Yo, Paul Ryan! Atlas Didn't Shrug, She Put Her Hand Out
Kai Frederik Lorentzen
lorentzen at hotmail.de
Wed Jan 26 07:37:38 CST 2011
Having learned about the name Kant long long time before I heard the
word "cunt" (must have
missed that in secondary school), I sometimes ask myself what effect on
native English speakers it has that "cunt" and Kant are pronounced
exactly the same. I mean, for you it's the other way round ...
On 26.01.2011 13:29, Erik T. Burns wrote:
> Phoney Kant, for shure.
>
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
> <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>> Kant's "primacy of pure practical reason", eh?
>>
>> What a phony cunt she was ...
>>
>> On 26.01.2011 05:34, Dave Monroe wrote:
>>> Critics of Social Security and Medicare frequently invoke the words
>>> and ideals of author and philosopher Ayn Rand, one of the fiercest
>>> critics of federal insurance programs. But a little-known fact is that
>>> Ayn Rand herself collected Social Security. She may also have received
>>> Medicare benefits.
>>>
>>> An interview recently surfaced that was conducted in 1998 by the Ayn
>>> Rand Institute with a social worker who says she helped Rand and her
>>> husband, Frank O’Connor, sign up for Social Security and Medicare in
>>> 1974.
>>>
>>> Federal records obtained through a Freedom of Information act request
>>> confirm the Social Security benefits. A similar FOI request was unable
>>> to either prove or disprove the Medicare claim.
>>>
>>> Between December 1974 and her death in March 1982, Rand collected a
>>> total of $11,002 in monthly Social Security payments. O’Connor
>>> received $2,943 between December 1974 and his death in November
>>> 1979.[..]
>>>
>>> The couple registered for benefits shortly after Rand, a
>>> two-pack-a-day smoker, had surgery for lung cancer in the summer of
>>> 1974. Medicare had been enacted nine years earlier in the Social
>>> Security Act of 1965 to provide health insurance to those age 65 and
>>> older....
>>>
>>>
>>> http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/yo-paul-ryan-atlas-didnt-shrug-she-pu
>>>
>>> Ayn Rand Received Social Security, Medicare
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.patiastephens.com/2010/12/05/ayn-rand-received-social-security-medicare/
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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