Yep, and we should solicit and fund PRIVATE programs to help train and make the successful. This coverts automatic demon votes to proper votes, and demonstrates how much more successful a private program can be.

Me too.

Apparently the accused arsonist's parents were (are?) missionaries and felt liberated when burning a Bible. I know that Ayn Rand supported atheism. In no way am I saying that Ayn Rand would have supported arson that happened in Pacific Palisades, CA. I am saying that the current generation lacks respect for life, liberty, and property, and that lack of respect is affecting us all.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us...

Antifa is allegedly anti-fascist and uses force to get compliance with its beliefs. Biden was the most fascistic president in American history. Trump gets accused of fascism and is the victim of fascism (Remember Mar-A-Lago?). I will agree that he is on the edge of what I would consider tolerable in terms of too aggressive in the use of force, However, when you consider just how many people are here illegally, how violent and well-funded Antifa is, and that illegals do affect census counting and, therefore, federal government "spending", he almost has to use the level of force that he is. Using any less would be unjust to producers. Arguably, he is not sending enough illegals out. Most people I hear say that 9 or 10 million illegals came during Biden's era. How many has Trump deported? Just a small fraction of those. I am willing to let the illegals stay ... if they pay their share of America's debt - about $100 K per person.

Gulchers are always welcome to our little paradise.

It is a very small world. Thanks for attending our own little Patrick Henry University, Thoritsu.

That is a good question. Perhaps they were told that the gold was sold, and Trump didn't want to tell that to the world? Perhaps such information became knowledge that only some people had, thus explaining the huge surge in gold prices? Honestly, we don't know.

Me suddenly recalls a little dino being taken to all white high school football games. The audience would always cheer when the band played Dixie and someone on the loud speaker would cry out, "The South shall rise again!"

Well, if it's any consolation, a few Meme Pubs ago, the Jack Asses severed their relationship with the demon-crap party cause they still be the KKK, now, times 1000 !!!

Dino has online been calling Democrats the Jackass Party before I even heard of Ayn Rand.
That changed when my most conservative of 4 all way done grown little brothers Christmas gifted me with the Atlas Shrugged DVDs.
That led to me buying and reading the novel and doing research that stumbled upon the existence of this The Gulch.
Short story already too long, I'll bet there are Dems who feel like jackasses for chicken Schiff letting a bunch of commie yahoos take over what me an old dino clearly
remembers as being the my state Alabama Fifties and early Sixties party of the Ku Klux Klan.

I'm easy! Gimme dino what you can find.

Which did/do you like best, the long monday ITMtyme, the MAGAzean or the Sunday Paper like editions ? . .

Love to pester, but guessed you were more a 40-something. Guess that means we have to meet next time I’m down there.

So many people associate Trump with the Empire, but it is just not so, at least most policies

Small world!

Thankfully, doge found a few million creatures or invisible non creatures mooching and they had them removed from the SS roles; so now, hopefully , the program can survive under it's own weight.

If Trump is not controlled, then why haven't the doors to the Gold vault in Fort Knox been opened as he and Musk promised they would be after his inauguration? Was he convinced not to open them? Or ordered not to?

If any country has been considered "rebel scum" (reference to Star Wars), it is America. I wear the moniker of "rebel scum" proudly.

No, if Ayn Rand wrote Atlas Shrugged today, the basis for the character would have been a close friend of mine named Albin Czernichowski. Dr. Czernichowski built the plasma arc reactor in Cold War Communist Poland but would not give it to the Commies. He didn't make money off of it until 2006-2009 when we both joined the same company. The plasma arc reactor is the proper name for Mr. Fusion from The Back to the Future movies. When Obama decided to fund our solar energy competition, we read Atlas Shrugged as a company and shrugged (i.e. sold the company). It was very sad, but the proper thing to do. Only this year have I come out of shrugging in a completely different industry.

You saw how nice it is here in Melbourne, Abaco. That being said, the person accused of arson in January in California got arrested here, where he had returned to his hometown at his sister's and brother-in-law's place. The accused's brother was one of my better students, and has not gone to the dark side.

Perhaps age 58 is a young-in in this community. I shrugged for quite a while, particularly with regard to my UV sterilization device, until I got my shadow banning by Google/YouTube reversed recently. At that point, I un-shrugged in September. In the meantime, I worked on a few other inventions that are getting close to ready to also debut. This quite possibly is my best year ever.

Man, you said it well! Pretty good for a young-in, with just a PhD!

I have to agree. After reading both articles you did a very good summary. Of note both articles are well written and worth reading as they made me think and consider possibilities hereinto not considered.

Of course, you are correct, but (said with sarcasm), I don't think such a person's attention span (to ask for reparations) is long enough to listen to such a complex explanation.

J.D. Vance - a controlled figurehead - maybe?
Trump - absolutely not a controlled figurehead. That is why he is so universally opposed. Most of the time, Trump is right. Certainly he has his times when he is clearly wrong (COVID policy, particularly not firing Fauci), sometimes he makes decisions that may or may not eventually prove right (such as tariffs, on which I think he has eventually been proven right even though I wasn't so sure), and most of the time, he is clearly right and opposed because he is right.

"The great creators—the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors—stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish." - Ayn Rand

Though Trump is philosophically inconsistent with Rand's Objectivism, he does admire Howard Roark. By the way, I would add builders/makers to the list of great creators. Some makers like me are inventors, but all inventors are makers. Trump is more of a builder. Go to one of his golf courses or his hotels. You will see what I mean far more concretely.

Rarely do I disagree with straightlinelogic, but I do in this case. I know the assemblage of brainpower that I am assembling is nothing comparable to Silicon Valley, Israel, or China, but we are making huge strides this year in my little paradise.