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, January 9, 2013

Insight into generations of self-loathing, pacifism, Marxism, and blind support of Demagogues. Demagogue Ed Koch’s Mayor Culpa

Here is insight without an answer to when an entire group of people will overwhelming vote against their tribal allegiance for fear of being seen as racist. During the decade before WWII, it was obvious the "final solution" in Germany would lead to death camps, but instead of meeting them with guns in hand, as a few did, most remained in denial.
Here is Ed Koch, smug and in denial, yet curiously and historically sad, he "awaits that (metaphorical) dreaded knock on the door" to take him away. m/r

Ed Koch’s Mayor Culpa - By Mark Steyn - The Corner - National Review Online
full short post-


January 8, 2013 .
Nathaniel, that quote from the Ed Koch interview – I knew Obama would screw us over, but I thought he’d wait until maybe after the inauguration – isn’t even the choicest bit:
Koch explained to The Algemeiner why he decided to back the President’s re-election even though he says he suspected that Obama would backtrack on his pro-Israel overtures. “I did what I thought was warranted and intelligent,” he said, “He was going to win! There was no question about it. I thought it would be helpful to have a Jewish voice there, being able to communicate.”
The Mayor says he has no regrets, “it’s wouldn’t make any difference. The Jews were going to vote for him no matter what. And that’s the nature of the Jews. They are always very solicitous of everybody else except their own needs and community.”
I voted for Obama because he was going to win anyway, and all the other Jews vote against their own interest, so why not join them?
That’s putting it a little different from the way he phrased it in his official endorsement:
I’m confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.
Now Koch tells us, a mere two months later, that he never believed a word of that.
So why does anybody pay any attention to anything that comes out of his mouth?
At least the other Koch brothers mean what they say.

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