The Journal
2010
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CO2 Lunacy
A comment I posted on Tim Blair’s blog this morning: There are between three and four molecules of CO2 for every 10,000 particles of air. Anthropogenic CO2 is assumed to be about 4% of that, which comes…
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Gillard Says Result Proves the System Works
It certainly worked for her. Maybe that’s all that counts for her, or all she can see. The Coalition got more votes and more seats. When the final result was delivered by two independents whose own electorates…
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What The Heck?
The blighters were just playing games when they checked Tony Crook’s intentions. What was the point of that? Just to prove that they are the big boys now? No one in the playground is going to push…
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Maybe…
Tomorrow, Tuesday, we will hear that Tony Abbott is to become the next Prime Minster. Earlier today we heard that the three independents had sought a commitment from WA Nationals MP Tony Crook that he would not…
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BBC Biased?
Well, it was biased. But we’ve fixed it. It’s all OK now. That’s according to Director General Mark Thompson. Well, good. Everyone in England who owns a TV pays for the BBC through taxes and licence fees.…
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Australian Exports
Or, to be more accurate, one Australian export, Sheikh Feiz Muhammad. Feiz Muhammad, a former Sydney boxer, now Muslim teacher, has called for the execution by beheading of Dutch politician Geert Wilders. And for that matter,…
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Witches
Pentecostal loonies in Nigeria: ‘Child witches cause poverty, kill them!’ Helpful advice for Nigerians from Plannned Parenthood loonies in North America: ‘Children cause poverty, kill them!’ Green loonies agree, and offer practical help. Nope. No connection there.
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Some Gay People Are Gay
There is no getting around reality. Someone decides it is insulting to call people whose intellectual development has been retarded ‘retarded.’ So we are told to call them ‘intellectually handicapped.’ Soon ‘intellectually handicapped’ becomes a form of…
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What Was Accomplished in Iraq
From Victor Davis Hanson at National Review Online: The truth about Iraq is that, for all the tragedy and the loss, the U.S. military performed a miracle. After nearly seven years, a constitutional government endures in…
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Beslan Sixth Anniversary
A tribute to those who suffered so horribly during the siege at Beslan. If you have the stomach for it, and you should, Pam Geller has more detail on what happend at Beslan. Not all Muslims…
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Tony Needs To Toughen Up
Brandt has signed up with Labor after Bob Brown was promised a carbon tax. Wilkie has signed up with Labor after he was promised a renovated hospital in Hobart. Tony Abbott now needs to be absolutely…
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Wind Power Is Not Working. What’s Next?
Pee power… Gerardine Botte, an engineer at Ohio University, said in an interview with New Scientist magazine that harnessing the power of urine could mean that an office building of 200-300 people would produce about 2Kw…
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Someone Else Should Fix It
I know Andrew Bolt (and a thousand other people) have already posted these videos: But the contrast between the practice of the uncaring right wing despoilers and ravagers of the environment and the gentle earth loving…
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It’s Freezing. Must Be Global Warming.
Arctic Summer temperatures have been trending down since about 1960, so have temperatures in San Diego, cold snaps are killing all manner of things in South America, Antarctic sea ice is increasing, the southern hemisphere oceans seem…
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The GG, COI, and a SIATC
In 2009 Greg Sheridan wrote a brief and thoughtful, if confronting, article about the Rudd government’s misuse of the office of the Governor General. The article was not primarily about Quentin Bryce’s political views, but about the…