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, October 13, 2015

Arrogant 'Young Guns' Speak with Forked Tongue

Eric Cantor was two faced and never gave a straight answer, Paul Ryan morphed into Nancy Pelosi and Kevin McCarthy is more wooden headed than Charlie McCarthy. It is doubtful that any of them would stand up for freedom of the press with the publishing of Cartoons of Mohammad. m/r

The Aging of the Young Guns :: SteynOnline

by Mark Steyn  • 

Paul Ryan for Speaker? I like this bit at the end of Pat Buchanan's latest column:
After the GOP capture of the House in 2010, Ryan, with new Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, wrote a book about what they were going to do, titled, "Young Guns."

"Young Guns" Cantor and McCarthy are now lying toes up in the OK  Corral, and if Paul Ryan becomes speaker, he will end up the same way.
The guns were young but they were shooting the same old blanks.

~My Copenhagen comrade Douglas Murray writes a strong piece today on the triumph of the Islamic enforcers:
A few days before the Mohammed cartoons' anniversary,  Mark Steyn, Henryk Broder and the Norwegian editor Vebjoern Selbekk  addressed a conference in Denmark to commemorate the anniversary of the cartoons. It was held in the Danish Parliament, the only building there now deemed safe enough to withstand the now-traditional attack from the Islamic Blasphemy Police. Anticipating a terrorist attack, the UK Foreign Office and U.S. State Departments both warned their citizens to stay away from the area of the Parliament building that day. The restaurant in which we were meant to be having dinner cancelled the booking; they realized, when police and security officers scouted out the building in advance, who the guests might be.

Ten years ago, you could publish depictions of Mohammed in a Danish newspaper. Ten years later, it is hard for anyone who has been connected with such an act to find a restaurant in Copenhagen that will serve them dinner.
The restaurant that chickened out is called Fiat, in King's New Square. ...

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