Environmentalism is the banging shithouse door that the socialists are finally going to find themselves able to barge through and screw us all.
-Anonymous
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These exciting and unexplained cleaning events have kept Opportunity in really great shape. – Mars rover team leader Jim Erickson at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, explaining that “something” has been cleaning the solar panels of the rover Opportunity while it was parked during the Martian night, and that as a consequence its power levels are much higher than was expected at this stage of the mission. Two observations. (a) It looks like the Martians are friendly. (b) I wish I could have “exciting and unexplained cleaning events” in my bathroom. (Link via slashdot). Self defence, wrote William Blackstone, the 18th-century jurist, is a “natural right that no government can deprive people of, since no government can protect the individual in his moment of need”. This Government insists upon having a monopoly on the use of force, but can only impose it upon law-abiding people. By practically eliminating self defence, it has removed the greatest deterrent to crime: a people able to defend themselves. This is depressing. Especially when I think that I survived communism without ever being fingerprinted… Next time I’m at a party and I meet someone who works for a publishing company, I’m going to get him in a headlock and push his face into a cake. – Some consumer feedback from Harry Hutton – something about British books being made with the wrong sort of paper. Some people will forever be chasing the chimera of better government. This shields them from the idea that the only option is less government
Lord Hoffman’s opinion in A(FC) and others (FC) (Appellants) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent), also reported by the BBC. “It is outrageous, and amazing, that the first free and general elections in the history of the Arab nation are to take place in January: in Iraq, under the auspices of American occupation, and in Palestine, under the auspices of the Israeli occupation. . . .” – Salameh Nematt Quoted by Bill Kristol in the Weekly Standard, [Thanks to Instapundit for the pointer] |
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