing I thought! WTF!?

I first read AS back in 1990, I was 25 at the time. I had my software engineering degrees and had been out in the world, putting those degrees to work at IBM. I found the book to be fully engrossing, a real page turner, taking just a few days to digest it all. And when I put the book down, I had only two words: "Of Course." I did not know Rand, but I thought, this author must be an engineer for she certainly has an engineering mind. The text and story flowed, much like the process of software design, coding, testing, delivery in terms of the waterfall model. It all simply added up. It could not have turned out any differently. Since that time, I have picked up the book and read it another 6 or 7 times. I have also listened to the reading of the text while on the road.

Over these past 35 years, I have been witness to the shared observation that Rand was a writer, philosopher and a prophet. When I think about books to read, I have several shelves full of them ... and yet I am drawn back to having AS sitting on my desk, in sight, and within reach. At times, when I need to hear a dose of plainly simple rationality, I will play a bit from the book -- The Money Speech, or the Story of the Twentieth Century Motor Company ... or the part where all the producers tell Dagny why they are on strike.

I enjoyed the film adaptations, given their limited budgets. I wondered what those films could have been like given the budget and directorial acumen of Peter Jackson (LOTR). Just sitting here, now, I am visualizing that scene where, with his mills under siege, Reardon hears d'Anconia's words and finally makes his decision to go on strike. And yet, the book is filled with scenes both grand in their presentation and intimate with the subtle mental changes in awareness in the characters. We are instructed in the book, and compelled to exercise in real life "Check your premise."

And since government likes to grow itself, it should take more of Groucho's advice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHash...

I was in grad school and working full-time.

I keep giving my well worn paperback copies away and buying another. I never tire of reading it at least once a year since my late 20's.I met AS through a true bastard (very naive, didn't realize it for awhile, but got out fast) who fancied himself a modern Francisco. He even gave himself a five name pedigree with a number, but from a Commonwealth nation. Once I read the book, he was gone from my life. Not a Francisco, but a James.

Read the first page and ask yourself why Eddie is lying.

I read Politics as Police. In my experience the injustice system, especially prosecutors, do the same. To them , you are always guilty. Works fine on criminals but too many innocents are misdiagnosed by the blinders the injustice system denizens wear. See them say nothing. No matter what you say they will twist. If you say anything other than a confession, you are lying. It is a no-win with Police. Never waive your rights to a lawyer. Never speak to police without a lawyer present or get taken in by the police's ability to lie to you and trick you into sounding guilty. Let's go over that again they say. They know perfectly well what you said. They want to get you to change even a small detail from which they will conclude Guilty. They are not your friends unless your friends are eager to stab you in the back.

I think that's the OPTIMISTIC view!

LOL.

Let's ask Tulsi after the CIA (who should not operate on USA Soil) STOLE her documents from her OFFICE, as their BOSS!