Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Dec 3, 2009, 7:32 pm
Add to the myriad of dire predictions of the consequences of climate change today's warning that the fish are going to go crazy. Warmer ocean temperatures caused by global warming could cause shar...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Dec 3, 2009, 4:53 am
Two stories today demonstrate the ongoing collapse of standards in today's values-free, morally relativistic world. First, thanks to Tiger Woods: What's in a word? Well, for Internet searche...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Dec 1, 2009, 4:56 pm
I wonder whether the government understands the danger posed to them by Tony Abbott's ascension to the Liberal Party leadership? In his first speech as leader he attacked the ETS as just another ...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Nov 28, 2009, 6:08 pm
The following is the Liberal Party of Australia platform: What does the Liberal Party stand for? We are the party of initiative and enterprise; We believe in the inalienable rights and freedoms of a...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Nov 26, 2009, 2:03 pm
If this graph is accurate, and there's no reason to assume otherwise given it came from research done by JP Morgan, then it explains a lot about why the Obama administration seems to be such a bun...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Nov 25, 2009, 7:22 pm
NZ climate scientists go to work on the NZ temperature record. Before: After: They've turned a 0.06C rise per century since 1850 into 0.92C... Apparently, THAT is science! Read all about it. ...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Nov 24, 2009, 5:04 pm
Many people are passing the so-called Climategate scandal off as not being important and not affecting climate science. The problem with that view is that without confidence in the dendro temperat...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Nov 22, 2009, 10:32 pm
If the leftie health police are so concerned about the effect of advertising on children (and the rest of us) then how is it that 99.9% of people who work in advertising are lefties? (Nothing Follows...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Nov 22, 2009, 6:08 am
Ironically, if the United Nations has its way then there will be a massive wealth transfer from the light blue shaded countries to the dark blue as payment for so-called 'climate debt'. The C...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Nov 20, 2009, 4:52 pm
The information provided yesterday by the hacking of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit is the greatest scientific scandal since Piltdown Man. Here we have a large number of hig...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Nov 19, 2009, 4:29 pm
On such important issues to their agenda the organised left tends to overwhelm online polls, as I've demonstrated previously. Let's see how this one goes: 9:29AM 10.47AM 11.37AM Yes:No ra...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Nov 18, 2009, 9:10 pm
Why is The Australia Institute described as an 'independent' think tank when all it does is spew out far left garbage? Its founder and former head, Clive Hamilton, retired from the organisati...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Nov 17, 2009, 9:26 pm
Ninemsn's latest poll question is - Do you think Australia is a corrupt country? Here's the current count: Do the 20,368 people who voted yes actually understand what a proper corrupt countr...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Nov 17, 2009, 5:42 pm
One of the most troubling aspects of the current highly charged political climate is the mendaciousness of its leaders in both Australia and the United States. Everyone expects their politicians to t...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Nov 15, 2009, 10:59 pm
These people really piss me off. Who? The scientists who keep making predictions of doom and gloom about the fate of the Great Barrier Reef unless Australia unilaterally slashes its economic wrists....
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Nov 12, 2009, 1:40 am
Here's proof that it's possible for man to interfere with the climate and end up killing people, which takes the climate change scorecard to: Real man-made climate change: 38 Fake man-made cl...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Nov 8, 2009, 8:01 pm
What a terrific photo (courtesy of Airliners.net) of 'Yankee Lady', a Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress. And here's where B-17 pilots went to work. It's remarkable to look at the complexit...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Nov 8, 2009, 12:20 am
I'll tell you an organisation that is helping to wreck society, lower standards and impoverish people - the BBC. The BBC has just released a survey on worldwide attitudes to capitalism, the fall o...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Nov 6, 2009, 1:14 am
I cannot believe this. I simply cannot. What can one say? Unlike George W Bush when he first got news that a plane had hit the World Trade Centre and that the situation was being assessed (people in...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Nov 3, 2009, 8:04 pm
Australia's worst ever prime minister, Kevin Rudd, seems determined to sell Australia's future generations down the financial river in order to feed the here and now of his megalomaniacal ego....
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Nov 1, 2009, 10:12 pm
I think that ninemsn is doing its best to try and put up a poll question that gets a favourable response for asylum seekers but the Australian public refuses to co-operate. The other day I posted the...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Oct 30, 2009, 9:32 pm
"Lies, damned lies, and statistics" is part of a phrase attributed to the 19th Century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, among others, and later popularized in the United States by, among othe...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Oct 28, 2009, 10:56 pm
So there's a bunch of Sri Lankan economic refugees and assorted ex-Tamil Tiger terrorists living on the Oceanic Viking somewhere off of Indonesia in a political tug-of-war between crap knows who b...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Oct 26, 2009, 6:53 am
The loopy left must really be hating the fact that the fraud that is climate change is being exposed for all to see right before the Copenhagen Climate Junket is due to take place. Here's Liberal...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Oct 24, 2009, 6:16 pm
Here's the headline from this ABC news article: And here's the opening paragraph: Afghans held at an Australian-funded immigration detention centre in Tanjung Pinang, a town on an island sout...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Oct 20, 2009, 6:23 am
Theodore Dalrymple is one of the greatest commentators on the collapse of Western European civilisation. What has happened to a society in which this can happen? Leanne Shepherd and Lucy Jarrett, bot...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Oct 19, 2009, 6:15 am
Then: Now: Nothing more needs to be said. (Nothing Follows)
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Oct 14, 2009, 5:35 pm
I tell you what group is a piece of crap - those that advocate against using a smack or, as in the case below, a wooden spoon to discipline their children. A Victorian woman has been questioned by pol...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Oct 12, 2009, 9:48 pm
Thomas Friedman is the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde of US political commentators. He takes an almost European approach to domestic matters while being a traditional Kennedy Liberal on international affairs. ...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Oct 11, 2009, 8:45 pm
... me. The race ended with one "jockey" falling and crashing headfirst into the dirt but he was uninjured.Would there have been more outrage had he been injured? Why not write, "The race ended wi...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Oct 10, 2009, 10:02 pm
Another terrific story for the UK's socialised medical system with news that doctors had successfully transplanted donor lungs to a former British soldier who served in Iraq. Problem number one. ...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Oct 4, 2009, 10:20 am
Thought I'd try my hand at making one of those now wildly popular Hitler parodies and use the Chicago Olympics debacle as a subject. Haven't made anything like this before but it turned out O...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Oct 3, 2009, 6:02 am
Given I've been banned by Little Green Footballs, I've removed all links to LGF. When Charles Johnson bans people like Tim Blair then you know he's lost the plot. The list of people bann...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Oct 2, 2009, 5:00 pm
Obama went. Obama saw. Obama schmoozed. Obama got his arse kicked from Copenhagen to Madrid to Tokyo to Rio and all the way back to Chicago. What a massive political blunder by the Obama administr...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Oct 1, 2009, 9:41 pm
Looking for an indicator that there is a large percentage of the population that learned nothing in school, knows no history and is unable to assess risk? Check out the current result of today's ...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Sep 29, 2009, 8:01 am
It's almost axiomatic that if you can identify a minority group then the left will promote itself as the champion of that group. Gay? Democrat/Labor/Labour Party. Black? Democrat/Labor/Labour. Fe...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Sep 28, 2009, 7:43 am
Krumhorn reminds me in comments to review the latest nail in the climate astrology coffin being banged in by Steve McIntyre. Namely, the fabrication that is Keith Briffa's Yamal data set. For the...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Sep 22, 2009, 11:17 pm
If you can read Lawrence Wright's Pulitzer Prize winning The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 and still be a 9/11 Truther then you have some serious issues. Wright interviewed hundred...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Sep 19, 2009, 8:26 pm
I've just finished reading Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism. It's unfortunate that the term 'liberal' has been coopted by today's left, as a traditional liberal agenda looks n...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Sep 7, 2009, 5:14 pm
It goes without saying that commenting on Michael Moore's latest assault on truth actually plays into his hands by increasing the publicity he receives. No matter, sane voices are needed to count...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Sep 3, 2009, 3:57 pm
The leading sign that Keynesian economics is alive and well are the ubiquitous references by the Obama administration, parroted by their acolytes in the media, about the effectiveness of the stimulus ...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Aug 24, 2009, 9:40 pm
We in Australia look around the world and see terrific injustice being meted out to the victims of crime brought about by justice systems gone haywire. However, we have plenty of problems at home, sh...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Aug 20, 2009, 2:45 am
This is hilarious. Apparently, the Iranian chief of staff, Hassan Firouzabadi, has written a letter to the Hidden Imam, aka the Mahdi, asking him, basically, to quit with the occulation and return to...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Aug 18, 2009, 11:38 pm
Climate Liars are those people who use deliberately dishonest examples to prove that climate change (aka global warming, aka new age astrology) is real. Here are some signs that you're talking to...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Aug 17, 2009, 9:02 am
Somehow or other, your erstwhile correspondent Jack Lacton has managed to get himself banned by Little Green Footballs. For those of you who are regular readers of Charles' site and mine this mig...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Aug 17, 2009, 6:55 am
The healthcare debate currently raging in the United States has produced some terrific comments not least of which was when one wag asked why President Obama was trying to slam healthcare reform throu...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Jul 24, 2009, 9:24 am
It is complete insanity for the Coalition to be contemplating an emissions trading scheme or doing deals with Labor on what it is seeking to implement. MALCOLM Turnbull has sought to regain the initia...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Jul 24, 2009, 6:28 am
Many commentators on the state of the US economy are telling us that the recession is basically over and that while there are still a few jobs to be lost it's all going to turn out alright shortly...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Jul 19, 2009, 9:08 am
This has to be close to my favourite news story ever. A DRIVER has been clocked speeding at 200km/h while using his mobile phone - but that's not all he did.For those who still live in the 20th ce...
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Jack L. posted an article on Kerplunk - Jul 19, 2009, 6:46 am
Comedian George Carlin was never one to toe the politically correct line, which he demonstrates in spades in this terrific piece in which he takes aim at the type of people who take themselves oh so s...
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