Ignoranti quem portum petat nullus suus ventus est. If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.
—Seneca the Younger
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Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
—The King of Hearts
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I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
—Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley
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What a lovely catastrophe! Is it yours?
—Boris Badenov
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Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
—Douglas MacArthur
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WaPo reports Joe Xiden has selected former New Orleans mayor Mich Landrieu to coordinate the recently passed infrastructure boondoggle to ensure that the money is spent with a minimum of waste.
Democracy Dies in Derpness™
Moving Back to the Third World?
The New York Times reports that China’s electrical supply does not have the capacity to sustain existing demand. Businesses are having to curtail operation, and other public services are affected.
The outages have rippled across most of eastern China, where the bulk of the population lives and works. Some building managers have turned off elevators. Some municipal pumping stations have shut down, prompting one town to urge residents to store extra water for the next several months, though it later withdrew the advice.
Meanwhile, the CCP is shaking down companies to fund projects where the state can’t afford, and a real estate bubble is about burst.
If something can’t go on forever, it will stop.
— Herbert Stein
One wonders how this might affect the ten percent held for the Big Guy.
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In bello parvis momentis magni casus intercedunt. In war events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
—Julius Caesar
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An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.
—Baltasar Gracián
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Laurence J. Peter was unavailable for comment.
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A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little.
—Carl von Clausewitz
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A fool with a plan can beat a genius with no plan.
—T. Boone Pickens
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Round up the usual suspects.
—Captain Louis Renault
Should There Be a Nobel Prize for Hubris?
A good line from Kevin Williamson: “People who are high achievers in one field mistakenly believe that they possess a kind of generalized cleverness applicable to other areas of endeavor — call it Krugman’s Fallacy.” (H/T, Jim Geraghty)
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Wokeness is many things. But increasingly it seems a cover for careerism, profiteering—and utter incompetence.
—Victor Davis Hanson
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The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.
—Mark Twain
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For every vision there is an equal but opposite revision.
—Hoge’s Third Law
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Free advice is seldom cheap.
—59th Rule of Acquisition
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It’s the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
—Theodore Sturgeon
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En toutes compagnies il y a plus de folz que de sages, et la plus grande partie surmonte tousjours la meilleure. In all companies there are more fools than wise men, and the greater part always gets the better of the wiser.
—François Rabelais
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Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Cuiusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare. Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Only the skilled can judge the skilfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.
—C. S. Lewis
The U.S. Capitol Police Respond to an IG Report
The Capitol Police have issued a response to an Inspector General’s report on counter-surveillance and threat assessments.
The fact that the response contains the word impactful should tell us all we need to know about the real problem with the leadership of the Capitol Police.
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Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.
—Henry Kissinger