[MaadDaawg]

Originally Posted by Kal-EL

yep, that sums it up pretty well

[DOM]

I'm DOOM on stream haha

[MaadDaawg]

Signed up for the MOtley Fool today. Some good stuff.

Won't post too much of what I read cause I don't want you all to get too bummed out

[lesstutrey]

Originally Posted by MaadDaawg

Signed up for the MOtley Fool today. Some good stuff.

Won't post too much of what I read cause I don't want you all to get too bummed out

Similar to stuff you'd find in the nation, the oldest news magazine in the country . Love me some The Nation. Some people say they have a liberal bias, but these people are conservatives who think that any thought different from theirs is liberal. And of course all these banks credit ratings WERE downgraded.

[MaadDaawg]

I wanted to put this in the funniest vid thread, but unfortunately, there's nothing funny about it

Before you watch, picture in your minds eye the spectacles made by various Democrats over the past weeks claiming allegiance to the "Occupy Wallstreet" protesters. Barak Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Charles Rangel, Micheal Moore and on and on and on. Funny how this group on the video constantly appears at rallies held by George Soro's army of ants...

[MaadDaawg]

Famous John Lennon song re-written to fit todays protestors

[Neuromancer]

Computer voice is annoying.

[MaadDaawg]

Originally Posted by Neuromancer

Computer voice is annoying.

lol can't argue with that one

[MaadDaawg]

If you haven't seen it, you have to see it. It is scary as all hell

Part 1 is on pay per view now.

The story, written my Ayn Rand decades ago could be based on the events of the past couple years and depicts what a lot of economists are warning about. Also depicts how progressive politicians will make it worse. (don't get pissed, just telling you about the movie)

Story starts in 2016, gas is over $36 bucks a gallon due to chaos in the middle east. There are no more commercial airlines and trains are the only economical way to ship freight.

There are extremely wealthy, and people walking around with their resumes as Vice Presidents on sandwich boards looking for work.

The politicians create laws to make everything more "fair" and destroy jobs and lives by doing so. An elete few business men are approached by an unidentified man in a hat who offers them a country where government doesn't intrude and they inevitably "disappear" as they leave the US.

Prosperous States are penalized to help the less prosperous States.

The main bad guy politician is a dead wringer for Barak Obama in his thinking and way of doing things. Only difference is he's white and overweight.

Want to see where our future is going - see the movie!

My wife actually read the novel and says the movie is true to the novel.

Many liberal organizations went to great lengths to try and stop this movie from being made. It is easy to see why while you are watching it.

Remember, this book was written several decades ago, but could have been fashioned out of today's headlines - scarier than shit man.

WATCH IT

[Neuromancer]

While I appreciate your Zeal in this current economic downturn, and considering my own proclivity towards Cyberpunk mythos style literature I think you are missing the point of the novel, err movie...

Atlas was a the guy in greek mythology that was sentenced to bear the weight of the world. Statues have him arms up and back holding the planet on his shoulders.

Shrugging (bumping your shoulders up for a second) would shake up the world. But since this is a literary sense and not a literal suggestion, the world survives the event and comes out as strong(er) as/than ever.

In effect a shake up, that betters life.

TBH; I will have to watch the movie because I do not remember the book that well, read it almost 30 years ago, when I was a prolific reader. Now I am mind numbed by Internet and have not even completed Gibson's Burning Chrome series *sigh.

EDIT: Oh, ok. I ddefintiely do not remmber the book well, Just googled the wiki bits. While they do not actively state it is an anti-communist literature... that is what it is. The Bad times are full of "statism" which in Rands timeline meant the big red scare and start of the cold war.

TBH, you dont have to play the socialist card with me, I think Republicans are pretty socialist too. Im a libertarian though. I think the feds are there to prevent states from going crazy with laws. And run the military.