The Gateway Objectivist 

The monthly newsletter of the Gateway Objectivists, St. Louis, Missouri 

The Gateway Objectivists’ July Meeting:
Outdoor Fun & Cookout / TOC Seminar Recap

Outdoor fun and activities at Innsbrook are planned for our July meeting. Our hosts Jeff & Joy Kiviat have invited everyone to their cabin at Innsbrook for hiking, canoeing, fishing and a cookout. The activities will start around 4 p.m., with dinner about 6 p.m., followed by Frank Bryan’s informal recap of this week’s Objectivist Center Summer Seminar. In case of bad weather, we’ll have an indoor cookout at 6 p.m., followed by Frank’s presentation.

The fun will be Saturday, July 15, starting at 4 p.m. Call (314) 469-2723 for directions, or look for an email with directions prior to the meeting. Innsbrook is less than an hour from St. Louis on west I-70.

An Educational Journal Club

At our last meeting, everyone presented some interesting recent articles for our Journal Club. Topics included the 1871 Chicago fire from “Ideas on Liberty,” the attack on soy milk as milk in “Reason,” the costs of stadium financing in “Regulation,” the annual world freedom survey in “Navigator,” and essays on the future of human life in the book “Mission to Abisko.”
We also listened to the poignant anti-religious lyrics of the song “Dear God” by the band XTC.

Quotable Quotes from Presidential Hopefuls

“I was raised in the West. The west of Texas. It’s pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close to California.” –George W. Bush

“I understand small business growth. I was one.” –George W. Bush

“We ought to make the pie higher.” –George W. Bush

“We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor like you like to be liked yourself.” –George W. Bush

“It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers on it.” –George W. Bush

“Will the highways on the internet become more few?” –George W. Bush

“Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?” –George W. Bush

“The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history, I mean in
this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t
live in this century.” –Al Gore

“I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have
was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse
with those people.” –Al Gore

“It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities
in our air and water that are doing it.” –Al Gore

“[It’s] time for the human race to enter the solar system.” –Al Gore

"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and
democracy – but that could change.” –Al Gore

“One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and
that one word is ‘to be prepared.’” –Al Gore

“Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.” –Al Gore

“The future will be better tomorrow.” –Al Gore

“We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.” –Al Gore

“I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made.” –Al Gore

“A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the
polls.” –Al Gore

“Democrats understand the importance of bondage between a mother and
child.” –Al Gore

“The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Al
Gore may or may not make.” –Al Gore

“I am not part of the problem. I am a Democrat.” –Al Gore