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The Australian – Menace in mad march of the thought police, by Janet Albrechtsen

THE dark spectre of illiberalism is slowly poisoning Western liberal democracies. You won’t hear about it from much of the left-liberal press. It is part of the problem and its silence only confirms that basic liberties integral to Western liberal [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

I’m just giving up now. There was no way I was going to get anything done today and tomorrow I get to go on a quick 2-night trip home! Woohoo!

So for today’s post, as all you ninmates are doubtless aware, Lord Monckton is on tour in Australia and Aussie Brett McS was on the [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

And Australian Climate Skeptic Speaking Tour Correspondent Brett McS will be on the scene!

Climate Change and Global Warming Australian Tour details Lord Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, Scottish Peer, former advisor to Margaret Thatcher, and International Business Consultant Professor Ian Plimer – School of Earth [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

This is amazing. takes notes

Watts Up With That – Climate change: proposed personal briefing

A letter sent from: The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley 1 January 2010 His Excellency Mr. Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister, Commonwealth of Australia. Prime Minister,

He even addresses his letters [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

This is very funny:

Andrew McDonald – A PICTORIAL GUIDE TO AVOIDING CAMERA LOSS

Australians.

Categories: Electronics

DARE Iced Coffee: Boss<br/>

There’s also the girlfriend version here.

Curtsy: Brett McS.

And oh how I howled.

Categories: Food

Telegraph – Australian dives face-first into deadly peanut-sized jellyfish

An Australian man was fighting for his life on Friday after he dived face-first into a venomous jellyfish the size of a peanut in waters off north-east Australia.

Sing it (curtsy (again) Brett McS) everybody!

Categories: Science and Nature

I’m going through my email right now looking for a video from Brett McS (Brett! Where’s that video with the song about how everything in Oz is gonna kill you?!) and I found this again which I never put up:

The Seekers – The Carnival Is Over (1968)<br/>

Categories: Entertainment

Telegraph – Lucky, the world’s oldest sheep, dies<br/> Lucky, the world’s oldest sheep, has died after succumbing to the effects of a heatwave in southern Australia.

The 23-year-old ewe, recognised by the Guinness Book of Records, died peacefully on her farm at Lake Bolac, 57 miles west of Melbourne, after a short illness. Lucky’s owner [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

Brett McS emailed me this morning, “I’ve joined a political party!”

Just LOOKIT THEIR LOGO:

The Climate Skeptics √ Dedicated to expose the fallacy of Anthropogenic or man-made Global Warming (AGW) √ Committed to oppose all forms of a Carbon Tax including all Carbon Trading Schemes [...]

Categories: Politics

Today we Americans celebrate Veteran’s Day by thanking the living (because of a quirk having to do with us getting to our Civil War before the Europeans got to WWI) while the rest of the world remembers the dead. We’ve done a lot of remembering the dead even in this country lately, so I thought [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Sky News – ‘Monster Shark’ Chomps Into Great White

A stunning picture shows a 10ft predator thrashing about with two massive chunks missing on either side of its body, off the Queensland coast. Experts said its rival may be 20ft (about six metres) long, judging by the size of the huge [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

Reuters – Modern man a wimp says anthropologist

Many prehistoric Australian aboriginals could have outrun world 100 and 200 meters record holder Usain Bolt in modern conditions. Some Tutsi men in Rwanda exceeded the current world high jump record of 2.45 meters during initiation ceremonies in which they had to jump [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

Curtsy: Aussie Brett McS.

Categories: Science and Nature

Broken Hill, the origin of the storm, way out near the Victoria border:

Too bad about Sydney. Always wanted to visit. On the plus side, hotel prices must be very reasonable.

Daily Telegraph – Weird red dust covers Sydney

Flickr Galleries – Red Dust

Brett adds, from Newcastle,

“It’s very orange here as well.”

And,

“Saves top-dressing the [...]

Categories: Science and Nature