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Current Affairs
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The Courageous Heart Of Irena Sendler
Can’t wait for this CBS made for broadcast movie to be shown in Australia. The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler As a Polish Catholic social worker in the early 1940s, Irena Sendler created and led a conspiracy of…
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Real Beauty
Eric at Big Hollywood writes about real beauty – the kind Susan Boyle has, and real ugliness, the kind Janeane Garofalo has. I won’t say much more – it’s worth reading the whole thing. But I…
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Imanutjob Kicks Off UN Hitler Birthday Celebrations
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — who has called for Israel to be “wiped off the map” and described the Holocaust as a “myth” — arrived in Geneva late on Sunday as one of the few heads…
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Gay Lobby Demands Total Compliance
Or else. Miss North Carolina Kristen Dalton won the Miss USA title earlier today. Good for her. But trouble started after runner-up Carrie Prejean (Miss California) was asked this question: ‘Vermont recently became the fourth state to…
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On Pell, Pope Benedict, HIV and Condoms
I wrote about the effect of condom use on HIV infection rates in general terms about three weeks ago, but Andrew Bolt’s post this afternoon titled Pell’s Killer Argument has prompted me to add some more…
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Australia To Boycott UN Hitler Birthday Celebrations
At the last possible moment, Australia has been done the right thing and said it will not be sending delegates to the UN’s Geneva Conference for Racism and Anti-Semitism (commonly called Durban II). The conference is…
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I Missed The Boat On This One
But I am still gobsmacked by the suspended sentence and sympathetic hearing given to Iranian refugee Kayvan Zarei after he punched a woman in a car park and then splashed a witness with petrol and tried…
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Bashings and Rapes Frequent On Public Transport
Another good reason not to use commuter trains and buses, besides the fact that they are inconvenient, inefficient, dirty and generally poorly run.
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South Australia’s Road Safety Minister A Hoon
South Australia’s Minister for Road Safety Tom Koutsantonis has a good record for saying the right things: `Extreme behaviour on our roads, such as speeding, is unacceptable and won’t be tolerated.’ and ‘Unfortunately, you can’t legislate to…
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Obama Greets Chavez
Well, what was he supposed to do? Some of the criticism seems a little unfair – he couldn’t very well have refused to shake Chavez’s hand. He just didn’t have to look so jolly pleased about…
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Another Philippine Hostage Free
It is not clear yet whether Swiss Red Cross worker Andreas Notter was released, or left behind after police chased a group of terrorists who tried to break through the cordon surrounding their camp. The military has been drawing…
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57 Babies Mixed Up in Queensland Hospitals Last year
But it’s not our fault, says the Queensland Nurses Union. We’re like, you know, really busy and that. Really. And really, it just looks like we lost more than twice as many as in 2006 because…
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Kutcher out-Tweets CNN
Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a hoot. Or whatever it was. Ashton Kutcher of ‘That 70s Show,’ husband of Demi Moore, has beaten CNN to be the first Twitter ‘microblogger’ to reach 1 million followers. For all…
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US Environmental Authority – CO2 A Dangerous Pollutant
It’s a health risk, and endangers public welfare. Where did they read that – Dolly Magazine? Carbon dioxide is not poisonous, and it is not a pollutant. It is as necessary to plant life as oxygen…
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UN Celebrates Hitler’s 120th Birthday
With a conference to condemn Israel. You couldn’t make this up, honestly. Hitler was born on 20th April 1889. 20th April 2009 is the first day of Durban II, the second United Nations World Conference Against Racism,…
