Being a Dictator: More Physically Destructive than a Crack Habit
Muammar Gaddafi was once movie-star handsome. But eventually, like most tyrants, he acquired the face he deserved.
November 4, 2011 - 11:29 am
I'll get you Han Solo!
His outsides are starting to match his insides, his body is starting to match his character. Oh s*it, am I making fun of someone with cancer? Yes, yes I am. Rot in hell, Chavez. Hopefully sooner rather than later.
Next there’s this cutiepatootie! Look at his happy, delightful, chubby-cheeked expression! Don’t you just want to take him home and feed him milk and cookies?
Better not. If you did he just might bite your fingers off. Too bad this cute kid’s father was insane, and left him a dictatorship to boot, because he turned out like this:
Thank you Sunny. You’re the dumbest smart-ass poking fun at the real issues of today. You’ve found a way through humor to grab one’s intellect and throw it into absurdity. You’re succeeding where supposed intellects have failed.
I love what you do.
Thank you.
“You’re the dumbest smart-ass poking fun at the real issues of today.” “I love what you do.”
Glad we covered all the bases there!
He forgot to mention “hottest”, dumbest, smart-ass.
Why mention the obvious, or risk a harassment claim?
Got a beautiful pic of young Helen Thomas?
Got any hot young pictures of Madeline Albright, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi (pre-multitudinous surgeries)? Pick any liberal dictatorial hag. Didn’t think so.
It should be obvious that “something’s not right here” when a hard-living dictator reigns for 40+ years. Go to a class reunion and see how people age in 1/4 of that time.
Why don’t more people wonder about it? Are they gullible, or scared to be labeled crazy?
Not sure that Gadhafi was all that “hard-living” – just angry, greedy, wasteful, megalomanic, and mad for power.
It wasn’t living hard that aged his face, it was pride, wrath, envy…the deadly sins.
I’m old enough to be considered a senior citizen and I look pretty good for my age. Same with others I know. What ten-year class reunions have YOU been going to?
Well, riding the tiger is bad for your stress levels.
Hmmm. Makes me wonder what Nancy Pelosi looked like 40 years ago. Or maybe Hilary. Eeewwww. Never mind, I don’t want to know.
I, too, want to thank you! You offer a refreshing take on what’s going on today. I absolutely love your point of view and dry sense of humor – please keep it up!
One could say roughly the same thing about American presidents and how they age while in office. Remember, I said “roughly,” because I’m not comparing American presidents to dictators, although Obama is taking a good stab at it. Hopefully, starting in 2012, Obama will be allowed to age more gracefully OUT of office.
Yes! Here’s hoping Obama dies handsome. No dictatorship for him!!
I’m glad you wrote this piece. Even I thought this too. Hell, even Fidel wasn’t bad looking in his pre-revolutionary days.
Ah,, a lot of reincarnations of Dorian Gray.
Great post Sunny! Now off to buy some ant-wrinkle face cream…
Ant wrinkles? Something about getting older I’m not aware of?
How many have elderly neighbors that do not have the benefit of cosmetic surgery? Some of mine look pretty frightful when they are tired and/or stressed. Is that because they have such depraved lives? The article was sad shallow and not at all progressive.
Care to speculate on what Obama will look like in 20 years? The melt-down is already occurring.
On the other hand, Clinton doesn’t seem to be aging too badly. But I think he’ll die relatively young of a heart attack and won’t go the distance into Andy Rooney-land. Reagan, too, didn’t age too badly — although we didn’t see pictures of him in his last years because of the Alzheimers.
Dubya, I think, has a face that could end up on Rushmore — stoic and far-gazing. What progressives like to see as stunned and idiotic.
from what i’ve seen of dictators and such, it looks like hitler aged well.
out of sight.
as should all puffed up tryants.
the thing about being up so far is the distance back to the bottom.
Hitler was an astonishingly ancient looking 56 when he exchanged the bunker for a permanent boiling sulfur pit.
Not to mention the severe hand tremor he’d developed, probably from the weird cocktail of drugs he was taking for most of his adult life.
Hitler developed the shaking hand syndrome after the officer’s attempt to blow him to pieces in the wooden barracks of the “Wolf Schanze” situated in the vast Polish woods. By the way, from a relatively young age Hitler’s visage was awful. Problaly evil from toddler age. Better if he was strangled in cradle.
Speaking of ending up with a face you deserve, how about William F. Buckley?
Exactly.
What about the ugliness of the monster predators?
There is mostly silence about the horrors taking place against Libya’s blacks.
STOP the GENOCIDE of Blacks by the U.S. backed cruel Libya rebels!
The Obama-supported rebels left in charge are now conducting a “large scale cleaning in the areas under their control with the extermination of all blacks in the capital”, according to The Independent.
Barbaric atrocities, kidnappings and ruthless genocide of blacks in Libya by US/France/NATO backed Al-Qaeda/Hezbollah rebels has been going on for months.
US/NATO who have waged war for months for Hezbollah and Al-Qaeda
who MURDER our troops in Iraq-are RESPONSIBLE for stopping the genocide.
US/NATO are also responsible for rescuing the many terrified blacks kidnapped by the rebels, including the kidnapped black children who have been horrifically abused by the black-hater Muslim rebels.
Blacks must have human rights!
STOP THE GENOCIDE!
United together in JIHAD, US/NATO, Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah triumph over Libya.
Admiral James Stavridis, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, and the commander of the U.S. European Command told the U.S. Senate that Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah fighters are among the Libyan rebels currently receiving support from the US and its NATO allies. This was confirmed by one of the Libyan rebel officers, Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi, who leads one of the Al-Qaeda units.
(US Aid to Israel’s Enemies, Oct 13th, 2011, frontpagemag.com)
U.S/NATO joined with Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah terrorists to wage relentless war for months. Bombing Libya back to the stone age.
Barbaric Al Qaeda and Hezbollah who MURDER our troops in Iraq were considered desirable for placing in power in Libya. US/NATO have great guilt in making the world a far more dangerous place.
Nothing new here. Clinton allied the US with Islamic terrorists against Serbia.
Before the war began, Libyans had Africa’s highest standard of living. David Blundy and Andrew Lycett’s book titled, “Qaddafi and the Libyan Revolution.
Libya’s Great Man-Made River (GMMR) was developing an ocean-sized aquifer beneath the desert for irrigation, human consumption, and other uses. At 2007 consumption rates, it could last 1,000 years. Gaddafi called his Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System (NSAS) the “Eighth Wonder of the World.”
Under Gaddafi’s 1999 Decision No. 111, all Libyans got free healthcare, education, electricity, water, training, rehabilitation, housing assistance, disability and old-age benefits, interest-free state loans, as well as generous subsidies to study abroad, buy a new car, help couples when they marry, practically free gasoline, and more.
Gaddafi used Libya’s oil money to take care of the Libyan people and also gave enormous financial help to other African nations. Now that US/NATO/France/UK waged ruthless war for several months and won the war for Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah and other Muslim terrorists, the oil money will NOT be used to help Libyans and other African nations. The oil money will be used to wage global jihad.
“Gaddafi used Libya’s oil money to take care of the Libyan people”.
And yet, strangely enough, those same Libyan people loathed and feared him. Why do you suppose that is? Do you suppose it had anything to do with his ruthless repressions and maniacal behavior?
Please, don’t insult Hagrid! He’s a Good Guy.
And anyway, that image you have of him is only the Hollywood conception. The real face of Hagrid shapes only in the imaginations of the Harry Potter author, and her millions upon millions of readers.
I’ve always believed that The Picture of Dorian Gray (I saw the movie many moons ago. The book is good but written in archaic language.) was true-to-life. We can look at the other evil people of our time such as Billary, Jimmah Cahter, Pelosi, Kerry who visited Vietnam to award himself medals, Fidel, et al and see their character (or lack thereof) writ plainly on their features. Obama-ayers and Moochelle will soon show their true images which will disgust us. It may show up sooner if we are afflicted with him again but it will show–and tell. I’ve had the misfortune to know some other evil creatures not in the public eye and their real persona does indeed show up later in life. Great article.
Why don’t we see pics of Moochelle anymore. Has her moonshine features already traces of the presidential cocktail social life?
Actually, that’s Jackson on the $20.