The Journal
Current Affairs
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Jackboots on Viscount Monckton
A few days ago Viscount Monckton suggested that those who think like professional climate boogeymen Ross Garnaut are on a short road to fascism. Cue legacy media frenzy of horror. His comments were bizarre, appalling, distasteful, etc, etc. He…
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Go Sarah
I doubted that Sarah Palin was electable as US president, even if she won the Republican nomination. I have changed my mind. She could do the job. The democrat/liberal claim she is stupid is based on…
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Andrew Turnbull on Climate Policy
Lord Turnbull was Permanent Secretary of the UK Department for the Environment from 1994 to 1998, and Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service 2002-05. He has written a twenty page briefing paper for…
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Straight From Rubbish Tip To You
That was Louie the fly, in the famous Mortein ads. But it might as well have been organic food, except then it would need to be ‘Straight from manure pile to you.’ Health authorities were issuing…
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81% of US Mosques Promote Jihad
And no, that’s not jihad in the sense of the inner struggle against sin and weakness. It means the use of violence to achieve the impostion of sharia law and the establishment of a caliphate. “The…
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Off The Buses
I have often wondered about the economic and environmental value of public transport buses lumbering through city traffic. I have lived in rural areas most of my life, and it has always annoyed me that I have…
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Catholic Hospital Berated For Being Catholic
The ABC reports a ‘catholic’ doctor working at Newcastle’s Calvary Mater Hospital has had his Catholic faith shaken by the hospital’s refusal to provide written advice on artificial contraception to patients participating in a cancer drug…
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Tornadoes Caused by Global Warming
Well, no, actually. But, hey Bill McKibben et al, don’t let mere facts stop you. Bill McKibben was one of the first (they are pretty quick, but he was the quickest) of the global warming alarmists to claim the…
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Blanchett to Australia – ‘Listen Up, Peasants’
The Australian Greens have accused polluters of an “ugly attack” on Hollywood star Cate Blanchett, who has come out in a new television advertising campaign in support of a carbon tax. Yes, but if CO2 is…
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KI Accommodation Providers Have a Whinge
I watched the SA ABC’s Stateline programme on Friday night. There was a segment about KI Sealink and some of Kangaroo Island’s accommodation services. The accommodation providers said it was unfair that they weren’t benefitting from…
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Slutwalk = Nutwalk
Organisers of the Slutwalk rally declare: Sluts are sex workers. Sluts are virgins. Sluts are mothers with their teenage daughters. Sluts wear beanies, fishnet stockings, G-string leotards, polar fleece and jeans. Really? Are these women (and…
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JBC, MCI Star Trader, CFS, GSI and Other Scam Trading Programmes
A reader sent me a link to this video from the BBC programme Watchdog: It is easy to feel that the people who bought this programme have themselves to blame. But that would not be fair. JBC,…
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Rapture, Global Warming, and Other Delusions
Harold Camping was wrong. 200 million Christian believers were not ‘raptured’ up to heaven on Saturday. If Christian fundamentalists keep this up, it will only be another 100 or so wrong predictions and they will have as…
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Building the Stuff-up Revolution
I am against taxpayer funded subsidies as a matter of general principle. Subsidies mean the government thinks it knows how to use your money better than you do. For example, I have a 100km return trip…
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Predictable Predictions
‘Will your home be underwater?’ asks the Adelaide Advertiser, which seems to be taking on a new role as the Adelaide (Labor Party) Advertiser. Under political pressure over its unspecified carbon tax, the Federal Government will…
