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

Thursday, July 26, 2012

The Cretin’s Cretin - Bloomberg the lawless calls for gun control

How does such a small person manage to have such a smaller mind?

Bloomberg the lawless calls for gun control | WashingtonExaminer.com
July 25, 2012  

Gregory Kane

Didn't you just know that the shooting in Aurora, Colo., would result in calls for more gun control laws?
Those calls went out even before the 12 dead victims were identified. I'm surprised some media outlets were able to hold off before rigor mortis had set in on their bodies.
Editors at the San Francisco Chronicle held off until the evening after the massacre -- 6:34 p.m. on Friday, July 20 -- before running an editorial titled "Tragedy shows need for gun control" on its website.
"The details of the Aurora-theater shooting are depressingly, hauntingly familiar," the editorial begins. "[T]he crowded public space, this time a midnight screening of 'The Dark Knight Rises' in a suburban Colorado movie theater. The 'lone wolf' suspect, this time a reclusive 24-year-old neuroscience graduate from the University of California-Riverside named James Holmes. The staggering number of victims: At least 12 dead and scores more wounded.
"What also rings all too familiar: the continuing cowardice of this nation's politicians on the subject of gun control."
Now some of those politicians might actually fervently believe that the Second Amendment gives Americans the right to own firearms as individuals. Memo to San Francisco Chronicle editors: The Second Amendment does precisely that, and politicians that believe such aren't "cowards." They just have an opinion on this subject that runs counter to yours.
The Chronicle editorial continued by hinting that two of the so-called "cowards" have the names President Obama and Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee for president.
"Both presidential candidates rightfully mourned a senseless tragedy," the editorial continued, "but offered no solutions to stop this from happening again and again and again. The only major politician who was brave enough to point out the elephant in the room -- our nation's laughable gun-control restrictions -- was New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg ... 'Soothing words are nice,' Bloomberg said, 'but maybe it's time the two people who want to be president of the United States stand up and tell us what they're going to do about it, because this is obviously a problem across the country.' "
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