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, May 20, 2015

So Tell Me, Why were the Boy Scouts Resisting Having Gay Scoutmasters Again?

This is Gay! m/r

Boy Scouts Ban Water-Gun Fights Because Squirt Guns Are ‘Simulated Firearms’ | National Review Online



by KATHERINE TIMPF May 19, 2015  

Water balloons can’t be bigger than a ping-pong ball. 

Boy Scouts of America has banned both squirt-gun fights and anything involving a water balloon larger than a ping-pong ball. 

“Pointing any type of firearm or simulated firearm at any individual is unauthorized,” states the group’s 2015 manual. 

“Water guns and rubber band guns must only be used to shoot at targets, and eye protection must be worn,” it continues.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/418635/boy-scouts-ban-water-gun-fights-because-squirt-guns-are-simulated-firearms-katherine


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