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

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

What else can be expected from an actor who looks like Putin. - Bond in Bankruptcy

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In Daniel Craig's world, Obama's glamour trumped McCain's scar tissue — as it did for the electorate.
The Putin looking Bond actor followed his first lame endorsement of 2008 with support for the same president who lifted his toes to turn on his heals to "lead' from his behind and hid under his UN Ambassador's skirts after causing manslaughter in Benghazi. That was not exactly what was meant by a "license to kill."

Bond in Bankruptcy :: SteynOnline
National Review's Happy Warrior
December 12, 2012

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I thought it might go differently this time. In 2008, Craig was promoting Quantum of Solace, which seemed about right: Yeah, it was a grim night for Republicans, but Bush was unpopular and Americans were war-weary and the global economy had nosedived off the cliff. Four years on, Craig's back promoting Skyfall, and, alas, that seems about right, too. There's no solace: The sky fell in. Mitt did bad, and the Republican party did worse. And worse is to come, if the reactions of the "experts" are any indication: On the one hand, the GOP needs to junk all that uptight social-conservative stuff. On the other, they need to reach out to demographically surging Hispanics because they're natural social conservatives. Whatever. Meanwhile, Barack Obama gets another four years to "quite literally look the enemy in the eye and go toe to toe with them," which is not how surviving consulate staff in Benghazi would recall it.
To state the obvious: The whole Republican election campaign — the primaries, the debates, the genius consultants, the billion dollars on robocalls and attack ads — was a complete waste of time. I doubt the final tally in the Electoral College would have been any different had the entire GOP gone to the Bahamas for the last 18 months and sent a billion-dollar check to some favored Third World charity. And in the long run they might have done rather better had they used the dough to start a movie studio or buy a TV network.
Republican "strategists" remind me of those scientists and detectives who stand around looking baffled in the mysterious indentation of ground at the start of a Godzilla movie. Then the camera pulls back and you realize the shallow trench is really a giant footprint. The GOP slogged out the election in the little toe of politics unaware that they were about to be stomped by the Democrat monster of the broader culture. For much of the electorate, politics is now tribal. I don't just mean the 93 percent of blacks and 71 percent of Hispanics who voted for Obama, but various other demographic niches, from impoverished single women to upscale gays. If you know whether someone's black or lesbian or a college professor, you can guess how they vote and be right nine times out of ten. They are beyond questions of economic or foreign policy: Their self-identification trumps politics. Sociocultural identifiers count for more than the failure of the stimulus or a cover-up in Benghazi. Just as Obama fits Daniel Craig's idea of an action hero, so he fits these voters' idea of a president, and Mitt Romney doesn't. ...
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