The Journal
All writing
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It’s a Bit Warm in Australia
So there must be a global climate crisis. That’s the argument of the Labor nitwits trying to foist on the nation what is almost certainly the worst piece of legislation in Australia’s history, the ‘Destroy Our Economy And…
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Climate Alarm is an International Multi-Billion Dollar Business
A clear and well-written article titled Ideology and Money Drive Global Warming Religion by physicist and engineer Andrew Kenny, in South Africa’s Business Day (which, incidentally, reports unseasonable cold weather). I don’t usually simply copy and paste whole…
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The Endless Empty Sea of Media Irresponsibility
Thousands of examples to choose from, but this MSNBC headline caught my eye today: Teen suffers rare illness after swine flu shot – Boy diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome, but CDC says no clear link. The headline…
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High Commissioner Surprised Australians Still Thinking
Britain’s new high commissioner, Baroness Valerie Amos, has expressed surprise that Australians are still debating whether humans cause climate change and says other nations have long since ”moved on”. Not only have we stopped thinking, she…
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Israel Is An Amazing Country
News yesterday that an Israeli judge refused to sentence an Arab teenager to jail for throwing stones at a police car. The judge disqualified the youth from driving for two years, ordered that he pay approximately…
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Paragon Hard Disk Manager
I have many years experience using partition management software. I have four MCTS qualifications, am an MCITP and an A+Certified IT Technician. I frequently have clients who want disk partitions copied, extended, etc. I have used Paragon software…
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Tough Love Breeds Smart Kids
You could quibble about the headline. By tough love, the ABC reporter means parents setting boundaries and sticking to them. Children don’t seem to be smarter, just more resilient, more confident, more capable. And setting consistent…
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Fort Hood Murderer Is Muslim Radical
There has been a lot about the Fort Hood shooting on news sites and blogs. I haven’t commented till now, because I really hoped that the fact that Major Nidal Malik Hasan was a muslim was irrelevant…
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Maine and Marriage
A referendum in the US state of Maine has rejected homosexual marriage. There are five states in the US in which homosexual couples’ co-habitation can legally become a marriage. In the majority of those, the necessary…
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NSW Dept of Community Services Stuffs Up Again
A twelve year old girl has given birth to a baby boy after having become pregnant to her fifteen year old live -in boy friend. Live in boyfriend? Yes. The girl lives with her mother, who…
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Hopes Fade For Copenhagen – Yay!
The more hope fades, the happier I will be. Alas for the alarmists, ‘dark clouds are gathering over Copnhagen’ despite an apparent majority of political leaders being committed to ‘take action to tackle the threat of…
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Limp Wristed Loser’s Loutish Lob
A long haired Australian removed a shoe and lobbed it at former Prime Minister John Howard at Cambridge University last Friday. Mr Howard was speaking on Leadership in the Twenty-first Century. This from the ABC News website:…
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Australia – Where The Bloody Hell Are You Buried?
Absolutely tasteless, but beautifully done and hilarious, the real Australia: Well, no more tasteless than that other Australian tourism promotion.
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Ghosts and Global Warming
Interesting figures here from the Pew Research Center on declining faith in the religion of global warming apocalyptic, with only 36% of those surveyed agreeing there is good evidence the world is warming because of human…
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Free Stuff
Nothing is free. ‘It’s free’ just means ‘Someone else has paid for it.’ ‘It should be free’ means ‘Someone else should pay for it.’ The question to ask is always ‘Why?’ Why should somone else pay…