On Mar 18, 11:53 am, HK wrote:
mmc wrote:
HK must not have understood the book. It is really about "If I am
able to get mine, you will be able to get yours too", however, "It is
not my concern if you do not get yours if you are incompetent".

I saw an interview where this book was held up as a justification for the
pure greed displayed by the "business leaders" of the US that take huge
friggin bonuses for a job poorly done.
That, old friend, is something displayed prominently in corrupt communist
societies. Couple this with the loss of free thought and speech as well as
major corporations being so powerful that they cannot be challenged by the
government and we see the destruction of the American ideal.
If this greedy scum want to punish us by stepping down (as in the fictional
novel you're reading) from the jobs they have failed at, I say they'd be
doing America a great service.

http://www.oculture.com/2009/03/step..._rand_thinking....

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I realize that for a man who thinks Caroline Kennedy is intelligent,
some of the ideas in the book may be elusive. Perhaps is you wait
it'll come out in comic book form.

Frogwatch wrote:
On Mar 18, 11:53 am, HK wrote:
mmc wrote:
HK must not have understood the book. It is really about "If I am
able to get mine, you will be able to get yours too", however, "It is
not my concern if you do not get yours if you are incompetent".
I saw an interview where this book was held up as a justification for the
pure greed displayed by the "business leaders" of the US that take huge
friggin bonuses for a job poorly done.
That, old friend, is something displayed prominently in corrupt communist
societies. Couple this with the loss of free thought and speech as well as
major corporations being so powerful that they cannot be challenged by the
government and we see the destruction of the American ideal.
If this greedy scum want to punish us by stepping down (as in the fictional
novel you're reading) from the jobs they have failed at, I say they'd be
doing America a great service.
http://www.oculture.com/2009/03/step..._rand_thinking....

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I realize that for a man who thinks Caroline Kennedy is intelligent,
some of the ideas in the book may be elusive. Perhaps is you wait
it'll come out in comic book form.



Please. I was laughing my way through Rand's book about 50 years ago.
The Fountainhead, by the way, was a bit better.

You might also be interested in some of the works of Theodore Dreiser,
especially his Trilogy of Desire. I read those in the seventh grade.
Much, much, much better writer than Rand, though still a bit turgid, and
his protagonist is a pre-Rand Rand-like character.

My mother, the Republican local committeewoman, got me to read Dreiser.
Fortunately, by the time I got to high school, I realized that the GOP
was heading down the path of absolute overly conservative bull****.



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Krausie wrote: "My mother, the Republican local committeewoman...."

And your father, wasn't he the largest boat dealer east of the Rockies?

GC Boater wrote:
Krausie wrote: "My mother, the Republican local committeewoman...."

And your father, wasn't he the largest boat dealer east of the Rockies?

And these successful, intelligent, pillars of the community sent their
offspring to Hillhouse High School? There's something about this story
that doesn't make sense.

On Mar 18, 10:11 pm, Jim wrote:
GC Boater wrote:
Krausie wrote: "My mother, the Republican local committeewoman...."

And your father, wasn't he the largest boat dealer east of the Rockies?

And these successful, intelligent, pillars of the community sent their
offspring to Hillhouse High School? There's something about this story
that doesn't make sense.

Using books as doorstops doesnt count as "reading"

On Mar 18, 9:11*pm, Jim wrote:
GC Boater wrote:
Krausie wrote: *"My mother, the Republican local committeewoman...."

And your father, wasn't he the largest boat dealer east of the Rockies?

And these successful, intelligent, pillars of the community sent their
offspring to Hillhouse High School? There's something about this story
that doesn't make sense.

But Jim, the parents made up for it by sending the child to Yale.