Hey There!

I suppose I'll begin my blogging career by posting a bit about myself and what this blog is about.

My name is AnnaMay, and I live in Beautiful British Columbia; home of lumberjacks, snow-capped mountains, and an exasperating political situation. I have a keen interest in free-market capitalism, atheism, and overall libertarianism, which clearly comes in conflict with the socialistic undertones in Canadian politics.

I hope to spread knowledge of and appreciation for the middle-of-the-road libertarian standpoint. The strict right-left politics of North America needs to change, in a time where we have less and less freedom every day, where more money is taken from hard-working citizens and put into stifled, inefficient, bureaucratic government programs based on need rather than what one deserves.

With that in mind, I plan to cater to my fellow atheists, in the hope that some will see beyond the strict liberalism which seems to be the norm among academics, intellectuals, and atheists alike.

I'll wrap this up with a few of my favourite quotes from Ayn Rand's book, Atlas Shrugged.

"So you think that money is the root of all evil?" said Francisco d'Aconia. "Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?"
http://www.awgibbs.com/money.html

...if devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.... the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.