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If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew,
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you.
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!'
- Rudyard Kipling
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What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. - Aldous Huxley
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. -
Dr. Seuss
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. - Abraham Lincoln
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. - Abraham Lincoln
In war, truth is the first casualty. - Aeschylus
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. - Alexander Berkman
War is organized murder and torture against our brothers. - Alfred Adler
Today the real test of power is not the capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it. -
Anne O’Hare McCormick
Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible. -
A. Philip Randolph
Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. - Ayn Rand
War is the unfolding of miscalculations. -
Barbara Tuchman
War does not determine who is right, only who is left. -
Bertrand Russell
Peace is constructed, not fought for. - Brent Davis
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Our levels of gun violence are off the charts. There's no advanced, developed country on Earth that would put up with this.
Barack Obama -
June 10, 2014
Those who say federal legislators can "never" pass gun restrictions should look to moments like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 or the Affordable Care Act of 2010 to see how those predictions can turn out to be wrong.
Julian Zelizer
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
Ayn Rand
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The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”
~ Ayn Rand
I spent today trying to get some good splash shots and this was one of my favorites. It was a challenge to get the splash in focus when using an aperture of f2.8.
Took these shots in the window of a RR museum in Portland, Maine. Am hoping my flickr contact will give us a bit of history on them!
"“He liked to observe emotions;
they were like red lanterns
strung along the dark unknown of another's personality,
marking vulnerable points.”
~ Ayn Rand ~
*Working Towards a Better World
"What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood." -- Aldous Huxley
"Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives." --Ayn Rand
"War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it." -- George Orwell
"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." -- Albert Einstein
"We have guided missiles and misguided men." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"There is no way to peace. Peace is the way." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth." --George Washington
"When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?" -- Benjamin Franklin
Yes, Trillion! Certainly, Alan Greenspan knew what "Bucket Shops" were. Greenspan worshiped Ayn Rand, the ultra-Libertarian, who believed in no government oversite of the economy.
In the final days of the Clinton administration (Clinton is #2 culprit), corrupt legislators pushed through the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, which enabled Bucket Shops to open up on Wall Street.
A specific clause in The Act over-rides state laws against Bucket Shops. The Moneychangers on Wall Street fooled school districts, banks and retirement & mutual funds to buy these deriviatives. Lyndon Larouche warned about these criminally AAA-rated paper pigs almost as soon as the market took off in 2000.
IMO: the only solution is for Obama to recall and reissue currency. This will force the crooks who profit from drug deals and these Derivatives to prove how they obtained their $$$.
The "Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000" (H.R. 5660) was introduced in the House on December 14, 2000 by Rep. Thomas W. Ewing (R-IL) and cosponsored by Rep. Thomas J. Bliley, Jr. (R-VA) Rep. Larry Combest (R-TX) Rep. John J. LaFalce (D-NY) Rep. Jim Leach (R-IA) and never debated in the House.
The companion bill (S.3283) was introduced in the Senate on December 15, 2000 (The last day before Christmas holiday) by Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) and cosponsored by Sen. Peter Fitzgerald (R-IL) Sen. Phil Gramm (R-TX) Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) Sen. Thomas Harkin (D-IA) Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD) and never debated in the Senate.
Must-see video on this subject: The Bet that Blew Up Wall Street, Steve Kroft, 60-Minutes.
My letter on New York Times columnist, Frank Rich's blog regarding this.
Source of Pic: New York Times, October 9, 2008.
Link to the New York Times article: "The Reckoning: Taking Hard New Look at a Greenspan Legacy", October 9, 2008.
UPDATE: Frontline (PBS) show "The Warning". Really good but still doesn't answer the question, "Where did all the $$$ go, who benefited"?
This video explains another aspect of the economic collapse: Hedge funds "Naked Short Selling" Bears Stearns & Lehman Bros. stock, which caused these two businesses to collapse.
CLINTON: I Was Wrong to Listen to Wrong Advice Against Regulating Derivatives.
Role of Bill Clinton and Bob Rubin in Deregulation of Derivatives Markets
Google: "bill clinton deregulation derivatives"
UPDATE: In June 2013, film producer Charles Ferguson interviewed Bill Clinton who said he and Larry Summers couldn't change Alan Greenspan's mind and Congress then passed the Act with a veto-proof supermajority. Ferguson revealed that this was inaccurate and, he said, a lie, while commenting that he thought Clinton was "a really good actor". In fact, Ferguson wrote, the Clinton Administration and Larry Summers lobbied for the Act and joined Robert Rubin in both privately and publicly attacking advocates of regulation. Source: Ferguson, Charles (30 September 2013). "Why I Am Cancelling My Documentary on Hillary Clinton". Huffington Post. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
UPDATE: April 21014, "How the Clinton team thwarted effort to deregulate derivatives", really good overview of how derivatives and the enabling legislation Clinton signed in the last days of his Presidency caused the Recssion.
Presently known as the Dagny Taggert in honor of the protagonist in Ayn Rand's 1957 dystopian novel entwined in intrigue, romance, and philosophy, "Atlas Shrugged," in which Dagny make a mercurial rise to the occasion and saves the Taggart Transcon through a deus ex machina invention from her brother's incompetence, over regulation, undertones of communism and anarchy. The observation, built by Budd in the City of Brotherly Love in 1949 brought up the rear of New York Central's NYC to StL Southwest Limited as well as standing in on the 20th Century Limited when needed finishing it's revenue career across the 49th parallel on the Canadian. More recently returning to just the other side of the border to previous courter Dirk Lenthe or Fargo North Dakota who graciously lent the venerable Dame to the North Shore Scenic Railroad for a stint which has come to a meteoric close, though, as any other meteor, she'll be back again. Eventually. Someday. Staying for good. For now she's enroute back to the Empire State for an appearance at this year's AAPRCO's American Autumn Explorer gathering and gala (© 13Sep20)
The books on my nightstand are piling up... literally!
These are all books I am reading at the moment or I bought with the intention to read. I got four today.. I have a sickness!
What's on your nightstand?
8/52
This image took quite a bit of nerve and heart stopping moments. I had the idea to create a tribute to the book Atlas Shrugged and since we have the Atlas Building here in Windhoek with this Giant teetering six stories high on the roof, my mind naturally began to work overtime. I convinced my then unsuspecting husband to escort me as it would require some climbing from the 6th floor to the roof along a metal ladder (which does have protective rings in my defense).
Since i had only seen the Atlas from the ground it was hard to ascertain what it looked like up there, but not one to giving up on what seemed like a marvelous idea i set forth with my husband in tow.
I think our Adrenalin must have kicked in full throttle when we reached the top just behind Atlas' famous buttocks. I won't go into too much detail about everything, but it involved trying to change clothing up there, getting the giant into the image at close range...there simply was no space to go but down.. for some strange reason my ISO was on 800...why? i still don't know... the first images were thus blown out completely.. aside from the fear of dying we wanted to avoid being arrested.
It is incredible how poorly one thinks when one is fearful or just out of the normal environment.
The moral of the story: Double check all camera equipment and settings before heading out. Try and establish what your surroundings REALLY are like (if possible). Try to take someone who does not fear heights as much as you do...:), LIVE FOR THE MOMENT!
wow! what a rush!!!!
Atlas Shrugged is a novel by Ayn Rand, first published in 1957 in the United States. Rand's fourth and last novel, it was also her longest, and the one she considered to be her magnum opus in the realm of fiction writing. Atlas Shrugged includes elements of mystery and science fiction,and it contains Rand's most extensive statement of Objectivism in any of her works of fiction.
The novel's title is a reference to Atlas, a Titan of Greek mythology, who in the novel is described as "the giant who holds the world on his shoulders".
The significance of this reference is seen in a conversation between the characters Francisco d'Anconia and Hank Rearden, in which d'Anconia asks Rearden what sort of advice he would give to Atlas upon seeing that "the greater the titan's effort, the heavier the world bore down on his shoulders". With Rearden unable to answer, Francisco gives his own response: "To shrug".
Rand set out to create a work of fiction that explored the role of the mind in human life and the morality of rational self-interest, by exploring the consequences when the people "of the mind" go on strike, refusing to allow their inventions, art, business leadership, scientific research, or new ideas to be taken from them by the government or by the rest of the world.
Atlas Shrugged received largely negative reviews after its 1957 publication, but achieved enduring popularity and consistent sales in the following decades.
In 1991, a survey conducted for the Library of Congress and the Book-of-the-Month Club asked club members what the most influential book in the respondent's life was. Rand's Atlas Shrugged was the second most popular choice, after the Bible.
Information on Atlas the Titan: see Nic's stream here: www.flickr.com/photos/namwizard/6897711115/in/photostream
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If you have read Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" or "Fountainhead", you'll know what this sculpture means
"Miss Taggart, do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own--they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal--for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire. They bare their teeth at you from out of their rat holes, thinking that you take pleasure in letting your brilliance dim them--while you'd give a year of your life to see a flicker of talent anywhere among them. They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors. They don't know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the man of achievement would not be able to bear. They have no way of knowing what he feels when surrounded by inferiors--hatred? no, not hatred, but boredom--the terrible, hopeless, draining, paralyzing boredom. Of what account are praise and adulation from men whom you don't respect? Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?"
“I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at a port, it’s only for the sheer pleasure of leaving it. I always think: Here’s one more spot that can’t hold me.” - Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
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Don't be a woman that needs a man...
Be a woman that a man needs! -
Anon
A strong woman knows she has strength enough for the journey,
but a woman of strength knows it is in the journey where she will become strong. - Anon
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation. - Brigham Young
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce. - Mark Twain
Women are made to be loved, not understood. - Oscar Wilde
“The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.” -
Susan B. Anthony
The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. - Ayn Rand
One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go. -
Sheila Murray Bethel
“A strong woman understands that the gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection. She values and uses all of her gifts.”
- Nancy Rathburn
A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform. -
Diane Mariech
Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants. -
Coco Chanel
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“If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?"
"I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?"
"To shrug.”
[from Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand]
TORONTO, Ontario, Canada
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"I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when one can't see the details. Just the shapes. The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky over New York and the will of man made visible."
Ayn Rand ~ The Fountainhead
Lower Manhattan from the Brooklyn Bridge
May 9th, 2011
Day 9 of our "Travels with Jason".
Happy Fence Friday ~ Happy Weekend, Gang!
i was gonna read this for my summer reading assignment, but i decided it was too long so i'm reading something else.
expired 1997 film
Rockefeller Center’s Atlas (1937) by Lee Oskar Lawrie and René Paul Chambellan was one of the things I remembered from my brief first visit to New York, a third of a century ago, so this time around I took several pictures of it.
The designer and sculptor should not be blamed for having inspired the book “Atlas Shrugged” by the self-styled “philosopher” who called herself Ayn Rand.
If you have read Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" or "Fountainhead", you'll know what this sculpture means
Rockefeller Center’s Atlas, 1937, by Lee Oskar Lawrie. The windows of the International Building reflect the scaffolding around St. Patrick’s Cathedral, across Fifth Avenue.
He looks more impressive if you cross the street or even zoom in.
Detail of Rockefeller Center’s Atlas (1937) by Lee Oskar Lawrie and René Paul Chambellan. (complete sculpture here)
"Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing."
Ayn Rand
Soundtrack Of The Picture: Washed Out feat. Caroline Polachek - You and I