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Ben Stein: Have Gun, Will Travel (Great speech on 4th webpage, Sestak offered Secy of Navy job)
American Spectator ^ | July 2010 - August 2010 | Ben Stein

Posted on 08/16/2010 8:12:30 PM PDT by neverdem

Wow. Something is definitely wrong. I awakened feeling desperately tired. Just wiped out. Like I was at the bottom of a well of exhaustion. Nevertheless, I threw myself out of bed and went swimming in my fabulous pool. Then I checked to see if I had any money left after the recent stock market downward volatility. I did, and so I had breakfast and got dressed.

A huge crew arrived to take photos of me for a magazine feature on "Ben Stein's Los Angeles." The main photographer, Michael Grecco, is a famously talented and pleasant, easy to work with guy. We took a lot of photos, then we (wifey and makeup girl Lisa and I) zoomed over to CNN to talk about the Gulf oil spill and about Rep. Sestak being offered a job to not run against that creep Arlen Specter. I said that Obama had so many foreign policy disasters that he really should not be bothered about the Sestak thing, which is just business as usual politics. As to the Gulf oil catastrophe, better to stop pointing fingers and concentrate on gettingt...

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At about 3:30 I heard a loud pounding on my bedroom door. Usually this is my son come to talk to me when he can't sleep. But it was not my son. And wifey, who had moved back to her room down the hall, had heard the knocking, too.

I took out my gun (when I hear the word prowler, I reach for my revolver) and walked around our home. No sign of a criminal but alas, the back door was unlocked. I called the cops. They were there in a moment. A white man and a black man. Both with Glocks.

(I used to have a really nice Glock but someone stole it.)...

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To: rahbert

Parnell Roberts was on Bonanza, but Paladin on HGWT was played by Richard Boone.


21 posted on 08/17/2010 6:17:50 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: neverdem

Ben kind of rambles about a lot of subjects here, but there were several things in this article that just make me scratch my head:

1. Somebody was knocking on his bedroom door at 3:30 am? So the person was already in the house?

2. Wife also heard the knocking from her room down the hall? He and wifey sleep in separate rooms?

3. Why is an intruder in the house knocking on his bedroom door? Was the intruder suddenly overcome by some urge for courtesy after having broken into the house?


22 posted on 08/17/2010 6:25:29 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: matthew fuller
Matt, come on FRiend. You are begging for questions such as "why are you so gay curious?"


23 posted on 08/17/2010 8:55:11 AM PDT by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it freedom has a flavor the protected will never know .F Trp 8th Cav)
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To: VRWCmember
He and wifey sleep in separate rooms?

One or both could snore too loudly.

24 posted on 08/17/2010 9:47:41 AM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: VRWCmember

Dang I got mixed up. I’m still looking for Hop Sing’s
takeout joint in Virginia City...


25 posted on 08/17/2010 12:06:00 PM PDT by rahbert (catfish on the table, gospel in the air.)
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To: rahbert

It happens to the best of us.


26 posted on 08/17/2010 12:11:36 PM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: VRWCmember
3. Why is an intruder in the house knocking on his bedroom door? Was the intruder suddenly overcome by some urge for courtesy after having broken into the house?

Read the actual article in its entirety, you will get the answer you are seeking..........

27 posted on 08/17/2010 4:34:23 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Peanut bunker was just peanut bunker until I found Free Republic.........)
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To: Hot Tabasco

what? that it was a ghost?


28 posted on 08/18/2010 9:40:34 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: neverdem; wastedyears

Ping to self for later.


29 posted on 08/18/2010 1:02:42 PM PDT by wastedyears (The Founders revolted for less.)
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To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; blueyon; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; ...

Thanks neverdem.


30 posted on 08/19/2010 4:06:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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