Wow a scientific study that proves what we all know anyway, That being Green is being Mean.

Every now and again there comes along a scientific study that proves beyond reasonable doubt what you instinctively know to be true: wine is good for you, exercise is dangerous, and self-righteous environmentalists are lying, cheating, thieving degenerates.

I’m exaggerating only a little. Do Green Products Make Us Better People?, a paper in the latest edition of the journal Psychological Science, argues that those who wear what the authors call the “halo of green consumerism” are less likely to be kind to others, and more likely to cheat and steal. Faced with various moral choices – whether to stick to the rules in games, for example, or to pay themselves an appropriate wage – the green participants behaved much worse in the experiments than their conventional counterparts. The short answer to the paper’s question, then, is: No. Greens are mean.

Gee, that sounds familiar. Of all political persuasions Greens sicken me the most with their fricken zealtory.

As with the worst type of religious zealot, there is nothing more annoying than the zeal of the converted, especially when it is tainted with the hypocrisy of self-righteousness. As we report today, people are more likely to buy environmentally friendly produce in shops than on the internet. Being seen to be green is more important than anything else. I wonder whether that will change if it now becomes a case of being seen to be mean.

Green bullies more like. Climate Change adherents more than any other almost.

We’ve always suspected they were bullies. In the Seventies British film Nuts in May, Mike Leigh hilariously skewered the sort of couple whose supposed love of the environment – and why do so many of these people live in towns? – is really just a device to stop everyone else having fun.

And now, at last, we have confirmation that they’re tight as well. They might be willing to pay over the odds for a lovingly tended carrot, but in every other area of normal human activity, their greenness is merely a mask for miserliness. The wind turbine, the tandem bike with a dangerous little buggy on the back for the twins, the self-denying holidays in Wales… Get a boiler! Get a car! Get out of here!

Jeanette would fit right in. It’s all bollocks of course. The best way to combat them would be to use green tactics, legislation, banning, shame.

We have been kind to these unkind people for far too long. Now that their halo has fallen and they can no longer boast their green credentials as a shorthand for moral superiority, it is time to fight fire with fire. How about a little compensatory ethics of our own? Double the tax on organic food as a deterrent; it is clearly a starter drug to a lifetime of amorality. Stop and search anyone in a Prius. Conduct dawn raids on north London allotments. Otherwise, one can only imagine the sort of dystopia that would ensue if these mean little green men were allowed to run amok.

I reckong we should make the Police stop all Prius owners on the suspicion of being Green Bulies and mandate an agency to follow every Prius around in a Hummer making the silly cars un-carbon neutral.

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I can’t stand Keith Locke, firstly because of his lazy drawl, secondly because he thinks Pol Pot was a hero and his type of government was a model to the West, and thirdly because he can’t keep a position straight just weeks apart.

Here is what he said about knives;

Green MP Keith Locke questioned whether prohibiting sales in shops would have any practical effect.

“The sorts of people who are going to carry and use knives are the sorts of people who could easily circumvent any prohibition.”

And you know what he is dead right. I actually agree with him on that. But surely if that applies to knives, surely it should apply to any weapon, right? Not in Keith Locke’s world it doesn’t.

In fact, we want it to go further down the road towards registering all firearms, and not just MSSAs. The present system of registering firearms owners, but not what weapons they have, allows people like the Napier gunman  Jan Molenaar to amass an armoury without the Police knowing.

Some gun lobbyists argue that general registration is bureaucratically cumbersome. However, we live in a computer age and it is not too hard to require gun traders to input details of sales into a database. In Australia the trading is supposed to be through registered traders, which makes recording who owns what guns relatively easy.

So registering guns and tightening restrictions should be done because of a few lawbreakers but restricting knives can’t be done because those type of people who carry knives don’t easily circumvent laws. He has been banging on about this like for-ever too.

In 2005 he objected to the Police receiving Bushmaster Rifles by saying:

The only opposition to the new rifles has come from the Greens’ police spokesman, Keith Locke, who fears the weapons will lead to American-style killings. He has urged police to proceed with caution.

Riiiight Keith, knives don’t bother because the people who carry them don’t give a shit about the law, but gun owners must register oh and the cops can’t have what the crims already have got. What a fuckwit. Clearly it isn’t easy being Green.

Anyone want to live in Keith’s world? The one where we have to rely on a disarmed police force, while the general population should have their guns bought back in a forced sale, but thugs can carry knives because they break the law anyway.

The solution of course is not to try and ban knives, that is so ridiculously silly that the government may just do it. The solution is to liberalise our gun laws so that ordinary citizens can protect themselves from criminals.

Do you want to rely on the Police to protect you? Let’s ask Navtej Singh shall we? Oh wait…….he’s dead.

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Labour and the Greens are busy running around bleating about New Zealand unlocking some of the wealth in our conservation estate. Frankly New Zealand can’t afford NOT to access those minerals.

DPF caught out the Greens lying like an IPCC report saying that it was appalling that evil National and their Mining buddies are going to destroy the “most precious and significant land in New Zealand’s public conservation estate to be laid bare for mining.“

Oh and don’t forget that “National have no mandate to allow mining in National Parks”. David “Rowling” Parker forgets that Chris “Koru Club” Carter authorised Pike River Mine smack in the middle of a National Park. That was ok by him then, he was in cabinet that approved it so he must have been.

I’m over their lies, aided and abetted by the anonymous Labour staffers cowards at The Standard I might add. So let’s look at the real numbers in a graphic that even the dumbest pinko and greenie felchmong can understand, with pictures. Why the national Research unit hasn’t already done this is beyond me, but here we go.

Mining in Conservation Land compared with New Zealand and the Greens fantasy.

As you can see we are talking about fuck all, something like 7 kilometres square. To put that in pictures for the simpletons it would be like mining some of the worst areas of Manukau, which is probably far better to do than keeping it the way it is.

Manukau vs. Mining area

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Catherine Delahunty, the Member for Mars is really putting her foot in it at the moment. She has now revealed that the Greens really are watermelons.

The Member for Mars has revealed that the Greens really are watermelons.

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Oh Dear, Shane “Five Chins” Jones is pissing off the Maori Party and Now Tiger is throwing insults at the Greens. I think we can be assured that Labour will “go it alone” as a strategy for the next election. Just waiting fro Creepy Cosgrove to slander Jim Anderton and the insult chain will be complete.

Now I don’t support Metiria’s politics at all but credit where credit is due she knows Social Media better than most MPs and certainly a lot better that Tiger Mallard whose little tanty has now made it a story. I just bet that “Cut and paste is readying a post just as soon as he finished his Boss Burger combo he had for afternoon tea.

Here is the exchange that lead to Tiger Mallard de-friending Metiria Turei on Facebook:

Trevor Mallard: 25c/hour. $10 week for 40 hours then minus tax, extra acc, ets charges. Not fair John Key. It should be $15.

Metiria Turei: Trevor, with genuine respect, my question is why didn’t you do it when you had the chance? It has been the right thing to do for years.

Trevor Mallard: We moved it from $7 to $12. Trajectory would have had it at $14. Not much real help from you guys esp since Russel started cuddling tories.

Metiria Turei: Getting personal wont help here – this is a political debate about the use of power when you have it to weild.
I agree that the minimum wage did rise under Labour. Even if the trajectory, in the best of circumstances, would have had it at $14 in 2010, it was still a slow process over nearly 10 years.
The issue now is to make sure that we have a political commitment from parties that the minimum wage will go to at least $15 ph or to, as the petition says, “66% of the average total hourly earning as defined in the Quarterly Employment Survey”. We need a commitment to kepp closing that gap in the short and long term and a commitment fairly sharing the cost of eliminating poverty.

Trevor Mallard: Metiria the txts and phones are running hot at your choice to attack Labour rather than Nats on multiple sites on this issue – general disbelief – from both Greens and Labour people. This is politics not personal.

Metiria Turei: We have to live with our legacies and its hard sometimes.
Its not unreasonable to ask what the barriers to doing the right thing was in the past and whether those barriers will still be in place in the future. What we need now is positive future focused commitments.

Trevor Mallard: Metiria Cant tell if you are trying to be cute or smart or what. I am very proud of the progress Labour made on the minimum wage. Took it from $7 to $12. Way way ahead of inflation and change in average wages.
Worked closely with Sue Bradford on the youth issue. And she knew how to work on an issue wither there was broad agreement and it didn’t involve repeating the very lines the National party used to attack Labour as you have done tonight.

I love a good cat fight. Points win to Metiria for keeping her cool. Is anyone else loving Trevor playing with blogs? I sure am…comedic gold almost every day.

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Fitzsimons steps down as MP – effective immediately

The last real environmentalist has resigned from the Greens leaving the Communist takeover of the Green part complete.

No longer are they Watermelons, they are Tomatoes, Rotten and Red to the Core Tomatoes.

By Jeanette, I’m sure you meant well.

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Not bloody likely if “Tiger” Mallard has anything to do with it.

I knew Labour’s MP blog would get “Tiger” in trouble, he just can’t keep his trap shut just like he can’t turn down the glad eye from a woman.

I sure hope that $45 million paid off, it would be interesting to know if the taxes paid by the staff exceeded the $45million tax credit to the production company?

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While looking through the Greens website for anything that could remotely be called an achievement by Sue Bradford I came acorss an interesting page.

The SpiritGreens – for Greens of faith.

Including pagans, witches and wiccans. Well one witch just left, thank the Lord.

Although probably the majority of SpiritGreens are Christians (including Catholic and most denominations), we also have some interested in aspects of other Maori beliefs, Universalists, Buddhists, Quakers, Hindus, Pagans, Witches, Wiccans and others. We have two Anglican priests, two Methodist ministers and theologians. Many of us have had convoluted spiritual paths, some still seek one, but all of us appear to see our beliefs as inextricably intertwined with Green politics.

I can see it now – a Minister for Black Magic, and an interdepartmental taskforce to help people worship at a pile of chicken bones.

Apart from face-to-face meetings when possible, we communicate mainly via the e-list.

Or maybe seances.

If you have any questions, or to join the the SpiritGreens e-list, please e-mail both co-convenors:

Just telepathically tell them to fuck off.

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