He was a Great Pitcher

Who said some crazy things, like…

I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is?

         — Dizzy Dean

Why Do People Hate Ayn Rand?

When watching some of my brides favorite shows, there seems to be a general screenwriters’ animosity focused on Ayn Rand.  The novels, particularly The Fountanhead and Atlas Shrugged, coupled with a the author’s experience with communism, speak of responsibility, logic and causality fostering an unbreakable moral code.

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote.

It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.


—Rand

At the Center of It

At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child - miserable as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.

 ~ P. J. O’Rourke

Churnalism

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Then most of us go on to greater things.

Bobby Knight

Can We Talk?

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

George Bernard Shaw

Former FBI Director

James Comey, has been officially chastised, by the Inspector General Michael Horowitz, for leaking "investigative information".
To that, there was this more direct comment on the internet.

"His smarmy act has failed to conceal that he's a sanctimonious prick. Make that a sanctimonious, dishonest, basically corrupt prick, who subordinated his duty to his country to selfish and shallow political and personal motives."

Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit                 

What's the Difference?

This is what Al thought...

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” 

-Albert Einstein

Cafe Hayek on the Minimum Wage

I believe that the last sentence of this quotation is accurate. We as an American people have lived for 100 years with a government that wrote for itself, the Sixteenth Amendment,  a means to take whatever share of our income that it chooses. That coupled with SCOTUS that waves the white flag at any legislation that infringes on personal rights; assigning the government rights to such things as the "Commerce Clause". True individual economic freedom only exists outside of the law.

The pet Democrat cause of the minimum wage, is in reality, a manner taxing businesses, with the proceeds benefiting low income people. It is evident that some of the new new minimum wage rates have outstripped the value of unskilled labor in relation to the value of the product. When this proportional inversion occurs, businesses search for cost reduction, alternative means of service delivery, to minimize the number of wage hours required.

One thing that frightens me in this scenario is the government, in seeing the business adjust to the illegitimate labor rate, will seek to regulate business staff sizes.

When that happens we will all work for the government.

Cafe Hayek — where orders emerge: where orders emerge

If we are not physically overrun by barbarians, what will destroy us?  Not learned quibbles on the nuances of what the Founding Fathers really meant.  Rather, we will ruin ourselves with minimum wage and comparable worth laws; with controls on prices of goods, apartments, and loans; with erratic changes in the price level; with government domination through the budget, environmental regulation, and antitrust intrusions; with progressive attenuation of property rights; with subsidization of inefficiency and sloth and divisiveness….

Free men require free markets.  If we lose the battle of economic freedom, we lose the entire war.

 William Allen

Economist

The Midnight Economist 

Kick It

See if it moves.

"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

Just Ask Any Black Republican

To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.

Voltaire

aka François-Marie Arouet

Dumb Assed Celebrity Quotations

I saw Mariah Carey once at the airport in Atlanta, she ain't that skinny, and mean as a snake looking to boot...

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

Mariah Carey

What do you expect from the poor girl, the question is pretty damned stupid in the first place.

Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever; then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever.

Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest

I hate this pompous little fucker...

Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what they are.

Matt Lauer

On NBC's Today show

Great moments in New York politics...

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

David Dinkins, 

New York City Mayor

Answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes.

I think that at this point she had a future playing lesbians on television...

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

Brooke Shields

Spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign.

My neighbor is a die hard Kentucky basketball fan, even he would have to admit that Winston might be a cigarette or two short of a full pack....

I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.

Winston Bennett

University of Kentucky basketball forward

Great moments in DC politics...

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

Mayor Marion Barry

Great moments in Illinois bureaucracy...

Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued.
Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.

Letter from the Illinois Department of Public Aid

Great moments in Federal politics...

Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history.this century's history. We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this 20th century. 

Dan Quayle, 

Indiana Senator

If only Obama's little terrier Rahm Emanual has heard this said Chicago legislation may have been advanced even closer autocratic unconstitutionality...

Rotarians, be patriotic! Learn to shoot yourself.

Chicago Rotary Club journal, "Gyrator"

Great moments in the city of brotherly love...

The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.

Frank Rizzo

Ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia

This man has the ear of the President...

I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly under-polluted.

Lawrence Summers

Chief economist of the World Bank

Explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third World countries

After finding no persons qualified, I appoint, a politician...

After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.

Philip Streifer

Superintendent of Schools

Barrington, Rhode Island

You used to see Dizzy Dean charcoal for sale, wonder what happened to that. This surely was said as playful provocation, fits the man's character....

The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing.

Dizzy Dean

Explaining how he felt after being hit on the head by a ball in the 1934 World Series

Bosnian Affirmative Action

More relics from the past found in my desk.

The former mayor of Atlanta opines, to the Atlanta Journal and Constitution suggesting....

When I look at Bosnia, and see Serbs and Croatians and Muslims, and Orthodox and Jews, not able to live together, it's because they've never worked out a program of affirmative action that assured everyone a place in society.

Besides the errors in diction, mixed tense application, and ignorance of what society means, Mr. Young has yet failed to grasp that Affirmative Action is in itself promotes of racism by taking from the perceived oppressor and transferring to the claim afflicted.

Almost Par

I just resigned from a company that I gave over thirty years of continuous service. Cleaning out my desk revealed a collection of many cartoons and newsworthy scraps collected. This was from Newsweek magazine during the summer of 2000.  So much has happened since.

To quote..

He shot a ninety. At the end of the game, his scorecard said eighty-four.

Bryce Molder

Mr. Molder is now part of the PGA Tour, a popular player by all accounts, and a family man.
Bill Clinton is still dishonest.

It Has Always Been That Way

The Patriot Post had this quote to offer today, a fitting description of the Affordable Care Act.....

"It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?" 

James Madison, Federalist No. 62, 1788

Yep

Henry was always good with the pithy quotations, this seems on spot...

"As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissistic moron."

H. L. Mencken

That was then...

Seven years ago, an Illinois Senator had this to say about raising the debt ceiling.

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. government can't pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies.
Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that "the buck stops here." Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.

Times change, now the same man as President refuses to negotiate with Republicans in Congress.
What he meant to says is that the buck stops at George Bush.
That your pick which one, but at the time W.

Falcon Fever

"F---ing Zimmerman got away with murder today wow what kind of world do we live in. All them jurors should go home tonight and kill themselves for letting a grown man get away with killing a kid."

--Atlanta Falcons player Roddy White

The above statement is proof that being a well paid athlete is not evidence of a successful education.  As an Atlantan, my opinion of the athlete had been that he was a gifted, hard working football player.  Now, not so much.

Racial Demagogue

"I think it's possible if the police had got a black Zimmerman, the question would be whether they would have beat him to death and then threw handcuffs on him and dragged him into the precinct."

--Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demagogue
A demagogue or rabble-rouser is a political leader in a democracy who appeals to the emotions, prejudices, and ignorance of the less-educated citizens in order to gain power and promote political motives. Demagogues usually oppose deliberation and advocate immediate, violent action to address a national crisis; they accuse moderate and thoughtful opponents of weakness. Demagogues have appeared in democracies since ancient Athens. They exploit a fundamental weakness in democracy: because ultimate power is held by the people, nothing stops the people from giving that power to someone who appeals to the lowest common denominator of a large segment of the population.

The above definition nails it. Inflamatory statements like this perpetuate anger between followers on one side, and exasperated citizens on the other. It is hyperbole.

Business Advice

Read this in a trade magazine earlier today, and I like it very much.....

"Be quick, be quiet and be on time."

-Kelly Johnson of Lockheed's Skunk Works

Quote of the Day

A Friday afternoon thought for the day from a co-worker.

Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.

-Ben Franklin