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Ayn Rand’s Message to America

In 1959 Mike Wallace interviewed Ayn Rand on his program The Mike Wallace Interview. This was Rand’s first major interview on television and came two years after the release of her most prominent work, Atlas Shrugged.

While this video is over 50 years old, the format and content is timeless. Ayn Rand was brilliant in the articulation of her philosophy and her perspective and did an excellent job of engaging Mike Wallace without running him over.


Atlas Society

In this fascinating interview, a young Mike Wallace interviews Ayn Rand, author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. She states that the world is moving towards “disaster” and “destruction” and “complete collectivism” or “socialism.” This she ties to the implementation of the welfare state and its undermining of individual rights. The welfare state is leading us toward a society where “everyone is enslaved to everyone else” she argues. Wallace counters that this system came about democratically. Does Ayn Rand oppose that democratic process? Rand explains that the majority may not vote away inalienable rights: it may not vote away the property, life, or freedom of others. Individual rights are a limit on what the majority may do politically. How then should we move forward? Rand says, by “voluntary cooperation,” “voluntary action,” free from force.

This interview will be of interest to Tea Party activists and libertarians of all stripes, as well as those seeking a quick explanation of Ayn Rand’s political views.

Ayn Rand’s Message to America

 

Jokes Political

Joke Of The Day: Obama At A Primary School

Rubber Chicken Barack Hussein Obama goes to a primary school to talk to the kids.

After his talk he offers question time.

One little boy puts up his hand, and Obama asks him his name.

”Walter,” responds the little boy.

“And what is your question, Walter?”

“I have seven questions”

First, “Why did the USA Bomb Libya without the support of the Congress?”

Second, “Why do you keep saying you fixed the economy when it’s actually Gotten worse?”

Third, “Why did you say that Jeremiah Wright was your mentor, then said That you knew nothing about his preaching and beliefs

Fourth, “Why are we lending money to Brazil to drill for oil, but America is not allowed to drill for oil?”

“Fifth, Why do you continue to cover up the Benghazi scandal?”

“Sixth, Why did you spy on your own U.S. Citizens?”

“And lastly, why did the IRS target Republicans?

Just then, the bell rings for recess.

Obama informs the kiddies that they will continue after recess.

When they resume Obama says, “OK, where were we? Oh, that’s right: question time… Who has a question?”

Another little boy puts up his hand. Obama points him out and asks him his name.

“Steve,” he responds.

“And what is your question, Steve?”

Actually, I have two questions.

First, “Why did the recess bell ring 40 minutes early?”

Second, “What the hell happened to Walter?”

 

 

Information Political

Lois Lerner’s E-mails Still Exist!

Lois Lerner’s E-mails Still Exist!

The Obama administration’s claim that the IRS has “lost” two years of Lois Lerner’s emails, due to a hard drive failure, is unbelievable to anyone who understands how email systems work. Unless the server they actually existed on exploded (and also the redundant server, and also the redundant redundant server) the data is still there, whether Lerner’s personal hard drive failed or not.

From American Thinker:

I have been listening all week to TV pundits lamenting that Lois Lerner’s hard drive has been destroyed, and therefore her e-mails are lost. This is simply not the case. I never cease to be amazed at the lack of understanding of how the e-mail system works.

When you write an e-mail, it goes to your server to be sent to the person you e-mailed. Your server keeps a copy of that e-mail, and of all your e-mails – sent and received. When you create all the folders in your e-mail program that you use to save e-mails in…these are also stored on your server. I use MSN, so my server is an MSN server. My wife uses Gmail, so her server is a Google server. These servers are large machines, and they most often run the Unix operating system.

I have been using and working with Unix basically since its creation at Bell Labs in the ’60s. Unix has several features for doing regular backups – both incremental ones and full backups. On the Unix machine we used in one of my jobs, we created – automatically – daily incremental backups and once a week did a full backup. Back then, we did them to tape, and these tapes were then archived for future use if needed.

Lois Lerner’s e-mails exist on those backup tapes from her server. We kept our tapes for years because the government required us to do so!

Recently, my wife and I changed our e-mail program that runs on our PCs, from Windows Live to Thunderbird. And when we loaded Thunderbird, all of our e-mails and all of our folders we had been using for years to save e-mails in were automatically loaded into the new Thunderbird program. The program got them from the server! They were all there and fully restored.

So Lois Lerner’s hard drive is not the only source for her e-mails. They exist on her server in the archived backups.

When you read your e-mails from your PC, tablet, or smartphone, they are all accessing the e-mails that reside on the server. The only reason you can access them from different devices is because they exist on the server.

We went through this with Al Gore years ago, when he destroyed his PC and supposedly lost his e-mails. It was bogus then, and it’s bogus now.

As I’m typing this, I am listening to the brilliant minds on TV discussing recovering data from crashed hard drives. It makes me crazy.

Update:

From Gateway Pundit:

The IRS first signed a contract with Sonasoft in 2005.

And Sonasoft evened bragged about being the backup servers for the IRS in a 2009 tweet.
Via Peter Suderman at Reason:
Sonasoft

 

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