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

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Branson with feet (and butt) of Clay - A Morally Corrupt Virgin

Here we see Branson maintain a his high standards of decorum and avoiding cheap publicity stunts:


Are we to assume that Branson also makes it part of his "No Offendi" policy to force imams, priests, rabbis, maharishis, Mormon missionaries, etc., to also don a Virgin-Sleeping-Suit? No offense. m/r

A Morally Corrupt Virgin

By Bruce Bawer On March 12, 2013 
If the many postings I’ve seen on Facebook this weekend are any indication, the story of Nicky Howse, as told in the Daily Mail on Saturday, has already achieved a good deal of visibility on both sides of the Atlantic, which is terrific. But in my view absolutely everybody in the free world should know about this, and here – in addition to my own Facebook posting – is my small attempt to help get the word out.
Petty Officer Nicky Howse, 32, who has been a helicopter technician in the Royal Navy for fifteen years, serving in Afghanistan and elsewhere, is now, on a three-month deployment in California. Recently she had to return from Los Angeles to Britain to attend her grandfather’s funeral. She flew Virgin Atlantic, and wore her uniform, and the entire flight passed without incident. Last Monday, however, when she turned up at Heathrow to fly back to LAX, the trouble started at once.
At check-in, an airport security guard, employed by the firm G4S, told Howse that she couldn’t fly in her uniform. “He was rude,” she told a friend by e-mail, “he wouldn’t let the check-in girl give me my passport.” After this encounter, she described herself as “shaking with rage.” But at least she thought that was the end of it. Nope: “when I got to the departure gate I was taken to the side by the flight supervisor” –  a Virgin employee – “and they said I wasn’t allowed to fly in uniform and had to wear a sleep suit. I then stood feeling completely humiliated with other passengers, clearly curious as to what was going on, staring at me, waiting for him to come back with the black pyjamas.”
Howse asked if this no-uniform business was airline policy. The flight supervisor said yes. ...

Why was the Virgin flunky so insistent that Howse shed her uniform? According to the Mail, it was because they viewed it as “offensive.” She’d have to remove it to avoid “offend[ing] other passengers,” because, she was told, Virgin Atlantic doesn’t “only fly British passengers.” ...

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On Sunday, a Mirror headline advertised that Sir Richard Branson, Virgin’s grand poobah, had apologized for Howse’s treatment. Well, not really. It turned out he had bothered to send out a couple of lame tweets, the manifest purpose of which was to shift the blame for the incident at Heathrow entirely onto the G4S employee for providing the wrong information to his own underlings – who, he wrote, “are mortified and have apologised profusely.”
Not good enough. Not by a mile. Branson didn’t even mention Howse’s name. He expressed no personal remorse whatsoever. He wrote nothing suggestive of respect for Howse and her fellow service members. ...
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