A bizarre advertisement

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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/

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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…

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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.