Posted on May 25th, 2013 by Amfortas
Adam Goodes of the Swans A 13 year old girl in very modern behaviour for her age has hurled invective at a footy star. Mr. Goodes, the Star in question from the well known ‘Swans’ Team, suffered a total breakdown. http://www.smh.com.au/afl/schoolgirl-apologises-to-heartbroken-swans-star-20130525-2n3fn.html Goodes told reporters on Saturday he was “heartbroken” after the incident and couldn’t bring [...]
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Posted on May 25th, 2013 by JD
According to this newspaper article one in five homebuyers is unhappy with how the reality does not match the dream so it is important to have a proper survey done when buying a house. You just never know what will turn up to spoil things
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Posted on May 23rd, 2013 by Amfortas
Remember that ‘Ripping Yarns episode about the School Bully? An ‘official’ role, like Prefect, only with more power to misuse and a reach which included the masters. And so it comes to pass, Almost. Imagine a scenario in which three high school girls are sitting at a round table with picnic style benches on a [...]
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Posted on May 23rd, 2013 by James Higham
There are all sorts of ways to stop someone talking about a topic – put an injunction on publication, threaten the person with violence, pull the internet plug, suggest that bygones be bygones and it’s better for one’s health to just let the injustice go by without comment [especially when the person suggesting that course [...]
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Posted on May 22nd, 2013 by James Higham
The gay thing no sooner finished than onto the next atrocity. These sporadic deeds are popping up as if on cue. Now since when does anyone decapitate someone in a London street and then hang about ready to be photographed for the media as a very obvious black man and the decapitated white man wears [...]
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Posted on May 22nd, 2013 by James Higham
Interesting piece by Churchmouse on 50s gangs. Michael Jackson was also involved and there was a book I recall called Ringolevio about youth street gangs. I was part of a gang up to about 10 years but not in a West Side Story manner, it was more innocuous although we did have our brawls. The [...]
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Posted on May 21st, 2013 by James Higham
Haiku sent the above and memories came flooding back. When I was courting WN1 [military campaign more like], her friend and she apparently had a debate over whether I’d be a smoothy or a fumbler. She dutifully reported back to said friend that I was a fumbler and that, it seemed, did not disqualify me [...]
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Posted on May 20th, 2013 by James Higham
Note the red and green arrows: Cameron has been on a mission to destroy the Conservative Party since 2007. So he joins with Miliband tonight to push through this abomination, despite the wishes of a huge number of people, despite the wishes of his grassroots. On the other hand, Autonomous Mind asks and quite rightly, [...]
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Posted on May 20th, 2013 by James Higham
For any fierce supporter of the bourgeoisie, family, traditional values, small government, heritqge and almost anti-intellectualism, to meet coming the other way unrestrained individuality is a recipe for cognitive dissonance. And if one supports the aforementioned, one therefore also supports individual endeavour, initiative, thinking for oneself, noncompliance, noncomplacency, taking issues on their merits, challenging people’s [...]
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Posted on May 20th, 2013 by James Higham
Imagine Richard Dawkins waking up to that every morning.
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Posted on May 19th, 2013 by James Higham
It’s one thing Hollande riding roughshod over a nation and its adherence to its traditions, which by the demonstrations up and down the country shows the nation split down the middle with more against than for. Mariage gay: Hollande promulgue sans attendre
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Posted on May 17th, 2013 by JD
The above diagram shows IT professionals on the left and normal people on the right. Bear with me and I shall explain- Before taking my computer to the shop for its ‘tune up’ I decided to set up the old machine with a WiFi connection to my router. Oh bugger! “Information technology”? Has to be [...]
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Filed under: Diversions, JD, Society & human issues, Technology & ideas
Posted on May 16th, 2013 by James Higham
Let’s look at the story first of all, thanks Wiggia: First published in the DT and then trailed on Guido, this classic PC rhetoric from Radstocks Labour council leader is as good as it gets, they will however be flying the gay lesbian alliance rainbow flag alongside the Union one which I’m sure will go [...]
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Posted on May 14th, 2013 by James Higham
Remembering that much of what appears in Scientific American is narrative, still this is presented for your consideration: In its zeal to identify bin Laden or his family, the CIA used a sham hepatitis B vaccination project to collect DNA in the neighborhood where he was hiding. The effort apparently failed, but the violation of [...]
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Posted on May 13th, 2013 by James Higham
Over at OoL: Dedicated to Julia: Contemplating my penchant for attracting nut cases, immediately after the incident I heard on the radio that a bicyclist in his 50s was killed zooming down a hill on a busy thoroughfare training for an upcoming race. I walked into a room where a television report displayed a mug [...]
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Posted on May 13th, 2013 by James Higham
Could be an Australian city This Spiked piece about Australia’s egalitarianism is a typical piece from a distance. It all depends where you are and in which circles you move. The further you move from the major cities or the lower down the socio-economic order you go, the more egalitarian, at least in people’s minds. [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2013 by James Higham
One of the killer factors in team sport at elite level is uncertainty in contracts. In 2010, the Geelong star player refused to either confirm or deny he would return and meanwhile, the coach/manager who had taken them to two flags was secretly in talks to go back to his old club as assistant to [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2013 by James Higham
Once upon a time there was a fairytale, a series of events so improbable that you will laugh of course. It required melodramatic baddies and heroes, though the heroes were never to appear onstage, only false heroes. It’s a tale of satire and jokes played on people and its plot begins way back in the [...]
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Posted on May 9th, 2013 by James Higham
Jodi Arias found GUILTY of stabbing and shooting dead her ex-boyfriend in sex-driven murder that gripped America Sorely tempted, sorely, to draw parallels. The butter-wouldn’t-melt while close people knew exactly what she was like, flatly denied all with a straight face but when shown evidence, blamed someone else, invented a break-in, descended into tears, laughing [...]
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Posted on May 9th, 2013 by James Higham
If things we did growing up were in error, how far can one go down that path before nothing is good we knew and did? The heroes and villains become less able to be distinguished one from the other as one grows older. There is a point of view that the Boomers did it wrong, [...]
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Posted on May 8th, 2013 by JD
Real Madrid legend Alfredo di Stefano is about to marry a woman 50 years younger than he is. The Argentinian-born legend has been a widower since 2005 and says he is ‘in love’ and that although he is due to turn 87 in July, ‘has a young heart’. His bride-to-be Gina González, 36, is originally [...]
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Posted on May 8th, 2013 by James Higham
# One hospital charges $8,000 — another, $38,000 # HP knew Autonomy was a duff buy, claim HP shareholders in $1bn suit # 5th grader suspended for taking Swiss army knife on camping trip And the lion will lay down with the lamb, but the lamb won’t get much sleep. [Chuckles] # Ah yes – [...]
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Posted on May 8th, 2013 by JD
Got a circular from The Fry Group this morning. Not sure why I am on their mailing list but, whatever….. There was a small item about the Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility which not only offers reduced penalties on unpaid liabilities, but also immunity from criminal prosecution Oh, that’s nice. A law which helps the big crooks [...]
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Posted on May 7th, 2013 by Amfortas
Odds are, unless someone is keeping very quiet, I am the only ex-psychologist blogging here. I may not be the only scientist though. What ‘makes’ science, science, is the observation of something or things, measurement of it either in static or sequence and usually in its natural setting but often in a ‘laboratory’, a theory [...]
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Posted on May 5th, 2013 by James Higham
From Jesse, reprinted in its entirety: “Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through ordinary things… Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Lacking any other purpose in life, it would be good enough to live [...]
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Posted on May 5th, 2013 by James Higham
I usually don’t run any photos of this person:
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Posted on May 5th, 2013 by James Higham
We’d be agreed, no, that there has been massive social engineering in the past two decades? On immigration and reconfiguring the face of British society, Labour has even gone out on a limb and admitted unfettered immigration with that in mind.
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Posted on May 1st, 2013 by James Higham
Over at OoL. Let’s start with Macheath on the State: Over the intervening years, the arrival of tax credits has dramatically skewed the picture, as have the abolition of MIRAS for the family home and the inability to transfer tax allowance to non-working partners. That’s just an example of the State or people under the [...]
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Posted on April 30th, 2013 by James Higham
Maybe it’s how the double layer of sear-sizzled 100% beef mingles with the sauce and melting cheese, the diced onion, crisp, shredded iceberg lettuce and the crunch of pickle. Or maybe it’s just that it’s tall! Crunch of pickle – crunchy frog? Crunchy raw dead frog? Let’s get down and caress and fondle our food.
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Posted on April 30th, 2013 by haiku
