The Journal
All writing
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Labor’s Report Card
Based on comments by Engineer and Mick Davis on Andrew Bolt’s blog. Labor’s Report Card 20/20 Summit – FAIL Millions of dollars of your money wasted. No ideas from summit implemented. Aboriginal Housing – FAIL $300 million of your money spent, no houses…
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The Generation That Failed
The early years of the coming decade will be the last few years of life for many Anglican parishes in the Western world. Those parishes, some supported by legacies or property income, are home to the last…
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A Little Bit More on Gay ‘Marriage’
Abraham Lincoln once asked how many legs a dog has if we call a tail a leg. The answer, he said, is four: calling a tail a leg does not make it so. We chuckle and…
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I Can’t Wait Not to See This
I really enjoyed Stieg Larsson’s Millenium trilogy, starting with ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,’ and I really enjoyed the Swedish film version. It was well acted, perfectly paced, and captured the atmosphere of the book brilliantly.…
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Two Apologies that Aren’t or Shouldn’t Be
Naughty Wendy Francis. Doesn’t she know that expressing opinions contrary to those approved by the Federation of Angry Gays is not permitted? Wendy is a Queensland senate candidate for the Family First Party. She, or someone…
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A Lasting Legacy
Just read the last line of this obituary. I guess every little helps. Bob sounds like he was a great guy, and I hope his family is going OK.
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The Face of Islam
This is Shaznaz Bibi. A muslim women who was not sufficiently docile. An isolated incident? There are more photos in an article called Terrorism that’s Personal. Since 1994, a Pakistani activist who founded the Progressive Women’s Association…
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Not Bad for Abos
I ended my post featuring Morgan Freeman with the suggestion: ‘if you don’t think race should make a difference, stop acting like race makes a difference.’ So I was interested to read in Qantas’ in flight magazine about…
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Climate Vox Pop
I asked three random people (well it’s about as scientific as those polls in the Courier-Mail) some simple questions. Do you believe the world is getting warmer as a result of human action? Two said yes, one…
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Anti-Semitic, Anti-Gay, Anti-Women
Wow, that George Christensen is anti everything. Well of course he would be, he’s a liberal party candidate. At least, that’s the impression you might get from this article in the Sydney Morning Herald. Some of the…
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This Is Cool
How do caring, intelligent people stop the race problem? Race commissioners, equality commissars, etc, only have jobs as long as they keep finding racists under the bed, so they have a vested interest in keeping on…
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Free Country
I saw a bumper sticker this morning that said ‘Free Tibet.’ I thought, ‘Well, I’ll have it if no one else wants it.’
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Being Julia
I just bought a copy of the Australian Women’s Monthly. I didn’t want to, but the current edition hasn’t yet made it to the doctors’ surgery, or to the library. Julia Gillard is made to look very attractive. There…
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On Hold
There will be a break in proceedings for an indefinite period. The last year has been an annus horribilus – Amanda’s accident and ongoing illness, struggles to get my business up and running despite absences caring…
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DIY Jesus
Ben-Peter Terpstra points out that it is much easier to make up your own Jesus if you have no idea who the real Jesus was. In fact, if you have never read the Bible at all, and you are…
