Anyone for a game of darts?
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Some views on government...
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
-George Bernard Shaw
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have dinner.
-James Bovard, Civil Libertarian
(1994)
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
-P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
-Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-Winston Churchill
-George Bernard Shaw
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have dinner.
-James Bovard, Civil Libertarian
(1994)
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
-P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
-Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!
-P.J. O'Rourke
No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in
session.
-Mark Twain (1866
Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it
-Unknown
The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
-Ronald Reagan
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the of the blessings.
No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in
session.
-Mark Twain (1866
Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it
-Unknown
The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
-Ronald Reagan
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the of the blessings.
The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
-Winston Churchill
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
-Mark Twain
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher
(1820-1903)
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
-Thomas Jefferson
I think this last one is the best.
-Winston Churchill
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
-Mark Twain
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher
(1820-1903)
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
-Thomas Jefferson
I think this last one is the best.
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-Winston Churchill
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Happiness is a new guitar....
No. 2 son, Andrew has rewarded himself for earning his Masters with a new Gibson Swamp Ash Les Paul. Well done for both achievements I say.
Friday, February 08, 2008
Friday, February 01, 2008
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