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

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Americans are the chumps of the planet for putting up with it.

The OJ Simpson way of thinking in this Administration. m/r

Dublin on Two-and-a-Half Million Dollars a Day :: SteynOnline

by Mark Steyn  •  Apr 11, 2014

A couple of weeks back, I remarked on the cost of President Obama's day-trip to Brussels, accompanied by 900 flunkeys and a 45-car motorcade. In fairness to Obama, the President is a public official of the Government of the United States: I do believe he's even mentioned in the Constitution. You will search that document in vain for any mention of the office of "First Lady" or "First Offspring". Nevertheless:
The documents reveal that taxpayers spent a total of at least $7,921,638.66 on the first lady's trip. She departed for the Dublin tour on Air Force Two after accompanying the president on a meeting with Northern Ireland youth.
So "Air Force Two" has to be on hand to get Mrs Obama, Sasha and Malia the one hundred miles from Belfast to Dublin. For the purposes of comparison, flying the entire Royal Family around for a year costs taxpayers £3,101,771 (that's the Queen, princes, dukes, the lot). Three million quid plus change works out to about $5,194,347.37. In other words, for the cost of two days in Dublin with three members of the Obama family you can keep the entire House of Windsor in the air for a year.
Ah, you say, but the Queen is Head of State, not a working Head of Government. Not to be too pedantic about it, but neither Michelle, Sasha or Malia is America's Head of Government. Still, how does one of Her Majesty's Prime Ministers get about when he's in the mood for a well-deserved vacation break?
Tony Abbott, Australia's prime minister, has won praise for his frugality after travelling economy class on a long-haul flight to France.
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