Tuesday, March 31, 2009
The Bane Of The Bain Massacre
The Bain retrial has been going on for two weeks. Originally there was a delayed Internet feed but this has been abandoned when it was realised witnesses and jurors could access material that was supposed to be In Camera (or Sub Rosa, it’s all pig latin to me). Having already talked about this case...
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Fritzl And Evil
Josef Fritzl is a family man. He loves his family - to death in one case. For those who have never heard of him he is an Austrian who constructed a bunker to imprison his daughter so she could be raped whenever he felt the urge. She bore him seven children. Sadly this isn’t unusual. What makes the...
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Australia And Robin Hood
Researchers of history have discovered that Robin Hood was probably a thief. In related news Australia has announced it doesn’t want immigrants to take jobs off Australians. It is cutting down on immigrants except for those which are in short supply - these are all well paying jobs, So, apparently,...
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Saturday, March 14, 2009
What’s Wrong With Labtest?
The best answer would be - the leadership of the various Medical Boards. In Government circles New Zealand’s various departments have proved they are not able to work out how to effect a change of system (the Police’s INCIS system and the Education Departments NCEA exam system come immediately to...
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Science & Religion
I am dismayed that a study published in the journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” is finding traction among the general media. This study claims to have found the “God” spot in the human brain and speculates that humans are hard-wired to have “religious” experiences. My issue...
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Update
About a week too late Avondale College met with the Press to castigate them for their handling of the stabbing of a teacher by a Korean student. Principal Brent Lewis is quoted as saying, “… there has been much misreporting and inflammatory statements… made about the college… [we] are… distressed at...
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New Zealand Economy Bankrupt!
Actually, it’s not. We are better placed than most other Western economies to ride out the current situation (but if, and only if, these other countries don’t regress to infantile trade protectionism - but then they’d go down the gurgler along with us)... but you would think the plug has been pulled...
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Igor
No, not the movie but Igor Pananin, Dean at the Russian Foreign Ministry’s school for diplomats. A man who would look good in a g-string - I know, because he’s not afraid to open his mouth and look a fool. To be fair he’s just trying to give academic credibility to the official Kremlin line (and by...
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Saturday, March 7, 2009
Unserendipity
On Tuesday New Zealand Prime Minister, John Key, met Korean President, Lee Myung-Bak. On the same day a Korean student stabbed a teacher in the back at Avondale College, Auckland, New Zealand. The P.M’s meeting went virtually unreported. A stabbing at a College is so unusual an event in NZ that a...
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Darwin, Evolution and the Nay-Sayers
The story so far…. Richard Williamson, a bishop of the breakaway right-wing Catholic Society of St Pius X, has been banished from Argentina (where he lived) back to Britain (where he was born) after claiming the Holocaust never happened (his exact claims were - no Jews were gassed and only 300 000...
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