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Re: Election '12
« Reply #225 on: August 16, 2012, 04:29:00 pm »
Quote from: pmcd9 on August 16, 2012, 04:08:04 pm
I can't believe it's too much to ask that they at least don't sound like a fuck*ng pinhead while they are lying to us.

Yeah, I would settle for that.

You know what else I would settle for? If a party is going to run a guy who's supposedly qualified on the basis of having been a governor, pick one who doesn't have to claim he doesn't believe in any of the things he did as governor. There is more than one Republican governor out there, so how hard can this be? Just pick a different one. Seriously.
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Re: Election '12
« Reply #226 on: August 16, 2012, 04:59:18 pm »
Quote from: Asherdan on August 16, 2012, 04:12:59 pm
Those evil doer's you mention are also smart enough to stay in the background. Those pinheads we all dislike are their automated meat puppets.

Exactly this. This system actually works okay until a Dick Cheney tells the useful idiot to fuggedabout the advisers.
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Re: Election '12
« Reply #227 on: August 17, 2012, 12:30:04 am »
Quote from: Doc on August 16, 2012, 05:43:07 am
Is that meant to be a point in his favour? I've only read Atlas Shrugged and found the philosophy quite interesting, largely since it was my first exposure to objectivism, but that was not a well written book.

No, not at all. I've only read The Fountainhead and didn't like it, but I've had great conversations with objectivists, so I agree with you.  I was mostly rambling, but mainly meant to point out that Ryan doesn't claim to be a disciple of Rand.

Mitt Romney once named Battlefield Earth as his favorite novel. Could this be the ticket with the worst taste in literature ever?

Maybe that's unfair because I've never read Battlefield Earth. And I guaranfuck*ngtee you that unless someone pays me to do it, I never will.
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Re: Election '12
« Reply #228 on: August 17, 2012, 04:03:02 am »
I read The Fountainhead as a young reader and enjoyed it. I enjoyed the movie too. Admittedly I was inspired to read Ayn Rand by Rush's 2112.
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Re: Election '12
« Reply #229 on: August 17, 2012, 11:36:25 am »
Quote from: pmcd9 on August 17, 2012, 04:03:02 am
I enjoyed the movie too.
Given this information, no one should ever take Paul's movie recommendations seriously. Ever.
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Re: Election '12
« Reply #230 on: August 17, 2012, 01:11:44 pm »
Quote from: pmcd9 on August 17, 2012, 04:03:02 am
I read The Fountainhead as a young reader and enjoyed it. I enjoyed the movie too. Admittedly I was inspired to read Ayn Rand by Rush's 2112.

You mean the old one with Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal?
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Re: Election '12
« Reply #231 on: August 17, 2012, 01:15:11 pm »
Quote from: AugustWest on August 17, 2012, 01:11:44 pm
You mean the old one with Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal?

Yes. There is another?
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Re: Election '12
« Reply #232 on: August 17, 2012, 01:19:41 pm »
Quote from: pmcd9 on August 17, 2012, 01:15:11 pm
Yes. There is another?

They made the first part of Atlas Shrugged into a movie a couple of years ago.  It sucked pretty bad.
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Re: Election '12
« Reply #233 on: August 17, 2012, 01:21:12 pm »
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Re: Election '12
« Reply #234 on: August 17, 2012, 02:02:53 pm »
I guess I dodged a bullet by reading The Fountainhead instead.  Ha ha. 
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Re: Election '12
« Reply #235 on: August 17, 2012, 04:15:57 pm »
Interestingly, I read "Breakfast of Champions" at fourteen.
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Re: Election '12
« Reply #236 on: August 17, 2012, 04:21:18 pm »
Quote from: miles on August 17, 2012, 12:30:04 am
Maybe that's unfair because I've never read Battlefield Earth. And I guaranfuck*ngtee you that unless someone pays me to do it, I never will.
I read it because a friend had recommended it and I thought it would be good to chat about (we talked endlessly about the Sci-Fi and action books we were reading).  Even as a 15 year old I found it turgid and laborious. 
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Re: Election '12
« Reply #237 on: August 21, 2012, 11:56:18 pm »
I guess the republicans have secured the pro rape vote.
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Re: Election '12
« Reply #238 on: August 22, 2012, 02:23:34 am »
Quote from: littlefallsmets on August 17, 2012, 04:15:57 pm
Interestingly, I read "Breakfast of Champions" at fourteen.

Breakfast of Champions was my first Vonnegut, in eighth grade.  Older kids on the bus to a cross-country meet were reading it and cracking up at the drawings. 

So it goes.
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Re: Election '12
« Reply #239 on: August 22, 2012, 10:59:09 am »
Breakfast of Champions was my second Vonnegut book. My first was "Harrison Bergeron" which has since been made into a great movie called 2081. Every adaption of Rand to film blows hard.
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