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I would really love to meet a girl who shared my love for David Tennant's Doctor Who. Now that is a girl who I would have values in common with! So, message me, lady!
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I am kicking off an official Doctor Who fan thread here. Who else loves it? Ever since it was brought back, I have been a huge fan, particularly of David Tennant's intelligent, life affirming, heroic portrayal of The Doctor. Christopher Eccleston was good too.
Favorite Companion: Rose Tyler. Billie Piper is SO GOOD.
Now, we all know that Russell T. Davies etc likes to stick in some one liner now and then in the show approving Karl Marx, but that is not what this thread is about. So please do not comment on that, or any related issues, that are minor ones in the overall context of the show, which is Hero worshipping, life affirming, pro action, and life positive.
So - who's a fan?
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I never claimed that one should be allowed to just do whatever they want on property. What I'm getting at is that 2 years in jail is unjustified for what happened. I don't think any property was in fact desecrated or that the entire church was trashed. The severity seems to be aimed at how the band was really nasty towards the Russian Orthodox church and Putin in other circumstances, rather than any legitimate accusation. I don't care what everyone else is saying, nor am I saying Pussy Riot did nothing wrong. I'm saying that their punishment is over the line and a good sign of a corrupt legal system. Protests in this kind of environment are entirely different than student sit-in protests over Vietnam in the 60s, which is apparently the precedent you are using for reasoning here. The band protested against a corrupt system, and the result is exactly what is expected from a corrupt system. Whether deliberately walking into a corrupt system to point out its flaws concretely is a good protest technique (I think it's way too impulsive and ineffective) is a question to be discussed, but that in no way changes what I judge to be an unjust punishment.
As far as I know, this is the video of what they did:
Translation of song:
http://www.guardian....s?newsfeed=true
Non-violent, no property damage, loud music, dancing in place, all in a place where anyone is allowed to walk inside. Plus, they did insult Putin and the church. "KGB's chief saint descends". Of course, this is just one video, so if they in fact damaged property, you'll have to show me.
@ Eiuol - Thank you for being fact oriented, and caring about jail terms for singing.
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NYC Meeting - Junto:
For those who are not familiar with it, Junto is a 30+ year old monthly discussion group in New York City. On 9/6/12, Gary Johnson will be speaking, as well as Richard Kostelanetz. This is an unusually exciting meeting, though a good time is had at them all. I hope you can come.
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From: nycjunto.org <[email protected]>
Subject: Second speaker added to next Junto meeting
Date: Tuesday, August 21, 2012, 8:34 AM
NYCJUNTO.ORG A monthly meeting with a focus on libertarianism, Objectivism, and investing
Second speaker added to next Junto meeting
NYC Junto Newsletter
written by Iris Bell on Aug 20, 2012
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Contents
* NEW Junto meeting September 6, TWO SPEAKERS
* Upcoming Junto speakers through November
* NYCjunto-discuss list
* About this newsletter
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Junto is a group that shares information,
discusses current issues and presents speakers
SECOND SPEAKER ADDED:
8:00pm to 9:00pm
Gov. Gary Johnson
Libertarian Party candidate for President
He’ll update us on his campaign and answer questions.
9:00pm to 10:00pm
Richard Kostelanetz
The fall and rise of New York Rockaways
Thursday, September 6
Admission Free -- No reservation necessary
* We'll socialize from 7:00pm to 7:30pm.
NOTE, many changes here:
* People who want to make an announcement or introduce
themselves should sign up on the sheet at the entrance table.
* At 7:30pm the moderator, Gene Epstein, will call on people
who signed up, in order. Each person will have up to
4 minutes to make their announcement, including taking
comments and questions about it from the audience.
* The first speaker will begin promptly at 8:00pm. The talk
will be uninterrupted.
People in the audience should take notes for questions and
discussion afterward.
* When the questions and discussions begins anyone in the
audience can have 4 minutes for a discussion or rebuttal
of the speaker’s points.
* The second speaker will begin promptly at 9:00pm. The talk
will be uninterrupted.
People in the audience should take notes for questions and
discussion afterward.
* When the questions and discussions begins anyone in the
audience can have 4 minutes for a discussion or rebuttal
of the speaker's points.
* The meeting will continue to 10:00pm or later.
General Society Library,
20 West 44 St., between 5th and 6th Aves., NYC
near the Grand Central Terminal
Subway: 4, 5, 6, S to Grand Central -- 42nd St.
or
B, D, F, 7 to 42nd Street -- Sixth Ave. at Bryant Park
or
A, C, E, N, Q, R, S, 1, 2, 3 to Times Square -- 42nd St.
Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, M42, M98, M101, M102, M104, Q32
Train: MTA Metro-North Railroad to Grand Central
Car: Some private parking facilities in the area. Parking on
side streets is metered, limited to specific days and times.
Please note:
* Discussions are intense, but polite. Participation by all
attendees is highly encouraged.
* Junto meets on the first Thursday of every month.
8:00pm to 9:00pm
Gary Johnson, Libertarian Party candidate for President
He's been an outspoken advocate for efficient government,
balanced budgets, rational drug policy reform, protection of
civil liberties, comprehensive tax reform, and personal freedom.
As Governor of New Mexico, Johnson was known for his
common sense business approach to governing. He eliminated
New Mexico’s budget deficit, cut the rate of growth in state
government in half, and privatized half of the state prisons.
Mark N. Axinn, Chair, Libertarian Party NY reports the
party submitted over 26,000 signatures for Gary Johnson and
Jim Gray, in part because of the support from Junto members.
Learn more about Johnson at:
9:00pm to 10:00pm
Richard Kostelanetz writes:
Having published in 2003 a book about a NYC community
which I'd lived for three decades and knew well, I thought it
appropriate to write another book, not quite a sequel, about the
NYC community to which I once planned to move. If my SoHo
was about the rise and fall of an artists' colony in whose history
I fully participated, so this sequel would be about a decline that
preceded my participation in its revival as NYC's premier
beach town. As in its predecessor, I would combine objective
description and history with personal experience, establishing
complementary truths.
If my SoHo memoir portrayed how an art world developed
within NYC, but not quite of it, this book portrays a string of
Atlantic beach towns, a group different from others along the
East Coast in its incorporation into a great city. (Miami Beach,
recall, is legally separate from Miami.) I suppose that if the
development of NYC has proceeded differently over the past
two centuries, NY could have become not just a port city but
also a beach city, much like Rio de Janeiro, whose black and
white mosaic path between the street and the beach became a
popular promenade for everyone, even businessmen discussing
deals that are then consummated when someone pulls out some
paper or, nowadays, a laptop computer for recording details.
If the libertarian theme of the first book held that an
industrial slum was transformed not by any city planning but
the spontaneous collaboration of hundreds of young people
mostly artists who discovered that industrial spaces could be
occupied, the theme of my Rockaways is that the central city
undermined it in various ways after World War II. It is now
coming back thanks to small entrepreneurs.
I hope to show in conjunction with my talk to do
a PowerPoint presentation of historic images from the
Rockaways. It draws upon my Kindle ebook: " The
Rockaways: The Fall and Rise of NYC's Beach Towns:"
tiny.cc/Rockaways
Richard Kostelanetz is a writer and artist. He often
attends Junto.
He's been a contributing/advisory editor of many arts
journals. He's the author of over fifty books, among them are
"Political Essays", "Thirty Years of Visible Writing", and
"More On Innovative Music(ian)s".
He's also written over three dozen booklets. He's edited
and introduced over three dozen anthologies and many essays,
reviews, poems, fiction pieces, experimental prose pieces,
plays, scenarios, photographs, and numerical art items. In
scores of publications and places, prominent and obscure
around the world, he's created theatrical texts, one person
concerts, texts for composers, choreography scores, one person
exhibitions of prints, books, drawings, audiotapes, canvases,
videotapes, photographs and had many retrospectives.
He's done Hörspiel: extended audio art. He's also created ten
films, hologram exhibitions and over a dozen extended features
for radio, plus many lectures and presentations at institutions
around the world.
His individual entries on his work in several fields appear
in various editions of Wikipedia, NNDB.com, Britannica.com,
Who's Who in Hell, Postmodern Fiction, Contemporary Poets,
Who's Who in America, Contemporary Novelists, Who's Who
in the World, Who's Who in American Art, Directory of
American Scholars, Advocates for Self-Government, Baker's
Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Who's Who in U.S.
Writers, Editors, and Poets, Readers Guide to Twentieth-
Century Writers, The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of
Literature, The Facts on File Companion to American Poetry,
The Chronology of Webster's Dictionary of American Writers,
The Facts on File Companion to 20th Century Poetry,
Contemporary Jewish-American Dramatists and Poets,
The HarperCollins Reader's Encyclopedia of American
Literature, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic
American Literature
Individual entries on Richard's work in several fields appear
in various editions of Readers Guide to Twentieth-Century
Writers, Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature,
Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Novelists, Postmodern
Fiction, Webster's Dictionary of American Writers, The
HarperCollins Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature,
Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Directory of
American Scholars, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in
the World, Who's Who in American Art, NNDB.com, and
Britannica.com, among other distinguished directories.
Otherwise, he survives in New York, where he was born,
unemployed and thus overworked.
Visit his site:
tiny.cc/rKosti
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read previous newsletters, to sign up for the Junto enewsletter:
NYCjunto.com
Visit Junto on Facebook:
on.fb.me/JuntoNYC
Follow Junto on Twitter (we thank Kevin Levine):
twitter.com/NYCJunto
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Junto focuses on libertarianism, Objectivism and investing.
Our founder and host is Victor Niederhoffer.
Visit his site at:
DailySpeculations.com
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Please em-ail the above text to your freedom loving friends
who might be interested in Junto.
Feel free to use the above text to promote Junto among
libertarians, Objectivists and investors.
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Come to Junto, meet these upcoming speakers:
* October 4, Gary Hoover, read his bio:
tiny.cc/HooverBio
* Nov. 1, Greg Rehmke, program director Economic Thinking,
programs for high school, homeschool & college. Visit his site:
tiny.cc/gRehmke
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About Junto
* Gene Epstein moderates Junto. He's the economics editor
and books editor of Barron's, the weekly business
magazine, author of "Econospinning: How to Read Between
the Lines When the Media Manipulate the Numbers."
* Iris Bell writes this e-newsletter.
* Oleg Atbashian created NYCjunto.com. He also sends out
this e-newsletter and cares for its email list.
* Andy George helps with the sound system and supplies music.
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DailySpeculations.com
* This e-newsletter comes out twice a month. You might
get an occasional extra email about a timely event.
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Freedom Forever!
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The point that is not being discussed is: 3 girls are losing 2 years of their life because Putin does not want people protesting against him. He jails dissidents - just like Stalin. Remember Stalin? Ayn Rand would have been jailed for a much longer time, or worse.
So, who likes this?
And Obama (remember the White House website section asking people to report their neighbors who were opposed to Obamacare?!) is very much like him. Please comment on that.
And no, there is no one to vote for except Romney/Ryan - unless you want Obama to win, and Obamacare to stay, and America to get worse and worse.
Hellooooooooooooo?!
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Just think what Putin would have done to Ayn Rand!!
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3 young women have been jailed for singing a song protesting Putin in Russia. This is a SICK breach of justice.
If you like Ayn Rand, if you believe that her ideas are right, and think the country she left should be getting better not worse, and ours too, in the USA, read the article below, and like the Facebook page below at the very least. Do more if you can.
http://www.huffingto..._b_1798040.html
http://www.facebook.com/PutOutPutin
And tell people to vote Romney-Ryan.
Disgusting!
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Romney to Obama: ‘Take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago’
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So, I'm kicking off a post to be the place to chime in "central" about exciting events in this election season.
Today is particularly appropriate to be getting it going, because today Paul Ryan was announced as the VP choice.
Below is a video showing him logically-based demonstrating the problems of Obamacare. A nice job:
He's not an Objectivist, but him being picked, what with his semi-advocacy of AR's ideas, is a rather positive indirect plug for Ayn Rand that I am glad about.
You?
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Probably the best sentence I've read on this web site in the three years I've been visiting it.
People, be happy. Someone who can pronounce Ayn Rand's first name correctly has been nominated for Vice President of the United States! For those of us old enough to remember the cold war, this should be viewed as a positive step in the right direction.
Well put!
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NYC mayor wants hospitals to lock up baby formula to encourage breast-feeding:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/mayor_knows_breast_WqU1iYRQvwbEkDuvn0vb1H
That is between a Mother and a doctor, not for a government or any person to intervene in, and certainly not a mayor.
Submit your (emphatic!) objections here: http://www.nyc.gov/html/mail/html/mayor.html
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Activists Alert!
We Have Plans For This Year's Critical Election
Election Year 2012 is a tipping point election. Decisions in races all over the country will make differences that will affect our country -- and our lives -- for generations to come.
Learn Gotham Tea Party's fight-back efforts at our August 27 Political Action Event. We'll share snacks, drinks...and PLANS!
Our special speaker is Pat Toomey-endorsed Sgt. Robert Mansfield, the black Tea Party candidate running for Pennsylvania's Senate seat.
Date: Monday, August 27, 2012
Speaker: Sgt. Robert Mansfield, Black Tea Party Candidate
Time: 6:30 - 9:30 pm
Where: Eammon's Bar & Grill
9 East 45th (off Fifth Avenue)
Fee: $10 in advance* - $15 at the door.
Includes snacks.
For advanced registration, visit: www.gothamteaparty.com
Questions? [email protected]
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* We regret that we cannot refund your fee if you cannot attend. Fees cover event and operation expenses.
Gotham Tea Party's mission: Help elect representatives who believe in our Founders' timeless principles of constitutional and limited government, fiscal responsibility, free markets.
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http://studentsforliberty.org/event/new-york-city-regional-conference/
Check out Students For Liberty (http://studentsforliberty.org/) and Young Americans For Liberty (http://www.yaliberty.org/).
Check out the conference near you, if you are not in NY. There are many across the USA.
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That is pretty awesome. But he needs a helmet like the Rocketeer.
Ha ha, that was a decent movie.
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Now, here is a brillant mind, inventing what will be the first bodysuit to enable a man to fly. Look here, admire a man of the mind at work: Jetman - http://www.jetman.com/?page_id=24
What do you think of THAT?
Also - let's not fail to discuss:
Felix Baumgartner! http://felixbaumgartner.com/
Who this week completed a 17 MILE SKY DIVE (!!!) and that IS JUST THE PREP RUN FOR HIS PLANNED 23 MILE SKY DIVE FROM THE EDGE OF SPACE. YES, SPACE. JUST LIKE IN THAT MOVIE WE KNOW AND LOVE.
Now, that's some real men we can admire.
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Who else thought Anne Hathaway and Christian Bale did a great job, and Christopher Nolan did a great job with the story?
Those characters had a real romanticism to them. (I really want hear thoughts about the positive elements of it.) And the whole trilogy had a really great quality to it. And it shows Batman fighting the movie's version of Occupy Wall Street. How frickin' AMAZING is that? They make it clear: Good guys: Batman. Bad guys: OWS.
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Who else has seen and liked Bottleshock?
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Should be cool!:
NY Objectivist Society event this Sunday 7/29: http://www.newyorkob...ing_Events.html
Junto Event: Next Thursday 8/2. http://nycjunto.org/
Cool Tea Party Event This Thursday 7/26 -
All-You-Can-Eat-and-Drink
Andy Sullivan Fund-Raiser
Andy Sullivan is running in 2013 for NYC Council in against
Democrat Vincent Gentile, first elected in '03.
Gotham Tea Party fully supports Andy's candidacy.
Come Thursday to learn more about the race!
SPEAKERS: Andy Sullivan (of course!)
State Senator David Storobin
State Senate Candidate Lisa Grey
NYC Councilman Dan Halloran
DATE: July 26th (Thursday)
TIME: 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
WHAT ELSE: Live entertainment plus all you can eat and drink!
WHERE: The Salty Dog - a bar restaurant in a firehouse setting
complete with a vintage firetruck. (Talk about fun!)
ADDRESS: 7509 Third Avenue - Brooklyn
R train to 77th. Get off near the back of the train; walk
about a block.
COST: $45 per person.
A fun evening and you help Andy build his war chest!
For more information please contact Andy Sullivan
www.SullivanForNYC.com
Gotham Tea Party's mission: Help elect representatives who believe in our Founders' timeless principles of constitutional and limited government, fiscal responsibility, free markets.
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This is to discuss Barack Obama's terrible recent statements, please read the article below.
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/build-article-1.1116360?localLinksEnabled=false
This shows his ideology.
Barack Obama believes that the individual who thinks and does the work of initiation and building, simply, didn't build.
This shows very well his collectivist mentality. Please forward this to everyone you can.
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@ Zoid - Well said!
@ Everybody:
Monsters Versus Aliens was totally life affirming, and from Star Trek to Sucker Punch, it has been individualism/heroes.
Did anyone else but me LOVE Sucker Punch?
D.C.
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I would like to start a discussion of the state of life positiveness in movies that are released. Movies, the world's most popular art form, are doing a lot to express ideas.
For starter's -
The Time Traveler's Wife, a romantic movie about a man's heroic behavior struggling with illness.
Meet The Robinson's - an animated DIsney movie in praise of the thinker/inventor.
Post your own ideas and comments!
Reminder - NYC Large Tea Party Event Tomorrow 8/27/12
in Activism for Reason, Rights, Reality
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Activists Alert!
We Have Plans For This Year's Critical Election
Election Year 2012 is a tipping point election. Decisions in races all over the country will make differences that will affect our country -- and our lives -- for generations to come.
Learn Gotham Tea Party's fight-back efforts at our August 27 Political Action Event. We'll share snacks, drinks...and PLANS!
Our special speaker is Pat Toomey-endorsed Sgt. Robert Mansfield, the black Tea Party candidate running for Pennsylvania's Senate seat.
To learn more, visit: www.
mansfieldforcongress.comDate: Monday, August 27, 2012
Speaker: Sgt. Robert Mansfield, Black Tea Party Candidate
Time: 6:30 - 9:30 pm
Where: Eammon's Bar & Grill
9 East 45th (off Fifth Avenue)
Fee: $10 in advance* - $15 at the door.
Includes snacks.
For advanced registration, visit: www.gothamteaparty.com
Questions? [email protected]
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* We regret that we cannot refund your fee if you cannot attend. Fees cover event and operation expenses.
Gotham Tea Party's mission: Help elect representatives who believe in our Founders' timeless principles of constitutional and limited government, fiscal responsibility, free markets.