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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

>>What are your thoughts on the works of Ayn Rand?

Listened to Fountainhead in audio book and was incredibly bored. If someone has a philosophical point to make, write a short sweet paragraph and I’ll think about the point. But a whole book...

On a train trip, I read 6-8 books a day, so reading is breathing to me, but I just couldn’t get into her. Also couldn’t get into the Anne Rice vampire books. On the other hand, W.E.B. Griffin - have read and listened to each book probably over 5x each.


374 posted on 01/07/2020 8:20:17 AM PST by mairdie (Trump Memes - I Won't Back Down (Stand My Ground) - Tom Petty - https://youtu.be/YfFrzMOMkR8)
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To: mairdie

Try approaching Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged as entertainment instead of “philosophical value”.
You may have been biased by your presuppositions.

Same with Animal Farm. It’s simply good literature with underlying meaning. You suss it out AFTER you read it.


375 posted on 01/07/2020 8:25:52 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (The Republican Party: Freeing Americans since 1865.)
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To: mairdie

Thoughts on DRAFT pull-out switcheroo letter.

Staffer leaving makes letter look like a canary trap. What if the letter actually protects the staffer from courts-martial (where info would come out...). What if the REAL crime were something more heinous?

What if the staffer was the leak to the NYT article about hyper-sonic missiles taking out Salami-guy? Note all the inconsistencies that have been pointed out...


391 posted on 01/07/2020 9:20:58 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (The Republican Party: Freeing Americans since 1865.)
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