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

Friday, May 21, 2010

OBAMA DOESN'T TAKE QUESTIONS FROM THE RAT, EITHER...Drudge

Obama's special guest at the White House

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By Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Associated Press
May 21, 2010
President Obama's remarks on Wall Street regulations yesterday featured a special guest, though we're not exactly sure who -- or what -- it was.


Some kind or rodent -- maybe a rat, maybe a mouse, perhaps a mole -- scurried in front of Obama's podium, drawing chuckles from reporters and rapid clicks from camera people.
Members of White House camera crews reported seeing the same suspect a week ago, just before Obama spoke about the Gulf Coast oil spill.
Yes, there are exterminators at the White House, but there is also a lot of foliage and they can't track down everything.
The latest sighting generated many comments about "a rat in the Rose Garden," and "a mole in the White House." The rodent himself -- herself? -- didn't hang around for examination, heading straight for the bushes that ring the garden.
Perhaps the best headline came from our friends at The Drudge Report, which referenced the president's relative lack of news conferences: "Obama doesn't take questions from the rat, either."
(Posted by David Jackson)

Would that be a form of introspection?
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