MOOSERIDER magazine: New CIA No. 2 Held Erotica Readings

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

Sunday, June 16, 2013

New CIA No. 2 Held Erotica Readings

At least she can read. m/r

New CIA No. 2 Held Erotica Readings - The Daily Beast

On Wednesday, President Obama nominated Avril Danica Haines to deputy director of the CIA to replace the man who came under fire for editing the controversial Benghazi talking points. Haines rose to the top of the spy agency after dropping out of a graduate program in physics at Johns Hopkins University and starting a bookstore on the Baltimore waterfront. The store held a regular “Erotica Night” where authors read their own naughty prose to a room of people having dinner by candlelight. “Erotica has become more prevalent because people are trying to have sex without having sex,” Haines told the Baltimore Sun. She added that she was afraid “dirty old men” would show up, while friends accused her of wanting an “orgy” in her bookstore.

Read it at The Daily Beast

June 13, 2013 6:32 AM