Tory Redux

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  • The Nanny State Defined

    Here is one of the better working definitions of the nanny state I have come across yet. One first has to understand the entirety of the problem before taking swift action against it.

    Source Washington Times

    Moreover, in a state where virtually everything is forbidden, the citizen has to look to the state for permission to do virtually everything. In the most literal sense, it is a nanny state, where the citizen is treated as a mewling infant. And when people are treated like children, they lose the initiative to take on adult responsibilities




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  • Don’t Trip Or The Nanny State Will Catch You



     A historic Cobbled road is now being tread on by the Nanny State.
    A COBBLED path at a 1,300-year-old abbey could be closed off because health and safety chiefs say people could trip over on it.
    Instead they want to spend £30,000 of taxpayers’ money on a modern tarmac path to run alongside it.
    Town councillors in Sherborne, Dorset, have asked for permission to carry out the work at the town’s abbey – which dates back to 705AD – because they fear a costly law suit.

  • Why is Sgro Secret Deal Still Secret

    In June Liberal MP Judy Sgro was found to be in violation of some ethics codes by the house. Why isn’t the rest of the Canadian media not covering this story and trying to get to the bottom of this .  Normally the media would be all over this story like a slobbering dog, a disgraced politician making secret deals behind closed doors  it looked like it had front-page written all over it.

    However most of the chattering classes in Ottawa are too busy with trying to figure out who’s on which enemies list and other souped-up news items for the silly season between summer and the start of Parliament.

    Source Toronto Sun
    Sgro declined to explain how she had fixed her problem or address claims made by two independent sources that she was forced to pay back $100,000.


    In a statement, Sgro simply said she had resolved matters in a confidential agreement with the highly secretive Board of Internal Economy, an all-party committee of MPs that deals with financial matters.