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What if instead of Dagny...?

Posted by j_IR1776wg 10 years, 1 month ago to Philosophy
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What if instead of Dagny, Nancy Pelosi had been flying that plane? Would John have brought her to his home? What if Al Sharpton was her passenger? Would he have hit up Midas for a bribe to keep the Gulch a secret? What would the Strikers have done?


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  • Posted by RobMorse 10 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    That sounds like fun. My wife and I were enjoying the plane along with the memories of flying off dirt strips.
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 10 years, 1 month ago
    Hello j_IR1776wg,
    Hand her a broom and tell her to fly away, fly away home!
    Regards,
    O.A.
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  • Posted by katrinam41 10 years, 1 month ago
    Maybe they would not survive the crash... with a little help... then the plane would have been relocated far away and burned... never thought I'd ever be so bloodthirsty, but times change and these are very dangerous times.
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  • Posted by Owlsrayne 10 years, 1 month ago
    I would blindfold them then throw them back in the plane. Fly them to Tunguska Siberia with each a tomahawk and matches. At least this would be slightly more humane. At least the mosquitoes and hungry flies would something new on their menu.
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  • Posted by sfdi1947 10 years, 1 month ago
    Would have never made it to the Gulch, the DDS's would have been smeared on the wall of Mountain King Utah at the first turn.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 1 month ago
    That scenario would have called for the huge can of Raid I discussed in the Producers' Lounge.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 10 years, 1 month ago
    Now that's not just Fantasy Fiction that's a F''n nightmare. Not to worry By the time Pelosillyni demanded and got a full time USAF jet her only thought would be harvesting what ever else is growing on that taxpayer funded grape farm of hers in the Napa Valley. Nancy and Al? Only if he was investing in Jiffy Lube franchises. The third answer is LTAO. Had me going there for a while.
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  • Posted by term2 10 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    which is why the mormons probably encouraged it. Might have been a shortage of males and they wanted more believers to be born. Personally I think a man who takes on more than one wife prob should be put in a nuthouse instead of a jail !! One woman at a time would be quite enough...
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  • Posted by 10 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    I agree as long as they were all consenting adults. I believe that polygamy, however, reduces humans to animals wherein the male's only purpose is to pass on his genes.
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  • Posted by term2 10 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    It would be sort of a cult, and we see how that works out for the mormons, branch dividians, etc. We have religious freedom in name, but if its not mainstream religion or close to it, there are issues. I just dont get it why the mormons were so persecuted for polygamy. Who cares really....
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  • Posted by 10 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Your point is well taken. The larger the population of a Gulch, the more likely the possibility of disclosure.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    I thought that it is constant delusion. But then, there is that wide-eyed look...maybe hallucination is right.
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  • Posted by kevinw 10 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Surrounded by people spewing logic and reason, it wouldn't be long before her head would explode. Problem solved.
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  • Posted by term2 10 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    I think ONLY a virtual gulch can exist today in an NSA populated world.Like minded people can hide in plain sight and trade with each other to the exclusion of trading with others where possible. Given the communication technology of today, I think THAT IS possible. To the extent a large enough group could electronically communicate and trade, one would not need to rely on the paper dollars as much. ALONGSIDE NIGHT is a good book to see how this might work. Groups of "guard gated" communities of maybe 10 like-minded families could exist without garnering a lot of attention.
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  • Posted by Temlakos 10 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Sadly, Rand never once addressed the question of the security of a rebel movement when an Imperial agent compromises their location.

    Now maybe Dr. Hendrix, the neurosurgeon, could induce a coma, confine her to bed, and feed her intravenously. But it would be a lot more expedient to set her at some kind of labor.

    If I were a Gulch resident, I would not only offer myself as her guard and warden, but would apply for the position, and argue loudly before the Committee of Safety that (a) she needs to hear from one of the "unpersons" who landed in the Gulch because she and her fellow looters left me with no opportunity, and (b) I'm the one to give her an earful. That, of course, would be the string on her living under my roof: that she would have to listen to me.
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  • Posted by JCLanier 10 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Temlakos: I'm not so sure I could sleep with Pelosi in the Gulch weaving her webs of deceit. And yes, as you stated, if she was ever released (without having a lobotomy) she would certainly rat out everyone. So, either she's flown out before she even begins to know where she is or she occupies the first place in the Gulch cemetery.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 10 years, 1 month ago
    had it been Nancy, the wicked witch of the west,
    they would have fixed her plane, speaking in some
    code among one another, and sent her packing
    post-haste. . . and used the Men-In-Black eraser
    on her at the last minute. -- j

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