Interests and irritations to a guy on a red horse.
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
There are, as Democrats never tire of pointing out, "17 intelligence agencies", which is, by my count, 15 too many.
We should be fearing the "MacNuffins" with way too much power. Who even knows what most of these "intelligence" agencies really do, except spy on US. Along with the 17 Agencies, it seems that most, if not all of the bureaucracies have their own gun toting enforcement departments. Sounds kinda close to a police state, doesn't it. m/r
Readers have demanded to know what I think of the James Comey hearing. In the words of Daffy Duck, shoot me now.
Okay, the slightly longer answer is: I don't think about it. And
there isn't enough money in the world to pay me to think about it. But,
if you insist, I will make a couple of points:
Comey
1) The FBI should not be in the counter-intelligence business. There
are, as Democrats never tire of pointing out, "17 intelligence
agencies", which is, by my count, 15 too many. We should at least get it
down to 16, by eliminating what's meant to be a domestic policing
agency.
2) As I've pointed out in recent weeks, someone seems to be holding
the US Constitution upside down: We have courtrooms presuming to be
legislatures, and the legislature pretending to be a courtroom. Both
perversions are part of the systemic dysfunction that obstructs proper
representative government. The allegedly Republican Congress should
investigate less, and try legislating some of the President's agenda.
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