Potent Quotables (updated periodically)

  • "If you like sausages and laws, you should never watch either one of them being made." -- Otto von Bismarck
  • "God who gave us life, gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever." -- Thomas Jefferson
  • "The best way to prove a stick is crooked is to lay a straight one beside it" -- FW Boreham
  • "There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, 'There you are' and those who say, 'Here I am'" -- Abigail Van Buren
  • "It was not political rhetoric, mass rallies or poses of moral indignation that gave the people a better life. It was capitalism." -- Thomas Sowell

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Watch your Freedom Die & The Great Freakout of 2008

This article in the WSJ talks about Bush finalizing the touches on a law giving professionals the "right of conscience" which would allow them to legally refuse performing agregious acts in healthcare if they think that's what they should do. In other words, a doctor might not have to perform an abortion if he doesn't think it's right and not have to worry about getting sued over it. Sounds a lot like freedom doesn't it?

Well, guess what your president elect appears to want to do. Reverse it. That's right, reverse the right of conscience. Does that tell you anything yet!!! My only hope is that Obama played the role of Pied Piper for liberals to get elected and will make good choices once in office...or at least not make freakishly bad choices.

Oh, and in related news, the Fed dropped rates and mentioned in its statement yesterday that it would purchase mortgage back securities which seems to have caused a drop in mortgage rates...at least this morning. I assume they'll continue to jump around due to uncertainty in the markets.

And now for a little help from our friends Jonah and Victor.

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