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Of course they won't vote to fund it.
She looks like she could pull a train.
And HAS!
Which one is the train?
Reminds me of that line by James Howell:
One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.
Don't care. All my energy and all my hopeful thoughts are with the Egyptian people tonight. Am I a sap? Of course; I am a bleeding heart, dyed in the wool, blood transplant at birth liberal. Long live liberty! Suck it repugs.
Me, too, but I figure their new military overlords will smell not so much like teen spirit.
One small step….
The Egyptian people changed their country through determined yet peaceful protest and resistance. Every type of Egyptian stood together on this. I hope this spirit continues through into the establishment of a representational government with free elections.
And please, Allah, spare them from the hanging chad and a sandbagging supreme court.
Jeddah Bush and Mohammed Cheney are waiting in the wings. Hosni Mubarak needs a tax cut!
Better yet, I hope we get that, here, someday, inshallah. But, with the Citizens United ruling, I'm not so sure….
Also suck it Hillary and Obama. They didn't want this to happen either.
That's just total and utter bullshit.
Horse shit. If they had publicly endorsed the protestors at any point before it was 100% certain that they would succeed, then they would have shot themselves in the foot if Mubarak managed to hang on. And if Mubarak decided to spite us, well, there goes the Middle East.
So, no. I want the very best for the Egyptians and hope they end up in a true democracy. But if I had been in charge of US foreign policy over the past two weeks, I would have played it 99% the same as Barry did.
but see, it ties into Egypt because the revolution will of course fail if they don't adopt some Randroid John Galt jerkoff who will let the corporations rule everything. or else the CEO's will get angry and organize & go on strike (i.e. basically do the hateful collective bargaining & organizing of the progressive socialists).
So – part 2 is the speech, right?
Also – thank god this looks as bad as it does. I mean, it'd be really shitty if they actually made a GOOD movie out of this shlock.
Sometimes comic-book novels make great movies, e.g. "The Godfather."
If the Rightards are your target audience, you don't have to aim too high, just keep the story simple and the syllable count low. And no cussing!
Add busty blonds. yea, that looks like a tough one right there on screen.
Would buck you off and dare you to fall back on.
Nope. The second one contains all Ayn Rand's creepy pseudo-rape-but-she-wanted-it scenes. The third is the speech. I hear their reanimating Reagan to play John Galt.
Hey, a $15m budget and a cast of unknowns. Smells like a straight-to-DVD hit to me!
Well, Part 2 takes place in bankruptcy court, because the accountant for the Part one production, in rational self-interest, embezzles the gross receipts.
Yeah I could not BELIEVE that the last 3 seconds of the trailer, where they normally show you the best 3 seconds of the whole movie, are:
Woman: "To a successful business partnership."
Man: "I'll drink to that."
I'd like to go see this movie, but my new telephone books arrived today and I need to read them.
"Maybe you should let me finish speaking!" Maybe the screenwriter should have considered his target audience. I've never seen anyone be able to finish speaking, at least on them right wing talk shows.
Cows, dogs and Negros should be very afraid.
Should have seen it coming.
Not mine; cows and dogs, I mean.
Is that the sequence, I can't remember .. oh yes http://i40.tinypic.com/2ujoa34.jpg
Mike Steele has left the tracks.
Could they not get anyone famous to be in the movie? I don't think I've ever seen any of those actors before, but I am seriously unhip.
Can you imagine the assholes at that movie–geez, all that talking during the movie, eating $20 worth of JuJu Beans, dropping their trash on the floor. I think I'll wait until it goes straight to video.
Um the dude that Don Draper punched cuz Don was banging his wife was in it, but that's all I recognized.
I wish Don Draper could punch this whole movie. I'd pay to watch that.
Don Draper would bang this movie's wife, and then cold cock this straight to video shitshow.
At least they got a Barney Frank knock-off.
I seen dat Barney Frank knock-off somewhere's else. A bit actor, fer sure.
The Black dude was a reject for House's team. House harassed him for being a Mormon. So he's "famous" to the extent that I, a total "House, MD" junkie, remember his face but not his name.
Black people can't be Mormons–just ask Mittens.
The Jackson 5 has a sad.
(It's o.k., they must be used to them by now.)
~
No, the Jackson 5 were something much worse: Jehovah's Witnesses.
I love House! I cheered when Cameron went away. The best episode was when the teen supermodel had extra tackle. I never saw that one coming. Olivia's eye is perfect!
I actually kinda totally saw that one coming, because ER had a patient with the same condition, like three seasons prior. "ER did it first" is totally the "Simpsons did it first" of medical shows.
::Is both a House junkie and recovering ER junkie::
Enngh…did "ER" ever have an atheist junkie as the central character, even in its Clooney days?
Edi Gathegi. He was in that Twilight shit, and I just saw him this weekend watching Life on Mars. I only know this cuz this young chick I know went to school with him.
They have the dude who played the Ferengi (space-Jew) in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and the high-school principal in Buffy. WOW.
Yes, I'm glad Armin Shimmermen is working again. He really put the Jew in space-jew.
Well, Ayn Rand was, more or less, a Ferengi. Well, not the Jew part, which I don't really subscribe to anyway.
They also got the guy who played the corrupt Pegasus XO on Battlestar Galactica. You know, the one who supported a black market (free enterprise!) that included selling kids as sex slaves (who totally should've pulled themselves up by the bootstraps!)
There are some character actors in there that have been in quite a few other movies, that's about it.
So, will the cheap assed Paultards pay to see this in the theater, or wait to watch it for free on cable…either illegal cable or service that's paid for by their parents?
It's in their rational self-interest to download a shitty movie so they don't get buyer's remorse for turning it off after five minutes.
today we are all
egyptiansbusiness people yearning to be free.You know its gonna be good when you read this report in Varsity:
The long-brewing feature version of author Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" has begun shooting in Los Angeles as a $5 million indie produced by John Aglialoro and Harmon Kaslow….Cameras began rolling over the weekend on a five-week shoot for "Atlas Shrugged Part One" with Paul Johansson directing from Brian Patrick O'Toole's script. Aglialoro would have lost the feature rights if the film wasn't in production by Saturday.
"oh no dudes we have to shoot this by the weekend"
We'll shoot it out in the barn, and our Moms can make the costumes!
Fuck it! We'll do it live!
Too bad only Mickey Rooney is still alive. He and Judy could pull it off!
It was born a P.O.S., and a P.O.S. it will always be.
How very sad it is that we can look on the state of our fucked up country, and see how much of the blame for its sorry state of affairs is due entirely to overpaid assholes who bought into this P.O.S. lock, stock, and barrel.
~
Script? We don't need no fucking script! Vamanos! er…shoot!
No time to read the book. We'll just piece the story together from right wing blog posts.
Who's asking? Some greedy asshole who knows what its like to fuck the poor and not let others benefit from public investments of taxes into things like infrastructure and education.
Fixed.
Whaaa. That film stopped me dead in my tracks, but then I realized the CPAC gathering is like a ship of fools and a hotel of idiots.
Needs more space aliens, explosions and boobies.
the invisible hand of the market demands them!
I'm waiting for the detective novel where one by one the attendees of a conservative conference are picked off in exceedingly bizarre ways. The killer turns out to be the queen of the hop, Bichele Machmann, and she's caught and brought down by a wisecracking lesbian TV journalist with too much education.
Is that available as an ebook? Because I would read that.
Space aliens with exploding boobies. Also, lesbians.
I feel that way about pretty much everything.
All right, I watched it. Then I shrugged.
this movie is a documentary, and it was filmed in real time.
Too bad the same filthy fuckers defunded the high-speed rail. Republitards are the stupidest people alive.
Don't you know that making a shitty B-grade movie that will cover costs at the box office only because retarded ideological puritans will see it twelve times a piece is the very definition of pure capitalism? Celebrate America!
They'll see it twelve times when it comes to cable.
To be honest, I long for a return to the old studio system. Maybe it was monopolistic, maybe it underpaid deserving talents, but I think the best American films came out of that system, and watchable films came out on a regular basis. Today's movies ARE all aliens, explosions, and boobies.
Just like there was no bad music in the 1960s. Or, maybe it is just that none of it has survived.
There was the same amount of trash in the studio system days, only the great ones have survived. When you look back, that's what you see, not the river of terrible comedies and awful b-grade science fiction.
You're getting confused with Passion Of The Christ.
Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron, Julia Roberts, Anne Hathaway, Russell Crowe, and Brad Pitt were approached to star. They politely refused since Taylor Schilling, Matthew Marsden, Graham Beckel, Edi Gathegi, Jsu Garcia and Grant Bowler were available. Yes, Grant Bowler?!!!, the somewhat star of "Ugly Betty."
So it wasn't an accident that I didn't recognize any major movie stars?
It's a CONSPIRUHSEE that these people aren't famous just because they're not LIE-BRALS!!!!
/head explodes
when is the queen of shrill speaking at cpac?
She's not there. They did have an impersonator though. The impersonator made more sense than she did.
Today is Palin's birthday. I wrote a poem for her:
Happy Birthday, you bitch!
*wink* *wink* You betcha!
I didn't vote for you,
You vapid, old cum catcher.
Your kids are thugs,
Your husband's a whore monger.
That Levi Johnston kid
Is a dopey skank-pronger.
The Oscar Awards are soon,
I've seen "The King's Speech"
Even the great Geoffrey Rush
Could fix your horrible screech.
The boys of the NYPD choir
Were singing "Galway Bay"
And the bells were ringing out
For Christmas day
Ah, The Romance Era poetry style.
They wouldn't pay her enough to leave her seekrit Fox-funded lair in Wasilla.
And also the gays were there. Don't want to accidentally get a gay cootie.
Wait, if the cooties are gay, then exactly how do bedbugs procreate?
Did you not see the Paultards booing speakers? The Alaskkunt does not go in front of audiences that may be hostile.
The Alaskkunt does not go in front of audiences that may be
hostileanything short of worshipful.0 breasts. 1 bucket of blood. Train Fu. John Galt Fu. Drive-in Academy Award nomination for blonde bimbo pretending to be a railroad magnate.
Joe Bob sez "meh"
you lost him at 0 breasts.
holy shit. You win eleventy internets for the Joe Bob Briggs reference. Fucking OLD-SCHOOL, man.
The Movie Trailer was interrupted briefly when the Pretzel lady slipped out of her chair onto the floor. She had to be slid outside over a manhole to get her to her feet.
Those actors are forced to do this work until a decent job waiting tables opens up.
I've decided, out of rational self-interest, not to watch this movie.
Best post in a month.
How very Objective of you.
Pete Hoekstra just tweeted:
Voted against funding for high speed rail.
Now I know how the partisans who blew up train tracks headed to Auschwitz felt."
did any of that really happen?
Oh good fucking god …
Because funding public transportation is exactly like committing genocide.
equivalencies. matter.
That fuck was my representative. I would vote a straight Democrat ticket, but I didn’t. Just so I could cast a vote specifically against Hoekstra.
Huizenga is my rep now (no better), so Hoekstra must have been referring to a vote he made when he was in congress.
It's a good thing Irony didn't live to see this.
Come the fuck on, you guys. I know folks don't keep tabs on local politicians, usually, but a few things…
- Pete announced his resignation at the end of his last term, what? Nearly a full year before the November midterms? He ran for governor of Michigan (and lost), so was MIA in Congress most of 2010.
- Peter is a drama queen, but he's not that much of one to actually utter something like this.
You guys need to do some basic homework, methinks.
But will the movie have STUPID SEX in between the BORING DIALOGUE and endless footage of TRAINS?
The train will occasionally be seen entering a tunnel.
But it will be wearing a condom.
Aw, c'mon. The tunnel was asking for it.
Well the tunnel is played by Ayn Rand's vagina.
No condoms in an Ayn Rand novel. After all we're talking about self-interest. The guy is interesting in feeling it, and the gal is interested in child support for the next 18 years.
Condoms?
Condoms are for promiscuous liberal men, not for conservative "real men" who saved themselves for their wives and never had sex outside of marriage.
*(Gay escorts not included.)
You guys…
Awesome.
Craiglist girlfriends *also* not included.
Cheers.
That's it?
Just Cheers?
Ladies and Gentlemen, I now present the film that will have them beating it until it's a bloody stump.
Red Dawn – 2011
http://www.reddawn2011.com/
Seriously though…why? I mean, I understand Red Dawn was made in the 80's back when you know…THE SOVIET UNION STILL EXISTED. I know the people this film would attract are ready to do some pants pissin' about commonists…but seriously…talk about a period-only film, as bad as it was….it doesn't apply anymore. But then again since wingnuts seem stuck in 1953 maybe it just gives them a chance to relive the "good ole' days" or something….stupid idea to me and proof any bullshit idea will get greenlighted if they think there's money to be made.
The old west was long-ago history even when reagan was acting in movies about it, so it's kind of a valid thing.
To the chagrin of many at the conference, the invisible hand is busy copping a feel off Nikki Haley's black bra and is unavailable for comment.
That invisible hand keeps slapping the shit out of me and it is pissing me off.
The invisible hand is such a perv. Always grabbing and taking shit but not giving it back.
OH YEAH BABY! I was hoping that the dire fate of straight-to-landfill agitprop abortions like An American Carol taught them nothing, & I was not disappointed. Coming soon: Decision Points: Teh Movie!
I'm still holding out for the all-star bio-pic of Rand's life, with heart-warming highlights like her delightful romp defending a psychopathic child-killer as an Objectivist hero … or her coterie of cronies fighting over who gets to give her the next tongue-bath … or the inspirational climax where she applies for state benefits.
WHO IS PAUL BLART?
Here's a much better movie about trains that asks the question Who is Harmonica?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyvzfyqYm_s
There WAS a biopic of Rand's life a few years back. Helen Mirren was in it. Nominated for awards, too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_Ayn_R...
"Writing in Variety, David Kronke called the film "an ambitious, visually sumptuous attempt to depict a bizarre element of a controversial personality's life". Kronke went on to say, "Unfortunately, its insistence on maintaining a detached point of view towards its characters – or, rather, no point of view at all, as the filmmakers seem reticent to offend either Rand fans or detractors – renders it dramatically inert.""
An American Carol, made by the less successful (post-Airplane!, post-Police Squad/Naked Gun of the Zucker Brothers. But they're from Shorewood, so I cannot hate too much.
But Ol' Davy Boy is down with Scott Walker, though. So fuck him, anyway.
Jesus….so now someone has decided retards are a market for poorly written, idiotic and utopian schlock? Well…they did make that movie about Brigham Young once, so I can't complain too much. What's most reassuring about this film is how littler interest anyone who's anyone professed for it….I don't recognize any of these people…though I admit I'd bang the blonde.
PG-13? So I guess that means they're brushing over the rape fantasies then.
Oooh the drama of highspeed rail. "We will tax their steel, and THEN cut their supplies of deli wraps and snacks for the Cafe Acela."
So who plays Dr Stadler's Xylophone?
Wow, I've never seen a movie that was rated PG-65 before.
Is AS part 4 going to be Galt's speech and nothing but Galt's speech? All twelve hours of it?
Only someone who has read that book would get that. Most teabaggers would probably skip that section.
It's supposedly coming out on April 15th (Tax day), except this year tax day is April 18th because Emancipation Day is being celebrated on the 15th.
The url is actually atlasshruggedpart1.com – really? I wonder if they've already secured atlasshruggedpart2.com.
No, but they did lay claim to hopelesslydoomedprojectpart2.com, so no worries there.
Someone has. Although the .net/org/tv/biz/info and any other variation is still available. Too bad I am too lazy to go galt and put up some shitty fake site under .co.
I like how the screenwriter is a 49 year-old staff writer at Fangoria. If there is anybody who can understand the unique struggle of a Randian superman/titan of industry/good-at-having-sex guy, it is a 49 year old staff writer at Fangoria magazine.
Oh yeah, Mr Smart Guy? I'd like to see you write a better screenplay while you're living in your mom's basement!
The mold spores and smell of old dryer sheets is sort of distracting.
A typical libertarian!
Needz moar cow on the tracks! Moo, moo, baby!!1!
Or Tess Trueheart, tied up by Snidely Whiplash. To be rescued by Dudley Galtright.
This will come in handy, as the large population of unemployeds can ride the rails faster, in search of jobs that don't exist, in locales that wouldn't want them anyway.
The Flying Dutchman of the 21st century.
I can't wait! If I don't get off, can I just ride until my Social Security kicks in? You know, that welfare check I intend to sign up for five minutes before they cut off the program?
Among the 4000 anagrams for "Who is John Galt?" I fund the following the most revealing:
Jail Thongs How
I, for one, am glad to see Sarah Paulson getting work.
I, for one, am glad to see Pat Paulsen getting work.
I'm not thrilled with Ron Paul's son getting work.
I'm so inspired by this trailer I'm watching Eraserhead tonight and drinking homemade mead… pyment that is.
I'm sure they have segregated cars in mind.
Won't be necessary. Judging by the trailer, somebody came up with a solution that addressed the problem with finality.
Just couldn't press play. Haz a sad…but then Limbaugh says the Pyramid Revolution™ was the work of "avowed communists, socialist, feminists, environmentalist" and surely the "evil work of some community organizers"
Rush just gave us all all of the credit. Wonketeers rock!
Was rush-butt getting his oxycontin from Mubarak's pharmacy in Cairo? Might be a clue as to how the junked Hosni was able to stash away so much in Swiss accounts.
So Rush is openly opposed to democracy now. I thought even Dittoheads would understand that's kind of fucked up, but I guess they've always been opposed to browns having the vote.
I refuse to watch this video, but if the innuendo in the post means that it's a trailer for what I think it's a trailer for, shouldn't the film be ten hours long and feature nothing but a monologue for the final three hours?
At least the LotR extended edition has Orcs.
Well, if you did watch the trailer… this is PART 1.
Of how many parts? Who's to say! They could have, like, an entire part for that speech thingy.
"At least the LotR extended edition has Orcs."
…and a bunch of really really hot men with great accents. Yum.
Hey teabaggers, go Galt already.
Maybe they thought thought they were being offered a chance to get high on a few rails of speed?
What turgid, witless, two-dimensional dialogue — and so true to the novel. Unfortunately I'm not sure their target audience will get the gist of it without hints like "Hero" and "Bad Government Takeover Guy" tattooed on the various characters' foreheads.
"What turgid, witless, two-dimensional dialogue"
So this is The Phantom Menace?
The third one was pretty bad, too. Remember this line:
…which was said with all the urgency and drama of one Keanu Reeves. Still, I'm a huge Natalie Portman fan. She can do no wrong, in my eyes, and her work in V is for Victory was pretty damned awesome.
But, I digress…
Hey teabaggers, go Galt already. Will you?
Jesus fuck Wonkette your comments are all fucked up again. That is the 2nd time I typed that. And another one is missing too. I really hate this Intense Debate comment thing. Can you get someone else, or have them get their shit together?
Oh yeah, I wanted to comment on something earlier or yesterday, but I never got he login button, and I only had those stupid space alien icons. Really, this Intense Debate thing is fucked up! Can them.
Yes.
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I agree OC. By the way I'm in OC CA for a few days, right by John Wayne. I'm in the middle of a way messed up deal for work.
It's an evil force field emanating from that statue.
Who plays Sick Boy?
Peter Dinklage.
Now if they would all please stand on the tracks…
Needs moar bodice rippin'.
Thanks, but I will wait for the South Park version.
That will be good! At least I'll recognize the actors.
And those subtitles: "conservatives really believe this."
Since watching that, I've decided movies totally suck ass.
"Eric Cartman IS JOHN GALT"
"Screw you guys; I'm going home."
Yes, he's the perfect representation of modern conservatives.
I thought the South Park guys were Randroid fans; well I see a lot of so-called Libertarians that gloat over South Park for bashing liberals etc.
Any time you see a movie is getting a "platform" release on a handful of screens and does not have a major distributor behind it, you can be rest assured that it's going to go right to video pretty damn fast. Of course the conservatards will blame it on Hollywood being full of liberals, but really it's that even Hollywood has standards.
Talk about a cult classic!
Talk about a classic cult!
Talk about a classic of the occult!
If you mean "cult classic" in the way "The Room" or "Plan 9 From Outer Space" are cult classics, you may be on to something.
Wait a minute . . . they already did this movie. It was called An American Carol, and it won back Hollywood in the name of freedom.
With Kevin "Not quite as fat as his brother, & not anywhere near as funny (which says something NOT GOOD)" Farley as Michael Moore.
& Trace Adkins (the man behind "Honky-tonk Badonkadonk") in a supporting role.
That's great film-making.
CPAC
I'm gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whities I see,
I'm gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whities I see.
When I kill all the whities I see, then whitey he won't bother me,
I'm gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whities I see.
Then I'll get a white woman who's wearing a navy blue sweater.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGBw8jS3sMw
I call B.S. on this being a real true Ayn Rand movie.
Why isn't everyone smoking constantly?
After all, smoking is a symbol of the fire in the mind, the fire of ideas. He who refuses to smoke is therefore an enemy of ideas and of the mind!
Also, trailer needs moar Swedish pirates and dead Eddie Willerses.
In case you're wondering, the answer to the question is, "Some monologuing doucebag". Seriously, such a douchebag.
Surely there are lots of Japanese and French movies with bullet trains in them?
Why not "Godzilla vs. John Galt"? Have G. step on him.
I eagerly anticipate the copulation scenes. It will be like a fall trip to the zoo to catch a peek of soulless, hollow-eyed animals mounting each another.
Who you calling "soulless", naked killer ape?
Why go to the zoo in the fall when I can see that at home all year round?
How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky? How stupid are CPAC fucktards?
What's with those CPAC'ers who say "Atlas Shrugged" in on the right track; America, not so much? They're like those Christians who love Jesus and money and the death penalty* and bombing things.
________________________
* Jesus was against the death penalty, especially toward the end
I'll bet he was against
tortureenhanced interrogation too, even if they obtained actionable intelligence concerning the Galilean Homeland Security.Nutters and baggers will continue to hitch their train wrecks to this fable. I say, let them. It can only end badly.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/23/the_ski...
Say, isn't that the actress who played the doctor in Serenity who killed all the people on one world by boring them to death? Typecasting is *such* a bitch.
I'm more disturbed that Quark / Principal whatsisname from Buffy is in there.
No, it is the lead from the short-lived nursing show "Mercy."
"Part 1"???? There's gonna be at least one more of these movies made from awful Ayn Rand stories? Normally, I would be opposed to digging up someone's corpse just to desecrate it, but in Ayn Rand's case I think I'd make an exception.
Sounds good. I mean after all, being a corpse is like an engraved invitation. What position was she buried in?
my only goal is to make money and get laid. but John Galt has higher goals, –
he wants to help Rand or Ron Paul be Prez….or as i see it: John Galt for prez –
no more mr. nice guy in the ovaly office.
Tolkien for haters
Also, can someone answer me something? Isn't Atlas Shrugged, at its very core, fundamentally a book about the power of collective action?
I mean, seriously. If Galt had been the only one to pull an Emerson or Thoreau (it's kinda hilarious to look at who pioneered this "withdraw from society in protest" concept, as well, considering how at-odds their philosophies were to Rand), it wouldn't have mattered, society would have kept on going, etc. etc. Even in the shitty, straw-mannish framework of Ayn Rand's novel, where only the things she wants to be true are true, she can't really seem to escape the fact that even her ridiculous ubermenchen only have the power she wants them to have because they act collectively.
Almost as though the entire basis of Rand's philosophy is built on a foundation of sand, or something.
Pay no attention to the straw-man behind the curtain!
Well, a paean to the collective action of self-centered rich people is pretty perfect for CPAC, isn't it?
"paean to the collective action of self-centered job creators"
/fixed
To be fair, they do all hate each other. It's not technically cooperation if your eyes never meet.
Remind me to try that line on my ex-girlfriend, sometime.
Excellent point. The original working title of the novel was "The Strike", I shit you not. I can't remember whether it's here or in The Fountainhead, but somewhere one of Rand's capitalist heroes is affirming to a group of workers that they have a right to take strike action. (And presumably that the boss has the right to fire them all and replace them with scabs, but meh.)
If all the "innovators" go Galt on us, can we keep their stuff?
It's as if they're forming one of those whatchamacallits – a group consisting of working people who have similar needs, so they band together – they become united….gaaaah, it'll come to me.
'who pioneered this "withdraw from society in protest" '
Lao-zi; Buddha; Anthony the proto-hermit; Galt doesn't belong, somehow.
Rand's "philosophy" is built on a foundation of people (not just individuals, but groups as well) acting in their rational best interest. And that is why it can be completely invalidated in one sentence.
Paul Krugman on Ayn's 'Assholes Mugged':
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
Krugman was quoting some blog guy named John Rogers, actually.
But it's such a great line that it's hard NOT to want to attribute it to the more well-known guy who cited it. I'm pretty sure this is how various sayings have ended up being "said" by Lincoln, Twain, Churchill, George Carlin, etc.
Thank you for that Dr. Z.
I just love that quote, really, and looking it up sparked a nice little nerdy conversation with my kiddo about lines that were misattributed to Twain–in fact, he told me that one of my favorite "Twain quotes" that I'd shared with him ("History never repeats itself, but it rhymes") never actually appears in any of Twain's works.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if, in another 20 years, the Rand-Tolkien comparison is widely attributed to Krugman. It happened to another line that gets cited as Twain's, even though Twain directly names the originator: "The late Bill Nye once said 'I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds.'" (And of course, I thought that was actually Twain for years).
The Vagner critic being Bill Nye the journalist/humorist guy, rather than C'Addle's Bill Nye the science/humorist guy who's famous for his line "I'm cuckoo for copepods."
'I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
I always thought that was Woody Allen.
Bill Nye is much forgotten, unfortunately.
Hell, the Rand-Tolkien quote may eventually end up being attributed to Mark Twain.
This was actually the reference I was making on the first page of comments, I sure hope at least one of the thumbs-up people got the joke.
At least this one did, when he finally got there. I wuz late to the dance and in honor of Egypt read from right to left, that is started at the back & worked my way forward.
There's a notion here that we must remember, for all the Atlas Shrugged fans out there: They may be capitalists who should enjoy the fruits of their labors and intellect, but they're riding the whole ball of wax on a perpetual motion machine.
Also, Dagny's a sluuuuuut! She's a fictional character, and yet she gets around so much I've slept with her.
it's just a pseudo-intellectual version of old Horatio Alger's rags-to-riches stories. It was always some benevolent capitalist or stroke of good luck that allowed the poor sap to get rich.
Stephen Baldwin needs your donations so he can appear in the sequel. Won't you please help? Make a check out to Stephen Baldwin today.
Fuck that; Stephen Baldwin needs your donations so he doesn't have to eat an LA Skid Row homeless shelter, tomorrow, or raid the local food pantry.
Destined to be a great classic of the silver screen! Of the same caliber as All Dressed in Rubber and Nowhere to Go!
B-movies are made for B-minds.
That's too generous. Not higher than D+…
Hey, now, Godzilla appeared in some great B (and lower) flicks. Also, Gremlins. also.
Didn't Ayn (rhymes with "swine") Rand get both Social Security and Medicare in her later years?
An open request to teabaggers: please, for the love of God, go Galt already. See just how much talent you really do have on your own. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, is going to miss you. I can't believe how deluded you are to think that somehow society is benefiting more from you than you are from it. Don't you morons get it? YOU ARE THE PARASITES. GO AWAY. SECEDE. Form your own little failed state so we can all point fingers and laugh at you.
And yes, I am being REALLY FUCKING ELITIST.
They are parasites, because they want all our whore dollars.
I better not hear one goddamn conservative person complaining about the last Harry Potter being split into two movies, ever again.
Needz moar outsourcing to China.
Why ask useless questions: "How da moon get dere?"
On a related topic, the good Dr. Paul made a speech at CPAC in which he made his big suggestion to the youth of America:
"Would you consider opting out of the whole system under one condition?" Paul then asked, introducing his plan. "You pay 10% of your income, but you take care of yourself. Don't ask the government for anything."
As long as they promise to never have a medical emergency, drive on a public road, fly, eat any food inspected by the FDA, call the fire or police department for any reason, or seek redress for anything in a court of law, I'm okay with never hearing from any of these losers ever again.
This would be great. We could tell all the wanna-be terrorists, "Hey guys, see those Galters? Have at them, because we're not gonna do a damn thing if you want to blow them into chunks of Paul chow!"
The mad bombers leave us normals alone, defense spending is reduced and we hasten Darwinism along with some social weeding. Seriously, you tell me what the downside is.
Funny that. Why the hell does "Doctor" Paul keep asking the government for a job?
It looks good, but I'll probably wait until it gets to the Drive-In as a double feature with Glenn Beck's "The Christmas Sweater".
This movie takes place in an alternate universe where the government isn't completely in the pockets of rich people and corporations.
Ron, the most Paulist of the GOP, has stuffed 30% of the CPAC straw up his ass and is their anointed. Mittens wuz second with 23%. All hail Ron Paul, the chosen of the CootiePAC true believers.
None Mubarak or Chris Lee votes seem to be in the tally. Jack & Riley, you guys got disenfranchised by the Conservtards.
It looks like they took all the villains from 80's movies and made them the good guys.
swear by it before an election and cut it out of budget once elected. like the dumb ass Rick Scott in Florida; never a cut in education during the campaign; $700.00 per pupil in first budget, one month after taking over. Will fire 13000 people, while calling the Budget, "The Job Budget"..fucker!
Why isn't Kirk Cameron in this? Or Willie Ames? Damn Liberal Media!
Willie Aames is busy whining about his weight, being broke, and how Jesus doesn't love him anymore.
Lame CGI is lame.
Stay tuned for Atlas Shrugged: Part 2 – in theaters August 2036!
After Battlefield Earth, Hollywood learned to avoid these sorts of vanity projects.
teabaggers put the "cult" in "cult classic"!
They'll love it until they find out that many of the passengers will be liberals and negroes.
I haven't even seen acting this stiff in pornos, and I haven't seen dialogue this poor since the Star Wars prequels. Gawd.
BTW, needz moar speedings trains, and Greyhounds. Also.
WILL YOU PLEEZE LET ME FINISH!!!1!!
Bee-otch got served I guess. Bilious anger bear is angry and bilious.
Is there a book for this movie? I'll wait for that… to be delivered to me by the Ghost of Christmas Past… in a briefcase of tomato soup.
Due to the "screw over the little guy" theme… they must have thought it to be porn.
WATCH government bureaucrats sit in meetings and bark at suboordinates!
LISTEN to extended monologues saturated with white privilege!
JUMP as rich people eat dinner together and make business plans!
THRILL to hours of heart-pounding non-action!
Atlas Shrugged: ROCKING a theater near you.
John Polito and Michael Lerner are real professionals and fine character actors. Somehow I don't see the star power that the two of them wield being enough to overcome the dead weight of a movie based on 1,000 pages of bad writing and full of really long speeches.
Clearly the producers decided not to overspend on recognizable talent in front of the camera.
I didn't know they made trucknutz for trains!
IN A WORLD:
Yes to at least that second part, I'm not sure if his religious beliefs were ever a topic of significance n the show, though.
If you're more interested in a hilariously abrasive Dr. Jerk character, though, ER also had that first, too.
Yes, but did anyone give Santa a cigarette to cure his irratable bowel problem, lol?
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