The Journal
2009
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Mexicans, Indians And A Racist Australia
Two headlines over the last week accusing Australia of being racist. Or at least, lots of Australians. The first accusation came from Sol Trujillo. Sol was employed to run Australia’s largest telco. He liked to think…
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Broadband Plans
One of the promises made by the Labor party during the last election was that there would be more transparency in government. I guess that means being honest about information sources, advice received, funding, and who will…
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Dumb Or Greedy
How to avoid being ripped off by scammers. Don’t be greedy. Don’t be dumb. That pretty much covers it. If an arabian princess emails you telling you she got your name from a friend, and needs you…
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Conservatives More Squeamish Than Liberals?
I don’t think so. Conservatives less likely to slap their dads, even if dad says its OK? Yes, that I can believe. Conservatives have less confidence in their own wisdom relative to that of our forebears and…
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Al-Qaeda Kidnaps Obama’s Teleprompter
One of the funniest things I have ever read on the internet. From the Peoples Cube. In an audacious raid Friday, al-Qaeda terrorists managed to slip past White House security and seize President Obama’s teleprompter. Their…
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Downer To Aussies – Stop Whining
Former Minister for Foreign Affairs Alexander Downer has told Australians planning to travel overseas to grow up and take some responsibility. After about 10 minutes as foreign minister I was a little surprised to learn I…
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Most Un-PC Suggestion By A Politician Ever
Swaziland has one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the world. Swaziland politican Timothy Myeni has suggested that HIV testing should be compulsory, and that citizens testing positive for HIV should be branded on their…
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First Home Grants Hurt First Home Owners
Another one to add to the bleeding obvious list. Government grants (ie, giving other people’s money) to new home owners, amount to $21,000. Because they have a larger deposit, (sometimes the grant is their only deposit) first home buyers…
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Virus Virut ce
You know all those annoying hoax anti-virus messages that people used to send around? They described in breathless terms some new virus which antivirus products could not remove, which would cause your hard to crash, losing…
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Climate Change – What I Said
Dutch chemist Dr Hans Schreuder drew on the work of a number of climate and other scientists in his address to the Northern Ireland Climate Change Committee, which is considering legislative controls of ‘greenhouse gas’ emissions.…
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Life Is Hard
From memory, those are the opening words of M. Scott Peck’s book The Road Less Travelled. It is true, of course. And the more you try to achieve, the truer it seems to be. Rambling for…
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Kim Jong-il – Na Na Na Na Na Na Na, I Want To Start A Fight
North Korea conducted a powerful underground nuclear weapons test today. The UN security council will meet. No doubt Kim Jong-il is quaking in his tiny boots as he contemplates the arrival of another letter telling him…
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Cold Water On Warming
This column by a physicist and climatologist is a week old. But it is worth reading because of its clear comparison of the predictions of global warming theory with real word observations. The conclusion: global warming theory is: a…
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Kleenmaid Bankrupt
Kleenmaid is (was) an Australian whitegoods manufacturer. I have owned a few of their products over the years, and found them to be well-designed and well-made. Creditors including the Westpac bank (the same bank that mistakenly…
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Two More Reasons
To believe seeing Australian tax-payer funded film Samson and Delilah would be a waste of time and money: 1. Peter Garrett likes it. 2. It won an award at Cannes.
