she can be vetted though, as all potential immigrants should be. She wouldnt have a right to immigrate anywhere she wanted in my humble opinion. If we want to live among people with the same ideas as ourselves, we would need to check them out for permanent visa or potential citizenship. Ayn Rand would qualify easily with me.

It like that older movie with Roddy Piper where he has to wear special glasses to see the aliens. Today, we are blessed with an easier way- they voted for Hillary

conscious, you may be a place in life to "work the room" so to speak. more commenting and posting, please :)

A couple of weeks ago I posted the following:

I am a citizen of the land of me. I sneakily reside in a world that mostly does not acknowledge my existence except to annually steal some of my property which I allow so as not to be noticed. My camouflage is to give the appearance of obeying artificial laws while actually living by my own code. To the extent that I achieve this, my life is good, when I cannot hide from my oppressors, my life is hell.

In the history of man, I think no one has ever been physically free, either "owned" by a slaver or a state. Mentally, I believe many men have been free, as I am, some of whom died when they were discovered. The "Big Idea of Self" is pretty new and despite our concerns that it is moving slowly, it is spreading faster than many ideas of the past. Unfortunately it requires the erasure of centuries of altruist theology. I don't expect to see much progress in my lifetime but it is gratifying to know it is there.

Atm, I am thinking that I wish that teachers were allowed to put problem students out of their misery.

Lunch. ;-)

Hello khalling,

Stuff like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqkCy...
And these...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK34L...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nddDR...

Regards,
O.A.

why lurk? COMMENT. that is the point of the forum. I want to hear what you think. there are thousands of lurkers on this site. I want to know what you are thinking about. :)

well we have immigration policies in place that should capture those who are violent

Bannon, top pick for Chief of Staff, is famous for saying there are too many asian descendants as CEOs in Silicon Valley! what do we do about that! it is every bit as bad as Black Lives Matter and antisemitism. Our "culture" is a melting pot.

term! are we not individuals? If, Ayn Rand coming to the US was seen as a commie because she was Russian?

I worry as well. I think that your sage prose is worthy here and does immense influence. Perhaps you are somewhere else in the cyberland that I am not seeing. Personaaly, I need more of you, not less and for right now (I am working on stuff) this is the place I look for you, so many-MANY others are as well. Ultimately, you need value for your value. so I will work harder to address those concerns.

A lesson learned if one studies history but then again progressives photo shopped history so much they themselves have no idea which way is up...hope they eventually drown in their own mire.

Today I am done with buying guns and ammo.
Yesterday me dino spent $130 on two boxes of 12 gauge double aught buck (for a pump shotgun), two boxes of 9mm (have a carbine, glove compartment and a pocket pistol all 9mm), one box .357 Magnum rounds for a house hideaway gun and one box of .32-cal rounds for a concealed carry backup pistol.
Me dino added that to lots more ammo stockpiled
I named the carbine with a 30-round clip (and a loaded spare) "Evil Hag" because I would not have it if I thought Trump could really for really real beat her.
But he did.
That doesn't mean a socio-economic apocalypse may still be around the corner.
That could be anything from a popping debt bubble or terrorists or a solar flare taking out our national electrical power grid.
Having no AC during an Alabama summer may surely kill me but at least I can keep looters at bay.

She has NO charisma. Wont go anywhere. I agree that the liberals will come on strong in 2020 however.

I'm pleasantly surprised at the reactions to the outcome of our Presidential election. The possibility of easing the tensions between the U.S. and Russia reduced the DEFCON level from 3 to 5, which of course seems to have escaped notice by the MSM. Both Canada and Mexico now seem ready to see a cooperative renegotiation of NAFTA (hopefully to head off the abolition of any trade agreement), and the TPP community appears to be looking forward to a constructive dialogue about what will replace the agreement. The stock market, which was supposed to crash with a Trump election, is on the rise; the Border Patrol is ignoring Obama's orders and actually doing the job.

I'm even encouraged at the negative reactions: panic among the warmmongers about the certain demise of Paris climate change agreement; the cannibalistic frenzy in the Democrat party, fighting it out between the socialists and progressives, and extreme denial over Obama being the agent of their suicide; the pathetic illustration of how much we need a complete revamping of our educational environment with the emotional collapse of the little snowflakes needing kindergarten-like coddling.

Whether or not a Trump administration can even come close to the expectations of the voters is another story, but I do feel we've pulled ourselves back from the brink of national collapse, at least temporarily.

The collectivists are already here; they live next door.

You can't roll in the mire without getting dirty. And without correct principles to guide not only the direction of individuals, but entire nations, there can be only destructive attitudes and behaviors. People can either voluntarily choose to trade equitably with others or to attempt to use force and have force applied back at them in a zero-sum game. Self-interested trade and respect for rights are the only way to build a lasting civilization.

Open borders are for a rational world and I would prefer them, myself; but a world with jihadists whose only goal is to kill as many of us as he or she can before assuming room temperature is not a rational world.

Careful! They're grooming Chelsea!

Hear hear!

I'm afraid that his next four years are going to be hell on earth.

Time to Pop the Pimple...or is it just a simple black head...never the less, a results of being "unwashed".

I'm extraordinarily frustrated by all the posts to this site by religionists of various stripes. As a result, I participate far less than I used to. I had thought that the site was a place to discuss Atlas Shrugged, the philosophy behind it, and the movies. That hasn't been the case for quite a while.

If you had been born 250 years ago you would have been hearing about the savior George III or the devil George III. As for philosophy, mysticism was likely as prevalent then as it is now, and there was no Objectivist philosophy to counterbalance it.