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, May 2, 2011

Sen. Graham questions decision to dispose of bin Laden's body


You are right Graham, he should have been ground into dog food!
Sen. Graham questions decision to dispose of bin Laden's body - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

"President Obama forgot to say ...Thank You President Bush." Bush supporters celebrate bin Laden's death

Bush supporters celebrate bin Laden's death | AP Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Pass out candy for celebration! Arabs Riot in Jerusalem Over Bin Laden's Demise, Hamas Angry


Arabs Riot in Jerusalem Over Bin Laden's Demise, Hamas Angry - Politics & Gov't - Israel News - Israel National News

Musharraf: Bin Laden mission violated Pakistan

So does creeping Jihad! --- TS!

Musharraf: Bin Laden mission violated Pakistan - Washington Times

By Ashish Kumar Sen



Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Monday accused the U.S. of violating his country’s sovereignty by sending in special forces to kill Osama bin Laden.

“American troops coming across the border and taking action in one of our towns, that is Abbottabad, is not acceptable to the people of Pakistan. It is a violation of our sovereignty,” Mr. Musharraf told CNN-IBN, an Indian news channel.

He added that it would have been “far better if Pakistani Special Services Group had operated and conducted the mission. To that extent, the modality of handling it and executing the operation is not correct.”

How many lies and distortions can be found in just the few sentences here. Of course he confided this to CNN......

Mr. Musharraf said the “lack of trust is very bad.”

“If two organizations [are] conducting an operation against a common enemy, there has to be trust and confidence in each other,” he said.

Pakistan is “totally on board” on fighting al Qaeda and Taliban.

Mr. Musharraf said it was possible that some local Pakistanis had colluded with bin Laden.

[Read more at the above link.]

No Rights for You, You S.O.B! - Bin Laden — Ne Requiescat in Pace

Osama bin Laden used a woman for a shield, his worthless body dumped at sea, let's hope he was weighted down with pig iron and his feet toward Mecca!
Bin Laden — Ne Requiescat in Pace - By Victor Davis Hanson - The Corner - National Review Online

Hell will be your last hideout - Bin Laden was found at luxurious Pakistan compound

Bin Laden was found at luxurious Pakistan compound - Yahoo! News
by Patricia Zengerle and Alister Bull – Mon May 2, 2011

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. forces finally found al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden not in the rugged mountains of Afghanistan's border, but in a million-dollar compound in an upscale suburb of Pakistan's capital, with his youngest wife, U.S. officials said early on Monday.

They were led to the fortress-like three-story building after more than four years tracking one of bin Laden's most trusted couriers, whom U.S. officials said was identified by men captured after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

"Detainees also identified this man as one of the few al Qaeda couriers trusted by bin Laden. They indicated he might be living with or protected by bin Laden," a senior administration official said in a briefing for reporters.

Bin Laden was finally found -- more than 9-1/2 years after the 2001 attacks on the United States -- after authorities discovered in August 2010 that the courier lived with his brother and their families in an unusual and extremely high-security building, officials said.

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WALLS TOPPED WITH BARBED WIRE

Intense security measures included 12- to 18-foot outer walls topped with barbed wire and internal walls that sectioned off different parts of the compound, officials said. Two security gates restricted access, and residents burned their trash, rather than leaving it for collection as did their neighbors, officials said.

Few windows of the three-story home faced the outside of the compound, and a terrace had a seven-foot (2.1 meter) privacy wall, officials said.

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A small U.S. team conducted a helicopter raid on the compound on Sunday afternoon, officials said. After 40 minutes of fighting, bin Laden and an adult son, one unidentified woman and two men -- identified as the courier and his brother -- were dead,

Read more at link above.

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair," MacBeth - Obama: "At My Direction" U.S. Carried Out Operation Against Bin Laden

It is about time, but you can't take credit.
Obama: "At My Direction" U.S. Carried Out Operation Against Bin Laden

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Served from Bra Cups? New Yorkers sample cheese made from human breast milk

Gives new meaning to 'Cheese Nips'-
New Yorkers sample cheese made from human breast milk - Yahoo! News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York gallery on Sunday offered adventurous eaters the opportunity to sample cheese made from human breast milk, getting mixed reviews and some puzzled looks.

The Lady Cheese Shop is a temporary art installation by Miriam Simun, a graduate student at New York University who hopes to use the craft of cheese-making to raise questions about the ethics of modern biotechnologies.

"Cheese is the conversation starter," Simun said. "Some people are loving it, and some people are gagging."

Simun found three nursing women willing to have their milk turned into cheese. She screened the milk for diseases, pasteurized it and learned the basics of cheese-making.

Three varieties were available on Sunday -- West Side Funk, Midtown Smoke, described as "creamy and just pure heaven," and Wisconsin Chew, the taste of which apparently reflected the vegetable-filled diet of the woman who provided its milk.

Read more at top link.


and for something related:

Prognosis Negative - Patient Obama

VDH's Private Papers:: Patient Obama
Excerpts- read the article at the above link.
April 19, 2011
Patient Obama

Pajamas Media

Last week the president gave a speech on the deficit [1], rightly trying to convince Americans that it is now beyond unsustainable. Yet his theme was that the Republicans’ attempts to reduce it were cold-hearted, endangering the most vulnerable among us, such as those with Down’s Syndrome, while protecting the proverbial “rich” from commensurate sacrifice. Let us, then, look at Obama, and the context of his speech, as a doctor might a patient.

Symptoms of the Illness

a) Obama just introduced a $3.5 trillion dollar budget with a $1.6 annual deficit-
b) Obama ignored so far all the recommendations of his own blue-chip debt committee. -
c) Obama demonized his opponents in precisely the manner that he had earlier warned against, -
d) Obama wants now to raise taxes on the “rich,” though right after the elections he had agreed that these hikes were a bad idea in such uncertain times.
e) Obama warns against shutting down the government in protest of unsustainable debt

He is the Chronic hypocrite!

g) Obama still talks about ObamaCare-

Diagnosis of the Malady

a) An erratic, unengaged president is bored with the work part of the job

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Prognosis

None of this symptomology is mutually exclusive, and, in fact, these indications are more likely complementary. Indeed, the president’s speech is a good harbinger of the campaign to come. Contradictions mean nothing. Quite blatant reversals are irrelevant. For Obama to win, our patient simply counts on three therapies in 2012.

Read the rest - http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson041911.html

More Kim-Chimmy, Jimmy Carter’s Mystery Gift for Kim Jong Il

The Rosett Report » Jimmy Carter’s Mystery Gift for Kim Jong Il
April 30, 2011 - - by Claudia Rosett
Way back in 1991, when I availed myself of a chance to visit North Korea, the stridently guided tour included a look at gifts given by visiting delegations to the Kim regime — displayed as the trophies the North Korean government evidently perceived them to be. Since then, the American portion of the collection must have swelled considerably. In 2000, when then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright went to Pyongyang, she brought Kim Jong Il a basketball autographed by Michael Jordan. In 2008, a group of congressional staffers brought Kim a plate with the congressional seal. How many more such gifts have been delivered by Americans and received by Kim as tribute, I don’t know, though one might suspect that plates, if not the basketballs, have been stacking up. ...
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I can think of a few things that might have been appropriate. Maybe a copy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, or The Black Book of Communism, or — on a lighter note — a video clip from Team America. Somehow, I doubt any of these were even considered. So, we’re left with a small mystery here, and yet I’d like to know: What did Jimmy tote along to North Korea last week as his latest tribute to the Dear Leader?

(And don’t miss “Carter bombs in Pyongyang”at the Tatler.)

Read the full post at the above link.