theoretically…act could be in the minus..

..eh..?

whoar..!

phil(whoar.co.nz)

http://www.roymorgan.com/news/polls/2009/4398/

In early July support for John Key’s Coalition Government is 58.5% (up 1%) comprising National Party 54% (up 2%), Maori Party 3% (up 0.5%), ACT NZ 1% (down 1.5%), and United Future 0.5% (unchanged) according to the Roy Morgan New Zealand Poll conducted June 22 — July 5, 2009.

Support for Opposition parties is 41.5% (down 1%); Labour Party 31.5% (down 1.5%), Greens 8% (up 0.5%), NZ First 1% (unchanged), Progressive Party 0.5% (unchanged) and Others 0.5% (unchanged.

When will humans as a whole say enough is enough??? I know i should not hold my breath, but it is ever going to happen. Is the PC-itis going to drown us all in the Politically correct crap?

OK, so Clayton 216 Stab Wounds Weatherston is a scumbag. This makes Charlie an opportunistic scumbag.

July 10th, 2009 at 11:39 am
Yesterday Brian Smaller mentioned that people had been fined for letting people sit on their roof and watch the Hamilton 400. The “crime” wasn’t getting a free peek at the cars, the crime was sitting on a roof.

If you look at the details it beggars belief; this is Nanny State with whip and jackboots pretending to care about you.

http://kiwipolemicist.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/sitting-on-your-roof-is-illegal/<<&lt;

They are not bothered about you but in this crazy PC society they might receive a “please explain” note if the roof collapsed. It is a result of the “Why doesn’t somebody do something about it” syndrome .. God help us all.

… and you still have a vote ..??!!

Firstly, shelf ice is floating, because it is less dense than seawater. When floating ice melts, there is no change in sea level. This is a bit of elementary physics known as Archimedes’ Principle. Secondly, the breakup of ice shelves is normal and inevitable. Ice caps grow by precipitation in the uplands, flow at depth, and at the ice front the ice either melts or breaks off as icebergs. The ice never simply keeps flowing to the equator. Icebergs are produced in both times of climate warming and times of cooling, so they tell us nothing of climate change.

Sorry to raise AGW again, but thought some might be interested in this little fact, since the break-up of the floating ice shelves in Antartica is often shrugged off using the argument that they’re also floating.

That’s true.

But unfortunately, those ice shelves act like flying buttresses, holding in all the ice on the land in Antartica. So if those big shelves go, then nothing happens, sea-level-wise. But if that land ice then slides into the sea, we’re all living in coastal properties.

As readers know, I’m an AGW skeptic, but facts like that give me pause for thought.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz-government/news/article.cfm?c_id=144&objectid=10582007&ref=rss

Looks like we’re even paying for a little hip-hop tour too! A little something Helen was famous for.

I think we’ve heard the last of any tax cuts…

“King Canute at the G-8
World leaders tell the Earth’s temperature not to rise”

“When King Canute of lore wanted to teach his citizens a lesson, he set his throne by the seashore and commanded the tides to roll out. Canute’s spirit was back in business this week at the G-8 summit in Italy, where the assembled leaders declared that the world’s temperature shall not rise: “We recognize the scientific view that the increase in global average temperature above pre-industrial levels ought not to exceed 2 degrees [Celsius],” or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, said the summit declaration.

So let it be written, so let it be done.”

Todays WSJ. It would seem that I am not the only one who thinks that man controlling the climate is as idiotic as King Canute controlling the tides!!!!!!!!!!!

Isn’t there also an irony in the Hamilton Council cracking down on the “unsafe” spectators of an event involving high performance motorcars flying around a circuit deliberately designed so that any lapse in concentration/judgment results in a high-speed crash? An event the Council pours quite considerable sums of ratepayer money into?

Agreed. Any evidence these figures are significantly higher for Kiwibank vis a vis the Aussie ones?

On the other hand, if the roof had collapsed it could have been nasty, and taxpayers, as well as those on the roof, would be paying.

I agree. I’m so glad Labour put an end to all this pointless risk-taking behaviour, like climbing a bloody mountain just because it’s there (as opposed to, say, needing to get to the other side or some rational reason). I mean such bloody-minded stupidity in the pursuit of “fun” could lead to the loss of innocent lives, such as that of your mountain guide for instance.

Oh wait… is it just that risk-taking behaviour isn’t okay for the poor dumb folks of Hamilton, but still okay for the moneyed power elite? Sorry, I’ll shut up then.

Meant to write (i.e. recycles that money within NZ, rather than exports it to Australia?)

Not sure I understand your position here. Do you want Kiwibank to operate as a commercial entity that generates profits (by loaning at a rate that is more attractive to borrowers than the BEABs, yet is above its (comparatively cheaper) cost of funds), pays a dividend to the government, and thus makes more money available for things like health and education (i.e. recycles that money within NZ, rather than ? Or do you want Kiwibank to operate as a purely social/charitable enterprise that loans money at near-cost, charges lower interest rates, offers the government no return on the capital it has invested, thus effectively creating a transfer of wealth from every taxpayer to the few who borrow money from Kiwibank? Or do you want no Kiwibank, just the BEABs charging their higher rates of interest, sending their profits to Australia, thus increasing our already parlous balance of payments situation?

My point about Kiwibank being “a success” is that (1) you don’t hear much anymore from those doomsayers (i.e. Rodney Hide) who predicted Kiwibank would fail; (2) it appears National has moved from wanting to privatise to embracing the institution; and (3) a bunch of Aussie economists want to copy us … and we all know how important it is for NZ to have international validation! (see http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10583310 )

Yep, I was 14 days short of my 5th birthday and still remember decimal currency coming in.
A lot happened around that time – the late sixties, that left lasting impressions on my young mind.
As well as decimal currency in 1967, the Wahine storm 1968 [still remember seeing corrugated iron flying about 500m up in the sky and asking my mother why parents would send kids to school in that weather with all the debri flying around], and the moon landing in 1969.

Other interesting yardsticks [metre-sticks doesn't have the same ring] I remember:
3rd form, 1976 still used log tables at school. [just like my father had]
4th form, 1977 slide rules came in.
5th form, 1978 basic scientific calculators came in; allowed to use them in School Cert.
6th form, 1979 advent of the programmable calculator, but still sent punch cards in for maths/computing.
7th form, allowed programmable calculators into exams. So new back then that the exam observers didn’t know how to check the memories to prevent cheating [not that I did, of course!].

Do the ‘younger generation’ even remember a time without PCs, the web, cell phones, etc? [what's a log table?]
Gee, I feel old now. Think I’ll go have a nap.