Friday
Short Cuts
By Patriot Post Staff · Dec. 11, 2015
Insight: “[P]rudent minds have as a natural gift one safeguard which is
the common possession of all, and this applies especially to the
dealings of democracies. What is this safeguard? Skepticism. This you
must preserve. This you must retain.” —Demosthenes (384-322 BC)
Most government jobs = permanent jobs: “I’ve never encountered an
organization where leadership was measured by how many people you
fired. You can’t fire your way to excellence.” —VA Deputy Secretary
Sloan Gibson
So it’s all just for show? “The fact is that even if every single
American citizen biked to work, carpooled to school, used only solar
panels to power their homes, if we each planted a dozen trees, if we
somehow eliminated all of our domestic greenhouse gas emissions, guess
what — that still wouldn’t be enough to offset the carbon pollution
coming from the rest of the world.” —John Kerry at the Paris climate
summit
“The planet will be ok, there just won’t be any damn people on it.”
—Han Solo Harrison Ford’s alarming prediction about man-made global
warming (Of course, without warming, he’d still be frozen in carbonite…)
Dezinformatsia: “[Democrats] have to speak up and just tell the
American people we can’t get anything done on gun violence because
Republicans are in the way. Put it on the obstructors. Put it on the
people who always defend a piece of paper that was 225 old or whatever,
back in a society that doesn’t even exist today. … Then maybe you might
strike a nerve with the American people to get rid of some of these
jackasses who live by an old document that is just totally outdated.”
—Ed Schultz
What could go wrong? “Ban guns. All guns. Get rid of guns in homes, and
on the streets, and, as much as possible, on police. … Ban guns! Not
just gun violence. Not just certain guns. Not just
already-technically-illegal guns. All of them.” —New Republic’s Phoebe
Maltz Bovy
Non Compos Mentis: “What I’m observing is that it’s tragic that in the
immediate aftermath of a series of high-profile mass shootings people
feel like they have to go out and purchase a gun. … [I]t’s tragic and
ironic.” —Josh Earnest (What’s tragic is how the Left stands on the
coffins of innocent people to politicize shootings.)
And last… “To think there is a right to bear arms because of the 2nd
Amendment is to mix up cause and effect.” —Frank Fleming
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