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Darrell Cody

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  1. PLEASE NOTE: THE EVENT IS SOLD OUT. NO ONE IS BEING ADMITTED AT THE DOOR WHO HAS NOT ALREADY REGISTERED. THANKS!
  2. Going Galt today is an indolent person's excuse for not trying harder. It's pathetic. We can still win; it helps if you fight.
  3. That was a funny read. It read like a dream - unreal and surreal - and a parody. A satire on a conversation between those 4. Hilarious! Seriously, it read like Salvador Dali paints. Weird stuff!
  4. Great News About Our Holiday Celebration: We Have a Public Venue! Because it's the holidays, we didn't expect many to come to our gathering. Were we surprised: Within hours close to 50 people signed up! We faced a dilemma: Turn people down OR find a big venue at...CHRISTMAS CHANUKAH TIME! Kudos to Julia H.: She found McGees -- a big venue -- at this last possible minute. BUT since we now have higher expenses (the restaurant!) we have to charge our usual fees. If you already signed up, you're on the list. You need not pay more. If you didn't sign up already, just keep this in mind: Our gathering is going to be FUN. Plus we'll enjoy great presentations from: Pamela Geller - The blogger and activist known for her stance against radical Islam will report on her recent experience running ads calling for the support of the civilized man against the savage. Yaron Brook - The son of Israeli socialists, the author of Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government, columnist for Forbes.com, and president and executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute has much to say about what's ahead in wake of last month's election. DATE: Monday, December 17th TIME: 7:00 - 9:30 pm VENUE: McGees 240 West 55th Street (btwn 7th & 8th) COST: $10 pre-paid; $15 at the door*. Light hors d'oeuvres A full menu is available if you want to buy dinner. Click to pre-pay: http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001D-0xh44t4F-QUcrozYuX-PLFCYAm3aDLtX2gBsIyshHtBXrQGowrbcVPbVAxNXcvrMhVYx_WD4DOnatKyPMHwYdpHU44c2mhIYB25RPT2eJ4K8cRhF5X4FA10HVxazJu Questions? Email [email protected] ___________________ * We cannot refund prepaid admissions if you can't make it. Gotham Tea Party's mission: Help elect representatives who believe in our Founders' timeless principles of constitutional and limited government, fiscal responsibility, and free markets.
  5. Marianne Faithful. Who else loves her? Message me! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhPPJ5dolxU&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up-ekptbOYs&feature=related
  6. I am clarifying this thread to anything in the way of things sold at Krispy Kreme and Dunkin Donuts and other fine donut retailers, including mom and pop stores. Chow time. What's your fave?
  7. Am I the only one who likes the Krispy Kreme bun ones with the chocolate icing and the vanilla cream?
  8. Ok, Ladies and Gentlemen, here-we-go! Hollywood Stock Exchange, HSX.com, is a website, an online game, where you can invest virtual money in virtual securities of the movies and actors you love, and watch them go up and down and make money for your virtual portfolio. It's free and so much fun, I know there are tons of movie fans here, so, everybody join and let's post tips and how you are doing on this thread. Make a lot of money, and have fun! Darrell Cody www.HSX.com
  9. Cool. What kind will you get? I love the Dunkin Donuts Vanilla Cream. Everybody hit me with your favorite donuts.
  10. This incident has garnered enormous reviews online, a Krispy Kreme video that has gone viral, a happy customer, perhaps thousands of new Krispy Kreme fans, unfathomable amounts of secondary good marketing for Krispy Kreme and several people talking about Krispy Kreme on Objectivism Online who would not be otherwise - which means thousands of dollars in profits it would not have otherwise gotten - and it cost the company about 90 cents in donuts and a box. So - IntellectualAmmo - as a businessman - the facts are those; based on Objectivism's proper way of thinking, do you care to admit you see the logic of why this woman did the right thing? There's really nothing else to say. *munches donut*
  11. While I understand the comments everyone is making here, I do not agree with the general tone of all of them; I would like to take this moment to remind everyone of the particular danger of being "the man in the middle" Ayn Rand refers to in Atlas Shrugged.
  12. This is Objectivism Online, not "Anything Goes" Online.
  13. And yet what they do proceeds from what they believe. Take 9/11. Islamic extremists. The Spanish Inquisition, the Salem trials and executions. Christian extremists. This is not something that proceeds from rational ideas. This is what comes from irrational, supernatural based, mysticism ideas. You do know that Ayn Rand was opposed to Christianity, and the logic behind that, right? This is a site for Ayn Rand fans. The question to be really asking is - if someday people are murdered because of the beliefs I indulge in, without rationality - am I right to believe in them? There you go. As for the moral values of Christianity - altruism, self-sacrifice, faith, charity, Jesus, god, religion etc etc - and the moral values of Objectivism and Ayn Rand - egoism, The Virtue of Selfishness, rational self-interest, Reason, productivity, Man, Man Worship, Hero Worship, atheism - Ayn Rand and Christianity are opposites. Have you read Atlas Shrugged? They are not, as you are saying, strikingly similar at all. With respect - have you actually studied Objectivism at all? You seem to be missing all the basic knowledge.
  14. With respect, you should think over whether still believing in mysticism and the supernatural is sensible while admiring ideas of rationality. What would Ayn Rand say?
  15. This man has just eliminated almost every women on the planet from you asking them on a date. He says you can't change people and show them how wonderful life is; apparently, he hasn't read Atlas Shrugged. Of course you can. He just doesn't know how to. Philosophy is often about changing people. He doesn't get it. Go for it. Communicate. Never underestimate the power of Reason to change people, and women are people. Just ask Ayn Rand. This guy doesn't know all of his stuff.
  16. Good Video - Dr. Wafa Sultan: Darrell
  17. Now that's one heck of an initiative taking employee! Be sure and 'Like' the video. Article: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/krispy-kreme-donut-order-rejection-video-153858341.html;_ylt=A2KJ3CZsFbRQQhkAGh_QtDMD
  18. Thanks for posting this video. That's interesting - that she said that. I don't know what it is about.
  19. The above is wrong. Romney is wrong about abortion; Obama is wrong about the ENTIRE role of government. Summing up Obama, you get a potential communist dictator. Summing up Romney, you get a mixture of Capitalism and socialism. Obviously, Romney is the lesser evil. You don't judge a candidate on one issue; you judge them on how they stand on all the issues, and sum them up about how good or bad they are. Objectivism isn't backwards. The above statement is. I find it amusing that the writer thinks Obama - who wants to shackle EVERYONE - men and women - the healthcare compulsion mandate is shackling everyone, men and women - is a better person than Romney, who wants to shackle women's abortion rights (which is wrong too - but clearly not as bad as heading in the direction of controlling everything about everyone). The writer is not rational.
  20. Invictus (Unconquered) William Ernest Henley Out of the night that covers me, 
 Black as the Pit from pole to pole, 
 I thank whatever gods may be 
 For my unconquerable soul. 
 
In the fell clutch of circumstance 
 I have not winced nor cried aloud. 
 Under the bludgeonings of chance 
 My head is bloody, but unbowed. 

 Beyond this place of wrath and tears 
 Looms but the Horror of the shade, 
 And yet the menace of the years 
 Finds, and shall find, me unafraid. 

 It matters not how strait the gate, 
 How charged with punishments the scroll. 
 I am the master of my fate: 
 I am the captain of my soul.
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