The Journal
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Gillard: What I Said Before, Forget About It
Julia says things are different now. And they are. She doesn’t need you to vote for her anymore, and won’t for the next three years, by which time you will have forgotten. So bye, bye promises.…
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Unwarranted Assumptions
It turns out unwarranted assumptions are the largest single source of renewable energy. Take for example the Zero Carbon Australia, 2020 report which claimed that all of Australian energy could com from renewable energy sources by 2020. Ted (F.E.) Trainer, a…
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Tough Love
In an address by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk to members of the Nicean Club at Lambeth Palace a couple of days ago. (The Nicean Club is a group of Anglicans who seek to strengthen relations between Anglicansim…
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Oakeshott for Speaker?
That might be one way to keep him quiet. Nothing else seems to work. Have you ever heard a politician so much in love with the sound of his own voice? Anthony Albanese is worried about how Oakeshott’s serving…
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What’s Wrong With Machete
I like a good action movie. I suspect that the action movie demographic is primarily us rednecks. Liberal hippie types seem to like nancy movies like The English Patient. I watched that. I even tried to…
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She Wants to Look Attractive
She goes out of her way to look attractive. Her employers reward her for looking attractive. But woe betide any man who finds her attractive. NFL security officials are investigating the conduct of New York Jets players…
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This Dude For Minister for Foreign Affairs
Cor! Language warning: He is right to be angry. Why aren’t more people? There is plenty to be angry about. Sorry about another horrific video. This is sickening. But when the world is appalled by the…
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Common Sense a Sticking Point at Peace Talks
Benjamin Netanyahu has said that any long term peace agreement must include the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state. It sounds a reasonable enough request. After all, Israel is only about one sixth of one…
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But The Crime Was Stopped!
A bloke who had been trying to break into a neighbour’s house with an axe is in a critical condition after being shot in the neck. Anyone with information is urged to contact Crimestoppers. But as…
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Democracy Will Burn
On this day, September 11, Muslims burn US and UK flags outside the US embassy in London: Other choice lines include ‘Queen and country go to hell!,’ ‘Burn, burn, USA!’ I think I agree with the loutish…
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Future Pie Makers
On 16th August the Sydney Morning Herald published a column by Paul Sheehan. Sheehan was writing about Gillard’s pork pies. He described her as a serial, brazen liar. At the end of the article, he talked…
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Why Do People Keep Getting Annoyed With Me?
It was perfectly innocent. It was. I was in a shop in Kingscote (where my shop is, just by the way, on Dauncey St, opposite the cafe/newsagency) and the lady behind the counter asked me to…
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The Rainbow Alliance
The Labor Greens alliance has independents Windsor and Oakeshott by the short and curlies. Or over a barrel if you prefer. They have been conned. Their fond notion that they might have a respected voice in a…
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Floods and Dams
On Kangaroo Island, we have just been through a record breakingly wet Winter. There have been floods on the mainland too, but water restrictions are still in place in capital cities. The excuse for not building…
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I Will Thirstily Seem Forward
Spam to real comments runs at about 100 to 1. I check the spam about once a week just to check no genuine comments have been caught in error. Most spam messages are pretty dull. But…
