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

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Cowboy Poets on the Dole ...err.. on the Reid, Who Knew?

Every winter there is a Cowboy Poetry Festival in one of my favorite towns, Elko Nevada!
Who knew that the home of the winter Cowboy Poets was subsidized by Harry Reid and his ilk.
Harry Reid needs to make up his mind though. Elko has great prices on its hotel and motel rooms, nice casinos, and for the cold winter nights, some of the best bordellos (I'm told) in Nevada.
Now Harry was complaining about legal bordellos in Nevada last week and now, this week, he wants to subsidize a festival in the middle of the Poetic Cowpoke's dancing and diddling with 'soiled doves.'
Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboy Poets - By Robert Costa - The Corner - National Review Online

Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboy Poets

March 8, 2011

As Andrew Stiles reported earlier, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) went on a rant this morning against GOP spending cuts. In the midst of his flailing, he bemoaned the loss of a “cowboy poetry festival.” Really.

“The mean-spirited bill, H.R. 1 … eliminates the National Endowment of the Humanities, National Endowment of the Arts,” said Reid. “These programs create jobs. The National Endowment of the Humanities is the reason we have in northern Nevada every January a cowboy poetry festival. Had that program not been around, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist.”

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