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Global warming concernists John McCain and Hillary Clinton tour the molten north:
[Clinton] said that flying over the Yukon she saw forests decimated by spruce bark beetles - believed to be growing at an unprecedented rate because of warmer weather.
She was also struck by what she heard from a 93-year-old woman she met at a fish camp at Whitehorse, Yukon.
The woman told her she had been fishing there all her life but that lately the fish had strange bumps on them.
Lump fish! Caused by the deadly warming, no doubt. Meanwhile, in Kyoto-screwed New Zealand:
The review of the Kyoto Protocol needs to be considered in the context of the promises on taxation being made by the main political parties, the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern) says.
Government has acknowledged the costs of Kyoto are much greater than Climate Change Minister Hodgson first thought, said Alasdair Thompson, EMA’s chief executive ...
“Authoritative researchers BERL and Castalia have said up to $14 billion should be allowed to cover our obligations under Kyoto.
“That’s well over 10 per cent of New Zealand’s total GDP that could end up being spent paying Russia for carbon credits.”
So if sending money to Russia will solve global warming ... maybe sending skateboards to Portugal will fix global poverty! It’s worth a try! Another NZ business group is similarly dismissive of Kyoto’s benefits:
Signing up to the Kyoto protocol was based on wrong maths and our membership must be revisited by any incoming government, the New Zealand Chambers of Commerce and Industry says.
In its election-year address, the chamber, which represents 22,000 businesses in 31 areas, said it was now clear the calculations behind entry to the protocol were wrong.
Noting the protocol was backed by both National and Labour, the chamber said it wanted answers to how the mistakes in calculations were made and whether officials or ministers were being held to account.
Who cares? Russia will get New Zealand’s money; therefore everything is going to plan. If you wish to assist, buy a Green car.
The smog which almost annually blankets south Asia, making the air nearly unbreathable in cities like Kuala Lumpur, comes from slash-and-burn land clearing in Indonesia.
Indonesia, of course, has signed the Kyoto accord.
Posted by Scott Ferguson on 2005 08 22 at 12:59 PM • permalinkSkateboards to Portugal. Hmm Does that mean that “Coals to Newcastle” are back in play? Or maybe not.
Fish camp at Whitehorse!? Whitehorse is a city. There is a small lake near there where the bush pilots train for takeoffs on small water. Maybe the pontoons hit a few fish. What fish camps?
I havn’t been in Whitehorse in decade so maybe things have changed but..
“Dave S.:”
“Well, if you can’t base national policy on anecdotal evidence from a 93-year-old, what can you base it on?”
How about the demented ravings of Cindy Sheehan?
Posted by JJM Ballantyne on 2005 08 22 at 04:56 PM • permalink“You just keep saying something no matter how untrue and unfactual it might be, over and over and over again, and try to drive the politics to meet your ideological or commercial agenda,” she said. “That is a grave disservice to our country.”
Do tell, Mrs. Clinton. Perhaps you should have a word with some of your colleagues about that.
The Kyoto Treaty is just one arm of the global Russian Mafia.
It’s on the same level as prostitution rings, cyber crime, drugs; but it’s much easier and pays better.Posted by Honkie Hammer on 2005 08 22 at 06:38 PM • permalinkHow big does a cock-up have to be before there’s a real reckoning? $14 Billion from New Zealand?
They should refuse to pay the money and buy themselves a new Education System. One that teaches basic addition, subtraction and multiplication.
How many other countries have been sucked in by the Kyoto Caper? Did i hear that Canada are next in line?
Let’s not forget that the Russians, as masters of brinkmanship, gave free play to their top scientists to say, loudly, that Kyoto was a load of bunk, right up to the point where it became clear they were going to get everything they wanted, then they signed. What chance did New Zealand have against a nation of chess players?
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Piece in Australian today with another Muslim leader, Hajji Abdul Rahman Deen - or Ray Deen, as he is known in Queensland, being taken out of context:The notion that only people on the far fringe of the Muslim community hold extreme ideas unravelled yesterday when one of the people invited to Howard’s summit was accused of saying he believed Jews had prior knowledge of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Hajji Abdul Rahman Deen - or Ray Deen, as he is known in Queensland where he runs a huge and successful demolition company - had been quoted previously as saying there was no evidence that bin Laden was responsible for the attacks on New York and Washington that killed more than 3000 people. He has also asked: “Why did 4000Jews stay home from work that day?” Deen yesterday said those statements had been taken out of context and were not views he held.
However, maybe there is hope with this:
MOHAMMED Taha Alsalami will arrive in Canberra today with a simple message for Prime Minister John Howard: Australia has a “real problem with extremists” and urgent action is needed to stop an explosion of violence.
On the eve of Howard’s terrorism summit, Alsalami, chairman of the Iraqi Muslim Council, says he has no wish to be a martyr. “But I believe I do have a duty to speak out, to tell the Australian Government in particular: ‘You’ve got a real problem here and something needs to be done,”’ he says.
Unless he’slyingdissembling…#16 Laughs to be had last night, listening to ABC tv news whining that Howard was not inviting enough “women and young people” to his Islam summit. Then ABC radio this morning whining that he is making a mistake by excluding ‘extremist’ Imams: yeah, the same mistake you make by not inviting the local neo-nazis to celebrate shabat with you. You’re marginalizing them, you’re driving them underground! By all means drive them underground…about six feet should do it.
Cuckoo
Sometimes I wonder if I should just not listen to ABC (but the alternatives, particularly while commuting almost 3 hours a day, are dreadful!)
I do spend a LOT of time shouting at idiots on the radio…
the idiots who were whining about the new detention centres (like motel rooms) saying they are just awful for the male detainees, just one room with all mod cons (poor bastards);
the idiots like Media Watch defending hate-speech (ooooh-aaah, taken out of context, again) - arrgh.How do these people become so dense? Is it genetic? Is it nurture? Is it taught? I am beginning to “believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see”!
I used to think that we’d be safe from half-baked Arab ideas due to their very own tribalism - they couldn’t get together to organise a, well, to coin the vernacular, a root in a brothel with a fist full of fivers. (They were too busy fighting each other.) But now….
It won’t be long until we’re told that lunar eclipses are the result of Bush eating the moon.
That reminds me of an oldIowahawk post…
I love it. It’s got all the hallmarks of medieval superstition.
Then if President Bush floats, he’s a —
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 08 22 at 11:58 PM • permalinkA WITCH! A WITCH!
And what do we do with witches?
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2005 08 23 at 12:31 AM • permalinkTurn them into a newt!!
No, wait, that doesn’t sound right….
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 08 23 at 12:59 AM • permalinkUm. Did anyone check the sex of the fish? Were the lumps on the top or the bottom?
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2005 08 23 at 01:19 AM • permalinkSkateboards to Portugal? Why? The roads here are so bad all the teenagers will kill themselves…..ah, right, got it.
Posted by timworstall on 2005 08 23 at 06:16 AM • permalinkKerry is a toad and the abc used to be called toad hall I believe.
He showcased a young muslim girl on 7.30 tonight and got her agreeing with him that it’s all our fault and our problem.It’s also our fault that people who are not allowed to shake hands with a non muslim are “alienated from society and isolated from other australians.They are choosing to isolate themselves.Why is there no mention on the t.v. newses about Habib being attacked according to him and his wife.“... the chamber said it wanted answers to how the mistakes in calculations were made and…”
“We were supposed to do calculations? But that nice young er, man, in the birkestocks told us it was true!”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 08 23 at 10:57 AM • permalink“I love it. It’s got all the hallmarks of medieval superstition.”
In 2002 I think it was, there were devastating floods in Germany. The Germans blamed them on Bush. Evidentally the “most educated society” on Earth (at least it used to be) has many members who believe that the President of the USA can control the weather. The miasma of medieval superstition seems to be spreading from the Arab world and from the environmentalists outwards.
I commented at the time that if the President did control the weather, then the least the Euros could do was to offer maiden sacrifice (or reasonable facsimiles of maidens) to propitiate the weather controller. Since Bush has Laura, and as a devout Christian could not be expected to service the sacrificial maidens in defiance of his marriage vows, I would offer selflessly to step in to take his place.
Darn Euros never did cough up the maidens. See what they get next year…
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2005 08 23 at 04:48 PM • permalink“Evidentally the ‘most educated society’ on Earth (at least it used to be) has many members who believe that the President of the USA can control the weather.”
And we all used to think it was those dad-blamed Russians with their Sputniks…
Posted by JJM Ballantyne on 2005 08 23 at 06:08 PM • permalink
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Well, if you can’t base national policy on anecdotal evidence from a 93-year-old, what can you base it on?