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

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Showstopper! Why Not! Equal Opportunity Nutty Kennedy Assassination Theory

There will be a new nut-job theory for at least every year of the Assassination Anniversary until there will be one for every year of the 50 years since Oswald murdered President Kennedy. It is all very bitter sweet. It killed him, made him a martyr and wellspring of conspiracy theories, but saved him from exposure of his failures, his philandering, drug use and possible loss of second term. m/r

Showstopper! | National Review Online
By  Mark Steyn  NOVEMBER 17, 2013 -full short post-


John J. Miller’s post below did such a good job of putting me off James McAuley’s Kennedy observances in the New York Times that it wasn’t until I happened to catch this arresting headline that I clicked over and read it. Most of it’s the usual hooey, except for one passage. I can’t be the only old showtune queen thrilled to find the Times advancing, in all seriousness, the novel proposition that Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett singing a Frank Loesser number from The Most Happy Fella at Carnegie Hall was an ominous portent of November 22nd:
The wives of these men — socialites and homemakers, Junior Leaguers and ex-debutantes — were no different; in fact, they were possibly even more extreme. (After all, there’s a reason Carol Burnett pulls a gun on Julie Andrews at the end of the famous “Big D” routine the two performed before the assassination in the early 1960s. “What are ya,” she screams, pulling the trigger, “some kinda nut?!”)
Shortly before this performance, Julie Andrews had been starring on Broadway in . . . Camelot. Coincidence? Maybe. But, shortly after, she filmed The Sound Of Music, and begins by declaring, “The hills are alive . . .” A reference to the grassy knoll?
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