Ayn, Neal and the world around me...

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Lots of new Adams books listed on E-Bay. 9.8!! Fresh!!

 

It keeps up the onslaught of Bronze age books being plentiful in high grade and it keeps driving down the prices on what is already sitting on the market. Good for the buyer, bad for the seller.

 

So be it. I have learned to be very patient and calculating in my buying. If I can't get the price I want to pay then I can wait until another book comes along. When you collect Adams covers, there is always another book coming down the line either hot off the press or simply one sitting in a OO collection.

 

It can drive you crazy if you track what you paid for a book and then see a up to date pricing; the difference can bring you to tears. I have learned to be strong and patient. I even taught another collector to do the same.

 

Still want them all!!

 

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Is there any reason other than the obvious answer as to why a company would sell a product?

 

Because they believe there is a market for the product. And if there is in fact a consumer, then why would a company, and competing companies not produce more of the product?

 

It confuses me as to why the uproar and anger.

 

 

 

 

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"at all costs and measures, the path lined with more liberty will find me upon it"

 

 

 

If you had a company and you made a widget, a nice one at that and priced it for $10.00 each, that would be good. If they sold in the free market and you were able to employ a few people making and selling these widgets, that would be good.

 

You would realize some profit, I hope, and be able to do with it what you desired; Liberty would hope.

 

What if one day someone knocked on your door and claimed that they represented the organization that takes care of the streets, law and order and fire departments and they declared that you now owed a tithe on that profit of 10%? Would you raise the price to cover the new cost? Would you keep the price the same so as not to scare off the customer base? Would you find a happy medium of less profit and slightly higher price?

 

Does not matter, the free market and a wise mind will find the happy medium. It would punish those that did not best adapt the price to the demand of the consumer. Chances are some would raise the price 10% to cover fully this new grant to the State. Some will keep the price the same and reduce their take home profit and decide to live on less. Most would fall into the category of slightly higher price along with some less profit.

 

What would happen if the same knock at the door came and the declaration was the opposite? What if the decree was that the 10% was going to be reduced to 5%?

 

You can never change the two extremes; some will keep it all and some will drop the price 5%, the full amount. Most would find a happy medium. The consumer would reap the rewards as well as the owner and share holders. Liberty would be put at ease with the citizen; embraced by an egress of levy.

 

 

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" No business opportunity is ever lost. If you fumble it, your competitor will find it."

 

Herbert Swope

 

 

found this on a e-mail....

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In Hoc Anno Domini

 

When Saul of Tarsus set out on his journey to Damascus the whole of the known world lay in bondage. There was one state, and it was Rome. There was one master for it all, and he was Tiberius Caesar.

 

When Saul of Tarsus set out on his journey to Damascus the whole of the known world lay in bondage. There was one state, and it was Rome. There was one master for it all, and he was Tiberius Caesar.

Everywhere there was civil order, for the arm of the Roman law was long. Everywhere there was stability, in government and in society, for the centurions saw that it was so.

 

But everywhere there was something else, too. There was oppression—for those who were not the friends of Tiberius Caesar. There was the tax gatherer to take the grain from the fields and the flax from the spindle to feed the legions or to fill the hungry treasury from which divine Caesar gave largess to the people. There was the impressor to find recruits for the circuses. There were executioners to quiet those whom the Emperor proscribed. What was a man for but to serve Caesar?

 

There was the persecution of men who dared think differently, who heard strange voices or read strange manuscripts. There was enslavement of men whose tribes came not from Rome, disdain for those who did not have the familiar visage. And most of all, there was everywhere a contempt for human life. What, to the strong, was one man more or less in a crowded world?

Then, of a sudden, there was a light in the world, and a man from Galilee saying, Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's.

 

And the voice from Galilee, which would defy Caesar, offered a new Kingdom in which each man could walk upright and bow to none but his God. Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. And he sent this gospel of the Kingdom of Man into the uttermost ends of the earth.

 

So the light came into the world and the men who lived in darkness were afraid, and they tried to lower a curtain so that man would still believe salvation lay with the leaders.

 

But it came to pass for a while in divers places that the truth did set man free, although the men of darkness were offended and they tried to put out the light. The voice said, Haste ye. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness come upon you, for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

Along the road to Damascus the light shone brightly. But afterward Paul of Tarsus, too, was sore afraid. He feared that other Caesars, other prophets, might one day persuade men that man was nothing save a servant unto them, that men might yield up their birthright from God for pottage and walk no more in freedom.

 

Then might it come to pass that darkness would settle again over the lands and there would be a burning of books and men would think only of what they should eat and what they should wear, and would give heed only to new Caesars and to false prophets. Then might it come to pass that men would not look upward to see even a winter's star in the East, and once more, there would be no light at all in the darkness.

 

And so Paul, the apostle of the Son of Man, spoke to his brethren, the Galatians, the words he would have us remember afterward in each of the years of his Lord:

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

 

 

This editorial was written in 1949 by the late Vermont Royster and has been published annually since.

 

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Wii

 

Two kids, wife, steering wheels, screaming, crash, bang, boom.....laughing

 

Good Times

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"How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and totally dissolve; how difficult it has been for mankind, in all ages and countries, to preserve their dearest rights and best privileges, impelled as it were by an irresistible fate of despotism."

 

 

--James Monroe, speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788

 

 

 

[greggy]

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Grades are in:

 

superboy 151 9.2

gi combat 202 9.6

gi combat 168 9.4

lois lane 80 9.6

all-star western 5 9.2

jimmy olsen 121 8.5 ( )

lois lane 90 9.0

lois lane 82 9.4

strange adventures 37 8.0

mark steel 9.8

 

[greggy]

Take a nap and look what happens.

[BustedFlush]

" No business opportunity is ever lost. If you fumble it, your competitor will find it."

 

Herbert Swope

 

"Rockin' the boat's a drag. You gotta sink the boat!"

 

 

Putney Swope

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Take a nap and look what happens.

 

We lost, that is bad.

 

Tebow won, that is good.

 

For me it is good because it will cut into Bill Maher one more little time and his suffering on his crusade is a good thing.

 

Perhaps if Tebow wins the Superbowl, Bill can find a high mountain to contemplate his hatred and leave people alone to be who they feel they should.

 

 

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Billy Jack: "I’m going to take my right foot, and I’m going to whomp you on that (pointing to the left) side of your face, and you know something? There’s not a damn thing you’re going to be able to do about it."

 

 

 

 

 

(tip o the hat to Dicex)

[Logan510]

 

Billy Jack: "I’m going to take my right foot, and I’m going to whomp you on that (pointing to the left) side of your face, and you know something? There’s not a damn thing you’re going to be able to do about it."

 

 

 

 

 

(tip o the hat to Dicex)

 

Did you submit that? Those are not easy to find in that kind of shape

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Did you submit that? Those are not easy to find in that kind of shape

 

Nope, bought it off E-Bay. $99.00

 

I laughed hard after being the only bidder. Neil painted cover, off brand title, 1974....

 

I think I did okay.

 

It is the second 9.8 issue I have bought ( have a #2) for what I consider a good price.

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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

 

--author and theologian C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)

 

 

....for the good of the citizens......

 

 

 

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Magazines in the theme of Adams...

 

Deadly Hands of Kung-fu

 

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Emergency

 

 

 

 

Epic

 

 

 

 

Savage Tales

 

..

 

 

 

Six Million Dollar Man

 

.

 

[Logan510]

Great price on that DHoKF. I love all his magazine covers...all would make great posters

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Did you submit that? Those are not easy to find in that kind of shape

 

Nope, bought it off E-Bay. $99.00

 

I laughed hard after being the only bidder. Neil painted cover, off brand title, 1974....

 

I think I did okay.

 

It is the second 9.8 issue I have bought ( have a #2) for what I consider a good price.

 

You've got to wonder why people start an auction at $99. If they had started it at $0.99, they probably would have sold it for more. Good fortune for you!