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Politics
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Pennies Drop
I have a friend who is a bit left-leaning. A lot left-leaning actually. Bosses exploit the workers, socialism is a fairer system, etc, etc. Then she opened a shop. Of course, it is one of those trendy…
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Solar Power is a Waste of Energy and Resources
Seriously. I wrote earlier this year about the Kangaroo Island Council’s decision to partner with the Federal Government in a scheme to subsidise the installation of solar panels on houses on the island. About 200 households applied…
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The Big 0 Wins the Nobel Peace Prize – WTF?
President Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Well, I’ll be stuffed, as Phar Lap said. Obama was nominated after twelve days as president. He must have done something pretty darned impressive in those twelve…
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Andrew Bolt is Back, and the World is Cooler
Andrew Bolt leads off after his return from holidays with a tightly written summary of the world-is-hotter-than-ever-the-hockey-stick-proves-it fraud. There is no doubt now that it really was fraud and not simply incompetence. The incompetence was discovered by statisticians…
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Governments Cannot Create Jobs
Only business can. While the government may seem to create jobs when it hires people or buys things, it destroys at least as many jobs as it creates when it does so. Via Hyscience, which links…
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First Australian Woman to Win A Nobel Prize
Well, this is cool. Elizabeth Blackburn was born in Tassie, and studied in Melbourne before completing her doctorate at Cambridge. She is now the Morris Herzstein Professor of Biology and Physiology at the University of California. Her…
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Someone’s Uncle Once Lived in Rio – He, He!
From the always insightful Kate at Small Dead Animals: In a failed attempt to sway the the IOC’s selection committee into awarding Chicago the 2016 Summer Olympics, which went instead to Rio de Janeiro, the ever-grinning…
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Hold Firm to the Sure Word
That is a quote from Titus 1:9 – the name of the blog of the Reverend Canon Dr Kendall Harmon. Dr Harmon is a traditionalist Anglican (ie, he is one of the few who persists in believing…
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The Airless Spectacle of Political Onanism
The title of this post is a quote, not about Australia’s Liberal and National party leadership (though it could be – more about that later), but from an article about China’s official 60th birthday celebrations. David Burchell,…
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You Don’t Have A Problem With God, Do You?
It is worth the wait through the annoying ads (and the slow download speed) for this interview between a swish CNN interviewer and a rural US car dealer. Free AK47 with every truck. Mr Muller, the…
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Was Obama Checking Out A 17 Year Old’s Backside?
A picture has been circulating around the web over the last few days which seems to show President Obama stealing a longing look at a 17 year old girl’s rear end. I don’t think Obama is…
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I Like Trains
This story about the ernormous cost (over $1,000 per taxpayer) of the US’ proposed fast rail system is a few days old. And I like trains. Oh, I said that. But even so, it is more…
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When It Is Ok To Meddle
Not in Iran, obviously, even though that election was almost certainly rigged, hundreds of protestors have been killed, arrested or simply ‘disappeared,’ and British embassy staff are to be tried on trumped up charges of stirring up…
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Sarah Palin To Resign As Alaska Governor
Maybe she is looking ahead to the 2012 presidential election. Good luck to her if so. She has vastly more experience of real life and of running things, making decisions and managing budgets that work than…
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Obama Was Born In Hawaii
Whatever qualifications to be president he has or does not have, Barack Hussein Obama is not disqualified by his birth. There really is adequate proof that he was born in the US. Conservatives who continue to obsess about…
