General Debate 4 June 2016

Email
Facebook
Twitter
Comment195

Uncategorized
General Debate

Comments (195)

Login to comment or vote

DifferentPerspective

Dennis Horne (4,141 comments) says:
June 4th, 2016 at 8:53 am
CO2 is a plant food and a harmless gas that helps keep us warm. At the right concentration, yes. Without the greenhouse effect the mean temperature on Earth would be -18C. Cold. Man has driven CO2 up from .028% to .04%; the mean temperature is 14C. Warm. But rising rapidly.

Venus is similar in size and distance from the Sun as Earth and has a greenhouse atmosphere. CO2 on Venus is 96% and the mean temperature is 462C. Hot. Very very hot.

Just thought you’d like to know.

Sorry, can’t stay and chat…

The Venus comparison would be incredibly illuminating if it wasn’t for the vitally important fact that Venus is 41.4 million kms closer to the sun that Earth – which instead means the observation is facile and meaningless.

Thanks for sharing your unique but essentially distracting comment about CO2 being a fertiliser.

One could refer to this link which shows there is absolutely no correlation between levels of CO2 on the planet and temperature. But then – presenting this evidence I might be accused of skepticism by alarmists. All very childish eh?
10 3
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 2:54pm
freemark

Capt…
Not sure. I think that when it gets to retail it will be a 5 or 10% blend (B5 or B10) so any energy loss would be negligible. AFAIK initial supply contracts are with industrial users for construction machinery at a bigger blend. I’m not qualified or authorised to speak for Z on this however – only involved in the pretty big construction project. Plenty of good wages being spread around, massive HS & E regime, and interesting response to the initiative by the other big 3 Oil Co’s.
5 0
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 2:59pm
wiseowl

starboard
It’s such a shame we have no National MP’s willing to speak out about this.
It is absolutely disgusting and a major failure of this Government.It’s actually so serious they should have called another election instead of caving in to these demands .
MMP has a lot to answer along with small party power far too influential ,totally out of proportion over how government spends taxes.
What makes this worse is that it is racist expenditure.
11 2
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 3:01pm
Griff

Links to WUWT .
There is absolutely no correlation between what is posted on WUWT and science.
Often two consecutive posts on that webshite contradict each other and pursuing links given too often shows that they are telling fibs about any science paper they do happen to refer to.
It is were All in Red got his mindbogglingly stupid it is volcanoes melting the west Antarctic ice sheets from .
Reading WUWT makes you dumber.
2 12
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 3:03pm
starboard

Too true wiseowl, race base funding turns my stomach. $300 000 000 and even the A/G cant say where the money is going and how it is being spent. Truly disgusting. That money would go along way in the general fund..and that is where it should be. Available for all New Zealanders, not just maori. Ive had enough, on my return to NZ I shall be paying my MP a visit.
12 1
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 3:07pm
backster

Saddened to read that the Greatest boxer of all time is in his death throes. At a time when boxing was one of the great world sports an the Heavyweight Champ a household name Cassius Clay aka Muhammid Ali was undeniably the Greatest and so he remains.
5 3
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 3:15pm
MT_Tinman

Paulus (3,505 comments) says:
June 4th, 2016 at 1:14 pm

Why am I pissed off today.

Just to piss you off even more there was no one underpaid, some got slightly less charity than they may have otherwise, that’s all.

That they all survived means the lower level was sufficient.

Any “payback” to these charity cases is theft of taxpayer money at it’s worst.
11 2
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 3:24pm
stephieboy

srylands ,

“I don’t have any Muslim bashing associates. You are missing the point. The 50 %, probably much higher, who would avoid the cafe are not Muslim haters. They simply don’t want their flat white served by a woman in a black tent peering at them through an eye slot.”

I just visited a cafe a Brickworks New Lynn shopping Mall and there was no problems serving a couple with his wife dressed in a Niquab .Maybe your part of Wellington is in some kind of 1950s time warp !

And only you say ,” They simply don’t want their flat white served ….. ” based on a rather repellant bigoted and deluded our look on life . I some how believe you’d include Indian women dressed in a Sari or Salwar Kameez or any body ,for that matter, who simply looked different.

What a dreary dull life you must lead !
0 16
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 3:28pm
Captain Mainwaring

@backster 3:15
Yes, unfortunately he had to endure a miserable last 30 years or so thanks to the injuries inflicted on him by a ‘sport’ which is designed to do just that.
4 1
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 3:28pm
starboard

Griff , maybe you should start your own blog, Loony GW or something like, and spare us the daily dullness that you tripe on about..day in..day out..day in ..day out..day in..day out…day in ..day out …day in ..day out..day in..day out…day in ..day out..day out..day in..day out…day in ..day out…
16 3
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 3:33pm
Jack5

Drilling Dennis (8.53 post and later): did the presentation plaque you took into retirement rhyme? Did you keep it on the wall, or just brush it away?

Talking about Global Warmers like Dennis warning about the CO2 on Venus ….

Has any Global Warming sceptic asked a Global Warmer yet: “Have you looked up Uranus to see how its CO2 compares?”
10 3
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 3:39pm
starboard

Stiffybot, at least you would be safe in the knowing that the Indian server wouldn’t be screaming Allah Akbar at you as she detonates herself..and spills the coffee on you. Also, your spelling and grammar is slipping again..please adjust.
12 2
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 3:42pm
kowtow

gaza kindie, and we let these people migrate to the west!

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/terrorist_kindergarten_in_gaza/
5 1
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 3:49pm
kowtow

“Those Christians love it though. Makes them fell like they’re suffering for Jeebus.”

Like us taxpayers suffer to keep fucken wankers like milky in a job .
11 6
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 3:52pm
mikenmild

You should try to keep a civil tongue in your head. Do you French-kiss your mother with that potty mouth?
5 12
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 4:11pm
starboard

“Do you French-kiss your mother with that potty mouth?”

Nice mm. Incest, a game all the family can play. What actually goes on in your house after hours… just you and ya mum..
10 3
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 4:28pm
Griff

Gee story.
At lest my posting does not include 99 % gay bum sex .
Your obsession with bum sex is telling story. Rather than polluting KB with your gayness why dont you just go and do it.

By the way I replied to all in red trying to attack Dennis .
I dont see anyone who complains about nutters who post Climate change denial no matter how gibberingly stupid it is.
3 12
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 4:31pm
mikenmild

Kia ora, starboard. Are you still pretending to be in Thailand? Or is it Las Vegas this weekend?
3 7
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 4:32pm
starboard

C’mon gwiff, when was the last time I mentioned bum sex? I think you secretly like it..infact I’ll put bets on you have a small erection right now from just typing the word. Filthy individual..away with you.
12 2
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 4:36pm
Griff

Sooo unoriginal to copy me story.
It could be a compliment in following my lead but your poor attempt to parrot an insult back is just pathetic.
4 7
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 4:40pm
cha

Vale Muhammad Ali. The Greatest.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/muhammad-ali-greatest-all-time-dead-74-n584776
9 2
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 4:41pm
Dennis Horne

All_on_Red June 4th, 2016 at 12:22 pm
Says the man who tells lies that the Earth and Venus are the same distance from the Sun.

Where did I say it was the same distance? Yes Venus is closer but by the distances in the solar system similar – as I said. And the difference in distance doesn’t account for the huge difference in temperature, does it. The CO2 does. Doesn’t it.

Well, you’ve outed yourself as a typical science denier. Lies, misrepresentation and red herrings.

Can’t face the truth. Coward.
2 15
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 4:44pm
kowtow

Do you French-kiss your mother with that potty mouth?

No not my Mum , your wife.
8 10
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 4:45pm
mikenmild

Did you learn all your insults in kindy?
3 11
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 4:49pm
All_on_Red

‘Venus is similar in… distance from the Sun as Earth’
Those are your words Dennis. Unlike you, I quoted the exact distances. The Earth is over 40 million kms further away, a difference of about 50% more. Deny that. What an old fool. Sooo funny.
12 4
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 4:53pm
Dennis Horne

DifferentPerspective (270 comments) says: June 4th, 2016 at 2:54 pm. One could refer to this link which shows there is absolutely no correlation between levels of CO2 on the planet and temperature.

Been known for a hundred years that Earth is warmer than otherwise expected due to the greenhouse effect; the greenhouse gases trapping radiated infrared, with CO2 driving it and water vapour the most important feedback.

Read the science not some nonsense from the lackeys of the American billionaires and losers like Gray – reduced to writing in blogs instead of reputable journals.
2 10
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 4:58pm
Longknives

RIP Ali ‘The Greatest’!
9 1
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 4:59pm
All_on_Red

Vale Ali indeed. Must get Rumble in the Jungle out and watch it again. Bit more riveting than the ‘Tossers in the Bushes’ starring the climate alarmists we currently have to watch on here. Lol.
8 3
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 5:02pm
Longknives

I’m going to watch When We Were Kings tonight All_on_Red..
It’s always a brilliant watch- Ali outfoxing Foreman the Beast!
1 1
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 5:05pm
Keeping Stock

I am fortunate to have grown up in the Clay/Ali era, and without he is the greatest of all time. To win the heavyweight championship of the world three times was exceptional.

Rest peacefully Champ.
11 1
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 5:06pm
Dennis Horne

All_on_Red. You claimed I said “the same”. I did not. I said “similar”. On the scale of the solar system it is similar. It’s the same order of magnitude. Isn’t it.

You still avoid the issue. Which is of course your objective. Obfuscation.

Does the difference in distance explain the difference in temperature? No.

CO2 does. Just admit it.

You are just a common or garden variety science denier using the typical fallacious arguments.

You have no pride, man. Your associates: lunatics like Monckton and blowhards like Bob Carter.
1 12
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 5:07pm
Johnboy

Just to cheer you all up on this very sad day. 🙂

THE RUGBY MAN
The other day I was in The Courthouse Pub having a quiet beer by myself.

The door opened and in walked the most stunning woman I’ve ever laid eyes on. 5’11” tall, clear blue eyes, silky blonde hair, an hourglass figure barely covered by a tiny mini skirt and a flimsy cotton top.
I could see she was not wearing a bra and her incredibly firm breasts were on show.

After watching her walk in I turned back to my beer, but no sooner had I taken a sip when she pulled another bar stool up close to me and sat down.

She said ‘Hi’, and I said ‘Hi’ in return. She asked how I was and took my hand and placed it on her perfect inner thigh, rubbing it up and down.

‘So, does that make you feel good ?’ she asked. ‘I’ll bet you feel good,’ she continued. ‘In fact, I’ll bet you’ve never felt this good before.’
‘Well, I have,’ I corrected her. ‘You see, when I was 18, I was picked to play for the school 1st. XV in the Public School Finals in front of a crowd of about 3000 and I felt really good.’

I immediately felt a bit pathetic saying that and I thought she would get up and go, but she took my hand off her thigh and pushed it up the front of her top.
Her nipple pushed into my palm as she massaged my hand into her pert, perfect breast.

‘How do you feel now,’ she purred.

‘OK’ I replied.

Again, she said, ‘I’ll bet you do. In fact, I’ll bet you’ve never felt THIS good before!’

Unbelievably I heard myself saying ‘Well, actually I have. In that game, we were down by six points with about 20 seconds left in the match. The Opposition kicked the ball deep into our half of the field, where I caught it… I ran up field, side-stepping past the first few defenders, handed off a couple of would-be tacklers, burst through a few forwards, chipped the ball over their fullback, re-gathered it and scored a try right under the posts with about 2 or 3 seconds left until full time. We were still behind by one point, but I had a simple kick at goal with which to win the match and…….. ‘

“Ahhh….” she growled between clenched teeth, more than a bit miffed. She pulled my hand from under her top and thrust it down the front of her skirt.
My fingers immediately met what felt like a wisp of soft cotton !!!!

She whispered, ‘Well tell me this, Mr. Rugby Man: Have you ever felt such a perfect c**t?’

‘I certainly have,’ I answered, ‘I missed the kick.
17 1
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 5:08pm
mikenmild

I was a little too young to see Ali as a boxer, but his legend had loomed large. I’ll particularly recall the poignant scene when he lit the Olympic flame at Atlanta in 1996.
2 5
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 5:13pm
cha

Did you learn all your insults in kindy?

A proud graduate of the Yo Mama centre for tots and toddlers.
4 3
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 5:15pm
All_on_Red

Dennis
You’re scrabbling now. 40 million + kms is not similar. 50% further away is not similar.Do some research on the origin of Venus and why it is the way it is today. And nice try with the deflection with Monckton- I’ve never referenced him and if you’ve actually read things I’ve said you should know I’m a Luke Warmer.
Your associates – Griff and Stephie hahahahahahahahaha
13 3
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 5:17pm
kowtow

“Those Christians love it though. Makes them fell like they’re suffering for Jeebus”

“Do you French-kiss your mother with that potty mouth?”

“Did you learn all your insults in kindy?”

Where did milky pick his up ? Public service training school ? The picket line ? Trade union training days? Health and Safety workshops? labour Youth conventions?
7 5
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 5:17pm
All_on_Red

Ooop must go, I see Top Gear is on and mmmm that slow roasted Shoulder of Pork is smelling good. Time to get the fire on.
Have fun kids.
6 3
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 5:21pm
mikenmild

kowtow
I feel sorry for you.
4 9
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 5:23pm
RF

I hear the green half of the MOU bridal party had their conference in Lincoln near Christchurch today. Apparently there were speeches that sounded like they were in La La land. A utopia of electric cars for family outings, catching trams to work, rivers you can swim in on the way back from work, peasants in the fields cutting wheat by hand and singing party political songs, being woken by a dawn chorus of rare birds that were almost extinct under National.

I need to lie down as all this joyous information is too much to take in.

All we need now is Greg Preslands Hallelujah chorus to burst into song.

They were hoping for a prime spot in the news tonight.

Tough that Muhammad Ali has snookered that.
10 1
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 5:35pm
nasska

As the lawyer woke up after surgery, he said” “Why are all the blinds drawn?”

The doctor answered: “There’s a big fire across the street, and we didn’t want you to think the operation was a failure.”
9 1
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 5:45pm
srylands

And only you say ,” They simply don’t want their flat white served ….. ” based on a rather repellant bigoted and deluded our look on life . I some how believe you’d include Indian women dressed in a Sari or Salwar Kameez or any body ,for that matter, who simply looked different.
What a dreary dull life you must lead !
_________
You are being obtuse. My comments were restricted to women wearing a niqab. A custom that is repugnant. I challenge you to find me a single hospitality service in the country with a waitress in a niqab.
6 1
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 5:55pm
UrbanNeocolonialist

Using Venus as proof of CO2 driven AGW? Suggest you spend a year or three learning some basic science before commenting further on things you obviously don’t understand.

An uncharacteristically open commentary on weakness of climate models from a modelling expert:

https://news.brown.edu/articles/2016/06/marston
“Cloud formation is seen as the largest source of uncertainty in climate models right now,” Marston said. “There are famous examples where different climate models that have different ways of dealing with the clouds give you qualitatively different results. In a warming world, one model might produce more clouds and another might produce fewer.”

“Computer models are generally good at capturing the big picture, but they are often forced to ignore things that happen at small scales. For example, models of a planet’s atmosphere capture the large-scale dynamics of jets and airflows, but they don’t include small-scale dynamics created by things like clouds and localized turbulence, despite the fact that those dynamics can often influence the larger scales.”

“There are simply too many numbers for the computer to simulate it at a reasonable speed,” said Brad Marston, a Brown University physicist. “It might take years to simulate a day of the atmosphere, which wouldn’t be good.”

But (incredibly) in IPCC land models continue to trump data. The faithfull need to open their eyes and develop a healthy degree of skepticism.
5 4
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 6:02pm
kowtow

So enriching, such a diversity dividend

The bastards should be hanged.

“The pair were jailed for a total of 17 years after being convicted of rape and sexual assault on Thursday.

Abbas was handed an 11 year sentence for the rape of a student while Hussain was caged for six years after being found guilty of sexual assault.”

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/676748/zaheer-hussain-sajad-abbas-rape-sexual-assault-birmingham-snobs-judge-mary-stacey
5 1
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 6:07pm
mikenmild

kowtow
I think you should stop reading those British tabloid websites. They seem to upset you.
3 8
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 6:15pm
Griff

Urban I was waiting for you to pipe up with some more bullshite.
This is a link you posted a few night ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_sensitivity#/media/File:Frequency_distribution_of_climate_sensitivity,_based_on_model_simulations_%28NASA%29.png
You claimed it showed a modal of 2.5 .
Did you fail maths at high school matey?
because it gives a modal of 3 to 3.5
The words under the caption are telling.

This image shows a frequency distribution of climate sensitivity, based on model simulations. Based on the cited Lindsey (2010) public-domain source: To understand how uncertainty about the underlying physics of the climate system affects climate predictions, scientists have a common test: they have the model predict what the average surface temperature would be if atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations were to double pre-industrial levels (the climate sensitivity). They run the simulation thousands of times, each time changing the starting assumptions of one or more processes. When they put all the predictions from these thousands of simulations onto a single graph, what they get is a picture of the most likely outcomes and the least likely outcomes. The pattern that emerges from these types of tests is interesting. Few of the simulations result in less than 2 °C of warming—near the low end of estimates by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Some simulations result in significantly more than the 4 °C, which is at the high end of the IPCC estimates. This pattern (statisticians call it a “right-skewed distribution”) suggests that if carbon dioxide concentrations double, the probability of very large increases in temperature is greater than the probability of very small increases. Our ability to predict the future climate is far from certain, but this type of research suggests that the question of whether global warming will turn out to be less severe than scientists think may be less likely than whether it may be far worse.

Seems you lied and are another gibbering whack who failed both maths and reading just like all in red who was agreeing with your inability to read a graph.
We are at 407 ppm CO2 and see a globe 1.2C above the postindustrial temperatures.
Saying global warming is only going to be 1.4 to 1.8 for double CO2 is already proven wrong by the actual temperatures today.
2 13
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 6:15pm
EAD

The great shutdown continues – Google have disabled their “coincidence detector” app due to too many people putting 2 and 2 together.
0 4
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 6:21pm
Fletch

I see that the movie Snowpiercer is on TV2 tonight at 9.30pm.

It’s a kind of sci-fi thing starring Chris Evans (from Captain America) in which the world’s authorities send missiles into orbit which spray gas that is supposed to control global warming. Instead, the effect is to freeze the entire planet, leaving the only survivors in a train that continually circles the frozen globe.
3 1
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 6:21pm
nasska

…..”freeze the entire planet, leaving the only survivors in a train that continually circles the frozen globe.”…..

The closest thing to circling the globe by train for eternity would be reading the ravings of the for & against AGW brigades on this blog. 🙂
8 1
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 6:28pm
Brigitte

There is a very readable (with extensive references) of the discovery of global warming by scientists (including the doubts, thoughts of coming ice ages – being “soon” meaning in a few 1000s of years, and the man made over-ride).

https://www.aip.org/history/climate/cycles.htm

Or you could go to The Daily Blog (or other lefty websites) and watch replays of Little & the Greens.
3 4
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 6:40pm
DifferentPerspective

Is the media view that says no one is responsible for their own actions (single mum with no brains has 11 kids and doesn’t pay rent so she is kicked out of her tenancy – or kids steal car, fail to stop for police, drive at 180kmh then die wrapped around a lampost) starting to be a problem for Kiwis.

Seriously, why would anyone with any understanding of the consequences of their actions go for a swim in a location where there are “Don’t swim with the crocodiles” signs everywhere:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/80747481/Human-remains-found-in-crocodile-which-attacked-Kiwi-Cindy-Waldron

… are Kiwis being brain-washed by continual media bombardment that if something goes wrong it’s not their fault?

Is this to blame for the death of what seems like an otherwise perfectly normal, rational New Zealander?
8 1
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 6:56pm
Awww C-mon

Or you could go to The Daily Blog (or other lefty websites) and watch replays of Little & the Greens

Is popping out my eyeballs with a tea spoon another option?
10 0
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 6:57pm
Nostradamus

Awww C-mon:

Is popping out my eyeballs with a tea spoon another option?

You clearly don’t feel that bothered about The Daily Blog. Otherwise you’d have proposed the more extreme option of chopping off your balls with a carving knife…

Now how about The Standard? What’s your reaction to that, old chap?
9 0
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 6:58pm
Awww C-mon

@Nostra

My kids are grown and those bits haven’t been used for years, I was bidding high ?
6 0
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 7:02pm
Awww C-mon

The standard, I go between entertained and wailing uncontrollably about NZs future
9 1
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 7:03pm
labrator

labrator , they have no such trouble employing people like that in our Public hospitals , Universities etc so I see no problem down at your local cafe !

Stephieboy proves it’s possible to survive on a diet comprising completely of herring. It dulls the thought processes but you can survive.
3 1
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 7:08pm
Nostradamus

Angry Andrew feels the love:

Labour leader Andrew Little gets standing ovation at Green Party annual general meeting
…
After a reception which included standing ovations, feet thumping the ground, and long rounds of applause, some Greens sheepishly wondered out loud whether they had been more enthusiastic about the Labour leader than their own.
…
[Little] was clearly affected by the warmth shown by the Green Party – so much so that he had to clarify his own party allegiance after his speech. “Nothing’s better than a Labour Party conference,” he said. “It was a very warm reception, there’s absolutely no question about that. “But I feel genuinely embraced to the bosom of Labour’s heart when I speak to Labour audiences.”

“I feel genuinely embraced to the bosom of Labour’s heart”? FFS, as far as cheesy pick-up lines go, that’s pathetic.
9 0
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 7:11pm
slightlyrighty

Watching the news with the Grabour conference, my 11 year old son asked, “Why do they want to change New Zealand? I think it’s great just the way it is!”

Feeling like a proud dad…..
13 0
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 7:13pm
nasska

….”Labour leader Andrew Little gets standing ovation at Green Party annual general meeting”….

That’s better than he’d get at a Labour Party AGM. 🙂
14 0
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 7:15pm
Awww C-mon

@nasska… That’s a great call! So damn true…
8 0
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 7:19pm
Nostradamus

Kiwiblog’s roving reporter (Nasska) reports on the Green Party conference:

There was a time when a Green Party Conference hosted morris dancing, was scent-free and had far more than its share of people with dreadlocks, per capita. It’s still scent-free, apparently, and the pies served for lunch were only available in vegetarian.

Poor Nasska – not his scene at all!

(Any update on the Morris dancing?)
7 0
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 7:19pm
Jack5

The spend-up has already begun. The Government gave a $5 million ~~bribe~~ grant to the 2 per cent Maori Party for commemorations to mark the Maori Wars.

Radio NZ reports 40 tribal leaders from round the country met in Manukau yesterday with Maori Development Minister Flavell.

You can bet this will be a bit of a rewrite of colonial history. I wonder whether the remarkable guerilla fighter von Tempsky and other colonial soldiers will get any recognition. ( World knife enthusiasts now collect replicas of von Tempsky Bushrangers’ version of Bowie knives).

$5 million – that’s the equivalent of 150 or so hip or knee replacements for Maori folk on waiting lists.

The end goal of Flavell’s campaign is a new national holiday. We’ve got enough holidays now, and if the goal is an occasion for indoctrination of the population, why not just rename Waitangi Day. Call it Land Wars Day.

Radio NZ’s report of the first hui:

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/305621/nz-wars-commemorations-discussed

For anyone interested in the big choppers that are NZ Bush Ranger Bowie knives: go to Youtube and search for “Svord Von Tempsky bowie”.
6 0
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 7:21pm
nasska

….”and the pies served for lunch were only available in vegetarian. “….

Heresy it is! Total heresy! 🙂
5 0
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 7:22pm
mikenmild

I need another holiday.
4 3
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 7:23pm
nasska

I thought you were already enjoying seven day weekends Mike. 🙂
10 0
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 7:26pm
Awww C-mon

I agree Mike, fuck off and take Dennis with you…

Nah, that’s a bit harsh, your OK for a leftie MM
6 2
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 7:29pm
nasska

He’s usually wrong but at least he’s ours AC. 🙂
6 1
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 7:32pm
Nostradamus

The surprise for me, Nasska, was that you managed to get into the Green Party conference. Did you have to borrow a hemp suit from the Public Watchdog’s wardrobe?
8 0
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 7:32pm
Nostradamus

Nasska:

You may have missed it, but RRM has been awarded a lifetime membership to the Kiwiblog Right:

These kids aren’t a sample size, they’re human beings you callous, pinko, communist psychopath. Damn near 100% of them are succeeding in their endeavours and each and every one of those successes is something that should be applauded.

But like every socialist you don’t care about individuals, grist to the mill, it’s the progress of the true socialist machine that matters.

Redbaiter would approve!
5 2
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 7:36pm
mikenmild

RRM is fast becoming a bit of a crank.
3 8
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 7:37pm
nasska

I dressed as The Village Idiot & it worked a treat Nostra. Totally blended in with the membership. 🙂
11 0
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 7:38pm
Awww C-mon

Yeah I agree Nasska, all 22,000 comments from him ?

Nostra, dry cleaned only… ?
3 1
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 7:39pm
Captain Mainwaring

The Greenbore love-in will have all the durability of the DPB mum/new boyfriend relationship they so much admire and want to nurture.
9 1
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 7:40pm
Brigitte

In breaking news, French media are reporting that tourists attempting to enter the Louvre are in-seine!
8 2
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 7:42pm
Nostalgia-NZ

A salute to the Muhammad Ali, terrific boxer, maybe the best – but a greater man by any measure.
6 2
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 7:50pm
nasska

I’d noticed that comment by RRM Nostra & It occurred to me that he’d completed the crossing to the dark side & burnt his bridges to boot.

It’s amazing how one income, three kids & a mortgage improves one’s focus. 🙂
8 0
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 7:52pm
itstricky

RRM is fast becoming a bit of a crank.

I was the target of that rant and I can’t say I said anything particularly provocative before he launched into it. Today there was something like ‘take him out the back and shoot him’ in response to the mental case “Jihadist of sorts”

I’d otherwise found him to be quite amicable.
4 1
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 8:08pm
Nostradamus

Nasska:

It’s amazing how one income, three kids & a mortgage improves one’s focus.

It’s a mystery why a benefit, nine kids and a state house seems to be an attractive option for others, though, Nasska?
5 0
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 8:08pm
Nostradamus

itstricky:

From what I’ve seen, although we’d probably disagree on various issues, you usually engage in reasonable debate. So I certainly wouldn’t describe you as a “callous, pinko, communist psychopath”. My point was rather more about how RRM has undergone a political conversion of sorts over the years that he’s been commenting on Kiwiblog.
6 0
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 8:12pm
nasska

Depends largely on your starting point Nostra. Human aspirations are learned traits so if your mother & grandmother had nine kids each & a steady reasonable income from the state then breeding’s a tempting career option.

The only circuit breakers are the teachers & with the woeful, unionised hacks we put in front of the kids there’s little hope.
4 2
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 8:18pm
itstricky

I was aware of his “conversion” but he was still pretty easy going until late. I hope it’s just the “emotional ferocity” of political debate.
3 1
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 8:35pm
Nostradamus

James Shaw, 2016 AGM speech – Change Starts Now

Kia tau te rangimārie o te Rangi e tū nei
o Papatūānuku e takoto nei
o te Taiao e awhi nei
ki runga i a tātou.
Tīhei mauri ora!
He mihi nui ki ngā mana whenua o tēnei takiwā, Ngāi Tahu, Tuahuriri, tēnā koutou katoa mō tō manaakitanga.
Ki a koutou e te whānau o Te Rōpū Kākāriki, harikoa ana ahau ki te kite i a koutou i tēnei rā.
Ka mihi hoki ki a koe Andrew, me te rōpū reipa, tēnā koutou.
Nō reira, tēnā tātou katoa.

Ok James, whatever you said, I strongly disagree!
7 1
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 8:37pm
Nostradamus

itstricky:

I hope it’s just the “emotional ferocity” of political debate.

I sometimes wonder how many Kiwiblog readers change their mind (on a political issue) after reading something here. The cynic in me says: not many. The optimist in me says: at least one.
4 0
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 8:40pm
itstricky

Unfortunately, there’s not a lot to actually disagree with in that lot Nostradamus. That is, unless you’re fervent extreme Christian or Muslim disagrees with false Gods, as well as being a social phobic who just really hates to say ‘hello’ to people and finally, have a personal vendetta against anyone with the name Andrew.
0 4
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 8:46pm
itstricky

I say not many; if any
1 3
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 8:47pm
nasska

I doubt that Kiwiblog political debate produces many flip flops in individual points of view. What does happen is that the constant friction of ideas & ideology influences the way you regard future issues.

At least that’s the way most of it works for me.
7 1
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 8:55pm
itstricky

I’d agree, that’s the best outcome – everyone goes away seeing something from a different perspective, even if they don’t fully change their mind.
5 1
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 9:10pm
Sponge

everyone goes away seeing something from a different perspective, even if they don’t fully change their mind.

You are probably right.

But I can honestly say that when it comes to the climate change shit (I mean, do any of the posters actually think they are going to convince anyone apart from themselves with their abuse and rants?), the Hugh Pavelitch crap (screeds of copy and paste & links that no-one would ever bother to read or click on) and the utterly deluded Penny Bright that they are just scrolled past. Apart from that I think that you are probably right.
7 1
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 9:17pm
Nostradamus

Sponge:

Apart from that

Don’t forget Gabby!

I can’t think of one contribution from him – not a single one – that would change anyone’s mind (let alone indicate that he has a functioning mind of his own).
8 1
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 9:35pm
MT_Tinman

Nostradamus (4,888 comments) says:
June 4th, 2016 at 8:40 pm

I sometimes wonder how many Kiwiblog readers change their mind (on a political issue) after reading something here. The cynic in me says: not many. The optimist in me says: at least one.

I doubt it’s just one.

I know I’ve re-thought my opinions on at least two or three matters after reading KB.

Mind you that’s two or three in what, eight, ten years?

Maybe I’m a little more gullible than most 😉
5 0
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 9:39pm
Sponge

Nostra,

The Gabby thing is one of the most feeble posters I have ever seen and hardly worthy of comment.

That said – Ponyboy? Some intellectual pigmy from The Standard might howl with laughter from this being constantly repeated but it just shows that there is no honest criticism that the feeble of mind can make of John Key.

[Edit to add] There is shit loads that JK can be legitimately criticised for but Gabby and its fellow travellers cant see the woods for the trees on those matters.
6 1
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 9:43pm
wf

I can’t think of any change-of-mind arising from reading something here, but I have certainly widened my knowledge after reading a few discussions and have been prompted to visit other sites for further information.

Many of the regular contributors to Kiwiblog discussions simply restate their positions over and over and never meet opposing views with meaningful discussion – specifically the global warming/climate changers, the Israeli/Palestinian situation, and any matters pertaining to Islam.

The result is that I do a lot of scrolling by and I suspect that most other casual readers do too.
2 1
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 10:10pm
UrbanNeocolonialist

I agree that few will change their views on reading stuff here. But it does serve us all well to have our views challenged, and maybe a few of us moderate our views as a result. So nutters of all ilk who rant their screeds (excepting the dogged tediuosly narcisist and the peurile gabby) have value. I know I learn a lot about all sorts of random shit.
3 1
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 10:24pm
itstricky

That said – Ponyboy?

There are plenty of posters here who consider themselves “serious” who have their favorite names for Helen, Andrew or Jacinda. Some of them are down right nasty. Remember “intellectual pigmies” next time you see those.
3 4
Log in to Reply
Report
June 4, 2016 11:07pm
starboard

Fuck off itsdrippy…go back to the dead and dying strandard with the rest of your scummy loser lefty mates..minority much bawhahaha! What a fuckin embarrassment.
3 3
Log in to Reply
Report
June 5, 2016 4:09am
itstricky

Perfect example. Thanks starboard
1 2
Log in to Reply
Report
June 5, 2016 7:49am

More comments:

‹
1
2

Add a Comment Cancel reply

Login to comment or vote

« Dom Post breaks the Honours List embargo

Who is for and against Brexit »

Donations

You can now donate to Kiwiblog

Exclusive content from DPF on Patreon

Become a Patron!

Highlights

The Kiwis are fleeing
Inflation by term
Houston we have a problem
Our immunisation disaster

Never miss a post

Email Address

Links

Dr Bryce Wilkinson: New Zealand's productivity puzzle
Breaking Views
Animals
No Minister
Wash Post admits reality: ‘Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power’ – U.S. ‘power grid’ being pushed ‘to the brink. Utilities can’t keep up’ – ‘It is staggering’ – But WaPo frets energy shortage ‘threatens to stifle the transition to cleane
Utopia
Word of the day
Hompaddock
Populist Extremism and Culture Wars on the rise in NZ? We’ve been here before, but why it’s different this time
The Daily Blog
A crisis of ambition
Point of Order
Open mike 20/04/2024
The Standard
A who's who of New Zealand's dodgiest companies
No Right Turn
"Under a better Resource Management system [sic], there would be no need for fast-track approval processes."
Not PC
Despair - construction consenting edition
Offsetting Behaviour
RACIST ADVERTISING
No Punches Pulled (Bob Jones)
Is the state coming for churches?
Bob McCoskrie's McBlog
Super Rugby Predictions for Week 9
Stats Chat
Coalition Promises
NZCPR
Tougher than that
Croaking Cassandra
ABs stripped of 2011 title after try disallowed
Imperator Fish
Legal Beagle: Election '23: The Special Votes
Public Address
Making this movie might have been a mistake
Liam Hehir
Why I am retiring from political blogging
Kiwi FireWalker
Angie Warren-Clark: Meet the Newbies
Dan Moskovitz

editor@kiwiblog.co.nz

PO Box 12270, Thorndon, Wellington 6144

Facebook
Twitter
FourSquare
Instagram
LinkedIn
Google+

Archives
Disclosure Statement
Editorial Policy
Privacy Policy
Complaints Policy
Comments Policy

Design by cre8d