The Journal
All writing
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Obama’s 100 Day Spending Spree
Today marks 100 days of President Barack Obama. Yes, I know. So many people are talking about this it is getting boring already. Nonetheless, lots of valuable information at Policy Watch, including this graph: Somebody take back…
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Sex Therapist – Women Need To Say ‘Yes’ To Sex
It’s not quite as startling as it looks. Bettina Arndt simply says what the Church has always said. That successful marriages are based on mutual respect, and consideration of each other’s needs. When it comes to…
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Mars Attacks, Stalin Reacts
In1996 Tim Burton directed a film called Mars Attacks, starring Jack Nicholson. It was fun. This trailer on YouTube is an ad for a strategy game based on that film. The game is called Stalin vs Martians.…
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A Low Flying 747 Hurtles Around New York City Chased By Fighter Jets
And they didn’t think anyone might be worried by this? Buildings were evacuated as terrified workers remembered 9/11. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the Obama Air Force One photo opportunity was insensitive and stupid. NY…
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Contradictory Policy Statements From The US
Two oddly contradictory statements today. President Barack Obama says he wants to bring science to the forefront of US thinking, to make the US once again world leaders in scientific research and development. OK. Excellent. But how does…
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Multi-culturalism, Anyone?
A ten year old girl was beheaded by her grandafther in India over the weekend. The man planned to mix her blood with seeds to encourage a good crop. India has a centuries-old tradition of human…
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Prince Charles’ Massive Carbon Earprint
Charles and Camilla and ten staff headed off to Europe last weekend in a private jet to tell everyone else how they need to pull their belts in and stop emitting so much gas. According to experts from the…
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Flu Pandemic Republicans’ Fault
There isn’t a swine flu pandemic, but if there were, it would have dire economic consequences, and it would all be the fault of those blasted right-wingers. Or so says Nation nitwit Nicholls, in a blog post…
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Federal MPs $90 Per Week Pay Rise
Except that it isn’t. Nick Xenophon has called the increased allowance a back door pay rise, but he knows very well it is not. That is just popularist grandstanding. It is an increase of 17% in their…
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President Obama Is, Like, Really Cool And Stuff
Hipness is what it is. And he’s got it. Watch him walk. Listen to him talk. See the body language, the expressions, the clothes. He’s got attitude, rhythm, a sense of humor, contemporary tastes… Obama used…
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North Korea – No Smiles, And Not Much Else Either
No warmth, nothing to buy, no transport, no hope. The joys and triumphs of socialism … Documentary photographer Tomas van Houtryve visited North Korea posing as a businessman looking to open a chocolate factory. Despite 24-hour surveillance by…
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Clinton: Renewed Violence In Iraq A Good Sign
Hmm… Hilary Clinton said that the Iraqi government had “come a long, long way” and that the bombings were “a signal that the rejectionists fear Iraq is going in the right direction.” Perhaps not such a…
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Scientists And Ethicists Growl At Cloning Doctor
The objection is not that Panayiotis Zavos claims to have cloned human beings. Others have done that. Nor is it that he claims to have made hybrid human-animal clones by putting human DNA into cow eggs. Others have done…
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Queenslanders Cleared Of Flu, But..
Tests on two Queenslanders thought to have contracted Swine Flu after visits to Mexico and the US are negative. New strains of flu emerge every year. What is worrying about this apparently new version of swine…
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I Want My Global Warming
Still raining on Kangaroo Island, which is great – we have no mains water, only what we catch and store ourselves. The tanks are starting to fill. They were virtually empty five days ago, and are now at about…
