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

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Out and Out Theft by the Rogue IRS - Illegally Seized $107k


IRS Seized $107k From Account Of Small Business Owner In North Carolina - Stuart Varney - YouTube

May 5, 2015
IRS Seized $107k From Account Of Small Business Owner In North Carolina - Stuart Varney

Obamacare Must Be Repealed! More Lies - Number of ER Visits Has Spiked Since Obamacare

Number of ER Visits Has Spiked Since Obamacare | PJ Tatler

By Paula Bolyard On May 6, 2015 In Obamacare 
From a recent report by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP):

Three-quarters of emergency physicians report that emergency visits are going up, according to a new poll. This represents a significant increase from just one year ago when less than half reported increases…

…Most of the respondents to the poll report little or no reductions in the volume of emergency visits due to the availability of urgent care centers, retail clinics and telephone triage lines. About 90 percent of more than 2,000 respondents also say the severity of illness or injury among emergency patients has either increased (44 percent) or remained the same (42 percent).
Wasn’t Obamacare supposed to solve the problem of people going to the ER for routine medical problems? We were told that if everyone had “healthcare” — either through the ACA exchanges or through Medicaid expansion — people would be able to go to their family doctors for routine care and emergency rooms would no longer be overrun by individuals who aren’t actually experiencing emergencies.

As it turns out, Medicaid patients can’t get appointments with physicians.

“America has severe primary care physician shortages, and many physicians will not accept Medicaid patients because Medicaid pays so inadequately,” said Michael Gerardi, MD, FAAP, FACEP, president of the ACEP.

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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Insensitive about Stinco De Mayo: Put on your Sombrero and Poncho, Double dip the Guac, but don't get it on your fake mustache

Seven Pieces of Advice from the Social-Justice Internet for a Culturally Sensitive Cinco De Mayo | National Review Online

by KATHERINE TIMPF May 5, 2015 

Don’t say “guac.” 

It’s that time again: Cinco de Mayo, a day that used to be one of celebration but has now been deemed “problematic” by Social Justice Warriors, (also known as the Kind of People No One Wants to Be Around, which might be why they hate fun so much).  In case you are for some reason concerned about offending them, here’s a list of their guidelines this year for (hopefully) getting through May 5 without doing something that they’ll demand you apologize for:  

1. “Stop Calling Guacamole ‘Guac’” Because That’s Culturally Insensitive. — USA Today Yep, that’s right. The common phrase “chips and guac” is apparently some sort of racially insensitive slur or something, according to USA Today college contributor Dani Marrero. She explains that this seemingly innocuous abbreviation is actually like super upsetting and terrible because the word “guacamole” “has significance as it comes from indigenous Nahuatl language.” 

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/417932/seven-pieces-advice-social-justice-internet-culturally-sensitive-cinco-de-mayo



It's Too Late for Obama, He Won't Point a Gun at Iran's Regime

He can't be trusted to support Iran's people against the regime. m/r

Iran’s Greatest Vulnerability | The Weekly Standard

MAY 11, 2015, VOL. 20, NO. 33 • BY MICHAEL LEDEEN

The Iranian people hate the regime.

Iran is on the march all over the world, from Syria and Iraq to Venezuela and Cuba (where they have a Hezbollah base). Except when they unceremoniously retreat, as in recent days when their flotilla to Yemen turned around when they saw the U.S. Navy. 
There’s a lesson there: If you want the Iranian regime to be less bellicose, aim a gun at its temple. Better yet, threaten the survival of the regime itself. You don’t need aircraft carriers or airplanes or even special forces. All you need is the will to support a free Iran.
Of all the many worries that torment the dreams of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani, the greatest is the menace represented by the Iranian people, who detest the regime. In a remarkable open letter to President Barack Obama, Khamenei’s nephew, Mahmoud Moradkhani, carefully made the point:
There are powerful and pro-active forces in the Iranian opposition and if the censorship of the media that are supporting the Islamic regime of Iran were to be removed, the opposition can easily organize and assist the powerful civil disobedience of Iranian people.
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America the Inverted - Cartoonists are Controversial and Murderers are Moderate

Upsidedown world of Obamaland.  Who is our enemy? m/r

Cartoonists are Controversial and Murderers are Moderate

By Daniel Greenfield On May 5, 2015 In Daily Mailer,FrontPage

Controversial, intolerant and provocative. Mainstream media outlets broke out these three words to describe the “Draw the Prophet” contest, the American Freedom Defense Initiative and Pamela Geller.
While the police were still checking cars for explosives and attendees waited to be released, CNN called AFDI, rather than the terrorists who attacked a cartoon contest, “intolerant.” Time dubbed the group “controversial.” The Washington Post called the contest, “provocative.”
Many media outlets relied on the expert opinion of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a multi-million dollar mail order scam [2] disguised as a civil rights group, which had listed AFDI as a hate group. Also listed as hate groups were a number of single author blogs, including mine, a brand of gun oil and a bar sign [2].
The bar sign, which hangs outside a bar [3] seven miles outside Pittsburgh, appears to be made out of metal and plastic. It is reportedly unaware that it is a hate group and has made no plans to take over America.
The SPLC’s inability to conduct even the most elementary fact checking did not stop news networks from inviting its talking head on to suggest that AFDI got “the response that they — in a sense — they are seeking.” Neither CNN nor MSNBC were impolitic enough to mention that no AFDI supporter had used its materials to plan a killing spree, while at least one of SPLC’s supporters had done just that [4].
But being “controversial” and “provocative” has nothing to do with who is doing the shooting. It’s a media signal that the target shouldn’t be sympathized with. The Family Research Council, which was shot up by a killer using the SPLC’s hate map, is invariably dubbed “intolerant.” The SPLC, which targeted it, is however a “respected civil rights group” which provides maps to respected civil rights gunmen.
A contest in which Bosch Fawstin, an ex-Muslim, drew a cartoon of a genocidal warlord is “controversial” and “provocative,” while the MSA, which has invitedSheikh Khalid Yasin [5], who has inspired a number of terrorists [6], including apparently one of the Mohammed contest attackers [7], is a legitimate organization that is only criticized by controversial, intolerant and provocative Islamophobes.
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"Culture of Blame" and No Responsibility - Maybe Obama ate Lead Paint

He spent six years blaming George W. Bush for his own ineptitude. It is surprising he didn't blame lead paint yet. m/r

Lead Is a Lousy Excuse | The American Spectator

By  – 5.4.15

More on Baltimore and its grim prospects.


Herewith a few more respectful thoughts about Baltimore.
First, I am happy to see that now that all decent habits of law enforcement and prosecution have been tossed out by Marilyn Robespierre Mosby, Esq., a sort of calm has returned to one of the most violent cities in America, Baltimore. The sacrifice of the most basic precepts of law have allowed blacks and whites to sing “Kumbaya” together over the dead letters of the Constitution.


But look at something that might scare you even more. Observe how incredibly little it took for that poor confused, weak state’s attorney to fold on basic principles of law.  ...

... Next, and this was suggested to me by a supersmart psychologist, one wonders why the most violent parts of the black population have such a huge hold on the political, judicial, and media mind. The black population is at most 14 percent of the national population. The Hispanic, white, and Asian populations are immensely larger. However, they are also immensely more law-abiding, as a group. (Obviously, the great majority of the black population is also law-abiding.) A small fraction of a small fraction of the population exercises great influence on the nation.
Why is that? Guilt over very real past injustices? Or perhaps, once again, it is that fear of violence. Violence is exciting and persuasive and frightening. It has worked well for some groups. But it does not make poor people rich as a group. It does not put fathers in families. It does not take kids off the streets dealing drugs. It is drama, not work, and work is what pays off in the long run.
Next, all of this nonsense about how the bad behavior of black kids in America is caused by lead based paint.… Just so you know, no one has been able to definitively quantify the effects of lead-based paint on anyone’s IQ or behavior. For a very long time, all of America breathed in immense amounts of lead vapor from gasoline and industrial uses. There was no discernible fall in national IQ from that. Even now, inhalation of lead-based vapors is high in auto repair, cosmetics application, target-shooting instruction, and many other fields. It is far higher in China than here.
There was no national crisis of intelligence or behavior based on that lead. China is obviously growing like mad. No one thinks the Chinese cannot learn.
Only when some smart sociologists and trial lawyers found they could make money and fame by asserting that the cause of misconduct and low scholastic achievement in the black schools was lead-based paint did that emerge as a “cause” of such problems.
It is junk science, my educated friends say. Everyone takes in lead. Not everyone uses it as an excuse. ...
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Indian Reservations Were Our First Government Instituted Ghettos - Inconvenient Truth about Ghetto Communities’ Social Breakdown

Quakers, for all their good intentions, established the failed pattern for Government Sponsored, Institutionalized Ghettos. As with most Government failed programs, they don't disappear, they grow and get more funds. m/r

The Inconvenient Truth about Ghetto Communities’ Social Breakdown | National Review Online

by THOMAS SOWELL May 5, 2015 

... Murder rates among black males were going down — repeat, down — during the much-lamented 1950s, while it went up after the much celebrated 1960s, reaching levels more than double what they had been before. Most black children were raised in two-parent families prior to the 1960s. But today the great majority of black children are raised in one-parent families. 

Such trends are not unique to blacks, nor even to the United States. The welfare state has led to remarkably similar trends among the white underclass in England over the same period. Just read Life at the Bottom, by Theodore Dalrymple, a British physician who worked in a hospital in a white slum neighborhood.

You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization — including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain — without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large. 

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/417899/inconvenient-truth-about-ghetto-communities-social-breakdown-thomas-sowell




Corrupt Democrats - Why Politicians Will Not Tell Us The Truth



Why Politicians Will Not Tell Us The Truth - Charles Krauthammer - O'Reilly - YouTube

May 4, 2015
Why Politicians Will Not Tell Us The Truth - Charles Krauthammer - O'Reilly

Twenty-First Century City Skylines are Becoming Indistinguishable

New York, Los Angeles, Shanghai, Taipei, Singapore, Bombay (Mumbai), Dubai, Canton (Guangzhou), Kuala Lampur, Chicago ... The big cities once had distinctive and recognizable skylines, so much so that scenes of the individual city skylines were used for transitions of place in old films. Now they have ever taller, steel and glass, more indistinguishable skylines. There is a sad sameness to them all. m/r

In the shadows of booming cities, a tension between sunlight and prosperity - The Washington Post


Stinco De Mayo - In Mexico, this Death Appears Suspect

The head trauma and his being alone in the gym should raise suspicion about the circumstances of his death. m/r

GOLDBERG DIED AFTER COLLAPSING IN GYM
News from The Associated Press




Goldberg died of severe head trauma in an accident while exercising at a resort in the Mexican town of Punta Mita, a Mexican state official said Monday. He was found lying next to a treadmill Friday at the resort, which is near Puerto Vallarta. 

The popular Silicon Valley executive, whose company runs an online service for people who want to conduct questionnaires and polls, died Friday night at age 47. His company and family members confirmed his death Saturday but they did not give a cause of death, leading to widespread speculation.
Goldberg left his room at about 4 p.m. to exercise, and family members went to look for him after he didn't return, the Mexican official said. He was found at about 6:30 p.m. in one of the resort's gymnasiums lying by a treadmill in a pool of blood, with a blow to the lower back of his head. ...

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