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Sarah Palin and Media Prejudice
When Sarah Palin gets tongue-tied, it's international news and "proof" of her stupidity. When President Obama makes remarks just as silly you don't hear about it.
Here is her response to the media. ...
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Renting Scam in Narrabri
Narrabri Shire Council, in north-west New South Wales, is investigating how a Narrabri resident came to pay $10,000 rent over five years to a person claiming to own an airport hangar that belonged to Council.
The resident has produced a copy of a rental contract, he believed, was with the legal owner.
But the payments were not made to Narrabri Shire Council on behalf of ratepayers, but to a third party who represented himself as the owner of the hangar.
The resident, who paid the money in good faith, was renting the hangar at Narrabri Airport to store his light plane. ...
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
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Thursday, September 30, 2010
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Monday, September 27, 2010
Broken Promises and Stacked Committees
Julia Gillard is probably the most cynical and deceptive politician ever to lead this nation. A few weeks ago, before the election, her mantra was, "There will be no carbon tax." Within days of getting the nod from the so-called independents it was "We will be looking at a carbon tax." ...
Sunday, September 26, 2010
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Interesting Aquatic Plant
This time of the year, a plant grows over all the creeks and rivers here. I haven't found out what it is called- my more knowledgeable friends will be able to help here. ...
Sesquicentenary Service
This year marks the 150th year of the town of Narrabri, and as part of the celebrations, the churches of Narrabri got together to praise God for his blessings on our land.
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Sunday, September 19, 2010
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Swooped Again
It's dangerous walking at this time of the year. Spring time is magpie swooping season, when normally placid birds become fiercely territorial. ...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
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Saturday, September 11, 2010
Regional Affairs Minister?
I'm not sure that Simon Crean is the best person to be Minister For Regional Affiars. And the way this is expressed it seems to me to be more like a promise they fulfil in name but not in fact, but I guess we can live in hope. ...
Evolution or Thunderbird or ...
Despite the rise of facebook as a dominant force for communication on the internet, I still rely a lot on email. Some people like web-based services such as gmail and hotmail because you don't have to bother with finicky details like POP, IMAP and SMTP accounts. But I like having my email in a separate application because for one thing it's quicker to access and you don't have to log into yet another service on your web browser to access it.
In linux (as in Windows for that matter) there's a wealth of applications available. I used to use claws-mail because it was fast, but when I switched to Ubuntu a few years back I decided to try evolution which is the default client in many linux distros. It has the advantage of having calendar clients built in and ties to a number of panel notifications for new email messages, appointments etc.
But I've been really irritated lately by how slow it is. It takes several seconds to open a new window to compose email, the same to switch to the calendar view. And with all of my contacts and calendars now stored on Google accounts to facilitate syncing with my Android phone, maybe it's time for a change.
I've been trying an old favourite Mozilla Thunderbird. Compared to evolution it's really fast and its screen lay out is quite compact. There's as much configurability as evolution and a plug in that allows for a tab with the google calendar page there at a click and much more responsive than evolution. Junk filtering seems to be as good as evolution and other filtering works quite well also.
So at the moment I'm quite happy with thunderbird. I'm sure I will run into limitations and problems, but it's great to have the opportunity to try out different applications. ...
Friday, September 10, 2010
Geeky Bit
I've been using Linux on my computers now for probably a decade, and it never cease to amaze me how easy it is to do some things ...
Thursday, September 9, 2010
I Am So Tired of Malthus- Willis Eschenbach
I Am So Tired of Malthus
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach
Daily we are deluged with gloom about how we are overwhelming the Earth’s ability to sustain and support our growing numbers. Increasing population is again being hailed as the catastrophe of the century. In addition, floods and droughts are said to be leading to widespread crop loss. The erosion of topsoil is claimed to be affecting production. It is said that we are overdrawing our resources, with more people going hungry. Paul Ehrlich and the late Stephen Schneider assure us that we are way past the tipping point, that widespread starvation is unavoidable.
Is this true? Is increasing hunger inevitable for our future? Are we really going downhill? Are climate changes (natural or anthropogenic) making things worse for the poorest of the poor? Are we running out of food? Is this what we have to face? ...
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
"Stephen Hawking is wrong"
Scientist, Professor John Lennox has written an excellent rebuttal of Stephen Hawking's recent claim that the universe is inevitable and self-creating. ...
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
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Todsay's Sermon
The sermon for Sunday 5th September is now available for download from the New life web-site.
In this sermon which is based on Luke 14:25-33, I talk about real discipleship. ...
Saturday, September 4, 2010
How Much Longer Can They Hold On To Power?
Under the glaring light of scientific criticism the United Nations top climate change body has just admitted that it has got nothing to do with science.
So here we are with our most recent Prime Minister declaring her faith repeatedly "I believe in climate change. I believe in human caused climate change." We have the Greens holding a gun to everybody's head saying "You will have a tax on carbon or else."
And now IPCC climate chief Pachauri admits that there are NO hard numbers on climate change, no quantifiable data, because the IPCC is not a "science body but a policy body." And the rest of the world is prepared to cripple its collective economy and sucj trillions of dollars into the carbon trading scam on the basis of this?
Have our leaders all gone insane? ...
Friday, September 3, 2010
At home!
Much as I love being away, especially for as relaxing a holiday as the one I've just had, there is no place like home. ...
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Software Fun
I've had some really good experiences using new software recently.
I love it when software is simple to use and does what it's supposed to do without fuss. I also love it when I have tricky things to do and I can find software to do exactly what I need. In this post I will share three simple tasks I had to do for the first time and how easy it was in the software that comes with Ubuntu. ...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
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A Word to Australia-- Reflection on Hosea 11:1-11
This started out as thoughts on Hosea 11:1-11, but as I wrote, it seems to be a prophetic call to our nation as we approach a critical Federal Election. I recommend you read the passage. ...
Monday, July 26, 2010
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The Climate Crazies
I suppose it was inevitable that climate change would arise in a Federal Election campaign, but what a joke it is. ...
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How Australia tries to evade our responsibilities...
Richard Ackland has a great article in today's SMH.
He writes:
Refugees' rights left stranded in sea of fear
RICHARD ACKLAND
In clumsy attempts to pander to reservoirs of resentment and fear, the two main parties have made a stupendous hash of their refugee policies.
Tony Abbott's desperation has taken him all over the place. Under his regime the navy will be delegated the discretion to tow boats of ''unlawful non-citizens'' back to sea. At the same time, asylum seekers who have ''deliberately'' destroyed their identity papers will be sent home. We're none the wiser how immigration officials will be able to decipher between deliberation and inadvertence.
Julia Gillard's East Timor policy is the unsightly mess that comes with crashing headlong into a hurdle rather than elegantly leaping it. For all the tiresome braggadocio and squawking passing for ''debate'', majority public opinion has not shifted in the past 20 years or so. ...
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Refugees, Asylum Seekers and "Illegals"-- What Would Jesus Do?
This week I've been experiencing a lot of anger at situations that just shouldn't be. Just as Jesus was angry at the premature death of his friend Lazarus and the grief his friends experienced as a result, I found myself feeling angry at the death of a little baby born with too many physical limitations to survive. Then as the political debate in our country turned once again to asylum seekers and which party can be meanest to people who have no votes, I found a seething anger boiling inside me. ...
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Spot the Mistake!
It always amazes me that journalists cannot distinguish between two different ideas. That lack of critical thinking has got us into the mess we are in where special interest groups are able to convince people of really stupid ideas with little rigorous proof. ...
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Another Climate Change "Fact" Disproved
A few years ago when the IPCC still had some credibility, the ongoing drought in south-eastern Australia, particularly the Murray-Darling Basin was cited as proof that "climate change is already happening", or more importantly that "human caused climate change is here."
Monday, July 5, 2010
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Sea Ice and Climate Change
You won't hear about this in the media because it runs against the great meta-narrative, but the amount of sea ice around Antarctica is increasing.[/color] ...
Saturday, July 3, 2010
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How They Try to Make It Warmer
Retired school principal Kenskingdom was alarmed by this Bureau of Meterology graph, showing a strong warming trend for Victoria: ...
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Blown Away!
Every once in a while, you get a day where everything seems to be operating on a higher level. ...
Today's Sermon
The sermon for Sunday June 20th is now available for download at the New Life web-site ...