Gillard’s wannabe Soviet regime

Well, it’s not a legitimate government in any case, so perhaps this was inevitable:
‘Bills introduced into parliament yesterday revealed the Public Interest Media Advocate would have broad powers to punish publishers if it decided that they no longer complied with undefined “community standards” or changing circumstances. There would be no appeal to the courts on the merits of the advocate’s decision to remove a publisher’s exemption from privacy laws, severely curbing its ability to report on matters of public interest.

In a reversal of the onus of proof, companies wanting to expand or merge with others would have to prove to the advocate their plans did not lead to a “substantial lessening of diversity”, without a right of appeal on the merits of the case…’
via Andrew Bolt
and
“This is the Newspeak Orwell warned of. The language of liars.”

Jaw-dropping arrogance:

‘Obesity experts in New Zealand are dismayed at the legal clamp slapped on New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s law to ban super-sized sugary soft drinks in restaurants…
…..Fight the Obesity Epidemic spokeswoman Dr Robyn Toomath said it was a great shame the mayor’s bid to help halt the growth of New Yorkers’ waistlines had been thwarted.
“Nobody believed by itself this would make a significant difference, but it was getting things under way … It set the direction that there are opportunities for regulation that will make a difference. I hope he fights back.”
She hopes he’ll “fight back” eh…..a deeply anti-liberty arrogant clown presumes to tell people what they may eat and drink and this equally arrogant nannying idiot half a world away wants him to use taxpayer’s money to find a compliant judge in order to re-instate his diktat. (Which will have zero effect in any case.)
In all this, the two things not mentioned are liberty and personal responsibility.
Any bastard who speaks of “opportunities for regulation” ought to be flogged.
Here’s an idea for “regulation that will make a difference”: Start giving every fucking nanny with an urge to interfere in the lives of others a fat lip. For the first offence. For the second, a spell breaking rocks on a road gang ought to effect an attitude adjustment.

The protected class

NZ: ‘Law Commission pleads with MPs to scrap plans for legislation that would give public servants immunity from lawsuits’
All power, no accountability…
‘A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?’
Marcus Tullius Cicero

It’s officially no longer Bush’s fault.

It’s official folks,it’s no longer Bush’s fault,but it’s still not Obama’s either.

Obamacare is unfolding to be a disaster,taxes on everybody have gone up,GITMO is still open and it’s sorta,kinda legal to kill Americans on American soil using Drone attacks.Even Obama’s most die hard followers are becoming embarrassed by him.

But it’s still not Obama’s fault and it no longer is even Bush’s fault.So who’s fault is it,who is to blame,who is the evil wretch who caused all this?

After reading a few comments under a couple articles at Salon.com and The Huffington Post(I know,but sometimes morbid curiosity gets the best of me) I found several instances of this-“If Romney had not been so far to the right I would have voted for him,but I had to vote for Obama again instead”

So there we have it folks,through an amazing,yet inevitable display of liberal psycho gymnastics it will now be Mitt Romney’s fault according to the left.

WTF! #342

‘The U.S. Pacific Forces top commander warned that the region’s greatest threat is not North Korea or China, but climate change. Navy admiral Samuel J. Locklear III said in an interview that he sees rising sea levels as the top threat, predicting that the sea levels would “cripple the security environment, probably more likely than the other scenarios we all often talk about.”….’    source
Proof positive that brass does NOT equal brains. (or integrity, come to that)