The Journal
2009
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Maldives Mania
The Maldives Cabinet met underwater last Saturday to draw attention to the tiny nation’s fate if global warming and accompanying rapid sea level rise continues. All very cute and colourful. Except for a couple of small…
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Tricky Cherry Picking
Lucia at The Blackboard has an interesting article on how a global warming scientists can justify the kind of massive cherry-picking that went into the infamous hockey-stick. First, an explanation of ‘proxies.’ Proxies are so called…
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The Death of Dianne Brimble
The death of Dianne Brimble is a horrible messy tragedy. Dianne was a kind and likeable woman who lived a reasonably quiet life, and who was never either exciting or attractive by contemporary standards. She went on a…
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Nicholas Sarkozy is a Nitwit
Firstly, for his gushingly warm congratulations to Barack Obama on his totally unmerited win of the Nobel Peace Prize: By awarding you its most prestigious prize, the Committee is rewarding your determined commitment to human rights,…
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Blog Milestone?
The first four posts on this blog were on 20 and 21 November last year. That was just to get us into Google and other search engines. Real posting began two months later on 21 January…
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Solar Power is a Waste of Energy and Resources
Seriously. I wrote earlier this year about the Kangaroo Island Council’s decision to partner with the Federal Government in a scheme to subsidise the installation of solar panels on houses on the island. About 200 households applied…
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The Big 0 Wins the Nobel Peace Prize – WTF?
President Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Well, I’ll be stuffed, as Phar Lap said. Obama was nominated after twelve days as president. He must have done something pretty darned impressive in those twelve…
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JBC Stock / Shares Trading Software
The first section of the story on the JBC share trading / stock trading software package scam has moved to here. Part two of the JBC story. Part three of the JBC shares trading software scam story. Or…
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Andrew Bolt is Back, and the World is Cooler
Andrew Bolt leads off after his return from holidays with a tightly written summary of the world-is-hotter-than-ever-the-hockey-stick-proves-it fraud. There is no doubt now that it really was fraud and not simply incompetence. The incompetence was discovered by statisticians…
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Maryam and Marzieh
Maryam and Marzieh are Christian women. They are from Islamic families. They live in Iran. So of course, they are in jail. They are denied medical care or contact with the outside world. One of the…
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Governments Cannot Create Jobs
Only business can. While the government may seem to create jobs when it hires people or buys things, it destroys at least as many jobs as it creates when it does so. Via Hyscience, which links…
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Two Bits of Musicial Genuis Disguised as Comedy
Dudley Moore: Victor Borge:
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Art Without Bludging Off the Taxpayer
I know, I’ve said it a thousand times before, almost all subsidies are a waste of time, and end up costing more than any benefit they provide. There are three reasons: First, if you are getting…
