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, March 27, 2010
OH, CANADA! by Ann Coulter
The whole mess has gone beyond absurd, it is "Bald Soprano" absurd. It must have something to do with whole mess being translated from Franco-phone to Anglo-phone and back again. That is what we are in for here, actually the mess we've got here now with bilingualism. Except ours is Spanglish to Mex and back. Moose, my horse, is a lot easier to understand and makes a lot more sense when he speaks to me by moving his ears around in equine semaphore.
I was fortunate to meet Ann Coulter at a Christmastime reception. She had written "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" about a year before. She was popular then, but it was still safe for her to go to Canada. I found her to be warm, charming and most gracious. She was jovial and friendly and completely disarming, which is probably why Canada has her on the Hate-Crime-Thought-Alert watch list. She smoked then, she is tall, shapely with long thin legs and dresses tastefully, all criminal offenses to northern unwashed protected classes, as they are here. Since then she became a super star for standing up to the left and never yielding, never afraid to wield a verbal sharp stick to poke in a lefty's eye.
Her best books, in my opinion, are "Treason" and "Guilty."
When I was a small boy, I visited my Grandmother. She had a companion, Elsie, who had been my Grandfather's nurse. She was a spinster lady who was very proper. As I recollect, she drove a light blue 1949 Dodge coupe with black leather driving gloves. Mind you, this was in Los Angeles, mean temperature 80+°F (26.666666666666668°C for Canadians). Elsie was from Canada and she seemed like a nice lady who even tolerated, but just barely, small boys. I figured her coolness was because I was a small boy. Tolerated is the operative word. Long since the Canadian Prime Ministers stopped having a Mackenzie in their name and Brian Mulroney self-effacingly stated that Canada's plan was to be the Nation that drew the best of Western Civilization with "England's form of Government, France's Culture, and America's Economy...Canada ended up with France's Government, England's Economy and America's Culture," Canada may have been cool to America, but tolerant. After all Elsie was Canada embodied, proper, with gloves on, older, virginal and tolerant.
Just after September 11, 2001, we visited a Intercourse, Pennsylvania, for a restorative change, a quilt, county fried chicken and Amish in Carriages pulled by well bred Trotters and Pacers. We saw quilts, a good looking Pacer pulling a carriage followed by an Amish girl on roller-blades. We also went to dinner at an Amish county style restaurant were the food is served on a long plank table and you dine with various other patrons as your dinner companions. You have to have 'intercourse' with your dining companions, strangers or not, in order to get the food passed, so you end talking to them. So we talked to them.
They happened to be two guys from Canada, visiting friends and on a sight seeing excursion through Pennsylvania Dutch County and then on to see New York City.
Silly me, I who had physically seen the World Trade Center buildings come down, recommended that they visit the 9/11 Sight and St. Paul's Chapel nearby, because it was such a deeply moving experience. I figured these guys from Canada were on our side and had sympathy for the attack on us.
I was told, in rather pompous terms, that they had limited time for their New York visit (OK) and that too much had been made of the attack on the World Trade Center anyway! (not OK).
They almost became added, belated, victims of 9/11!
I guess our relationship with Canada was always one of toleration, but now it seems to have spread to open disdain by many. Too bad. I felt like a dumb pup, expecting a pet, got a kick.
Mark Steyn, a Canadian, has really been put through his homeland's Court of No Hurt Feelings for Ethno-Communists-Fascist-Terrorist. Mark Steyn has shown their Human Rights Commission is a hoax and a fraud, but it is a slow learner. He addresses part the ordeal he recognized in Ann Coulter's excursion into northern exposure and his years of defense in his recent article, 'Shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theatre.'
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