gman Submitted by : gman on Mar 10, 2010

Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana, Nevermind, 1991. Lyrics:Cobain

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Whaleoil Submitted by : Whaleoil on Mar 10, 2010

Shane Kawenata BradbrookI attended the Maori Affairs select committee today to give my submission on Smoking. There surely can’t be a more ridiculous proceeding than watching troughers line up one after the other begging to stay at the trough.

I can tell you it was an eye opener. The three submitters before gave submissions that were frankly ridiculous.

There was a couple of submitters who’s great idea to stop Maori smoking was straight out the Eugenics/Nazi handbook. If only the other submitters and some of the committee were smart enough to notice. He rambled on first about how much he was missing all his dead whanau killed by the evil tobacco companies who targeted them, then forced the cigarette into their mouths, then forced them to flick the bic to light it. Then he gave his great idea, a software database the records all of the whanu, hapu, and iwi members and their parents and their parent’s parents. Then record all those who smoke and then they would be able to trace the bloodlines to identify new mokopuna who’s bloodline suggested that they would smoke. Pure unadulterated bullshit. The most unbelievable aspect of his submission was that he was able to muddle along for about 30 minutes un-interrupted.

The next person to submit thought it brilliant to reinvent myths fairy-tales “Maori History” and re-tell the tales of Maui, Tane Mahuta etc but with a no smoking message. Like Maui couldn’t have fished up the North Island if he was a smoker because he wouldn’t have been fit enough. But that wasn’t all, they then wanted to put all that to music, hip-hop or whatever and design a kapa haka dance. Yeah that’ll work. Again from this submitter there was much wailing again about the evil white man’s smoke stick. Again they rambled past their 15 minutes uninterrupted.

Next up was veteran trougher Teresa Taylor. Who with her daughter presumably, the other half of T& T Consulting told us all about her mothers 15 siblings who were murdered by the tobacco companies. Much blame, finger pointing and grievance claiming. And all with the “support” of Shane Bradbrook, Te Reo Marama master trougher who kept patting her back as she recall the tragedy of 15 uncles and aunties dying and how she missed them all so terribly. As I wiped a tear from my eye i got my box of documents ready.

Then the guy immediately before, well half-man really, he had a body like a half sucked throatie, told us that his parents and grandparents smoking, now dead, had caused him to have itchy eyes, blood noses, skin irritations etc. I wondered if he had ever heard of hayfever and migraines.

Now it was my turn, I was called. “Cam, bro, your turn, get up here” from Tau Henare. The room went cold, the air crackled. Death-stares came out. Shane Bradbrook and Teresa Taylor shifted from the back of the seating to right up behind my chair. I started my submission and not 2 minutes into it Metiria Turei interrupts me mid sentence and tries to call time. I shit you not. then she negotiated with Tau Henare and they gave me 8 minutes more. Fuck me dead. I couldn’t believe it. It seems if you are Maori you can waffle on with idiotic ideas and If you are a white Mofo telling the truth about the 40 troughers sitting behind you the think it is ok to be rude,and interrupt. Well fuck them I thought and carried on. Next time I was interrupted it was by some Labour moll doing the same thing. I think BK was asleep beside her. Same nonsense, give 2 more minutes, I was up to 12 minutes. Then cut off. It seems like they don’t like hearing the truth. The whole way through my submission Shane Bradbrook was cursing me under his breathe, audible to me only. When I challenged the troughers and the committee to tell me exactly how many smokers there are, they scoffed at my claim there were no statistics fresher than 2005. There isn’t, it was a safe bet.

Loud complaining started when I said that everyone who has submitted before me in the course of this committee or will submit after are nothing but troughers asking for more money to stop smoking. The simple facts are that money won’t work, the only people being helped by all the money are the troughers and their immediate families. In 2004 when this Industry began under Labour there were 700,000 smokers, on one of the troughers websites in their 2009 strategic plan, a plan I might add contained only one number, quoted that there were 700,000 smokers. Well they are the experts, that is what they get all the funding for so it must be right. So, for the grand total of $168,712,369 we have not many any progress. We have essentially thrown money away and the troughers have gleefully picked it up.

I’m told that today was the first time media had attended, and they unattended as soon as I finished and went outside, only to be accosted by a woman. Who was more than a little ticked off with me. The louder she talked the softer I talked. Eventually she gave up. The media packed up as soon as I did and left as soon as I did, seems they weren’t interested in anyone else’s submissions.

This whole process is a farce, every single submitter except me had a vested interest, they are either knee deep in the trough, in charge of the trough or in more than one instance doing both. The whole Tobacco industry is nothing but a huge fraud perpetrated in New Zealand. They have no KPI’s, they measure nothing, is it any wonder we are chucking $55 million a year at this and going nowhere. They were basically asking for more of everything. Well I say fuck them. Show us some results. They can’t and they know it.

I learned one thing for sure, this is just another grievance drive for Maori who are intent on blaming everyone but themselves, but who is say we don’t deserve it, we have bred this dependence and feeling of grievance. It’s our own fault and for sure no one on that Select Committee is going to upset the troughers.

My respect for Metiria Turei evaporated to nothing today by her petty politics in a Select Committee process against a submitter who wasn’t on her team and wasn’t brown.

They sure didn’t like it up them.

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Whaleoil Submitted by : Whaleoil on Mar 10, 2010

Poor old Labour [snigger], looks to be a long, very long time in opposition.

The latest Roy Morgan NZ Poll shows support for John Key’s National-led Government is up 1% to 57.5% comprising National Party 53.5% (up 1.5%), Maori Party 2.5% (unchanged) and ACT NZ 1.5% (unchanged).

Support for Opposition Parties is 42.5% (down 1%); Labour Party 31.5% (down 1.5%), Greens 8% (unchanged), NZ First 2% (unchanged) [WO: WTF are these people stupid], The Progressive Party 0.5% (up 0.5%) and Others 0.5% (unchanged). If a National Election were held today the National Party would win easily.

The Roy Morgan Government Confidence Rating is 140.5 (up 1.5 points) with 65% (up 1%) of New Zealanders saying New Zealand is ‘heading in the right direction’ compared to 24.5% (down 0.5%) that say New Zealand is ‘heading in the wrong direction.’

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Whaleoil Submitted by : Whaleoil on Mar 10, 2010

Yesterday’s NZ Herald carried a big woe is me tragedy schlock piece about a mother who drowned her baby by leaving it in the bath being baby sat by its twin sister. Now you might think I am being overly harsh but this morning, ironically a much smaller frontpage area, we find out what we really should have found out yesterday.

The mother of a baby girl who died after being found face down in a bath was regularly visited by Child Youth and Family which gave her advice on how to provide a “safe and loving home” for her twin daughters.

The Herald has learnt Child Youth and Family had been in contact with 21-year-old mother Amber Lawson and had visited her and her 11-month-old twin daughters, Aimee and Ella Pool, at their West Auckland home several times.

Aimee died on Sunday afternoon, five days after being found face down in the bath.

Right, now that is embarrassing for the Herald. Just one day after Janet Wilson predicted this exact behaviour from Granny. The mad dash to dramatist a baby’s death missed the vital piece that made this case so not frontpage material.

Yesterday she was the feature, now the Herald is reduced to trolling Bebo for information and then like good little repeaters they repeat it.

The Herald has been unable to contact Miss Lawson, but a picture on her page of the social networking site Bebo page shows two baby girls, wrapped in blankets, lying on a couch side by side.

I fear Janet was right.

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Whaleoil Submitted by : Whaleoil on Mar 10, 2010

Just last week Clare Curran was berating Matthew Hooton about a single sentence in a press release where he said that he had had positive meeting with Labour MP’s over the Mobile Termination Rates. She stated that Labour didn’t have a position and those MPs only had personal views.

So it is some relief that the Labour Party and Clare Curran have settled their differences with independent commentator Matthew Hooton and now released their position on MTR, supporting regulation. Their press release says;

The Government should put consumers first and regulate mobile termination rates to keep call costs down, Labour spokesperson for communications and IT Clare Curran said today.

“High mobile termination rates are a barrier to entry for new players in the market, which leads to less competition and higher prices,” Clare Curran said.

“While Vodafone and Telecom have now offered to lower termination rates by around 80 per cent, it still does not go far enough to reduce the major issues for new entrants.

“This is also the view of Commissioner Anita Mazzoleni who in the recent split Commerce Commission report on termination rates said: ‘… the consequence [of voluntary undertakings] is that mobile termination rates will remain significantly higher than the Commission’s benchmarks during the five-year period … and remain higher at the end … . In my view, the barrier arising from the prices … continues to ensure an uneven playing field, and this will impede the benefits competition will otherwise deliver to New Zealand consumers’.

“It is clear that a voluntary agreement will keep the rates considerably higher than they would be under a regulated outcome,” Ms Curran said.

Now it is up to Cardinal Richelieu to adopt the minority position and send the message to Telecom and Vodafone that their bung, dodgy networks should be protected anymore. I am normally not in favour of regulation but in this instance regulation is actual deregulation you have went you don’t have deregulation. Well done to Clare, it is a testament to her negotiating abilities to get the Labour caucus to agree. It can’t be long before she is promoted to Deputy Leader when Annette King slides off into retirement.

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gman Submitted by : gman on Mar 10, 2010

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Whaleoil Submitted by : Whaleoil on Mar 10, 2010

joggers pistolIts tiny ..and come with a dinky wee holster. Marketed in the US as a “jogger’s pistol” (Technically it is a revolver but hey what’s in a name?) – maybe not so concealed under lycra – but a .22 Long Rifle. Illegal to own in NZ due to the short barrel, No worries about pit-bulls or attack by any other mongrel when out jogging if you were permitted to carry one.

Made by North American Arms, this is the most popular mini-revolver sold. Technically it is a revolver but hey what’s in a name?

Think of these as derringer style and revolver capacity. Way more hurt, basically.

For Oswald there is even a Black Powder version. Not sure what would more effective the projectile coming out the barrel or the flash, bang and cloud of smoke to disappear into?

NAA .22 Magnum Mini-Revolver
Specifications:

  • Caliber: .22 Magnum
  • Capacity: 5
  • Material: 17-4 pH stainless steel
  • Barrel Length: 1 1/8″
  • Overall Length: 4 3/4″
  • Overall Height: 2 7/8″
  • Width: 7/8″
  • Weight: 5.9 oz. unloaded
  • Suggested Retail Price: US$214.00
  • Part Number: NAA-22MS

- Sent in by an avid reader via Facebook

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Whaleoil Submitted by : Whaleoil on Mar 10, 2010

Starbucks are sticking to their guns, literally.

SEATTLE (AP) — Coffee chain Starbucks Corp. is sticking to its policy of letting customers carry guns where it’s legal and said it does not want to be put in the middle of a larger gun-control debate.

The company’s statement, issued Wednesday, stems from recent campaign by some gun owners, who have walked into Starbucks and other businesses to test state laws that allow gun owners to carry weapons openly in public places. Gun control advocates have protested.

The fight began heating up in January in Northern California and has since spread to other states and other companies, bolstered by the pro-gun group OpenCarry.org.

Some of the events were spontaneous, with just one or two gun owners walking into a store. Others were organized parades of dozens of gun owners walking into restaurants with their firearms proudly at their sides.

I’m not a big fan of Starbucks coffee, but i don’t drink coffee anyway so I’ll try to use them for my hot chocolates in future to support their stance that they have no business interfering with law-abiding customers peacefully enjoying their coffee.

Tell you what though, I’d rather imbibe my coffee in Starbucks where there is almost no chance in getting shot in a hold up. Only someone wanting to suicide by customers would rob a Starbucks now. If you want to take the risk of going to another outlet that bans guns then fill your boots.

Why is it here in New Zealand that we want to liberalise everything except guns? Very strange behaviour. Why do the liberal elite physically shudder when firearms are mentioned? Surely if you are a liberal you should enbrace the liberalisation of everything?

You can’t rely on the Police anymore, just ask Navtej Singh……oh wait!

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Whaleoil Submitted by : Whaleoil on Mar 10, 2010

The image says it all. Labours no intention of reversing any increase in GST and Mangrove has signaled increases in Income tax as well. They need to come clean.

Labour's real Policy: Max the Tax

Labour's real Policy: Max the Tax

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Whaleoil Submitted by : Whaleoil on Mar 10, 2010

David “Vodafan” Farrar has published a piece of propaganda dissertation from Paul Brislen at Vodafone about Mobile Termination Rates under the guise of being objective. Paul is a good guy, but he is doing his bosses bidding, so please don’t shoot the messenger. To save you reading it I will summarise it for you.

Rogered by Telecom and VodafoneBlah blah blah we bribed bought off, managed to convince 2 out 3 commissioners and we only needed 2. Cool that Telecom paid half. Blah blah blah how do like us telling you it’s a big win while we give it to you in the chook?

Blah blah blah here’s a little bit of smoke and mirrors to confuse everyone except our kind host of this post (did you get the cheque yet?) and Ernie Newman. Blah blah some tech speak.

Blah blah blah, aren’t we nice, we even provided the vaseline before we “engaged” with you. If you don’t watch it we will drop that all together. I like the use of “undertakings”, don’t you? All funereal and all..cool.

Blah blah blah 2 always beats 1 so really cool those secret meeting toget our stories out straight paid off. And wouldn’t you know it we also scored 2-1 in the commission.

Blah blah blah more undertaking stuff, did I mention the customers are playing the corpse, it was a suggestion of  that Scottish git, he smells funny, you know like his mobile network dead things?

Blah blah blah…boy we were so generous in 2001, you didn’t even notice the buttons on our shirt pressing into your back. Cool how I used XT hidden subliminally in my paragraph (I wonder what is in that brown envelope that showed up in my pocket after lunch with those Telecom guys).

Blah blah blah The commission did a good job for us because we paid them to put up concise and clear advice to “assist” them. Always good to blow smoke up their arse so they don’t notice when we withdraw.

Blah blah blah, look I’ve used undertaking 6 times now, would you climb in that box already, no face down, Dr Reynolds and my boss will be with you shortly.

Blah blah, What’s in for us? Truck loads of your cash, especially of you go roaming with a data pan overseas…haha that’s a cool trick, rooting over opposition, keeping our cosy duopoly maintaining a competitive market just so long as their are two players.

Blah blah, right I think I’ve convinced you, just to be sure if you’ve grasp this correctly let’s recap. Nothing to see here, no your arse isn’t sore, we are really the good guys here, and generous too, look how long we are going to spend lowering the rates, that is so good for the consumer needed to plan financially out ten years.

Blah blah blah, that Matthew guy is a fuckwit, and I heard that poisonous wench Boag is in on the lies, utter lies, they should be sued, would be, if I could just stab the boss. You know that they were mentioned in the Hollow Men, god when that came out I thought boy we are in for it, someone has dumped the whole of Vodafone’s corporate planning emails on Nicky Hagar, turns out it was some silly spat between Bill English and that old rooter with the comb over. No one likes that 2degrees crowd. Not even Farrar and that is saying something. Just to sign off, N O T H I N G  T O  S E E  H E R E.

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Whaleoil Submitted by : Whaleoil on Mar 10, 2010

So much for freedom of speech – Karl du Fresne adds another perspective on sterilisation.

NSIDC Reports That Antarctica is Cooling and Sea Ice is Increasing – Another climate change myth explodes in scientists faces

Praying mantis vs. hummingbird – from Boing Boing, where do they find this cool shit?

How the venus flytrap eats a frog – Another Boing Boing find

iPad Gets a Doritos-Themed Parody – iPad is still being mocked

// The anti-whaling ship of fools – Clare Browning, at The Pundit of all places, hooks into the loonies, Koru-Club and the paid lap-blog over Whaling. Once again a bloggers nickname has stuck. I love it when lefties pull hair and scratch each other.

Will Twitter do the Right Thing and Remove the Official Hamas Twitter Account? – I doubt it, most of these tech companies are run by climate change, green freaks who think big bad Israel is evil and the peace loving muslim rocket chuckers are real humanitarian in trying to educate the obvious stupid Israelis that they deserve a free ride.

Saving endangered **what**, exactly? – Yeah I say Slay the Whales, except this one, me I mean…Orca don’t taste good anyway, or so I’ve heard.

Why I will take over from Kiwiblog – Simple really, I didn’t know sharks were Jews though.

Here is the proof – Yum Penguiiiiiiin

Shock, Horror!!! Holding The Front Page At The Royal Nz Herald – Janet Wilson hooks into the Herald and Shayne Currie is never going to be invited to the Ralston/Wilson household, like ever.

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Whaleoil Submitted by : Whaleoil on Mar 10, 2010

Only the French would make this weapon platform, it is certainly the oddest weapon I have ever seen, a scooter armed with a M20 75mm recoilless rifle.

Scooter based 75mm recoil-less rifleAfter World War II, there was little money for defense spending while the nations of Europe rebuilt their industry and society. When there was some cash to spend, one had to be creative to stretch it as far as possible. The French probably accomplished the most astounding example of that with the ACMA Troupes Aeról Portées Mle. 56. Deployed with their airborne forces, this was essentially a militarized Vespa scooter outfitted with a 75mm recoilless rifle. Five parachutes would carry the two-man gun crew, weapon, ammunition, and two scooters safely to earth, and the men would load the weapon on one scooter and the ammo on the other, then ride away. More impressively, the recoilless rifle could be fired effectively on the move by the best of the gun crews. Total cost? About $500 for the scooter and the recoilless rifle was war surplus. Were they successful military machines? Well, the French Army deployed about 800 armed scooters in wars conducted in both Algeria and Indochina.

The Vespa carried the M20, a U.S.-made light anti-armour cannon, it was very light when compared to a standard 75mm cannon but was still able to penetrate 100 mm of armour by so-called HEAT warheads. The recoil is counteracted by venting propellant gases out the rear of the weapon, thru a venturi, which eliminated the need for a mechanical recoil system or heavy mounts, enabling the weapon to be fired from the Vespa frame.

Additional photos:

Image 1, Image 2, Image 3, Image 4

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gman Submitted by : gman on Mar 9, 2010

A Day in the Life, The Beatles, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967. Lyrics: Lennon and McCartney

Love it or hate it—The most influential Beatles song.

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Whaleoil Submitted by : Whaleoil on Mar 9, 2010

via Twitter

Repeaters

Dilber says it all relly

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Garfield Herrington Submitted by : Garfield Herrington on Mar 9, 2010

garfield.herrington (3:26:42 PM): hi

alyking1 (3:26:48 PM): Hello
alyking1 (3:27:13 PM): saw your email about me being up late..
garfield.herrington (3:27:27 PM): yes, where do you live ?
alyking1 (3:27:40 PM): was wondering what you also were doing up so late….lol
garfield.herrington (3:27:52 PM): i was up early :-)
alyking1 (3:28:10 PM): who says that would be an exception for me also
alyking1 (3:28:12 PM): :)
alyking1 (3:28:17 PM): do you have more photos to share
alyking1 (3:28:26 PM): i only have one of your photos and its not clear
garfield.herrington (3:28:37 PM): i do on facebook
alyking1 (3:28:45 PM): i dont have FB
alyking1 (3:28:50 PM): do you have webcam
garfield.herrington (3:28:59 PM): yes
alyking1 (3:29:09 PM): can i see you
garfield.herrington (3:29:22 PM): sure
garfield.herrington (3:29:36 PM): i am working so i will be a little distracted
alyking1 (3:29:42 PM): its ok
alyking1 (3:30:17 PM): ok i see you now B
alyking1 (3:30:21 PM): hi nice shirt
alyking1 (3:30:26 PM): what do you do
garfield.herrington (3:30:27 PM): thanks
garfield.herrington (3:30:50 PM): i work in consulting
garfield.herrington (3:30:56 PM): and you ?
alyking1 (3:32:37 PM): nice i work with Loreal Malaysia, in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia…i am Zealander but i was in a bad relationship back in AKL ex was even threatening my life so i decided to go far for a while and heal emotionally and clear my head…i decided to join the website
garfield.herrington (3:32:54 PM): i see
alyking1 (3:33:05 PM): since i am looking for love and Mr right and ready to love again i just need some stability
alyking1 (3:33:17 PM): are you married , kids?
garfield.herrington (3:33:39 PM): not married otherwise i wouldnt be looking for love
alyking1 (3:34:04 PM): hey even marriages fail dont they and force people to go looking once more:)
alyking1 (3:34:07 PM): lol
alyking1 (3:34:14 PM): so what do you seek
garfield.herrington (3:34:45 PM): honesty
garfield.herrington (3:34:55 PM): so why did you go back to KL ?
garfield.herrington (3:35:23 PM): you have already told me
garfield.herrington (3:35:47 PM): do you have more photographs or better a webcam
alyking1 (3:36:00 PM): i seek honesty, loyalty and a man who loves me and cherishes me…and i will give all back in return in 10 folds as i had said i have so much love to give
alyking1 (3:36:05 PM): just dont want to give to the wrong person
garfield.herrington (3:36:17 PM): uh huh
alyking1 (3:36:25 PM): i am at work now when i get home i can try to get my webcam working
alyking1 (3:36:48 PM): but i can share more photos and would like the same from you
garfield.herrington (3:37:10 PM): ok, that seems good
garfield.herrington (3:37:30 PM): so what would you like to see from me ?
alyking1 (3:38:11 PM): any more of your photos while i also share more of mine okies?
garfield.herrington (3:39:52 PM): i will need to find some later
alyking1 (3:39:57 PM): okay
garfield.herrington (3:40:02 PM): they are on another drive
garfield.herrington (3:41:18 PM): tell me about yourself/

alyking1 (3:42:34 PM): i am 29 from Grey Lynn AKL ….as i said just here in KL to clear my head which is clear now and also got a Job so here temporarily if i find some love and stability and loving arms to return to i would love to be home as home is where th heart is
alyking1 (3:42:40 PM): i just want to return to some stability

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Whaleoil Submitted by : Whaleoil on Mar 9, 2010

PRESS RELEASE from WHALEOIL

For Immediate Release

Date: 9 March 2010

WHALEOIL to Appear Before Select Committee to Expose Ministry Incompetence & Troughing

Well known New Zealand blogger Whaleoil (Cameron Slater) is appearing before the Maori Affairs Select Committee to expose the excessive troughing of tax-payer funding by anti-tobacco groups.

“I expect the Committee to be shocked and outraged when I present my findings to the Committee tomorrow as they hold their inquiry into the tobacco industry” said Mr Slater.

“I will be bringing along a wine box of documents obtained under the Official Information Act to demonstrate a complete disregard for the accountability of taxpayer money by the Ministry of Health, alongside the incompetence of anti-tobacco groups who have received millions of dollars with little to show for it.”

“Groups like Te Reo Marama and its director Shane Kawenata Bradbrook received hundreds of thousands of taxpayer funding from the Ministry to help Maori stop smoking, yet spent most of the time on overseas junkets to exotic destinations like Hawaii (3 times), Bangkok Thailand, Durban South Africa, Helsinki in Finland and Mumbai India.

“And all the Ministry got from Mr Bradbrook was a couple of reports and a performance which resulted in a “damning” internal Ministry audit report.

It simply is not good enough for New Zealand to continue pouring $55 million into stop smoking programmes for little or no return. The only people it is helping are the NGO troughers rorting the system, who are now asking the select committee to recommend they get more money.

Of all the submitters I am the only one with zero conflicts of interests, there is nothing for me to gain or lose by my submission. The rest are either involved in receiving government money, or deciding who gets the government money or in a few cases doing both.

……….

Whaleoil

(Cameron Slater)

whaleoil@gotcha.co.nz

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Whaleoil Submitted by : Whaleoil on Mar 9, 2010

From JoNova

Straight away, this sorts the wheat from the weeds. We don’t learn about the natural world by calling people names or hiding data. We don’t learn by chucking out measurements in favor of opinions. We don’t learn by suppressing discussions, or setting up fake rules about which bits of paper count or which people have a licence to speak.

A transparent, competitive system where all views are welcome is the fastest way to advance humanity. The Royal Society is the oldest scientific association in the world. Its motto is essentially, Take No One’s Word For It. In other words, assume nothing; look at the data. When results come in that don’t fit the theory, a scientist chucks out his theory. A non-scientist has “faith”, he “believes” or assumes his theory is right, and tries to make the measurements fit. When measurements disagree, he ignores the awkward news, and “corrects”, or statistically alters, the data–always in the direction that keeps his theory alive.

Skeptical Scientist

Skeptical Scientist – Image from JoNova

Unsceptical Scientist

Unsceptical Scientist – Image from JoNova

I wonder which one best represents those who declare the debate is over, the science is settled and the overwhelming evidence is compelling? When the polar opposite is true.

IPCC AR4 Commenter: “I do not understand why this trend is insignificant – it is more than three times the quoted error estimates” – Why oh Why is the ice increasing when all our models say it is melting away!

The Logarithmic Effect of Carbon Dioxide – This is a real eye-opener fro Carbon-mongers

Emails from “attack ad” science group posted – Oh the old ad hominem attack instead of showing their theory works

Methane, The Panic Du Jour – Why dickheads panic about methane, because the carbon hoax is rumbled.

Global Warming not to blame for toad extinction – Bugger, scrub that one off the massive list of things Global Warming destroys.

Yowzer! “sea ice extended to the equator 716.5 million years ago” – Would that be called a cycle?

Got the picture, it doesn’t take long to find out that the science isn’t settled, the evidence is starting to become overwhelming against AGW and the debate most certainly is not over. Now if we could get Nick “Quota” Smith to clean the wax out of his ears and remove the blinkers we might actually get somewhere.

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Fiscally Conservative Kiwi Submitted by : Fiscally Conservative Kiwi on Mar 9, 2010

Fuck off Winston. Paul Reynolds has contributed more to this country in two years than you have in 64. He’ll probably pay more in income tax (including his bonus) than your party stole from taxpayers in 2005. By the way, when are we getting that money back?

$150k of taxpayer’s money inappropriately spent is what makes New Zealand look like a third world country, not a CEO of a major corporation getting a bonus where their business isn’t performing (if anything that makes us like the rest of the world). Also, why the fuck attack Scottish immigrants? Aren’t you half Scottish yourself? Or is it just that his accent makes him an easy target? Typical. Attacking an immigrant because he’s highly paid.

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Whaleoil Submitted by : Whaleoil on Mar 9, 2010

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Whaleoil Submitted by : Whaleoil on Mar 9, 2010

No rules, this isn’t Farrar’s cuddle a pinko land.

Helen Clark finds where the dairy owner is hiding the contraband ciggies

Helen Clark finds where the dairy owner is hiding the contraband ciggies

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