The Journal
2018
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Evening Light at American River
Looking North from my house across to the mainland, and looking South across Pelican Lagoon.
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Changes to Layout
I will be making some changes to the layout and overall look of Qohel over the next few days. These are to improve readability overall and especially on mobile devices. Thank you for being patient!
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Warm Air Fan Hand Dryers are Filthy
Air-dry, fan type hand dryers in public toilets spray particles of faeces and bacteria over your hands and into the air: ” … potential human pathogens were recovered from plates exposed to hand dryer air whether…
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Syria: A Christian Response
Part of a long and thoughtful article by Sohrab Ahmari, writing at Commentary Magazine. ” … the troubling outcome of the Iraq project doesn’t automatically vindicate the reflexive Christian opposition to today’s escalation in Syria. Christian supporters…
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Syria: Sending a Message
How to send a message that use of chemical weapons crosses a red line, as then President Obama insisted (and then, appallingly, failed to act), without involving the US in another pointless ground war on the…
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Green Power, Black Death
Paul Driessen pointed out years ago that green policies mean stopping developing nations from developing by depriving them of energy and clean water. Viv Forbes lists the ways green policies also undermine the continuing growth of…
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Criminal Profiling Doesn’t Work
Impressed by Criminal Minds? Don’t be. It was great television, but criminal profiling doesn’t work. You might as well ask a psychic with a tea cosy on her head in a fairground tent. From time to…
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Renewable Energy?
So called renewable energy is not renewable. When you take into account the cost of construction, installation, maintenance, transmission, and the need to keep real energy sources running constantly to make up for fluctuations in supply…
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Nothing Left to Ban
Since the UK banned most personal ownership of firearms, its rate of knife crime has risen to the point where someone in Britain is attacked with a knife every four minutes. In addition, London now has…
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Strange Days at the Commonwealth Games
Besides two blokes winning medals in the Women’s 800 metres (they couldn’t be excluded because like, equality) there are a few other noteworthy results from the Commonwealth Games this year. The host nation, Australia, has twice…
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Not Compassion but Envy
Inequality is often cited as a major cause of social disruption, and an urgent justice issue for democratic societies. It has been pointed out many times before that you can have freedom, or you can have…
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What “Gun Free Zone” Really Means
In other words, criminals feel free. No one here can stop you. And exactly why the Orlando shooter decided not to attack families at Disney World, his original target, and went for the much softer option…
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Moringa – the Latest Superfood Supplement Scam
“Dried moringa leaves are a storehouse of concentrated nutrition, so even a small daily dose can help correct imbalances in the body, add concentrated nutrition to your diet and help you reach the recommended daily dietary…
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The Murray River and Pudding-headed Pixies
I am getting a little tired of seeing people repost Jeremy Buckingham’s moronic video about Cubbie Station and the Murray/Darling basin. It’s always the end of the world with these loons. Everything is going wrong, everything’s…
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Rules for Apostrophes
Rules for apostrophes! There are only a few, and they are simple. Rule 1. If the word is simply a plural, it does not need an apostrophe. Ever. For example, the plural of CD is CDs,…
