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, September 24, 2013

Flathead Thomas Friedman in the Pink

The word 'effete' perfectly suites Thomas Friedman, the Flathead in a flat, pink hair, world. 
P.S. Ford discontinued its Flathead in the 1950's. m/r

Thomas Friedman in the Pink | National Review Online


SEPTEMBER 18, 2013 By  Mark Steyn
A year or two down the road, they’ll be teaching Thomas L Friedman’s New York Times column at Columbia Journalism School. It has a killer opening:
I was at a conference in Bern, Switzerland, last week and struggling with my column.
So he outsourced it to the Tuvaluan intern at a small media-services start-up in Macau, and that just goes to show how swimmingly globalization is going?
No:
To clear my head, I went for a walk along the Aare River, on Schifflaube Street. Along the way, I found a small grocery shop and stopped to buy some nectarines.
They were unnaturally large and devoid of taste, which goes to show we need to follow the Chinese Politburo on serious climate-change legislation?
No:
When I looked up at the cashier, I was taken aback: He had pink hair. A huge shock of neon pink hair… I thought to myself: “Wow, wouldn’t it be nice to be a Swiss? Maybe even to sport some pink hair?”
And waddaya know, there’s an organic jojoba pink hair dye available in the Body Shop at Kuala Lumpur Airport, which just goes to show the world is flat?
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