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By the time I--Hank--show her the door, she'll be a high mileage vehicle. --Brant theatrical improvisation method acting whatever Correction: The role of Hank Rearden will be played by Brant Gaede. He wasn't the producers' first choice, but when he said he would do the part pro bono, it was an offer they couldn't refuse. And there is only one rational choice for his leading lady, Angela X, whose acting experience is limited but is outweighed by her deep individualistic interpretation of the Dagny character. Also, she could probably get along with her leading man Brant which not everybody could do.

They're elastic cords of varying lengths with two hooks for securing cargo. They're needed by guys who never learned their boy scout knots. --Brant Thanks for the explanation. I'm glad my sons were Scouts. My husband was blinded by a steel chip that got into his eye at work despite the safety glasses he always wore. (They were the company-issued ones, later found to be substandard in every respect). The company nurse missed the chip when she inspected his eye, and when it got worse and he finally went to our family doctor, the cornea had been destroyed.

I loved "Father Knows Best" as a boy. I recall the scandal when Billy Gray (the actor who played Bud) was arrested for marijuana possession. Gray also played the boy in "The Day the Earth Stood Still," with Michael Rennie. I saw Billy Gray interviewed on a talk show during the early 1990s. He was racing motorcycles at the time, and he talked quite a bit about being an atheist. Ghs I loved "Father Knows Best" as a boy. I recall the scandal when Billy Gray (the actor who played Bud) was arrested for marijuana possession. Gray also played the boy in "The Day the Earth Stood Still," with Michael Rennie. I saw Billy Gray interviewed on a talk show during the early 1990s. He was racing motorcycles at the time, and he talked quite a bit about being an atheist. Ghs I liked watching the show, mainly because it came on at 7 and I was allowed to stay up and watch it. I could not really relate to the relentless middleclassness though I did not think in those terms then obviously. I do remember the complacency with which I accepted that American people all had big houses and the married couples slept in twin beds, which even my twin cousins did not have and were forced to share a bed till they were 6 and got bunk beds. Yet the married couples never had bunks, unless they were on their honeymoons on a train. Twas a puzzlement.

Brant, if it is not too personal, what on earth were you doing with a bungee cord? Aren't they for bungee jumping? What are they anyway?

The marketers of nonscience supported medicine repeatedly evade and dodge the challenges of real science. If it ducks like a quack ......

Oh yes! We got a TV just in the last years of cigarette advertising on TV. I remember a lovely ad showing a calm winding stream forget the brand, tsk tsk MadMen of the day! The ad was sponsoring the popular sitcom "Father Knows Best" with the future Dr Marcus Welby in the lead role.

Another great one was "Just one more Cigarette" or some such name (was that another Tex, Ritter?) can't remember. Long before the Surgeon General's report smokers called cigarettes coffin nails. I remember buying cigarettes at 16 and smoking them in public *well, outdoors where my mother wouldn't see me), and thinking, It's really crazy that people are allowed to take this stuff into their lungs and breathe it out again on other people. Of course I was glad that the world was crazy. By and large I still am.

It looks like they will push up the official retirement age by 2 years. I have not looked into it, as I will not be retiring unless I get incapacitated, and national budget news under the Conservatives is too depressing for my fragile nerves to handle.

No comparison at all - Rush is objective and Kagen is a fat toad in the marxist's pocket... No comparison at all - Rush is objective and Kagen is a fat toad in the marxist's pocket... Rush is in the conservative plutocracy's pocket. And he's fatter! Yep, he is because he has a much fatter brain than the toad... I will concede that he has a much fatter head.

No comparison at all - Rush is objective and Kagen is a fat toad in the marxist's pocket... No comparison at all - Rush is objective and Kagen is a fat toad in the marxist's pocket... Rush is in the conservative plutocracy's pocket. And he's fatter!

He's still fat, though. Ahh attacking the cover when you cannot attack the substance...the last refuge of the liberal... just emulating a master-- Mr. "fat toad Kagan". Nice rich sauce for the gander.

All power to the cigarette! Nuts. If you don't want to smoke, don't. Don't come with the nutty idea you've been embraced by an all powerful evil requiring heroic resistance. --Brant ex-smoker I think what Ba'al means is that the 'brain circuit' that was formed when smoking became an addiction can all too easily be reactivated if smoking is resumed. Exactly. Ba'al Chatzaf You had it much tougher than I did. I wonder if being an Aspie made it tougher. --Brant My experience with quitting was just like Ba'al's. I had to objectify the addiction- I actually pretended it was the Nazis demanding to know where the Jews were hidden - I had to hate the tobacco companies, and bleakly suffer through the cravings. What I hated was being addicted and that alone. The health concerns were secondary. I always heard that it takes six years to become a nonsmoker. I too had dreams of smoking for about three years, and in the dream I was terrified that it had got hold of me again. I had to see the addiction as an evil,, to feel like a hero for fighting it. Whatever works, don't knock it.

David, I made a similar choice, around the same time. I attended some graduate courses in philosophy with every intention of obtaining a university position and working with ARI, but decided my differences with the Objectivist hierarchy were too great for me to continue moving in that direction. I switched to psychology, a field where I could operate independently of academia and institutional Objectivism. It was a decision I have never regretted Amen, so to speak. Very interesting. I wonder how many aspiring Objectivist academics were similarly turned away from that path. And what is the current state of the grand plan to foist bestow Objectivist professors on mainstream academia, and conquer Harvard and Yale with the power of reason? I doubt that the subject of this thread would say no to a nice little niche in the Ivy League. If Objectivism wants to swell the ranks, I think they should forget the universities and go for infiltrating the Catholic schools, where huddled masses yearn to breathe free. Catch them young and train them your way.

He's still fat, though.

Nope. But the best part is that fat toad Kagan has to take the notes and get the coffee because she is the newest Justice. Imagine what is going through her anti-male, gender feminist mind as she fumes with secretarial pad and pen in front of her. I would ask for the most complicated coffee order and hope that she screws it up so that I could just shake my head and send her back to do it right. Her quote, on day three (3), concerning what the Affordable Health Care Act was about, was truly stunning! She opined: JUSTICE KAGAN: The exact same argument. So that really reduces to the question of why is a big gift from the Federal Government a matter of coercion? In other words, the Federal Government is here saying, we are giving you a boatload of money. There are no -there's no matching funds requirement, there are no extraneous conditions attached to it, it's just a boatload of federal money for you to take and spend on poor people's healthcare. It doesn't sound coercive to me, I have to tell you. This pig thinks "feels" that "federal money" just appears. This pig thinks "feels" that this is not coercive! http://www.c-span.or...urts/11-393.pdf Adam Sizeist!

Alright, now I'm confused. Grise is grey, not red. Even with a morning head (brew coffee, brew!!) I know that. You're testing your fellow OLers, aren't you? Then you're probably going to some other site and making fun of how ignorant we all are. I'm on to you! Actually, grise was what they also called beige in Richie's day. I thought Richilieu was the eminence grise (behind the king) but it was was the Cardinal's drably-clad henchpriest LeClerc who was called the eminence grise behind Richilieu.So yes! you all failed the test ,but so did I . I shall retire to a dark corner and dolefully lick my scraggly plumage back into shape.

I was thinking of Cardinal Richelieu, the Red Eminence. I should have found a picture of one with less of that orange tint. ah, l'eminence grise - yet hot hot hot! Don't you guys feel resentful that you don't get to dress like that these days?

Jonathan used 3 parrots and a myna for this, but I've come across another avian that ought to be in there, for its name if for nothing else. It's the Southern Red Bishop. http://en.wikipedia....hern_Red_Bishop That bishop be too hot for the archdiocese!

Oh, gruesome topic. I smoked from age-17-33, then quit for 20 years. I took it up again at age 53. Why, you might ask. The reason is that I am stupid and dumb. Carol 1 pack a day.

I don't get the flu shot either. I am not concerned with adults like ourselves on this issue, but with the children whose parents could mistakenly put them at risk.

OK Ellen, it's a deal. Start practicing your Greek Maidens dance for the Nice Party (hey, it's a cyberbash so we can be maidens if we want... matrons just sounds so...matronly None of us are matron-like types anyway, I think. 'Pomo grid' - very apt term! In a way, I feel sorry for Janet, as she seems downright unable to take off her pomo glasses. As for Casaubon, I really loathed this character! The aversion I've always had against pedantic men was rekindled each time he showed up in the story. Having to witness, as a reader, the wonderful Dorothea Brooke getting stifled in this marriage was hard to bear. But it just shows once more what a genius as a writer Mary Ann Evans was, being to convey all this so convincingly. OK Ellen, it's a deal. Start practicing your Greek Maidens dance for the Nice Party (hey, it's a cyberbash so we can be maidens if we want... matrons just sounds so...matronly None of us are matron-like types anyway, I think. 'Pomo grid' - very apt term! In a way, I feel sorry for Janet, as she seems downright unable to take off her pomo glasses. As for Casaubon, I really loathed this character! The aversion I've always had against pedantic men was rekindled each time he showed up in the story. Having to witness, as a reader, the wonderful Dorothea Brooke getting stifled in this marriage was hard to bear. But it just shows once more what a genius as a writer Mary Ann Evans was, being to convey all this so convincingly. Oh, wasn.t he loathsome! I just cringed as the lovely ardent Dorothea mistook his chilly academic arrogance for knowledge, and enlisted herself in that lightless servitude. I agree it was excruciating to see her nearly extinguished, I was so glad to escape into the self-made troubles of poor Dr Lydgate and his lethal bride.

Calvin: I was surprised that our Canadian brethren did not get up in arms about the violation of individual rights, but since it involved an imaginary picture of an imaginary gun, I am sure that the civil libertarians in Canada thought it was justified to arrest the man on the suspicion that he might even be thinking about a gun! Thought crimes are punishable in the evolved bastion of liberty and freedom that is Canada! Adam The depictions of children are taken seriously in our Collective, as are their thoughts and feelings. As guns are uncommon in households here, any suspicion that they might feature prominently in the life of a small child, should be investigated. If we are overzealous, O galt forgive us. Komrade Karol your sistren

This is exactly what I meant to refer to. And quoting Binswanger is about as meaningful as quoting an OCON course description. I don’t assume that anyone associated with ARI is as bad as a Mayhew, Valliant, or Binswanger, after all McCaskey was associated with ARI. Plus, with all this talk of Peikoff's health, maybe the book won't come out until after he's joined the choir invisible. There's not even an estimated release date, at least not to my knowledge. the choir invisible -ah! "Hark how the heavenly anthem drowns/all music but its own" -Crown Him with any Crowns, one of my top 10 fave hymns

You are quite cavalier with the lives of others. "Very rarely fatal";;;yes, now. One of the very rare fatalities could be your baby niece or grandson, but hey, people die of very rare things all the time, and just dying because other people don't believe in vaccination is collateral damage to the human right of self-determination, eh? The trouble is not that we can't believe "them". The trouble is that we can't know enough to "consider each vaccine individually"and in believing in dogmatists who practice anti-scientific medicine and give dangerous advice, we harm ourselves and others. Another trouble is that the non-governmental medical businesses lie a lot more than the governmental ones.

Mark Levin, who is not a Dr. Ron Paul supporter, calls Ron Paul, RuPaul! Mark Levin, who is not a Dr. Ron Paul supporter, calls Ron Paul, RuPaul! lol, well the good doctor might rue a few things but don't we all?