Cast recommendations for Atlas Shrugged: Now Non-Fiction?
Does anyone want to put together a cast for "Atlas Shrugged: Now Non-Fiction"?
A place to start would be Glenn Beck's compilation of Obama's czars.
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/article...
Mr. Thompson - Mr. Barack Obama
Hugh Akston - Dinesh D'Souza
James Taggart - Jeffrey Skilling (GE CEO)
Do not forget that GE has a trains division.
Starnes' heir - Auto Recovery Czar Ed Montgomery or car czar Ron Bloom
Floyd Ferris - Energy and Environment Czar – Carol Browner
Robert Stadler - former Energy Secretary Stephen Chu
Claude Slagenhop - Green Jobs Czar Van Jones
Tinky Holloway - Regulatory Czar Cass Sunstein
Mr. Larkin - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner
Cuffy Meigs - Craig Becker (Associate General Counsel of the Service Employees International Union)
This is a start. I'm very open to suggestion.
A place to start would be Glenn Beck's compilation of Obama's czars.
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/article...
Mr. Thompson - Mr. Barack Obama
Hugh Akston - Dinesh D'Souza
James Taggart - Jeffrey Skilling (GE CEO)
Do not forget that GE has a trains division.
Starnes' heir - Auto Recovery Czar Ed Montgomery or car czar Ron Bloom
Floyd Ferris - Energy and Environment Czar – Carol Browner
Robert Stadler - former Energy Secretary Stephen Chu
Claude Slagenhop - Green Jobs Czar Van Jones
Tinky Holloway - Regulatory Czar Cass Sunstein
Mr. Larkin - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner
Cuffy Meigs - Craig Becker (Associate General Counsel of the Service Employees International Union)
This is a start. I'm very open to suggestion.
Industrial heroes:
Michael Dell--created just-in-time mfg process for computers.
George Mitchell, Mitchell Energy--developed hydraulic fracturing which is revolutionizing oil and gas industry.
villains:
Valery Jarrett
Hillary Clinton
Rahm Emanuel
Jay (Bagdad Bob) Carney
Lois Lerner
Dingy Harry Reid
Nancy Pelosi
enablers:
John Boehner
Mitch McConnell
John McCain, etc
As far as Galt goes, every invention in the world is built from known elements.
Dagny Taggart: Marissa Mayer (CEO of Yahoo)
Ragnar D.: Edward Snowden
John Galt: Steve Jobs
Francisco d’Anconia: George Paz
so, No to Jobs
Steve Jobs goes down.
For Dagny, I was considering Meg Whitman (of EBay) or Carly Fiorina (formerly of HP). I don't know Marissa Mayer or George Paz. That doesn't mean they are bad choices. Logical choices for actors to play Francisco d'Anconia and John Galt would be Antonio Banderas and Nicolas Cage, but I would like to stick with non-actors.
Please educate me about Marissa Mayer and George Paz.
She is NO Dagny Taggart.
And many HP ex-pats aren't all that impressed with Meg's track record so far, either!
Too bad there were so few female moochers in AS... Pelosi and her ilk would be naturals!
But if they were GM employees, too, someone should have told them a lot more about 'diversification of your investments.' Enron ring a bell?
My retirement cache is mostly in equities, but spread over scores of stocks and a very few bonds. If any one of them goes to zero for some stupid reason, my account gets hit for maybe a percent or two.
And I had to piss away tens of thousands of my own investment dollars over ten or more years to get myself that kind of education, too.
Thanks for the condolences. That was only about 5% of what they had, so they had pretty well diversified. In fact, my dad worked for Mobil, not GM. The biggest insult were the threats about what the government would do if they didn't accept the "generous" offer of $225.
“What the patent and copyright laws acknowledge is the paramount role of mental effort in the production of material values: these laws protect the mind’s contribution in its purest form: the origination of an idea.” Rand, Ayn, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, Signet, New York, 1967, p. 130.
your blade is dull, MM-hone it...;)
"Ayn Rand, 57 years ago:" "XYZ person, today"
I swear Obama is using AS as a script on how to screw up America.
Cuffy Meigs, Claude Slagenhop, Balph Eubank. Kip Chalmers
said that to send Kerry to negotiate with Putin
would be like sending a cupcake to negotiate with
a steak knife. Must be a role for that too...?
Ed Snowden as Ragnar Danneskjöld? Not so. Snowden would never be able to bring a thing like that off. He did something that needed doing, but not the way Ragnar would have done it. Snowden's way seems cowardly.
Besides, when I think of Ragnar, I think of his privateering activities, and his famous raid on Orren Boyle's illicit steel mill.
Trump would consider himself an entrepeneur willing to do what was necessary. JP Morgan would be a much better choice were he still alive.