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

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

False Religions and Real Distractions - "Thank You Jesus!"

"What is the difference between Baptists and Methodists? Methodists can read."
Is there a time accounting that tallies up how long a religion has to exist to cross over from cult to a 'religion'?

The American Spectator : False Religions and Real Distractions
By on 10.11.11
Robert Jeffress's anti-Mormonism is the last thing Republicans need.
Robert Jeffress, the pastor of the First Baptist Church in Dallas, made news last week when referring to Mormonism as a cult while introducing Texas Governor Rick Perry to the Values Voters Summit.
In the past couple of days, Jeffress is doing anything but backing away from his comments, saying on Sunday that "Part of a pastor's job is to warn his people and others about false religions. Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Mormonism are all false religions. And I stand by those statements." [Some of these are much older than the Baptist.]
...

The "mainstream" media are already foaming at the mouth over Jeffress's remarks, using them to reinforce their journalism school-learned bias against Republicans as small-minded bible thumpers, or perhaps, to coin a phrase, as people bitterly clinging to religion.

Liberals, like the Washington Post's Sally Quinn, are already making parallels such as wondering if Jeffress's statements are Rick Perry's "Reverend Wright moment." But there's a big difference: those same liberals wanted nothing to do with the Reverend Wright story even though Barack Obama's attendance at the anti-Semitic Wright's America-hating church for two decades said much about that candidate.

They didn't want to talk about any of Obama's other unsavory friends, either, such as unrepentant terrorists Bill Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn, or criminal and helpful house-finder Tony Rezko (except perhaps to say that Obama had given away Rezko's donations and was distancing himself from the convicted felon.)

-read on at link-


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