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Ben Stein's Diary
The View From Malibu
On a clear day, you can’t see Obama.
Sunday
Here I am out at our house in
Malibu. It is a small house but on a good lot with sweeping ocean
views. It was designed by a well-known Malibu architect and built
in the 1950s. My wife and I painted it pink (wifey’s idea) and my
idea was to put in a lot of trees around it.
When I first started planting, I put in six palms and six oaks on the north side of the house. Both kinds of trees flourished in the great Southern California climate. Plus, I watered them a lot and applied Miracle-Gro.
Our house is next to a vast canyon owned by the state as a water wash, so that when giant floods come down the mountains behind us, they have a place to go without washing away all of our houses.
This wash is thickly vegetated and the combination of my palms and oaks and the forest on state land made a super side view of the house. I often lay in the guest bedroom, my dog in my arms, and looked at the endless greenery while I heard the waves and the occasional motorcyclist.
Then, for reasons I will probably never know, Tino, my ancient, hulking gardener, started to chop down the oak trees. I told him never to do it again after the first one but he kept doing it.
A few days ago, he chopped down two magnificently robust, healthy oaks, leaving my view changed quite severely and for the worse.
He then presented me with a bill of almost $4500 for doing this sabotage. I told him the whole thing was an outrage and I would not pay. He made up a whole series of tall tales, just total nonsense, about why he had to cut down the trees and why it was so expensive.
All lies.
I paid him $2500 just to keep him from murdering me, although, of course, he did not really threaten to murder me. But I am just furious at him. He does not fertilize the jacarandas at all, and only I do it, and when I do, they grow, and when I don’t, they die. I really hate him. But I guess I am stuck with him. He does a great job at the house in Beverly Hills. Except that he cuts the wiring for the outside lights every single time we get it fixed.
There is something deeply unsettling about his anger towards me. It may represent the rage that workers have for people better off than they are. It may be a personal thing. Whatever it is, I hate it.
Meanwhile, as I was watering and Miracle-Groing my jacarandas, my pal B, a beautiful 39-year-old woman, appeared with homemade chicken soup.
She apologized for being late (which I had not even noticed) and said it was because she was comforting a friend who had suffered a major anxiety attack.
Why had the friend suffered an anxiety attack? Why, in Malibu, had the friend suffered a panic attack? Because her former husband had yelled at her for doing nothing all day, and because the same evil doer had cut back her allowance so badly, so brutally, that she could not afford to feed her horses the usual horse food she likes to give them. “Their ribs are showing,” said my friend in a tone of moral indignation. “That man doesn’t care about her horses at all.”
Hmmm. For one thing, why wasn’t the ex-wife working? The rest of us work. For another, I find that women who keep horses in Malibu operate at a high level of anxiety all of the time, no matter how much money they have or don’t have. Anxious women and horses just go together. That’s just the way this situation works out. It isn’t that the horses make the women anxious. Women with high levels of stress are drawn to horses. Why? Who knows.
Anyway, such are my observations and I hasten to add that I might well be mistaken.
About the Author
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| 3.22.13 @ 6:53AM
Ben this is as depresssng as it gets. No wonder you have been seeing a shrink for many years. You really must be insane to keep that gardener. I can see giving him the 2500 just to get rid of him. But to keep him on after he did all that destruction? Now we get to Israel and Obama. Obama won the last election because he seemed to be the most peaceful candidate. He got a lot of the youth vote because of it. He got the vast majority of Jewwish young people to vote for him. Yesterday he was well recived by Israeli youth. Perhaps they don't wish to want to be in endless and senseless wars with their neighbors? The non Jewish minority in Israel is treated worse then we treated our black population in the USA under Segregation. That is segregated and second class. The rest of the Palestinians under effective control of Israel under International Law are to treated as bad or worse then the Jews under Hitler until 1938.
Jack in Wi| 3.22.13 @ 7:06AM
To continue: In 1938 the worst pogrom under Nazi Germany, till that time, took place on Krystalnacht. About 100 Jews were killed and many more beat up. The whole world was shocked. In Israel for decades similar incidents happen frequently. There were anti-black race riots in Tel Aviv within the last few months. I have just been reading the book the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Dr. Ilan Pappe the Israeli Jewish historian. It is shocking and disgusting. Perhaps you should read it before spouting such nonsense again. What do you propose to do with the non Jewish majority in Israel Palistine? You refuse to give them any country. You refuse them normal civil liberties like you enjoy in this country. Your proplr are building a walled Ghetto on stolen property righfully hated by the rest of the neighborhood. Ben you have a horrible guilt complex like a lot of Jewish men. In your case you deserve it.
Jack in Wi| 3.22.13 @ 7:09AM
The sentence should read. Your people are building a walled Ghetto. I ususally ignore my spelling and typing mistakes but that was a loulou.
Occam's Tool| 3.23.13 @ 4:04PM
Yes, but the ghetto is manned by Jewish guards, Jewish weapons, and protects Jewish people from vermin like you who would oppress and kill them.
Just remember, Jack in Wi. slandered Chris Kyle, American hero in the pages of this Blog.
"Jack in Wi| 2.6.13 @ 1:14PM
There is way way too much worship of the military and police among so-called conservatives. Our founders recognized that these were necessary evils, to be strictly limited, and controlled. My uncle was a cop who hated to make an arrest and hated to give out tickets. If he could avoid it, he never did. This country is turning into a police state, with all this worship of the powers of the government enforcers. Defend the country, not the world. Police serious crimes, not all this chicken poop."
You might want to revisit the Ron Paul/Chris Kyle article , Jack, written by Aaron Goldstein and your comments therein before stating that you don't know who Chris Kyle is. You are a filthy, pro-jihadist, antisemitic piece of subhuman scum. On your best day.
Jack in Wi| 3.23.13 @ 10:06PM
I stand by that statement. Why don't you take your mental patients out to the firing range if you think that is good therapy? If you really are a shrink in Minnesota I am thinking of reporting you to medical board there. You have made many statements here calling for genocide and mass murder. You should not be treating anyone, but should be under treatment yourself.
Occam's Tool| 3.23.13 @ 4:12PM
Actually, Jack, you have two different sentences fused badly into one. Should read: "...stolen property. You are, therefore, rightfully hated..."
You also mispelled "rightfully."
Your spelling reflects your thinking. You have advocated over and over for the destruction of Israel. You also fail to realize the pathological nature of the Palestinian Death Culture.
In addition, you slander American heros like Chris Kyle. You are beneath contempt. You know, TLP and Dr. Right don't like each other. Add in RCV, and the three don't see eye to eye on a lot (all three, Dr. R and TLP have a LOT of views in common, and it is a shame that there must be such personal animosity among two such nice guys)---but they all see that you are a moral maggot.
TLP| 3.23.13 @ 4:52PM
He's a Moral Maggot dressed like a High School Prom Queen.
And, Doctor Dumbass, is just that.
A Dumbass.
Like Jerry Seinfeld's Mother said on Seinfeld: "I hate him like Poison".
Jack in Wi| 3.23.13 @ 10:12PM
You boys haven't got anything to say. You both look like a couple of fools. All that comes out of you 2 is name calling and nonsense. Shalom.
PS. TLP get a real job and help that poor Asian wife support the family.
C. Vernon Crisler | 3.22.13 @ 10:24AM
Jackboot, I see you're still staying up nights reading the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Jack in Wi| 3.22.13 @ 11:43AM
No: But I do read Haaretz and Arutz Sheva. I also am Reading the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe, the Israeli historian. Another book I am reading is Catholicism vs. Fundamentalism ,by Karl Keating. You ought to read both and you wouldn't perhaps be such an anti Catholic and anti Palestinian bigot.
C. Vernon Crisler | 3.22.13 @ 12:23PM
So anyone who disagrees with Catholicism is automatically a bigot? That's just anti-Protestant bigotry. Besides, being called a bigot by an anti-semite like you is an honor.
Jack in Wi| 3.22.13 @ 4:17PM
Chisler you are a bigot. I am an honest man who studies the issues and reads all sides. Thus I read Haaretz and Arutz Sheva. They are both ends of the issues in Israel. I read the numerous columns here, for example, by the extreme, pro Israeli, rightwing writers here. All you know how to do is name call. Your ignorance of the issues is evident in every post you write. I live by the words of Jesus. " The truth will set you free. "
C. Vernon Crisler | 3.22.13 @ 7:04PM
You accuse me of name-calling while you use all manner of hate talk against Jews and Israel? You are the last one to live by the words of Jesus.
Jack in Wi| 3.22.13 @ 7:56PM
I am asking them to act like civilized and humane people, not racist thugs, thieves, and murderers. I do live by Jesus. Because I try to spread the Truth and work for peace, brotherhood, and justice. Shalom.
C. Vernon Crisler | 3.22.13 @ 11:10PM
Right....
AuH2O Girl| 3.23.13 @ 7:28PM
Jack,
Perhaps you should try living in the bulls-eye of the Middle East for a few months, then let us know if you still think those pesky Jews are racist thugs
Jack in Wi| 3.23.13 @ 10:17PM
I don't have to go to the Middle East. Most of the Israeli posters here are extreme racists. I read lots of sane Jews to get the other side. There are plenty of Jews sick of Israel and what is going on there. That is why Obama got a good reception from young people there. He also got a huge vote from young Jews here. Have a happy Passover and shalom.
C. Vernon Crisler | 3.22.13 @ 1:42PM
From the Wikipedia review of the book:
David Pryce-Jones, writing in the Literary Review calls Pappe "an Israeli academic who has made his name by hating Israel and everything it stands for".[74]
"To him, Israeli politicians and soldiers, one and all, are so many murderers. Forests have been planted only to cover up the past. Houses are ˜monstrous villas and palaces for rich American Jews". Everything Israeli is ugly, everything Palestinian is beautiful.
For evidence of Israeli monstrosity, he relies on quotations from his own previous works or from Palestinian polemicists, and above all on the oral testimonies of Palestinian refugees. Over half a century of military and ideological conflict has passed since their exodus, but Pappe declares his faith that whatever they now say is true".
Jack in Wi| 3.22.13 @ 4:21PM
Pappe is an honest man. He is telling the truth. Read both sides. It may broaden your outlook. The truth about Israel isn't pretty. I can understand why you don't want to dig deeper. It might expose all your false positions.
C. Vernon Crisler | 3.22.13 @ 7:05PM
Go back to reading your dog-eared copy of Mein Kampf, putz.
Jack in Wi| 3.22.13 @ 8:01PM
Back to name calling Vern. You have no coherent argument as usual. Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me. As someone once told me. " Insults bounce off you like water off a ducks back. When the only thing people can do is name call, you know you are winning.
TLP| 3.22.13 @ 12:44PM
He's not reading them.
He's Writing them.
Jack in Wi| 3.22.13 @ 4:25PM
TLP: Haven't you got anything else to do but stink up this forum. Your poor Asian wife is working her head off to keep you bloviating on the internet. Get a job and help her out.
TLP| 3.22.13 @ 4:40PM
I have a job.
I keep an eye on you.
Diefledermaus| 3.22.13 @ 4:20PM
You need help.
wrlord| 3.22.13 @ 7:01PM
"The non Jewish minority in Israel is treated worse then we treated our black population in the USA under Segregation."
You're either a fool or a liar. or both. In any event be quiet until you can or will tell the truth.
Jack in Wi| 3.22.13 @ 7:49PM
The Truth is truth. Both Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu have called Israeli apartheid worse then the South African kind. If they don't know who does? I might add that Mandela would have almost certainly been exterminated if he was a Palestinian leader. Israel is the most hated country in the world because it has earned the title. The Jews of South Africa and the USA were among the leaders in ending Apratheid and Segregation. It is time to practice what you used to preach. Integrate Israel Palestine now with full and equal civil and religious rights for all. It is the only civilized thing to do.
Occam's Tool| 3.23.13 @ 4:05PM
Mandela and Tutu are Leftist idiots, now. They support Jihadists, as do you.
TLP| 3.23.13 @ 4:57PM
They've always been Leftists.
AuH2O Girl| 3.23.13 @ 7:08PM
Well if Mandela said it, then that settles it. Jack is a Palestinian sympathizer. 'Nuff said
Jack in Wi| 3.23.13 @ 10:20PM
The whole policy of Israel has always been ethnic cleansing or in the most extreme cases like Occam calls for mass murder and nuclear genocide.
CJW| 3.22.13 @ 8:38AM
I stayed at Malibu once and it does have a great view of the Pacific.
We had the same problem as Ben here in Pgh years ago. The J&L coke ovens and the J&L blast furnaces impaired my view of the coal barges on the Monongahela by US Steel. Now those mills are gone, along with over 100,000 jobs, and those sites have shopping malls with restaurants, and we have great views like Ben enjoys.
BTW, is TLP the "Tino" who cut Ben's trees?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.22.13 @ 9:00AM
I went there to look for Cove Road and Rockford's trailer, but they weren't listed on the street index. I wound up in Santa Monica instead.
SUBVET| 3.22.13 @ 9:28AM
He just does not get it about Islamic rage and how intractable envy and jealousy are. I wonder why Barack Hussein Obama doesn’t get it. A deep mystery.
bath house barry gets it........
CJW| 3.22.13 @ 10:27AM
Albert
Got the Rockford book you recommended. Good read, especially the connections between Rockford and Sopranos, such as David Chase , Joe Santos, and the Jersey hoods that always gave Jim a rough time.
Trish Trotter| 3.22.13 @ 11:26AM
Fascinating!
But you are still ignoring my dire warnings about the consequences of you sleeping with Julie Good Girl. Sooner or later she's bound to give you flesh-eating bacteria. You're a stubborn man, and you'll pay a big price for not heeding my advice.
Ben, I love it when you write about your physical ailments. I remember you writing briefly--too briefly--about some gastro-intestinal illness you and "wifey" had ("we laid in bed all day"), and I wish you had gone into deeper detail. I think readers would love to hear more about your physical maladies. And when you describe them please go into deeper detail.
Trish Trotter| 3.22.13 @ 11:33AM
And what have you been eating?
Had any cheeseburgers lately? When I think of your arteries and how clogged they are! Lord, have mercy!
I also enjoy reading about what you eat. Please devote entire posts to your physical ailments and what you eat. Riveting!
Your readership--I guarantee it-- would love it! The more personal, the better. Spill your guts, Ben. Just spill your guts.
The more personal, the better. And that egg you had for breakfast--did you prepare it? Was it fried, scrambled, coddled, poached, etc.?
And how do you look now? Have you put on more weight?
Trish Trotter| 3.22.13 @ 11:36AM
And have you visited MY blog lately? Everything you want to know about doggy life is waiting for you at the WEB's most popular dog site:
sleepyweepypuppypeepee.com
R Martin| 3.22.13 @ 2:00PM
I think you all a little tough on T squared. Let's invite her to the next Contest and see what she's really got.
Occam's Tool| 3.22.13 @ 1:28PM
You LIE, Trish Trotter: there is NO such website!
By the way, gang, I am overwhelmed with work and make enough money. I thank you for the referrals, though! :-) (Unlike Ben, I married a Southern genius woman: perfect wife, perfect mother, perfect accountant, perfect shot. And my kids are fantastic, too!)
anna k from emory u| 3.22.13 @ 12:17PM
Oh, Trish, you are such a whore for attention. You click on a "Reply to This" link, and then post about your puppies, completely irrelevant to the post on which you are supposed to be "commenting" .
Your stalking of Ben Stein is a symptom of your pathological cancer of your soul. Your fixation on puppies reveals your inner beast, which is waiting to express itself in bestiality.
If there is anyone in need of therapy, it is you, girl. Anthony, one of this site's gentlemen, recommends Occam's Tool for Ben. Perhaps you should seek him out for therapy, or immobilizing psychiatric medication if necessary.
I imagine that next, one of your other posting "personalities" will work its way to the site to attack.
Spring is here at last in Atlanta. Hopefully, the pollen count won't rise too quickly.
TLP| 3.22.13 @ 12:52PM
What a surprise. Anna (Sybil) K from Flucke U, making another appearance right behind one of her Nom de Plumes - Trisha Twatter.
Apparently, she's recovered from the Surgery she had to remove the Obama Tattoos from her Genital Warts, her yearly Abortion, and the Condom she choked on, while putting it on the Guy who gave her $20 without using her hands.
Occam's Tool| 3.22.13 @ 1:28PM
Feel better, Anna.
Anthony| 3.22.13 @ 1:52PM
Ah spring, what a beautiful thing. Perhaps we too in the northeast shall experience it once again.
I pine for global warming!!!
C. Vernon Crisler | 3.22.13 @ 10:26AM
I just have a hard time listening to people living in Malibu whining about anything at all. Ben, if you want to make yourself feel better, impose a very large tax on yourself and your rich friends in Hollywood. That should solve all your problems.
TLP| 3.22.13 @ 1:07PM
There I was, sitting on the Veranda of one of my many houses, thanking God that I have all of my money Offshore, and thinking about my next Foray into Why Higher Taxes are a Good Thing, when I see my Fat Mexican Gardener cutting down one of my Trees.
I almost choked on my Iranian Caviar. If not for the Piece of Alaskan King Crab that I had just dipped in hot butter, I might have passed out and fallen to the floor, thus ruining my Monogrammed Silk Shirt.
I looked at one of my Illegal Alien Maids, who was busy arranging my Wife's Chinchilla Coats for storage, and thought to myself: Why does everything Bad, always happen to me?
I resigned myself to the Lap Pool in my Living Room, and wondered how it could be that no-one takes me seriously when I write about the Duty of every American to Share in the Sacrifice, until the phone rang.
It was the Marina, telling me they were almost done installing the Gold Inlay on my 42ft, Cabin Cruiser.
Occam's Tool| 3.22.13 @ 1:30PM
But did they install the wetbar with the gold rails in the master bedroom of the Cruiser, Ben? Never can trust the damn help.
TLP| 3.22.13 @ 3:51PM
They're still Gold Plating the toilet.
But, thank you for asking.
Occam's Tool| 3.23.13 @ 4:06PM
TLP: I love you, man.
TLP| 3.23.13 @ 5:01PM
Right back at you.
AuH2O Girl| 3.23.13 @ 7:15PM
And that marine toilet paper is so thin, it's difficult when you have a gastro problem, brought on by all those five guys wieners, I mean hot dogs! There, that should be enough bathroom humor to raise the ire of the resident MD, whose name shall not be spoken
deehra| 3.22.13 @ 9:27AM
Ben's article only serves to emphasize the mystery of American Jews voting for Obama. The great majority of them used to support Israel.
squalis| 3.22.13 @ 9:40AM
I am Jewish, and I don't understand it either. In part, I think it is because most Jews live in urban or suburban areas and take on those regional political sensibilities. I was a victim. I have to thank, in ascending order of importance, the NY Times editorial pages, Bill Clinton and Rush Limbaugh for opening my eyes.
vtwin| 3.22.13 @ 10:51AM
Deehra, it is not mystery that American Jews voted for Obama nor is it a mystery that you think it is a mystery that American Jews voted for Obama. You are a misinformed and propagandized Fox "News" viewer. Example: Yesterday in Israel, Israeli President Shimon Peres awarded President Obama the Medal of Distinction, Israel's highest civilian honor for his "support and defense of the state of Israel," CNN and MSNBC both covered the ceremony live thus informing their viewer while FOX “News" choose to ignore the event and instead ran another segment on repealing Obama leaving the Fox "News" viewer both uniformed and hating Obamacare (propagandized,) and this didn’t go unnoticed by Rachel Maddox of MSNBC.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/2631.....8#51283068
Anthony| 3.22.13 @ 11:46AM
Perez is a lefty putz, just like you vtwin. The Muslim Marxist has done about as much for the security of Israel as he did to earn his Nobel Prize.
Just because a number of Israelis have a death wish, doesn't make Obozo the savior of Israel. Fortunately, Bebe knows just who and what Obozo is. Bebe and a good many Israelis trust the Muslim Marxist as far as they can throw fat-assed Hillary.
vtwin| 3.22.13 @ 12:02PM
Obama wasn’t awarded the Peres Medal of Distinction Obama was awarded the Israel Medal of Distinction and my comment wasn’t about awards it was about why Fox "News" are so uniformed about events in the world and how Fox "News" propagandizes viewers into hating Obama, evidence your comment.
Occam's Tool| 3.22.13 @ 1:23PM
Tony: you are mistaken: they trust him LESS far than they can throw the Park Ridge Pachyderm.
Anthony| 3.22.13 @ 1:46PM
Oh Occam's you are spot on as usual. Are you sure you can't do us all a favor and take Stein on as a patient?
The man needs serious help. As we who are the best at what we do know, there's no substitute for the best.
My best to your wonderful wife and family.
Occam's Tool| 3.23.13 @ 4:13PM
What a great and lovely man you are, Anthony. I will let you know when I am going to be in B'ham again. And thank you again for the kind words.
Occam's Tool| 3.23.13 @ 4:13PM
What a great and lovely man you are, Anthony. I will let you know when I am going to be in B'ham again. And thank you again for the kind words.
Keith H| 3.22.13 @ 11:51AM
The Medal of Extinction will look great hanging next to Obama's War Prize Medal.
Murl| 3.22.13 @ 12:03PM
what a troll. Hysterical. Your version of the truth is about as good as anything Debbie Wasserman-Schultz has to say.
TLP| 3.22.13 @ 1:09PM
Or, anything from NBC News.
Bob K| 3.22.13 @ 9:46AM
Help is coming from the South, Ben.
On a clear day you can see Mexico!
Anthony| 3.22.13 @ 11:29AM
Poor,poor Ben. Not only does the hired help hate
his guts, but Benny still has thoughts of suicide daily.
I can't help you with your help problem, except to say, there's something about you that brings the worst out in us.
But TAS does have a few wonderful physicians, such as Occum's Tool who, I believe, would serve you better than your current shrink.
Yes, a change to another state and a new shrink is just the ticket. Give it some thought Benny.
Jack in Wi| 3.22.13 @ 11:50AM
Occam's Tool is at least 1000 times more crazy then Ben. Ben for all his faults isn't calling for the mass murder of millions. Ben's best bet is a good rabbi, priest or minister. His sickness is spirtual. Too much money corrodes the soul. I know. I was been quite rich myself at one time. Jesus said. " Blessed are the poor in spirit. "
Anthony| 3.22.13 @ 11:58AM
Proof positive that we have so little in common, Jack. Let's keep it that way Jack, shall we?
Occam's Tool| 3.22.13 @ 1:22PM
Tony and Vern: I love you guys. Have a great weekend.
Ben, you can always get a new Gardener. It is ridiculous to keep people that do a poor job.
Of course, I always make sure my gardeners and snow removers are paid on or ahead of time. As I put it to everyone who does work for me: I want to be the first guy on your list of people who respond to me in emergencies. So I will treat you well, and expect the same.
Amazingly, over the years it has worked. I have been out here 5 years. My plumber/snow removal guy/ lawn and garden service/ propane company (they automatically refill)/driveway resealer people have all been with me that long.
Jack in Wi.: you're the guy who wants to kill 6 million Jews, not me. I want Islamic fascists to leave us alone. If they weren't murderous child abusers, I wouldn't harm a hair on their heads. The fact that you tolerate and endorse the rape and mutilation of little girls amazes me. But, then again, you ARE a Packer fan.
Jack in Wi| 3.22.13 @ 4:30PM
Occam: You are a liar as usual. I have never advocated any violence of any kind. I want peace and truth. You are a psycho calling for mass murder and genocide against tens of millions. Get help before you harm someone.
Bill8472| 3.22.13 @ 11:54AM
Why do you still have this guy Tino in your employ when he refuses to obey your instructions?
Murl| 3.22.13 @ 12:06PM
Useless drivel. Can I get back the last 10 minutes of my life wasted reading this excrement?
Lyneuss Fields | 3.22.13 @ 12:22PM
You Betcha Ben,
Old Bibi the Thug must really feel good about putting President Obama in front of so many progressive young Jews. The walls are coming down bro! Watch out, there's a good chance for lasting peace with Palestine shortly , so it will be just about time for all us haters—this includes you Ben—to depart this good earth.
http://lyneussfields.blogspot......gious.html
Zeppo| 3.22.13 @ 1:12PM
Has TAS started running a Fake Ben Stein contest? This entry is very good, but the part about Tino the gardener may be spreading it on a little too thick.
Occam's Tool| 3.22.13 @ 1:14PM
Always good to here from our local Nazi bastard, Jack in Wi. Pappe is a far lefty, so he fits in well with your world view, FudgePACKER.
Amazing how many Arabs want to immigrate to that horribly abusive country, Jack.
Krstallnacht is not the standard, Jack. The six million in the Holocaust are, you piece of Packed Fudge.
Did you see the Catholic Tourism in Israel site I sent you? Perhaps you should check it out.
Jack in Wi| 3.22.13 @ 4:40PM
All I know Occam is that Christian priests both Orthodox and Catholic are repeatedly spit on by the Harendi. Christian Churches and monastaries are defaced on numerous occasions. Christian and Muslim archealogical sites are destroyed on a regular basis. It has all been documented by the Vatican. Israel has ignored most of the agreements it has with the Vatican. When the Muslims ran Palistine the Christian population was around 30%. Now it is down to 10% of that in Israel Palestine. The Muslims protected the Christian sites a lot better then the Israeli's. The Holyland belongs to the whole world not just a few squabbling Jewish sects.
Occam's Tool| 3.23.13 @ 4:16PM
The Harendi are NOT mainstream Israelis. It is the Muslims who are running the Christians out of the West bank, NOT the Jews.
However, you did accidentally spell Palestine correctly once. Nice going, there.
Have you checked out the number of Christian tours of Israel?
Jack in Wi| 3.23.13 @ 10:22PM
And the Jews are running the Christians out of Israel. Have a happy Passover and Shalom.
Intelligent Design| 3.22.13 @ 1:57PM
Obama is ignorant, puerile, arrogant, vain, and treacherous.
The main element of the "peace process" should be to kill more terrorists faster.
Isn't is odd that the U.S. has thousands of soldiers hunting for terrorists in Afghanistan, but alternately ignores and defends the Palestinian terrorists who have launched thousands of rocket and mortar attacks against Israel? The U.S. should invade Gaza, where there are plenty of terrorists readily available to be shot.
The U.S. should also stop giving hundreds of millions of dollars to the Palestinians, both directly and via the UNRWA. And the U.S. should cancel the $250 million gift to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, recently announced by Kerry, and cancel the transfer of $1 billion worth of U.S. military jets to Egypt. Obama is literally giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
WhiteBikerTrash| 3.22.13 @ 2:57PM
Ben, when was the last time you sat down and read from the Big Book? or spent time with a sponsor or sponsee?
crankitup| 3.22.13 @ 4:13PM
What's this no comment stuff ?
wrlord| 3.22.13 @ 7:00PM
Ben, why do you give so many chances in the face of conclusive proof?
Your gardener needs firing.
And Obama DOES get it. That's what's so scary.
He shares the arabs' view of Israel.
Rhoetus| 3.22.13 @ 8:29PM
Ben, I need a Malibu vacation. I could take care of your place, book and supervise the help. Eat your food and drink from your wine cellar. I'll even be grateful for the opportunity. I won't even send you a bill or trash your place. Thanks in Advance! :-)
BTW, If I were you, I'd sue that idiot for vandalism! I love trees!
Paul McGrath| 3.22.13 @ 11:48PM
I read this beautiful, thought-provoking, wistful article, and then, after completing it, had to put up with--every time, every time--the negative, trashy comments that always seem to accompany Mr. Stein's essays.
I'm gratified that you don't listen to them, Mr. Stein. You are a treasure.
Morton Van Dyke III| 3.23.13 @ 5:30PM
Ben,
I flew into LAX this week. My family has this dreadfully ancient Gulfstream. Entre Nous, I think flying in anything older than 5 years is a bit much. But, who am I to complain. I must subsist on my humble allowance. And my family's accountant says the leader on our current jet is not up until 2014. In any event, my mistress and I supped on ice oysters and the Med Octopus. We didn't know you were in town or we would have invited you. We stayed only for dinner before setting off to the Big Apple. Tomorrow we will be at the Alain Ducasse's midtown joint. Please join us there for bubbly and Primeurs Cuits Et Crus, Vinaigrette A La Truffe D'Ete . We can discuss how adorable Michelle's butt has grown, and how her hubby cheats at golf.
Tori| 3.24.13 @ 12:31AM
Dear Mr. Stein,
I just watched Expelled and was looking for a place to thank you for the documentary. This doesn't seem the appropriate place, but I felt compelled and so am thanking you here. Perhaps you will see it. When the doc. came out I didn't watch it because I believed the bad press. I'm sure I'm not alone. Got to love the Netflix. Perhaps knowing that many people, later than you might have expected, are listening to what you had to say in 08 might give you a boost. Peace be with you.
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shoenews| 3.28.13 @ 1:31PM
I love it that you said you hate your yardman and Obama is a creep. I agree with both statements.!
Brian Richard Allen | 3.28.13 @ 1:36PM
.... In 2004 Barry Buraq Hussayn Samuel Doe Charles Taylor Idi Amin Obama Soetoro was already advocating for the "Palestinians" and was totally ignoring their terror threat to Israel. And he is still beating that dead horse.
.... Zero just does not get it about islamic rage and envy and jealousy and hesperophobia. I wonder why? ....
Please do not wonder about Evil's whys and wherefores and/or try and "understand" those who've succumbed to it.
Sufficient that we recognize Evil -- and that we avoid it
Vance P. Frickey| 4.5.13 @ 6:23PM
Mr. Stein, why don't you fire Tino? You can afford the sort of muscle it would take to convince Tino to walk away from your life forever.
Of course, I got the metaphor in your parable; we all have things in our lives we tolerate for irrational reasons, like a President and Senate who would be better employed making Federal license plates.
But I still would have fired his ass after the first dead oak tree.