Here Here! Me too.

That's meaningless unless you specify the premise.

Love your homepage!

"Let me be clear" Thank you for your comments. Everyone seemed to think fundamentally transform was going to transform in a good way and did not cosider transforming in a bad way moving more in line with Karl Marx. I agree with you premise.

+1

Well stated mdk. I would just add that if a thinking person actually listened to the rhetoric in 08, they shouldn't have been caught up. "Spread the wealth", "fundamentally transform", "grow the economy from the middle out", etc.. He was actually pretty honest in 08, but so many people got caught up in the excitement of electing the first black president that they didn't actually listen to what he was saying. Those that did listen, and still voted for him were simply voting themselves into our pocket books.

Those technologies you speak of will be useless if we don't respect patents and IP rights. They will mean nothing if our economy collapses. Obama has doubled the National Debt and done more to move us towards socialism than FDR. He is a disaster. Perhaps his most enduring legacy will be his ambivalence towards ISIS and other radical Muslim groups.

NO

Well, damn! You're right!

no. just....no.
no. support.
and this "support" includes actual material support as well. hungry? cold? wet? go through that door there, on the left where you see the woman with the "Tyranny Response Team" shirt on, with the holstered .45.
NEXT?

Here is a memo you may not have gotten. We will be paying for his expenses and 24/7/365 security for the rest of his life anyway!

and pay for his meals, housing, medical care, and legal obstructions? Not on my dime!

beautifully stated.

Some skill, mostly luck. I was born just a little before the definition of the start of the Baby Boom... November of '45, so I was a bit on the leading edge of the joys and problems of that cohort.
Got to meet and shake the hands of Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett (and most of the CEOs after that until around 2002, too) and caught the peak (and decline) of HP. I witnessed tons of dirt during my 24 years before that mast...

Then there was the 'luck' of having a mom with some innate stock-picking skill that paid for my college career plus beating 'stay out of debt' into my head during my formative years. Many Boomers as well as the gangs that followed fell into the Immediate Gratification Through The Over-Use of Plastic phenomenon and they suffered greatly as a result.

Some day I hope to write memoirs as a contribution/legacy...

But right now, I'd rather be in my wood-turning shop.

ditto

Are you living my life? That's exactly how I feel. +1

Not possible

Anti-Rand and Anti-Freedom.

ditto

Temlakos....In AS1, I recall one of Eddie's lines where my reaction was "human beings don't talk that way!" and I wanted to slap the screenwriter around for it.

Robbie... yep, I realized a long time ago that I would never be a Hank or Dagny-type of Leader in Industry, but I also realized that I could make lots of good contributions because of how My Mind operates.

And I got lots of shit from many managers along the way because they were the Bad Taggarts in the companies I worked for.

Having a few bright, receptive people around kept me in industry and reasonably content for about 34 years! But most of the time I had to sneak my insights past the Bad-Taggarts of the corporations. Part of the challenge and fun was figuring out how to do that 'for the good of the Company' as well as for my self-esteem.

There were lots of fun times like that; just way too few of them. The lousy managers always blamed ME for 'not communicating right' to the folks I was trying to help.

After a while, I realized that it was like I was transmitting high-quality FM signals into a sea of AM receivers. And you know what comes out of the speaker of an AM receiver bathed in clean FM signals, right?..... <nothing>.

When they offered me a nice retirement package, I Galted outta there like a shot.

Such is life.

When she's talking and waving her hands and arms around like a scare crow in the wind I get a migraine.

I believe you are wrong about President Obama being a Rand villain or a socialist. If I thought that I obviously would not support him.

... hadn't even thought of that one...
I'd always assumed Alzheimer's or generic senility.
Outside of Terminal Ugliness, that woman has some of the weirdest ideas I've ever heard...

Much like the magic job that Billery got. Another miracle.