The Journal
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74 Terrorists Freed From Guantanamo Back To Being Terrorists
From the New York Post: The Pentagon now confirms that at least 74 former Guantanamo detainees have resumed terror ist activities after claiming they weren’t terrorists. Such recidivism points up an alarming intelligence failure. These dangerous…
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Like I Said
I pointed out several months ago that the Federal goverment’s stimulus plan could not achieve increased wealth for the average Australian, because simply taking money from some people and giving it to others does not produce…
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Fruits Of Muhammed’s Life: Death, Destruction, Lust
Two interesting articles from FrontPage Magazine. The first is an interview with Coptic priest Fr Zakaria Botros. He has been denounced as Islam’s public enemy number one, and Al Qaeda has said they will pay $60 million…
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Phillipines: Two More Hostages Free
Military pressure has forced the release or abandonment of two more hostage held by Abu Sayyaf terrorists in the southern Phillipines. Leah Patris, an employee of a micro-finance company, was kidnapped on February 3rd. Peace activist Umar…
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Burmese Army Attacks Orphanages, Refugee Camps
Perhaps the tin pot generals who run Burma hoped that with the media’s attention on the show trial of Aung San Suu Kyi, their latest vicious attacks on ethnic and religious minorities would go unnoticed. The tragedy…
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I Feel Good
A well-known TV psychologist has said that one way to find peace in your daily life is to finish all the things you have started……. So I looked around my house to see things I’d started and…
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And Another Thing
While we’re thinking about global warming. The National Snow and Ice Data Center has a tool which allows you to compare the extent of sea ice in any two years from 1978 to 2009. Here are figures for sea…
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Global Warming Causes Everything
A Russian climatologist says global warming played a ‘significant part’ in the crash of Air France flight 447 in the Atlantic a couple of days ago. If you don’t know, you might as well make something up. Especially…
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US Unemployment Continues To Rise
From 8.9% to 9.4% in May. Former White House spokesman Tony Fratto is less than impressed with the current administration’s claim that thousands of jobs created have been created by the stimulus plan: After nearly twenty years…
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Google Thinks Tetris Is More Important Than D-Day
Google often changes its logo to match the day – public holidays, festivals, even sports get their own logo de jour. On June 6th 2008 Google remembered the birthday of Spanish painter Diego Velasquez. I like Velasquez. Las…
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NASA: Sun Influences Climate
No s%#t, Sherlock. A study from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland looking at climate data over the past century has concluded that solar variation has made a significant impact on the Earth’s climate. …
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Is Your Wink Pink?
One of my friends is a dizzy blonde beauty therapist. She spends a considerable amount of time ripping hair off people’s private parts. Last night she showed me a brochure for a new product – lightening…
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At Least 29 Children Dead In Mexican Fire
The fire broke out in a tyre depot next to the daycare centre in Hermosillo in northern Mexico. Of about 180 children at the centre at the time, 29 are reported dead from asphyxiation. May God grant them…
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Seals Not Endangered By Climate Change
Global temperature has (possibly, no one is really sure) risen by about half of one degree over the last hundred years. Given that seals have survived the last several million years of climate changes, varying from…
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Bing Bung
Yesterday Qohel was at the number one position on Bing for ‘leading conservative blog.’ Today it has dropped out of their listings completely. Bing’s webmaster tools report they had trouble finding my sitemap last time they crawled the site.…
