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Thursday

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August 2011

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Those Guns Have Cooties, Kids

Written by , Posted in Gun Rights

Britain continues its well documented spiral into a collective, moonbattery-fueled madness (Hat-tip: Michelle Malkin):

Children will be banned from watching shooting events under Boris Johnson’s Olympic ticket giveaway.

London schoolchildren are eligible for 125,000 Olympic tickets but these will not include any featuring guns, as Games organisers and City Hall fear a backlash from the anti-gun lobby.

Giving children tickets to the events, at the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, could have appeared at odds with Mayor Boris Johnson’s bid to quell teenage gun and knife crime.

It is a weird thing to observe the downfall of a culture that has lost all grip on reality.

Wednesday

10

August 2011

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Cultural Rot in (Once) Great Britain

Written by , Posted in Culture & Society

The rioting continues in London, where petulant children born of a culture of dependency lash out in nihilistic rage.

And then, when the adults attempt to respond and try to literally clean up the mess…well, read for yourself (Hat-tip: Open Market):

Local people arrived in Peckham High Street armed with cleaning equipment to help restore order in the aftermath of the riots.

But people waiting to clean up Clapham Junction have been told they cannot help because of health and safety issues.

…[O]fficers told the volunteers that the decision had been made for the clean-up to be done by the council.

Asked why, an officer said: “Health and safety mainly. There’s lots of broken glass around.”

Runaway moonbattery produces cultural rot.

Friday

8

April 2011

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Government Health Care Leads to Tyranny

Written by , Posted in Big Government, Government Meddling, Health Care, Welfare & Entitlements

Forget all that compelling  wonkish stuff against government sponsored health care, like the third-party-payer problem, regulatory capture or public choice theory. The most compelling argument, and simplest to understand, is that it inevitably leads to tyranny. Once you decide that the health of an individual is of collective interest, and funded by collective dollars, you give that collective the authority to interfere in any individual act which impacts a person’s health, and it turns out that’s just about everything.

To wit (hat-tip: Moonbattery):

Saying that sugary drinks have caused rising obesity among city residents and driven up health care costs, Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino today moved to ban the sale, advertising, and promotion of the drinks on all city property.

…The order applies to cafeterias, vending machines, concession stands, and beverages served at meetings, the mayor’s office said.The drinks that will be banned include: non-diet sodas, pre-sweetened ice teas, refrigerated coffee drinks, energy drinks, juice drinks with added sugar, and sports drinks…

Barbara Ferrer, executive director of the Boston Public Health Commission, said that in the long term, the policy will cut health care costs.

With Obamacare around the corner, this is just the tiniest tip of the iceberg. Under government run health care, nothing is personal any more.

Saturday

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October 2010

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Wednesday

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January 2010

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More English Lunacy

Written by , Posted in General/Misc.

We have two more stories, via Dan Mitchell, in my ongoing coverage of the British slide into an abyss of moonbattery.

In the first story, a man is arrested for an email (which it turns out he didn’t even write) that was supposedly insensitive to gypsies:

A wealthy businessman was arrested at home in front of his wife and young son over an email which council officials deemed ‘offensive’ to gipsies – but which he had not even written.

The email, concerning a planning appeal by a gipsy, included the phrase: ‘It’s the ‘do as you likey’ attitude that I am against.’

Council staff believed the email was offensive because ‘likey’ rhymes with the derogatory term ‘pikey’.

Rhyming with bad words is a crime against humanity.

In the second story, a woman is chastised for holding a knife in her own home to scare off possible intruders:

The TV presenter and Marks & Spencer model Myleene Klass has been warned by police for waving a knife at teenagers who were peering into a window of her house late at night.

Klass was in the kitchen with her daughter upstairs when she spotted the youths in her garden just after midnight on Friday. She grabbed a knife and banged the windows before they ran away.

Hertfordshire police warned her she should not have used a knife to scare off the youths because carrying an “offensive weapon”, even in her own home, was illegal.

Klass’s spokesman, Jonathan Shalit, said the former Hear’Say singer was “utterly terrified” by the intruders and “aghast” at the police warning. “All she did was scream loudly and wave the knife to try and frighten them off,” he told the Sunday Telegraph. “She is not looking to be a vigilante, and has the utmost respect for the law, but when the police explained to her that even if you’re at home alone and you have an intruder, you are not allowed to protect yourself, she was bemused.”

When moonbattery is allowed to reign supreme, even self-defense is outlawed.

Sunday

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December 2009

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Thou Shall Have Rubbish!

Written by , Posted in The Nanny State & A Regulated Society

The never ending parade of ridiculous stories out of the UK featuring heartless bureaucracy and runaway moonbattery continues:

A SHOPKEEPER has been fined £180 by Southend Council for NOT producing commercial rubbish.

Mark Howard, 50, owner of Sutton Cycles in Sutton Road, Southend, has recycled all the cardboard boxes his new bikes arrive in by using them when he sells second-hand bikes.

…Mr Howard was astonished when a council official visited to check his waste disposal credentials. The officer refused to believe he did not produce any waste and he was issued with a £180 fixed penalty notice, which if he doesn’t pay within ten days, will be increased to £300. If he fails to pay that he will face court proceedings.

…Steven Crowther, group manager for waste at Southend Council, said Mr Howard was required to produce evidence of how he disposes of commercial waste.

Tuesday

7

April 2009

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Monday

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June 2008

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Plant Morality

Written by , Posted in Energy and the Environment

Don’t let anyone tell you different: blogging is hard.  Even an opinionated and outspoken individual such as myself has difficulty finding material every day.  That task, however, is made a lot easier when one endeavors to cover the absurdities of the political left.

Be careful next time you’re pulling weeds in your garden, you may just be committing a war crime.  The Swiss government has issued a report on the moral rights claimed by plant life.  Here are some of their findings:

1. Arbitrariness:
The Committee members unanimously consider an arbitrary harm caused to plants to be morally impermissible. This kind of treatment would include, e.g. decapitation of wild flowers at the roadside without rational reason.

2. Instrumentalisation:
For the majority the complete instrumentalisation of plants – as a collective, as a species, or as individuals – requires moral justification.

3. Ownership of plants:
For the majority here too, plants – as a collective, as a species, or as individuals – are excluded for moral reasons from absolute ownership. By this interpretation no one may handle plants entirely according to his/her  own desires. A minority concludes that no limits apply to handling plants insofar as they are property.

Plants are people too!

Friday

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October 2006

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Orwell Would Be Proud

Written by , Posted in Culture & Society

Schoolgirl arrested for refusing to study with non-English pupils

A teenage schoolgirl was arrested by police for racism after refusing to sit with a group of Asian students because some of them did not speak English.

. . .The 14-year-old – who was released without charge – said it had been a simple matter of commonsense and accused the school and police of an over-the-top reaction.

The incident happened in the same local education authority where a ten-year-old boy was prosecuted earlier this year for calling a schoolfriend racist names in the playground, a move branded by a judge “political correctness gone mad.”

. . .”She said I had to sit there with five Asian pupils,” said Codie yesterday.

“Only one could speak English, so she had to tell that one what to do so she could explain in their language. Then she sat me with them and said ‘Discuss’.”

According to Codie, the five – four boys and a girl – then began talking in a language she didn’t understand, thought to be Urdu, so she went to speak to the teacher.

“I said ‘I’m not being funny, but can I change groups because I can’t understand them?’ But she started shouting and screaming, saying ‘It’s racist, you’re going to get done by the police’.”

. . .A complaint was made to a police officer based full-time at the school, and more than a week after the incident on September 26 she was taken to Swinton police station and placed under arrest.

“They told me to take my laces out of my shoes and remove my jewellery, and I had my fingerprints and photograph taken,” said Codie. “It was awful.”

After questioning on suspicion of committing a section five racial public order offence, her mother Nicola says she was placed in a bare cell for three-and-a-half hours then released without charge.

. . .”We aim to ensure a caring and tolerant attitude towards people and pupils of all ethnic backgrounds and will not stand for racism in any form.”

What they don’t aim to ensure, appearantly, is learning. Nobody cares if you can’t communicate with those you have to work with, just so long as nobody gets offended. Not to put too fine a point on it, but this is what happens when you put leftists in charge. These people are so hysterically self conscious that they are willing to arrest a 14 year old girl for not wanting to work with children she is incapable of communicating with.

Unbelievable. In a sane world, something like this would be unbelievable. Unfortunately, this kind of leftist hysteria and thought control is becoming all too common throughout the West.