Entering The World Of Dagny Taggart and Hank Rearden

Though I’ve really only just begun to read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, I believe I am getting the gist of it (please nobody email and ruin the story for me :-0 ).
Having not yet finished the novel (only now preparing to finish up part one), I allow that I could be completely off here [...]

Seriously, Shut The Hell Up You Damn Cry Babies

The majority of this posting is pure personal commentary and rant.
Gallup Poll released the following poll today.
Gallup
Three in four Americans (76%) want the government to take actions to block or recover the bonuses insurance giant AIG paid its executives after receiving federal bailout funds.

Poll Results

Question

Answer

Which comes closer to your thinking about this matter: The government [...]

Ronald Reagan 1964 RNC

An eerily timeless speech.
The more things change, the more they stay the same it seems.

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Are We Socialists? A Poll

I had briefly heard Glenn Beck talking about this poll but wasn’t able to hear his comments in full but I heard enough to think, holy hell!
So, are we [Americans] socialist?
For years I’ve thought we were tending towards socialism and that we would embrace it when and if it came.
I believe that Bush the [...]