The Journal
2009
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NSW Dept of Community Services Stuffs Up Again
A twelve year old girl has given birth to a baby boy after having become pregnant to her fifteen year old live -in boy friend. Live in boyfriend? Yes. The girl lives with her mother, who…
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Hopes Fade For Copenhagen – Yay!
The more hope fades, the happier I will be. Alas for the alarmists, ‘dark clouds are gathering over Copnhagen’ despite an apparent majority of political leaders being committed to ‘take action to tackle the threat of…
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Limp Wristed Loser’s Loutish Lob
A long haired Australian removed a shoe and lobbed it at former Prime Minister John Howard at Cambridge University last Friday. Mr Howard was speaking on Leadership in the Twenty-first Century. This from the ABC News website:…
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Australia – Where The Bloody Hell Are You Buried?
Absolutely tasteless, but beautifully done and hilarious, the real Australia: Well, no more tasteless than that other Australian tourism promotion.
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Ghosts and Global Warming
Interesting figures here from the Pew Research Center on declining faith in the religion of global warming apocalyptic, with only 36% of those surveyed agreeing there is good evidence the world is warming because of human…
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Free Stuff
Nothing is free. ‘It’s free’ just means ‘Someone else has paid for it.’ ‘It should be free’ means ‘Someone else should pay for it.’ The question to ask is always ‘Why?’ Why should somone else pay…
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Deltoid Again
Like it or not, Tim Lambert is one of Australia’s leading left wing bloggers. I don’t like it, because Lambert’s approach to debate is so often simply to mock or belittle people with whom he disagrees.…
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Leftist Vitriol
I visit leftist blogs and news sites fairly regularly. I can’t remember who it was who said ‘If you only read one paper, read the opposition’s,’ but it was good advice. If we only read the…
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Didn’t See That Coming
From the Epic Fail blog (link below) via Mark Shea (link on the right), just because it’s funny. see more Epic Fails
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The Real Climate Change Catastrophe
Christopher Booker summarises the arguments of his new book: The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the Obsession with “Climate Chanage” Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History? Long title, but the answer…
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Discipline in Schools
One of my best friends is a highly intelligent and capable woman who has raised four lovely daughters, run a successful business, and is a respected teacher whose students have produced consistently good results. This will be…
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Wayne Carey Whines
It’s not my fault I’m a drunk, a womaniser and a liar, says Carey in his book The Truth Hurts – my Dad was mean to me. Well maybe. Dad says otherwise of course. This reminds me…
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350 Ways To Look Like An Idiot
I was in Adelaide yesterday to do some buying for my shop, and was interrupted in my travels about the city by about 100 scruffy-looking characters on bicycles. Some of them had painted the number 350 on…
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Pennies Drop
I have a friend who is a bit left-leaning. A lot left-leaning actually. Bosses exploit the workers, socialism is a fairer system, etc, etc. Then she opened a shop. Of course, it is one of those trendy…
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JBC Shares Trading Software
Final update to the JBC scam saga. For background see the two earlier articles. David reported in comments that he has written to ASIC. He has had a response which I cannot detail here. But they…
