Grames Posted April 14, 2009 Report Share Posted April 14, 2009 Google Adsense put an ad up on when I was reading my gmail. There is a website selling the twelve success secrets of Ayn Rand. It has a list of people supposedly successful because of their Objectivism. It is simultaneously laughable, and cringe inducing. Ron Paul - Republican Congressman, Medical Doctor. David Paterson - Democratic Governor of New York. Clarence Thomas - Supreme Court Justice, bestselling author. Ronald Reagan - 40th President of the United States. Margaret Thatcher - former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Lou Holtz - Hall of Fame college football coach. Robert Ringer - multi-millionaire entrepreneur, bestselling author. Alan Greenspan - multi-millionaire economist, former Federal Reserve Chairman. So far as I can tell from viewing the page source code there are no other ads on the page, so its safe to look at it without financing further mischief. http://www.atlas12.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aristotlejones Posted April 14, 2009 Report Share Posted April 14, 2009 (edited) There is a website selling the twelve success secrets of Ayn Rand. It is simultaneously laughable, and cringe inducing. Ahm speeeking lawk Awnhald: Wee ahre heeer too >pump< you up! Sounds like an ad for a weight loss program. Hey, how did my wallet get suddenly lighter? Your mileage may vary... <Φ>aj Edited April 14, 2009 by aristotlejones Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Patroller Posted April 14, 2009 Report Share Posted April 14, 2009 Google Adsense put an ad up on when I was reading my gmail. There is a website selling the twelve success secrets of Ayn Rand. It has a list of people supposedly successful because of their Objectivism. It is simultaneously laughable, and cringe inducing. Ron Paul - Republican Congressman, Medical Doctor. David Paterson - Democratic Governor of New York. Clarence Thomas - Supreme Court Justice, bestselling author. Ronald Reagan - 40th President of the United States. Margaret Thatcher - former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Lou Holtz - Hall of Fame college football coach. Robert Ringer - multi-millionaire entrepreneur, bestselling author. Alan Greenspan - multi-millionaire economist, former Federal Reserve Chairman. So far as I can tell from viewing the page source code there are no other ads on the page, so its safe to look at it without financing further mischief. http://www.atlas12.com/ Looks like a refugee from the "Bits and Pieces of Ayn Rand' era (c1976-80) which was their equivalent of "Going Galt". What makes this semi-plausible is that they echoed ideas that many of us first came upon from Rand so there is a connection of sorts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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