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

Sunday, September 2, 2012

National Atheist Party Cancels Convention Due To Lack Of Funding


Lame stuff!
As a non-believer myself, I find "organized groups professing atheism and secular causes" as distasteful as organized religion itself in all is permutations. Atheism, as I see it, should be about the absence of religion. Much as the absence of pain is when it goes away.
Atheists should not be bothering other people with their own self-righteous form of proselytizing of atheism in the same obnoxious way religions do with their beliefs. To me, atheism is getting out of the other persons personal life. That is their own business, not yours. If one has their faith in a God that should be their own, just as I don't have faith in a god. It is my own, and it is no one else’s business. It is the creed with which I'm comfortable.
Simply put, all of you, BUTT OUT! m/r


National Atheist Party Cancels Convention Due To Lack Of Funding « CBS Connecticut
August 30, 2012 

BOSTON (CBS Connecticut) — The National Atheist Party is canceling its secular convention due to a lack of funding.
Troy Boyle, the party’s president, announced on its website won’t be holding NAPCON 2012 in Boston in October because it would bankrupt the group.
“After this year’s amazing Reason Rally, and flush with our successful recruiting and a spike in donations, we decided to hold our OWN secular event. NAPCON 2012 was supposed to be our biggest and best public event; our chance to show the U.S. that we could fund and organize a large, noteworthy and impressive ‘Secular Summit’ that would attract media buzz and even more interested members and donations. 
-don't bother-
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