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 28, 2015

‘Yo Mama’ Obama Diplomacy

The world is a serious place. He just doesn't get it and never will! m/r

The President’s ‘Yo Mama’ Diplomacy | The American Spectator

By Esther Goldberg  1.28.15


It will be up to Congress to maintain the standards of First World statecraft.


“Yo mama” (from urbandictionary.com):
A term that precedes an inventive insult to the other person’s mother. 1. “Yo mama” so fat, she have to go downstairs sideways. 2. “Yo mama” so fat when she sits on a rainbow skittles fall out.
Back in the days when guys in the ‘hood actually respected their moms, these words were an invitation to fight, notes the Urban Dictionary. Presumably, the Bloods and the Crips (are these guys still around or am I dating myself?) shouted insults at each other until someone started shooting. Remember the World Cup soccer game in the summer of ’06 when Italy’s Materazzi called France’s Zidane something like “son of a terrorist whore” and Zidane’s headbutting response incurred a penalty that caused France to lose the Cup?

Outside of football and the ’hood, however, this sort of ritual baiting doesn’t take place much these days. But for President Obama, it has become an integral part of his foreign policy. And Vladimir Putin is willing to engage with him. Remember the August ’13 news conference where Obama described Putin as having “that kind of slouch, looking like the bored kid in the back of the classroom?” And a Russian politician responded by posting side-by-side photos of Obama holding his poodle and Putin holding his leopard? And then Putin raised Obama one by annexing the Crimea? Wasn’t that fun!

How about when Obama called ISIS “a JV team” back in January ’14, and ISIS decided to conquer territory across a huge swathe of the Middle East—from Aleppo to Baghdad—while Obama did nothing. A disproportionate response, to be sure, but then who’s JV now, Mr. President?

It’s different, of course, when you insult a First World power, which is too bound by the rules of civilized behavior to respond in kind. For example, remember November 2011 when Obama publicly congratulated French President Sarkozy at the G-20 on the birth of his new daughter via the following announcement: “And I informed Nicolas… that I am confident that Giulia inherited her mother’s looks rather than her father’s, which I think is an excellent thing.” That was a 2-in-1 Yo mama, for not only was Obama calling the proud Frenchman ugly but, given the rumors swirling around the matter of Carla’s affair with another man—and consequently of little Giulia’s paternity—the comment captured a smirking suggestion that if little Giulia did look like either her father…

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