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 1, 2015

Once Again, The Pope's a Dope!

CathNews - Francis' day to pray underlines environmental priority

Day of Disgrace
"A Disgrace to the Profession": The World's Scientists on Michael E Mann, his Hockey Stick and their Damage to Science

by Mark Steyn  Defend Free Speech September 1, 2015

Today has been proclaimed by His Holiness the Pope as the first International Day of Prayer for Climate Change. Getting into the spirit, the President of the United States took a 9,000-mile round-trip by private wide-bodied jet to give his usual calm, measured, prudent environmental speech:
Obama On Climate Change: Act Now Or Condemn World To A Nightmare
So I couldn't have picked a better day for the official launch ofmy new book:
"A Disgrace to the Profession":
The World's Scientists ~ in Their Own Words ~ on Michael E Mann,
his Hockey Stick, and Their Damage to Science
Volume One
Edited by Mark Steyn
with illustrations by Josh
The book is exactly what it says: The story of the most famous science graph of the 21st century and how it led, via Al Gore's movie and the United Nations, to a world of cartoon climatology where Obama, the Prince of Wales and other world leaders now routinely talk like the kind of gibbering apocalyptic loons who used to walk the streets with sandwich boards predicting the end of the world.
Fortunately, there are many sane scientists with a wide range of views on the issue who deplore the perversion and corruption of science in the Age of the Stick. I thought I'd round them up for a book, and found I had so many that we've had to save some of them for Volumes Two and Three. Full disclosure: Mann is suing me for calling his graph "fraudulent", which it is. The case is now in its fourth year in the clogged toilet of the District of Columbia courts - which was Mann's plan all along, and as he's previously done to Dr Tim Ball in Canada. Mann sues because he's incapable of debating those who disagree with him even mildly (as the book illustrates all too well), and the depraved court system in America's capital unfortunately rewards that kind of behavior. I'm fighting to win, because as a gentleman said to me out on the west coast this weekend, if I were to lose, it would be the biggest setback for freedom of speech in America in half-a-century.

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