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Thirty or forty years ago, the only homeless people in America were the winos.

But now, it's different. I have seen them, I have lived with them.

'We' must fight back!!

Hey, your links worked!!

Thanks, freedom. But when I try to access it, it says print disabled only. I'll try your links though. I have the paperback, but these old eyes...

I might do that. The heroine's name was Kira, which is my name in Russian. Coincidence? I think not. No, just kidding!

There is an old movie version of WE THE LIVING as well, look up and watch.

Internet Archive is still not working well; I bought the Amazon Kindle version.

The American founding was an English thing. As Brother Parvus remarked at the end of his chronicle:

“...I have remarked that Sir Roger de Tourneville established the feudal system on newly conquered worlds given into his care by the allies. Some latter day mockers of my noble master have implied he did this only because he knew nothing better to do. I refute this. As I said before the collapse of Wersgorixan was not unlike the collapse of Rome and similar problems found a similar answer. His advantage lay in having that answer ready to hand, the experience of many Terrestial centuries.

Europeans began to understand that conflict was not necessary to counter power; parchment barriers would do.

This novel by the way was nominated for a Hugo award in 1961, but was beaten by only one other: "A Canticle for Leibowitz".

thanks for that title. 👍
I enjoy Poul Anderson's writing and I'm downloading it now from its publication in Analog Magazine (in 3 parts July '60 through Sept '60).
Michael Crichton's Timeline might be of interest as its a tale of time travel to the same age (albeit with the restriction of trying not to change history.) I enjoyed that novel a lot, but the movie was a disappointment.

We, the garbage.

I have thought that the homeless people are mostly dropouts that either dont like the stresses of society.

https://archive.org/details/ayn-rand-...
This page has a downloadable pdf that is text keyword searchable.
https://archive.org/download/ayn-rand...

(Note, there are several other pages at http://archive.com that do not have the complete novel.)

Love the quote you posted.;^)

Just one comment and then I've got things to do!

There's so many good competitors for 'rattiest city', wonder how they voted Chicago the best!

In my day, freedom, ads pertaining to medical treatments and medicines were illegal. I think they should still be. For one, a member of 'the masses' sees a commercial for some drug that will do this or that and begs his doctor to prescribe it for him.

Pharmaceutical companies should sell to doctors, not patients.

The name of that novel by Anderson is "The High Crusade".

The 'angry young black man' defense is passe, in the twenty-first century. The angry white men defense may be coming into play---just kidding. But there should definitely be angry white men, and Hollywood and media should be penalized for their portrayal of a reality that doesn't exist.

The TV shows of my youth: the westerns where we knew who were the good guys---the white hats, and the bad guys, along with several farm-type sit-coms were taken off the air completely about 1972 or 1973, in what was knows as 'the rural purge'. Movies like "Deliverance" and "Midnight Cowboy", showing westerners and cowboys as mangy apes were produced instead. Good bluegrass bands like the Dillards were shown or talked about as backwards and dumb.

I think I will post a topic about an SF book written by Poul Anderson in 1960 that I find is needed to help white folks 'unburden' themselves of the unearned guilt imposed on them by the Left.

Rand said, in We the Living: "The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt".

Hollywood is about as far left and corrupted as one can go.
If you've watched any movies or tv in this century you'll have recognized that
white men are portrayed as evil, murderous, wife-beating, thieving, selfish,
shiftless, child-abusive, rapist, sociopathic, racist, misogynistic, hate-filled,
moronic criminals.
Review the villains in 21st century drama and 99.9% will be white men, even
though the evidence is that a much larger percentage of black men are actually
the perpetrators of such crimes and are more likely to have the traits mentioned.
When a black or brown man is portrayed as a criminal by the entertainment
moguls, invariably he isn't responsible for his actions because he was either
forced to do so by a white man or he had a difficult childhood in a bad
neighborhood where the police always accused blacks of crime without evidence.
Hollywood is at least as guilty of this rubbish as newspapers trying to earn favors
from D.C. corrupt politicians or advertising revenues from Big Pharma.

Perhaps Trump should punish them by banning all advertising by Big Pharma
which would have the effect of cutting tv ad revenues by about 40%.
There's a job for Kennedy.

+1

The media has abused and misused its power to influence. At least Bezos, whether he is lying about his reasons or not, is getting out of the presidential election influencer business.

I believe either the media should be regulating itself, as Hollywood says its doing, or intelligent Americans will stop reading them.

Ya all some kind of special stupid? Priceless!

Wow! Hard to believe it took until Wednesday to see these great Monday memes!! ThanQs Dobrien for taking the time to put these up! Wit and truth. Maybe Tulsi Gabbard (sp?) should have been included in the Thug Hill cover Annie Oakley style. The first meme for me would have the thumb and finger touching. In hurry... gotta go..

If 'endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election' then there was no effect
by the censorship that has been done by Bezos' WaPo, NYT, LATimes, and by
Bezos' fellow billionaires suppressing truth on Facebook, Wikipedia, and LinkedIn,
or by articles representing views opposing the fedgov on http://rt.com. None of the
censorship of the facts about Covid19 or the effective inexpensive treatments for it
or the falsehoods published regarding the so-called vaccine's effectiveness were
needed because people are never affected by published or spoken word.
Bezoz is a lying waste of skin.

For the open-minded:

https://putinspeaks-rt.com/

Found this quote, and it seems appropriate to my experience with the Obamma administration:

"A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment...is not, strictly speaking, a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence."

From We the Living

Particularly, "His own rational judgement."

Here's a good resource link for "We the Living", synopsis and quotes:

https://www.bookey.app/quote-book/we-the-living#Quotes