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, August 4, 2010

Michelle Obama goes walkabout in Marbella after 'racist' Spaniards gaff


Is the State Department saying: There goes the neighborhood!!??
Michelle Obama jets into Marbella for 5-star holiday with daughter Sasha | Mail Online

Does the whole entourage have to look tacky? MR

Barack Obama celebrates 49th birthday home alone in U.S. (the best of gifts).

The Obama administration faced an embarrassing diplomatic blunder today after it was forced to pull a warning about racism in Spain - just as the First Lady arrived in the country for a summer holiday.

Soon after touching down in the Costa del Sol yesterday morning, Michelle Obama was pictured taking in the sights of Marbella with daughter Sasha, nine, surrounded by a throng of bodyguards.

Staff at the U.S. State Department removed the contentious advice to travellers, which included the phrase 'racist prejudices could lead to the arrest of Afro-Americans who travel to Spain,' from its website on Monday.



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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1300240/Michelle-Obama-jets-Marbella-5-star-holiday-daughter-Sasha.html#ixzz0vgSyOQP7

Thursday, August 5th 2010, 1:53 AM

But while most of the country is pinching pennies and downsizing summer sojourns - or forgoing them

altogether - the Obamas don't seem to be heeding their own advice. While many of us are struggling,

the First Lady is spending the next few days in a five-star hotel on the chic Costa del Sol in southern

Spain with 40 of her "closest friends." According to CNN, the group is expected to occupy 60 to 70

rooms, more than a third of the lodgings at the 160-room resort. Not exactly what one would call

cutting back in troubled times.

Reports are calling the lodgings of Obama's Spanish fiesta, the Hotel Villa Padierna in Marbella,

"luxurious," "posh" and "a millionaires' playground." Estimated room rate per night? Up to a staggering

$2,500. Method of transportation? Air Force Two.

To be clear, what the Obamas do with their money is one thing; what they do with ours is another.

Transporting and housing the estimated 70 Secret Service agents who will flank the material girl will

cost the taxpayers a pretty penny.

Perhaps it could be that the Obamas, who seem to fancy themselves more along the lines of

international celebrities than actual leaders, espouse a different view of sacrifice. When

Michelle Obama accompanied her husband to Copenhagen along with best buddy Oprah

Winfrey, she billed the trip - an ultimately unsuccessful bid to bring the Olympics to Chicago

as follows: "As much of a sacrifice as people say this is for me or Oprah or the President to

come for these few days, so many of you in this room have been working for years to bring

this bid home."

A quick jaunt to Denmark is a sacrifice? What portraits in courage!


The Obama modus operandi is becoming clear.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/08/04/2010-08-04_material_girl_michelle_obama_is_a_modernday_marie_antoinette_on_a_glitzy_spanish.html#ixzz0vkF4jFYH

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