‘AN Indonesian refugee who beat his Australian spouse to death should be released and given $350,000 compensation, the HRC (Human Rights Commission) has found.
….John Basikbasik, 51, a former West Papuan independence ­activist, has been repeatedly deemed too dangerous for release following decades of violent offending fuelled by alcohol. His offences include the manslaughter of his de facto wife in 2000 and numerous assaults during his seven-year jail term from 2001. He has been held in detention since 2007.
…Basikbasik, a self-described former alcoholic who fathered 14 children to four different women in Australia, cannot be returned to Indonesia because successive government assessments have concluded he is a genuine refugee…’
The Australian. (subscription required)
This is just the latest in a string of similar decisions by this clown and her Commission. The safety and welfare of Australians aren’t even a consideration for this despicable lefty activist bureaucrat. That Tony Abbot has failed to get rid of her long before now is an utter disgrace.

 ‘Steve King: I Will Not Vote for Boehner as Speaker’
And rightly so. Boehner has repeatedly broken the oath he swore, as has the squatter in the White House. The man is a scumbag, betraying his constituents and America, supporting the enemies of liberty and in thrall to special interests, most notably those who are determined to import cheap labour at the expense of working Americans. In a just world, he’d be hanged.
“I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
He and his crony Obama took that oath with no intention whatsoever of keeping it.

Great meat, going to waste.  (note the ABC girly reporter refers to ‘roo shooters as “macropod harvesters”, ffs! )

Critics have labelled a zero-speed-tolerance campaign a failure after 16 people died on the roads this holiday period – more than double last year’s holiday road toll.
The high fatalities have come despite a tough crackdown on speedsters and drink-drivers, and is the highest number of deaths in the holiday period in three years.
….NZ First police spokesman Ron Mark said the toll was evidence the zero-tolerance speed campaign was a “failed experiment” and accused the police and the Government of “stealth taxation” via speeding fines.
“It has precious police resources sucked up making good drivers feel like criminals instead of focusing on those driving too fast, too slowly or too badly,” he said…’

I doubt that this is, in fact, a “police failure”. It’s a political failure. The emphasis on speeding and drink-drivers ignores the prime cause of accidents, which is poorly trained drivers. But to address that will cost money and votes,  and require some intelligent action on the part of politicians. Far easier to trumpet knee-jerk responses and blame the road users.
We have a situation in NZ now where most people travel at below the already absurdly low speed limits, terrified of getting a ticket. They won’t overtake unless there’s a clearly marked overtaking lane, and plenty of slow-coaches speed up when they reach those lanes anyway, presumably because they mistake them for a stretch of dual highway. Police never target these clowns. There’s no money in it.
What’s more, commonsense tells us that there must be an irreducible minimum number of accidents and blathering constantly about “accident free” holiday periods on the roads is irritating and insulting.

 ‘Once again, Sarah Palin has made her critics look like idiots. A fake controversy (I like the neologism, fakeroversy) was generated when PETA expressed outrage over a picture of Palin posted of her Down syndrome son Trig standing on his service dog, named Jill Hadassah, a black Labrador…’
Palin’s blistering reply to PETA, below the fold:
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and this crap: ‘How to find a feminist boyfriend’
But of course, she’d still like him to be her unpaid bodyguard and to do the heavy lifting. And to fix anything mechanical or electrical when needed…..

Jamie Oliver: Sugar can destroy lives and should be taxed like tobacco
…His comments on the risks of sugar following warnings from health campaign groups that sugary diets are one of the main factors in increasing levels of obesity and type-2 diabetes.
…Mr Oliver told the Daily Mail: “Sugar’s definitely the next evil. It’s the next tobacco, without doubt, and that industry should be scared. And it should be taxed, just like tobacco and anything else that can, frankly, destroy lives.”..’
Yet again, we’re all supposed to be penalised for those people who are stupid in charge of a life. Do-gooders such as Oliver can go get fucked. Why the hell should I pay more because some people are fat and have diabetes? How about those people get off their lard asses and work off the fat?
The problem here is that socialised medicine is a license for every two-bit do-gooder asshole to interfere in other people’s lives, on the pretext that such and such a problem is costing x dollars.

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