The Journal
2009
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Three Abus Grilled
That’s what the headline says: 3 Abus surrender, undergo grilling. That is, three members of terrorist organisation Abu Sayyaf have surrendered, and are assisting with investigations. Philippine officials say they expect to ‘extract information’ from the three terrorists…
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Swine Flu Not Scary Enough? Don’t Worry
There’s always another reason to panic. According to Alzheimers Australia, we are facing an avalanche of dementia. If avalanche is not scary enough, try ‘dementia tsunami’, a reference to the ageing baby boomers who are living…
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine
X-Men Origins: Wolverine took about $87 million on its opening weekend. It’s a good, but not great film. $87 million is enough to bring it into the top 20 all time biggest movie openings. Number one is Dark…
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Climate Change Hits Indigenous Australians Hardest
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma, recently returned from the UN’s Conference for Racism and Anti-Semitism, says that Australia’s indigenous people will be hardest hit by climate change. If temperatures in North…
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Those Gentle Caring Greenies
A $1.2 million arson attack on forestry equipment. Selfish, irresponsible, idiotic, criminal. But pretty much no risk of anyone being harmed. But attaching wires to trees where loggers cannot see them to make those trees fall in…
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Anthropogenic Global Warming Could Have Been Right
In laboratory conditions, increases in the proportion of CO2 in air result in a small, but proportional increase in heat retention. It was reasonable to ask whether a similar effect might apply in the real world. If…
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D-Day (Dimwit Day) In South Australia
The Rann government’s ban on lightweight plastic shopping bags starts today. I predict chaos and frustration at supermarkets around the state. Tim Blair notes that the people who grow marijuana are subject to a fine of $300,…
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Menacing Matriarch Moans
Poor Rabiah. Former surfie chick turned jihad groupie Rabiah Hutchinson is complaining about the nightmare of living under ‘constant surveillance.’ After all, she is just a 55 year old grandmother with diabetes and arthritis. So why is anyone…
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Swine Flu Transmitted Via Baggage – Not
Any excuse for a day off. Baggage handlers at Paris’ Orly airport walked off the job claiming their lives and health were at risk from Swine Flu if they carried baggage on flights from Mexico or Spain. French…
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Condi – ‘Do What’s Right’
Former US Secretary of State Condolezza Rice talks with students at Stanford University. As always, she is intelligent, dignified, respectful of others. She respects the students who question her enough to listen to them, and to…
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Of Mice And Maggots
The story of a decorated war veteran being chewed by mice in an Australian nursing home has been much in the news over the last few days, usually with comments about how disgraceful the lack of…
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No Caterpillars Injured In The Making Of This Video
You may have some hesitations (as I do) about whether waterboarding or putting a caterpillar in someone’s room can reasonably be called torture. See a couple of posts below. But there is no doubt about the enhanced business disagreement…
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Obama – Tastes Great, Less Filling
And 99 more awesome thoughts about the 100 days of awesomeness, from Doubleplusundead. Here’s a sample: 12 When his wife twisted off the Queen of England’s head like a beer cap, he reattached it with nothing…
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The Whole Torture Thing
I have been meaning to say something about this for a while. I have studied ethics, both in secular university classes and in seminary, and those classes and more recent reading have been a useful background. But I have…
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Are You Annoyingly Happy?
Then Despondex may be for you: Or if not, this Japanese family discussing (to Beethoven’s Fifth) what to have for asagohan (breakfast) may bring a smile: There is also a subtitled version of Asagohan (but the video…
