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

Thursday, November 5, 2015

United Embarrassment, Yet China, India and Brazil May Save US from the Neo-Colonial Climate HOAX

Fly the Blacklist Skies :: SteynOnline

by Mark Steyn Steyn on the Oakley Show 

Today, Wednesday, I started the day with Toronto's Number One morning, John Oakley, live on AM640. John asked me about my trip on United Airlines last Friday, when I discovered mid-flight that this very website is "blacklisted" because of "inappropriate" content. So I asked
their laughably misnamed Customer Service department: Why? Hilarity ensued, as you can see here.

John and I also discussed Trudeau the Younger's 50/50 boy/girl cabinet, which was sworn in at Rideau Hall today - and whether you should have an airport named after you if you're not dead. I mean, literally dead. Not just figuratively dead, as I am to United Airlines.

Oh, and I think there was a little bit of pre-Paris climate change, too, which I suggested was just a particularly punitive form of neo-colonialism.

Go to link above to read and listen.

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