Raymond, a former campaign manager, explains that elections can be rigged, but “we’re not talking about what people often think about, like ballot box stuffing” He goes on to explain that as a campaign manager, it’s your job to engineer consent and play on the emotions of the voting public.

It’s the manager’s job is to develop a message that people want to hear and lay out the message in such a way that joe public thinks s/he knows the reason their voting for their candidate. In fact, a campaign manager develops an orchestrated response in the form of votes for their candidate:

“once you are all said and done and deliver a message two plus two equals whatever I want it to equal.”

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Roni recommends doing it every year for 21 days, or four times a year for seven days. In a recent television interview, she corrected the talk show host, explaining it is a detox program and not really a diet. In any case, participants lose an amazing amount of weight while on the detox. The key point with this diet/detox program is that it involves no chewing, requires you to drink vegtable juices every two hours, and is entirely composed of different liquids. Asparagus Juice. Yum.

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From our perspective, it looks like Roni would be doing well to gain a few pounds.

One of theFutonPoncho editors is very familiar with loosing massive amounts of weight in a short time, but it is a full time job and it involves a bicycle. The weight loss in 2006 was 10 days and 10 pounds, and in 2007 it was 22 pounds in seven days! You rarely feel hungry, and since you are eating a balance of dietary fat, protein and carbohydrates, it is likely one of the healthiest weight loss programs available. Not only that, instead of being drudgery, it’s an exciting adventure and it is fun! Read more about how to lose a pound a day the healthy way; on a bicycle trail at GITride.com

Ayn Rand wrote Atlas Shrugged and might best be known for the book: The Fountainhead which was adapted into a screenplay starring Gary Cooper.

Atlas Shrugged, a stand alone novel, written in 1957, weaves a story of industrialist profit seekers pitted against government program administrators bend on taxing those profits to benefit the greater good of society -but as the Government grows stronger and more fascist, the successful leaders of industry begin to disappear.

Her books stress a philosophy that has been embraced and has notable follower-celebrities including Alan Greenspan who was once a part of her New York group “The Collective.” The basic premise of the philosophy is that mans greatest virtue is based upon self interest and reward; that in striving to fulfill this self interest, s/he acts as a valuable contributor to society. In short, it deifies man in rational selfishness.

For what it is worth, TheFutonPoncho votes Antonio Banderas for the part of  Francisco d’Anconia.