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

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Just like the Global Warming Hoax, Durban Climate Meeting Drags On - Durbanhagen Anyone?

Durban Climate Meeting Drags On - Durbanhagen Anyone? - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine
| December 10, 2011
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Durban, South Africa – The 17th conference of the parties (COP-17) to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was supposed end on Friday, December 9. However, COP-17 is still hung up on three main issues: (1) will countries agree to a “roadmap” for future negotiations being pushed by the European Union that commits them to begin hammering out “a Protocol or other legally binding instruments or arrangements for the period after 2020" and that would apply to all countries; (2) will the Europeans agree to a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol in which they cut further their greenhouse gas emissions; and (3) will the COP launch a Green Climate Fund designed to redistribute billions in climate change aid from rich countries to poor ones.

The latest rumors are that the conference could go into Sunday morning or that it could be simply adjourned with a decision to continue discussions at a meeting in Bonn in May. If the meeting is adjourned until later that would represent a bigger "collapse" than the 2009 climate conference in Copenhagen. Too early to say which way it’s going.

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