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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.”

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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

Monday, February 7, 2011

Valerie Jarrett mistakes 4 star general for waiter at DC dinner party

Madam self involved speaks more of her "truth to power" (whatever the hell that trite and meaningless phrase means that she spouts) when she wants more wine from a General.
Valerie Jarrett mistakes 4 star general for waiter at DC dinner party
Posted by Michael Laprarie Feb. 7, 2011
Imagine the front page headlines and the endless supply of material for John Stewart, Colbert, Bill Mahr and the entire entertainment-media complex if this had been Sarah Palin:
Four-star Army Gen. Peter Chiarelli -- the No. 2 general in the U.S. Army -- says he is absolutely not offended that Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett mistook him for a waiter at a fancy Washington dinner this week and asked him for a glass of wine.

It could have happened to anybody, Chiarelli tells CNN....Just as the nation mistook her boss for a real Pr----

"It was an honest mistake that ANYONE could have made. She was sitting, I was standing and walking behind her and all she saw were the two stripes on my pants which were almost identical to the waiters pants -- REALLY.

She apologized and will come to the house for dinner if a date can be worked out in March," Chiarelli wrote in an e-mail.

But outside of the conservative blogosphere, this story has been completely ignored. "Civility" or bias? You decide ...

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