“Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.”
–Cato the Elder
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“By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour, Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys. The Fruits of a Man’s honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property.” –Cato the Younger
That is where ideals and reality usually part.
“How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant.” Mark Twain
I’ve got mine, fuck you, you morally inferior scumbag.
Hey, is that from the, you know, CATO Institute website?
Here’s another one:
Marx said the problem with capital is that it enables one to enjoy the fruits of the labor of others. If each man is entitled to the fruits of his own labor and is sole arbiter of his own private actions, and may not take from any other member of society the fruits of that person’s actions, you cannot have a system of capital in which one individual may use capital to command another to labor for the benefit of the capital-holder.
Are you a Marxist, Nock?
I used CORA for the first time for my City of Boulder wasting tax money blog. It was really interesting because it caused the city to turn over documents that documented how they had made dumb decision and wasted money. It’s totally against human nature that someone provides documentation against themselves.
It’s a good idea and a good law as shown in how it worked. And clearly most government employees would not cooperate if not for the law. But it did feel weird to ask someone to give me info that would not make them look good.
from one “private attorney general” to another.
(I was called that in a 2009 GAO report for hounding a particular federal department)
so I just googled the term,
looking for that particular GAO report,
and its used pretty commonly.
who knew ?
It was fun to do this. Not on the level of Watergate or McInnis’ plagiarism, but still it was digging in and getting the documentation. And finding that it was a total waste of money.
“If the Bush administration didn’t like somebody, they’d kidnap them and send them to torture chambers. If the Obama administration decides they don’t like somebody, they murder them.” –Noam Chomsky
This quote happened in May….and of, course, is taken out of context.
Post the source and the entire dialog!
later went on to note how the Obama administration “was a wee bit more selective in its judgements” . . .
Well, any way, if Noam didn’t, I just did.
Any word on debates between these two Golden brothers?
How will Perlmutter contrast and compare his demand for firearms and ammo bans with that of Governor Hickenlooper?
Does Perlmutters position that without Obamacare, Aurora victims would have been out on their butts without healthcare, square with Governor Hickenlooper and the Hospital and Health Insurance Associations positions and obligations?
Where’s Ed at on fiscal sustainability vs Coors and Governor Hickenlooper?
Perlmutter routinely clobbers Republican opponents in Republican-leaning parts of the district. Saw him vs. Frazier at the Arvada Center in 2010 and even the Libertarian walked out with more supporters than Ryan after the debate.
Parents attack daughter for bringing shame on the family, but it’s just a “racist attack” because nobody was brown or called God by a different name than the majority does.
The sad thing is that this song is now 32 years old. The parents in this case were likely kids who danced to this when it was new.
http://thehill.com/blogs/healt…
or not.
I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that his mouth engaged separately from the actions of the executive staff; in Texas that’s not inconceivable.