The Journal
All writing
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President Obama’s Urinal Prompter
A little tasteless, perhaps. But funny? I thought so!
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Global Warming – The Science Is Settled
It really might be so – just not the way Al Gore thinks. Via Jennifer Marohasy. Measurements show that global atmospheric temperature has been static or cooling for the last ten years, despite increasing levels of…
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President Obama Hard To Keep Up With
From the Beaufort Observer. Is he for releasing Guantanamo prisoners, or not? Is he for higher taxes, or not? Is he for Israel, or not? This excerpt is a good summary of why higher taxes and…
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Government – New Boat Still Someone Else’s Fault
Another boat load of illegal immigrants has been interecpted of the coast of Australia – the 12th boat this year. According to Home Affairs Minister Bob Doofus, all the passengers are male, and all are from…
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Labor Party – John Howard To Blame
But of course. Australian treasurer Wayne Swan says that tough measures to be introduced in tomorrow’s federal budget, are the fault of John Howard’s big spending policies. When John Howard and Peter Costello’s government left office…
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DDT – From De Facto Ban To Real Ban
And more people, possibly millions, will die as a result. Every 30 seconds someone dies from Malaria. The same number as were killed in the 9/11 attacks every day and a half. Most of these deaths…
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Pakistan – Possible Good Outcomes
Possible good outcomes for everyone except the bad guys, that is. There is strong local support for the government’s attack on islamic extremists in the North West Frontier province of Pakistan. Army chief General Ashfaq Kayani…
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Federal Opposition To Offer Alternative ETS Scheme
The Australia Federal Opposition (The Liberals, which means the conservatives, or would do if they had any backbone) is planning to offer an alternative to the government’s proposed emissions trading scheme. Unless their proposed alternative is…
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Man Falls Out Of Boat Swatting Shark
This wouldn’t be funny if the guy had been hurt. But he wasn’t, so it is: When a shark began to chew on the boat’s outboard motor, the man tried to fend it off with an…
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Australian Swine Flu Victim Fine
She caught it overseas, didn’t know she had it, and was better by the time she got back to Australia. Of course the headline is ‘Health Chief Warns of More Swine Flu’ A six year old…
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Church And Fishing
Just home from church, and about to go out fishing with a friend, so posting will be light to non-existent for the rest of the day. Happy Mothers’ Day!
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Stimulus Plans As A Proportion Of GDP
This graphic from GlobeandMail shows the amount of ‘stimulus’ spending in selected G20 countries in dollars and as a proportion of GDP. I have linked to GlobeandMail, but article content is subscription or pay per view. Australia’s…
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Chuck Norris Bites The Frost
And I bet he bites global warming as well. And communism. And terrorists. Check out these Chuck Norris facts: There is no ‘ctrl’ button on Chuck Norris’s computer. Chuck Norris is always in control. Chuck Norris…
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On Foreign Aid
Know-it-all Sir Bob Geldof is the former front man of the Boomtown Rats, a one hit wonder band from the seventies, and therefore qualifies (in his eyes) as an expert on foreign policy and development. Well, Leonardo De Crapio…
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Experts: We Have No Idea If This Could Happen
And it has never happened before. But hey, you know, anything’s possible. So just be scared, OK? A ‘top flu expert’ is warning of the dangers of a mutant swine/bird flu – one that is as infectious…
