in memorial of Ted Kennedy i present you a picture of the offshore wind turbine farm he opposed.
Monthly Archive for August, 2009
The Instapundit says “Surprisingly sympathetic treatment from the NYT.”
unfortunately not so sympathetic from the District Attorney…
A law enforcement official said that the district attorney was considering a possible misdemeanor weapons charge against Mr. Augusto, indicating that he did not have a permit for the shotgun.
“I am for doing good to the poor, but…I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed…that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out
of other people’s money.”
—Margaret Thatcher
from the WSJ…
HT to Hsoi for digging up a great story by John Mackey founder of Whole Foods (Austin’s original crunchy granola supermarché)
archived here should the original go down the rabbit hole.
