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

Monday, September 24, 2012

As the World Burns - Continuing Season 4 of the Obama Soap Opera.

We are not going to ever change the place, where successful military actions still take place on horseback.

The American Spectator : As the World Burns
By  on 9.24.12


For the last week, the election debate has been focused on the existential question of how much impact will result from Mitt Romney's "47%" remark. The campaign suffers from a malaise that can only be cured by a real crisis such as Obama replacing Joe Biden with Paris Hilton or Dave Letterman.
In that same week, there's been a steady flow of SGO ("s**t going on," in the comprehensively useful acronym coined by former SEAL Al Clark), events far more important which are going almost unnoticed. Consider just a few.
The treacly flow of information from the Obama administration about the war in Afghanistan is more reminiscent of Vietnam each day. "I think we are on track, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said last Friday in announcing that the last of our 33,000 "surge" troops have been withdrawn. Panetta also said that the surge had met "…its objectives of reversing the Taliban momentum on the battlefield and dramatically [increasing] the size and capability of the Afghan national security forces."
The latter remark would be comical if it didn't come in the context of cessation of joint operations with Afghanistan forces below the battalion level, resulting from another "green on blue" attack on U.S. troops by the Afghan troops they are supposed to be training. Training operations have been slowed as well, while new "vetting" procedures are used to re-clear Afghans who are supposed to be trainees.
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