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Robert P. Murphy will be on The Angel Clark Show! *GASP*

Tomorrow night (Wednesday) I will have the Robert P. Murphy on the show!

Read some of his writings here!

Go ahead and send me any questions you have for him!  Tweet me!

Mike Protack’s plan to “Reform the Delaware GOP”

I told you I would do it! Here’s Mike Protack’s website! Check out his plan to revamp the Delaware GOP!

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Tonight’s show: Michael Badnarik & County affairs

Tonight’s show feature’s Michael Badnarik.  Here’s his website.

He has a webinar tomorrow night you may sign up for here.

We will also be continuing a local discussion regarding the sheriff’s office.  You may watch the video to hear some of the highlights from the previous segment here:

Listen LIVE  and enjoy from 7-9 EST!

Atlas Shrugged review & products: Book vs. Movie

This weekend was a great weekend for me.  The two hours where I watched Atlas Shrugged Part One completely overwhelmed anything else that I did.  I promised my listeners a review and this is my reluctant review.  Reluctant, not due to a lack of excitement, more due to a fear that I will be unable to do the movie the justice that it deserves.

A review I read by Jack Hunter called Atlas Shrugged Part One “one of the best mediocre movies you’ll ever see”.  If you have not read the book and simply want to see a “blow-em-up” movie, this is not the film for you.  If you have not read the book but are an activist for capitalism, this could be your kind of movie.  In other words, this is not a “date movie”, not a “chick flick”, and I doubt that Michael Moore will be singing the praises of this movie any time soon.

If you read the book by Ayn Rand and loved it, you will love this movie.  I will start my opinion, although there may be some spoilers…

A review that I read railed the creator of this film for using “no-name actors“.  Although Angelina Jolie and Charlize Theron may have been “wooed” for the role of Dagny Taggart, Taylor Schilling did a great job.  Also I didn’t think of other roles she had played while I was watching the film.  The character of Dagny was written as a highly confident being, confident due to her own intelligence, drive, and dedication.  She is portrayed as a great human being.  Great human beings employ their intellectual ability to create the values on which human life depends.  Dagny is written as a character that is cold and aloof to the average looter and Taylor Schilling plays this part well.

Some of the secondary actors were mediocre in their portrayals, but that simply means they didn’t match the character I had in my mind.

Some other things which were going through my mind as I watched this film? Well, the main one was sadness.  I wasn’t sad because of the state of the movie, I was sad because of the state of the world in which this movie takes place.  As I saw the occasional “dazzling” smile as a result of a job well done, all I could do was think of the despair which would soon consume this society.  As I watched legislation overpower business, as I watched states taxed for their underprivileged neighbors, as I watched all incentive for people to work hard be eliminated incrementally it was all I could do to keep from screaming at the screen: “It’s only going to get worse!  This is just the beginning!”

When I left the theater I was quiet, truly quiet, for some time.  My mind kept replaying the anguished scream of Dagny Taggart (one which a companion of mine mocked but it brought tears to my eyes).  When reading a fictional book it is easy to become engrossed.  You build the character in your mind and you associate the philosophy to the aspects of life you deem appropriate.  When a good movie is made from that fictional book you immediately transfer actions and philosophy from that book to the new image of the character you now have.  When I heard that scream from Dagny Taggart (Taylor Schilling), a scream filled with raw pain and frustration, I was unsure whether I would be able to watch the second film in public.  I will have a difficult time watching the world beat up on the movers, that is sure.

My final statements?

Watch the movie, read the book, do it in whichever order you feel necessary, but do it all the same.

Products I want to see (as capitalists they should totally go there):

The cigarettes, you know the ones:

He produced a package of cigarettes and extended it to her [...] It was a plain white package that bore, as a single imprint, the sign of the dollar [...] There was no printing on the package, no trade name, no address, only the dollar sign stamped in gold. The cigarettes bore the same sign.

I would love a pack of those…

The bracelet:

The bracelet symbolizes the value created by Hank Rearden’s long struggle to invent Rearden metal. When he gives it to Lillian Rearden as a present she says, “It’s fully as valuable as a piece of railroad rails.” However, Lillian fully grasps the significance of the gift; her snide remark is her way of denigrating her husband’s ethos.

Lillian wears this bracelet at a party thrown on her anniversary. She makes fun of it all night long, and when Dagny Taggart hears Lillian say she would gladly trade it for a common diamond bracelet, Dagny takes her up on it.

They do a great job with this bracelet in the movie.  It was beautiful!  I want one (preferably made of silver since I can’t get Rearden’s metal)! They obviously saw this request coming…

All in all, I liked the book better, the movie was a bit rushed (believe it or not).  However the movie was rushed due to necessity and short attention spans (be honest, you have one).  I will be purchasing the movie on DVD as soon as it is out, but the book will still hold a higher place in my heart.

Is Atlas Shrugging? Take this small quiz to get you in the mood for the movie release! Then take my poll!

I was sent this seemingly innocent quiz.  It’s harder than you’d think! Take it and share it!

Is Atlas Shrugging?

Vance Phillips & Jeff Christopher…

Last night my Talk Show had some serious tension.  For those of you who were unable to listen, the audio has been put up here.

I will be making a YouTube video of the highlights, I just haven’t gotten there yet.

So, Sussex County Council Member Vance Phillips has issues with the budget requests of Sussex County Sheriff Jeff Christopher.

 

As promised, I have published two different documents given to me by Vance Phillips.

Here is his opening statement from the “Great Conservative Debate”.

Here is the hand-out he provided at the “Great Conservative Debate”.

 

Both Vance Phillips and Jeff Christopher will be in the studio together on Monday, April 18th, during The Angel Clark Show to field listener calls on this matter as well as discuss the issue with each other.

 

If you have a question for either of them and would care to submit them beforehand please email them to me at Angel@WGMD.com or you could always Tweet me!

Bill O’Connell – Tonight’s guest!

Tonight we have the Activism Around America segment featuring: Bill O’Connell! Learn more about Bill (and his soon to be released book) here!

Author, political blogger urges Americans to use their voices in new book

NEW YORK – From “hope and change” and the Tea Party movement to the revolutions happening across the Middle East, people taking a collective stand has redefined the political landscape around the world, yet most American citizens still consider themselves powerless when it comes to making a difference in political issues.

But if political blogger and author Bill O’Connell has anything to do with it, Americans will find their voice, get off the sideline and start speaking up – more than ever before. Whether it’s for or against teachers unions, health care reform or any other political issue, O’Connell believes a single vote every two or four years isn’t enough to preserve American liberties. In his new book, Liberty’s Lifeline: Engaging the Grassroots Movement to Stop the Erosion of American Freedoms (Bridgeway Books, April 2011), O’Connell offers concrete steps for seeing real change in Washington.

“We are facing perilous times,” O’Connell says. “Our government is spending at an accelerating pace and encroaching on our liberties at the same time. It’s time for the people to get into the arena.” Liberty’s Lifeline takes a hard look at governmental policies, pointing out the urgent need for citizen involvement in politics, while avoiding the mudslinging that so often accompanies American politics. Based on his political blog entries, Liberty’s Lifeline tackles the day’s most prominent issues, including health care, the fiscal crisis and the war on terror. O’Connell compares politics today to those of the Founding Fathers and discusses America’s need for political competence.

“There is an arrogance among the governing class that says they are far better qualified to solve America’s tough problems and tell us how to live our lives, never mind that this country was built by millions of individual men and women who solved their problems without asking for the government’s help or advice,” says O’Connell.

You can check out Bill’s website – Liberty’s Lifeline – and make sure you listen tonight!

A listener compilation: Medical Marijuana in Delaware

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DelDOT returned the poles, they were just broken and had to be picked up… PICS here

The March Sadness story continues:

Please view the before and after condition of the basketball poles here:

The above picture is the “Before” image. Now check out the “After”

You can view the 14 different images I saw here.