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Inventory2

You’ve got a bit of a dog’s breakfast on the previous post DPF. The comments from another post are on the McCarten one and make no sense
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June 27, 2010 8:02am
Pete George

Labour are a bit of a dogs breakfast at the moment I2, but I don’t think the sex therapy thread is the sort of help they need.
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June 27, 2010 8:04am
hj

Garden Bird Survey
http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biocons/gardenbird/
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June 27, 2010 8:19am
Paul Egerton

One more uppity nigger or is he just a cheeky darkie?

A top TV star unleashed a racist outburst at a high-profile media event this week – claiming that “Jews were expendable”.

David Fane, one of the creators of bro’Town, told an audience including Jason Gunn, Mike Hosking, Kate Hawkesby and John Tamihere, that “Hitler had a right” and HIV sufferers deserved to be “roasted”.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10654773

Whatever he is, here’s great copy for the enxt 7 days while everyone hand wrings, demands appologies and squeels with faux outrage.
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June 27, 2010 8:35am
Pete George

Sounds bad. But a couple of surprises – he was referred to as “a top TV star” – maybe someone else has heard of him before – and this news report has just come out on Sunday after the outburst occurred on Wednesday night.
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June 27, 2010 8:41am
Inventory2

@ Pete George (8.04am); you’re not wrong there. Still, at least Chris Carter no longer believes that people pick on him because he’s gay – or so he says.
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June 27, 2010 8:41am
Put it away

Pete, oh I don’t know, sex therapy might be just what they need since they’ve been badly fucked
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June 27, 2010 8:50am
MikeNZ

On today a day I hope full of peace and joy for you and your families, I offer you Galid Shalit and his continued incarceration.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bernardhenri-levy/three-questions-and-answe_b_624312.html
http://www.jpost.com/international/Article.aspx?id=179358
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-oped-0624-nasatir-20100624-14,0,6048664.story

Meanwhile our august Un has a handle on things the world over as she is dominated by the tyrants and despots who hold sway there.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/06/22/anne-bayefsky-human-rights-council-obama-israel-kyrgyzstan-syria-durban-cuba/
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June 27, 2010 8:55am
malcolm

Smoking to be banned in prison:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10654766

Excellent idea. Maybe they could ban drugs as well – you know, if it’s not too difficult.
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June 27, 2010 9:06am
philu

rodney..’the fool’ hide…is on q&a..

shown as being a ‘fool’..

hysterical climat-echange-denialist bullshit…

fucken idiot..!

the sooner he is tossed out of epsom/parliament..the better…

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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June 27, 2010 9:24am
jcuknz

I wonder if the results of the poll about the coming Aussie election simply reveal the readership of this blog?
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June 27, 2010 9:25am
big bruv

I see Goff’s daughter has been busted (ha ha) for drugs, it seems she concealed four ecstasy tablets in her bra, but, surprise, suprise,…………….. she escaped conviction

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3858795/Phil-Goffs-daughter-busted-for-drugs

I also note that she continues the family tradition of sucking off the tax payer.
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June 27, 2010 9:26am
Manolo

“I see Goff’s daughter has been busted (ha ha) for drugs,”

Oh, I feel sorry for Phil, don’t you?
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June 27, 2010 9:33am
Pete George

The ETS must be bad, Sue Bradford says so. Dilemma for those who refuse to agree with her on anything.
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June 27, 2010 9:39am
philu

“..I also note that she continues the family tradition of sucking off the tax payer…”

did the taxpayers give her the ‘e’s to suck…?

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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June 27, 2010 9:50am
philu

and sue bradford on q&q has ripped hide a new one..

..describing him..on his climate-change denialist stance….

.. as an ‘outlier’..

(now..ain’t that the truth..?..)

..heh..!

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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June 27, 2010 9:53am
Pete George

Hide doesn’t pass the “98% of scientists” test. His ETS interview on Q&A highlighted conflicts between sounding intelligent on the potential impact, and unconvincing ignorance of the “facts” that he fobbed around.

It sounds like he is trying to pander to a demographic.
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June 27, 2010 9:57am
philu

and farrarr..!

that commment from the racist scumbag at 8.35..?

c*unt gets demerits..

..’nigger’ is ok..?

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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June 27, 2010 9:58am
francis

Anime version of the Gore incident http://www.breitbart.tv/animation-of-al-gores-massage-encounter/ (Japanese)
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June 27, 2010 10:23am
side show bob

Philly Q&A isn’t anything but a lefty wank fest. I love it when tossers like your good self preach climate change, it’s not the issue fool, what these wankers are getting their nickers in a twist for is AGW not fucking climate change, get with the program. Besides I don’t know why you get so excited about an ETS, it will screw those who can least afford it the most, we will see if you are pro ETS in six months time. And your heartthrob Sue is still a dribbling idiot, is being a dribbling idiot a prerequisite to membership in the Melon party?
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June 27, 2010 11:15am
philu

meh..!…can’t be bothered with fools…

and bloody hands bob is not only a fool…

..he is very very cruel…

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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June 27, 2010 11:28am
Viking2

Pete, please name for us the only quailified climate scientist in Parliament.
Thankyou.
Not a lot more to say really except this.

Julia Shows John Key How to Handle ETS
Thursday, 24 June 2010

Prime Minister John Key should look across the Tasman to his newly installed Australian counterpart for a lesson in how to handle the controversial emissions trading scheme (ETS), according to the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition.

“Australia’s new Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in her first media conference today, rebuffed suggestions that she might seek to revive Australian’s stalled version of an ETS, the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS). Ms Gillard made it clear that she will wait until after the next general election to gauge Australian opinion on the CPRS, and will proceed only if she finds there is in her words ‘community consensus’,” said the coalition’s honorary secretary, Terry Dunleavy.

“This is a lesson for our Prime Minister, who promised us pre-election that New Zealand would harmonise with Australia in legislative action on emissions of so-called ‘greenhouse’ gases. By persisting with its moderated ETS scheme in spite of the Rudd Labor government having months ago withdrawn its CPRS bill, the National government failed to honour that undertaking.

“But Julia Gillard has now given John Key a solution: defer any further action until there is community consensus. With serious opposition to the New Zealand ETS coming from farming and business organisations and countless ordinary Kiwis, as well as from within the membership of his own National Party, there is no way that Mr Key, or his ministerial propagandist Nick Smith, can claim any semblance of community consensus within New Zealand. Until that level of consensus has been established, and tested in a general election, our Prime Minister should follow the lead of his new Australian counterpart and defer implementation of the current ETS legislation due to come into effect next week. In so doing, he will honour National’s pre-election undertaking to harmonise with Australia.

“The ETS legislation will remain on our statute books as a demonstration that New Zealand is ready do its fair share once the rest of the world agrees how best to address climate issues.

“Meanwhile, Mr Key could also reflect on a variation of a famous line taken by a legendary earlier British Prime Minister: never in the history of New Zealand lawmaking have so many faced such heavy cost at the hands of so few,” said Mr Dunleavy.
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June 27, 2010 11:46am
Yvette

One of the creators of bro’Town has apologised for racist and homophobic remarks he made at a comedy roast – an audience which included Jason Gunn, Mike Hosking, Kate Hawkesby.
Any correlation to –
Straight-talking TV host Paul Henry has put his foot in it again, calling his employer’s programmes “banal” and “unwatchable”, and questioning the taste and intelligence of the TV-viewing public.
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June 27, 2010 11:49am
Pete George

please name for us the only quailified climate scientist in Parliament.

You’re avoiding the question too. There are quite a lot of qualified climate scientists in the world.
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June 27, 2010 11:51am
Fletch

I see that there was a ‘story’ (and I use the term loosely) on One News last night about how Kiwi’s don’t know the National Anthem in Maori, when Spain knows theirs in Spanish and Wales knows theirs in Welsh, etc…
They had a reporter on the street asking people to sing the National Anthem in Maori. Most could only manage the first two bars and they were trying to make out how bad Kiwis are.

HELLO?? Is Maori our National language? No, it isn’t. It’s English.
To try and compare this to the Welsh knowing their anthem in their own language with New Zealanders knowing our anthem in Maori is very weak indeed.
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June 27, 2010 11:57am
wat dabney

Read it and weep. How the US government actively sabotaged the BP oil spill containment effort:

http://www.financialpost.com/Avertible+catastrophe/3203808/story.html
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June 27, 2010 11:59am
philu

why don’t we nationalise the booze-industry….?

end advertising of it..

..and have local licensing trusts running the retail trade…

and returning all those profits to the govt/locals….

what’s not to like about that…?

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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June 27, 2010 12:17pm
Manolo

Maori? Are you talking about the language of great scientists, mathematicians, and many brilliant, enlightened minds?
How shameful we haven’t learn it!
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June 27, 2010 12:19pm
mawm

Viking 2 –

Australia’s new Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in her first media conference today, rebuffed suggestions that she might seek to revive Australian’s stalled version of an ETS, the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS). Ms Gillard made it clear that she will wait until after the next general election to gauge Australian opinion on the CPRS, and will proceed only if she finds there is in her words ‘community consensus’,” said the coalition’s honorary secretary, Terry Dunleavy.

One has to ask how is she going to guage the ”community consensus” on a CPRS if not at a general election? All she is trying to do is prevent it from becoming an election issue………….and then pass one after labour (with her at the helm) have been re-elected.
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June 27, 2010 12:27pm
Pete George

HELLO?? Is Maori our National language? No, it isn’t. It’s English.

HELLO?? NZ has three official languages.

It is similar to Wales, where English is the only language used by most people.
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June 27, 2010 12:33pm
Viking2

No Pete, you avoided answering the question.
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June 27, 2010 12:42pm
reid

Thanks wat @ 11:59, great link.

Shit. Really? Fuck.
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June 27, 2010 12:43pm
Sonny Blount

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1289882/EU-ban-selling-eggs-dozen-Shopkeepers-fury-told-food-weighed-sold-kilo.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Alongwith the riots in Canada, another great day for socialism.
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June 27, 2010 12:55pm
Put it away

Phool – “why don’t we nationalise the booze-industry….?”

If you weren’t too stoned to vote, you might remember that back in the day there used to be a referendum on alcohol licensing run alongside the elections. They stopped bothering in 1987 because the vote for “continuance”, ( i.e “leave it the way it is” ) had been resoundingly thrashing “state control” and “prohibition” for fifty years without exception.

http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/prohibition-vote-1911-87
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June 27, 2010 12:56pm
Redbaiter

“No Pete, you avoided answering the question.”

Its a common occurrence, ( sad really when he always asks so many of others) frequently down to his poor comprehension skills. In this instance, he’s failed to detect the difference in meaning of the words “national” and “official”.
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June 27, 2010 1:00pm
Put it away

I was too young to vote in the days of the licensing referendum, but I still remember the old man heading off to the polling booth muttering about the socialist retards who wanted “state control”. He’d travelled in Eastern Europe and he’d seen enough of state control…
Looks like the socialist retards are still with us.

..eh..?
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June 27, 2010 1:05pm
Robert Black

I see the Maori are claiming Cape Reinga and Ninety Mile Beach and Rararawa.

May as well start at the top and work down.

That Rararawa beach is quite stunning, the sand is as WHITE and fine as flour.

Be a shame if they put a toll on that road. Could probably bear losing Ninety Mile Beach.

Years ago there used to be this old Maori lady at Taronui near Kerikeri who used to demand a couple of bucks.

I guess these days it will be $20?

Sad, very sad.
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June 27, 2010 1:05pm
reid

Should we use this GE technology here, if it proves safe?

If not, why not?
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June 27, 2010 1:22pm
Kris K

Sonny Blount 12:55 pm,

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1289882/EU-ban-selling-eggs-dozen-Shopkeepers-fury-told-food-weighed-sold-kilo.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Alongwith the riots in Canada, another great day for socialism.

Indeed, Sonny.

From your link:

EU to ban selling eggs by the dozen: Shopkeepers’ fury as they are told all food must be weighed and sold by the kilo

The new rules will mean that instead of packaging telling shoppers a box contains six eggs, it will show the weight in grams of the eggs inside, for example 372g. Or that a bag of white rolls has 322g inside instead of half a dozen. The rules will not allow both the weight and the quantity to be displayed.

That last sentence really gets me!
I know in New Zealand if you buy a dozen eggs it ALSO states the weight – these poor sods in Europe aren’t even allowed to do this! Bureaucracy gone mad, and common sense not even in sight.
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June 27, 2010 1:25pm
Johnboy

In the modern UK as long as the eggs are halal Kris its OK. 🙂
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June 27, 2010 1:28pm
starboard

I see the Maori are claiming Cape Reinga and Ninety Mile Beach and Rararawa..

claim away dirt bags…any request for a toll from me will be met with the business end of my shotgun….its my country as well remember hori…
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June 27, 2010 1:30pm
Johnboy

Saying that will just make them all Grumpy starboard. 🙂
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June 27, 2010 1:32pm
starboard

..who gives a flying fuck….just keep pushin whitey…keep going bro…not far now…
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June 27, 2010 1:39pm
Kris K

Johnboy 1:28 pm,

In the modern UK as long as the eggs are halal Kris its OK.

So I guess kosher eggs are out of the question then, Johnboy?
I always find kosher eggs go best with bacon for breakfast … 😳
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June 27, 2010 1:42pm
reid

The disaster in the Gulf is no anomaly. It’s an arrow pointing toward future nightmares.

Warning: the author is a lefty academic, but some of what he says could be in fact true.
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June 27, 2010 1:48pm
Kris K

reid 1:22 pm,

Should we use this GE technology here, if it proves safe?

If not, why not?

That’s a big ‘NO’ from me, Reid.
Once you start mucking with the building blocks of life who knows where you’ll end up.

Kind of reminds me of what went on in Genesis 6:4 – and look how that turned out.
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June 27, 2010 2:00pm
reid

Kris I actually think DNA is where G-d does a lot of His magic.

I’m not sure on it, myself, as to whether we should tinker with it. It’s a vast important field which will advance our collective understanding of how life works in fundamental ways, and what are we do – ignore all that? I’m not a fan of the ostrich approach. Whatever it is, it’s of benefit always, IMO, to know as much about the thing as we possibly can.

I agree in these very early days there are significant risks. Many of the negative issues arise due to human greed like the terminator seeds which won’t reproduce and which makes third-world farmers totally reliant on the seed company each and every year. I mean, come on. And of course you have the dangers of inadvertent cross-pollination with natural plants. The one that really gets me is the licensing of the IP for the human genome. Which of course results in a drug company owning the DNA script for say, curing pancreatic cancer, which anyone who wants it will be required to pay for through the nose. Which will result in parents being told that their child can be cured of everything, provided they mortgage their whole house, but unfortunately, we can only afford to do it for one of them. Etc. And the ability to patent life came about through a mis-guided US Supreme Court decision that allowed an oil company to patent an oil-eating bacteria it had created, which allowed drug-company corporate lawyers to gradually widen the door to get what we have today, all because the Justices didn’t understand biology.

So it hasn’t had a very bright start. But I do think long-term, in fifty years we will all be better off through it. All those issues are unfortunate but provided they are managed well, I don’t think any of them are show-stoppers.
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June 27, 2010 2:11pm
Kris K

reid 2:11 pm,

You also outline many of my concerns.
The fact that man will manage the development and ‘distribution rights’, and knowing man’s greed and propensity to hold others to ransom, let alone the possibility of cross contamination, or that animal diseases could be introduced into the human gene pool, I have little real faith that such development will be very beneficial at all – in fact, likely the opposite.
And this, of course, ignores the issue of whether we even have ‘permission’ to do this sort of thing to start with.

But no doubt we will …
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June 27, 2010 2:36pm
Pete George

The disaster in the Gulf is no anomaly.

“The era of easy oil is over. Demand is soaring like never before … At the same time, many of the world’s oil and gas fields are maturing. And new energy discoveries are mainly occurring in places where resources are difficult to extract, physically, economically, and even politically.”

How much of the oil reserve is in similarly (or more) risky locations?
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June 27, 2010 2:40pm
philu

oh good..!…christian fascists are present…

we need your/the official christian fascist take/position …

…on women who ‘gush’..

http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2010/06/desirable_times.html

is this gift thatonly some women have..something to be celebrated..?

or is this yet more evidence of the doings of ‘the whore of babylon’…?

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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June 27, 2010 2:42pm
Johnboy

Never got a woman wet have you phool?

Figures.
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June 27, 2010 2:45pm
philu

and your question only confirms that you know nothing of what we speak…

john-old-man..

and it’d be ‘too late’ now…?

..eh..?

given your current physical condition..

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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June 27, 2010 2:48pm
Kris K

Are the libraries open on a Sunday?
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June 27, 2010 2:51pm
reid

“I have little real faith that such development will be very beneficial at all – in fact, likely the opposite.”

Well it’s one thing to pursue it as knowledge, and quite another to commercially exploit it. I agree that at the moment, we have a wild west scenario with no central authority. I think it’s urgently necessary to put that in place, cross-national, to manage this thing properly, on the basis that this is a unique field, unlike any other both in importance and in its ability to transform each and every species.

G-d have us permission to conquer the planet and everything in it. He didn’t stop us from understanding the knowledge that led to atomic weapons, and I don’t at the moment see Him doing so here. Our problem, as Einstein put it, is that: “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”

He was right. Each and every time we start up in a new field, we fuck it up. Look at space. What have we done there? Just unnecessarily loaded up near-Earth orbit with thousands of space-junk fragments. And they’ve militarised it, however much the propaganda insists they haven’t. Look at nukes and the issues we’ve created for ourselves there.

However it’s part of human nature to push the boundaries of knowledge. Once many of us were simply happy merely to conquer territory, but since that era passed because we ran out of it, we’ve collectively focused on conquering the boundaries of knowledge. And that’s a good thing. It’s just too bad that none of our global leaders apparently ever took up the ‘How to be wise 101’ course of study, when they read for their degrees.
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June 27, 2010 2:52pm
Redbaiter

“How much of the oil reserve is in similarly (or more) risky locations?”

Don’t you ever have anything but dumbfuck lazy arsed questions you utter waste of space?? Get a life.
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June 27, 2010 2:53pm
Johnboy

Yes Kris. They just close the adults only section when they see phool arriving hence he must bring his smut here.
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June 27, 2010 2:53pm
Pete George

Don’t you ever have anything but dumbfuck lazy arsed questions you utter waste of space??? Get a life.
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June 27, 2010 2:55pm
Kris K

Spot the President who is NOT a dumbarse:

“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”
Ronald Reagan

“America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.”
Barack Obama
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June 27, 2010 2:57pm
reid

How much of the oil reserve is in similarly (or more) risky locations?

I liked the way the blog post below, described the engineering:

“What’s the idea? You want a secure connection between the high-pressure wellhead system and the subsea blowout preventer stack. That’s where mankind’s best steel meets Mother Nature’s high pressures.”

http://www.drillingahead.com/forum/topics/transocean-deepwater-horizon-1

The point being, Pete, that we can control those risks that article mentioned in my 1:48, with engineering: i.e. those disasters don’t HAVE to happen. Fact is, there is no other energy source that produces as much energy, weight for weight as oil does when it burns. There just isn’t.
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June 27, 2010 2:59pm
Yvette

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let’s not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.
– Ronald Reagan
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June 27, 2010 3:01pm
Pete George

Obviously the first quote sounds stupid, the second one realistic.
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June 27, 2010 3:01pm
Pete George

I understand that Reid. But it costs. It seems quite obvious that recovery of oil is going to get more and more expensive even in a best case scenario. If we carry on regardless we will pay for it.
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June 27, 2010 3:04pm
Kris K

reid 2:52 pm,

It’s just too bad that none of our global leaders apparently ever took up the ‘How to be wise 101′ course of study, when they read for their degrees.

Indeed, Reid – and not just our global leaders.

However it’s part of human nature to push the boundaries of knowledge.

And I agree – nothing wrong with gaining knowledge per se.
But regarding genetic manipulation, I was actually being serious by citing the two links in my 2:00 pm comment; God was pretty down on ‘genetic cross-breeding’, and I believe this sets a precedent for us today in a similar vein: “Don’t muck with it!”
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June 27, 2010 3:10pm
reid

“recovery of oil is going to get more and more expensive”

That’s right Pete, but that’s what capitalism is for. If there’s no gain, it’s not going to happen. And you can bet that each and every oil company in the world is going to be double-checking their own engineering on every single facility as they watch this unfold for BP. And they won’t forget to do that when they open up a new field in the future.
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June 27, 2010 3:12pm
Kris K

Yvette 3:01 pm,

Old Ronnie had some real ‘pearlers’, didn’t he Yvette? 😉
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June 27, 2010 3:13pm
Johnboy

“Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation”.

Hang on let me get this straight. If you only eat vegetation, smoke vegetation and spend your life vegetating at the library you are one of the worlds most polluting life forms.

I knew that!
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June 27, 2010 3:17pm
nickb

More censorship and Fascism by the Obama regime:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/3855664/Obama-internet-kill-switch-bill-approved
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June 27, 2010 3:18pm
reid

God was pretty down on ‘genetic cross-breeding’, and I believe this sets a precedent for us today in a similar vein: “Don’t muck with it!”

I don’t read into GE science any desire at present to explore the potential to create new human variants. I have no doubt that various militaries are exploring genetic capability enhancement and may even be experimenting. I think I recall a doco on it, chap called Van Damme.

I do see the current focus on understanding genetic origins of diseases as being incredibly worthwhile, because even if it is commercially rorted for the first 25 years, after that it’s public domain.

I also think that we have an incredible interest in animal genetics. We should be moving much faster on that than we are. I wish the govt would get that message.

At the end of the day Kris, if G-d didn’t want us to play in this arena, he would have designed Messrs Watson and Crick slightly differently.
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June 27, 2010 3:22pm
Kris K

Johnboy 3:17 pm,

Hang on let me get this straight. If you only eat vegetation, smoke vegetation and spend your life vegetating at the library you are one of the worlds most polluting life forms.

If I was running the place, Johnboy, ALL vegetarians would be strung up in the local town square for crimes against humanity. And just imagine all their squawking and flapping prior to the trap door opening. 😉
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June 27, 2010 3:30pm
Kris K

reid 3:22 pm,

At the end of the day Kris, if G-d didn’t want us to play in this arena, he would have designed Messrs Watson and Crick slightly differently.

I guess we’ll know we’ve gone too far when Flood mkII kicks off. 😉
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June 27, 2010 3:34pm
reid

Yes well I’m hoping someone will be painting that mark on my door, Kris. I think we’re probably both hoping that.
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June 27, 2010 3:43pm
Yvette

Kris K, I thought there wasn’t going to be a Flood V 2.0.
I remember something from Sunday School about Not to worry. He promised not to do that again.
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June 27, 2010 4:00pm
Manolo

Joe Biden is a true clown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQK2YchAnnM
Can you imagine this moron as Vice President of the United States? Unfortunately, he’s next in line after the Kenyan Messiah.
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June 27, 2010 4:01pm
Paul Egerton

Kris K (2564) Says:

June 27th, 2010 at 2:57 pm
Spot the President who is NOT a dumbarse:

“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”
Ronald Reagan

Best. Summation. Ever.

Of Reagan’s presidency.
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June 27, 2010 4:08pm
Paul Egerton

Yvette (792) Says:

June 27th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Kris K, I thought there wasn’t going to be a Flood V 2.0.
I remember something from Sunday School about Not to worry. He promised not to do that again.

There’s a lot of promises made by Kris’s god that have not been kept, so Kris simply acknowledges the “no more floods” promise as one more, as John Howard put it, Non core promise.
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June 27, 2010 4:10pm
reid

“Best. Summation. Ever.
Of Reagan’s presidency.”

Paul, how can you say that? Reagan was a de-regulator par excellence.

BTW, the rainbow is G-d’s symbol that He hasn’t forgotten His promise re: the flood, so remember that if you haven’t seen one for awhile.
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June 27, 2010 4:11pm
Paul Egerton

reid, Reagan was the biggest big government president america had ever seen.
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June 27, 2010 4:15pm
Paul Egerton

A sober review of Reagan’s presidency doesn’t yield the seamlessly conservative record being peddled today. Federal government expanded on his watch. The conservative desire to outlaw abortion was never seriously pursued. Reagan broke with the hardliners in his administration and compromised with the Soviets on arms control. His assault on entitlements never materialized; instead he saved Social Security in 1983. And he repeatedly ignored the fundamental conservative dogma that taxes should never be raised.

All of this has been airbrushed from the new literature of Reagan. But as any balanced account must make clear, Reagan acceded to political compromises as all presidents do once in office–and on many occasions did so willingly. In fact, however often unintentionally, many of his actions as president wound up facilitating liberal objectives. What this clamor of adulation is seeking to deny is that beyond his conservative legacy, Ronald Reagan has bequeathed a liberal one.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0301.green.html
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June 27, 2010 4:17pm
Johnboy

“I remember something from Sunday School about Not to worry. He promised not to do that again.”

God mis-spoke Yvette.
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June 27, 2010 4:20pm
reid

“Reagan was the biggest big government president america had ever seen.”

In terms of his military-industrial programs? I agree, and I think he did that in part because he believed it was right to do it for security reasons, and it also had the good effect of giving the Star Wars program credibility which it had to have in every way.

Privately he changed a lot of financial markets regulation, initiated asset sales and did a lot of other things just like Thatcher and Douglas did. George Shultz was with Friedman in the Chicago School and so Friedman’s Hayek-based ideas had an advocate at the top table throughout his two terms.
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June 27, 2010 4:22pm
Paul Egerton

BTW, the rainbow is G-d’s symbol that He hasn’t forgotten His promise re: the flood, so remember that if you haven’t seen one for awhile.

Jesus, how clever of god.

And here I was, thinking a rainbow was an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth’s atmosphere. They take the form of a multicoloured arc, with red on the outer part of the arch and violet on the inner section of the arch.

Of course, I also know that every time I see a rainbow, god is having gay sex.
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June 27, 2010 4:23pm
reid

thinking a rainbow was an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth’s atmosphere

That’s precisely what it is, Paul. And since G-d designed the universe and everything in it including all the laws of physics and biology and space-time and all the rest of it, since He designed ALL of those, it was really rather clever of Him to gives us a symbol which just created itself every now and then, without Him having to do any work at all, wasn’t it.
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June 27, 2010 4:27pm
Paul Egerton

And since G-d designed the universe and everything in it including all the laws of physics and biology and space-time and all the rest of it, since He designed ALL of those, it was really rather clever of Him

Actually, looking at “his creation” with a cold and rational eye, he fucked up a lot more than he got right.

But go on believing in unicorns, if you must, the rest of us will deal with reality as it is, not as yiu wish it could be.
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June 27, 2010 4:32pm
reid

Actually, looking at “his creation” with a cold and rational eye, he fucked up a lot more than he got right.

He does nice sunsets.

I think the relevant point is Paul, that G-d doesn’t cause bad outcomes – we do. We do it to ourselves. There is always a right or wrong path on everything and we are always free to chose and if we weren’t free to do that every step of the way, what would life be like?
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June 27, 2010 4:38pm
Yvette

“He does nice sunsets.”

Only when He has allowed Australia to catch ablaze from coast to coast, or He’s let Pinatubo explode.
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June 27, 2010 4:46pm
big bruv

I see the usual protesting scum have turned up at the G20.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/3859631/G20-protesters-turn-violent

It is about time the police started shooting these pricks, forget the rubber bullets, use real ones.
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June 27, 2010 4:48pm
philu

“..I remember something about Not to worry. He promised not to do that again.”…

that was half-a-mill bill..?..wasn’t it…?

..after he was sprung..?

on that dodgy ‘i-live-in-dipton claim….?

that ‘earned’ him fifty grand a year…?

for ten years..?

hence his nickname..’half-a-mill bill’..

eh..?

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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June 27, 2010 4:55pm
Paul Egerton

Ah reid, so quick to resort to the “free will” canard. That is simply a theological cop out to try to explain why a good god would let bad things happen to good people.

Let’s just look again at your question and rephrase it as – if there were no evil, what would life be like?

How can you accept that life is only worth living if others must suffer?
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June 27, 2010 4:57pm
philu

“..I see the usual planet-wrecking scum have turned up at the G20…”

it’s about time the bastards were thrown out…

and the planet was healed/cared for…

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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June 27, 2010 4:58pm
Johnboy

Yvette. Pour observer le du soleil avec vous causerait une élévation
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June 27, 2010 4:59pm
philu

reid..you asked me to bring this question to gd…

“..reid.. …

(as a card-carrying xitian…cd u give us the official view on women who ‘gush’…

blessed…?..or cursed…?…)

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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June 27, 2010 5:02pm
reid

“if there were no evil, what would life be like”

Evil is not defined only as assaults on a person or theft, it’s defined as anything bad, sub-optimal or less than perfect. Anything less than that is not entirely good therefore it has evil in it. So just want to set that scene.

That means that all our thoughts have to be good as well because our thoughts are what drive our behavior. So no-one ever has an inappropriate thought of any kind, they always get the right answer and then they do it.

The implications of this state of being is that our entire life down to the minutia of every single thought we ever have, is perfectly planned and perfectly predictable. At every moment everything will be perfect.

So where’s the opportunity for personal growth? How do we get triumphs over adversity, in this landscape? How do we get to ever be a winner, if everyone always wins all the time? Etc.
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June 27, 2010 5:08pm
Viking2

Boring day in many living rooms this day again. Churches empty as usual. They are all at Kiwiblog.
OHHHHH well just as well there was other interesting stuff to do.

More importantly I see that the blood sucking scumbags are back on track again. Personal responsibility forgotten again and now we see why Mercury need a price increase once more.

Muliagas seek compensation

Sunday, 27, Jun, 2010 4:25PM

The family of an Auckland woman who died after her power was cut off is reportedly suing for compensation. Folole Muliaga was on an oxygen machine in 2007 when Mercury Energy cut off her electricity because the account was overdue.

The Prime Minister at the time, Helen Clark, stepped in and was scathingly disapproving of the action taken. Mercury later presented the Muliaga family with $10,000, but now lawyer Olinda Woodroffe is reported to be seeking more.

In 2008 a coroner’s report found a link between the Mrs Muliaga’s death and the cutting off of her electricity.
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June 27, 2010 5:13pm
reid

“(as a card-carrying xitian…cd u give us the official view on women who ‘gush’…blessed…?..or cursed…?…)”

Why don’t you look it up yourself, phil. It’s in Leviticus. Don’t forget to read about the leprosy issue as well. Another part touching on a similar issue is in Genesis where G-d condemns Women to pain in child-birth because of Eve’s part in the Original Sin.

Of course, to properly understand what these are saying you need to understand a lot of Biblical context, which takes years, and from the tone of your comment, I’m not sure you’re properly equipped in that department, and I can’t be arsed interpreting it for you because I’m scared you’d only sneer at it and I don’t take personal criticism very well.
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June 27, 2010 5:13pm
Viking2

And I see that Christchurch continues with its British traditional behavoir with the traditional British reactions. Oh well. Jims coming guys, he will fix it like he has everything else.

Authorities vow to battle boy racers

Sunday, 27, Jun, 2010 10:14AM

Local authorities in Christchurch are preparing to fight the boy racer battle for as long as necessary.

They are pleased last night’s last big cruise didn’t eventuate.

Boy racers were rumoured to be taking to the streets en masse for one last time, before a bylaw limiting their activities comes into effect.

Christchurch mayor Bob Parker says no single measure will solve the problem. He says the council will do whatever it has to, to make sure it gets on top of it.

Mr Parker says there is a hardcore group who will still be prepared to bend the rules.
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June 27, 2010 5:16pm
Johnboy

“Muliaga family with $10,000, but now lawyer Olinda Woodroffe is reported to be seeking more.”

KFC: Be afraid, be very afraid! 🙂
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June 27, 2010 5:17pm
Viking2

and I see the East Coast hori’s have decided today was going to be a good day at the beach. (for a midwinter swim, I guess. can’t see why anyone would bother to go otherwise.

East Coast residents will take to the beaches today, to make it clear they do not want anything like the Gulf of Mexico oil spill on their pristine coast.

They are worried about an exploratory permit the Government has awarded to Petrobras for the Raukumara Basin.

Concerned residents will link hands at beaches from the Eastern Bay of Plenty, to East Cape, to Gisborne at midday – and also light controlled fires as a show of solidarity.

Organiser Ani Pahuru-Huriwai says everyone has seen the devastation the BP spill has caused the ecosystem. She says the threat of it happening on the East Cape is really scary for those who rely on the sea for food.
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June 27, 2010 5:19pm
Yvette

” She says the threat of it happening on the East Cape is really scary for those who rely on the sea for food.”

You’d have to find some oil first.
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June 27, 2010 5:23pm
reid

I rather think she and others can rest assured the Gulf event hasn’t escaped Petrobras’ close attention. Honestly, some people.
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June 27, 2010 5:29pm
Johnboy

You are not allowed to light fires on the beach any more, controlled, or otherwise, the fun police come and put them out.

Oh hell I am speaking from a non-murri point of view.

Foolish fellow!
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