Article Archives by Subject: Administrative
Happy New Year
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Subject: Happy New Year
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Here's wishing everyone a joyful, prosperous and freer life in 2014.
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Merry Xmas |
Subject: Happy Holidays
I'm working on a complex post-election piece, but it just doesn't
seem fair to pollute the holiday season with that sort of thing, so
I'll save it until the new year and instead simply wish that everyone
enjoys a wonderful Christmas season. All the best to you, your
family and your friends. See you again in 2013!
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Fun in the Sun Bora Bora |
Subject: Back on the Clock....
I would like to tell you that my long absence from these pages was due
to something dramatic, such as a tragic illness, or involvement in acts
of international intrigue, or possibly even an important work
assignment which exhausted all of my time. But alas, the truth is
that I was merely screwing around — albeit in a really nice part
of the world!
It was my great fortune to fly down to Tahiti, where I helped
a friend leisurely sail his 60 foot catamaran
through French Polynesia,
then across the Pacific to the very remote Suwarrow Atoll, and from
there, further west to the Vava'u island group in
the Kingdom of Tonga.
But all of that is a story for another day.
In the meantime, while I checked out of all manner of contact with the
civilized (and I use that word very loosely) world for six weeks, I
left all of you in charge of things and you seem to have done a
credible job of management, as I found just about everything —
with the exception of Muammar Gaddafi — still reasonably intact.
And by the way, very nice job on your handling of the
spot price of gold while I was gone. Excellent work!
But whoa, what happened regarding the federal debt ceiling? I thought
we had agreed that we were not going to raise that sucker any further?
Seriously folks, I'm running out of space on the right for any more
digits!
So it appears that there is much to be done, and soon I will be back
to my old crotchity self, railing against lies, injustice and the
unconstitutional way. But before I jump back in, I want to share my
positive review of an excellent new novel, Hunter, written by
Robert Bidinotto, that I had the opportunity to read during my travels,
and which I highly recommend.
And no, you haven't heard the last of me! :-) |
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They're Not All in D.C.! |
Subject: Gone Fishin'
The author is playing hooky and this blog will be on hiatus until
mid-September. In the meantime, keep an eye on those folks in
Washington and hold their feet to the fire if — oops, I mean
when they start getting uppity again. Unfortunately, that
shouldn't take too long!
If you want to give these congresscritters a piece of your mind,
click on the following image for a list of all of their email
contact forms and phone numbers.
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MIA |
Subject: Missing in Action This blog has been quiet for the past six weeks or so, due to a month long trip to Asia, coupled with pre and post-trip activity. However, now returned, fully rested and recuperated, I intend to get back to writing commentary on current events. To kick things off, in the next post I will begin with a look at a talk given by David Evans on the story behind global warming. Stay tuned. |
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Blog Update |
Subject: The Times They Are A Changing!
After an extended summer hiatus—allowing for a complete redesign
of the John Galt Pledge Blog—it is finally back up and running,
new and improved, better than ever, all shiny and squeaky clean.
And now, with improved taste and 35% fewer calories!
As you can see above, the blog has been renamed, and now resides at
a new web address:
Old master links to the blog will continue to work, automatically
forwarding you to this new location, but I strongly recommend
creating a new bookmark directly to this page. Unfortunately, any
previous links to individual articles on the old blog will no longer
work. All past articles have been migrated forward and each one has
been assigned a new Permalink (see the box to the left of each
article) that points to a separate page for just that article. If you
have previously referenced any of these articles, please locate them
here and update the links. These new Permalinks should be good
for the foreseeable future.
So what's new:
&mdash Jeff |
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Public Forum |
Subject: Invitation to a New Discussion Forum at Go-Galt.org
A new public bulletin board has just been added to the go-galt.org
website. This forum is intended as a place for discussions relating
to current events and political issues, from an Objectivist
(e.g. libertarian) perspective. I would like to invite anyone
interested in participating in these discussions to sign up and
join in. Click here
to visit the forum.
This is a set of introductory discussion categories to get things
started:
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Merry Christmas |
Subject: Happy Holidays
Dear Readers:
Have a Merry Christmas and a Wonderful New Year!
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Subject: Send in You Sightings If any reader of this blog runs across a story relating to mandatory community or national service which they believe would be of general interest to others, please send me a note pointing to the article. Thanks for your interest and participation. |
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Subject: Updates to the Web Site A reader made the excellent suggestion that I should provide reciprocal links to other sites that link to or write about mine. This is something that I should have done long ago — but better late than never. At the end of the main page I have added a section titled Sites Promoting This Initiative which feature those individuals or organizations. I want to extend a huge thanks to each of you that has undertaken the initiative to do this. It means a great deal to me. There may be others of you out there, who I am unaware of, that have also promoted this site. Please send me a note and I will add a link for you as well. |
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Subject: Additional Revisions to the Website At the excellent suggestion of a reader, I have rearranged the main page to move the pledge form up to the top where it is easier to locate, rather than being buried within the text near the bottom. And I have rearranged this page as well to get the current blog posts right up at the top where they should have been from the start. Hey, its a learning process! |
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Subject: A Small Change to the Pledge Text
Due to comments from a few reader, I made a very small change to
the text of the pledge, simply to make it easier to parse and
therefore, a bit more readable. To shorten the single run-on
sentence and make the last point clearer, I changed:
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Subject: Website Updates At the request of various readers, the the pledge form has been modified to allow the country to be specified. If the country is the United States, then the state will be recorded as well. If anyone previously entered their name from a non-US country, their entry will display as OTHER. If you email me your country of origin, I will update the record to reflect that information. I have also added buttons on the main page to access this blog page and made a few other minor cosmetic changes. |
