General Debate 15 July 2012

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Redbaiter

Well, I guess it takes a special kind of dumbass (like you Paul) to read it that many times.
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July 15, 2012 7:21pm
Northland Wahine

i know! Still made me cackle!
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July 15, 2012 7:21pm
Viking2

The unseasonal wet weather during the north’s dry season has seen a number of rainfall records tumble this week.

Lucinda, north of Townsville, broke a 119-year-old record when 141mm fell in just 24 hours, topping the previous daily July rainfall total of 111mm which was set in 1893.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/heavy-fog-lifts-mercury-in-north-qld/story-e6freoof-1226425980353

Townsville recorded its wettest July daily total in 60-plus years with 118mm, while Urandangie, southwest of Mount Isa, had its heaviest rain in 26 years.

Babinda Post Office recorded 146mm in 24 hours beating the previous record of 139mm set in 1935 while Innisfail recorded 145mm, smashing the record of 92mm set in 1959.

If the rain continues, a number of Queensland towns are on track to beat their annual rainfall records despite predictions another El Nino may be on its way.

Queensland wetest year since records began in 1881.
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July 15, 2012 7:25pm
Steve (North Shore)

Manilo @7.11
“Yes, dime. The enlightened and advanced Marris own the water, the air, the light,…the lot.
They also claim rights to the universe, because the Big Bang was Kupe’s idea.”

Gravity is the key, water is nothing without ‘gravity’ Once the Marrys get that we are doomed.
Where do you purchase Gravity, and who can sell it? Oh intellectual property stuff.
They own everything
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July 15, 2012 7:36pm
Viking2

PEB, recognise this fella.

http://screencast.com/t/gVYrcNZ7LdlJ

Only call occasionally these days.
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July 15, 2012 7:36pm
Northland Wahine

Theres one in Manukau, but thats new, Fletch. whereabouts?
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July 15, 2012 7:52pm
nasska

A bloke was on holiday with his wife in Vegas.

On their last night they were having cocktails in the hotel bar when he realised that a rather dapper businessman kept looking over and staring at his wife. At first he didn’t think anything of it, but when she excused herself to go to the toilet, the man stood up and walked over to the table.

“Excuse me for being so rude, but I couldn’t help but look at your wife”, he said, exuding confidence. “Tell me, are you aware of the film, Indecent Proposal?”

“Well y-y-yes”, our hero stammered, trying to mask the excitement in his voice, “Why, are you about to make some kind of offer for one night with my wife?”

“No way!” He laughed. “I just wanted to tell you that she looks exactly like Robert Redford.”
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July 15, 2012 8:00pm
Reid

I normally refuse to comment on AGW but this was just great:

It is the best of times, it is the worst of times — for science. Over the past several years, the world has been spectator to an alarming meltdown as one serious scandal after another has publicly exposed many of the world’s most prestigious scientific organizations, institutions, and publications as being captives of rigid ideologues who employ rigged computer models, fraudulent “evidence,” censorship, and intimidation to advance a radical “green” political agenda and to squelch genuine scientific inquiry and debate.

Has anyone noticed that during the US/Europe heatwaves, there’s been very little media commentary on AGW being the cause? It’s like they’ve folded their tents and stole into the night.

However, I know they’ll be back. Chaotic climate conditions will continue, the propaganda will lick its wounds, address its weaknesses and in 1-2 years, be relaunched with a new name, completely different from the flawed, incorrect, biased AGW “science.” And the useful idiots will look around at their local weather, think uh, OK then, and it begins again. You watch. It might be a few more than 1-2 years, but it will be back. And the same people fooled before will be fooled again. You just watch.
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July 15, 2012 8:06pm
nasska

Reid

They may have folded their tents & done a runner but they have left behind a whole load of crap legislation & a carbon credits scheme which no sane country wants a bar of.

Pity they weren’t tidy campers who take their garbage with them.
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July 15, 2012 8:15pm
Reid

Lots of lessons in here: a watchmaker who killed five LA gangbangers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkWgp2abM2w

Why did the gangbangers have to put this man, through what they put him through? There’s not enough of this sentiment, in the law today.

It’s like any right thinking person suffers by killing another human being. Lefties seem never ever, to take this issue into account, in their thinking.
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July 15, 2012 8:47pm
Manolo

Diversity rules? http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jul/14/london-2012-olympic-security-g4s
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July 16, 2012 6:05am
Manolo

Ah, the incompetent but shameless demagogue: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/15/obama-washington-feels-as-broken-as-it-did-4-years-ago/
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July 16, 2012 6:08am
Viking2

Roll on charter schools

Teachers ‘have strong case’ for sleepover pay
NICOLE MATHEWSON CHARLEY MANN
Last updated 05:00 16/07/2012

Teachers have a strong case to be paid an hourly wage while working overnight at school camps, legal advisers say.

Last month the Independent Schools Education Association asked legal advisers if the September 2011 Employment Court ruling to pay carers at least the minimum wage for each hour worked overnight should apply to the education sector.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/7282438/Teachers-have-strong-case-for-sleepover-pay
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July 16, 2012 7:06am
mikenmild

V2
Sounds good, unless you believe that teachers should work overnight for free. Would you work overnight for your employer for no reward?
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July 16, 2012 7:50am
Manolo

The photos say it all: http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/7282653/Mates-out-socialising-die-after-chase
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July 16, 2012 7:54am
Paulus

As Maori want recognition of their management of Water why don’t they work for Mighty River Power, and work to attain the top job, at which time they can have a real say.
Or is working for something too hard ?
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July 16, 2012 10:37am

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