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"Atlas Shrugged": From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years
"DCI" wrote in message ... On Jul 17, 10:10 pm, "Leroy N. Soetoro" wrote: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123146363567166677.html Some years ago when I worked at the libertarian Cato Institute, we used to label any new hire who had not yet read "Atlas Shrugged" a "virgin." Being conversant in Ayn Rand's classic novel about the economic carnage caused by big government run amok was practically a job requirement. Ayn Ryan was full of herself. DCI And Cato can't even field a decent softball team. My son's team played them a couple of weeks ago in the "think tank league" in D.C., and beat the hell out of them. And my son's team is mostly girls. He says the Cato types are pretty strange. d8-) -- Ed Huntress |
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On Jul 18, 3:34*am, "Ed Huntress" wrote:
And Cato can't even field a decent softball team. My son's team played them a couple of weeks ago in the "think tank league" in D.C., and beat the hell out of them. And my son's team is mostly girls. He says the Cato types are pretty strange. d8-) -- Ed Huntress Another put down by Ed. He probably thinks it is important to field a decent softball team and that it is relevant to this discussion. Dan |
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wrote in message ... On Jul 18, 3:34 am, "Ed Huntress" wrote: And Cato can't even field a decent softball team. My son's team played them a couple of weeks ago in the "think tank league" in D.C., and beat the hell out of them. And my son's team is mostly girls. He says the Cato types are pretty strange. d8-) -- Ed Huntress Another put down by Ed. He probably thinks it is important to field a decent softball team and that it is relevant to this discussion. Dan Hang on, Dan. Gunner will come to your rescue any minute. The official RCM bull**** artist and right-wing invective-slinger will put his arm around you and give you one of those big, rightard hugs. That ought to give you confidence that you're on the right track. You're their kind of guy. -- Ed Huntress |
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On Jul 18, 10:02*am, "Ed Huntress" wrote:
Hang on, Dan. Gunner will come to your rescue any minute. The official RCM bull**** artist and right-wing invective-slinger will put his arm around you and give you one of those big, rightard hugs. That ought to give you confidence that you're on the right track. You're their kind of guy. -- Ed Huntress Yet another attempt to put me down by implying that I need anyone to come to my rescue and that I fit into a crowd. When you try to put me down, it gives me confidence that I am on the right track. Why do you not explain why it is important that Cato field a good softball team? Dan |
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wrote in message ... On Jul 18, 10:02 am, "Ed Huntress" wrote: Hang on, Dan. Gunner will come to your rescue any minute. The official RCM bull**** artist and right-wing invective-slinger will put his arm around you and give you one of those big, rightard hugs. That ought to give you confidence that you're on the right track. You're their kind of guy. -- Ed Huntress Yet another attempt to put me down by implying that I need anyone to come to my rescue and that I fit into a crowd. Hey, did you forget? You're the one who keeps commenting about other people agreeing with you about my comments. See, you're right. Gunner does. 'Course....oh, well.... When you try to put me down, it gives me confidence that I am on the right track. Well, then, Dan, keep making remarks about what's wrong with me and I'll keep shooting back at you. As long as you keep it up, I will, too. I've changed my ways and you're not getting away with it anymore. Why do you not explain why it is important that Cato field a good softball team? It's not. See "Smothers, Dickie." I'll spell this one out for you. If you pay attention to the pile-on methodology of the right wingers here, you would recognize my comment as a parody of their style. It's a joke about the whole course of conversation, or what passes for conversation, once a winger enters the conversation and starts piling on with nasty, silly, irrelevant, meaningless remarks. There's nothing important about it. There isn't even anything relevant about it. To even imagine that it was intended as an important issue is almost beyond belief. -- Ed Huntress Dan |
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On Jul 23, 9:00*pm, "Ed Huntress" wrote:
Hey, did you forget? You're the one who keeps commenting about other people agreeing with you about my comments. I do not remember commenting on other people agreeing with me about your comments. I do admit thinking that other people must be agreeing, but think that hardly anyone has commented either way. Well, then, Dan, keep making remarks about what's wrong with me and I'll keep shooting back at you. As long as you keep it up, I will, too. I've changed my ways and you're not getting away with it anymore. I'll spell this one out for you. If you pay attention to the pile-on methodology of the right wingers here, you would recognize my comment as a parody of their style. It's a joke about the whole course of conversation, or what passes for conversation, once a winger enters the conversation and starts piling on with nasty, silly, irrelevant, meaningless remarks. That might explain it. The truth is that I do not read most of the messages by people that use anonymous nyms. I think they are beyond help. You on the other hand are capable of good logical arguments and I think should be above personal attacks when you can argue with facts. I should in fairness attack all the people who make nasty irrelevant remarks. But then I would have to read all that crap, and life is too short. Dan Ed Huntress |
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On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:37:07 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote: On Jul 18, 10:02*am, "Ed Huntress" wrote: Hang on, Dan. Gunner will come to your rescue any minute. The official RCM bull**** artist and right-wing invective-slinger will put his arm around you and give you one of those big, rightard hugs. That ought to give you confidence that you're on the right track. You're their kind of guy. -- Ed Huntress Yet another attempt to put me down by implying that I need anyone to come to my rescue and that I fit into a crowd. When you try to put me down, it gives me confidence that I am on the right track. Why do you not explain why it is important that Cato field a good softball team? Dan Dan hardly needs me to polish off Ol Fast Eddie. I simply enjoy stomping on the little ****head when he twitches in my direction. The sound reminds me of kicking a watermelon while wearing steel toed boots. That echo and the THUMP! as the melons guts squish away and bounce around inside that largely empty space sounds rather cool! But..small things amuse me. Shrug. Gunner -- Maxim 12: A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head. |
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"Atlas Shrugged": From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years
On 7/23/2011 6:33 PM, Gunner Asch wrote:
Yet another attempt to put me down by implying that I need anyone to come to my rescue and that I fit into a crowd. When you try to put me down, it gives me confidence that I am on the right track. Why do you not explain why it is important that Cato field a good softball team? Dan Dan hardly needs me to polish off Ol Fast Eddie. I simply enjoy stomping on the little ****head when he twitches in my direction. The sound reminds me of kicking a watermelon while wearing steel toed boots. That echo and the THUMP! as the melons guts squish away and bounce around inside that largely empty space sounds rather cool! But..small things amuse me. Shrug. Yeah, we know, things like your dick. Hawke |
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"Atlas Shrugged": From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years
"Gunner Asch" wrote in message ... On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:37:07 -0700 (PDT), " wrote: On Jul 18, 10:02 am, "Ed Huntress" wrote: Hang on, Dan. Gunner will come to your rescue any minute. The official RCM bull**** artist and right-wing invective-slinger will put his arm around you and give you one of those big, rightard hugs. That ought to give you confidence that you're on the right track. You're their kind of guy. -- Ed Huntress Yet another attempt to put me down by implying that I need anyone to come to my rescue and that I fit into a crowd. When you try to put me down, it gives me confidence that I am on the right track. Why do you not explain why it is important that Cato field a good softball team? Dan Dan hardly needs me to polish off Ol Fast Eddie. I simply enjoy stomping on the little ****head when he twitches in my direction. The sound reminds me of kicking a watermelon while wearing steel toed boots. That echo and the THUMP! as the melons guts squish away and bounce around inside that largely empty space sounds rather cool! But..small things amuse me. Shrug. Gunner The RCM welfare queen does love his fantasies, doesn't he? Bluster isn't going to compensate for your many mistakes, Gunner. Only you can do that, and you keep blowing off opportunities to do so -- starting with Tawwwm's offer to give you a real job. Maybe you should turn some of that fantasy imagination to figuring out what to do about your situation, rather that blaming it on everyone else. You should use some of that IQ for a productive purpose -- what is it, 154? g If you're that smart, you should be figuring out what to do with your piles of money instead of figuring out how many Mountain Dew cans it will take to patch your muffler. -- Ed Huntress |
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On Jul 18, 3:34*pm, Hawke wrote:
What you don't get is that some people and ideas deserve nothing but scorn and denigration. I think your problem is you don't seem to know who deserves praise and who should be denigrated. For example you praise Gummer and denigrate Ed. See, you have that backwards. Hawke You are right. I do not think that people should be denigrated in the snide way that Ed does it. If the ideas are bad, then argue how the ideas are bad, do not make jokes about necrophilia. Or refer to Gunner as Gummer, as you do. It just shows you as being a small minded person. Now how about showing me where I praised Gunner. I might have said that at least he does post about metalworking some of the time, but do not think you will find where I praised him. But calling Ed out for making remarks about people instead of remarks about why their ideas are wrong seems reasonable to me. Dan |
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On Jul 23, 9:08*pm, Hawke wrote:
I'm saying that you're harder on Ed than you are on Gummer but I'm not going to research it to prove it. I call Gummer that name because it's more appropriate than Gunner, and because he's earned my disdain. He's lied so many times it's not even funny. He's a mean, nasty, ignorant, right winger in my opinion. He treats people worse than anyone else here. To me, he's a class A jerk so I treat him with no respect. I don't know your opinion of him and don't really care. You're free to like him all you want but that would affect my opinion of your judgment. Ed can be a smart ass sometimes too but the difference between him and Gummer is night and day. You can have a discussion with Ed. It's impossible with Gummer. He's like a little kid. And a nasty one at that. Hawke You are right. I am harder on Ed than I am on Gunner. My view of Gunner is that he is not serious about a lot of the things he says. I can not imagine anyone taking the bit about the " Great Cull " seriously. As I see it he just uses that to get to some people like you. It is a running gag. And it is hard not to have a little sympathy for someone living in Taft, California. I have sympathy for anyone living anywhere in California, but a bit more sympathy for those in Taft. Dan |
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