The demented chain-smoking, serial killer admiring, Christian mocking, humanity hating, verbose crazed writer and supposed philosopher Ayn Rand's sick influence continues to pollute our everyday world in head-shaking ways. It isn't bad enough that her unhinged views are introduced each year into our public schools via essay contests sponsored by the Ayn Rand Institute, a vile right-wing propaganda hate center. Why these books are allowed in our public schools is a good question to ask school boards. I find it fascinating that the Ayn Rand Institute is a non-profit (503 c) agency which is a hilarious contradiction to those in the know about her naïve free-market rants presented in her books, essays and Objectivism bullshit philosophy. The big, bad free market dolts are a non-profit? Oh, it is all too much for a rational mind to comprehend.
I howl aloud when I see some poor Tea Party twit holding a sign like Where Is John Galt? (A take-off on the first line of Atlas Shrugged-Who is John Galt?-a book she claimed was more important than the Bible.) She would shrug the guy off as a “second-rater” or “parasite.” I love it when I hear an evangelistic Christian parroting her free marketing drivel since she was a proud atheist, pro-choice and mocked the right-wing especially during the Reagan years. But most liberals are aware of these things, so I will move on to share the latest news.
I will never purchase or eat an Arby's sandwich again. Not that I was ever much of a customer. I make certain that I only spend money on businesses that I support. I would never write a check or give a donation to the Nazi Party which most people wouldn't do either. But I take it to the extreme. I never buy a thing at the Super Wal-Mart that now exists to torment me a mere three blocks away. I refuse to have a bank account of any kind. I have only a pre-paid credit card. I haven't driven a car in over a year. I was once a frequent visitor to Arizona but will never spend any money there again until the citizens start taking some reasonable medications. Now I am adding several other things to my list of items I will never purchase. Arby's was purchased by the Roark Capital Group recently. So what? Here's what.
The Meaning of Roark
Roark Capital Group was named after Howard Roark, the protagonist in Ayn Rand's classic The Fountainhead.
For much of the book, Roark's unwavering commitment to his style of architecture put him at odds with the people in power and thus the people who influenced public opinion. While many of his peers altered their architectural designs to gain public approval and fame, Roark was always true to himself and his work, refusing to succumb to conventional wisdom. By the end of the book, the former architectural elite are exposed as frauds, and Howard Roark is discovered as a true visionary.
Integrity, according to Ayn Rand, is commitment to one's own thinking and one's own mind. If a man sincerely believes a claim to be true, then he must hold to this belief even though society opposes him. He must think independently and form values that he never sacrifices. Howard Roark's life exemplified the true nature of this independence and integrity.
Roark Capital Group's investment style and business philosophy is meant to emulate the life of Howard Roark. We hope to invest in outstanding companies in partnership with exceptional operating executives, regardless of conventional wisdom or the latest trend. Further, Roark Capital Group will support its portfolio companies and its management partners, in good times and bad, as long as the fundamental long-term opportunity remains intact. In the end, this patient, independent approach, will generate superior risk adjusted investment returns for Roark Capital Group.
http://www.roarkcapital.com/...
New owners
Roark Capital Group is buying a majority stake in Arby's. It also announced yesterday that it's buying Il Fornaio (America) Corp., owner of Corner Bakery Caf and Il Fornaio Restaurants and Bakeries. A look at the other companies in Roark's portfolio:
Auntie Anne's
Atkins
Batteries Plus
Bosley's
Carvel
Cinnabon
CyberCore
Technologies
Fastsigns
GFL
McAlister's Deli
Moe's Southwest Grille
Money Mailer
NSA Services
Peachtree Business Products
Pet Valu
PSC Info Group
Schlotzsky's
Seattle's Best Coffee
Waste Pro
Wing Stop
Source: Roark Capital Group
A billion dollar company based on a character from a book that only a teen-age mind could find inspiring. In the company's explanation they left out that Howard Roark blew up a housing development that he designed because he was a bit too emotional. This detail is fantastic as Rand mocked emotions and feelings. She lectured her cult of Dreamos eaters to follow only reason yet one of her main characters gets all pissing about not getting his way and impulsively destroys one of his creations.
Any company that would name themselves after a character that oozed out of Ayn Rand's morbid mind is not only suspect but guilty in my world. No more Seattle's Best Coffee for me. No Atkin's Diet products or Pet Valu items either. We liberals want change and to help the poor. Ayn Rand is the Anti-Christ of those who want to help those in need. Everything that she believed is the exact opposite of everything I have worked for the last 43 years. This devil's cum stain actually preached that being selfish was a virtue as if humans ever needed some encouragement to be more self-absorbed.
We vote and work to make our world a better place. We like to help those who trip in life. Ayn Rand believers mock those who trip for not watching where they're going. This company will do just fine without my support and my actions are symbolic. Perhaps you are interested in being symbolic too. The rats in my home are anorexic but I still refuse to give any of my meager funds to immoral people like those misguided fools that run this Roark Capital Group. That is my judgment and I am sticking to it.
Now, I hope that you will give me a break if you choose to comment and consider that I am under a bunch of stress living in a state where the governor is named Butch and the only thing that they could think to put on our license plates was: Famous Potatoes. In short, I am surrounded by idiots and they are closing in.