Dear Mr Swan Congratulations on being the World’s Best Treasurer. I have a couple of questions for you that I feel need to be answered in light of today’s official interest rate cut by the Reserve Bank of Australia. 1)… Read More ›
Current Affairs
Morning News Wrap for Thursday May 31st 2012
Sam Stossur wins her 3rd round match of the French Open. 2 die in car crash in Bendigo. PM tells miners they down own minerals. Baden-Clay toxicology tests fail to reveal any new clues to her death. Elderly pilot dies… Read More ›
A collection of essential ANZAC Day Material
Banjo Paterson wrote as an open letter to the troops in 1915 a poem he titled “We’re All Australians Now” Australia takes her pen in hand, To write a line to you, … To let you fellows understand, How proud… Read More ›
An Open Letter to Atheism.
Dear Atheist The faith of Atheism has got a fair bit of air play in Australia over the last few weeks with an Atheist’s Conference held in Melbourne last week and a widely viewed and discussed session with the “leader”… Read More ›
50 Fascinating Facts on the Titanic–100 year Anniversary on 15th April 2012
No one ever claimed that the Titanic was “unsinkable”. The quote, “practically unsinkable” was taken out of context. In 1911, Shipbuilder magazine published an article describing the construction of the Titanic. The article stated that when the watertight… Read More ›
Good Friday Morning News Wrap
Today the Sectarian Religious violence that has plagued Israel since it’s occupation, saw the execution style murder, of a man many are claiming was innocent. He was kidnapped from Gethsemane after intelligence sources were able to pinpoint his exact location…. Read More ›
What I think of Kony2012
On Monday 5th March 2012, a video was uploaded to Youtube and almost instantly went viral. The video’s makers were hoping for 500,000 hits this year. As I write this on Saturday 10th March at 4pm, there have been 60,364,287… Read More ›
My thoughts on the Gillard/Rudd Leadership issue
Kevin Rudd in announcing his resignation from Washington yesterday, has thrown his hat into the Leadership ring, ending months of speculation that he was working behind the scenes to get the Prime Ministerialship back. Whether he stands for the leadership… Read More ›
My day on skid row and downtown LA.
Today, 15th Feb 2012, as part of the Fuller Seminary Intensive here in LA, we spent the day in downtown LA “exegeting the built environment”, which is seminary talk for checking out the place. I won’t bore you with all… Read More ›
5 Meditations on the sad death of Whitney Houston
Sad news this weekend that Singer/Actress Whitney Houston died. Here are some of my thoughts on her passing. I understand the exact cause of death has not been released but the media are reporting that it was a combination… Read More ›
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