LOSING IT TO THE LOSERS
Re: Ben Stein’s
We’ve
Figured Him Out:
Brilliant!
— Lynne Pauls Baron
Killingworth, Connecticut
Yes, liberty lost will be hard to get back. Since bureaucracy is
made of people, it will fight for its survival, as libertarians
do individually and communists do collectively. It seems the post
1960s educated crowd say the middle way is good government, so
the goobers don’t get the shaft — yeah, sure.
— Vern Villarino
I like Ben Stein, but come on, the part about Hillary “giving
Iran the go-ahead to have a nuclear weapon” is pretty a
far-fetched interpretation of her statement:
“We want Iran to calculate what I think is a fair assessment,
that if the U.S. extends a defense umbrella over the region, if
we do even more to support the military capacity of those in
the gulf, it’s unlikely that Iran will be any stronger or
safer, because they won’t be able to intimidate and dominate,
as they apparently believe they can, once they have a nuclear
weapon.”
If you want to remain credible, then link to the exact statement
you mean or else don’t try to stretch the truth. The worst thing
for conservatives is that they get fired up and lose credibility
in the eyes of the left.
— J.D. Smith
Thank you so very very much for your insight in this, I wish all
Americans could see this now!
— S. Nanette
In case you haven’t heard, Ben, we’re having a drought in Texas.
Of course, we’re always having a drought, but this one’s a bit
toasty, 36 days (usually about 12) so far this year, of 100+
degrees. Now, under these conditions, what should come into my
mind after reading your article? Why, the Kingston Trio and their
Merry Minuet, of course. So, with a few editorial changes, here
it is, for the benefit of, oh, I don’t know, how about our Mr.
Hope and Change. Do you think he reads TAS?
(And fellow TAS readers, if you don’t know the original
lyrics, Google it! That’s what I’m told when I ask a question.)
Merry Minuet (50 years later)
They’re fighting in Columbia (FARC - Freeing All Repressed
Communists)
They’re starving in Spain (poor Seville)
There’s hurricanes in Florida (well, not yet, but there will
be)
AND TEXAS NEEDS RAIN!!
The whole world is festering with unhappy souls (government run
healthcare)
The French hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles (still
crazy after all these years)
Italians hate Yugoslavs (wait, is that Croatia or Serbia? I’m
confused), South Africans hate the Dutch (and us)
AND FRANKLY, MR. HOPE AND CHANGE, YOU DON’T SEEM TO LIKE ANYBODY
VERY MUCH!! (especially to the Cambridge police)
But we can be tranquil, and thankful and proud,
‘Cause we have Barack, there’s no mushroom-shaped cloud.
Still, I’d bet for certain that some lovely day,
Someone will set the spark off, (Kim Jung-il?)
AND WE WILL ALL BE BLOWN AWAY!!
They’re fighting in Columbia
There’s strife in Iran (Is ACORN over there, too?)
What nature doesn’t do to us (Wow, 50 years, how did Al Gore know
way back then?)
Will be done by our fellow Ameri-CAN!!
— Mike Showalter
Austin, Texas
I believe a winning theme for Conservatives and Republicans in
coming elections is that representatives will take the same
medicine they give us. That would include health care, social
security, and the same financial disclosure and ethics
regulations the rest of us abide by.
— David Weiss
Thanks, Ben. Put some more eyedrops in. Once again, you, Peggy
Noonan, George Will, and the rest of the “Conservatives” that are
part of the Washington Inner Circle are a year late and
a trillion dollars short.
— John Taylor
OUT OF MANY, THE ONE
Re: The Prowler’s Profiling
Obama:
“One of the recommendations, according to sources: American
officials shouldn’t identify themselves as representatives of the
United States. Rather…they should identify themselves as a
‘representative of President Barack Obama.’” Sure, why not? It
worked well for Louis XIV, King George III, and more recently for
Stalin, Hitler, Peron and Chavez.
America is not one person. Remember it is E Pluribus Unum and
never the reverse.
— I.M. Kessel
“‘The President chose action, in part because we saw this story
eclipsing other issues and narratives that we needed front and
center for August,’ says the White House source.”
Translation: Barack Obama would’ve done and would do nothing but
for at least a couple of actualities. One, the nightmare of
Obamacare and the specter of Waxman-Markey, coupled with the
failure of Porkulus I, are causing Obama’s popularity to
nose-dive. Two, essentially, there is mass public rejection of
Obama’s ideology and what appears to be a revolt within the
Democrat Party over the no-longer-can-be-hidden socialist
anti-American agenda of the president and Democrat Party
leadership.
One wonders: Absent an apology from Obama, why is the police
officer actually going to meet with two men who appear to be
racial discord incarnate waiting to express itself—and two men
who appear to have no grasp what a true “teachable” moment is?
One also wonders: Have Obama and Gates, both whom seem to carry
huge racial chips on their shoulders, ever heard that old saw:
Give a man a hammer and everything looks like a nail?
— C. Kenna Amos Jr.
Princeton , W.Va. 24740
ACTING STUPIDLY
Re: Robert M. Goldberg’s Questions
I Never Asked Obama:
Illegals should not be getting anything. They are illegal. We
sure are stupid aren’t we?
— Granville D. Ray
TAXPAYER FUNDED DANCING AND BONDING
Re: Ben Stein’s No
Meetings on the Table:
Ben has an uncanny ability to put most things into perspective,
perhaps unusually for an economist but maybe not for a trained
and experienced lawyer. As a former director of a federally
funded state agency, I participated in a number of remotely
located training sessions both in Michigan and in other states.
These were usually successful training tools and always good for
employee morale. Unfortunately, some had elements of the
“dancing” exercises that were I guess designed to help managers
bond. I cringed when these occurred and finally told our HR
people to nix them in future meetings. At the end of the day, the
sessions were worthwhile but I had hoped the trendy embarrassing
elements were no longer used by the HR professionals, obviously I
was wrong.
— Jack Wheatley
Royal Oak, Michigan
EXEMPTING THE WALK
Re: David Catron’s
How Much Is a Year of Your Life Worth?:
There are continued references to Kennedy and his continued
health care under the new bill. One must remember that, above all
things, Kennedy is a messiah vote in the Senate, even if an
ambulance is required to bus him in to cast that vote! His health
care is guaranteed, along with anyone else who votes yes for the
bill nobody reads.
As to the Congress exempting itself…give me a break! I’m
absolutely convinced that somewhere, deep in the bowels of bill
writers hell, there is a boilerplate paragraph which BY LAW must
be included in every bill, which exempts the Congress from
anything in that bill — except for pay raises that is — we all
know Congressional pay raises are automatic unless SPECIFICALLY
voted down.
Oh well.
— C.D. Lueders
Melbourne, Florida
FACT CHECKING LOCAL PAPERS
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.’s More
Media Follies:
Thirty-eight years ago, my first husband and I flew from Iowa to
Florida to get married in Flagler Beach. In the meantime — back
in Iowa, our relatives contacted the local paper, “The Clinton
Herald”. Our wedding announcement was published in my hometown
newspaper before we even returned home from our honeymoon.
Hmmmmm.
— Trudy Masden
Kansas City
