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The Velveteen Ocelot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 06:17 PM Original message |
Tweety just said he's a big fan of Ayn Rand. |
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Stephanie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 06:20 PM Response to Original message |
1. He's now officially an idiot. |
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aint_no_life_nowhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 06:25 PM Response to Original message |
2. Puddy Tat shrugged |
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Proud2BAmurkin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 07:22 PM Response to Reply #2 |
26. LMAO |
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pinto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 06:29 PM Response to Original message |
3. He's a TV personality...nothing more, nothing less. |
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July (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 08:39 PM Response to Reply #3 |
33. Self-appointed "pundit." |
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wurzel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 06:30 PM Response to Original message |
4. He could not have read her books. They are repugnant. |
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JanMichael (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 06:32 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. No, he could, you could not. |
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wurzel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-05 09:01 AM Response to Reply #8 |
57. I take your point. I have no desire to open one again. Ever. |
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Dudley_DUright (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 06:30 PM Response to Original message |
5. Why am I not surprised? |
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Wickerman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 06:31 PM Response to Original message |
6. I always thought he seemed "stuck" in freshman year. n/t |
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Thirtieschild (978 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 06:31 PM Response to Original message |
7. That explains a lot |
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TomPainesBones (260 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 06:36 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. Sure does |
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NorCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 06:35 PM Response to Original message |
9. I love Ayn Rand |
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JanMichael (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 06:37 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. You concept is good I just can't stand her writing style. |
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NorCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 08:11 PM Response to Reply #12 |
27. yes, it is tedious and difficult |
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barb162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 08:39 PM Response to Reply #27 |
34. Try Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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barb162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 08:46 PM Response to Reply #9 |
36. That's interesting. |
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pretzel4gore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 06:36 PM Response to Original message |
10. ayn rand despises god (compassion, altruism, generosity) |
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JanMichael (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 06:39 PM Original message |
As an atheist I can't stand her either. |
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joemurphy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 06:58 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. Alissa "Alice" Zinovievna Rosenbaum a/k/a Ayn Rand |
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joemurphy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 07:01 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. So what do you think. Is Tweety a Libertarian? What a hoot! |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 09:34 PM Response to Reply #17 |
41. Tweety goes to Republican fundraisers and does a great job of |
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pretzel4gore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 07:09 PM Response to Reply #16 |
21. thanks...that damn foxnews, always telling me lies! |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 07:05 PM Response to Reply #10 |
20. that's funny. Reading your post |
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July (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 08:41 PM Response to Reply #10 |
35. What is that Galbraith quote about conservative "philosophy"? |
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TomClash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 06:39 PM Response to Original message |
13. I'm a big fan of Ayn Rand |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 06:39 PM Response to Original message |
14. I missed that - Jeez! |
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Spinzonner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 06:39 PM Response to Original message |
15. Wasn't Howard Roarke a terrorist ? |
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Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 07:15 PM Response to Reply #15 |
23. The number one most unintentionally hilarious movie of all time is |
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barb162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 08:28 PM Response to Reply #23 |
30. Gary Cooper was so wrong for that part |
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Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 08:53 PM Response to Reply #30 |
37. the 2nd most unintentionally most hilarious movie of all time |
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barb162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 09:18 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. In a biography by one of her close disciples, |
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barb162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 09:26 PM Response to Reply #37 |
40. I vaguely remember that movie about the ants and a plantation |
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nvliberal (618 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 09:47 PM Response to Reply #23 |
43. It's a stinkeroo, no doubt about it. |
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barb162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 10:00 PM Response to Reply #43 |
47. self delete. dupe |
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barb162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 10:00 PM Response to Reply #43 |
48. Cooper didn't understand anything about his role, nada |
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nvliberal (618 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 10:28 PM Response to Reply #48 |
50. It was bad, but it was so bad it was good. n/t |
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nvliberal (618 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 09:49 PM Response to Reply #23 |
44. Clarence Thomas makes his new clerks sit through that flick, |
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Demoiselle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 10:54 PM Response to Reply #23 |
53. YES OH YES! It was on the other night and I couldn't stop laughing! |
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Demoiselle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 11:00 PM Response to Reply #15 |
54. Nah...not really. He is a rugged individualist architect who.... |
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Donna Zen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 07:02 PM Response to Original message |
18. And that he admitted he likes Rand... |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 07:04 PM Response to Original message |
19. Ayn Rand seems to have been a classic psychopath. |
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LiviaOlivia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 07:20 PM Response to Reply #19 |
25. Rand was a favorite guest of William F. Buckley |
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barb162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 08:33 PM Response to Reply #19 |
31. She had a better attention span than the average sociopath |
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nvliberal (618 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 09:55 PM Response to Reply #31 |
46. Nathaniel Branden was Rand's boy toy. |
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barb162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 10:03 PM Response to Reply #46 |
49. I read it; fascinating that Branden's wife could write such a |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-05 09:44 AM Response to Reply #31 |
60. It's of crucial importance to distinguish between |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-05 10:19 AM Response to Reply #60 |
62. This is an interesting article: |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-05 10:12 AM Response to Reply #19 |
61. In this context the emergence of the increasingly rabid |
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fujiyama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 07:11 PM Response to Original message |
22. That's very unCatholic of him |
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TomPainesBones (260 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 07:20 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Most of the "Catholics" I grew up around |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 08:13 PM Response to Original message |
28. But! But! He's so "hard to define"! |
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SlavesandBulldozers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 08:23 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. yeah. . . Tweety's an enigma. |
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barb162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 08:35 PM Response to Original message |
32. Alan Greenspan was one of her big-time objectivism followers |
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pretzel4gore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 09:07 PM Response to Reply #32 |
38. yep, one of the dirty little secrets |
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barb162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-05 12:17 AM Response to Reply #38 |
56. What Flocco is selling, I'm not buying |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 09:36 PM Response to Reply #32 |
42. LOL. Greenspan was Rand's "boy toy". |
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Avalux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 09:51 PM Response to Original message |
45. Ew - he really is a he-man misogynist, isn't he? |
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Orrin_73 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 10:50 PM Response to Original message |
51. That explains a lot! |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 10:51 PM Response to Original message |
52. Ewww. |
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soothsayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-05 11:55 PM Response to Original message |
55. gawd, is he an Objectivist? my dentist is. Oy. |
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reprehensor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-05 09:10 AM Response to Original message |
58. Atlas Shrugged... I yawned. |
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BiggJawn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-05 09:11 AM Response to Original message |
59. Well, that's that, then... |
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Straight Shooter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-05 10:28 AM Response to Original message |
63. I loved the Fountainhead, too. But I read it when I was 10 years old. |
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