The English song 'Rule Brittania' has the line - 'Britons never, never, never shall be slaves'.  Well they are becoming slaves, it's a slow process but well underway. Some slaves are captured in wars, others kidnapped and bought and sold. But the worst thing about being a slave is the slave mentality and this is exactly what the poms are developing. They bow to their new masters.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1031784/Schoolboys-punished-detention-refusing-kneel-pray-Allah.html

Back in the second half of the twentieth century the wowsers were predominantly in Methodist and Baptist churches and they were losing.  Every year seemed to bring new freedoms to the population. We the people thought that it was a good idea to choose how we wanted to live. By the late 1970's you would have thought that a persons right to live their life as they wanted was guaranteed. The smoking lobby was there but it was dominated by the remnants of the dying Methodists and Baptists.

 I could not have been more wrong, as their faith died those with a puritanical bent simply moved to political parties , particularly the greens and democrats. The Libs and Labor got some but Labor seemed to attract more. Now the wowsers and do gooders are in position to make you live your life in a manner they think fit. Why can't I have a cheap bottle of wine? Because it may not be good for my health they say. Well f*** them I say. Let me live my life as I choose and only interfere if I directly harm other people.

 I want my Freedom!

Something that politicians all seem to like is to be able to concentrate power in their hands. Our current defence minister Joel Fitzgibbon is the latest to demand the end of state governments. He uses the old claim that state governments cost too much and that we would all be better off if only we could get rid of them and let Canberra run the show. Each of these arguments is bullshit of course. Removing the states would not be aby cheaper in the long run however we would lose a valuable brake on the power of central government. I am no great fan of state governments however they do to a certain extent act in the interests of their constituents, they really have no other choice. If they were abolished Canberra would have almost unlimited power to intervene in your life.

Every controlling despotic government has no viable opposition or balancing power, all true democratic government has diffused power structures and multi level government. It may not be cheap but a dilution of government power through multiple governments definitely restrains autocratic governments. I was dismayed when Howard used the corporations act to gain control of industrial relations. While his intentions may have been noble he has handed his successors (Rudd and Labor) a very powerful and blunt tool for the unions to use.

Texas doesn't need The Vault, not like we do here in the land of soft sentencing for crooks. So I don't think I even need to bother kicking this "sex fiend's" sorry arse in there...

Sex fiend jailed for 4060 years

A TEXAN man has been sentenced to over 4000 years in prison for sexually assaulting three teenage girls. He'll be eligible for parole in the year 3209.

James Kevin Pope, 43, was convicted of 40 counts of sexual assault of a child and three counts of sexual performance of a child, the Fort Worth Star Telegram reports.

Pope was sentenced to life in prison for each sex assault conviction and 20 years for each sex performance conviction.

At the request of prosecutors, Parker County District Judge Graham Quisenberry ordered Pope to serve the sentences consecutively, adding up to 4060 years.

“Nobody out here could recall a sentence of a longer duration,” said Jeff Swain, a Parker County assistant district attorney.

Pope abused the girls during a 20-month period that began in May 2006, prosecutors said.

Whaddaya reckon?

Someone mentioned to me the other day what a remarkable man Kevin Rudd is.

 'He combines Whitlams grasp of economics with Keatings affinity for the common man'

 It's true.

A Remarkable man indeed.

Skippy won't be used for pet food. Rather than having their already culled carcasses put to good use, they'll be left to rot instead.

Another brilliant idea brought to us courtesy of the State. Go read about it HERE and join me in the irritation.

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I love this "byline"

Emily Power
June 30, 2008 03:35pm

A CLAIRVOYANT killer has lashed out after learning he will spend almost a quarter of a century behind bars.

No he didn't. There are no "clairvoyants", there are only frauds and scamers who claim to be.

Just because a fool thinks he is a fish, don't mean I have to call him Nemo.

Take note Emily Power.

Bob Dylan once sang "the times they are a changin". It's a timeless sentiment, as relevant now as it was when Noah built his boat.

Looking around me at the political climate we find ourselves embroiled in, I can't help but despair. It seems the people are just waking up to the disaster in waiting that Kevin Rudd is leading. I suspect in this instance Australia may be leading the USA, their awakening will not occur until sometime around Easter 2009.

I have found myself increasingly disinterested in the hail of vomitus the Labor government is spewing upon us. From it's nonsensical and impossible promises to it's nannying, bullying bullshit regarding global warming.....which stopped 10 years ago.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, I have decided to seek refuge in other online pursuits.

After much thought I decided the things I enjoy the most, doing stuff with Kati, listening to music, watching movies and good TV shows, can provide good fodder to write about with less hair loss.

To that end, we have created a new site called Welcome To Our Nightmare (named after the classic Alice Cooper album). On there we plan to talk shit about good stuff (Love It To Death) and bad stuff (Dragontown) that we have come across in the entertainment world.

Not that this means the end of our contributions to other sites, particularly It's A Matter Of Opinion, but for now I am quite happy to not bother even reading much "serious" (although how anyone can take most of the news seriously is beyond me) news.

What with Mad muzzies wanting polygyny laws introduced here in Australia so they can screw more chicks with a clean conscious while we pleb taxpayers feed them welfare to do so (might as well just give them money to visit prostitutes, it would be cheaper), and that total dickwad Rudd still crapping on about reducing carbon emissions (which don't actually seem to be all that harmful anyway) by....what was it, 60% or some such and introducing a carbon trading scheme which will cost us all dearly. It's like the script from a really bad comedy, you know one of those with Adam Sandler in it.

For now it's time to immerse myself in the shallow and inherently meaningless world of the entertainment industry.

Victorian Judges are amongst the elite--champions in their field. If their collective finger wagging and empty words constituted olympic sports, they would all be gold medal winners hands down.

Here's yet another winning effort from our very own Justice Betty King...

Justice Betty King said yesterday the death of Morgan Harris Morgan, 20, was a terrible waste and an example of "gross stupidity and futility".

She added: "This was a disgraceful episode. A clear example of mob rule fuelled by alcohol and aggression."

Justice King told Mr Morgan's family that his death was a terrible waste and no sentence could alleviate their pain.

Addressing the attackers, the judge said: "You need to think about this man every day for the rest of your life.

"Remember this, and remember where it leads -- to the totally senseless loss of another young life."

An Academy Award winning performance Judge King! Sadly and oh so predictably however, King's lamentations and finger wagging were not backed up with actions. As usual, the heavy-hammer justice was more like a feather duster.

20 year old Morgan Harris was stabbed in the neck with a broken bottle back in 2006 and died from his injuries. Young Morgan was attempting to break up a fight when Kristofer Simpas decided to stab him. And for this brutal act, Simpas gets four years and nine months...

Justice King said it was "truly tragic" that the youth, who also fled to the safety of Australia from a violent homeland, was involved in the death of another refugee.

She said Simpas was a binge drinker but accepted he had remorse and good prospects of rehabilitation.

Well done Judge King, your finger wagging style is breathtaking.

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This story is extremely irritating and the main aspect of it that drives me up the wall is Victoria's Charter of Human Rights. I've written about this silly document before.

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Anyone with half a brain would find this mob irritating, so I guess that must mean I have half a brain! Trust these clowns to be responsible for this annoying story. VEGETARIANS...in general I just find them to be an irritant.

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The fact that the salty looking dude on your left has not been kicked out of the country for doing THIS irritates me beyond belief.

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Stay tuned for the next installment of Things that irritate me...There's never any shortage of material!

This is the biggest load of self justifying bullshit I think I have read this year.

Obesity epidemic puts Aussies above Americans

AUSTRALIA is the world's most overweight nation, ahead of the notoriously supersized Americans, according to a new study.

The report shows nine million Australian adults are fatter than they should be.

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Leigh Bradley Youlten is just another in the long line of Vault members that will never get that well deserved bullet in the brain. This violent rapist started flashing people as a teenager and now at the age of 30, he's finally been put away...Amongst the many atrocities Youlten has committed, he decided to rape an 89 year old woman at knife point. I wonder why he needed the knife, was Youlten afraid that the lady was going to fight back?

To call someone like him a coward would be an insult to his 28 victims surely. I think I'll leave it up to them to decide what to call him.

This may be the beginning of the end of what passes for catholicism these days. The Church moves slowly and in strange ways, I can see nothing but good (for the RC church) coming out of this in the long term, perhaps society will benefit as well.

Via Currency Lad