The Journal
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First Home Grants Hurt First Home Owners
Another one to add to the bleeding obvious list. Government grants (ie, giving other people’s money) to new home owners, amount to $21,000. Because they have a larger deposit, (sometimes the grant is their only deposit) first home buyers…
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Virus Virut ce
You know all those annoying hoax anti-virus messages that people used to send around? They described in breathless terms some new virus which antivirus products could not remove, which would cause your hard to crash, losing…
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Climate Change – What I Said
Dutch chemist Dr Hans Schreuder drew on the work of a number of climate and other scientists in his address to the Northern Ireland Climate Change Committee, which is considering legislative controls of ‘greenhouse gas’ emissions.…
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Life Is Hard
From memory, those are the opening words of M. Scott Peck’s book The Road Less Travelled. It is true, of course. And the more you try to achieve, the truer it seems to be. Rambling for…
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Kim Jong-il – Na Na Na Na Na Na Na, I Want To Start A Fight
North Korea conducted a powerful underground nuclear weapons test today. The UN security council will meet. No doubt Kim Jong-il is quaking in his tiny boots as he contemplates the arrival of another letter telling him…
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Cold Water On Warming
This column by a physicist and climatologist is a week old. But it is worth reading because of its clear comparison of the predictions of global warming theory with real word observations. The conclusion: global warming theory is: a…
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Kleenmaid Bankrupt
Kleenmaid is (was) an Australian whitegoods manufacturer. I have owned a few of their products over the years, and found them to be well-designed and well-made. Creditors including the Westpac bank (the same bank that mistakenly…
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Two More Reasons
To believe seeing Australian tax-payer funded film Samson and Delilah would be a waste of time and money: 1. Peter Garrett likes it. 2. It won an award at Cannes.
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At Ambulance Training
All day Saturday and Sunday, so no posts, probably, on either of those days. Keep the faith!
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The Most Important Speech Of Obama’s Presidency
And it was given by Dick Cheney. Regardless of your opinions about ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ you should read this. For good or ill (and I think good) Cheney’s speech gives clear understanding of the concerns and…
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Since Our Car Manufacturers Are Doing So Well
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has declared his intention to follow Barack Obama’s plan to impose strict limits on CO2 emissions from motor vehicles. This will increase costs, and cost jobs. CO2 is not a pollutant. It is…
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Page After Page Of Vitriol
On Tim Lambert’s Deltoid blog, all about what’s wrong, or might be wrong, with Ian Plimer’s book Heaven and Earth. Some of the critics seem not to have read the book at all. Most attack Professor Plimer…
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Conservative Women Are Better Looking
And brainer. And more fun. However, I can understand some of them being a bit disgruntled about a political ally posting photos of them on a website without their permission. Even if the idea was that the more hot…
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DVDs With 1,000 Times More Storage
Current dual layer DVDs hold 9GB – enough for a couple of full length movies, or about 2,000 photos. Researchers at Melbourne’s Swinburne University of Technology have found a way to store some 10,000 GB of…
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Arguing On The Internet
I have some simple rules I apply to any argument I undertake, whether in person, in print, or on this site. Tackle the ideas, not the person. If you can only win an argument by denigrating your…
