The Journal
Current Affairs
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Bickering Babies
Well, bickering mums really. Bonds Baby Search, an online competition to find babies and toddlers suitable to model Bonds brand of babywear, has been rocked by the discovery that not all babies, and not all parents, are…
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Pricing Carbon
I noted last August that people seemed to be confused about how much carbon dioxide there was in the atmosphere. Some people thought that CO2 made up half of all the gasses in the atmosphere. One…
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Jamie Larcombe And Afghanistan
Jamie Larcombe was a quiet, decent young man from a hardworking and honest family. He lived on Kangaroo Island, as I do. Jamie was a sapper (military engineer and infantryman) in the Australian army. He was killed by…
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Tell Us Please, Mr Wilkie, Why We Should Not Be Worried…
Let’s be clear about this. Most Muslims are decent people. That does not mean there is no problem with Islam. Consider some of the brutal attacks carried out in the name of Islam over the last few…
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JBC Global, CFS Live, ESL Trader Stock – Share Trading Scams
I have written a couple of times about the JBC stock trading – stock market – share price prediction scam. Nearly two years later, and after many complaints to regulatory authorities, they still seem to be in business. JBC…
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A Letter to Andrew Wilkie
Dear Mr Wilkie, I have been disappointed by your claims of racism in the Liberal party. As far as I am aware, no Liberal or National Party member of Federal Parliament has made disparaging claims or…
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Legs Chopped Off – Surgeon Fine
Um… An Australian surgeon who amputated a trapped man’s legs in Christchurch, using only a hacksaw and a multi-purpose tool, is “doing okay” despite her harrowing ordeal. Speaking in Sydney on Friday, the president of the…
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Things Are Looking Up In North Korea
Isolated protests have broken out in North Korea. South Korea has dropped 3 million leaflets into North Korea. The leaflets are about pro-democracy protests in other parts of the world. South Korea has also been sending rice, medicines and…
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Not Having The Approved Opinions
Busy at work this morning, but had to stop to comment on the claim this morning from the legacy media that a survey by ‘leading universities’ (I guess as opposed to Australia’s other, less impressive universities) has found that as…
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US and UN Condemn Britain Over Links to Libya
The US ambassador to London, Louis Susman, made an implicit attack on the UK’s attempts to welcome Col Gaddafi back into the international diplomatic fold in recent years. ‘I would suggest that to deal with [Gaddafi]…
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Everything Should Be Free
From the quite often amusing (but sometimes crude, and definitely not daily) Daily Grind: The Greens have greeted a left-wing think-tank’s report on ATM fees with a plan to ban the charges. The idea is based on…
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Not A Paedophile If You Only Have Sex With Children Occasionally
There are many people for whom that ruling by a judge in Austria will come as a great comfort. There are many more for whom it be a source of astonished dismay. Elizabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, a critic of…
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Green Power, Black Death
It has been estimated that 160 people die every minute from malaria or its complications. Malaria is a disease we could eradicate. Paul Driessen writes: Many chemotherapy drugs for treating cancer have highly unpleasant side effects…
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Still Getting Cooler
Cold and wet again this weekend on Kangaroo Island. So wet the race club’s major meet for the year had to be cancelled. I guess this proves global warming. Strange, after all the predictions of drought…
