The Journal
2009
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At Ambulance Training
All day Saturday and Sunday, so no posts, probably, on either of those days. Keep the faith!
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The Most Important Speech Of Obama’s Presidency
And it was given by Dick Cheney. Regardless of your opinions about ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ you should read this. For good or ill (and I think good) Cheney’s speech gives clear understanding of the concerns and…
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Since Our Car Manufacturers Are Doing So Well
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has declared his intention to follow Barack Obama’s plan to impose strict limits on CO2 emissions from motor vehicles. This will increase costs, and cost jobs. CO2 is not a pollutant. It is…
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Page After Page Of Vitriol
On Tim Lambert’s Deltoid blog, all about what’s wrong, or might be wrong, with Ian Plimer’s book Heaven and Earth. Some of the critics seem not to have read the book at all. Most attack Professor Plimer…
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Conservative Women Are Better Looking
And brainer. And more fun. However, I can understand some of them being a bit disgruntled about a political ally posting photos of them on a website without their permission. Even if the idea was that the more hot…
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DVDs With 1,000 Times More Storage
Current dual layer DVDs hold 9GB – enough for a couple of full length movies, or about 2,000 photos. Researchers at Melbourne’s Swinburne University of Technology have found a way to store some 10,000 GB of…
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Arguing On The Internet
I have some simple rules I apply to any argument I undertake, whether in person, in print, or on this site. Tackle the ideas, not the person. If you can only win an argument by denigrating your…
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Ab Fab Gurkhas Part Two
The Telegraph reports this morning that the UK government will allow all Gurkhas with a record of honourable service to settle in the UK. All Gurkha veterans were finally granted the right to live in Britain…
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Absolutely Fabulous
I meant to say something about this a week ago, then forgot about it, and found it again today while looking at something else. It still seems worth commenting on. Britain seems to be willing to…
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Muslim Inventions
I forgot to mention, when talking about my islamic teacher friend, that she had also told her class about the many islamic inventions taken for granted and not acknowledged in the West. She talked about the…
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Bank Blunder Makes Millionaires
A coupe who own a small business in Rotorua in New Zealand applied to the Westpac bank for a $10,000 overdraft. The bank deposited $7.8 million into their account. Not surprisingly, the couple took as much of…
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Stephen Long Doesn’t Know What Puerile Means
Otherwise this is a pretty good article about the problems with economics predictions, and the difficulty of developing policy on the basis of those predictions. Stephen seems to think puerile means pointless, because there can never be…
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Sexting – Just Say No
A couple of days ago I posted a story about a 14 year old girl who had been charged with possession of child pornography because she had some nude photos of herself on her mobile phone.…
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Minorities Affected Most By Home Foreclosures
Who would have guessed? Another non-news headline from the New York Times. In the days when banks were able to assess loan applications on merit there was little difference between various ethnic groups in the level…
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The Whole Torture Thing Part Two
I wrote a couple of weeks ago that I hoped to do some serious thinking about torture, semantics and public policy over the weekend, and to something ready to post last Monday. That didn’t happen. I…