The Journal
2009
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Get Your Global Cooling Here
One of the worrying things about the cherry-picking, data fudging, distorting, lying, fund-grabbing behaviour that has characterised global warming alarmism over the last two decades, is that we now have no idea at all what the…
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DSSO (Decadal Science Scare Oscillation) Winner
After considering a number of possible candidates for the next major science scare, the UN today annouced the winner was the asteroid Apophis. ‘We’ve got as much funding, and as many free holidays, as we are…
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The Goresicle
In honour of former vice-president Gore, Qohel is pleased to announce a new literary form, the goresicle. The goresicle is a short poem of ten lines or less. It has lines that do not scan, and…
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Growing New Teeth
Another worthwhile therapeutic result from adult stem cells. Useful applications from embryonic stems cells – 0. From non-destructive, ethical stem cell research, over 70, as at 2007. Researchers have used stems cells taken from mice to create…
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When Is A Child A Person?
There were widespread reports yesterday that the death of an unborn child had brought Victoria’s Christmas road death toll to 12. Quite right. The child was a person, and its death is a tragic loss. But…
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Rudd – No One Got a Special Deal
Indonesia – Give These People the Same Special Deal People Smugglers – Hear, hear! Failing to acknowledge the crisis caused by its changes to Australia’s immigration policy, the Federal government is steadily digging itself into a…
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Avatar Part Two
I went to see James Cameron’s movie Avatar last night. It is everything I said it would be. It is courageous greenies in touch with nature, beating back the greedy Tasmanian loggers. It is Dances With…
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Aussies Triple Grog Intake Over Christmas/New Year
Wow! An alarming headline. But not a very informative one, unless we are told what that intake is being tripled from and to. Reading the small print we find that FebFast, another charity group no one has…
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Baz Lurhmann’s Australia
I finally got around to seeing Baz Lurhmann’s Australia. I cannot remember ever having seen a film so offensively bad. It is three hours of unmitigated drivel. My mother-in-law said about half way through ‘This thing…
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Climategate – A Graphical History
Jo Nova has put together a massive wall chart of highlights (low lights?) from the FOI file of documents and emails from Hadley. It details more than twenty years of data fudging, bullying of scientists with alternative views,…
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Tiger and the Plastic Playmates
A few belated suggestions for Tiger and the plastic playmates. Tiger: Some women chase sports stars, or anyone who is rich and famous. When women approach you and offer to have sex with you, this is…
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A More Assertive China
I for one was grateful for China’s new assertiveness at Copenhagen. I am less impressed by the combination of insecurity about its internal politics and disregard of world opinion that is increasingly evident in China’s represssion…
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Yemen Attacks Al Qaeda
Yemen has conflicts with Al Qaeda in the South, and Al Houthis (a Shiite separatist group) in the North. Neither group has widespread support in Yemen. Al Qaeda is seen as a threat by the West,…
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Taxpayer Funded Stupidity
1. I had occasion to visit the regional hospital in Geraldton a couple of days ago. Staff seemed competent and concerned for their patients. So far, so good. Ouside the main entrance was a vendng machine…
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The End Of The Anglican Communion
The election of Mary Glasspool as assistant Bishop of Los Angeles will be the end of the Anglican Communion. Ms Glasspool is a practising lesbian who has lived for twenty years with her partner. This election…
