The Journal
Current Affairs
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Global Warming Causes Everything
A Russian climatologist says global warming played a ‘significant part’ in the crash of Air France flight 447 in the Atlantic a couple of days ago. If you don’t know, you might as well make something up. Especially…
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US Unemployment Continues To Rise
From 8.9% to 9.4% in May. Former White House spokesman Tony Fratto is less than impressed with the current administration’s claim that thousands of jobs created have been created by the stimulus plan: After nearly twenty years…
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Google Thinks Tetris Is More Important Than D-Day
Google often changes its logo to match the day – public holidays, festivals, even sports get their own logo de jour. On June 6th 2008 Google remembered the birthday of Spanish painter Diego Velasquez. I like Velasquez. Las…
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Is Your Wink Pink?
One of my friends is a dizzy blonde beauty therapist. She spends a considerable amount of time ripping hair off people’s private parts. Last night she showed me a brochure for a new product – lightening…
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At Least 29 Children Dead In Mexican Fire
The fire broke out in a tyre depot next to the daycare centre in Hermosillo in northern Mexico. Of about 180 children at the centre at the time, 29 are reported dead from asphyxiation. May God grant them…
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Seals Not Endangered By Climate Change
Global temperature has (possibly, no one is really sure) risen by about half of one degree over the last hundred years. Given that seals have survived the last several million years of climate changes, varying from…
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Defence Minister Resigns
Sad, really, because the Defence Department is notoriously difficult, and department staff and military personnel both seem to have respected Joel Fitzgibbon’s abilities. The trigger for his resignation was a lack of clarity about contact between Mr Fitzgibbon…
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Samson and Delilah (Again)
I wrote about the taxpayer funded Australian film Samson and Delilah a couple of weeks ago. Gary Johns has written a review of the film. The review appears in today’s Australian. Here’s a bit to get you started: The…
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Time To Dump Chaser
The ABC’s Chaser’s War On Everything guys have come up with some funny stuff, although they have always picked soft targets. But the occasional funny bits have been offset by the far more frequent not in the slightest funny bits which are…
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Taliban Blows Up (Another) Girls’ School
From the Pakistan Daily Times, this story about the methods the Taliban use to produce their desired educational outcomes: The Taliban blew up another girls’ school in Mohmand Agency on Monday. According to sources, Taliban had wired the…
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Bashing Pharmacy Companies Costs Lives
It is a popular pastime to portray large pharamceutical companies as monstrous villains because they refuse to give away their products for free. Research to develop new drugs is expensive and uncertain. It takes on average…
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Search Engines
New internet search engines come and go so often that I don’t usually even bother to look at them. Usually they fail because they do not return relevant usable results. Returning sites clearly related to the…
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International Whores’ Day
In Sydney. No one else seems to have heard of it. Sex worker Ivy McIntosh said people in her profession were being overcharged when they placed ads in local papers. “I’m paying too much for a…
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No Complaints From The Left About This Murder
Two soldiers have been shot, one killed, at a military recruiting centre in Arkansas. The suspect, Abdulhakim Muhammad, a person of no particular appearance or religious views, has been arrested. Police found a small arsenal of weapons…
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Gluing Breasts To Men
And tying penises to women, doesn’t make a man a woman, nor a woman a man. Andrew Bolt has made some rightly alarmed comments about an Australian court that pretends to help a confused 17 year…
