Interests and irritations to a guy on a red horse.
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
Nothing Exceptional to See Here - Just Typical Relativism
Androgynous Ken Burns has another nothing exceptional about America, except it's bad, PBS series that we pay for. His usual 'docudrama' makes heroes of things black, villains of all things American conservative and screws to his lefty viewpoint through factual omissions. McCain and Kerry would make a perfectly rich episode to support Burn's view of America. His view is that shared with Obama. m/r
As The Vietnam War reaches its halfway point Thursday night with Episode 5, “This Is What We Do,” viewers will recognize a familiar face: John McCain.
The Arizona senator is one of the most high-profile POWs during the
Vietnam War, and his ordeal was brought back into the spotlight during
the 2016 presidential campaign when Donald Trump said, “He is a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”
The PBS
documentary will reveal just a fraction of the ordeal that McCain went
through after he was shot down during a bombing mission over Hanoi in
October 1967. As the son of Admiral McCain, John McCain was an important
prisoner and therefore was also interviewed for television at that
time. He underwent various beatings and tortures that have left him with
lifelong health issues and disabilities.
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