Cast recommendations for Atlas Shrugged: Now Non-Fiction?

Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 2 months ago to Movies
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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.

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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Many months later, winterwind, I saw more of the story about the personal computer company in Utah that Steve Jobs stole the idea from. From what I read, it looks like you or your husband may have been part of that company. Am I right about this?
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Actually Edison was probably more like Galt. Most people forget that as soon as JP Morgan did his consolidation of Westinghouse and Edison Electric into GE, Edison never set foot into GE.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    To some extent, Tesla was like Galt, but Tesla died a pauper because he sold his patent royalties to save Westinghouse's company. Granted, the circumstances were pretty dire, but ...
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  • Posted by $ amiga 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Where I draw the line is bribing the government to pass favorable legislation - and having collusive congresscritters, of course.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    George Mitchell of Mitchell Energy (not the former senator) would be cast as Ellis Wyatt, I suppose.
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  • Posted by jspringr 10 years, 2 months ago
    This will be fun!
    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
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  • Posted by amagi 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    John Kerry, yes, but where ? Someone today
    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...?
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The current GM CEO is a typical Obama stooge and probably would make a good Mr. Larkin from Starnesville. Someone made a comment about Detroit looking like Starnesville. Boy was that person right. I went to grad school in Ann Arbor in the 90's after Detroit had already gone down a lot, but now ....
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    In fact, the current GM CEO is at least the second (and I think the third) since Obama "nationalized" GM and Chrysler.

    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.
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  • Posted by plusaf 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I remember your comment to that effect, but the current GM CEO might not have been part of that 'Obama-Deal.' I don't know. Condolences on your parents' loss.

    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.
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  • Posted by Temlakos 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    In fact, maybe we should remember: aside from Dagny Taggart, Hank Rearden, and the Triumvirs, there's little reason to insist on preserving gender identities of the characters.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I thought I knew the Jobs history pretty well, but I hadn't heard about this one. I stand corrected.

    Steve Jobs goes down.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Please don't remind me of GM. My parents had $100 K in GM bonds before the Obama administration offered him $225 (not thousand) for them as part of the "cash for clunkers" bailout.
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  • Posted by $ winterwind 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I am not referring to Xerox. I am referring to the theft of the original personal computer from a small company in Utah which was delighted to show off its technology.
    so, No to Jobs
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