Hello richrobinson,
Yes we were. Orwell and Huxley had exchanges and discussed whose vision would be more likely and accurate. I believe we are seeing much of both.
Regards,
O.A.

1958? Good thing the tip
wasn't that much today.
You'd get it back in the
face.

What a great resource you
are. Thanks for being there.

Every spending Bill presented to congress should be accompanied with an appropriation package without increasing taxes

That was one of the bigger mistakes that Reagan made was in not eliminating the Department of Education.

That is fantastic. Most of the Common Core reading in a lot of the country is to focus on instruction manuals and the like. Literature is out, as is most writing which suggests something may not be right with government.Years ago, we got a brother and sister who transferred in from Florida to Ohio. Their educational background from Fla. schools was very good. Hope it stays that way, under pressure from the federal level to do otherwise.

Even back in Reagan's day, when he wanted to do away with the Dept. of Education, the CFR came in and said no way. They needed that control over young minds, getting them in line with New World Order.

1984 is not on the reading list in Florida, but both We the Living and Animal Farm are.

I teach materials science and engineering to most of the engineers on campus, so if there is a catastrophe at the Space Center, you can blame me.

I won't beg for money. That would be altruistically un-Galt-like, but if you are debating between paying taxes or getting a credit for a donation, I will help you solve your problem by figuring a way out to trade value for value. In the meantime, I am enjoying educating future Galts.

http://www.fit.edu is a start.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Tec...
is a pretty good description to start.

The best story about Florida Tech is our founding. Our first president and George Skurla, then in charge of Northrop Grumman's space program efforts in 1958 were eating dinner. They suggested that a university be established to educate people for the space program. The tip was 57 cents. The waitress donated the tip as our initial endowment.

Great suggestions Stormi. I was in college in 1984 and not really interested in politics. Looking back I kind of remember the talk being about how far off 1984 was. Reagan was President and very popular. It looked as though the collective had lost. Wow was that wrong.

The problem is, while we read "1984" in public high school, how many classes since then have never read it? We were forewarned. We knew that rewriting history could happen. Today, the young adults don't have a clue, as they have never read Orwell and know little history, rewritten or otherwise. Wait until Common Core completes the dumb down!
What to do. Get rid of the Council on Foreign Relations, the moving force behind the changes made by most recent presidents. Get out of the UN, they are mostly communists anyway. Kick the Federal Reserve to the curb. Get rid of the Dept. of Education, heart of brainwashing future voters. Outlaw port barrel spending in finance bill, and you will take power from the corrupt legislators.
Actually, I just rewatched "1984" the other week, the Richard Burton version, and was sad to see how close we have come to Orwell's predictions.

I'd like to know more about Florida
Tech.

I don't think we have met, maxsilver. My university, Florida Tech, just made it into the world's top 200 by doing things completely differently than other universities. We are a private, non-tenure-granting university. We have more conservatives than liberals and more Objectivists than you might think.

As I see it our elite universities are nothing but promoting the status quo in all sciences because the are all incapable of moving forward past the paradigms of a failed cosmology... the better term would be "ad Astra per adnausium"...

Lock-N-Load Ears on, Eyes open, Watch your 6.

The bigger issue for me Robbie is that government intervention is the main reason health care is so expensive and with it insurance. A step by step approach that would allow the free market back into health care would dramatically lower costs and we could all afford routine care. Insurance would revert back to traumatic and long term needs.

Good one Kh. Have to keep those SNAP cards working.

It used to be other countries wanted to be like us. Why do so many think we have to be like them now?

The liberals form of Utopia. Sure feels more like fantasyland.

Hey Matt. Been a while. Glad to see you in the Gulch. I actually was thinking we would have to be far enough removed from the Civil War to avoid the slavery debate.

I guess obeying the existing Constitution would be a good start. I like Robbie's idea of pulling 16 and 17.

yes, you had to borrow because the government's emergency is greater than yours... arrrgggghhhh

star, our church has an emergency fund which can
help when things go tragically wrong ... in a real
gulch, we surely would have a rainy day fund for
one another, like self-insurance.

we briefly borrowed to cover taxes in april, from
our credit union. this is gentler than some things! -- j