The Journal
All writing
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Vista Service Pack Two
Vista SP2 was released on June 30th, and appears an an ‘Important Update’ in the Windows update list. It is a dangerous update. SP2 updates some 50,000 files. If any one of them is corrupt, your…
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Buzz Aldrin Says ..
The climate’s been changing for billions of years, and there’s no evidence anything humans have done has changed those natural cycles. Here’s what Buzz had to say (from the Telegraph, via Watts Up With That): ..…
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I Like Trains
This story about the ernormous cost (over $1,000 per taxpayer) of the US’ proposed fast rail system is a few days old. And I like trains. Oh, I said that. But even so, it is more…
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When It Is Ok To Meddle
Not in Iran, obviously, even though that election was almost certainly rigged, hundreds of protestors have been killed, arrested or simply ‘disappeared,’ and British embassy staff are to be tried on trumped up charges of stirring up…
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Sarah Palin To Resign As Alaska Governor
Maybe she is looking ahead to the 2012 presidential election. Good luck to her if so. She has vastly more experience of real life and of running things, making decisions and managing budgets that work than…
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Spam and Bing
Yesterday I was at the number one position on Bing for the phrase ‘leading conservative blog.’ Now Qohel cannot be found in Bing at all. What gives? Google at least seems more consistent – I never…
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Presstitutes
Ha, ha. I don’t know who invented this word, noted here by Michalle Malkin, but it describes some of the mainstream media perfectly. Except prostitutes only sell their bodies to make a living. Many journalists seem…
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Frank Devine
Frank Devine, Christian and journalist, is dead at age 77. Frank was born in New Zealand (as I was) but was a genuine Australian. Like his adopted country, he was dry, beautiful (for his character and his writing), harsh (sometimes)…
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Two Interesting Articles
One by Dennis Prager on the cowardice of Hollywood, and why you should go and see The Stoning Of Soraya M. And one by Christina Hoff Summers (and yes the articles are related) on the entrenched…
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Fascinating And Sad
That could be the headline for a story about Michael Jackson, but it isn’t. There is an interesting and moving story here of the women’s orchestra at Auschwitz. In August 1943, the Austrian musician Alma Rose…
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Obama Was Born In Hawaii
Whatever qualifications to be president he has or does not have, Barack Hussein Obama is not disqualified by his birth. There really is adequate proof that he was born in the US. Conservatives who continue to obsess about…
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Numbers Prove Nothing
Numbers can prove lots of things. But not in the case of supposed election fraud in Iran. Bernd Beber and Alexandra Scacco’s Washington Post story of statistical anomalies seems at first read to prove the Iranian election…
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Cap And Trade US Self-Sabotage Bill Passed
Possibly the most monumental piece of economic lunacy ever proposed by any government anywhere (and I include the collectivisation of farms in Stalinist Russia) has passed through the US Congress. This despite the fact that members of…
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Trading Stocks
Some tips from someone who has never made any money out of shares. But I bet it is as good as any advice you will get from a broker or multi-thousand dollar charting package. 1. Unless…
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Farah Fawcett And Eternal Life
I never paid much attention to Farah Fawcett. I wasn’t fond of Charlie’s Angels, and when I did watch it, enjoyed Kate Jackson more. Farah was indeed beautiful, and was an actress of considerable ability. But those are not…
