Here you go.
Donald Trump’s moment of fame is over.
The only thing odd to me is it is a paper document printed on safety paper. That suggests to me the source was the hospital.
Worldnet Daily – want to double down on stupid?
My birth certificate poll question included the answer “even if I saw the long form birth certificate, I wouldn’t believe it”. That answer was moderately popular.
Ready to be over the birth certificate. The world is on fire and the Pres is out campaigning again. This birth cert is being used to distract because they know so many are finally learning & waking up to the government corruption. So gossip is good for overshadowing the more ‘boring’ and depressing news of the day.
So Art, I’m very relieved your site is still here. I confess to being a moocher; didn’t realize you wanted more 😉 Thanks for sticking around! I love all the work you’ve done. Btw: Plan to see Atlas Shrugged. I have the book … still waiting to dive in but enticed now w/ movie out because I prefer to read before movie version. Guess I better get started!
Don’t wait too long unless you plan to buy it on DVD
http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=atlasshrugged.htm
Total domestic gross is only $3 million, most of that on the opening weekend. It cost $20 million to make, which is extremely low budget.
I caught a small snippet of an interview – the film uses up a fair amount of its time showing track laying equipment replacing track with welded rail. It turns out as they were driving around, they just happened to run into a maintenance crew working on replacing rail, so they pulled over and shot video of it. There is an obvious difference in the quality, but the price was right for taking the video.
Being the railroad geek that I am, I noticed that some of the video was showing putting down concrete ties, and part was reballasting wood ties, and they were run together as if it was all part of the same operation.
In Reardon’s Steel Mill, they’re busy making rail for Dagney’s rail line in Colorado, but the actual steel mill footage is clearly making pipe 🙂
The scene at the abandoned auto plant where they find John Galt’s engine – they are stunned by all the advanced technology they find in the secret lab, but didn’t make any attempt to fabricate some goofy looking technology device.
Approach it like going to see your child sing at a school concert. You’re there because of your love, not because you think you’re at Carnegie Hall.
Frankly, I believe the ‘progressives’ have made a coordinated and concerted effort to bury the film, Rand, and her message.
There are several examples of lower budget films (certainly with less quality than Atlas Shrugged) having been box office successes… ‘Blair Witch Project’ comes to mind.
My guess is, there are two general groups of people seeing it:
1) those who’ve read the book, and anticipate a masterpiece
2)those who have not, and are expecting to be ‘entertained’
How do you capture this book (part 1) on film for $20 million?
When I heard the production budget and saw the trailer, my initial thought was what Art has stated in his last line above.
The question is, will DVD sales & licensing generate enough revenue to cover the production, and do it again for part two?
If they can find a way to make it pay, we might end up with a classic (if not cult) trilogy… if not, part 1 will become a curiosity.
My understanding is that Ayn Rand put the condition on the movie that it could never be made unless the John Galt speech at the end was given verbatim. On the audio book versions, the speech takes an hour to read.
Splitting the movie into three pieces was a way to sidestep that issue. It seems unlikely now there will be a part 2. I’m positive there was never any intent to make part 3.
Back to your first point – having been listening to Beck for a while and sensitized, when I read the book, she makes several references to Progressives, generally in a positive light. I think it may be a mistake to assume Ayn Rand would not have called herself a progressive.
One of her resentments was after the Russian Revolution, the new people in charge limited women from attending college as that wasn’t their “role”, even if they had been a daughter of a rich man. The only way she attended college was to study movie making and theater – none of that hard science stuff that women just can’t understand.
When she came to the United States, she moved to Hollwood with the idea of being involved in movie production. Her writing career was something of an accident.
For the 1950s, such a strong female character being the dominant character was probably perceived as being Progressive for its time.
Actually, that’s why I put ‘progressives’ in quotes… one would think progressives would be the champions of the protagonist (Dagny).
Of course, progressive is now just a code word co-opted by socialists.
I wanted to comment on your analysis of the book (you posted elsewhere) … space only permits me to opine that central planning is not the problem so much as central authority/power.
For example: Rand’s Taggart Tunnel disaster appears to be drawn directly from a real train accident in NYC (1902), which resulted in the modernization of Grand Central Station.
No large project can be done without central planning. It was centralized authority & power which resulted in the Taggart Tunnel accident.
Rand left Russia around the same time that my grandfather left Ukraine… I think both saw the writing on the wall with the Soviet system and witnessed -first hand- the problem (dangers) of combining centralized power AND planning.
WorldNet Daily is starting to react. They are still putting Birth Certificate in quotes.
The Certificate of Live birth has his mother’s signature on it, the signature of the doctor and the name of the hospital, along with the date and time of his birth and it has a non-redacted serial number stamped on the document.
It looks like the path they are thinking they should go down now is “Yeah, so what if he was born in Hawaii and his mother was a U.S. Citizen – that still doesn’t mean he is allowed to be President”.
WorldNet Daily needs to get a grip on itself and apologize. Not to President Obama, but to its readers. President Obama set you up. You jumped right into his trap and fell for it hook, line and sinker for two years. Corsi is a Democrat.
Unless of course WorldNet Daily is itself a Democratic disinformation site to make “Conservatives” look like morons.
Now seeing the uncropped image, it’s clearer what this is (consistent with what I expected). This is not the original – it’s the microfilm image that has been printed on safety paper (to prevent alteration) and signed and authenticated by the State of Hawaii 2 days ago.
I’m convinced.
I don’t think the controversy is over…I think it’s just beginning!
Why wait 2+ years unless you’ve got something to hide?
Why spend $2,000,000 to seal your academic records?
He’s had plenty of time to back-stop this stuff. U.S. Marshall Service does it all the time with WitSec (Witness Security, formerly known as Witness Protection Program).
Sorry, but the whole issue has been clouded by Obama’s efforts to conceal every aspect of his past: from birth to Harvard Law Review… where’s the ‘transparency’.
I might add that Obama’s citizenship status is still dubious, since it appears he renounced his U.S. citizenship when he became a citizen (national) of Indonesia.
My point is: either we have a Constitution which we enforce and uphold, or we don’t.