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Ayn Rand Reviews Children’s Movies
The New Yorker | December 18, 2014 | Mallory Ortberg

Posted on 12/21/2014 12:21:17 PM PST by iowamark

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To: Kirkwood
She had no tolerance for religion.

She also hated President Reagan. And, not surprisingly, Rand was in favor of slaughtering the yet-to-be born.

21 posted on 12/21/2014 2:56:48 PM PST by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: iowamark

The Wizard of Oz

A Murderess, a Moron, a Heartless Misanthrope, and a Coward go on a journey together to seek government largess from a wise ruler who demands they pay for his favors by actually WORKING for it.

So they invade an the home of an elderly single woman, murder her, and steal her belongings.

The Wise and Wonderful ruler is not fooled by this ruse and gives them worthless, phoney rewards, and tricks Dorothy, an illegal immigrant, into using a magic pair of shoes to go back to where she came from.

Given the depression-Era time of this period piece, it is an excellent allegory against the new Deal, and that socialism is just a dream or an illusion.

The only downside was the featuring of a dog rather than a cat, and the absence of trains.


22 posted on 12/21/2014 4:15:13 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Publius

A bit of silliness that you might enjoy...or not! LOL!


23 posted on 12/21/2014 4:16:10 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: stormer

She’d be totally out of her element with those.


24 posted on 12/21/2014 4:19:37 PM PST by rabidralph
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To: iowamark

That was excellent! :)


25 posted on 12/21/2014 4:20:16 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: iowamark
STAR WARS

A very successful and enterprising yet demanding father tries in vain to influence his indolent son to enter the family business. Their strained relationship causes friction between the father and his employer. There are no cats or trains.

26 posted on 12/21/2014 4:33:05 PM PST by abishai
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To: Publius

Some of them are really good. I got the book by Bill finally too.


27 posted on 12/21/2014 5:42:21 PM PST by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: left that other site

Oh dear God, I’m laughing so hard I can’t breathe!!!!!


28 posted on 12/21/2014 6:12:57 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: wally_bert

Encourage your friends to form a book club and use our book. Billthedrill and I really need the royalties.


29 posted on 12/21/2014 6:14:31 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: Publius

It’s amazing how absolutely viral this has become on Twitter. Ayn Rand LIVES!


30 posted on 12/21/2014 10:12:22 PM PST by Misterioso ("Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: stormer
Perhaps next she can do Christian themed movies..

You are aware that these aren't real, aren't you?

31 posted on 12/21/2014 10:16:12 PM PST by Misterioso ("Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future" -- Ayn Rand)
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