Saturday, December 13, 2008
Gallipoli: “top and back of his head blown off”
December, 1915 mid-December The French begin their evacuation. This is completed by December 25. 17 Thursday: A cricket match is held on Shell Green (and so the one day match is created). The evacuating troops are guided by candles "under a tin, in which small holes are punched, arrow shaped,...
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Pacific Fair - Australia 1
Pacific Fair is a large shopping Mall about halfway between Coolangatta and Surfer's Paradise. Here's some photos I took. It's very large, easy to get lost, and even easier to become distracted....
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Pacific Fair - Australia 2
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Pacific Fair - Australia 3
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Monday, December 8, 2008
Low IQ
The American Journal of Psychiatry will publish a study shortly conducted on 1 037 children in the New Zealand city of Dunedin. The participants were interviewed and tested on health and behaviour at ages 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 18, 21, 26 & 32. The report finds those children with low IQ’s had an...
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Anti-Semitism?
A truly ugly case of anti-semitism erupted in the city of Hebron this week. Jewish settlers had illegally occupied a Palestinia house. The israeli Supreme Court ordered the settlers to leave. Extremists arrived to resist the eviction. A riot broke out. A Muslim cemetery was desecrated and...
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Thief 2
A recent survey of a representative cross section of American teens found that slightly less than 1/3 had stolen something in the last year. This is a remarkably low figure. I have worked in the security industry. I have worked for the police. The statistics are consistent across countries and...
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Portrait Of A Loving Family
William Curtis is finally going to trial for the abuse of Nia Glassie. The principle charge against him involves tying a scarf around the three year old’ neck and suspending her from it until she turned purple. He is also accused of slapping her and throwing against a wall. His two sons and Nia’s...
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Corrupted By Disney
Christopher Jamison, the Abbot of Worth in West Sussex, England, has accused the Disney Corporation of promoting commercialism as an alternative to the joys of the spirit. “The message behind every movie and book”, he is quoted as saying, “behind every theme park and T-shirt is that our children’s...
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Thief
A complaint has been made to the NZ Advertising Standards Authority over a billboard that calls a thief a thief. The whiner feels you can’t call someone a thief until it has been established in court. A man stole electrical transformers from a billboard on a building roof - leaving the live wires to...
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