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

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Just Liars! "Fact Blasts" Hillary & Obama Administration on Benghazi Attack

That's it, just LIARS! m/r

Judge Jeanine "Fact Blasts" Hillary & Obama Administration on Benghazi Attack - 5-11-13 - YouTube



Published on May 11, 2013
Judge Jeanine Pirro, who attended this week's Congressional hearing on Benghazi, says the testimony she witnessed proved President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are liars.

Presidents of ABC and CBS News Have Siblings Working at White House With Ties to Benghazi

Presidents of ABC and CBS News Have Siblings Working at White House With Ties to Benghazi | NewsBusters

3 Reasons Benghazi Still Matters

3 Reasons Benghazi Still Matters - YouTube



Published on May 10, 2013
The House of Representatives' Oversight Committee hearings about the September 2012 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya have concluded. Four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were killed in the September 11, 2012 attack.

Supporters of Barack Obama and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton say that the hearings, led by Republican Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), were nothing more than a partisan attempt to smear the current president and a likely Democratic contender in the 2016 election.

Whether you agree with that or not, here are three reasons why Benghazi still matters to all Americans.

1. We still don't know what really happened.

The Benghazi attack marked the first time in "more than three decades" that a U.S ambassador was killed in the field. Yet after these hearings and the State Department's own "accountability review," we still don't know why the consulate was so poorly protected and why the military didn't or couldn't respond in a timely fashion. Pleading incompetence or "the fog of war" isn't an answer.

2. U.S. officials keep attacking free speech as the cause of the attack.

Even after it became clear that the YouTube video "The Innocence of Muslims" had nothing to do with the Benghazi attack, Hillary Clinton invoked it as the cause of the attack at a memorial service for the slain Americans. And President Obama told the United Nations that everyone should condemn "those who slander the Prophet of Islam."

3. We still don't have a foreign policy in the Middle East - or anywhere else.

How does the murder of an ambassador to a country we helped liberate reflect on the way in which we got involved in Libya: President Obama dispatched forces without consulting Congress. As U.S. involvement in Syria and elsewhere heats up, the absolute lack of a coherent -- much less constitutional - foreign policy will only lead to more tragedies both in the Middle East and throughout the world.

About 2.15 minutes. Written and narrated by Nick Gillespie. Produced by Meredith Bragg.

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Obama and Clinton are both mendacious and devoid of integrity - The Benghazi Lie




"To send “soldiers” on a “mission” to “fight” the “enemy” was at odds with the entire Obama narrative of the Arab Spring and the broader post-Bush Muslim world. And so the entire U.S. military was stood down in support of the commander-in-chief’s fiction."


There are classic signs, much like those that test for alcohol and drug addiction, that indicate a person completely lacks integrity and should not hold any position of responsibility (thanks for this list -http://careynieuwhof.com): 

While there are many things that compromise our integrity, here are five signs that show your integrity is in question:
1.  It’s all about you. 
2. Your self esteem rises and falls with the opinion of others.
3. You’re hiding things. 
4.  You fail to do what you said you were going to do. 
5.  You make too many compromises. 
Don’t just think of these things as character flaws, think of what’s at stake: when the crises hit (and they will), you won’t be left standing.  Simple as that.

That was what happened to Nixon. This is what is happening to Obama, Clinton and Biden and their minions, including Jarrett, Holder and Sebelius. m/r


The Benghazi Lie | National Review Online
A failure of character of this magnitude corrodes the integrity of the state. 
MAY 10, 2013 by Mark Steyn

Shortly before last November’s election I took part in a Fox News documentary on Benghazi, whose other participants included the former governor of New Hampshire John Sununu. Making chit-chat while the camera crew were setting up, Governor Sununu said to me that in his view Benghazi mattered because it was “a question of character.” That’s correct. On a question of foreign policy or counterterrorism strategy, men of good faith can make the wrong decisions. But a failure of character corrodes the integrity of the state.

That’s why career diplomat Gregory Hicks’s testimony was so damning — not so much for the new facts as for what those facts revealed about the leaders of this republic. In this space in January, I noted that Hillary Clinton had denied ever seeing Ambassador Stevens’s warnings about deteriorating security in Libya on the grounds that “1.43 million cables come to my office” — and she can’t be expected to see all of them, or any. Once Ambassador Stevens was in his flag-draped coffin listening to her eulogy for him at Andrews Air Force Base, he was her bestest friend in the world — it was all “Chris this” and “Chris that,” as if they’d known each other since third grade. But up till that point he was just one of 1.43 million close personal friends of Hillary trying in vain to get her ear.

Now we know that at 8 p.m. Eastern time on the last night of Stevens’s life, his deputy in Libya spoke to Secretary Clinton and informed her of the attack in Benghazi and the fact that the ambassador was now missing. An hour later, Gregory Hicks received a call from the then–Libyan prime minister, Abdurrahim el-Keib, informing him that Stevens was dead. Hicks immediately called Washington. It was 9 p.m. Eastern time, or 3 a.m. in Libya. Remember the Clinton presidential team’s most famous campaign ad? About how Hillary would be ready to take that 3 a.m. call? Four years later, the phone rings, and Secretary Clinton’s not there. She doesn’t call Hicks back that evening. Or the following day.

Are murdered ambassadors like those 1.43 million cables she doesn’t read? Just too many of them to keep track of? No. Only six had been killed in the history of the republic — seven, if you include Arnold Raphel, who perished in General Zia’s somewhat mysterious plane crash in Pakistan in 1988. ...

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Meanwhile, back at the wholly corrupt UN - Richard Falk and the Crooked Ways of UN Rules

GET OUT OF THE UN and CLOSE IT DOWN!
Taking a page from the corrupt UN, Obama and his administration committed manslaughter in Benghazi and used the IRS to harass conservatives and prevent "Patriot and Tea Party Organizations" from getting tax free status. That way those organizations were precluded from fund raising to help elect Republican, libertarian and conservative candidates from the "vast right-wing conspiracy." m/r

The Rosett Report » Richard Falk and the Crooked Ways of UN Rules

By Claudia Rosett On May 9, 2013


You remember Richard Falk — the UN Human Rights Council special rapporteur who last month wrote an article blaming America for the terrorist bombings of the Boston Marathon. Falk suggested these horrific attacks were part of the post-colonial world’s natural “resistance” to “the American global domination project.” In response, more than two dozen [1] members of Congress called for [2] Falk — an American academic — to be fired from his UN post.
Now, according to a dispatch by Fox News [3] editor-at large George Russell, the U.S. State Department is saying that Falk cannot be fired — because the rules of the Human Rights Council contain no provision for firing any of the Council’s dozens of special rapporteurs. That’s quite plausible; the UN also lacks any provision for removing a secretary-general (as became evident during the Oil-for-Food scandal, on Kofi Annan’s watch). It is also absurd, and in practice not quite credible. When UN senior officials want to, they can be quite creative about sidelining or ousting inconvenient personnel — though such maneuvers seem more often reserved for whistleblowers [4] than for those peddling the anti-American or anti-Israel vitriol in which the UN specializes.
But in the case of Falk, it looks like both the State Department and the UN Human Rights Council will defer politely to the UN’s lack of rules for firing a special rapporteur.

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Saturday, May 11, 2013

The Benghazi Scandal Grows

The Benghazi Scandal Grows | The Weekly Standard

NOW ALMOST NOBOBY WANTS OBAMACARE, SO WHY ARE WE PUTTING UP WITH HIS CRAP!! Obama wades back into the health care debate

Fasc-Comm! Nothing is free from government. m/r

My Way News - Obama wades back into the health care debate
May 10, 5:22 AM (ET) AP still has no idea what year it is.
By JULIE PACE

WASHINGTON (AP) - ... Barack Obama is launching a new effort to rally the public around his hotly disputed health care law, a strategy aimed at shoring up key components of the sweeping federal overhaul and staving off yet another challenge from Republicans.
The president will specifically target women and young people, groups that backed him overwhelmingly during his presidential campaigns. During a Mother's Day-themed event at the White House on Friday, Obama will promote the benefits of the law for women, including free cancer screenings and contraceptives, and ask moms to urge their uninsured adult children to sign up for the health insurance "exchanges" that open this fall.
The exchanges are the centerpiece of the landmark overhaul of the nation's health insurance system. Three years after it became law, the measure widely known as "Obamacare" remains controversial, with GOP lawmakers resolving anew to overturn it and many Americans unsure how they'll be affected.
White House advisers acknowledge they struggled in explaining the complex law to the public when it passed in 2010.  [TO SAY THE LEAST!]
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To be filed under Tone Deaf and Dumb! W.H. Marks Mother's Day By Celebrating Free Birth Control

W.H. Marks Mother's Day By Celebrating Free Birth Control | The Weekly Standard

Baz Luhrmann's name sounds like a "Raspberry" and that is about what his films deserve!

This "director" should be in porn only! At least with porn, bad music, 3-D, shots from every angle, gaudy staging, a complete lack historical context and a total lack of understanding a story works, because WHO CARES! m/r

A Triumph on the Page, The Great Gatsby Founders Miserably on the Silver Screen | Observer

Director Baz Luhrmann takes a meat cleaver to F. Scott Fitzgerald's literary masterpiece.
by Rex Reed 5-7-13
This was the look of Gatsby when I first read it.
All Scribner's Classics looked like this then.
Let’s face it. The Great Gatsby never has been—and probably won’t ever be—successfully turned into a great motion picture. Many have tried (four flop movies, not to mention various small-screen attempts, including a truncated but memorable Playhouse 90 with Robert Ryan and Jeanne Crain in the golden days when TV still knew what quality programming was). Robert Redford was a perfect Gatsby in the pretty but boring 1974 version by Jack Clayton, but the movie was dead on arrival. The best I’ve seen is still Elliott Nugent’s black-and-white 1949 version, with Alan Ladd at the top of his form as the screen’s most glamorous Gatsby to date, heading a cast that included Betty Field, Macdonald Carey, Ruth Hussey and Shelley Winters. Mired in mysterious litigation for six decades, it has never been released on home video, is never shown on any cable or network channel, and cannot be appreciated by the legions of F. Scott Fitzgerald fans who have never seen his work properly adapted to the screen. And so his literary masterwork remains nothing more—an elegant but elusive triumph of words over images, best savored on the written page.
You don’t realize just how much misguided damage can be done to a great novel until it is vaporized by a pretentious hack like boneheaded Australian director Baz Luhrmann. Some critics, through the years, have put forth the unpopular theory that Fitzgerald specialized in style over substance, but as any college English major knows, he was famous for pruning away the clutter. With the cinematic meat cleaver that Mr. Luhrmann wields in one bloated misfire after another (I still haven’t recovered from the nausea-inducing Moulin Rouge), style is all there is left, and in The Great Gatsby it looks alarmingly like clutter. ...
A Classic Look and Read.
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MORE BS* FROM OMAMA'S WEENIE WHITE HOUSE!! Carney: I.R.S. Run By Bush Political Appointee

*BUSH STUFF - HE BLAMED BUSH!

Carney: I.R.S. Run By Bush Political Appointee | The Weekly Standard
White House spokesman Jay Carney said, in response to a question about the I.R.S. targeting conservative groups, that the I.R.S. is run by a George W. Bush political appointee:

"I.R.S. is an independent enforcement agency," said Carney. "The -- which I believe, as I understand it, contains only two political appointees within it. The individual who is running the I.R.S. at the time was actually an appointee from the previous administration."
The previous administration was George W. Bush's administration.
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