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

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

A Bone to Pick and Fix, Web Bone-Marrow Bounty Takes on Paid-Donor Ban

We have to get the government out of our health care! Government is overly involved as a meddlesome nuisance.

There is an old country saying that goes: 'In a ham and eggs breakfast, the chicken is involved, but the pig is committed!'


Rather than being just involved, Virginia Postrel is committed to organ and marrow donation.

Web Bone-Marrow Bounty Takes on Paid-Donor Ban: Virginia Postrel - Bloomberg
By Virginia Postrel 10-10-11
When Amit Gupta told his friends a few weeks ago that he had acute leukemia and needed a bone- marrow transplant, the word spread quickly.

Gupta, the 32-year-old founder of the do-it-yourself photography sitePhotojojo and the collaborative-working community Jelly, is not only beloved by his friends. (“One of the nicest, most genuine, most creative people you could ever meet,” is a typical encomium.) He’s something of an Internet sensation, with more than 14,000 Twitterfollowers. And he’s a former intern for Seth Godin, the best-selling author and marketing guru.

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So he wrote a post on his own blog offering to pay $10,000 to anyone who became a match for Gupta and made the stem-cell donation, or to give the money to that person’s favorite charity.

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There was only one problem. The offer was illegal.
-read on at above link-

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