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, October 8, 2014

So Ebola is an Islamic Terrorist - Weird Science: CNN Calls Ebola the 'ISIS of Bio-Agents'

That may explain Obama and his administration's reluctance to restrict air travel and closing the borders.
But at least they were calling Ebola a terrorist (sort of). m/r

Weird Science: CNN Calls Ebola the 'ISIS of Bio-Agents' | National Review Online

OCTOBER 6, 2014  By Tim Cavanaugh

One day after accusing Fox News of being unscientific, CNN uncorks this week's most hysterical metaphor.

One day after a highly self-aggrandizing CNN clip accused Fox News of trafficking in unscientific hysteria over the rash of hemorrhagic fever cases in the United States and Africa, the Most Trusted Name In News terrified its several viewers by calling Ebola the “ISIS of biological agents.”

CNN’s Legal View hostess Ashleigh Banfield on Monday gave heavy chyron rotation to a former Homeland Security official’s designation of the virus as a terrorist organization — a designation that is nonexistent from a medical standpoint and of extremely doubtful applicability from the legal point of view that Banfield is presumably familiar with. The Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) is a Sunni Islamist terrorist army operating in Iraq and Syria, while Ebola is a highly destructive virus originating in Africa.
The epithet originated in a New York Times contribution from Alexander Garza, former chief medical officer of the Department of Homeland Security, who wrote that the virus “is no ordinary communicable disease. It is the ISIS of biological agents. The response should mirror antiterrorism efforts.”
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