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Ben Stein's Diary
What’s to Like?
Precious little, it turns out, in a decidedly uncool SOTU.
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Then there are his clichés: he’s going to train all of our high school graduates so they are just as good at tech jobs as the Germans. Hmmm. Drive by an inner city high school some day at the close of the school day and have a look at the students and get back to me on that one. Tell me how much they look like tech wizards.
Then, there are his promises to use wind power to drive the U.S. economy. Yes, it would be nice. I wrote about it and tidal power and hot springs for Mr. Nixon when Mr. Obama was a grade school student. It has been just a pipe dream. (Solar actually is working.) Ditto his promises to enlarge Head Start to make our kids better students. It’s been documented repeatedly that Head Start has made only negligible progress in helping inner city kids to achieve. This has been going on since the mid 1960s, and Mr. Obama still seems to believe that it’s going to suddenly start working. Dream world.
But the most disturbing part of the speech was about guns. First, it’s repulsive that Mr. and Mrs. Obama have just now discovered that inner city, largely black gangs are responsible for a huge amount of gun deaths. The crisis has been going on for decades and it’s horrible in their native city, Chicago. It’s been horrible there forever. And Mr. and Mrs. Obama just noticed it in 2013 and want some praise for that? Where have they been all these years?
But the whole subject of guns and death is being lied about by Mr. Obama and his pals. Two thirds of U.S. gun deaths are from suicide. (Why don’t they work on that one? Suicide is highly preventable by a belief in God.) Of the one third that’s left, less than eight percent is from any form of long gun: semi-automatic, rifle, shotgun. If there is an epidemic of gun violence at schools — and there is and it’s terrible — why do we punish the hunter in Montana or the gun collector in Idaho who have never done anything even slightly illegal with their guns? Why are we even thinking of punishing people who have done absolutely nothing wrong for the crimes of people thousands of miles away?
And in that same vein, if there are, say, a hundred or two hundred gun deaths a year from semi-automatic weapons, that’s too many. Any is too many. But the real slaughter of the innocent in this country is from abortion — not from guns, not in America. Add it up: a few hundred from semi-automatic rifles — roughly a million from abortion. What are we talking about here? Why all the cheering about taking guns away from people and not a syllable about abortion?
And to jump back, why, if a gaggle of genuinely crazy people kill children in one region of America, would we take that out on sane people somewhere else?
I could go on forever. Job retraining? Rarely works. Making banks lend to people they don’t want to lend to? Didn’t that sort of thinking get us into trouble in the first place? Raising the minimum wage? Fine by me, but it hurts kids who need an after-school job. All standard liberal pabulum. Now, that I think about it, standard Presidential pabulum. I try to like Mr. Obama but he does not help me.
Oh, well, what does he care? He has the Beautiful People on his side. I have Julie Goodgirl. And I have to swim now. Enough thinking for one night.
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Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in Beverly Hills and Malibu. He writes “Ben Stein’s Diary” for every issue of The American Spectator.
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Jack in Wi| 2.13.13 @ 6:20AM
Ben: I have to say you are a guy with more stomach then I have. I haven't watched a full speech by Obama ever. I would throw somthing at the TV set if I did. I can tell he is lying when his lips move. Your general comments on abortion, gun control, global warming, etc are great. But why this love of taxing the rich? With high marginal rates no-one can get ahead. Poor people don't have the money to have 5 or six houses all over the country. If the rich are put out of business, who will by all that property from your estate?
Robbins Mitchell| 2.13.13 @ 6:28AM
"Was Mr Obama really a professor of Constitutional Law or was that just some fantasy gift title from Harvard Law School?"...uh,no....he was an adjunct lecturer,Ben...and that title was bestowed on him by the University of Chicago
TLP| 2.13.13 @ 8:24AM
Exactly.
In layman's terms: He was a Guest Speaker.
The only "Jobs" he ever had, were the ones he GOT, and GAVE, at the Gay Bathhouses in the Homo District of Chicago.
Constitutional Professor.
That's like calling Ben Stein a Writer, or an Actor, or an Economist, or Interesting, or Good Looking, or ..................................................................................
You get the picture.
Bill8472| 2.13.13 @ 9:59AM
Yes, right. Barack Obama could be the poster person for the preferential treatment portion of affirmative action.
I doubt that his qualifications would be sufficient to have gotten him into Harvard or, post-graduation, a job teaching at the U. of Chicago law school. I'm certain that he was nurtured and "brought along" several times by others, probably white others, suffering from some sort of liberal guilt.
H. Sanderson| 2.13.13 @ 10:41AM
TLP is an angry agitator who appeals to the passions of AmSpec's more demented all-day-long fanatical responders, such as Frank Drackman, Occam's Tool, and a few other loose screws.
The crudeness of TLP and other responders on this site is the reason intelligent Republicans are abandoning AmSpec and going over to National Review.
Is there no moderator? What is the meaning of your message to responders?
N.B. We encourage readers to share and discuss their thoughtful and relevant comments about this Spectator article. Comments are routinely monitored and will be deleted if profane, bigoted, or grossly impolite. Please be respectful.
H. Sanderson| 2.13.13 @ 10:43AM
Please adhere to your responder's policy, and delete the posts that are "profane, bigoted, or grossly impolite."
It's posters like TLP and his ilk that make conservatives look like the ridiculous buffoons liberals make us out to be.
H. Sanderson| 2.13.13 @ 10:49AM
Why give these stay-at-home losers a platform to spew their nonsense?
Simon Templar| 2.13.13 @ 12:07PM
Perhaps you should get just as bent out of shape about the Liberal troll's style of writing and expression that post here as you do about TLP's. Getting a bit bored and tired with your selective outrage and delicate sensibilities. Every once in a while, someone like yourself gets in a huff and puff about it and makes sweeping generalizations that are not only false but continue to support the double standard as it applies to liberals and conservatives. Me thinks it is just another attempt to shut us all down.
You should also note the difference. TLP certainly has a way of speaking that perhaps is unique and rough but it contains a great deal of truth and its honest. That is the critical factor here. This is opposed to the dishonest, insulting, illogical, inaccurate, and manipulative discourse daily offered by liberals and their trolls. Content is all that matters, not form, in the final analysis. If you do want your delicate sensibilities offended then post at the Lady's Journal.
Simon Templar| 2.13.13 @ 12:11PM
By the way, OT is one of the few gentlemen out here who has consistently maintained his composure and does not routinely offend anyone or makes its personal if you disagree with him, unless you are a lying, dishonest, offensive, and manipulative troll who has been asking for a spanking and deserves one.
H. Sanderson| 2.13.13 @ 2:15PM
Stay-at-home-good-for-nothin' losers post all day long on American Spectator, and these vulgar, angry old men are undermining AmSpec's reputation.
National Review is a conservative news sources that is--for the most part-- civil and intelligent, and does not rely entirely on taking cheap shots at Obama for the majority of its content.
Also, if there are any civil conservatives other than me on this blog, I recommend George Will. He's a thoughtful, "old-school" commentator who appeals to more civilized Republicans.
H. Sanderson| 2.13.13 @ 2:23PM
And for those of you who defend TLP's shocking and obscene "The only "Jobs" he ever had, were the ones he GOT, and GAVE, at the Gay Bathhouses in the Homo District of Chicago . . ." you are as depraved as TLP himself.
anna k from emory u| 2.13.13 @ 5:48PM
H. Sanderson;
I find your phony outrage at TLP to be quite amusing. As one of the progressives who frequents The American Spectator and its online forums, I have allowed my opinion of those who post here to evolve.
TLP and the other "Stay-at-home-good-for-nothin' losers ... and these vulgar, angry old men" have not only mastered many versions of the idiom, but beneath the veneer of contempt and hate they show for the likes of you, there is a love of country and a compassion for their fellow humans which I find admirable.
I am truly contrite that in my more immature youth, that I would try to attack those with whom I disagree. I too often responded with hate in the past, until I was like a tumor on the soul of this site.
It is quite overcast in Atlanta. I hope it clears up, and I can take a walk in one of the lovely parks. Perhaps I will meet Mr. Drackman, and we can chat about the things we have in common.
TLP| 2.13.13 @ 6:25PM
Obviously, you're Free Vibrator has worn out its Batteries, once again.
Have you considered using Rechargable Batteries?
You might wanna consider it.
And, you're not fooling anybody, H. Sanderson/Trish Trotter/ TPL/ Arnie.
Go answer the Door.
The Sausage you ordered, is calling you.
Occam's Tool| 2.13.13 @ 6:26PM
I'm only 50, Mr. Sanderson! I just got my discount cards last August.
I absolutely adore Simon Templar, who truly is like his namesake. A good man.
TLP writes things that wake you up, you know. His concern for the self-immolation of America's Jewish and Black communities is truly heartfelt and concerned. G-d Bless Him.
Anna, how very sweet of you, Madam.
anna k from emory u| 2.13.13 @ 6:52PM
Mr. Occam;
May I return the compliment to you, sir.
Though I have yet to reach the pinnacle of wisdom that comes with the arrival of the half century mark and beyond, I continue to hope to reach that pinnacle, and spread whatever wisdom that I might gain, along the way.
I hope the callous remarks by "H. Sanderson" which use the epithet "vulgar, angry old men" to characterize the insightful visitors here such as yourself do not discourage you.
I, for one, continue to enjoy the thoughts you share here with us.
spike59| 2.13.13 @ 12:31PM
go home and put on the 'big RINO' panties, HS...
TLP| 2.13.13 @ 2:14PM
I agree.
Stay-at-home Losers, like H. Sanderson aka Anna from Emory U, Arnie, and Trish Trots should be Banned!
TLP| 2.13.13 @ 2:14PM
Obviously, I'm doing something right.
Tyson| 2.13.13 @ 6:03PM
H. Sanderson,
You are correct in condemning the juvenile rantings of TLP and others. I rarely read AS anymore because of the crassness of many of the responders.
Conservatives are not what they used to be--civil and dignified. A lower-class element now makes up most of the party, e.g. most of the responders here on this page who do not denounce TLP for his gross language.
His reckless and absurd statement about Obama in Chicago bath houses is typical of his crazy rants.
TLP| 2.13.13 @ 6:29PM
Actually, TLP got that information from a Story in The Chicago Tribune, written by a representative of The Gay Community in Chicago, who COULDN'T BELIEVE that nobody had dug into the FACT that Obama was a frequent participant in the Gay Bathhouse Scene, in Chicago.
But you already knew that, didn't you?
Of course you did.
anna k from emory u| 2.13.13 @ 6:44PM
Tyson;
I don’t want to suggest you should chicken out, but let me give you a nugget of the truth. Don’t come in here and try to wing it, or think that you can be the fox in the henhouse, and that somehow it gives you a leg up.
I used to think that I could rule the roost. I would come in here like a mother hen, and try to dictate how everyone should act, and claim that they all were full of hate. I now see that all of that was chickenfeed.
Now I beat my breast like a penitent friar, seeking forgiveness for my sins. I do long for a free range, where the right cock of the walk can help me spread my wings and fly, if but for a little while.
It sure is a good thing that I’m at Emory, and not Purdue.
Brian Richard Allen | 2.15.13 @ 7:52PM
.... Obviously, I'm doing something Right ....
Those of us who are also always Right, all agree you are Right On!
anna k from emory u| 2.13.13 @ 5:51PM
I hope some day we can get beyond the things I did and said to you in the past.
The more I read what you post, the more I have come to appreciate the small business entrepeneur/ veteran/ family man and his concerns.
Keep up the good work, TLP.
TLP| 2.13.13 @ 6:30PM
I look forward to your next STD.
Occam's Tool| 2.13.13 @ 6:32PM
Anna: you are doing well, dear. Review the Jewish concept of repentance, as you are well along it.
TLP| 2.13.13 @ 7:04PM
Hello?
She's Bullshiiting you.
Like all Liberals, she's playing to your sense of Honour, and Goodness.
Two things that she has none of.
She's like the Muslim.
She says one thing in English, and what she REALLY MEANS, in the Pig Vernacular that is her Native Tongue.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 2.13.13 @ 7:41PM
Look at it this way, Tim. By grouping you with OT and your pal Frank, H. Sanderson associates you with the M.D.'s on the site.
It is like the current POTUS being given an honorary doctorate from Notre Dame.
I wonder if any of the other Doctors on the site will be envious of the award and title, or feel slighted by not being cited by the latest iteration of the original "Anna K." (and not this fake one, who I think is trying to make all of you jealous with her attention: maybe she wants to be invited to the contest).
Occam's Tool| 2.13.13 @ 6:29PM
I like reading Trish. Her Dog-O-Centric views of the Universe I find amusing. Her desire to "ban" me can be interpreted as follows: "Ban" makes it easier to get close.
(And now you know I did the whole Freudian training thing! Hot-Cha!)
TLP| 2.13.13 @ 7:05PM
Are you Drunk?
Cause, you sound like you're Drunk.
Occam's Tool| 2.13.13 @ 9:52PM
Tim: That "Freudian" analysis was stolen from "The House of God," THE Medical Intern Novel. It also amusingly applies.
Me, anyone I can engage in dialogue with, I will. Some people are like Cheesehead, who will always be peckersniffs. Some are like RCV, who I will disagree with more than 50% of the time, but who seems like a reasonably nice person APART from some of his political views, and who will give you an excellent view into the opposite side's camp. For example, his analysis of the difference in the POLITICAL professionalism of the Obama versus the Romney camp was spot on. And useful. The fact that Obama is a scumbag from beyond the deep does not render his nuts and bolts analysis wrong. Barney Frank, for example is a GREAT nuts and bolts politician whose views I totally disagree with. But you listen, and people can teach you something.
Con't.
Bill8472| 2.13.13 @ 4:16PM
How do you know he's angry? Maybe he does his thing with a certain sang froid.
Pecos Pete| 2.13.13 @ 4:46PM
Damn, Bill, I wish I had written that. Agreed.
TLP| 2.13.13 @ 7:06PM
I never sang froid in my life.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 2.13.13 @ 7:28PM
I have sang an Elvis song or two, though (or is that sung?).
Pecos Pete| 2.13.13 @ 8:01PM
I have sung, and will sing along with all of us singing ... singsong.
Bill8472| 2.14.13 @ 9:20AM
How about singing Freud?
stop telling lies| 2.13.13 @ 6:32AM
Why punish the hunter in Montana? Simply because he has one of those evil guns and can defend himself from this benign, supportive government.
Minuteman78| 2.13.13 @ 8:17AM
Amen, brother. And some 64 Million guns have been purchased SINCE this lying, Muslim, anti-American, communist sociopath took office? It's gonna be one hell of a firefight...
Russel| 2.13.13 @ 10:55AM
Sorry to agree we very well could have another Civil War . Everything big sis Nappy is doing is pointing to the government expecting it . From the colossal gathering of their own ammo to arming local police depts. with military grade weaponry ( even drones and tanks ) . My disconcerting question is how our military will react to firing on their own , if asked to .
Bill8472| 2.13.13 @ 12:27PM
I'm hot that I can't buy the Sig P226 9 mm. that I would like to buy. Or the H&K USP 9 mm. The gun shop I go to says their supplier is out of stock, and has been for nearly a month.
Cobalt| 2.13.13 @ 7:34AM
Cognitive dissonance can be a real bitch, can't it?
"What's to Like?" Nothing, really.
Why do you waste your time trying to like Obama. He certainly doesn't like you, or any of the rest of us.
Now, we just need Obama to be impeached in the House, and tried in the Senate, with 67 votes for Obama's conviction, and he would be removed from office.
spike59| 2.14.13 @ 6:17AM
i still have yet to see a single quality in ObaMao that would cause me to 'like' him; he's NOT likeable. he's thin-skinned, egotistical, petty, vindictive, and juvenile
Hardcard| 2.13.13 @ 8:08AM
Benny stop trying so hard to like obamao, you are part of what is destoying this country. It seems you have left what common sense you have in a progressive pipe dream. I'm sure you can pick up a gig at the huffpo or salon. Please tell E.Bob you're moving in with your hollywierd pals and departing TAS forthwith, and don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Anthony| 2.13.13 @ 8:58AM
Oh my, is this our punishment, a daily dose of Ben Stein? Isn't a daily dose of Obozo bad enough? Jeez Emmett, what did we do to deserve this??
Anyway, Jacob R, do you still think Stein deals in satire?" I wearry wearry want to wove Obama, wearry I do"!!!
Oh well, but the good news is that my beloved Anna K from Emory U. responded to me last night on Stein's blog of yesterday!! I am so glad I helped you out Christmas time dear Anna. May I say that my heart is atwitter now that you are back. I missed you terribly. as you know, my joy has no bounds!!!
buckeyeman| 2.13.13 @ 9:33AM
You are not being punished. It's just that you're not learning enough redistributionist claptrap from the left so Ben (I'm stinkin' rich and you're not) Stein has to chime in with his approval of taxing and taxing and taxing. I, for one, am not interested in much of anything Ben said after "I try hard to like Obama".
farmerinthedale| 2.13.13 @ 9:12AM
Mr. Stein is a much more charitable fellow than I in regard to attempting to find something to like about His Highness You Didn't Build That. I do not have the gastronomical fortitude to retain nourishment within earshot of his ghetto cadence deceptive preachiness.
TLP| 2.13.13 @ 2:16PM
That's because, you're not a Moron.
C. Vernon Crisler | 2.13.13 @ 9:29AM
Ben, it's not that we like the rich. I could care less about rich people. Many of them are worthless people; many are worthwhile people. As they say about lottery winners, money only highlights qualities that one already has.
Conservatives oppose higher taxes on the rich for the same reason the founders required apportionment for direct taxes. In history, it's been a characteristic of tyranny for kings to single out their rivals with confiscation of property or punitive taxation. In America, if you're going to do that, you have to do it to everybody, not just the rich -- and doing it to everybody would be a political death sentence.
So the issue is fundamentally about equality and fairness. Don't do to the rich what you aren't willing to do to everybody else. That's the view of the founders. Why do you hold to a different view?
R Martin| 2.13.13 @ 2:41PM
He answered your question in his first sentence--he's trying (very hard) to like Obama. Mr. Stein is a Keynesian big taxer, so he's willing to embrace Obama's tax demagoguery while calling Obama out on his climate change, gun control and military spending nonsense.
Dave Williams| 2.13.13 @ 9:30AM
Ben, you lost me with your very first sentence. PLEASE, ditch your white liberal guilt, and wake up to the fact that King Zero is 100$ BAD NEWS. He's hell-bent on implementing his plan to destroy the foundations of this country, and with the hordes of drones he's hypnotized, he may very well succeed. Besides being thin-skinned and narcissistic, he's crazed by power, and may well make a bid for autocracy in 2016. He is evil, evil, EVIL, and deserves nothing but the hatred, scorn, and active opposition of every real American!
Occam's Tool| 2.13.13 @ 6:31PM
Mr. Williams is, once again, correct. I go now to get my wife the high quality yarn that she wishes for Valentine's Day. This September 7 will be our 18th Wedding Anniversary. 18 squared is $324. 18 is also the numeric equivalence of "life."
Bill8472| 2.13.13 @ 9:52AM
Personally, I missed the State of the Union speech that Barack Obama gave.
I watched a movie instead. "Billy Liar" with Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie. Almost appropriate, except that for most the movie Billy's fantasies were rather cute, humorous, and appealing. They didn't become dysfunctional until the last 1/3 of the movie.
Too bad we can't say the same about Obama's fantasies.
BShep| 2.13.13 @ 9:59AM
Ben, you could easily lead by example and show all of us Evil, rich, Republican, white people how to pay our fair share in taxes by just filing your taxes using the standard deduction instead of itemizing. You could get your rich Hollywood friends to do it too. Once the trend becomes well established the Evil Republicans would have no choice but to raise the taxes on all of the Evil rich.
Just think of the money and anxiety you would avoid in accountant and tax lawyer fees, too.
vtwin| 2.13.13 @ 12:47PM
Let’s start with the stupid part "Climate Change" a worldwide phenomenon is the result of "Global Warming" caused by the burning of fossil fuels a human activity.
ncatty| 2.13.13 @ 1:04PM
Let Mt. Toba erupt again and we will all be begging for some global warming.
Anthony| 2.13.13 @ 1:27PM
Hmmm vtwin you're still with us eh? I thought I sent your coordinates to Drone Commander Obozo to send down a Drone to take out another drone, namely you.
I guess those nasty sun spots and solar flares disrupted my communication to Dear Leader, ya know, the same sun activity that causes global warming DUH!!
Marc Jeric| 2.15.13 @ 10:40PM
After repeated demasking of the original “New Ice Age” panic, followed by the “Global warming” scam, which in turn became after 16 years of cooling “Climate change” flim-flam, and now turning into “Cap & Trade” power grab, one would hope that most of us would be disgusted. But no – Obama has placed his Cap & Trade program on his priority list of things to do. He means “Nationalize everything!”
Hardcard| 2.13.13 @ 4:00PM
did the last ice age end (there were many) because of man made global warming, or from the farts of the hairy and horney penguins of the lost world of Atlantis? Hey you didn't make that!!!
Biff| 2.13.13 @ 8:27PM
Just curious, but how exactly does the resistance of the GOP against raising the debt ceiling and Obama's sequester agreement in any way equate to the GOP being "greatly responsible" for the resultant defense cuts? Are you implying that the proper role of the GOP-controlled House is to bow from the waist and follow whatever royal decree King Barack utters? Or should their function be, as the founders intended, to keep any one branch of the government from dictating policy?
Bob Grant| 2.13.13 @ 8:49PM
Blame Boner for agreeing to such a ridiculous deal a year and a half ago.
Occam's Tool| 2.13.13 @ 9:59PM
My patients, for example, have included people who have taught me what it is like to be an international television correspondent, a tightrope walker, a stripper, a gopher on the set of a Major studio during Hollywood's latter Golden age, a Divorce attorney, a corporate plane repairman, and a Hollywood Makeup artist and monster designer. Not all of them I have agreed with, but talking with them teaches me things.
Heck, you guys teach me things. RCV teaches me Constitutional Law, John II knows more about old movies than I do, Stuart Koehl teaches me about geopolitics and Byzantine history (check out his books sometime), Ken teaches me about the Oil Industry, and a host of others.
It also helps me work out my emotional charges that I get from dealing with patients. But TLP: I never drink. I do too much call to do that. But I do get to play somewhat here.
Con't
Occam's Tool| 2.13.13 @ 10:00PM
I also don't LIKE being angry at people.
For example, let's take Dave Williams. He's an atheist; I'm not. But on, say, 90% of things we agree, and he can be quite likeable. Am I going to chainsaw him for stuff I don't agree with him on?
No. I'm going to learn from him more about what it is like to be a Conservative atheist, just as I do with John Derbyshire, who also is a hell of a gentleman, by the way. That reminds me, I need to e-mail him and see how the Great Gentleman is feeling.
Life is short. Unless you are dealing with a depraved Packers fan, or an Islamic idiot who defends molesting little girls, it is best to be kind whenever possible. You never know but what that kindness may lead to other things. Hey, Tim, when I suggested corrections in Grammar for you initially, you didn't bite my head off. I think the world of you.
Bob Grant| 2.13.13 @ 11:01PM
Actually,
He DID bite your head off but it was so grammatically incorrect, it was incomprehensible.
Like being chewed out in pig latin.
Brian Richard Allen | 2.15.13 @ 7:38PM
.... Was Zero really a "professor" of Constitutional Law or was that just some fantasy ....
You have to ask?
.... why does Zero brag about a super defense as he cuts defense ...?
He means from the perspective of our beloved fraternal republic's every enemy.
From his perspective, that is.
Brian Richard Allen
Lost Angels - Califobamacated 90028
And The Very Far Away
Pierre Montagne| 2.15.13 @ 8:44PM
Ben your quote is interesting;
“But we are not leaving Afghanistan in good shape at all, and the massacre of the Afghans who believed in us will be fearful after we leave, I fear.”
Is it a pattern ???
But we are not leaving Eastern Europe (WWII) in good shape at all, and the massacre of the East-Europeans who believed in us was fearful after we left, …
But we are not leaving Korea in good shape at all, and the massacre of the (North) Koreans who believed in us was fearful after we left…
But we are not leaving South Vietnam in good shape at all, and the massacre of the South Vietnamese who believed in us was fearful after we left, …
But we are not leaving Iran in good shape at all, and the massacre of the Iranians who believed in us was fearful after we left, …
But we are not leaving Iraq after desert storm in good shape at all, and the massacre of the Iraqi’s who believed in us was fearful after we left, …
But we are not leaving Iraq in good shape at all and the massacre of the Iraqi’s who believed in us continues to be fearful after we left…
But we are not leaving Libya in good shape at all, and the massacre of the Libyans who believed in us was fearful after we left…
But we are not leaving Egypt in good shape at all, and the massacre of the Egyptians who believed in us is fearful and we left ...
Marc Jeric| 2.15.13 @ 10:36PM
"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient and the world will follow our lead into the future" ----Adolph Hitler, 1935