Showing posts with label atlas shrugged. Show all posts
Showing posts with label atlas shrugged. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Keeping the Atheist in Christmas!

By Jeff Simpson

A lot has been said and written about the following clip, how Senator Ron Johnson (R-class rings) said that Obamacare " was the greatest assault on freedom" . Well RoJo said that when he was running for office and still was elected.  Besides, he was correct anyway.  Thanks to Obamacare, millions of Americans are no longer "free" to die a slow horrible painful death because they do not have insurance. 

However there is a better quote I would like to point out:


"A friend of mine, Ben Ganther, who is a small business owner and owner of a construction company, called me up one day and said there is this bid ole statue on the side of the road for sale. It was Atlas and he had the world and it was obviously the Atlas shrugged symbol, and said you know he was thinking about buying it.  I said absolutely, I will pay for half.  So he bought it up right away because he is a contractor, put it up in front of his business, you know in a really nice stand with a nice little patio around it lights and he puts Christmas lights on it in the winter time.  So I was proud to actually participate in that project."


Yes Ron nothing celebrates the birth of Jesus, like a bunch of commercial lights on a statue of a false deity who represents a bad book written by a devout Atheist.   Way to understand the true meaning of Christmas guys!    





Unfortunately Linus Van Pelt is smarter than our Senator:



Thursday, September 6, 2012

Free Market Phenoms!

The republicans love to tout the wonders of the "free market" especially when it comes to the right wing squawk radio and television. They like to point out(incorrectly of course ) that the free market dictates that America only wants to hear right wing hate radio, tv, etc...  

However digging at the numbers you see they are not being honest (surprise, surprise).  Now we have the perfect example of all of their BS and it comes in the form of Paul Ryan's ( R- Ayn Rand) Hero - Ayn Rand! 

See her trademark book,  Atlas Shrugged, was made into a movie in 2011.  Despite heavy advertising, and the solid endorsement from Paul Ryan (R-Wall st.) the move bombed big time.    The movie cost $20 million to make and pulled in a gross box office of just over $4.6 million( for the tea partiers reading this, that is a loss of over $15 Million dollars)! 

In a real world capitalist free market society, the person who gave the go ahead to bankroll this bill would have been fired or demoted, and we never would have heard about this again.  

However in right wing crazy world, whats the next logical step?     Why a sequel of course!


Sean Hannity is excited to announce his cameo in the second movie of the "Atlas Shrugged" movies.
Although Sean's acting debut may be a character close to home, Sean is very proud to be a part of Ayn Rand's iconic work Atlas Shrugged. In a crucial political time in American history this movie depicts the struggles between the public and those who are elected to serve them.

Atlas Shrugged 2 comes out in theaters everywhere October 2012, just in time for the pivotal presidential elections. This cameo is particularly fun for Sean because he was able to "share" the big screen with his good liberal friends and Fox News Contributors Bob Beckel, Juan Williams and Tamara Holder .
As I asked before, does Atlas really shrug if no one is there to see it?  



Thursday, May 3, 2012

Paul Ryan - Urban Legend

There is a story that has been flying around the internet, that Paul Ryan was lured into politics by his love of Ayn Rand. Ryan is even known to buy all of his staffers Atlas Shrugged the Book. In fairness to Paul Ryan (R-Wall St.), he did not make his staff watch Atlas Shrugged the movie, since no one could be expected to sit through that! It turns out that Paul Ryan had more in common with Ayn Rand, than just using Social Security to get ahead while working to end it. They also shared a philosophy(at least the Paul Ryan before being challenged by Rob Zerban did): From the New Republic:
"Almost every fight we are involved in here on Capitol Hill ... is a fight that usually comes down to one conflict--individualism versus collectivism."
And let us not forget this gem he told the Atlas Society(I think that might be a clue)on February 2nd, 2005:
“I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are and what my beliefs are. It’s inspired me so much that it’s required reading in my office for all my interns and my staff… The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand.” - Representative Paul Ryan, February 2, 2005
Now Stephen Colbert wants to name him Vice Pope: Then the Catholic Church said Hey Paul Slow Your Roll: Paul Ryan, who has very expensive tastes, will not take criticism from the Catholic church lying down. paul ryan starts out by asking Who is Ayn rand? and like Peter denied his deity Rand three times before the cock crow:
“I, like millions of young people in America, read Rand’s novels when I was young. I enjoyed them,” Ryan says. “They spurred an interest in economics, in the Chicago School and Milton Friedman,” a subject he eventually studied as an undergraduate at Miami University in Ohio. “But it’s a big stretch to suggest that a person is therefore an Objectivist.”
“I reject her philosophy,” Ryan says firmly. “It’s an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it is antithetical to my worldview.
“Don’t give me Ayn Rand,” he says.
Cock A Doodle Doo.............................. Mr. ryan was not done, then he set his sights on the Catholic church, pointing out how wrong they were to dare question him.
"I suppose that there are some Catholics who for a long time thought they had a monopoly of sorts ... on the social teaching of our church," Ryan said during a speech that attracted a full audience and a number of of protesters. "Of course there can be differences among faithful Catholics on this. The work I do as a Catholic holding office conforms to the social doctrine as best I can make of it."
Paul knew that the way Jesus really cleansed the Temple was kick all of the poor out so the moneychangers could party on in peace! Paul taking on the Catholic church was not enough for the man with this big of an ego, ryan then took on the military!
"We don't think the generals are giving us their true advice," Ryan had said, according to Politico. "We don't think the generals believe their budget is really the right budget."
So for those of you keeping score at home, lets do a quick rundown. In the last couple of months, paul ryan has called the right wing media, the ayn rand society, all ayn rand supporters, the paul ryan circa 2005, the bishops from the Catholic church, the religious leaders of Georgetown University and the all the Generals in the US Military Liars. very impressive list. It is still better than being one of his constituents because all he has for the people of Wisconsin's First district is contempt! Who is this guy anyway?