The Journal
All writing
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Deltoid Again
Like it or not, Tim Lambert is one of Australia’s leading left wing bloggers. I don’t like it, because Lambert’s approach to debate is so often simply to mock or belittle people with whom he disagrees.…
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Leftist Vitriol
I visit leftist blogs and news sites fairly regularly. I can’t remember who it was who said ‘If you only read one paper, read the opposition’s,’ but it was good advice. If we only read the…
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Didn’t See That Coming
From the Epic Fail blog (link below) via Mark Shea (link on the right), just because it’s funny. see more Epic Fails
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The Real Climate Change Catastrophe
Christopher Booker summarises the arguments of his new book: The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the Obsession with “Climate Chanage” Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History? Long title, but the answer…
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Discipline in Schools
One of my best friends is a highly intelligent and capable woman who has raised four lovely daughters, run a successful business, and is a respected teacher whose students have produced consistently good results. This will be…
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Wayne Carey Whines
It’s not my fault I’m a drunk, a womaniser and a liar, says Carey in his book The Truth Hurts – my Dad was mean to me. Well maybe. Dad says otherwise of course. This reminds me…
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350 Ways To Look Like An Idiot
I was in Adelaide yesterday to do some buying for my shop, and was interrupted in my travels about the city by about 100 scruffy-looking characters on bicycles. Some of them had painted the number 350 on…
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Pennies Drop
I have a friend who is a bit left-leaning. A lot left-leaning actually. Bosses exploit the workers, socialism is a fairer system, etc, etc. Then she opened a shop. Of course, it is one of those trendy…
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JBC Shares Trading Software
Final update to the JBC scam saga. For background see the two earlier articles. David reported in comments that he has written to ASIC. He has had a response which I cannot detail here. But they…
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Maldives Mania
The Maldives Cabinet met underwater last Saturday to draw attention to the tiny nation’s fate if global warming and accompanying rapid sea level rise continues. All very cute and colourful. Except for a couple of small…
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Tricky Cherry Picking
Lucia at The Blackboard has an interesting article on how a global warming scientists can justify the kind of massive cherry-picking that went into the infamous hockey-stick. First, an explanation of ‘proxies.’ Proxies are so called…
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The Death of Dianne Brimble
The death of Dianne Brimble is a horrible messy tragedy. Dianne was a kind and likeable woman who lived a reasonably quiet life, and who was never either exciting or attractive by contemporary standards. She went on a…
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Nicholas Sarkozy is a Nitwit
Firstly, for his gushingly warm congratulations to Barack Obama on his totally unmerited win of the Nobel Peace Prize: By awarding you its most prestigious prize, the Committee is rewarding your determined commitment to human rights,…
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Blog Milestone?
The first four posts on this blog were on 20 and 21 November last year. That was just to get us into Google and other search engines. Real posting began two months later on 21 January…
