[mattduke]

Damn the Randians are nuts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoAWCwm-UXw

[Satori]

now that was downright scary
scary that O'Reilly was the sane one in that conversation

ol' Leonard is ready to send your sons into the meat grinder
I wonder if he or his is gonna be tagging along
I bet not
just another in a long long line of chickenhawks

[dissident]

The one-note Johnny drivel about Iran is always there with these kooks. The right target after 9/11 was Saudi Arabia, the one that exports the Wahabbi terrorist jihad around the world and where the 9/11 hijackers were from. Iran has nothing to do with the global jihad and Wahabbism. So this monkey's whole spiel about civilians being a legitimate target because their host country is "aggressing" against the US is a load of crap a mile high. In the case of Iran the country doing all the "aggressing" is the US, so using his logic all US civilians are legitimate targets.

[AdTheNad]

I was actually laughing at how crazy and hypocritical that nut bar was.

Here's my thought process:
This guy is mental, is he really a spokesperson for the Ayn Rand Institute? (re watch the intro) He's the founder! WTF? And he's a doctor is he? A doctor of what (quick google search) A doctor of philosophy. I don't think he'll be going down in history as one of the greats.

The video was from at least June 2008 if not before, so I'm not sure why it is doing the rounds now.

[Satori]

"The video was from at least June 2008 if not before, so I'm not sure why it is doing the rounds now"

da CrAZy has a life of its own

[PrestonSturges]

When I was at the Glenn Beck rally with all the elderly folks who arrived in their church vans, some little old lady said "We just started reading Ayn Rand!" I wanted to tell her "Lady, Ayn Rand would have dropped napalm on this crowd!" But I let it pass.

[Satori]

http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/149721 ... eded_them/

of course Randians deny this

but there does seem to be quite a bit of evidence.....

at any rate
the poor woman was a nutjob
maybe even a bit sociopathic

[dissident]

Rand should have experienced the 1920s in certain coal mining towns like Matewan. Life as a serf in her corporatist utopia would have been just grand. The label "state capitalism" for the communism she so loathed is quite appropriate. And the thing is that in the absence of the much maligned state, the corporations rule as the de facto state but with none of the benefits.

All highly distilled and simplified ideologies are BS. Reality is much too complex for the human brain to handle.

[Beery1]

I thought all I needed to know about the Randians was that they're all complete nutters.

[rangerone314]

Randians purists are as nutty as Scientologists.