The Journal
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Menacing Matriarch Moans
Poor Rabiah. Former surfie chick turned jihad groupie Rabiah Hutchinson is complaining about the nightmare of living under ‘constant surveillance.’ After all, she is just a 55 year old grandmother with diabetes and arthritis. So why is anyone…
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Swine Flu Transmitted Via Baggage – Not
Any excuse for a day off. Baggage handlers at Paris’ Orly airport walked off the job claiming their lives and health were at risk from Swine Flu if they carried baggage on flights from Mexico or Spain. French…
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Condi – ‘Do What’s Right’
Former US Secretary of State Condolezza Rice talks with students at Stanford University. As always, she is intelligent, dignified, respectful of others. She respects the students who question her enough to listen to them, and to…
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Of Mice And Maggots
The story of a decorated war veteran being chewed by mice in an Australian nursing home has been much in the news over the last few days, usually with comments about how disgraceful the lack of…
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No Caterpillars Injured In The Making Of This Video
You may have some hesitations (as I do) about whether waterboarding or putting a caterpillar in someone’s room can reasonably be called torture. See a couple of posts below. But there is no doubt about the enhanced business disagreement…
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Obama – Tastes Great, Less Filling
And 99 more awesome thoughts about the 100 days of awesomeness, from Doubleplusundead. Here’s a sample: 12 When his wife twisted off the Queen of England’s head like a beer cap, he reattached it with nothing…
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The Whole Torture Thing
I have been meaning to say something about this for a while. I have studied ethics, both in secular university classes and in seminary, and those classes and more recent reading have been a useful background. But I have…
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Are You Annoyingly Happy?
Then Despondex may be for you: Or if not, this Japanese family discussing (to Beethoven’s Fifth) what to have for asagohan (breakfast) may bring a smile: There is also a subtitled version of Asagohan (but the video…
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How To Avoid Swine Flu
Just don’t do this. OK?
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Global Warming Is ‘Zombie Science’
From Dr Bruce Charlton at Science Direct: … that so many vague, dumb or incoherent scientific theories are apparently believed by so many scientists for so many years is suggestive that this ideal does not necessarily…
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Rudd’s Hypocrisy – China Vs Fiji
Fiji is the new Burma, a ‘virtual dictatorship’ (whatever that means) according to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. But if Rudd is so concerned about dictatorship, freedom of the press and the rule of law, why is he is so jolly…
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‘Lie To Me’ Beats Obama
He he. I noted a couple of days ago that Fox was sticking to its usual programming instead of screening President Obama’s 100th day press conference. I’ve been waiting for the ratings results, and here they…
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Climate Change – We Don’t Need No Steenking Debates
Three brief notes. Lord Monckton was invited by Rep. Joe Barton, the senior Republican on the US Energy & Commerce Committee, to speak alongside Al Gore at a global warming policy meeting in Washington. Democrat members decided…
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Catherine Zeta-Jones = Susan Boyle?
Catherine Zeta-Jones has asked to play Susan Boyle in a film version of Susan’s life. I thought this was bizarre at first. But when you see photos of the two women side by side, it might just…
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WHO: ‘All Humanity Under Threat’ From Swine Flu
The World Health Organisation has warned that “all of humanity is under threat” from a potential swine flu pandemic and called for “global solidarity” to combat the virus. The plea came as the WHO raised the…
