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, November 15, 2011

A fear that lurks inside us all. Rattlesnake 'Went 'Tssss' With Its Tail'

Little unexpected dangers, that are the stuff of our personal nightmares, can lurk as an unexpected, deadly surprises. Many years ago, I had moved to step out of my car at a rural general store near Pescadero, California. I just happened to notice a movement in the shadow of the car door. It was a 'rattler' that had been lying in the sun. I closed the door quick and watched the snake slide off into the brush. If I hadn't just caught the slight movement, I would have unknowingly stepped into the rattlesnake's strike space. ♘

Snakebite Victim: Rattlesnake 'Went 'Tssss' With Its Tail' | NBC Dallas-Fort Worth
By Scott Gordon
| Tuesday, Nov 15, 2011


Eastland County boy recovering from snake bite at school

A Texas trooper collared the rattlesnake that bit an 8-year-old student last week.

A Texas state trooper on Monday captured a rattlesnake at an Eastland elementary school -- four days after it bit a second-grader.

The boy, 8-year-old Edwin Garcia, was released from a Fort Worth hospital on Saturday and is now at home recovering.

Garcia said he was reaching in a cabinet for a towel when the venomous snake appeared out of nowhere and attacked his right hand.

"It bit me," he said. "It went 'tssss' with its tail."

The school, Siebert Elementary, was closed while police, animal experts and volunteers searched for the reptile.

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