Gaza Could Be A Paradise
If Hamas would spend money on infrastructure instead of destruction, and if Hamas wanted to live in peace with its neighbours, Gaza could be a paradise. As long as hating Jews is more important to Hamas than building a stable nation, Gaza will be a sad, failed, non state.
Vitamin D Deficiency and Diabetes.
If you are vitamin D deficient, you are up to five times more likely to develop diabetes. “People deficient in vitamin D might have a greater risk of developing diabetes, report researchers in a new study. Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Seoul National University studied 903 healthy adults …
Peace
Have a peaceful night, eveyone.
Who’s a Good Boy Then?
Max. Max is a good boy. Seventeen old blue heeler Max, deaf and partially blind, stayed through the night with lost three year old Aurora, then lead searchers to her in the morning. Queensland police have named Max an honorary police dog. Good boy!
Greenland Melting? Nope.
Greenland is melting, right? Sea levels are rising. Global warming is a disaster. It is all our fault. No, no, no, and no. Visit these two websites for more information: Watts Up With That NoTricksZone
Quadrant Magazine
There is lots of great reading in this month’s Quadrant Magazine. Many of the articles are available to read online, or subscribe and have access to all of this year’s issues, and archives. Quadrant Magazine is easily the best magazine of politics and literature in Australia, and the archives are a magnificent resource.
News and Not News
From Andrew Klavan: “This is a country of 325-million people. If two guys getting tossed out of a coffee shop is news, then things in Donald Trump’s America must be going pretty damned well. … Two black men walk into a Starbucks in Philadelphia — Starbucks, a leftist company that is unlikely to encourage old-fashioned …
Anti-vaxxers. An Endless Pit of Stupidity.
Yep, garlic will totally knock the crap out of that extra chromosome. Every time I think anti-vax stupidity has reached its maximum depth, anti-vaxxers find a way to dig even deeper. This dumb is so dumb we need an new word for how dumb this is.
Female Privilege
This newspaper graphic was meant to illustrate the disadvantages faced by women, expecially poorer women. They didn’t think this through. If one out of four adult homeless people are women, then three out of four are.. ?
National Australia Bank – Leaders in Banking Malpractice
The Australian Royal Commission into banking malpractice is considering submissions now, so it seems an appropriate time to link back to my story from 2012 about our own very special experience with the NAB (National Australia Bank). “In 2007 Kathy and I needed to buy a new home. We had banked with the National Australia …
Blacks, Whites, Murders and Lynchings
Twice as many black men and women are killed by other blacks every year in the US than were killed by lynching in every year combined since the end of the Civil War. Forty times as many black babies are destroyed by abortion every year as black lives were lost to lynching. Blacks make up …
Threatening People on Facebook is Fine
Reporting being threatened, on the other hand, is not acceptable. Black conservative women Diamond and Silk were recently banned from Facebook because their support for President Trump made them a danger to the community. Yes, really. Even though they are polite, funny, clever as heck, and have never threatened anyone. But when Jamie Glaznov, editor …
China to Complete the World’s Longest Sea Bridge this Year
What an astonishing achievement this is. China will soon complete the world’s longest sea bridge. A fifty-five kilometre sea bridge, and a six and a half kilometre under-sea tunnel. “The engineering challenges have been immense. The soft — and in some places deep — seabed meant engineers had to drive more than 100 huge steel …
Tempy Talks to a Hero
She prefers her real name, Temperance. This is lovely. No matter how small you are, or how young or how old, or how little you think have to offer, you can still make a difference.
Bitcoin Trading Scam
There is a never-ending parade of new share and currency trading scams. Bitcoin scams are the latest; they won’t be the last. Geoffrey Luck tells the story of a friend who was convinced by a tale that (as usual) involved some well-known people and trade names to give the con-men added credibility. It is easy …