Coles advertisement in today’s paper: “There’s no FRESHNESS like Coles FRESHNESS”.

Referring to fruit and vegetables.

When will we see them sloganise: “There’s no exploitation of addicts like Coles exploitation of addicts”?

If you want to buy anything in Coles, you must enter through the gate and exit through the check-out.

Anything?

Not quite . . . .

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If you’re buying cigarettes you don’t need to enter or exit at all.

Grab them at the footpath-fronting front counter, bypassing both gate and check0ut.

They know that half the people to whom they sell cigarettes are on the pathway to DEATH from cigarette-related disease.

They need lots of recruits to replace the dead ones.

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Impulse-buying by the weak-minded is what they love – what they live on and depend on.

How disgusting.

The money they make is BLOOD MONEY.

The money you save by shopping there is blood money.

Tennis player, Bernard Tomic, 19, driving his orange BMW last week was pulled over by police and issued traffic infringement notices for driving contrary to the conditions of his licence.

P-platers normally aren’t allowed to drive a high-performance vehicle — but Tomic has apparently been granted an exemption because of his career as a tennis player.

Tomic has hired defence lawyer, Chris Nyst, who wants a meeting with Queensland Police Commissioner, Bob Atkinson – claiming there has been a misunderstanding regarding the terms of Tomic’s exemption.

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Professional athletes usually don’t work for a living.

They have all day to get wherever they want to go.

If anything, it would make sense to license them for lower-than-usual performance vehicles.

Road rules should be designed for the safety of the public.

19-year olds with P-plates are typically bigger safety risks than older drivers.

If being a celebrity gives one the right to flout the laws governing other people, it’s a serious matter.

The rule of law is important if our nation is to avoid being a rabble.

By definition, the rule of law must apply to all equally.

After last election Julia Gillard promised Independent MP, Mr Wilkie, that she would legislate for mandatory pre-commitment for high-intensity poker machines by 2014.

That was enough to buy his support in forming a government.

Did she ever intend to keep her promise?

Now she has got around to saying she isn’t going to do it.

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The government party calls itself the ALP.

What does the “L” stand for?

Its policies for a couple of generations suggest that their loyalties are not for those who “Labor”.

Would it be more appropriate for the “L” to stand for “Liars”

Or perhaps the “L” might stand for “Leaned on”.

This time they have been leaned on by the Registered Clubs sector, who seem to have a lot of clout based on having a lot of money . . . .

Money taken from the pockets of vulnerable problem gamblers.

Is the alternative government any better?

It’s a worry that the title of the opposition party, the LCP, also sports an “L” . . . .

Britain’s Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice has recently ruled that there is no justification for prohibiting private abortion clinics from advertising their services on television.

Private abortion businesses will be permitted to advertise themselves using terms such as “post-conception advice services”, with the emphasis on how they can arrange ultrasound scans etc.

They will not be obliged to state that they have a financial interest in aborting the babies of those who come seeking “post-conception advice”.

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The Committee requires that the adverts will be subject to a Code stipulating that such advertisements are not to be “harmful, offensive or misleading”.

Doesn’t everybody know that abortion is harmful to the baby?

And isn’t it also harmful to the whole society — in its cheapening of the sanctity of human life.

The small lives to be exterminated are children of God.

And therefore of infinite worth – a fact more important than the profit margins of Mary Stokes International etc.

It seems as though Bernard Tomic cheated in his match against Alexandr Dolgopolov the other night.

When interviewed, he showed no remorse.

He is a young man. There should be somebody guiding him.

Perhaps with his great talent etc., winning has become too much of a priority with him.

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We can all understand to some extent how tempting it was for him to do what he did.

We all have temptations.

What should BT do now?

First, he should go to confession.

Then do whatever the priest prescribes for him as penance.

If he is told to withdraw from the tournament, he should do so without complaint or comment.

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Professional sport is responsible for so much bad human behaviour.

For example: gambling, drug use, self-absorption by the players.

Obsession with passive and trivial pursuits by spectators and TV watchers, plus more gambling.

Can we weed professional sport out of our society?

Not easy.

One at a time we can, as individuals, stop taking any interest in it.

That will be a start.

Last year girls’ jewellery company DIVA ran — alongside their promotions for Disney Princesses etc. — Playboy accessories including Playmate and Miss January pendants.

Over 6800 Australians signed a petition complaining about this . . . .

And by early November received assurances from DIVA that the offending promotions would stop.

Which they did.

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However there are stores which still continue to exploit clothing-porn . . . .

Including T-shirt depictions of naked female body parts — and demeaning anti-women slogans.

According to women’s issues website, Collective Shout, offenders include CITY BEACH AUSTRALIA, COTTON ON and ROGER DAVID.

Thinking Australians should definitely complain about this.

They should buy nothing from these outlets until certain that they have cleaned up their act.

For more details visit: www.collectiveshout.org