“Use every man after his desert, and who should escape whipping?” -- Hamlet............................................"War is natural. Peace is an accident." -- Rambo............................................"Your great love afar is spite at home." -- Emerson............................................"God's curse be upon the infidels!" -- Koran, 2:89............................................"I was ordered to fight all men until they say, 'There is no god but Allah.'" -- Mohammed, Allah's Prophet............................................"Islam is to dominate, and is not to be dominated." -- Mohammed, Allah's Prophet............................................"Killing the infidels is our religion, slaughtering them is our religion, until they convert to Islam or pay us tribute." -- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Osama bin Laden's principal deputy............................................"We must be open and tolerant towards Islam and Muslims because when we become a minority, they will be so towards us." -- Jens Orback, former Cabinet Minister for Swedish Social Democrats............................................"There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam." -- Ayatollah Khomeini............................................"You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." -- Winston Churchill............................................"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War." -- George Washington............................................"In seeking absolute truth, we aim at the unattainable and must be content with finding broken portions." -- Sir William Osler............................................"Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute." -- Mark Twain............................................"We have now sunk to a depth at which re-statement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men." -- George Orwell............................................"We are under a constitution, but the constitution is what we say it is." -- U.S. Sup. Ct. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes............................................"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." -- Plato............................................"An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia." -- Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay............................................"Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?" -- Phyllis Diller............................................"What the horn is to the rhinoceros, what the sting is to the wasp, the Mohammadan faith is to the Arabs." -- Winston Churchill............................................"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." -- General Douglas MacArthur............................................"I feel with my fingertips and think with my brain." -- Col. Bunny............................................"Muslims must fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them and seize them, confine them, and lie in wait for them in every place of ambush." -- Surah 9:5............................................"Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich. -- C. Northcote Parkinson............................................"You may not be interested in Islam . . . but Islam is interested in you." -- Ibrahim Trotsky............................................"What's wrong with denouncing white interlopers?" -- "Rev." Al Sharpton............................................"I am in support of the Hamas movement." Nihad Awad, CAIR's executive director, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)............................................"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant." -- Omar Ahmad, Co-founder, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)............................................"It is essential to stone the married adulterer until he dies, following the Sunnah of the Messenger . . . ." -- Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daaâimah, 22/48-49............................................"The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary which they may twist and shape into any form they please." -- Thomas Jefferson............................................"Useless laws weaken the necessary laws." -- Charles de Montesquieu............................................."You are Mexicans too, you just live in the United States." - Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, 1994 speech to radical-left Mexican-American lobbying group, National Council of La Raza............................................"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it." -- George Orwell............................................"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -- Mark Twain.

23 August 2009

The Commander

Heir of Washington, it's my luck
Your princely fingers all to suck.
Valley Forge I now invoke
While I slobber on your cloak.
The ghosts of Tarawa around me stand
While I lick your royal hand.
Half the Nation loves the perk --
A president who’s . . . a clerk.

09 July 2009

That Moron Bush Dept. -- III.

The more that we can do to stimulate the economy in the short term, the challenge we've got as everybody knows is that we inherited a big deficit, and it is at a certain point potentially counterproductive if we're spending more money than we're having to borrow.
~ Barack Obama.

"Warren Buffett Backs Second Stimulus." By Alice Gomstyn and Bianna Golodryga, ABC News, 7/7/09.

H/t: James Taranto, Best of the Web, WSJ.

Cowboy Bush capitalism.

In his article reference below, Mr. Dale Steinreich, adjunct scholar of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, makes clear the causes of the housing debacle and, to no one’s surprise, the usual suspects are from both sides of the aisle. Our problem is not temporary Dem or Repub ascendancy, but our being governed by the Washington Party every waking and sleeping hour of our lives:

The current housing debacle wasn't caused by "eight years of cowboy capitalism ushered in by George W. Bush" and there was never any real deregulation of any sort at any time. It was a project created over three-quarters of a century by fascists from both parties.
All of the culprits are and were believers in the ability of government to analyze economic problems correctly and interfere with the market with beneficial result. Rather than acting to maximize economic efficiency, the prime directive was to calculate political advantage. With few exceptions, everyone got it wrong.

If the word “fascism” as used by Steinreich bothers you, please read up on the thinking that places fascism squarely on the left side of the political spectrum. Fascists merely skipped the part about the government taking over the means of production directly and did it instead by co-opting banks and manufacturing concerns with thinly- veiled threats.

The choice between the Stalin and Hitler was, in the words of Max Eastman, between Red Fascism and Black Fascism. Fascism is not a substitute word for “mean” or “evil” and Steinreich’s use of it instructive and hence useful.

"75 Years of Housing Fascism." By Dale Steinreich, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 7/9/09.

08 July 2009

The not-so-impartial ABA.

The American Bar Association helpfully provides ratings of nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court. It would like you to believe that its work is the soul of objectivity and non-partisan selflessness.

It isn’t. The present members of the ABA's Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary overwhelmingly favor democrats in their political donations and past members have disgraced themselves in low-rating highly qualified Reagan nominees.

ABA Standing Committee for an All-Democrat Judiciary is more like it.

"Friends Of Sonia, And Financiers Of Democrats, At Bar Association." By Thomas Mcardle, Investor's Business Daily, 7/8/09.

06 July 2009

Honduras’ ex-president revealed.

All you will ever need to know about the man so loved by Castro, Chavez, and Obama:

"A ‘Man of the People.’" By Leonidas, Eternity Road, 7/6/09.

Proof of innate sex differences.



H/t: "Jessica’s Well."

Hitler finds out Michael Jackson has died.

04 July 2009

Open road.