The Journal
All writing
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You Can’t Spend Your Way Out of Debt
Who would have guessed? Alarmingly this simple fact still seems to be escaping the current US administration. Kelsey Grammer is absolutely right. The ‘stimulus’ package is about rewarding people who are unproductive, or who have been…
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I’m Ba-ack!
I am still In Wanganui in New Zealand, still caring for Amanda. But we seem to have settled into a routine now, and I have found a decently quick internet caff, so posting should be back…
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Tough Times Make You Fat
According to the Australian ABC, MacDonalds is doing well in Australia, so soon everyone will be obese. This is another one of those increasingly frequent (especially when it comes to health and climate scares), headlines that look…
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Mental Health Services
This is an article I have just written to send to the Wanganui Chronicle. It is about Amanda, but may be of wider interest. I apologise for the lack of posts over the last few days. Things have been pretty…
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A Short Break
Amanda is being flown up to Wanganui in the next hour. I will drive up – about three hours – and be there tonight. Posting will resume tomorrow. Run the race. Keep the faith.
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Help!
Staff at the Intensive Care Unit in Wellington told us this morning that Amanda is to be transferred today to the ICU in Wanganui. It is clear she is going to require a long period of support…
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What the West Needs to Know
I have Muslim friends, but am convinced that while there are reasonable and moderate Muslims, there is not and cannot be a reasonable and moderate Islam. For Muslims, Mohammed is the perfect example of a life…
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NZ Too Much for Darwin
By the time the twenty-three year old Charles Darwin reached New Zealand he had definitely had enough. Despite its natural beauty and fascinating birds and insects, Darwin wrote of the Maori people: “Their persons and houses…
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Debate Must Be Stopped. ‘Honour’ Killings? Sorry, No Time.
Via Kathy Shaidle, this story from the Toronto Sun. The Ontario Human Rights Commission has time to investigate and comment on stories published in national magazines over which it has no jurisdiction. It has time to condemn writers…
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Oz Bush Fires – Greenies Responsible
Hmm… The people who lit the fires are immediately responsible. But a measure of responsibility also lies with environmental activists who pressured local councils and other governement agencies to reduce or disallow prescribed (that is controlled protective)…
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Tinkering Won’t Make This Pig Fly
Via Dissecting Leftism, this article from The American Spectator, saying what I have been saying for the last several weeks. See here and here, for example, that the proposed US economic stimulus package will not and can…
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Amanda Update
Amanda has been a lot more responsive yesterday and today, and was able to mouth the word ‘Wellington’ when I asked her if she knew where she was. So co-ordination is returning, and higher brain function…
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Why PCs are Better Than Macs
As if it wasn’t obvious. This article is a year old, but still gives a good summary of why you be crazy to buy a Mac. Macs are fine for children and public servants, but in…
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The Lunatics Are Running the Asylum
Via Andrew Bolt, this story of the banning of Geert Wilders from Britain. ‘It seems that in Britain the public debate has already been smothered to the extent that a democratically elected politician from another EU…
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The New Kindle 2 Looks Good
But this could be better. An app to enable you to read e-books on your smartphone. The positives are that if you have a smartphone you don’t need another device – saving space in your pocket…
