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Hi all. Here’s an empty Reader Tips thread, because sometimes, silence is the best music of all.
Kate’s away for a couple of weeks and I’m going to be busy myself. Chances of there being an SDA News Alert! post for Breaking News! are slim. Any posts that come up will have been scheduled the day/night previous and or catch-ups from the day if I feel like wasting my evenings perusing content for you.
So use the Reader Tips threads as those will probably be where I’ll also be getting links.
Cheers,
lance

65 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  2. Hi Joe,
    Thanks for the link. But as a matter of courtesy, it would be great if you (and others who provide links that are interesting to them) would take a minute to provide a sentence or two: subject; key points; conclusion; etc.
    Thanks in advance.

  4. The Anti-Intellectuality of Donald Trump: Why Ayn Rand Would Have Despised a President Trump
    “The self-centeredness that an amoralist exhibits, Rand holds, is centered on self-doubt; he therefore exhibits a constant and pathetic need to be loved, to be seen as a big shot and as the greatest ever. Observe Trump’s steady refrain that he’s accomplishing feats no other president has or could, Washington, Madison and Lincoln included. ”
    https://ari.aynrand.org/issues/culture-and-society/more/The-Anti-Intellectuality-of-Donald-Trump-Why-Ayn-Rand-Would-Have-Despised-a-President-Trump#filter-bar?utm_source=arimosaic&utm_medium=tiles&utm_term=20171107&utm_campaign=aria

  11. Clearly the author of that piece is a mystic who can channel the dead…..
    Is there anything worse than an opinion piece that pretends to know the opinion of a dead person, and most especially an opinion about a person that the dead person did not know.
    Is there anything more “self centered” and “anti-intellectual” than to be lectured by such a person ….. a rather obscure person pretending to know what a rather famous person would believe if alive today?
    I feel confident that if I was ambitious enough I could turn the entire argument 180 degrees and make it seem that Ayn Rand would adore Trump. But I’m not and so I won’t.
    Academia today is full of asshats like this. The fact that he works for some “think tank” trying to capitalize on Aynn Rand’s name doesn’t make him less of an asshat but instead rather more of one.

  12. Re: ”Observe Trump’s steady refrain that he’s accomplishing feats no other president has or could, Washington, Madison and Lincoln included. ”
    I believe that’s known as narcissism. We have those in our family, including my own mother. My cousin describes them so well. He says, ”Those people [narcissists] get up in the morning, and within a minute or so, they’re going through their day believing that everyone in the world is focused on them [narcissists] and nothing else occupies the minds of their perceived admirers.” (End of quote.)
    Of course when you’re the president of the United States, and you believe that you have all those admirers, it’s hard not to be observed, especially by the media.
    My mother (who was 78 at the time) had an appointment with an eye specialist in the city. Not a big deal, a 6 month visit following cataract surgery by a very competent Doc. All went well at the Doc’s, my vehicle, my gas and my time away from work, so I dropped her off at her sister’s apartment. I had a 20 minute rendezvous with a friend at Tim Hortons. My mother was retired from work, there was no hurry, I was back at my aunt’s (total opposite of my mother) apartment in 40 minutes.
    We were driving on the main street of that city when she started screaming at me. I tried to reason with her, that it was my vehicle, and the reason I was driving her to the city was because there was no one else who would take the time. She kept on with personal insults against me, my kids (who were nowhere near there) etc. What saved my day was the police station that was located on the corner beside the stop light. I looked at her and said, ”One more word out of you, and I’m pulling in there, and you’re off to the psyche ward.” Then she shut up. Of course within a few days, she was off on another tangent with one of my sisters. She’s still the same today.
    You can’t send the president of the USA to the psyche ward. Trump is a person who most likely comes from an abusive home, was never taught humility and understanding of others, so he turned into a total narcissist. The hair, the abuse of dozens of persons around him, the constant craving for attention, the constant hunger for wealth and the army of people surrounding him just to cover for his gaffes points to one thing. Narcissism. Not good for the people who live under his rule, and not good for the USA!!.

  13. It’s why the Texas killer gunman was able to have guns when he wasn’t supposed to.
    The left keep screaming about more gun laws whenever they get the chance.
    But are unable to implement the laws that already exist on the books.
    It’s precisely the reason in that article that the killer got away with what he did.
    If the Obama administration had done their job like they were supposed to then there’a a good chance that demon would be in jail and those church goers would still be alive.

  14. RE: “Observe Trump’s steady refrain that he’s accomplishing feats no other president has or could, Washington, Madison and Lincoln included. ”
    I hope you do realize that this is not a Trump quote, that Trump never said that he’s “accomplishing feats no other president has or could, etc”. It’s a quote from the author of the opinion piece.

  16. That article likely comes pretty close to what Rand would have thought of Trump. Rand didn’t have much use for many politicians, She disliked SoCons and pro-lifers, dismissing them as mystics. She ironically despised libertarians despite having inspired generations of them. She wrote about liking Senator Henry M. (Scoop) Jackson from Washington State, a Democrat with a mixed record on various issues but a staunch anti-communist and foreign affairs hawk. When it came to politics, Rand was not the sort that could tolerate a big tent. It was Her way or the highway!

  17. The guy puts his name in giant gold letters on the sides of his buildings. The only thing missing is a name similar to Frank O’Connor, or he’d be the protagonist of an overly-long rather pedantic novel.

  18. You lost me Ed. Frank O’Connor, the husband of Ayn Rand?
    Howard Roark, the main character in The Fountainhead seems more apropos. Like Trump, he accepted no second handers and was proud of his creations.

  19. hay Unthing, ewe dew know that most politicians, business leaders , ministers and other such “top of their field” types are narcissists, and psychopaths. Also most people miss-use the term psychopath. They should be using sociopath when they use psychopath. Now, pathetic A-holes like you who try to define others by your own limited understanding of human behavior are simply defining yourself.

  20. I laughed when I heard this. Syria has a CO2 budget? The only thing stupider is this Canadian winker praising the move. What fairyland does she live in?
    Export even more climate hype as the next junket in Paris looms in December.

  21. Yeah, she named a couple of characters after her husband: Dominique Francon and Francisco d’Anconia. The point is Trump is a builder who puts his name on everything he does. Rand wrote protagonists just like him.

  22. PET POT Cemetery Report.
    “And Trudeau will likely be in bed.”
    Liberal Justine RIP.
    …-
    “On our 11th hour of the 11th day, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will likely be asleep
    One should not visit the sins of the father upon the son, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is now off to Vietnam, flying there in the slipstream of U.S. President Donald Trump’s own trip.
    This means Trudeau will not be at the War Memorial in Ottawa on Saturday, or placing a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, when our world stops for a few brief moments on Remembrance Day to honour the sacrifices made by past and present generations to ensure the freedoms we enjoy today.
    This troubles me to no end.
    I have tried to shake the mental image of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, our PM’s father, riding his motorcycle around Montreal during the Second World War, and wearing a German military helmet from the war that would supposedly end all wars, all when old enough to take up arms like my father did, and his brothers, too.
    But it’s been impossible.”
    “If our somewhat older prime minister is “more aware of our place in the world,” and has a “greater appreciation of sacrifice,” then he should be home on Remembrance Day.
    Instead, on our 11th hour of the 11th day, it will be nearing midnight a half a world away in Vietnam and the Philippines.
    And Trudeau will likely be in bed.”
    http://cnews.canoe.com/CNEWS/Canada/2017/11/06/22763224.html

  23. MAGA.
    Liberal’s heads implode: It’s not fair.
    …-
    “Trump Year One: Six major moments in a tumultuous time
    Wednesday marks a year since Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, and it’s just as strange now as it was then.” (g-m)
    …-
    “Dow’s Rally from Trump’s Election Breaks Postwar Records”
    “As America approaches the one-year anniversary of the election of Donald Trump, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is on target to book its best annual performance under a first-term president when measured from Election Day.
    The Dow is up by around 29 percent since Trump’s November 8 election victory over Hillary Clinton. That’s the best post-election, one-year performance for a first-term president since Franklin Roosevelt’s in 1932.”
    http://www.breitbart.com/economics/2017/11/07/dows-rally-from-trumps-election-breaks-postwar-records/

  24. Ayn Rand would have loved Donald Trump. In her own words…
    “My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”
    Trump has his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life. He became a billionaire, married a beautiful and intelligent woman, has raised a successful family and is now President of the world’s most dominant democracy.
    Ayn Rand would have loved Trump. Now Barack Obama, not so much. She would have hated Vladimir Putin having fled communism in 1925. She would have loved Bill Clinton and hated Hillary Clinton, the latter for always blaming others for her failures.
    Most people (like UnMe) confuse style with substance because they are unfamiliar with substance, so they only see style.

  26. What do you think the odds are that the Russians have hacked Steven Hawkings computer and are now using his persona to steer public opinion?

  27. Why is TSN and the NHL regionalizing our national game? Channels I pay for are blacked out at game time. No guarantee that paying more for Centre Ice will fix it. Before recommending how I can spend even more to get games I want to watch, please explain why this is occurring because the RHL won’t. The RHL and TSN appear to be trying to force me into being a Leaf fan even tough I am about a thousand miles from Toronto.

  28. Muslim College Student Who Lied About Trump Supporters Attacking Her On NY Subway Pleads Guilty
    On Friday, Yasmin Seweid, 19, the Muslim college student at Baruch College who lied to police, telling them she had been harassed on the New York subway by white men who attempted to seize her hijab, pleaded guilty to falsely reporting an incident and disorderly conduct.
    Seweid had claimed the incident occurred on the No. 6 train on Dec. 1, 2016. She told The New York Daily News that three drunk white men screamed “Donald Trump!” and hurled anti-Islam slurs at her, then tried to rip her hijab off of her head.
    http://www.dailywire.com/news/23278/muslim-college-student-who-lied-about-trump-hank-berrien

  29. *
    “unme shrieks… Anti-Intellectuality of Donald Trump
    some more vintage unme…
    “The only outrage here is the continued persecution of people for
    committing non-crime such as drug dealing and owning guns.”
    unme, sweetie… i thought you be embarrassed to show your face
    after mounting a defense of canada’s biggest opiod dealer ever.
    *

  30. Good for the Dow especially in light of what all the doom and gloom people predicted but sometimes the Dow is not a good historical indicator of how the economy is doing. Take for example the Dow’s 50% record increase after FDR’s 1932 election. The stock market had completely collapsed in October 1929 and the next 3 years weren’t much better. By 1937 the economy wasn’t doing much better than pre-1932 even after all the New Deal record government spending by the FDR admin. The economy didn’t really recover until the massive spending on war materiel started to have an affect.

  32. AGW RIP.
    MAGA:
    “President Trump’s announcement that the United States is to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement is historic.”
    …-
    “Excerpt: Exposing the totalitarian roots of the climate industrial complex
    Rupert Darwall: The U.S. is the only advanced country to have rejected targets and timetables in a climate change treaty”
    “Despite being Europe’s premier industrial economy, German culture harbours an irrational, nihilistic reaction against industrialization, evident before and during the Nazi era. It disappeared after Hitler’s defeat and only bubbled up again in the terrorism and antinuclear protests of the 1970s and the formation of the Green Party in 1980.
    German eco-ideas found their way across the Atlantic, where they fed progressives’ attack on capitalism, targeting its most concrete manifestation — the modern corporation. In the 1940s, the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter identified the corporation’s vulnerability in his prediction that capitalism would be the cause of its own downfall.
    Environmentalism — the belief that mankind’s activities threaten the survival of both humanity and the planet — found a receptive audience in boardrooms and among those to whom business leaders turn to tell them what is important.
    Concern about global warming became hardwired into elite thinking just as America was on the cusp of becoming the world’s hydrocarbon superpower.
    President Trump’s announcement that the United States is to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement is historic.”
    http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/excerpt-exposing-the-totalitarian-roots-of-the-climate-industrial-complex

  33. @Ruth: I laughed (very clever). But maybe …… The weirdness of his pronouncements is baffling.

  34. I think you have badly misread Trump. You are believing too much of the nasty media spin on Trump. He is not a narcissist. He is an egotist (ala Teddy Roosevelt). Egotists are often larger than life, so they may come off as braggarts, but usually there is substance behind their bragging. Trump is not exclusively focused on himself. He often is very effervescent in his complimentary remarks about others (“Great guy, wonderful people, etc.” — unlike the “You didn’t build that,” cynic — the REAL narcissist.) Trump is known to have helped underdogs at various times. Trump is very supportive of his family. I believe he had a warm relationship with his parents. He was devastated when his mother was attacked by thugs. When he mentions his father, he is very respectful. Naturally, he gets a lot of attention, but according to Conrad Black, Trump is gentlemanly and respectful. You need to look at some early interviews with Trump (when he was a younger person) to get a better sense of him and his values.

  36. Trump puts his name on buildings? Sure. It’s called branding. And others pay good money to have his name put on their buildings. Is something wrong with Ford, Chevrolet, or Dodge? Labatt’s or Molson’s?

  37. Of course I meant “speech in South Korea” — but he includes some interesting remarks addressed to North Korea.

  40. Seriously?
    Judy Sgro: The veteran mentor
    Macleans gives award to former immigration minister behind Strippergate and Pizzagate. She mentored Trudeau and Morneau well. When in trouble just claim that the matter is before the Ethics Commissioner. We need term limits in this country.

  41. You have no idea what you’re talking about. RTFA
    Oh btw the GOP got shellacked yesterday in various races. It was one thing to lose NJ another to lose Virginia. Further, there were four county-level races in PA for positions like treasurer, coroner, etc that have been GOP-held for 150 years-until yesterday. It wasn’t even close. This is the future. Trump kills everything he touches. Nancy Pelosi will get her old job back in 14 months.

  42. Blah, blah, blah. You are reading too much into these election results. These are largely Democratic states, and in Virginia, the Republicans were competitive. I would hardly call this a “shelacking”.

  45. MAGA.
    …-
    “Peter Foster: How Trump saved freedom and democracy from the Climate Industrial Complex
    The U.S. was a problem for the green global governors because of that picky Constitution
    Donald Trump as saviour not just of American democracy but global freedom? One can imagine tall foreheads exploding everywhere at such a thought. Although he doesn’t express it quite that strongly, this is one inevitable conclusion from Rupert Darwall’s tremendous new book, Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex.
    That’s because Trump, by abandoning the Paris climate agreement, and reversing his predecessor’s attempts to bypass Congress on environmental matters, has heaved a mighty wrench into the European-based thrust to impose global bureaucratic “governance” under the pretext of saving the world from climate catastrophe.
    Beyond all the blather about Trump’s presidency representing the triumph of redneck ignorance and deplorable racism — and whatever Trump’s personal shortcomings — Darwall notes that one of the main reasons for his victory was that the American left had abandoned working people in pursuit of identity politics and radical environmentalism.
    “From being the voice of working people,” writes Darwall, “the Democratic Party has become the political arm of the Climate Industrial Complex,” an unholy alliance of bureaucrats, NGOs, green corporate rent-seekers and Silicon Valley “oligarchs.” With additional funding (as they like to say on PBS) from a raft of mega-billion-dollar foundations built on capitalist success but seemingly dedicated to destroying capitalism.”
    http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/peter-foster-how-trump-saved-freedom-and-democracy-from-the-climate-industrial-complex

  47. Obviously UnMe has never read Ayn Rand’s writings(s) or UnMe-He/She- would understand Ayn Rand as foretelling Donald Trump as John Galt and the retreat to a Fresh New America–sans Democrat/Liberal corrupting influence — is epitomized as Make America Great Again.
    Y’all understand UnMe? People working for their own wherewithal and strengthening the community in doing so.

  48. Excellent rejoinder,David. Thank you.
    My belief is (ahem) that IF Hitler were alive today,he’d LOVE absolutely love Hillary Clinton. I won’t bother to flit about the campuses lecturing on this as I’d probably get the Shapiro treatment or they’d burn the place down,which might be an improvement.
    I DO know that Idi Amin would despise Hillary Clinton for surpassing his body count.

  49. I only want to point out that the Democrats won STATE races which were not really a surprise considering the background factors in NJ and Virginia. Local politics. Yes, I would have preferred another result but is it really a set back for the President’s agenda?
    Now look at Utah. Who was elected on the Federal level? This is the one that counts for the President.
    “Curtis supports a border wall, Trump’s Supreme Court nominees and Republicans’ tax plan. He also wants ObamaCare to be repealed.”
    The Democrats would like you to believe that they’re back on a winning tack but really, are they? Oh, Mike Duggan, Democrat, was elected mayor of Detroit too. My,my color me surprised.

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