The Journal
Current Affairs
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Menacing Matriarch Moans
Poor Rabiah. Former surfie chick turned jihad groupie Rabiah Hutchinson is complaining about the nightmare of living under ‘constant surveillance.’ After all, she is just a 55 year old grandmother with diabetes and arthritis. So why is anyone…
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Swine Flu Transmitted Via Baggage – Not
Any excuse for a day off. Baggage handlers at Paris’ Orly airport walked off the job claiming their lives and health were at risk from Swine Flu if they carried baggage on flights from Mexico or Spain. French…
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Condi – ‘Do What’s Right’
Former US Secretary of State Condolezza Rice talks with students at Stanford University. As always, she is intelligent, dignified, respectful of others. She respects the students who question her enough to listen to them, and to…
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Of Mice And Maggots
The story of a decorated war veteran being chewed by mice in an Australian nursing home has been much in the news over the last few days, usually with comments about how disgraceful the lack of…
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No Caterpillars Injured In The Making Of This Video
You may have some hesitations (as I do) about whether waterboarding or putting a caterpillar in someone’s room can reasonably be called torture. See a couple of posts below. But there is no doubt about the enhanced business disagreement…
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Obama – Tastes Great, Less Filling
And 99 more awesome thoughts about the 100 days of awesomeness, from Doubleplusundead. Here’s a sample: 12 When his wife twisted off the Queen of England’s head like a beer cap, he reattached it with nothing…
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The Whole Torture Thing
I have been meaning to say something about this for a while. I have studied ethics, both in secular university classes and in seminary, and those classes and more recent reading have been a useful background. But I have…
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How To Avoid Swine Flu
Just don’t do this. OK?
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Rudd’s Hypocrisy – China Vs Fiji
Fiji is the new Burma, a ‘virtual dictatorship’ (whatever that means) according to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. But if Rudd is so concerned about dictatorship, freedom of the press and the rule of law, why is he is so jolly…
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‘Lie To Me’ Beats Obama
He he. I noted a couple of days ago that Fox was sticking to its usual programming instead of screening President Obama’s 100th day press conference. I’ve been waiting for the ratings results, and here they…
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Climate Change – We Don’t Need No Steenking Debates
Three brief notes. Lord Monckton was invited by Rep. Joe Barton, the senior Republican on the US Energy & Commerce Committee, to speak alongside Al Gore at a global warming policy meeting in Washington. Democrat members decided…
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WHO: ‘All Humanity Under Threat’ From Swine Flu
The World Health Organisation has warned that “all of humanity is under threat” from a potential swine flu pandemic and called for “global solidarity” to combat the virus. The plea came as the WHO raised the…
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Sex On The Lawn At Windsor
A couple have been arrested for having sex on the lawn at Windsor Castle. They have been cautioned for ‘outraging public decency.’ The pair, in their early thirties, stripped on a private grass bank at the…
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100 Million Mentally Ill People In China
“This is a modest number,” said Huang Yueqin, the director of the National Centre for Mental Health. Mental illness has now overtaken heart disease and cancer as the biggest burden on the Chinese health system, according…
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Michael Caine, Tax, And Stuffing Up The Economy
A few people, including Tim Blair and Andrew Bolt, have picked up these comments from Sir Michael Caine, originally published in the UK Telegraph: “The Government has taken tax up to 50 per cent, and if it…
