I must have been feeling masochistic this AM but not TOO much.
I've always believed in knowing what the other side does and says, so I very occasionally listen to rush limbooger at time when I know I'll be able to get to a shower quickly. I've also suffered through many a republican national convention.
The reason I'm saying that I was feeling masochistic today is that I decided to watch "atlas shrugged" on Netflix streaming. I know that ayn rand is the "inspiration" for much of what passes for thought among the modern right wing. I can't really bear the thought of going to the library (because I'd never spend any of my very little money on her) and spending deveral days reading her drivel, so I thought that a little more than an hour and a half of watching the movie wouldn't hurt.
BOY HOWDY was I wrong! 
After an hour of watching the "heroes" of this piece of wasted celluliod, I learned that the "all for me and my company" belief is good, the idea of helping others makes you a wimp, and that I DON'T CARE who john galt is. For one of the few times in my life, I turned a movie off not just because it was bad, but because it was downright PAINFUL!
And this was only part one. Jeeezis!
If I recall correctly, this crap didn't make enough money to justify part two even being made. More than likely however, given the fanaticism of the right of 2012, it will be made just so thousands of right wingers can have the entire "epic" prominently displayed on their DVD shelves. If they weren't so damn stupid and driven by their twisted soft headed notions, I'd say "poor bastards".
The poor bastards, however, are those like me who attempt to sit through it or, even worse, the ones who force themselves to finish it. 
Poor bastards!
PEACE! 
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The books were recommended to me by an acquaintance, who bought into that horrible woman's screed hook, line & sinker. I was not taken in by her philosophy of greed, and after I told the guy I was unimpressed, we pretty much didn't talk any more. I heard later that he was sinking all his cash into Scientology 'auditing' classes.
was Moby Dick, and only because we read it aloud in my high school American Lit class.
I stay well away from long-winded RW rants,,,bite-sized chunks of that stuff are as much as I can stomach. 
Thanks for your combat duty! I don't even think this was a hit with the RW whacks, was it?
My sister got it from Netflix and asked me if I wanted to see it. She had no clue, just a new release. So what the heck I figured.
I had a difficult time with it to say the least. From what I could gather they wanted to upgrade an old railroad but there were no companies who still made engines for the trains so they had to make them themselves. Luckily for them however when it came to replacing all the rail lines there were still companies making the machines that laid the tracks which was odd considering nobody still made trains or train engines. 
I admit I know very little about the choo-choo industry.
movie, but I once looked it up at Wiki. Does that count, sorta? 
I'll bet that a lot of right-wingers and Libertarians who claim to be Ayn Rand fans haven't read it either.
