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Jan 29, 2012, 9:57 pm
In Australia the highlight, if you can call it that, of the Aboriginal activists architecture and business acumen is represented by the Aboriginal Tent Embassy.
Meanwhile in supposedly racist America, the Native Indian population has done so poorly that it can only put up these sorts of things:
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Jan 28, 2012, 2:58 am
So it turns out that a media staffer in Julia Gillard's office, Tony Hodges, called an intermediary, identified as Unions ACT boss Kim Sattler, and told her that opposition leader Tony Abbott has made a comment about the Aboriginal Tent 'Embassy' and just happened to be conveniently located a couple... Comment - Like
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Jan 26, 2012, 4:00 am
The Prime Minister of Australia had to be evacuated from an Australia Day event this afternoon, along with the opposition leader, due to the racist scum who inhabit the so called Aboriginal Tent Embassy.
I am deadset sick of these people.
They give decent Aborigines a bad name and prove that they ha... Comment - Like
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Jan 24, 2012, 5:22 am
If you haven't heard of Matt Ridley aka the Rational Optimist then you've missed out on a different point of view to that promoting the fashionable doomsday du jour.
Ridley articulates very well, I think, why we should all be optimistic. His views on this topic align very well with my own. Even thou... Comment - Like
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Jan 19, 2012, 7:07 pm
Here's the current results of the poll at The Australian. It won't please those who think they'll be able to make a quid suing the rest of us for being racist:
It's a pity that conservative values, especially that of race-blindness, are not more widely held in the community. Perhaps they are but yo... Comment - Like
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May 2, 2011, 9:11 pm
For anyone that has an even remotely well developed sense of right and wrong Osama Bin Laden was a truly evil bastard.
For those in the Middle East for whom attacking the 'strong horse' (in the current world that's the US) brings a sense of pride and purpose OBL was an inspiration and hero.
For th... Comment - Like
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Apr 26, 2011, 6:14 pm
They say that those things that don't kill you make you stronger.
So what do we do with those things that may kill you?
The list of potentially fatal items has increased by one lately with a report from German scientists that energy saving light bulbs - CFLs - could cause cancer.
Fears have been r... Comment - Like
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Apr 12, 2011, 7:54 am
I came up with this list of 10 Institutions That Ruin The World nearly three years ago.
It's interesting to read them again and realise just how accurate they are.
If I did the list again with the knowledge gained in the last couple of years then perhaps government would move up a couple of spots... Comment - Like
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Mar 31, 2011, 11:43 pm
As regular readers can tell, I'm making some changes to the blog including the layout and new url.
http://ker-plunk.blogspot.com will still work but the main address has changed to www.jacklacton.com
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Mar 31, 2011, 3:12 am
In typical fashion Big Environment is yet again ignoring the utter failure of Earth Hour by heralding the puny participation rate as a huge success.
I was privileged enough to receive an email from Earth Hour Australia with all of the details (I think one of my asshat lefty mates signed me up to wwf... Comment - Like
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Mar 30, 2011, 6:00 pm
OK, how does this happen?
Shane Warne & Liz Hurley??!!
Or this?
Sean Penn & Scarlet Johannson??!!
But THIS is something I do understand.
George Clooney & Elisabetta Canalis...
What happened to his hand?
By the way, this is a photo of a young George Clooney...
...proving that for those of you tha... Comment - Like
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Mar 29, 2011, 9:01 pm
On 11 March a once in a lifetime magnitude 9.1 earthquake sent a wall of water hurtling towards Japan that would destroys hundreds of thousands of homes and take tens of thousands of lives.
By any definition, it's a calamity.
What has also been a calamity has been the reporting. From the time it was... Comment - Like
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Mar 28, 2011, 7:52 pm
In the pictures tell a thousand stories category come some examples of the differences between countries before and after socialism was implemented.
After World War II Germany ended up being split in two with West Germany a free and democratic state and East Germany falling behind the Iron Curtain a... Comment - Like
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Mar 24, 2011, 8:01 am
Shortly after the Climategate scandal broke and I'd had a chance to go through the documents released I described it as the greatest scientific scandal of all time.
Worse than Piltdown Man (which was a corker) or Hwang to name just a couple of famous ones.
The Climate Taliban have been in denial abo... Comment - Like
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Mar 23, 2011, 6:49 am
Julia Gillard's freakish political contortion, the likes of which have probably never before been seen in Australian politics, of breaking an election promise to not introduce a carbon tax, bowing to the radical Greens and then introducing a carbon tax can have no other outcome than increase the siz... Comment - Like
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Mar 22, 2011, 7:30 am
Remember the Bird Flu epidemic that was going to wipe out vast numbers of people, especially in Asia?
Remember the dire warnings about Swine Flu from the World Health Organisation and Joe Biden's classic "I wouldn't go anywhere in confined spaces..." line?
How did that whole heterosexual AIDS thing ... Comment - Like
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Mar 21, 2011, 5:05 am
Australia's Human Rights Commission, an unneeded organisation if ever there was one, has released a report saying that there's a general fear of religion in the community.
By way of example they use only Islam to make their point, as outlined below in this piece from The Australian:
THERE'S a pressi... Comment - Like
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Dec 22, 2010, 7:06 am
There's a lot going on.
I should probably consider a return to blogging.
(* Considering *)
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Aug 3, 2010, 10:01 am
Can you spot the inconsistency between the two short descriptions below?
I'll give you some time before posting the answer.
UPDATE: Only one is described as "unelected".
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Aug 2, 2010, 11:25 pm
For the modern left John Maynard Keynes is the source of all wisdom on matters of the economy.
Keynes was no dummy and his The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money is a major piece of work and serves as the economic bible for many economists to this day.
Being a major piece of work doesn... Comment - Like
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Jul 27, 2010, 7:20 pm
Need to raise revenue for the government?
That's easy, simply tax the rich.
The United States, like the majority of Western nations, is spending itself into oblivion at worst and massive civil strife at best.
There is some good economic news. The red ink the US is swimming in is not as bad as projec... Comment - Like
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Jul 17, 2010, 7:27 pm
If there's been a more banal political slogan in Australian history than Labor's "moving forward" then please let me know.
The first poll published after the calling of the August 21 election comes from Galaxy and shows that the government holds on to its 52-48 lead.
I commented recently that before... Comment - Like
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Jul 16, 2010, 1:12 am
This one is doing the rounds of the Internet and highlights the absolute disaster that our Labor government has inflicted upon the poor, old taxpayer for the next umpteen years.
Rarely has a government promised so much, spent so much, said so much, and launched so many nationwide programs, and deliv... Comment - Like
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Jun 24, 2010, 2:42 am
During the 2007 election a large number of ALP supporters chose to wear Kevin07 paraphernalia.
They looked like donkeys.
Now, Brand Kevin is being expunged from the ALP corporate memory. I just got on the ALP website and searched the site for "Kevin07".
Here's the response:
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Jun 23, 2010, 8:19 pm
The worst prime minister in Australia's history has been jettisoned by the Australian Labor Party allowing our first female prime minister, Julia Gillard, to take the reins.
Congratulations to Julia Gillard.
Will she be a good PM? Who knows? As I write every time there's a change of leadership, eit... Comment - Like
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Jun 8, 2010, 7:42 pm
Every so often a study comes along that so profoundly confirms common sense and the real world that it takes one's breath away.
Zeljka Buturovic and Daniel Klein of Econ Journal Watch will make no friends on the left with the publication of the results of a 2008 Zogby poll on 'economic enlightenment... Comment - Like
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May 16, 2010, 9:01 pm
This really is an awesome dissection of the Obama administration's continually pinning the blame for their actions on George W Bush.
Chuck Green is a lifelong lefty and registered Democrat.
When people like Green are sick of the spin then it spells trouble for the Democrats, as where are the Indepe... Comment - Like
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May 10, 2010, 9:00 pm
Modern police forces around the world have targets to achieve across the issues that most concern the public or, more importantly, the want-to-be-seen-to-be-tough politicians.
One of these targets must be dealing with terrorism. How else can one explain why police would prosecute this case?
A Britis... Comment - Like
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May 6, 2010, 5:53 am
Here's yet another hair raising example of the intolerance of the left in the UK.
British street preacher Dale McAlpine apparently has no problem telling people that homosexuality is a “crime against the Creator.” But he got in trouble when he said that to someone who is not only a homosexual, b... Comment - Like
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May 2, 2010, 8:16 pm
People are starting to wake up to the empty nothingness that is Kevin Rudd's prime ministership.
Regular readers will know that I've been banging on about his clear incompetence and lack of vision for nearly two years.
The question that we can now start pondering is this; how will history view Kevin... Comment - Like
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Apr 30, 2010, 4:55 am
There have been so many backflips by the Australian Labor government lately that I can't tell whether I'm watching politics or Cirque du Soleil.
Prior to Kevin Rudd's election in late 2007 the talking heads in the media were singing his praises as an economic conservative and having the right polici... Comment - Like
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Apr 26, 2010, 4:41 am
In news that may or may not excite you depending on your point of view I shall be resuming blogging in the very near future.
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Dec 21, 2009, 5:16 pm
Fox News continues to prove why it calls itself fair and balanced in this piece looking at global warming.
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Dec 16, 2009, 5:31 am
Al Gore really must be right into this whole climate change thing.
After all, what else could inspire someone to turn one's hand to poetry?
Here's Al's climate poem:
One thin September soon
A floating continent disappears
In midnight sun
Vapors rise as
Fever settles on an acid sea
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