Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Hope for the Unemployed: If Helen Thomas Can Find a Job, So Can You!

Hope for the Unemployed: If Helen Thomas Can Find a Job, So Can You! | NewsReal Blog
BY JESSE HATHAWAY POSTED ON JANUARY 8 2011
....Helen Thomas’s new gig has a total circulation of 30,000, which is quite a smaller market than she may be used to. Before she went full-retard and was fired, much to the dismay of al-Qaeda (seriously) and theCouncil on American-Islamic Relations, Thomas enjoyed the perks of being a syndicated columnist for one of the largest newspaper conglomerates in the nation, and sat in the vaunted front-row seat of the White House press pool. Now, she writes for a newspaper that was voted “Best Remnant of the Liberal Media” in 2008.

News-Press editor Nicholas Benton, who is a former member of the certifiably-insane political movement to get Lyndon LaRouche elected President, writes that he “[remains] firmly convinced that she is neither bigoted, nor racist, nor anti-Semitic.” Except when she tells a Jew to go back to Germany, of course. ...

[read essay at the above link]

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