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 1, 2014

Sticking it to Obama right in the bust - Churchill's bust unites Washington in bombast and circumstance

“A remarkable example of modern art” growled Churchill 
when the grateful parliament presented him with a portrait 
for his 80th birthday in 1954. A painter himself, 
Churchill did not like the portrait by Graham Sutherland 
for it depicted him as a querulous old man instead of the
 bulldoggish statesman who had faced down Hitler.
Sutherland was commissioned by both Houses of Parliament
 to paint a full-length portrait of Churchill in 1954, 
for which only this study survives
The finished painting, presented to Churchill, was 
destroyed by his wife Clementine Churchill.
The Bust ceremony, from October, was just replayed on C-SPAN. The spectacle was an embarrassment.
Congress answers the affirmative action president for returning Churchill's Bust to Britain as his first and insultingly stupid act, to presage many to follow, as president.
Unfortunately, this ridiculous ceremony would have been as pleasing to Winston Churchill as was the presentation of his portrait for his 80th Birthday (which seems to have mysteriously ended up on a bonfire) after returning to serve as Prime Minister. m/r


There was no reference to another Churchill bust, recently removed from the White House.

Churchill's bust unites Washington in bombast and circumstance | World news | The Guardian
DC's elite gather to honour former PM, wax lyrical for 'one of history's great love stories' and sway to Roger Daltrey's crooning (how sad).

Paul Lewis in Washington
The Guardian, Wednesday 30 October 2013


In 1814, the British invaded Washington and set fire to the Capitol building. They returned to the same spot on Wednesday to honour a bust to Britain's wartime prime minister, Sir Winston Churchill, with a ceremony capped with a performance from Roger Daltrey of The Who.
"I'll tip my hat to the new constitution," Daltrey sang to the approving VIPs. "Take a bow for the new revolution." 
The unveiling of the bust said much about the once great bond between the United States and Britain, but less about what it has become. 
Churchill's arrival in Statuary Hall is the culmination of two-year effort by the Republican speaker of the House, John Boeher, who passed a resolution to provide an "appropriate" honour to Churchill in the US Capitol. 
Boehner called Churchill, who in 1963 was made an honorary US citizen, "the best friend the United States ever had" and the architect of "a beautiful and, of course, special relationship". He called the connection "one of history's great love stories".
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