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Click HERE or HERE to go to my basic home page (With photo)

Click HERE or HERE to go to my academic home page giving access to my published and unpublished academic articles on psychological authoritarianism, racism, conservatism etc.



And to see my various "blogs":


Go to John Ray's "Tongue Tied" blog (Backup here or here)
Go to John Ray's "Dissecting Leftism" blog (Backup here or here)
Go to John Ray's "Obama Watch" blog (Backup here)
Go to John Ray's "Dissecting Leftism" blog
Go to John Ray's "Australian Politics" blog (Backup here or here)
Go to John Ray's "Gun Watch" blog (Backup here or here)
Go to John Ray's "Education Watch International" blog (Backup here or here)
Go to John Ray's "Socialized Medicine" blog (Backup here or here)
Go to John Ray's "Political Correctness Watch" blog (Backup here or here)
Go to John Ray's "Greenie Watch" blog (Backup here or here)
Go to John Ray's "Food & Health Skeptic" blog (Backup here or here)
Go to John Ray's "Eye on Britain" blog (Backup here or here)
Go to John Ray's "Immigration Watch International" blog. (Backup here or here).
Go to John Ray's "Leftists as Elitists" blog (Not now regularly updated -- Backup here or here)
Go to John Ray's "Marx & Engels in their own words" blog (Not now regularly updated -- Backup here or here)
Go to John Ray's "A scripture blog" (Not now regularly updated -- Backup here or here)
Go to John Ray's recipe blog (Not now regularly updated -- Backup here or here)
Go to John Ray's "Some memoirs" (Occasionally updated -- Backup here)




Note:
This site also contains a book-length opus -- a monograph on the motivations of political Leftists.

My 1974 book "Conservatism as Heresy" is out of print but is now available in full online here or here

And just for fun, this page also contains a new gallery of pictures that I like. I have retired the previous gallery I had here but to access the pictures concerned, all you have to do is click HERE. And there is always the (tasteless?) GLAMOUR PAGE, of course.

Below is my favourite beach in all the world: Etty Bay -- where the tropical jungle comes all the way down to the beach:





Now THIS is a car:




And some of MY car pics are here


And below you see me admiring the short-lived Kuranda steam train -- an oil-fired loco relocated from South Africa. I have loved steam trains since my childhood in the '40s and 50's -- when great panting, hissing, whistling, pulsing black beasts used to pull in to Innisfail railway station bringing my grandmother Kelly for a holiday with us. And what is more majestic than a steam train getting underway?





"Sinterklaas" (the Dutch Santa Claus) comes to Bondi beach (Accompanied by Zwarte Piet, of course):





"Amazing Grace" in a "modern" translation:





A Japanese swimming pool:





For some fun photos of bureaucratic stupidity at work, click HERE

And for a few mostly news-related humorous and light-hearted pictures, see here.


And semi-finally: I am also using this site to store some of the archives for my various blogs. The archive indices are as under:

Dissecting Leftism here

Tongue Tied here

Food & Health Skeptic here

Greenie Watch here

Political Correctness Watch here

Education Watch here

Gun Watch here

Immigration Watch here

Socialized Medicine here

Australian Politics here




Groucho Marx's second most famous saying is: "Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others". In that spirit, if you don't like this homepage here are two more alternatives: Here and here



A WORD TO THE WISE:

Very often in my writings, I link back to previous articles of mine as a way of making available a more detailed treatment of a given subject. It's a pervasive academic practice. At times, however, the link concerned will cease to work after a while -- usually for reasons beyond my control. In such cases the article concerned is still available -- but at a different address. To find the article, putting one of the following in front of the filename will generally recover the article concerned:

http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/42197/20070526-0000/jonjayray.batcave.net/

http://jonjayray.110mb.com/

http://jonjayray.0catch.com/

For example, you might be trying to access articles as follows:

http://jonjayray.netfirms.com/main.html

http://jonjayray.tripod.com/menu.html

Neither article is now available at those addresses but you can find other versions as follows:

http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/42197/20070526-0000/jonjayray.batcave.net/main.html

http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/42197/20070526-0000/jonjayray.batcave.net/menu.html

"Dead" links are a besetting problem on the net but difficulties exist to be overcome! The Wayback Machine is also a good way of recovering "lost" files.