The former is changed by better river management (landscaping, stop banks etc) and improved housing/roading, while the latter is at the mercy of consistent recording methods.

Or, more likely, it’s an alarmist stab at some comparison to ensure AGW headlines are created.

I know you….

I’m not apologising for anything. You don’t know me, and have no bloody idea what I would do. I prefer decent justice, not cowboy justice.

Your suggested approach would do nothing for the victim.

There is a good reason our justice system has evolved to where it is now. Retribution and lynch mob mentality create more injustices than they solve. Our current justice system can no doubt be improved, but that is not by going back to the Dark Ages and beyond. Most of us have become civilised.

ah yes..Pete George..the great apologist ..I know you would take the two murderers aside , sit them down have a chat , try and point out the error of their ways..give them another chance…give them a hug…put them back into society quick smart…but you have forgotten one thing mr george…the victim , yes I know its a dirty word victim..your sort make me puke george. I stand by my original statement..one copperhead each.

It has taken a moment for him to sell cheaply a sovereign principle it has taken Maoris a century to achieve and Conservatives to preserve.

I don’t think he knows the magnitude of what he’s done!

# Hurf Durf (1000) Vote: Add rating 3 Subtract rating 0 Says:
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:02 pm

Just want back to yesterday’s GD. So much better without phool and bonkers and delirium.

Congrats on the grand HD:-

Hi Luc – Just a wee question, if you could take the time please -

CL

A short answer is fine, and please no emoticons ( or whatever they’re called ) ……so last week.

I can see you guys are busy

having a 69er

Probably true – in the same way that Lenin was landed gentry prior to the Revolution.

I asked which government denied AGW, not which governments asked for special treatment. And I have a lot of sympathy for their request, by the way.

Did you not read my post above @11.18pm?

A link to ONE department of the Indian government – Environment & Forests, who are really driving the economy.
A link to some PR website set up by the Chinese government (smart move)
An outraged letter to the Guardian from the leader of the all-powerful Czech Green Party.

How about this instead – from July this year in the London Times:

China and India are understood to have blocked any mention of the target in the draft communiqué, insisting that the developed economies should promise to cut their own emissions sharply by 2020 before asking developing nations to commit to a long term target

Oh well. Better luck with smashing capitalism next time. Though I don’t fancy Luc’s chances with the two largest countries in the world barrelling down that route now.

Perhaps if the Greens climb more chimney stacks?

The Czechs, China, India…I have informed you!

I remember your mate Roger Kerr writing about the enemies of capitalism, one was collectivism. Trouble is, Mr Kerr, as CEO of the Business Roundtable, is employed by a collective!

Thing is, for myself, I love capitalism! It has made me a lot of money!

For example? And can we have actual per capita income as well as per capita income growth, please, in US $?

By contrast we’ve become so lazy, so what-can-the-govt-do-for-me that I wonder if we’ll ever pull out of the our relentless drive down the OECD rankings.

I’m expecting our resident hand-wringing liberals start to applaud this decline soon, spinning it as a move towards a fairer society as we all become impoverished together. Go figure.