Pithy Polemics

[wallyg]

"Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom." -- Fredrich August von Hayek (1899-1992), Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974

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"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.": Aesop - (c. 550 B.C.) legendary Greek fabulist

[Guest rickb54]

Wallyg,

All I can say to that is what the ****? (are you talking about)

[carlie]

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."

Roger that Mr. Walter, it's as clear to me as when I unzip the rear plastic window

of my 1995 Miata MX-5 convertible, there is no longer a haze and I can see where

I've last been.

Nothing like a little retro to bring you back to posting, makes me smile with

happiness for you and yours.

carlie

[wallyg]

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."

Roger that Mr. Walter, it's as clear to me as when I unzip the rear plastic window

of my 1995 Miata MX-5 convertible, there is no longer a haze and I can see where

I've last been.

Nothing like a little retro to bring you back to posting, makes me smile with

happiness for you and yours.

carlie

Thanks Carlie, I'm glad there is somebody around who still understands English.

B) B) :P

[Guest jstacy]

Great to see you back Walter. Keep up the inspiration.

[john999]

Wally

Stalin said the death of one person is a tragedy and the death of a million is a statistic. Stalin was good at statistics.

[wallyg]

"It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear." —General Douglas MacArthur, Speech, May 15, 1951

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"The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.": -- Stendhal [Marie-Henri Beyle] (1783-1842)French writer

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Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind: George Orwell

Edited November 13, 2006 by wallyg