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

Friday, September 13, 2013

At times, unexpected honesty comes out in Obituaries - Patrick Reddick who wrote vicious obituary to abusive mother is unrepentant

Why gloss over the rot of the rotten dead? m/r

Patrick Reddick who wrote vicious obituary to abusive mother is unrepentant | Mail Online
Friday, Sep 13 2013 By DANIEL BATES

EXCLUSIVE - 'We sang ding dong the witch is dead when mom died': Brother and sister who wrote vicious obituary for their mother reveal how she beat them and ran a prostitution business from their home

  • Completely unrepentant, Patrick Reddick, 58, says he can finally breathe easy knowing mother Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick, 78, is dead
  • Scathing tribute was published in the Reno Gazette-Journal and quickly spread around the world because of the shocking level of vitriol
  • Patrick reveals he wrote it with his sister Katherine, 57, a teacher
  • Reveal mother would beat them with steel-tipped belt when they were forced to return home from foster homes at weekends
  • Their mother also ran a prostitution business and forced them to sleep on the floor when her clients were at their home
  • Johnson-Reddick lived her final days alone with her 13 cats in a trailer park where homes go for $5,000


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2419429/Patrick-Reddick-wrote-vicious-obituary-abusive-mother-unrepentant.html#ixzz2emh7JFv9
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