Today* is the day that the Irish will vote yes or no to ratification of the European Constitution Lisbon Treaty.
(*Oct 2nd Eire time)
Friday, October 2, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Mandelson: 'If I can come back, so can Labour'
Err, when ZanuLiarbour lose the election, how will you appoint yourselves to the House of Lords?
You didn't "come back", piggy, your mates rescued you with a peerage.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Fiji & Tourism - Stuff (and Green Nonsense)
"A short family holiday to Fiji is as much as $1000 cheaper than a year ago and the plunging cost has sparked a bounce-back in New Zealand tourists since April's political strife. "
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/2887819/Fijis-sands-regain-their-sparkle
"Green MP Keith Locke said while his party was not advocating an economic boycott of Fiji, travellers to the region could help politically by expressing the New Zealand stance toward the regime."
What a fucking idiot, does he WANT tourists to be rounded up and thrown in jail? (Probably: he has an agenda.) The day folk start taking advice from Locke is the day they start voting "Green". Oh, wait: some idiots do...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/2887819/Fijis-sands-regain-their-sparkle
"Green MP Keith Locke said while his party was not advocating an economic boycott of Fiji, travellers to the region could help politically by expressing the New Zealand stance toward the regime."
What a fucking idiot, does he WANT tourists to be rounded up and thrown in jail? (Probably: he has an agenda.) The day folk start taking advice from Locke is the day they start voting "Green". Oh, wait: some idiots do...
Thursday, September 17, 2009
And the Race Card is Played
"It's because he's black" says Jimmy the Peanut.
Yeah, and the equally vigorous protests against Bush were because..?
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Iraq shoe thrower 'was tortured'
Zaidi was unrepentant, saying he remained angry over the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
"The invasion divided brothers and neighbors and turned our houses into places for endless mourning and our streets and parks into cemeteries," he said.
"The invasion divided brothers and neighbors and turned our houses into places for endless mourning and our streets and parks into cemeteries," he said.
Does he wonder now how the Kuwaitis felt after his glorious country invaded them?
Friday, August 28, 2009
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Liberals Believe in Intelligent Design
It's true.
They say they believe in evolution. They have looked at ants and bees and see a wondrous society. A society where every member works together toward a common goal, each member diligently performed their allotted task. They protect and nurture the hive, colony, queen.
Liberals look at this and think human society can evolve into this. They forget that evolution is an accidental process, where chance plays the hand in determining the outcome. But still they try and impose the ant/bee blueprint on us, socialising medicine, education and transport, creating moral hazard through state guarantees and welfare, attempting to absolve the workers of responsibility. This is truly is intelligent design... but with a shortage of intelligence.
They say they believe in evolution. They have looked at ants and bees and see a wondrous society. A society where every member works together toward a common goal, each member diligently performed their allotted task. They protect and nurture the hive, colony, queen.
Liberals look at this and think human society can evolve into this. They forget that evolution is an accidental process, where chance plays the hand in determining the outcome. But still they try and impose the ant/bee blueprint on us, socialising medicine, education and transport, creating moral hazard through state guarantees and welfare, attempting to absolve the workers of responsibility. This is truly is intelligent design... but with a shortage of intelligence.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Friday, July 3, 2009
Even Doctors are Mental
"Our" children are being "run down" in their own driveways.
It is terrible. But now a surgeon suggests its a design fault, and made a dick of himself suggesting that the accident rate could be cut dramatically if "our" homes had semi-circular driveways...
(And, yes, he did seem to suggest that the gummint should mandate this kind of design improvement. Way to make housing even more expensive. I have to fence fucking my pool, but the local Kapiti council doesn't have to fence its open storm water drains, or the fucking sea and rivers.)
His own home possibly has such a semi-circular driveway, but I can't afford to set that much land aside. Perhaps I should go on a retraining course run by a local Poly and become a surgeon, then I, too, can buy a home with a semi-circular driveway.
I think I shall download the mp3 podcast of that report for posterity...
It is terrible. But now a surgeon suggests its a design fault, and made a dick of himself suggesting that the accident rate could be cut dramatically if "our" homes had semi-circular driveways...
(And, yes, he did seem to suggest that the gummint should mandate this kind of design improvement. Way to make housing even more expensive. I have to fence fucking my pool, but the local Kapiti council doesn't have to fence its open storm water drains, or the fucking sea and rivers.)
His own home possibly has such a semi-circular driveway, but I can't afford to set that much land aside. Perhaps I should go on a retraining course run by a local Poly and become a surgeon, then I, too, can buy a home with a semi-circular driveway.
I think I shall download the mp3 podcast of that report for posterity...
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Clouded Reason
Stolen from EU Referendum:
One of the most dangerous phenomena of modern times is how the irrational greenies have hijacked the environmental agenda and suborned it in pursuit of their own political aims. No better example of this is offered than in a piece by Peter Schwerdtfeger, emeritus professor of meteorology at Flinders University in Adelaide, writing in The Australian.
Schwerdtfeger is reviewing the work of internationally acclaimed cloud physicist Daniel Rosenfeld of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who asserts that the most awful consequence of the burning of carboniferous fuels is not the release of CO2 but the large-scale injection of minute particulate pollutants into the atmosphere.
Detailed studies carried out by his research group have revealed that the minute water vapour droplets that form around some carbon particles are so small as to be almost incapable of being subsequently coalesced into larger precipitable drops. In short, the particulates prevent rainfall. Thus, humans are changing the climate in a much more direct way than through the release of CO2.
What seems to be happening is that pollution is seriously inhibiting rain over mountains in semi-arid regions, a phenomenon with dire consequences for water resources in the Middle East and many other parts of the world, including China and Australia.
This and other work is now showing that the average precipitation on Mt Hua near Xi'an in central China has decreased by 20 percent, but rather than "climate change" this is attributable to man-made air pollution during the past 50 years.
The precipitation loss was doubled on days that had the poorest visibility because of pollution particles in the air. This explains the widely observed trends of decrease in mountain precipitation relative to the rainfall in nearby densely populated lowlands, which until now had not been directly ascribed to air pollution.
The work also shows the "frightening persistence and longevity of pollutant trails across vast areas", not least in the Australian Snowy Mountains catchments, where a phalanx of brown coal-burning power stations may have substantially wrecked the natural precipitation processes over the once hydrologically rich Australian Alps.
If Rosenfeld's scientific interpretations are correct, then southern Australia would greatly benefit from the application of his discoveries. At the very least, Rosenfeld's conclusions should be accorded appropriate evaluation and testing by an unprejudiced panel of peers.
The issue here is that targeted measures to limit specific pollution is a common good, and far from being objectionable, is economically as well as ecologically sound. And, by virtue of their very specificity, not only are such measures cheaper than the scatter-gun approach of trying to reduce CO2 measures, their effects are more immediately measurable and there is a true cost-benefit.
However, Schwerdtfeger remarks that the work has so far has been ignored in Australia (and elsewhere) because it does not fit in with the dominant paradigm that holds CO2 responsible for reduced rainfall in semi-arid regions. And thus do the greenies, far from improving the environment, hold back sensible measures and lock us into the tunnel vision of group obsession, perpetuating the very problems they purport to be solving.
Booker and I had a phrase for this ... "the sledgehammer to miss the nut". Perhaps we should take the sledgehammer to the nut(s).
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2009/06/clouded-reason.html
One of the most dangerous phenomena of modern times is how the irrational greenies have hijacked the environmental agenda and suborned it in pursuit of their own political aims. No better example of this is offered than in a piece by Peter Schwerdtfeger, emeritus professor of meteorology at Flinders University in Adelaide, writing in The Australian.
Schwerdtfeger is reviewing the work of internationally acclaimed cloud physicist Daniel Rosenfeld of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who asserts that the most awful consequence of the burning of carboniferous fuels is not the release of CO2 but the large-scale injection of minute particulate pollutants into the atmosphere.
Detailed studies carried out by his research group have revealed that the minute water vapour droplets that form around some carbon particles are so small as to be almost incapable of being subsequently coalesced into larger precipitable drops. In short, the particulates prevent rainfall. Thus, humans are changing the climate in a much more direct way than through the release of CO2.
What seems to be happening is that pollution is seriously inhibiting rain over mountains in semi-arid regions, a phenomenon with dire consequences for water resources in the Middle East and many other parts of the world, including China and Australia.
This and other work is now showing that the average precipitation on Mt Hua near Xi'an in central China has decreased by 20 percent, but rather than "climate change" this is attributable to man-made air pollution during the past 50 years.
The precipitation loss was doubled on days that had the poorest visibility because of pollution particles in the air. This explains the widely observed trends of decrease in mountain precipitation relative to the rainfall in nearby densely populated lowlands, which until now had not been directly ascribed to air pollution.
The work also shows the "frightening persistence and longevity of pollutant trails across vast areas", not least in the Australian Snowy Mountains catchments, where a phalanx of brown coal-burning power stations may have substantially wrecked the natural precipitation processes over the once hydrologically rich Australian Alps.
If Rosenfeld's scientific interpretations are correct, then southern Australia would greatly benefit from the application of his discoveries. At the very least, Rosenfeld's conclusions should be accorded appropriate evaluation and testing by an unprejudiced panel of peers.
The issue here is that targeted measures to limit specific pollution is a common good, and far from being objectionable, is economically as well as ecologically sound. And, by virtue of their very specificity, not only are such measures cheaper than the scatter-gun approach of trying to reduce CO2 measures, their effects are more immediately measurable and there is a true cost-benefit.
However, Schwerdtfeger remarks that the work has so far has been ignored in Australia (and elsewhere) because it does not fit in with the dominant paradigm that holds CO2 responsible for reduced rainfall in semi-arid regions. And thus do the greenies, far from improving the environment, hold back sensible measures and lock us into the tunnel vision of group obsession, perpetuating the very problems they purport to be solving.
Booker and I had a phrase for this ... "the sledgehammer to miss the nut". Perhaps we should take the sledgehammer to the nut(s).
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2009/06/clouded-reason.html
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