When the bible was written humans* didn’t know: About bacteria and viruses and parasites Blood circulation Earth going around sun More than 5 planets About galaxies There was a southern hemisphere Earth round What lightning is That whales aren’t fish What mental illness involves About genes and inheritance About Chinese, Aztecs, Zulus, Aborigines, Navaho, Japanese, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘tony abbott’
To be hanged with the bible
Posted in Atheism, politics, tagged Climate Change, science, religion, Evolution, health, Atheism, tony abbott, australia, media, richard dawkins, law, steve fielding, creationism, history, America on February 12, 2012 | 53 Comments »
Give the order
Posted in Climate Change, Media, politics, tagged America, australian election, Carbon Tax, Climate Change, conservation, environment, global warming, history, king canute, monarchy, Sarah Palin, tony abbott on February 2, 2012 | 2 Comments »
You all remember Old King Canute taking his throne down to the beach, right – “Cnut set his throne by the sea shore and commanded the tide to halt and not wet his feet and robes. Yet “continuing to rise as usual [the tide] dashed over his feet and legs without respect to his royal [...]
La même chose
Posted in Economics, politics, tagged America, australia, David Cameron, economy, elections, Maggie Thatcher, monarchy, Republicans, tony abbott on January 22, 2012 | 9 Comments »
It’s one of those historic events that still, 630 years on, resonate with modern times and make your blood run cold. In 1381 the so-called “Peasant’s Revolt” led by Wat Tyler massed tens of thousands of poor people protesting the new “Poll Tax” which, like our GST, made poor people pay as much tax as [...]
Boo
Posted in Media, politics, tagged australia, immigration, iraq, julia gillard, media, refugees, tony abbott on December 29, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Every day commercial tv finds new ways to scare its viewers – bacteria in kitchens, exploding tables (yes, really), food poisoning, internet fraud, faulty electrical wiring, incurable diseases, end of world “prophecies” (yes, really), and so on and on and on. The reasons are simple, a belief that many readers will think “thank goodness that [...]
A little learning
Posted in Education, tagged australia, education, federal election, public schools, tony abbott on December 8, 2011 | 5 Comments »
When I was a young fellow, turned 14, the minimum age at which you could leave school, people demanded of my mother that I leave school, get a job, support the family. Fair enough. No one in the family had ever, for financial reasons, stayed at school past that age. And it was what people [...]
That’s Entertainment
Posted in Media, politics, tagged America, australian election, Brendan Nelson, elections, federal election, julia gillard, kevin rudd, malcolm turnbull, media, television, tony abbott on October 16, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Long long ago, as the oldest of my Watermelon friends may just remember, there used to be talent competitions in community and media. At Eisteddfords performers performed, judges judged, winners grinned, losers were praised and encouraged, audiences applauded loudly in appreciation. Then the geniuses who produce tv programs decided this was all wrong. In the [...]
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