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

Saturday, May 2, 2015

As a Bigoted Anglophobe, Obama always hated the 'special' in UK relations

Obama sees anything British as Colonial and anti-Black African Marxist. We have seen how well that thinking has worked out in Africa! m/r

White House no longer sees anything special in UK relations - FT.com

May 1, 2015  - Geoff Dyer in Washington

.... On top of that, the Obama administration is waking up to the prospect that
the next government in London could be even more inward-looking as it
grapples with Britain’s membership of the European Union and strong support for Scottish independence.

US officials say they still value close intelligence and military
ties with the UK, but at times sound almost dismissive about the current
British government’s reluctance to play a bigger role in the world.

“They are still one of our first phone calls but there are times when
they just do not seem that engaged,” says a senior administration
official. ...

... Obama himself has also been accused of looking to disengage from parts
of America’s traditional role in the world and one former senior US
official said that the president had not been helped by Mr Cameron’s
international reticence. He pointed to Margaret Thatcher’s famous
warning to George HW Bush after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990
that he should not “go wobbly”.

The former US official continued: “Obama has at times looked lost and
it would have helped him to have a stronger British prime minister who
could have given him some direction.”

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