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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Department of Cotton Wool Ad
Here is a radio ad the Victorian Liberal Democrats put together:
We have also created a spoof website with Dept of Cotton Wool Rules:
The meeting of the sub-committee IX (Rules and Procedures) have after careful community consultation and using the latest in evidence based research have released the following rules designed to make your lives safer and happier for you, your family and our society.
Starting Monday and Tuesday, you will placed in cotton wool to avoid injury.
The Department have conducted thorough safety checks and requires you to use government licensed cotton wool installers.
Please proceed to any number of local Cotton Wool installation booths located near you.
Ensure you have reported to your local Cotton Wool official at the start of the day, to ensure adherence to these new rules.
If, as a last resort, you have to apply cotton wool yourself:
Please ensure you are well covered before assisting your children.
We recommend opening the packet before applying the cotton wool.
Sticky tape, placed directly on skin can cause irritation.
These rules are designed to protect you and your family. The Department estimates a saving of $4 billion a year in health care costs associated with scratches, grazes and hip replacements. Continue reading
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Tagged ad, department of cotton wool, Nanny State, radio, video
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A Taxpayer’s Political Glossary
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Photographers’ Lack of Freedom
Here are two examples of the Nanny State interfering with law abiding photographers:
1. Rob Smith, a professional photographer, while shooting at a public beach, gets harassed by a police officer:
“Excuse me. Sir.”
I looked around and saw a young policeman.
“Sir, we’ve received a complaint from some people saying that you’ve been taking photographs of children. Would you mind telling me what you’re doing here?”
My heart sank.
It was inevitable that this day would come: middle aged Caucasian man (175cm – 72kg) spending a lot of time photographing people (young and not so young), long black lens, big black camera backpack, big black tripod, fairly stern looking face at times as he contemplates relevant aspects of photographic art and craft appropriate to the situation and observes the activities unfolding before him. Mind always focussed on a photographic response. Perhaps looking intent and predatory – to those who don’t know him.
My first reaction was private indignation that I would be suspected of an ulterior motive. But I tried to remain objective and consider public perception, however wrong it may be.
Read the whole account here.
2. TSA Campaign Targets Photographers in Hoodies
A new TSA terror warning seems to be targeting photographers in hoodies as a national security threat.
That’s the way photographers are viewing a new poster distributed by the Transportation Security Administration to encourage airport employees to report suspicious activity.
The poster shows a man in a hooded sweatshirt pointing a telephoto lens at something on an airport tarmac. The object of his lens is unknown since it’s outside the frame — it could be an airplane or simply a drunken starlet stumbling toward her limousine.
The TSA’s “Blogger Bob” acknowledged on Wednesday that perhaps the poster “didn’t go far enough in distinguishing between general photography and suspicious surveillance activity.”
“Bob” also seemed to realize that it probably wasn’t smart for the TSA to tick off photographers, “since they’re extremely observant of their surroundings” and could actually help the administration spot genuine suspicious activity.
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Death by PowerPoint: A New Hope
What if the Rebel Alliance used PowerPoint? Continue reading
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Australian Euthanasia Ad Banned
Free speech takes a hit in Australia. The following ad was banned by the Free TV Australia Industry Watch Dog:
The ultimate choice to end your life is yours, not anyone else’s. A person owns their life. If they wish to end it and has consented to it (ie. without force, violence or coercion), then so be it. I do personally believe in value of human life, and if a friend, colleague or family member that wanted to go down this path, I would try my hardest, through reason and compassion (not through force), to convince them otherwise.
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Toy Guns to Be Licensed
Ridiculous:
ANY ITEM that looks like a gun will have to be licensed under several changes to the Weapons Act being considered by the Queensland State Government.
Even guns made out of materials as unlikely as soap or plastic may have to be kept under lock and key if they could “reasonably be taken to be a weapon”.
The draft act says an imitation is a “reasonable copy” of a weapon that is not capable of causing death or injury.
“If it looks like a gun and feels like a gun, it will have to be licensed,” said a government source.
“We just want to know where they are.”
It is unclear how the draft affects toy guns.
Failure to license an imitation weapon will carry a maximum $4500 fine under the proposals and incorrect storage carries a penalty of $750.
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