The Journal
2012
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Why Punitive Taxes On Those Who Generate Wealth And Employment Make Us All Poorer
This has been around for a while, but it is worth re-reading: Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill…
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Global Warming Causes Everything
If you haven’t visited it lately, Dr John Brignell’s numberwatch site has a great list of everything so far blamed on global warming. Over six hundred links listing everything from AIDS to haggis to lampreys to feminised turtles to women…
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Localised Warming Devastates Bird Populations
From the frequently amusing People’s Cube: Man-Made Warming Blamed for Disappearing Bird Populations A research team working on a two-million-dollar government grant just made a shocking discovery: intense man-made heat waves are decimating bird populations throughout…
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Egypt’s President – Death Is Our Goal
Great. Egypt’s Constitution should be based on the Koran and Sharia law, presidential candidate from the Muslim Brotherhood Islamist movement Mohamed Morsi said. “The Koran is our constitution, the Prophet is our leader, jihad is our…
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150 Rockets Fired From Gaza Into Israel Over Last Six Days
What, you didn’t know? Hardly surprising, since attacks on Israeli civilians get short shrift in the Australian media. From Times of Israel: Gaza-based terrorists fired 25 rockets into southern Israel on Saturday, causing damage to a school and factory.…
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Lagavulin
Over the last week I have been doing some research on Highland single malt whiskies. Well, why not? I came across this delightful video featuring Iain McArthur. Iain has worked at the Lagavulin distillery for forty…
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Indonesia, What the Heck?
Umar Patek, the last of the Bali bombers to be caught, was, according to the evidence, the chief planner of the attack and the bomb maker. He has been sentenced to twenty years in gaol. As well…
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Silly Person Wins Miles Franklin Award
Anna Funder has won the Miles Franklin award for her first novel All That I Am. I haven’t read the book, so I can’t comment on its literary merits. Winning a Miles Franklin is not necessarily…
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Unbearable
Just for a laugh:
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Climate Models Worse than Random Guesses
From statistics guru Ross McKitrick: A few years ago a biologist I know looked at how climate change might affect the spread of a particular invasive insect species. He obtained climate-model projections for North America under…
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Bailouts End Here
The end result of quantitative easing (governments printing money to pay their bills): In 1980, the Zimbabwe dollar was worth more than the US dollar. In 2009 Mugabe’s government printed notes with a face value…
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Fairfax Comedy Hour
Ha, ha, ha, ROFL. Wayne Swan says Gina Rinehart’s interest in Fairfax is a threat to democracy. No Wayne, that would be a minority government that introduces destructive legislation it promised it would not introduce, then…
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National Bank Tops Lists of Customer Complaints
In 2007 Kathy and I needed to buy a new home. We had banked with the National Australia Bank for over fifteen years, so it never occurred to us to go anywhere else. This would be…
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Why Windows 8 Will Be Microsoft’s Biggest Disaster Ever
Not because it is new and different, although that will be a problem. There was nothing wrong with Windows Vista, but people hated it, mostly because it was different from XP. The jump from Windows 7 to…
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The Dominating Heresy of Our Time
Every age has its own besetting heresy. Looking back – at Arianism or Montanism, for example – it is clear that these sprang out of the way society was structured at the time, and the way…
