The Journal
Politics
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150 Rockets Fired From Gaza Into Israel Over Last Six Days
What, you didn’t know? Hardly surprising, since attacks on Israeli civilians get short shrift in the Australian media. From Times of Israel: Gaza-based terrorists fired 25 rockets into southern Israel on Saturday, causing damage to a school and factory.…
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Climate Models Worse than Random Guesses
From statistics guru Ross McKitrick: A few years ago a biologist I know looked at how climate change might affect the spread of a particular invasive insect species. He obtained climate-model projections for North America under…
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Bailouts End Here
The end result of quantitative easing (governments printing money to pay their bills): In 1980, the Zimbabwe dollar was worth more than the US dollar. In 2009 Mugabe’s government printed notes with a face value…
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Fairfax Comedy Hour
Ha, ha, ha, ROFL. Wayne Swan says Gina Rinehart’s interest in Fairfax is a threat to democracy. No Wayne, that would be a minority government that introduces destructive legislation it promised it would not introduce, then…
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I Lost My Baby
Yesterday a young woman told me she had recently lost a baby. I was immediately sympathetic. She told me it had been 21 weeks, and that she and her partner had a little memorial service for her…
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Hate Mail To Pro Gay Marriage MPs
The Sydney Morning Herald breathlessly reports that members of Federal Parliament who are supporters of gay marriage have been receiving hate mail. Greens MP Adam Brandt claimed some of the mail he had received was vitriolic and…
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And Gallantly She Ran Away
Lady Gaga has cancelled her scheduled concert in Indonesia after threats and protests. All very courageously provocative when it comes to offending the Salvation Army or the local Methodist ladies guild. They are not likely to chop your…
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Craig Thomson, Sigh
Everyone else has been blabbering on about Craig Thomson for weeks. No need for me to do so. But just a couple of quick points. His speech in parliament showed only that Craig Thomson, whom we…
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Slipper Deserves a Fair Go
I certainly hold no candle for Peter Slipper. He let down his party and his electorate when he accepted the Speaker’s chair, and he appears to have a great deal of explaining to do over expenses…
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Gays – You Shall Not Express Any Opinion Other Than Ours
That’s the thing with the diversity loving crowd. They only love diversity when you agree with everything they say. Former tennis champion and now pastor Margaret Court organised a rally in Perth last night. Church members and the…
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Anita Heiss Again
This will be my last post on this subject. I have not read Anita Heiss’s book Am I Black Enough For You?, so I cannot comment on its literary merits. But there seems to be to…
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Am I Black Enough For You?
That is the title of Anita Heiss’s new book. Anita was one of the people who sued Andrew Bolt. The answer to Anita’s question is “No-one cares. Call yourself what you like.” But if you claim tax…
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Putting Down Foxes
Our State member Michael Pengilly is in the news again, having suggested in Parliament yesterday that Minister for Transport Chloe Fox should be put down. Chloe Fox is an airhead. Her only experience in the transport…
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Catherine Deveny Shines
The utterly unattractive Catherine Deveny shines again in her tweets about the LNP victory: Queensland, beautiful one day, run but (sic) right winged maggots the next Perhaps they should now rename Queensland ‘Cuntsland’ Shit for education, human…
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Qld Election
Campbell Newman will win Ashgrove, and the Liberal National Party will win the election so comfortably they won’t even notice it going down. As they should. Like the federal Labor Party, Anna Bligh has nothing but…
