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, July 17, 2011

Trouble with Numbers - Obama's Senior Moment: 'I'll be turning 50 in a week.'

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.
Jean Rostand, Thoughts of a Biologist (1939)
(1894 - 1977)
Obama's Senior Moment: 'I'll be turning 50 in a week.' - Political Punch
7-16-11
Actually…he’ll be turning 50 in three weeks. His birthday is August 4, two days after the debt ceiling deadline. Senior moment?
He messed up Malia’s birthday, too, calling her 13 when she was at the time 12 and still days away from becoming a teenager.

Fact check: Obama’s press conference

Published: 4:23 PM 07/15/2011 | Updated: 10:01 AM 07/16/2011
During his morning presser, Obama said Americans agree with him on the budget deal, and that they believe in a tax hike and in the preservation of entitlement programs. ..

Just how sold are the American people?

Obama believes that polls indicate an overwhelming majority of Americans take his “bipartisan” position on the issue.

“You have 80 percent of the American people who support a balanced approach,” Obama said. “Eighty percent of the American people support an approach that includes revenues and includes cuts. So the notion that somehow the American people aren’t sold is not the problem. The problem is members of Congress are dug in ideologically into various positions because they boxed themselves in with previous statements.”

[ALL WRONG NUMBERS AND LIES!]

Only 24 percent of Republicans believe budget-deal provisions should be divided equally between spending cuts and tax increases; 67 percent believe the deal should include “only” or “mostly” spending cuts.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/15/fact-check-obamas-press-conference/#ixzz1SNIjZmRR

Here is Penn Gillette on numbers. It's explicit in language and truth!


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