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, June 24, 2011

Gives a Different Meaning to Space, it's in their heads -NASA To Fly Low Over Region For Air Quality Study

The bureaucratic eunuchs at NASA want the SPACE filled in their rice bowls. And the eunuchs at all the local, State and Fed EPAs want more rice too. What a scam!

NASA To Fly Low Over Region For Air Quality Study « CBS Baltimore

6-23-11

WASHINGTON (WJZ)—Don’t panic if you see large planes flying unusually low over Maryland roadways next week. It’s all part of a major plan by NASA to help study air pollution over major cities.

Derek Valcourt explains where you’ll be seeing some of those low-flying planes.

The study will focus on air pollution over many of Maryland’s major roads, from Baltimore’s beltway, to the 95 corridor, even over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.

This is no ordinary plane, it’s a specially fitted NASA aircraft designed with equipment to measure air pollution levels in flight. And starting next week the skies over Maryland will become a pollution detection playground for the plane and for NASA scientists.

“The public I think is very interested in knowing where air pollution problems are the largest, and then they have the ability to make their own decisions about their own activities and times and places they would like to avoid,” said Dr. James Crawford, NASA atmospheric scientist.

Maryland’s Department of Environment already has six pollution monitoring stations on the ground, but they’re spread out and only can tell you pollution levels in the immediate area.

Read on at the above link, if you can stand it.

Eunuchs

You might be puzzled by this picture. This is a picture of a male eunuch, a male with his penis removed. To perform special duties in society, special males were produced—we call them eunuchs. They have since been a special sector of society. This practice originated in the Hsu Dynasty. Not only was it a means of punishment but also a means to obtain a post to serve the Emperor. The number of eunuchs in the late Ming Dynasty amounted to about 70,000. The benefit of being an eunuch was the chance of obtaining supreme power—sometimes over and above that of the emperor, although self-mutilation to become a eunuch was illegal. The practice was stopped in 1912 and the number of eunuchs dropped to 470.

Note how the number Eunuchs grew so large by 1644. As with all bureaucracies, their main function is self serving growth and preservation, not public service. Even if the Bureaucratic Eunuchs could not naturally multiply, their numbers grew exponentially none the less.

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