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1 posted on 11/24/2009 12:48:54 PM PST by Bodhi1
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Kirk installed a subroutine in the simulator's programming which allowed him to win

Kirk was a meteorologist for the CRU?

2 posted on 11/24/2009 12:50:19 PM PST by agere_contra
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Beam me up, Scotty. I’m tired of this s*it.


3 posted on 11/24/2009 12:52:59 PM PST by hoe_cake (A member of the Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Constitution.)
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7 posted on 11/24/2009 12:55:40 PM PST by dfwgator
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Gault’s way is out. He had a place to run to. There are no more places like that so Kirk and we conservatives have to take back our “place”. (the whole USA) And like our opposition (liberals, Marxist, communist,Democrats)and we have to do it any damn way we can. What ever it takes. I hope not with arms but it may come to that in the future.
8 posted on 11/24/2009 12:56:20 PM PST by fish hawk (It's sad that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov)
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Galt: "I swear by my Life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for the sake of mine."

Kirk: "KAHN!!!!!!!"

9 posted on 11/24/2009 12:58:12 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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I miss the Shat.....


10 posted on 11/24/2009 12:59:31 PM PST by Sybeck1 (Mmmm, Mmmm, Mmmm.......)
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Consider someone who actually lived: George Washington. He backed away from many conflicts to save his Army to fight again on another day on his own terms. When the time was right, he hit back - HARD and completely by surprise.

You don’t have to choose Kirk or Galt. You can be a Washington.


11 posted on 11/24/2009 1:01:15 PM PST by Kirkwood
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It doesn’t matter who you follow.....just stay well away from the fifth person in the five-man landing party!!


12 posted on 11/24/2009 1:02:43 PM PST by Logic n' Reason (If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got.)
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And then there are days where I feel more like Captain Kirk, wanting to confront the ideas of collectivism and Marxism and explain to people that that road leads to the destruction of the individual.

You mean like Ayn Rand did? While confronting the evil of collectivism she justified the removal of the sanction of the victim. Kirk and Galt, combined.

13 posted on 11/24/2009 1:03:14 PM PST by Misterioso (The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. -- Ayn Rand)
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The writer neglects to add that the “rebooted Star Trek” is an insane failure of a drama in which cadets are given command of capital ships, the timeline is twisted for dramatic effect (i.e. lazy writing), and idiotic special effects substitute for the real physical universe. “Star Trek” is what many have become: observers who want to be taken care of despite reality. And as many of us know, reality is something that is strictly enforced, sooner or later.


15 posted on 11/24/2009 1:03:47 PM PST by pabianice
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Any body knows you can't follow Galt!!!!! He was a fictional character!

Now Kirk....he's real.....or.....ummmm.....er.....will be real!

17 posted on 11/24/2009 1:04:16 PM PST by Logic n' Reason (If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got.)
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How many hot, green, alien chicks did John Galt get it on with?


20 posted on 11/24/2009 1:11:05 PM PST by tnlibertarian
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Is America too far gone?

Yes.

I'm thinking, "walk" until AFTER the collapse, then fight like hell to re-establish the Constitution, with the following small changes:

1) A line item veto for the president will be included.
2) Term limits for both houses of congress will be dictated.
3) NO mention of "the General Welfare" shall appear anywhere in the document. It has proven too confusing for some to understand.
4) The phrase "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State" will be removed from the Bill of Rights.
5) The death penalty shall be mandated for ANY elected federal official who accepts money from ANY individual or corporation lobbying for ANY legislation; said penalty shall be carried out via hanging by the neck until dead on a gallows constructed on the front steps of the Capitol building for the express purpose of executing corrupt elected federal officials.

24 posted on 11/24/2009 1:16:26 PM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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I would love to run to Galts Gulch (the American continent) but this is the last place to run to. Picture Gandolph on the rope bridge....at this place we STAND.

This country does not need the right people in place to run smoothly or improve even more. It needs a govt that lives within the rules. Courts that jealously defend the letter of the law. Lawmakers that work within the rules and guard against the Judiciary and the Executive, and a strong Executive with the fear of being kicked out of office if he steps on the toes of either one.

Of course we need upstanding people within these branches, but mostly we just need rules that are followed. Wouldn't it be nice if govt was out of line, you could handle it locally? States rights, they are important and are the keystone of our Republic. Too bad those idiots in Europe haven't figured out that if they emulated the US in its early years, they could have both a strong Republic, and a strong voice within their homeland.

25 posted on 11/24/2009 1:20:44 PM PST by runninglips (It was just time for this to come to a head.....)
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I know many believe that things are unfolding as they should, to bring the Anti-christ to power, and thus bring Jesus Christs return. This leads some to fatalism, or to concentrate on salvation and ignore politics.

America's founding fathers were mostly strong Christians, (that can only be argued otherwise, if you ignore their writings and what contemporaries wrote about them.) But Benjamin Franklin leaned towards Deism, a belief that God may have created, but other than that he has kept his hands off. After the great conflict of the revolution and with time for reflection, it was Benjamin Franklin that called for daily prayer citing that God does listen and answer our prayers as they all knew and experianced. In other words, he changed his mind.

It is not ungodly to be in conflict against evil, it is our heratige. Conflict seems to have a way of clarifiing our thinking like nothing else. It is good and right to take the Fascists head on, and now is the time. The outcome is in God's hands, and whatever it is, we can not lose.

26 posted on 11/24/2009 1:21:07 PM PST by D Rider
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So the resigning governor Sarah “Shrugged” just like Ayn Rand’s John Galt, then, di’n’t she?


27 posted on 11/24/2009 1:21:35 PM PST by flowerplough ( Pennsylvania today - New New Jersey meets North West Virginia.)
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And he took the best of the best with him. One by one he talked the heads of industry into disappearing, leaving the looters to search for another mine to strip.

That's the problem with fiction. It's easy to set up your own boogeyman and then knock them down.

In real life, it's the heads of industry that are the looters and they aren't likely to follow someone like Galt.

29 posted on 11/24/2009 1:23:14 PM PST by Ol' Dan Tucker (People should not be afraid of the government. Governement should be afraid of the people)
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It's a little hard to tell. Galt was reluctant to kill anyone but his buddy Francisco d'Anconia wasn't at all. So if "follow Galt" means hipshooting marauding union thugs with a revolver in each hand, then sign me up. James T. Kirk never did that.

The question, of course, is a metaphor for the real one, does one fight or try nonviolent civil disobedience first? That assumes there is a choice. Given the proclivity of the Left for bloodshed toward class enemies, we may not have one.

36 posted on 11/24/2009 3:13:55 PM PST by Billthedrill
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