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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.”

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"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

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Thursday, June 7, 2012

Actually, I don't even think he, nor his staff, had a clue. Obama Ignores D-Day Anniversary

Last Memorial Day there was a volunteer veteran who was collecting donations for the VFW outside my grocery store. After I gave him a donation, he gave me an artificial Poppy as a symbol of remembrance of those fallen in Battle/

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)



The PJ Tatler » Obama Ignores D-Day Anniversary
By Bryan Preston On June 6, 2012



Today is June 6, the 68th anniversary of the D-Day Invasion. Where is your president? He passed through Joint Base Andrews en route to attend four campaign events. Add the vice president’s lone line item in today’s schedule, which is also a campaign event in substance, and the administration’s top two are taking no note whatsoever of one of the greatest and most dangerous days in American history. See the president’s full schedule below.


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1 comment:

  1. Nameless CynicJune 7, 2012 at 6:07 PM

    So what were you saying from 2000-2008, when Bush was ignoring D-Day 6 years out of 8? I'm just curious.

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