Hi. My name is... Robert Smith

Posted by Boborobdos 11 years, 8 months ago to The Gulch: Introductions
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I'm very happy to have landed in the Gulch... I hope to get some insights for when I watch and discuss the movie.

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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    she was not a god-she was a person. Her body of work far outweighs any of these mistakes.Bobby Kennedy offed Marilyn Monroe and you still revere him.
    Newton experimented with alchemy, Feynman was married three times, Dickens was a racist, Mother Theresa lied about her miracles, Gandhi forgot to eat that time, JFK had multiple affairs, our first black president did too...
    there's enough of that kinda stuff to liberally hand around. A is still A
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  • Posted by Rozar 11 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It's exactly what she is about, and stop using her name as if we have to agree with everything she said, I form my own opinions. But you can't call it a government failing just because you understand it and the majority doesn't. From what I gather your philosophy dictates that you're a part of this society and as such if you don't like the anti marijuana laws move somewhere else. Right? This is the problem with your basic premise that right and wrong have degrees.
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  • Posted by Rozar 11 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I have been meaning to argue with you about privatizing schools, roads and other government functions but it's for another post
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    yes, Rand would concur that the govt has no business in the affairs of what you put in your body-as long as you cause no harm or force against another. However, she was not a fan of recreational drug use. She was not consistent on this- she smoked cigarettes for most of her adult life.
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If I am anything at all, it must first be to myself. "My life and love of it"
    open my eyes and see the light? truly, bring the snakes out and sing to them in gibberish
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  • Posted by Rocky_Road 11 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "How are you going to get your street plowed?"

    You may be onto something...we are heading back to dirt roads, under Obama and progressive rule.
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  • Posted by Boborobdos 11 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yup, another government failing is the issue of medical pot. It is certainly cheaper than many pharmaceuticals, it's literally a weed, yet government insists we pay more. I'll bet that when they have to finance it they will start looking at cost effective alternatives like other countries have done.

    Dr. Gupta: "Most frightening to me is that someone dies in the United States every 19 minutes from a prescription drug overdose, mostly accidental. Every 19 minutes. It is a horrifying statistic. As much as I searched, I could not find a documented case of death from marijuana overdose."

    http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/08/health/gup...

    Less expensive & better.

    Isn't that what Ayn Rand is about?

    Rob
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  • Posted by Boborobdos 11 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "Virtue of Selfishness"

    Is that the one where she proclaims that homosexuals are mutant symptoms of a sick society?

    Surely outdated.

    Rob
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  • Posted by Boborobdos 11 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls."

    Anarchy. Give up speed limits, stop lights, sanitation standards at food processing plants, clean water standards, sewage disposal...

    How are you going to get your street plowed?

    Rob
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  • Posted by Boborobdos 11 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    And people will die.

    American productivity will go down.

    Health car will remain expensive relative to other countries.

    Big Pharma and big corporations will continue to control American health care.

    Sad

    Rob
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  • Posted by Rocky_Road 11 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm already considering a contribution.

    I'm all for "greater choice and personal responsibility"!

    I'm also going to support any candidate up for election this coming mid-terms, that promises to try to cut the funding for socialized medicine.
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  • Posted by $ kathywiso 11 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls. To accept "just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of inalienable individual rights and to substitute for it the principle of the government's unlimited, arbitrary power, thus delivering oneself into gradual enslavement. As an example of this process, observe the present domestic policy of the United States.

    I disagree with you, and if you have read the "Virtue of Selfishness," you know exactly what that means..



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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    agreed. that is because we are less free. For example, on stem cell research the US decided to make that a big political hot button. so universities who are dependent on govt funding, nudged away from that area during the last decade.
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  • Posted by Boborobdos 11 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Sounds to me like you might be a contributor. It must be nice to buy the results wanted.

    Rob
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  • Posted by Boborobdos 11 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    They ruled. Obamacare wins.

    Why do you think you know more than the SCOTUS? What are your credentials to discuss law?

    BTW, I can't help but wonder... Clarence Thomas's marriage to a white woman was illegal not so long ago. I wonder if that had any influence on the vote for same sex marriage?

    Rob
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    Posted by Boborobdos 11 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Meanwhile you continue to fall.

    Open your eyes and see the light. America needs universal health care just like the other civilized countries have found out.

    Either that or you can choose to opt out of America. If you are so superior with your pure beliefs I'm sure you can succeed elsewhere. If not, at least America won't be bothered by you and your selfish misunderstood beliefs.

    Rob
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  • Posted by Rocky_Road 11 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "By their own words: "Support Greater Choice and Personal Responsibility."

    Seems to me it's a bit biased."

    Let's see: Rob says that "greater choice and personal responsibility" has to be "biased".

    I have to hand it to you, Rob...you are, at least, consistent!
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  • Posted by Boborobdos 11 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    And the others have also been making advances. America doesn't have an exclusive on excellence anymore.

    Rob
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  • Posted by Boborobdos 11 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel#Scie...

    "Israel has led the world in stem-cell research papers per capita since 2000.[339] In addition, Israeli universities are among 100 top world universities in mathematics (Hebrew University, TAU and Technion), physics (TAU, Hebrew University and Weizmann Institute of Science), chemistry (Technion and Weizmann Institute of Science), computer science (Weizmann Institute of Science, Technion, Hebrew University, TAU and BIU) and economics (Hebrew University and TAU).[340]"

    Rob
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    yes. for COST! You want to give absolutely 0 credit to the fact that the overwhelming science and technology originate here! why not Canada, Europe, GB, Switzerland? sure, some driving tech comes from other places-but overwhelming HERE. well, in the US. I'm not there.
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I have not suggested our healthcare is unbroken. I am trying to figure out how to tie one end of the bungee cord around your...
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    biased towards truth. read any of the global warming studies backed by NSF lately? sheesh!
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