Posted on 12/26/2004 11:23:15 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Talk about jack of all trades
Add thinker and philosopher too!
What a great piece to wake up to on Monday morning! At least...for me it's Monday morning right now! God bless.
"Glorious, glorious America. Glorious America"
We have more pet food choices than many nations have food!
All true.
He also has an I.Q. well into the genius range.
You mean he is actually smarter than Paris Hilton?
He's much smarter than a French hotel.
Talk about jack of all trades
G.K. Chesterton had a great quote along these lines in his Club of Queer Trades :
“This is Rupert Grant, Esquire, who can and does all there is to be done. Just as I was a failure at one thing, he is a success at everything. I remember him as a journalist, a house-agent, a naturalist, an inventor, a publisher, a schoolmaster, a--what are you now, Rupert?"
But I have great respect for Stein. I loved his Comedy Central show Win Ben Stein's Money.
...especially the immortal line, "Stein, you're screwed!"
"We have more pet food choices than many nations have food!"
Mainly because the Marxist hatemongers here and abroad thwart our efforts to spread American-style liberty abroad while aid we send is ripped off as Oil-For-Food or rots on docks while tyrants reign....
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Ben...you always know how to say it just right. I add my small thanks to the men and women who fight for our right to live in this great country.
I used to spend a large amount of time away from home, really really far away when I was young.
Serving in the US MILITARY. I was well aware then that many degenerates we gleefully enjoying the freedom I and my fellow serviceman were protecting.
But, I didn't begrudge them their degeneracy; for I knew as well that many of my loved ones were going to church in freedom too.
What I didn't know then but I do know now is the world is not as simple as it once was. A mosque for example is not technically only a place of worshipping allah. The Koran explicitly provides for its use as a military storage facility, an operational base for military ops, an Intel center, a hospital for military wounded. In short, mosques are not churches. But in the USA the currently are protected as such....
Freedom is now threatened drip by drip from within; openly by the secularists; by neglect by so many asleep at the switch; by stealth by the long time-frame-minded muslim fanatics. These three are willingly and unwillingly allied against the very idea of freedom. We ignore them at our peril.
Ben, your article was great, but nary a word about the muslims who live in America, now to the tune of about 6 million plus....
Some of them love freedom for now for its serves their larger religious purpose; most of them will go along with their leaders long range plans to institute shaira laws increment by increment. For example, here's a tiny increment just reported from Britain: there, the 4 wives allowed by muslim law cannot yet equally inherit after the death of the mulim husband - 3 must legally be treated as mistrisses; but they are closer to pushing an exception to this law ... for the muslims.
Can anyone guess what happens if 4 wives are legally recognized as equal heiresses in the USA? I mean, it is a small point true ... but not really if you start to add up the implications to freedom. (Hint, there are 125 men per 100 women in Saudi Arabia, the largest male/female disparity in the world - now just how did it get that way??).
That said, Ben, I appreciate your patriotism.
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He is living the perfect Saggitarius life ;^) (Oh, and yes, he is a Saggitarrius. . .(no flames please; offered only in friendly spirit. . .)
Ben Stein gets it.
I think this writing. . .by Ben and for Ben. . .and for us. . .is a simple thank-you and an reminder to all; why our Military, past and present, should be appreciated. . .
. . .it is a tribute to all of America's soldiers and Ben gives thanks for any and all, who have contributed to making and keeping America free.
Think it is also a reminder to counter as well; the dire, daily message of the MSM and the rest of the self-congratulatory, 'we are the world' Liberals, who believe that the price we are paying - for a freedom and for another country, is not worth it. (Despite the reality that ignoring the poison embedded in this region, further imperils not just America; but the rest of the world. . .)
Think it is not meant to be a political analysis on all things that currently threaten our well-being.
[That said. . .I share your concerns re the threats we face within. Have often wondered, what that Muslim mosque holds. . .the largest in U.S. I believe. . .just outside of Washington D.C. . .and have wondered as well; is our Government curious . . .]
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