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, October 3, 2014

Fear of Our Gov't - US Ebola Patient was Vomiting When Initially Released from Hospital

Afraid of Gov't watchdogs, not for doing what is right, but for not being sensitive or PC. m/r

CNN: US Ebola Patient was Vomiting When Initially Released from Hospital

 2 Oct 2014

Thomas Eric Duncan, the 42-year-old Liberian citizen identified as the first person to be diagnosed with the Ebola virus on American soil, was vomiting upon arriving at the Texas hospital that initially let him go with antibiotics, according to a CNN report.

In a move that CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta described as inexcusable, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital initially let Duncan go with antibiotics, noting that he did not have any symptoms that were unique to Ebola and, as such, they chose to release him. 

The mistake appears increasingly outrageous when all evidence indicates that Duncan was honest about being from Monrovia, Liberia, one of the major centers of the Ebola outbreak, and that his appearance in the hospital necessarily means he himself identified symptoms of a serious illness within himself. The hospital has claimed that Duncan's admission of having been in Liberia recently was not "fully communicated" to the staff responsible for deciding whether to admit a patient. …

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