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

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Shades of Isadora Duncan - Woman dies as escalator catches her scarf on Montreal Metro

Sep 14, 1927:

Dancer Isadora Duncan is killed in car accident

On September 14, 1927, dancer Isadora Duncan is strangled in Nice,
France, when the enormous silk scarf she is wearing gets tangled in the
rear hubcaps of her open car. ("Affectations," said Gertrude Stein when
she heard the news of Duncan's death, "can be dangerous.")

BBC News - Woman dies as escalator catches her scarf on Montreal Metro

30 January 2014

A commuter has died after her scarf got snagged in an escalator at a Montreal Metro station and strangled her.
The unidentified 48-year-old woman was found dead at the bottom of the moving staircase at Fabre station in the north of the Canadian city.
Her hair was also apparently caught in the escalator in Thursday morning's incident.
Montreal police said they would work with the coroner's office to determine the circumstances of the fatality.
Police spokesman Jean-Pierre Brabant told reporters: "What we know now is that the woman's scarf was caught in the escalator.
"When she bent over to try to get the scarf out, her hair was also caught."
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  1. AnonymousAugust 22, 2022 at 4:28 PM

    Canadian punk haiku writer, Dav Pond, wrote a whole poem about wishing she existed in present-day Canada.

    And then this happens. This wasn’t what Pondy meant.

    https://allpoetry.com/poem/16679396-Why-Can-t-The-Perfect-Girl-Exist-In-2022-----Or--A-Complaint-To-M-by-Dav-Pond

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