Schadenfreude – (n) The pleasure felt at the misfortunes of others.

The Palestinians, also known as the people who have failed to effectively fight for either the land they occupy and the land they want for at least three generations, are expressing outrage over Mitt Romney’s statements during his recent trip to Israel.  Mr. Romney stated his opinion that Jerusalem is Israel’s capitol and that there is a cultural reason why the gap between Israel’s GDP and that of the Palestinians.  First and foremost, Israel has controlled all of Jerusalem since before I was born.   If they were going to give it back, it would have already happened, and if the Palestinians have the ability to make them do it, they haven’t demonstrated it yet.  Yes, they can protest and bomb pizza parlors, maybe even lob a volley of rockets into neighborhoods stocked full of children and old people, but they aren’t going to be able to militarily push Israel across the street, much less out of Jerusalem.  Second, I am tired of hearing the whining about how the Israelis restrict the Palestinians and so that oppressed people must live in squalor.  The Israelis put restrictions on some aspects of the Palestinians because the Palestinians have this remarkable habit of exploiting every way the Israelis leave them alone to sneak murderers into Israel to kill grandmothers.  Want us to take you seriously and improve your lot in life?  Quit acting like a bunch of whining twits and make life better for your children.  Want me to give two hoots about the “plight” of the “Palestinian people”?  Bring back the Americans they’ve killed and harmed in the last 40 years through their legacy of terrorism.  Until then, cry me a river.

Next, we have United Nations General Secretary Ban ki Moon, who has a sad because the United Nations was unable to come to agreement on an international gun control treaty that would have been an excuse for tinpot dictators to continue to oppress an unarmed populace and for President Obama to act more like a tinpot dictator.  How sad that such enlightened countries as China, Iran, and Russia won’t be able to dictate the manner in which free people defend themselves or provide aid to their allies.  Just to show my solidarity with those who mourn this loss, I pledge to take only guns that were produced overseas to my next range trip and to shoot only fine imported ammunition.

You know, today started off pretty bad for me, but reading these put a smile on my face and a spring in my step.