Quote of the Day, 8/25/2013

Fill your bath with ketchup and then bathe i was it. It is a most refreshing reward. Imagine your loved ones faces when they see you only wearing vinegar and tomato paste.

- N1GERI4GU3ST

Quote of the Day, 7/18/2013

Never look at an ugly thing twice.  Its fatally easy to get accustomed to corrupting influences. 

- C.F.A. Voysey

Quote of the Day, 7-9-2013

Guess which issue this comment is about.

Exactly. They can never let the issue go away. Neither side can afford to have the issue go away, really. Both the left and the right have a vested interest in keeping the issue alive and highly contentious, especially for fundraising purposes and to aid voter turnout for their side.

Compromise based on common sense is something neither side really wishes to think about.

And the issue is:  Does it matter?

Quote of the Day, 7-3-2013

I sometimes have to wonder if it wouldn't be better to be living in some much more corrupt country where idiotic shit like this gets ignored or bribed away and things just continue to operate in an otherwise sensible manner. Bureaucrats that you can pay to just fuck off have to be better than ones that will subject you to endless paperwork and who knows what threats of imprisonment or fines. I mean, isn't a fine really just a bribe that doesn't do what a bribe should do, which is make them go away?

-Reason.com commenter

Quote of the Day,

I have an internet idea where people can club baby seals remotely from their laptops.

-Sam Grove

Quote of the Day, 5/30/2013

A wise man (named L. Neil Smith) once said that without government, we would be 8 times as wealthy. The government (at all levels) takes half your income in taxes, products cost twice as much due to regulation, and cost twice as much again because the producers are paying taxes (on their earnings, on the supplies they buy, and the employer matching portion of payroll taxes).

And what do we get in return? Roadz, wars, and a prohibition-fueled crime wave.

-CE in a comment at Reason.com

Quote of the Day, 5/27/2013

"Repeal" is a word confined to the Dictionary of Racist Rhetoric. It's not acceptable in the modern, progressive world of the God-Emperor Hussein I.

-Res Publica Americana

Quote of the Day, 5/10/2013

crap, i'm in the strange part of the internet again.

-in response to this video on Youtube:

Quote of the Day, 3/16/2013

To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who have neither the right, nor the knowledge, nor the virtue… To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under the pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, squeezed, mystified, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, despised, harassed, tracked, abused, clubbed, disarmed, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and, to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.

-Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Quote of the Day, 3/19/2013

Montpelier is the only state capital in the US without a McDonald’s, which – technically – makes it a backwards, third-world hellhole.

-Harvey

Quote of the Day, 3/18/2013

If Pro-Gunners were as violent as Anti-Gunners say they are, logic would dictate that there would be no Anti-Gunners left.

-Skidmark via Wirecutter

Quote of the Day 12/21/2012

Nothing beats a huge stick!

-Rathergood.com

Quote of the Day, 12/19/2012

I know my sensitive side, because it has a rash.

-Ed

Quote of the Day, 12/7/2012

It’s not that I fault her for it, it seems to be a normal part of the young female mind-script to expect a “she had so much trouble dating the wronggggg men and then she just magically met this GREAT guy who made it allllll better!”kind of story to emerge in her social circle.

-Badger

Quote of the Day, 11/29/2012

Lots of people don't like how much our President plays golf.  Every minute he spends playing golf is a minute he is not spending doing his job.

I'll buy your next round Mr. President.

-Me

Quote of the Day, 11/27/2012

You got to listen to your dreams, that’s how you find your dream girl.

-Jet Black

Quote of the Day, 11/22/2012

The free market did not cause the financial crisis; political meddling with interest rates and credit allocation caused it. Without a proper diagnosis, the medicine can be worse than the disease. In this destructive cycle, the popular response to a financial crisis caused by too much government and central bank influence is “Give us more government and crazier central banks!”

-Dan Amoss

Quote of the Year, 2012

I don't know and have no opinion.

-Jet Black

Quote of the Day, 11/19/2012

There is a sure-fire way to predict the consequences of a government social program adopted to achieve worthy ends. Find out what the well-meaning, public-interested persons who advocated its adoption expected it to accomplish. Then reverse those expectations. You will have an accurate prediction of actual results.

-Milton Friedman

Qote of the Day, 11/16/2012

After a year or two of political theater and propaganda, you must be exhausted. But whether we like it or not, politics are an important part of the investing equation. And after this week, it is clearer than ever that the economy will continue getting mauled in a self-reinforcing cycle of more government leading to market failures leading to even more government.

-Dan Amoss