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, September 11, 2013

Too bad he can't be taken away - 4 Takeaways from Obama's Speech on Syria

What the hell are you talking about?
1. When did you, personally, become such a military and National Security expert and take personal responsibility for any grave event. Once the bombs drop, an act of War has occurred and we will see you shrink to blame all others.
2. You, personally, will not have troops in Syria? Why is there nearly a new battalion of Marines just across Syria's border in Jordan? Your non-open-ended approach worked so well in Libya. By the way, how is that "honest" investigation into the scandalous murders in Benghazi going?
3. Who was gasses, the number killed (Doctors Without Borders found the dead to be about 430 from gas) and who actually launched the gas attack. This Syrian Civil War is a murky place. And hundreds of thousands of casualties were cause by the old fashion means, guns, shells, bombs, etc. What about that?
4. Not only is invoking "American Exceptionalism"not only highly cynical, it is the depths of hypocrisy! Obama has made light of American Exceptionalism since he became president. He has ridiculed it and dismissed it as relatively egalitarian and the same to all nations. 
A very sad and unpersuasive performance. m/r

4 Takeaways from Obama's Speech on Syria - YouTube



Sep 10, 2013
On September 10, 2013, President Obama addressed the nation to explain why he favors a U.S. military strike in Syria. Reason TV's Nick Gillespie offered four takeaways from Obama's speech.

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