Bottle of Wine

The cat is back 

That's why I said chess.com flies their servers over to Haiti once a year. 

Working Class Hero 

"A 'right' is a moral principle defining and sanctioning a man’s freedom of action in a social context.  There is only one fundamental right (all the others are its consequences or corollaries): a man’s right to his own life.  Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action; the right to life means the right to engage in self-sustaining and self-generated action—which means: the freedom to take all the actions required by the nature of a rational being for the support, the furtherance, the fulfillment and the enjoyment of his own life.  (Such is the meaning of the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.)

The concept of a 'right' pertains only to action—specifically, to freedom of action.  It means freedom from physical compulsion, coercion or interference by other men.

Thus, for every individual, a right is the moral sanction of a positive—of his freedom to act on his own judgment, for his own goals, by his own voluntary, uncoerced choice.  As to his neighbors, his rights impose no obligations on them except of a negative kind: to abstain from violating his rights.

The right to life is the source of all rights—and the right to property is their only implementation.  Without property rights, no other rights are possible.  Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life.  The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave.

Bear in mind that the right to property is a right to action, like all the others: it is not the right to an object, but to the action and the consequences of producing or earning that object.  It is not a guarantee that a man will earn any property, but only a guarantee that he will own it if he earns it.  It is the right to gain, to keep, to use and to dispose of material values.

The Right to the Pursuit of Happiness means man’s right to live for himself, to choose what constitutes his own private, personal, individual happiness and to work for its achievement, so long as he respects the same right in others.  It means that Man cannot be forced to devote his life to the happiness of another man nor of any number of other men.  It means that the collective cannot decide what is to be the purpose of a man’s existence nor prescribe his choice of happiness.

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion—when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing—when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors—when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you—when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice—you may know that your society is doomed."

John Lennon and ayn rand? Do they even mix? 

Title reminded the bunny of the misheard line "got a bottle in my home"

As always - many thanks. Batgirl rules.

No more wine for you.

Just stay away from drinking the kool-aid.

Rights are important but irrelevant in a thread about a bottle of wine, Tom Paxton and some fireballs.

 "(those critics should be alive today)"? Excellent! Thank you for the from-the-gut laugh, I needed one.

The mod-edited quote contained criticism but nothing objectionable or against the posting rules (at least no more so than 10,000 other not-edited posts) or the ToS.   This is an example of censorship (editing what you don't like) in the name of moderating (and I'm all for moderating according to the rules and policies).   

LOL - she was a real firecracker :-) I love this post!!

As always - many you're welcomes. 

Catbernet Sauvignon?

Being an admirer of good wine I find it hard to look past a good claret, Chateauneuf du Pape, or gods own choice of Amarone.

As always in my opinion the bottle is always half full...........

Nothing like a good Mad Dog 20/20.  2019 was a very good year.

Mmmm..........no thanks.

Appreciate good USA  wines , but hard to find in Europe .

Must try Screaming Eagle one day........as long as someone else pays for it !🍷

this is kinda off topic but @batgirl what happened to your moderator status?