Thanks for the thoughtful questions.
" But BHO has backed down from calling a spade a spade. "
Are you talking about ISIS? President Obama called it a vicious brutal death cult that we're called to defeat. At some point carrying on about ISIS is stating the obvious and even aggrandizing them.

"I am surprised that you do support BHO"
I do not agree with every decision, e.g. proposed spending/tax increase, ammunition ban, drone war, executive overreach. I do not believe in boycotting the entire process and/or particular people because I don't agree with certain actions.

"perhaps I should ask, "Over what?" "
That's the rub. Not over a bona fide libertarian. My first inclination, though, is that it's over a Republican, who in general I think are slighly worse when it comes to liberty. But when I think about it further, I'm not so sure. The political process is amazingly good at bringing out the histrionics in people and avoiding the tough questions.

" I bought "Red Mars" at your recommendation."
I hope you like it. I found it 12 years ago when I grabbed a random sci-fi book at the library to take on a business trip.

amazing, i sent the video to a northeastern liberal. the response was from a very irrational person when the subject of 0 comes up and he is spoken of disparagingly.
The irrational response was way more than i ever expected. but that may very well be what those in the northeast think.
with these people not wanting to even consider the damage that is taking place due to the trash living in the white house is mindboogling to me.

I'll support the same on BHO, but I was equally offended that Bush wouldn't call Islam what it is - a violent religion that spreads by the sword... (and should die by it).

We've been at war with Islam for decades, to say anything otherwise is not really identifying the target, or letting our military do its job. Obviously, this is going to lead to a showdown in the Middle East at some point, whether it is Armageddon or not, eventually we'll have to say "to hell with the impact to the economy, time to finish this" and go all-out.

Not very many Christian terrorists... nor Buddhists... Sikh's... Animalists... Naturalists... Christian Scientists? No. Mormons? Hardly. Scientology? Harmless, even though they are pretty crazy. Atheists (other than the goofball in Elk Grove that sues every school and government entity for having the word God printed on something). Do they kill people though? Not really. Do they slaughter innocent victims in the name of religion? No. Do they enslave female children and marry them off to 50 year old dudes to rape them as they please? No. It's a sick, disgusting belief system. Point is, there seems to be plenty of room on this planet for every religion EXCEPT Islam.

It's time to get serious... we're at least 100 years ahead of these folks in military technology, if we really took the gloves off, it would be a very short fight, and it would be over, and we really would have thousands of years of peace.

I'm 1000% behind Salmon Rushdie on this... Islam is pretty much the incarnation of satan on earth. We need to recognize and treat it as such. All roads lead back to Syria/Iran/Iraq/Saudi Arabia.

He's a paid-plant, I'm sure, the Obama Social Networking machine was pervasive during the elections, no reason to think it stopped... MoveOn.org, paid-plants for the Rush Limbaugh show to call in and say "I'm a lifelong listener", etc.

He will be on the IRS watch-list I'm sure, just like the Tea Partiers.

I'll second that...

I travel quite a bit for work, my observation has been that more often than not blacks in the Southeast, South, and Mid Atlantic tend to be much like this kid. In the northeast, midwest, and the west, the 'gangsta culture' is more pervasive. The kids are perfectly intelligent I'm sure, they just gravitate toward what they see on TV as a way of getting dates or whatever, and usually leads them down the wrong path (dead or jail).

I get the "childishness from a child" comment, particularly when the first agent listed as attacked by ISIS is christianity, and the second is America. But BHO has backed down from calling a spade a spade.
Separately, I am surprised that you do support BHO, but perhaps I should ask, "Over what?" If you do support Objectivism, BHO's administration has clearly eroded it. However, The same can be said of the Bush administration. I am curious.
BTW, I bought "Red Mars" at your recommendation.

I wonder if 0 were to see this video he would think this young man could be his off spring just like trayvon martin.

I am of the belief that most intelligent blacks think the way this fellow does.

johnp1 thank you very much for posting this video. i already started sending the link. i hope it gets millions of hits and causes the asses of the northeast to take notice.
this young man is very articulate and I for one praise him.

I think CG's here practicing what Sun Tzu preached in The Art Of War: "Know Thy Enemy."

The nice thing is that the IRS cannot reciprocate against him, yet. I am sure they will put him a list somewhere for future reference. The young man has definitely had some conservative or libertarian teaching somewhere.

now that gives me hope for the future of this country!! the kid gets it in spades!! made my day, thanks

After watching the likes of TMZ, this young man is a breath of fresh air. I don't think there are many like him. The re-education camps may be busy, but not many like him will be there.

the steady drumbeat of income, or wealth, redistribution
is one policy which we might discuss.

the unconstitutional nationalization of health insurance
is another policy.

a third might be the abrogation of the requirement
that the commander-in-chief defend the nation
against all enemies foreign and domestic.

a fourth might be the encouragement of a large
influx of dependent-class D-voters through immigration.

we could go on. . I am a vet and despise the way
that the military is being politicized and vets are
being ignored to death.

this is a long list, CG. -- j

CORRECT! There is no way to observe any part of the pattern growing in America without also observing the mind, with its feelings and intuitions, that has shaped it.

Yes, it is. Blaming the policies is pure distraction.

He's a plant...there's no other rational explanation for him being here. Remove the responsibility of the makers and backers of policies and blame the policy.... that is NONSENSE.

Why do I think his dad is probably a preacher. Anyway, nice to hear this coming from some a young person who can see the truth and voice it proudly. Down with PC. :)

LetsShrug, excellent comment. +100!

The mind, the mission and the intention. +1

STOP BLAMING THE POLICIES....BLAME THE MIND BEHIND IT!!

Any of his policies, pick one.

" Obamas policies are anti-individual, anti-life collectivism."
It would be better to talk about individual polices. If we just say President Obama, we could be talking about any policy.

Cg i am in the Gulch because I promote Objectivist ideas. Obamas policies are anti-individual, anti-life collectivism. Logic would state that someone who promotes those ideas is anti-objectivism.

"I will ask you again for the umpteenth time....why are you here?"
Why are *you* here, if *you* don't agree with *me*? (that's a rhetorical question only)

The answer is obvious that this isn't a place for people who agree on everything, except perhaps on the Ayn Rand books, whose heroes stood out for using reason and speaking their minds without regard to politics. In AS and Fountainhead, she goes out of her way to condemn people who look to see what their group thinks before speaking their minds.

So I will not ask you even once how you can be in the metaphoric Gulch without agreeing with me on some issue. Roark is in the Gulch (in my imagination, not the book) along with some other architect who thinks any structural instability or entryways where tall people must duck (assuming Roark's buildings are like Frank Lloyd Wright's) are horrible. They don't agree at all except that they have a right to build their buildings and be left alone. If you want people who agree on everything, they're not in the Gulch. They're all with the dean or James Taggart.

Cg, your continued support for obama and his agenda to destroy, or in his words; fundamentally transform America is getting tiresome. I will ask you again for the umpteenth time....why are you here? Obama is anti- freedom and anti-life. ~1