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

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Symbol of Today's Historical and Cultural Illiteracy - Zara Yanks Baby Shirt

These Shirts are more widely available than at Zara's.
Zara Yanks Baby Shirt After Online Uproar Over Holocaust Likeness


 - full short post - AUGUST 27, 2014  ALEX RITMAN

Fashion chain Zara has come under fire for selling a baby’s pajama top that many on social media claimed looked like the uniform Jewish prisoners were forced to wear in WWII concentration camps.
The shirt, which has since been removed from stores and online, featured white and blue stripes and six-pointed yellow star on the front that was intended to represent a sheriff’s badge. The word ‘sheriff’ was written across the badge, but this was obscured on zoomed-out images on the website and instead likened to the Star of David.
According to the U.K.’s The Guardian newspaper, Israeli journalist Dimi Reider, writing for the 972mag.com website, was the first to spot the similarities.
"It’s a SHERIFF shirt for your three-year-old. Obviously. What else could it be?," he wrote.


Zara has since responded on Twitter, apologizing in several languages for the mistake and adding that the product was no longer on sale.
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