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

Monday, November 2, 2015

I will not go to Mexican Restaurants on Weekends. Why? Mariachi Bands!

Day of the Dead
"Check Your Poncho Privilege"

Mariachi Halloween Costume -- Ontario School Bans It | National Review Online

by Katherine Timpf November 2, 2015

Apparently, it’s “cultural appropriation” — whether it’s your own culture or not. 

 A student a St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary School in Ontario, Canada was forbidden from dressing up as a mariachi for Halloween on the grounds that it could be offensive to Hispanic students — even though he’s Hispanic himself.

 Ninth-grader Joshua Sewerynek told the Media Research Center’s MRCTV that, per the school’s instructions, he had tweeted asking permission for he and his friends to wear the costume. 

(Yes, the school was allegedly actually demanding that students ask for approval to wear their costumes.)

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/426448/mariachi-halloween-costume-school-ontario

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