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Monday, March 5. 2007

Atlas at 50

"I refuse to apologize for my ability – I refuse to apologize for my success – I refuse to apologize for my money."

Atlas Shrugged at fifty. Second most influential book for Americans, after the Bible. Skousen in the CSM.

Posted by Bird Dog in Politics at 19:33 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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well ya learn sump'n new ev'r day. All this time I was think'n that Atlas Shrugged was an event in the Worl's Strongest Man contest...you know, some beefy dude lifts 25 Hooter girls overhead, drops 'em and just shugs it off...you know..no pain,no gain.
Now I find this is a sex novel with narcissistic, mechanical , and violence. I don't see a problem there, I'll still respect her later in the hour if I can remember her name.....does the hero have a Hemi? I guess I'll never know 'cause 1200 pages is almost a years read'n and hell how my gonna remember them folks all year when I'm suppose to be find'n myself, remember?
Can't we get another boat picture? Them's easy. Or a bird report?
Well, like Dirty Harry said, "Sometime a man's gotta know his lemon-taters" ..I reck'n when I find myself I'll spend some time find'n them too. i just hope it don't turn into to one of them Sybil thangs or I'll never get in that half hour of narssistic,violent stuff. Oh yeah, this violent thang. Did the dude work postal stuff?
#1 Habu on 2007-03-05 23:14 (Reply)
Never read it. The people who love it are so obnoxious. Devil take the hindmost. Sorry all, present company excepted.
#2 retriever on 2007-03-06 17:03 (Reply)

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