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Current Affairs
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Why There’s No Fondling at Israeli Airports
Israel’s Top Ten Airport Security Technologies The technologies are interesting and certainly work. But what seems to make the most difference is the thinking. “Israel concentrates on the passengers and not their luggage so we have…
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Two More Thoughts
First: ‘Social justice’ is a key identifying phrase, a shibboleth, for liberal/progressives. Conservatives are assumed not to care about social justice, being concerned only with making money and reducing taxes. Then why is it that conservatives…
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Sophie Mirabella
Sophie Mirabella is one of my favourite Australian politicians. She is hard working, honest and intelligent – a possible future Prime Minister, and one who would be vastly more effective, in part because she has vastly more integrity,…
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Have an Nice Day, and Naked Pictures at the Airport
I remember seeing a guy a guy who had been asked to leave several supermarkets interviewed on TV. He objected to being told ‘Have a nice day’ by checkout operators. Fair enough. It is a silly,…
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‘Proof’ of Psychic Powers, Fish Numbers and HIV
Proof of psychic powers? Actually, no. Just proof that academics are not easily able to think beyond their preconceived notions. Professor Daryl Bem says his work shows most people have psychic powers. He conducted nine different…
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Now Everyone Agrees – Consensus!
Ed Morrissey at Hot Air points out that criticism of Barack Obama’s performance at the G20 is not confined to the usual Obama rationalists like the Wall St Journal. Even the San Fancisco Chronicle notes that this…
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KI Doctors Again
I am starting to feel something akin to outrage at the way Kangaroo Island’s doctors continue to hold medical services on the island to ransom. See my earlier post for more details about the background. Briefly,…
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Psychologist – ‘Get Over It’
Darn good advice. From The Mercury: A well known Hobart psychologist has got some advice for those people still consumed with grief for Packed to the Rafters character Mel Rafter – get real. Dr Harry Stanton…
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$1.1 Billion Wasted on Solar Panels
From the Sydney Morning Herald: More than $1 billion of taxpayers’ money was wasted on subsidies for household solar roof panels that favoured the rich and did little to reduce Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions, a scathing…
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Last Gasps of the Legacy Media
The Age reports that: A Melbourne private girls’ school that prevented a lesbian student from attending the school formal with her girlfriend is being inundated with messages from irate readers around the world accusing the school…
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Fat Facts
The People’s Republic of San Francisco has decreed that happiness is no longer permitted. At least, not in the form of happy meals. Or any other meals that include toys and TOO MANY CALORIES. Such meals are now…
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Alex Anderson, Rest in Peace
One of my wife Kathy’s relatives was Alex Anderson, the creator of Rocky and Bullwinkle. I have never visited the US, and am sorry I never had the chance to meet him. Alex was one of the…
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Rudd Worried About Tanner Leaking?!
This is little short of farcical. Leaker and big noter in chief Kevin Rudd, along with Wayne Swan and Julia Gillard, were so concerned about the possibility of then Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner’s leaking sensitive budget…
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Engineering, Medicine, Whatever …
Bombs found on planes in Dubai and Britain were large enough to have destroyed the planes mid-air, killing all on board, and causing further casualties if the bombs exploded over populated areas. A woman named Hanan…
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Chuck Norris Kicks a Hole in Time
Did you know that when Walker: Texas Ranger was first screened in France, the French surrendered to Chuck Norris, just to be on safe side? Now there is evidence he has kicked a hole in time itself.…