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Thursday, December 31, 2009
The last...
Spot the little white things they played in.
The last day of 2009.
The last post of mine in 2009.
The last of the snow in the United Kingdom for ever.
What? The last of the snow in the United Kingdom for ever?
Well that's what they were saying in 2000.
So as the decade ends I leave it with the knowledge that when it started, alarmists were, um, er, alarming us.
And nothing changed in the intervening years.
Hat Tip: NZ Conservative.
New Year horrurs
To me she has always been an arrogant, conniving liar who did what ever necessary to ensure her rise to the top.
She headed a party that stole taxpayers money and passed legislation to cover their butts.
She protected the corrupt Fields to protect her interests.
She cut deals with Winston Peters that reeked.
She signed paintings as her own.......
She used us as stepping stones and left our good country a poorer place, both morally and financially.
Apart from that have a happy New Year.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Labour's hypocrisy over pay increases
Chis Hipkins over at Red Alert is enraged over pay increases for ministers via a change to the residence allowance.
However despite the rhetoric, a few weeks before Christmas, four of his ministers got a pay rise thanks to Key's new funding regime for ministerial residences, with more of them set to benefit as they enter the new system over the next 12 months.But I recall this issue from a few months ago. The money quote:
Based on a comparison of their previous claims and their new allowances, all four of the first ministers to enter the new regime get a tax free pay increase. Pita Sharples gets $173 per week, David Carter $204 per week, and Maurice Williamson $84 per week. It's harder to calculate the fourth minister, Nathan Guy, because he only recently seems to have started claiming.
Mr Rennie said the pay rises flowed through from a decision in 2005 to increase the overall funding for chief executives by 5 per cent a year for five years.A decision in 2005 to grant pay increases for five years without any chance of review or linked to performance. Check out the numbers in that Herald article. They're scary and exemplify the largesse the previous government operated under.
Another Word Debased.
Now the enviro-nazis have stolen the word 'green.'
Someone, please tell Phil O'Reilly that in the Clean green context, the word green refers to a colour. Compared with most other countries (Except the Emerald Isle) New Zealand is Green. It's not a dirty shitty arid reddy brown like much of Canada, USA, Argentina, Russia, India, Australia et al. The bloody place really is very very GREEN. Never can I forget the involuntary gasp each time I flew in over Aphitu from Australia during the seventies. I simply had forgotten what real green grass and bush actually looked like.
So how can we we be setting ourselves up to fail?
Try Googling "clean green New Zealand" and you'll find many recent critical entries pointing out instances where we are failing to meet the standard of "clean and green".
We can't somehow 'not live up to' the colour of the landscape. The fact of the matter is, compared to most countries Adolf has visited, New Zealand is cleaner and a damned sight greener.
Whose standard is it anyway? There are some nutters (many were at Copenhagen) who would consider we fail as long as we allow homo sapiens to reside here.
So Mr O'Reilly, I suggest you stick your chest out a bit and stop prevaricating. By all means tell your mates this country is a great place to live but tell them also is because the joint is so Green.
What I've Long Suspected
Victor Davis Hanson sums it up succinctly. The whole piece is worth a read, particularly the bit about where he lives.
"I have had long hospitalizations in the past abroad as well as surgery; my impression is that the American medical system provides better care for its indigent than most countries afford their wealthy."
Monday, December 28, 2009
What Took So Long?.........
Stuff is reporting a change of attitude on the part of New Zealand in it's dealings with Fiji.
Mr Key, don't stuff around with letters. Get on a plane and get yourself up there to sit down and have a beer with the man. Face to face. Mana enhancing man to man.
Whatever you do, do NOT send anyone who is associated with the NZ Labour Party or is a Methodist. They are the enemy in this little revolution.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Police shooting
It's funny that when a cop is shot as a result of protecting the very freedoms that the likes of Idiot/Savant, Bomber (and others) take for granted, their silence is deafening.
Yet when a cop is placed in a similarly unenviable position of protecting those same freedoms, but forced to use a firearm in a split second decision, their squawking can be heard from Cape Reinga to the Bluff. Squawking which, at the time, I said was unjustified and would be proven wrong. I was right.
Constable Snow, thank you for patrolling South Auckland at 4am in the morning. Thank you for getting out of your car to investigate suspicious behaviour. You didn't know what was about to occur, yet in the dark, armed only with your notebook and a pen, you bravely did what 99% of New Zealanders wouldn't dare do.
May you recover fully and return to frontline policing. And let's hope your injuries aren't so bad they prevent that.
Loony letters
Example 1
Labour stalwart, John Langdon, wrote to the Herald a week or so ago. His issue? TVNZ apparently considering reducing the programming of Coronation Street down to just one night per week.
However, it wasn't this that caught my eye, rather it was whose fault it was. Yep. John Key. You see Key is PM, and TVNZ is owned by Jonathan Coleman and Bill English, so if TVNZ cut Coro Street back it would be National's fault and, here's the main point made by Langdon, Key deserved to be booted out of office as a result.
There's nothing like Labour's prioirities to remind us why they were booted out of office last year.
Example 2
In today's HoS, a Barry Morgan of Manukau (no apparent evidence on being a Labour apparatchik) writes on taxes. He opines:
Why don't the middle and upper class people like paying taxes?...Langdon thinks our number one priority is Coronation Street and Morgan thinks it's preventing military invasion resulting from "global warming"
When it comes to...(climatic adversity) they simply don't want to pay any taxes towards helping out...
Only tax increases will save our great-grandchildren. Tax increases to put us on a "war footing" against the ravages of global warming, and its consequences...
New Zealand and Australia need to at least double our armed forces and military capabilities to combat any invasion that will eventuate from the blobal warming crisis, should the current initiatives fail. It's simply that urgent.
Where's the invasion gonna come from? Tuvalu? Which has a population of ~12,000.00?
Now, some may think getting my jollies reading letters to the editor is a little odd, but at least I don't spend my holidays reading BSA decisions!!!.
If there is no news, invent some
Fine example of this yesterday: I noticed on Stuff Nazi uniforms upset RSA, in which we discover that RSA national president Robin Klitscher is furious that members of the Military Re-enactment Society put on Nazi uniforms and set up swastika flags and a portrait of Hitler. Well, yes, that would be a pretty offensive show to put on for your local RSA I should think, even if its national president does have a German name. Except, they didn't do it at the RSA:
The uniforms were worn at a private dinner at a Cambridge restaurant last month.
So how did the nat pres of the RSA find out about this private function and decide to call the press? How indeed? On reading the story at the NZ Herald site, all is revealed:
The Weekend Herald has obtained photographs of members of the Military Re-enactment Society holding a private dinner at a Cambridge restaurant last month.
In other words, the journo, Jared Savage, saw the photos of someone's private event and rushed off to wave them at Robin Klitscher so he could write a story about how the photos had outraged Robin Klitscher. I guess David Zwartz was unavailable...
I can't wait for Jared Savage's next story, in which he obtains photos of a pig on a spit at a barbecue and rushes them to the head of FIANZ for comment.
Saturday, December 26, 2009
For the record the Veteran is not a Royalist. Once was, but the image of Charles the Third as King of New Zealand leaves me cold. Once the Queen departs I favour New Zealand becoming a Republic within the Commonwealth with a President as titular Head of State (however appointed/elected) having a ceremonial role with Parliament retaining primacy over all issues.
Friday, December 25, 2009
Christmas Day - The NZPA Way
Bias can be such a subtle thing. As I read through this piece I was struck by what was left out. Witness:-
The banks survived and didn't stop lending, which had more to do with New Zealand getting through the recession than any of the Government's ideas.
Hmmmmm. I seem to recall that the gummint made it clear to the banks, time and time again, that they had to keep lending 'or else.' Somewhere in there was also a government guarantee given to the same banks - introduced by Labour in its dying moments and later enhanced by the current administration.
His mind, and Key's, was fixed on avoiding an international credit rating downgrade which would have made it more difficult and expensive to get the money.
English managed to stay on the tightrope. Core spending was maintained while "poor quality" programmes were cut across the board. Many of the previous government's pet projects were canned and payments into the superannuation fund were frozen. There was no ratings downgrade.A prime reason our banks WERE able to keep lending and keep interest rates modest was the fact - conveniently ignored by NZPA - that an unexpected ratings up-grade resulted. A truly remarkable achievement.
By year end one thing was becoming clear - Key isn't leading a reformist government. There's no agenda for the sort of changes the business sector thought they were going to get. It might be more business-friendly than Labour but it's well short of an embrace. It is, as he said it would be, a pragmatic centre-right government.Forgotten by NZPA are John Key's and Bill English's many election campaign promises that there will be no asset sales during the first term; and especially there will be no major boat rocking changes during a recession. NZPA doesn't seem to realise that while technically we have come out of recession, the figures released by the Reserve Bank yesterday indicate that we are only just out and in fact are still teetering on the brink. GDP growth for the September quarter was 0.2%.
Ignored by NZPA are the many signs of preparation for reform initiated during the first year - reform of taxation being one of the most significant.
Now let's see how they treated Philk Off and his mates.
Surprise surprise. As many bad things about Labour were hidden as were good things about National. That's how it's done, see?
Phil Goff says he knew it was going to be hard, the first year after losing an election always is. But Labour held a surprisingly upbeat annual conference and its caucus worked well with new backbenchers hitting their straps in Parliament.I say, chaps. What about the damaging Indian sheila sooled onto Richard Worth by Phil Goff? What about his famous 'dole for millionaires'? What about his specially picked and fed to the media beneficiary battlers who turned out to be living a life of luxury as dole bludgers?
Commentators wrote death notices as Goff's popularity stayed in single figures but there were no challengers this year and there aren't likely to be any next year. Labour's support base didn't erode by much, staying around 30 per cent against its election night 33.9 per cent.
Never mind the cold hard fact that Labour's party vote dropped below 30% for a time and went as low as 27.5% as I recall.
But voters at last took notice of Labour and its leader, with polls showing a modest bounceback. Mission accomplished.Maybe Adolf has been asleep but I can recall only one poll in which Labour 'bounced back' a little since Goff's speech. Since then he has been dragged back into line by his caucus and party president so it's a bit early to be calling 'mission accomplished.'
So there you have it. NZPA exemplifies the media's ability to 'hide the decline.' All you do is select the data which suits your hypothesis. It's easier for journalists than it is for junk scientists though. Journos don't have to rig the peer review process because when it comes to lies and distortions, they are without peer.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Blogger Aid
This will be a series of posts.
Post #1.
Get a copy of the court orders you are alleged to have breached. You need to see exactly what the court ordered. Ask the police to provide them under the Official Information Act. You won't need them prior to the 5th though.
This will assist you for the offence under section 140(1) of the Criminal Justice Act. However, I doubt it will for the offence charged under section 139.
That's two six minute units: $70.
Here's a clue to what makes us warm
Santa Came Early For Bill
Can someone more expert than Adolf tell whether this will have any significant effect on quarterly GDP?
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
From The Horse's Mouth
Hacked emails from an English Climate-research Centre were released this week. They've released an outpouring of righteous and sometimes hysterical indignation from the "true believers" on the web, and an equally righteous trumpetting from those who question the correctness of the true believers' science, and see them as evidence of underhand behaviour.
"Hacking is in itself disquieting, but the content and focus of the leaked emails is also disquieting. We read a sample in the Physics Department last week, and eyebrows were raised. I have been a publishing Physicist for over 40 years, and I never wrote emails like this, and my colleagues, after some thought, agreed that they hadn't either. We sound off to each other about incompetent editors and referees who reject our papers, often in robust language, but never question the right of others to reject our data or conclusions, describe dissenting colleagues disparagingly, nor hide behind freedom of information acts to release our data or modelling programs - which all seem to be present or implied in what we read.
I find it interesting and revealing that the majority of letters to the editor in the last few issues of the authoritative journal "Physics Today" reveal a robust, and ongoing technical debate about the science of climate change and its predictions, which are far from being as clear-cut as most of you probably believe."
Merry Christmas and a hopeful New Year.
It's The Sun, Stupid!
Isn't it amazing how genuine scientists making genuine observations are now being published?
Here's the devastating money shot from this latest piece of genuine research, presented in a prestigious and properly peer reviewed publication - Physics Reports.
"My findings do not agree with the climate models that conventionally thought that greenhouse gases, mainly CO2, are the major culprits for the global warming seen in the late 20th century," Lu said. "Instead, the observed data show that CFCs conspiring with cosmic rays most likely caused both the Antarctic ozone hole and global warming..........."
"............Most remarkably, the total amount of CFCs, ozone-depleting molecules that are well-known greenhouse gases, has decreased around 2000," Lu said. "Correspondingly, the global surface temperature has also dropped. In striking contrast, the CO2 level has kept rising since 1850 and now is at its largest growth rate."In his research, Lu discovers that while there was global warming from 1950 to 2000, there has been global cooling since 2002. The cooling trend will continue for the next 50 years, according to his new research observations.
John Key, please take note. This is not cosy 'consensus' junk science. This is the real deal.
Read the whole piece - it is very straight forward, logical and easy to understand.
It's the Sun, stupid.
Some Perspective on Farting Cows - Updated.
In India today there are estimated to be roughly 283 million cattle, belching untouchable methane into the air.
In Australia today there are estimated to be 28 million cattle, belching methane into the air.
In the USA today there are estimated to be 98 million cattle, belching methane into the air.
In New Zealand today there are estimated to be roughly 38.5 million sheep and goats, belching methane into the air.
In Australia today there are estimated to be 86 million sheep and goats, belching methane into the air.
In India today there are estimated to be 168 million sheep and goats, belching methane into the air.
Without allowing for stock numbers in Russia and China, neither of whom will have a bar of these damned fool restrictions, if New Zealand slaughtered every one of our sheep and cattle, we would achieve a near to zero effect on the amount of methane produced worldwide by farting, belching sheep, cattle and goats.
None of these five countries has an ETS and none is likely to.
Why are we so keen to give away our competitive advantage and resulting export income to India, Australia and the the US?
Repeal the junk science ETS. Repeal the ETS.
Update: There you are, see? Toldyaso.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Campbell on Welfare
Gordon Campbell has a piece on Scoop about National's welfare reforms.
The image he uses (above) is interesting to say the least.
How can anyone possibly argue after this story that the Left's welfare ideals are about carrots?
Another victimless crime ?
Apparently home detention is now "jail".
Are they trying to pretend that people who steal from taxpayers are really being dealt to.
Because everyone knows that that is not the case.
Why aren't we selling up this guy's assets and getting our $68,000 back plus interest.
As an aside I thought I would take my annual visit to the Standard ( no link, you can find it but I wouldn't bother) to see what they had to say about climategate. I wasn't disappointed. Somethings never change.
Flogging a dying horse to get the last mile out of it, with Toad as jockey.
We may have differing political views but that is healthy in a functioning democracy. Any attempt to stifle political debate as Labour and the Greens did with their obnoxious Electoral Finance Act is to be deplored.
Next year I expect the debate on MMP to heat up. Cards on the table time. Back in 1996 I was involved on the periphery of the Peter Shirtcliffe campaign against MMP along with my good friend Tony Farrington. We lost. Now we get the chance to re litigate that decision. Up until the last election I would have thought the likely result a foregone conclusion with bastard Parties like Winston First a graphic reminder of all the frailties of a system designed by the Allies and forced upon Germany in an attempt to ensure no more Hitlers. With Peters just a bad memory and with United Future and the Progressives likely to disappear from Parliament next time round I'm not at all sure there will be any change. For the record, the Veteran now supports a change to the 'Supplementary Member' system with the Party Vote % applied against the number of list seats on offer rather than the total number of seats making up the Parliament. Let's have the debate.
National needs both the ACT and Maori Party support if it is to be a long term Government. The Maori Party have scarcely put a foot wrong in terms of relating to their own constituency. Hone is an aberration they can do without but are stuck with. The reality is that he is that he has zip gravitas with Government and rightly so.
ACT is a worry. They appear to be tearing themselves apart over Hide vs Douglas with Rodney discredited as someone undergoing a mid life crisis and a perk taker and Douglas as an angry old man going nowhere except to London on perks "to which I am entitled". National needs ACT but if they cannot get their act together then perhaps they should consider the advice of Blair Mulholland and disband with their activists morphing back into National and Labour from whence they came. I would prefer ACT remains but unless they can move on from what has been a disastrous six months then National may well stand a quality candidate in Epsom with none of the nudge, nudge, wink, wink of the past two elections.
For Labour I just don't give a damn and the Greens are irrelevant to me. Goff, Norman and Turei don't cut the mustard.
As for the ETS and one might observe that with the hard Right castigating National for doing too much and the Left and hard Left the same for not doing enough then probably we are doing it about right. I remain a climate change skeptic but real politik has it that if we were to opt out of where the remainder of the world is going then as sure as god made little apples legislators in the EU and and US for starters would use that as an excuse to impose further tariff barriers against against our exports. Those who argue otherwise are being intellectually dishonest but perhaps populist politics rules ok.
It has been a good year for our war veteran community thanks especially to the efforts of Judith Collins. She has been a breath of fresh air after nine years of failure Ministers Hawkins and Barker.
Finally, if any are inclined to do so you might say a prayer for our son who is about to take over a senior UK command appointment in Afghanistan. His Regiment has lost three soldiers in the last ten days with the last one just yesterday. We can argue the rights and wrongs of being there. We should never take that out on the soldiers, sailors and airmen doing what an elected (Labour) government has sent them to do.
Happy Christmas.
A twenty year career of doctoring data comes to a dismal end.
Now, what about Jones, Briffa, Trenbeth and Mann? The many illegitimate fathers of the bastard child 'global warming.'
Money Better Spent?
Take your mind off the tragic enormity of it all for a moment if you will and reflect upon Lou's recent post where he remarked on what an extraordinary influence for good can be just a lousy one hundred bucks, put directly into the hands of the person who needs a hand.
Take your mental meanderings a step further and try to imagine what could have been done with the US$1 billion plus which was wasted in Denmark.
The result is eye wateringly staggering. You could have built houses for, fed and medicated for a year some four million, six hundred and seventy-three thousand starving homeless people in Africa, Bangladesh, Ethiopia or wherever.
Adolf's back of a cigarette packet budget (that's how it was done at Lincoln during the sixties) indicates a tonne of wheat (200 g/head/day) might cost say US$600 by the time it is bagged ($300 fob US) and delivered; US$20 will probably buy a year's medication per head at knock down ex factory prices; and US$525 would buy building materials sufficient for a rudimentary home for four people. (That's about the amount a Fijian villager spends on housing materials.)
Would somebody please check the maths? When you've done so, kindly send a note to Messrs Gore, Pachauri and Co and ask them to cough up.
Monday, December 21, 2009
A Very Good Week For ACT
It was the week during which the backroom shenanigans by the old goat and the young mother were revealed and which shenanigans appear to have cemented party leader Rodney Hide in place.
He now has a chance to clean out the stables and look to the party's Board to bring in to its list some candidates with more widespread appeal and political common sense. (Douglas and Roy have done their dashes.)
People like Shaun Plunkett maybe? (He's likely to be looking for a job.)
Or maybe Dr Chris deFreitas?
Which brings me to the second reason it was a very good week for ACT.
Copenhagen and John Key's childlike adherence to the rapidly crumbling and discredited mantra of the Global Warmenisers and their vast conspiracy of junk science, media manipulation and wealth transfer on a giant scale.
ACT needs only to hold its head high and campaign hard on it's opposition to the hot air and horse shit from Copenhagen; make the repeal of the ridiculous ETS a central plank of its 2011 campaign, get a few decent candidates on its list, put up John Bascowan for a win in Tamaki electorate and it's a shoe in for ten percent party vote in 2011 to go alongside two electorate seats. Hell, if ACT campaigned on the repeal of the ETS they'd get MY party vote.
If it was really brave it would also campaign to lift the MMP threshold from five percent to eight or even ten percent. (Good night Greens.)
Those two issues alone must be worth at least five percent party vote out in mainland 'feet on the ground' New Zealand.
That's the way to vault out of the nether world of political tail on the dog and become a party of substance and serious influence.
Steyn at His Best
On Ah'madinnerjacket and Prince Charles:-
"Take Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Prince of Wales. One's a millenarian apocalyptic loon, and the other's president of Iran. On balance, widening the streets of Tehran for the imminent return of the Twelfth Imam seems marginally less deranged than insisting the planet is doomed in 96 months unless humanity abandons the evils of capitalism and "the age of convenience." (This from a man who has never drawn his own curtains.)"
On free fucks for fools:-
On Rajendra Pachauri:-
"I resisted comment for a week—in part because, while a generous gift, it seemed unlikely to be taken up. For one thing, it's far harder to "hide the decline" when you're in a Danish bordello than at the Climatic Research Unit. For another, you have to pay extra if you want a second girl to come in and "peer-review" your submission."
"He's not a climatologist but a railroad engineer. So, if he ever avails himself of a free half-hour with a Copenhagen hooker, I'm sure, like the Bombay to Cochin express, he'll pull out on time. But it's hard to see why he should be presiding over a multi-trillion-dollar shakedown of the global economy."On "the world's most influential tree":-
On the serious duplicity and naked greed of it all:-
Question: can you measure any tree-ring cycles for the last millennium and get a genuine hockey stick?
Answer: yes. Tree Number YAD061. That's it. One tree. The temperature records show no warming in Siberia over the last half-century. But you can't see the forest for the tree, singular......
............And, as Dr. Pachauri rebukes us, YAD061 can never be questioned because it's peer-reviewed. Every December the CRU Tabernacle Choir should place (non-incandescent) lights on its snow-laden boughs and sing:
"O-Sixty-One! O-Sixty-One!
How lovely are thy cycles!
O-Sixty-One! O-Sixty-One!
At last, a match for Michael's!"
It's the speed that impresses. In 2008, carbon trading worldwide reached $128 billion. That's why Morgan Stanley and Citigroup are hot for emissions schemes. According to the writer Jo Nova, carbon is on course to become the largest traded commodity—bigger than oil or gas. As she says, it's the subprime mortgage of the commodities market. Like Al Gore, the world's first carbon billionaire, it's testament mainly to a kind of globalized gullibility. In the blink of an eye, the "settled science" of a small number of ideologues was propelled upwards into a "peer-reviewed" "consensus" and then an international fait accompli.A few weeks ago Adolf noted the similarities between the worthless pieces of paper flogged around the world from decade to decade.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Wealth redistribution 101
The technology already exists for people to sort this out amongst themselves with no bureaucracy at all.
All you need is a bank account, a web site and email.
A person, in say Kenya, registers their details on a personal page on a secure web site outlining their specific needs.
In my experience the needs are reasonably basic.
Anyone can choose to contact this person via email and if they are satisfied with the genuine status of the person, can send a small amount of money directly to that person via the banking system.
The recipient can place feedback and photos on the website. And so build the relationship.
I am thinking of a model along the lines of Trademe.
Anyone could add comments to the person's page and so help eliminate the potential for fraud.
Of course people would try to rip the system off but with time the fraudsters would be weeded out and the individual sums involved would be a fraction of the billion $ fraud the UN gets away with every year.
I should add that in 20 years of dealing with 100's of "grass root" African people I have found 99.99% to be completely honest and only trying their best to put a roof over their heads and get their kids through school. The only African who has ripped me off ever was an aspiring politician, so I should have known better!!
Even $100 a year can make a huge difference to these people and our governments could make donations tax deductable.
And the banks could cut a deal to do the transaction for $5 instead of the $25 fee they extort now to send a TT.
The best thing is that it will be people power not government power.
Two Bob Each Way
".......and will fight to clear his name, says a close friend. The defendant, who has name suppression, was bailed........"
Thus sayeth the Herald.
Ponder if you will, the intellectual capacity of the modern day journalist.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Guardian Confirms Unconditional Surrender
"Negotiators will now work on individual agreements such as forests, technology, and finance – but, without strong leadership, the chances are that it will take years to complete."
The gross spectacle which was Copenhagen has given the voters of the free world their first real insight into the true agenda of the Global Warmenisers. A leftist/United Nations/World Bank/Socialist naked grab for world domination which dwarfed previous attempts by Stalin and Hitler before him.
We are indebted to Chavez in particular for driving the message home on world wide television.
Don't hold your breath
1. Our ETS be scrapped.
2. John Key apologises to us all for wasting our borrowed money.
2. Our politicians promise that we taxpayers will never be fleeced like this again.
3. Rudd, Brown, Sarkozy and Obama have their arses warmed by being booted out next election.
4. Now that the truth is out, The Green Party be renamed the Red ( Redistribute Everyone's Dollar) Party.
5. The earth is allowed to carry on warming and cooling, just like it has for 5 billion years.
6. CO2 goes back to being a lifegiving gas.
7. Science is reclaimed by real scientists who can solve the real problems the world faces.
Sadly, most of this will never happen ( except 5 & 7) and they will all be back at the trough next year in Mexicon and ... the year after and ... the year after and ... $100billion is a big carrot
These people will never give up until mankind is beaten into submission.
So keep working hard, paying your taxes and believing everything you read in the papers.
BBC Admits Defeat for Warmensiers
'Meaningful' deal reached at Copenhagen
The word 'meaningful' is diplospeak for 'fuck all of any value.'
A US government official said the deal was a "historic step forward" but was not enough to prevent dangerous climate change in the future.
Analysts welcomed the fact that a deal had been done, but said its achievements were modest.
US President Barack Obama said the deal would be a foundation for global action but there was "much further to go".
The free world heaves a collective sigh of relief as the 'non binding' book full of bullshit is published.
After a conference which is estimated to have cost over one billion dollars US, the world's socialists retire to lick their wounds and figure out a new scam. The free world knows that by the time of the next scheduled billion dollar waste of money the junk science supporting the current scam will be well and truly debunked and its proponents expelled from the scientific community.
The burning question for New Zealand is:-
How do we prevent our politicians and their assorted hangers on from wasting more of our money next time round?
The Hollywood President
Kinda says it all about this tinsel president.
Turns up to the battle after the action is over and expects to get an Oscar.
Friday, December 18, 2009
Bad parents make bad kids, unless we pass a law
The Judge blamed bad parenting and upbringing, which is almost certain the only contributing factor.
But in New Zealand we don't address that at its core, by incentivising families through personal responsibility, hard work and by getting the destructive nature of the State out of their lives.
No. We look at passing laws making bad parenting illegal. This, on the day the very reason for not passing more laws stares at us via the sad faces of two 17 year old girls.
I was never worried when I became a dad because I figured parenting is simple, if you stick to the tried and true of hard work, love, patience, praise, support, discipline and the other important factor - your ears.
But in New Zealand we reward doing nothing (DPB), remove discipline (smacking), set up a myriad of inefficient and bureaucratic state agencies, and pass laws, - as a panacea to parenting problems.
This country is unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable.
UN renames countries
We should really think about how countries names will be changed
Unew Zealand
Sabateurs and Traitors
The game is one of perceptions whereby our trading enemies are prevented from using the flawed hysteria of climate change as an excuse for slapping tariffs on our exports to their countries. The strategy turns out to be remarkably successful.
Not only does the government of the day achieve co-operation from a large number of significant countries for some practical long term research into improving agricultural production but it manages to have it's PM replaced in a potentially embarrassing televised debate by the desperate little blond bloke from next door. (Rudd will find this futile and inopportune appearance used against him mercilessly by the Abbott led Liberals next year.)
Then along comes NZ Labour and The Greens.
Chauvelle (who paid for this idiot to go there?) pipes up and bad mouth's NZ's ETS - a measure whose ONLY value lies in its ability to stave off our trade enemies for a couple of years before it is repealed - while the Greens complain l0udly that NZ is not serious about climate change.
What's it to be for these people?
Firing squad or piano wire and meat hooks?
Classic Put Down
Mr Key was yesterday bumped from today's BBC World news debate on climate change in favour of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
The Prime Minister said he was not concerned about being dropped by the British state broadcaster. "I'll just watch Fox News for a while."
Thursday, December 17, 2009
The Science has finally settled...
David Cunliffe is a stupid arrogant tosser.
But that along with Shane Jones' put down of his leader over the Maori flag debate having already set him up for his bollocking by the Labour Caucus over his race relations speech suggests that the BBQ season is well and truly underway.
So who will the Labour caucus opt for at their first meeting in the new year when a vote on the leadership will be taken? The contenders ...
Goff and King;
Cunliffe and Dyson;
Jones and Parker, or even
***** and *****
A month ago I would have said Goff was secure. Now I'm not so sure.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Sun spots
Is Len Brown taking orders from Labour?
Yet this follows on from his bragging in the Herald two months prior that he was going to spend up to one million dollars, in a campaign just like Obama (dry retching can commence). Apart from the obvious hypocrisy of the man, I couldn't help but notice he came out on the same day that the Labour losers in Parliament also started debating the spending limits.
What a coincidence. I wouldn't be surprised at all to learn that Len Brown takes his orders from the Labour Party headquarters in Wellington.
But those Labourites (Len and the ones in Wellington) are certainly true to form - they will do anything they can to choke off the right for people to fundraise and spend their own money in election campaigns.
Yesterday it was announced that Cabinet has signed off on a deal that extends this to include private transport. Once the necessary Regulations are Gazetted entitled Veterans will be able to claim reimbursement calculated at 22.5 cents per kilometer for every journey over 80 kilometers (160 kilometers round trip).
The Veteran estimates that around 1,500 Veterans will be eligible for this new payment which is tax free.
The change will particularly advantage Veterans in the Far North, East Coast North Island and West Coast South Island where there is limited public transport but the reality is that most eligible Veterans will benefit one way or other.
In a time of financial stringency it is encouraging that Government has seen fit to honour disabled War Veterans this way.
Judith Collins, as Minister for Veterans' Affairs, is to be congratulated.
What will one day at work without Cricinfo to keep one amused!
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Brown Len opens mouth and inserts foot
Mayoral hopeful, Brown Len, who is a Labour Party member, a friend of Dick Hubbard (who is a good friend of Helen Clark), and undoubtedly is soon to be backed by Rod Oram, has opined on spending limits for the Auckland mayoral race.
Auckland's super mayoral race could be bought by a wealthy candidate unless the campaign spending limit is cut back, Manukau Mayor Len Brown claims.I agree. The limit should be $150,000.00 and should commence tomorrow. Why?
Mayoral candidates will next year be allowed to spend $580,000 and Brown wants this cut back to as little as $150,000.
Because the hypocritical mayoral aspirant has already splurged big time, and intends to spend even bigger time.
Manukau Mayor Len Brown has predicted he will spend about $1 million in a Barack Obama-style race to be mayor of the Auckland Supercity - but he does not think his campaign will be the most expensive.Is Conor Roberts responsible for this bout of hypocrisy? Or is Brown Len just making stuff up as he goes along?
Brown has already spent between $150,000 and $200,000, according to his rival, Auckland Mayor John Banks - but Brown has dismissed this as at least $100,000 too high.
Whatever is the answer, it doesn't bode well for Aucklanders.
Adolf and the AO Squad
A good old stretch at about 400m and off into the sun rise.
What's that police car doing there in the roundabout with lights flashing? Further up the road- about 250m, half a dozen men in black.
The cop at the roundabout said "Sorry mate, you can't go up there." Then I saw his semi-automatic rifle held closely at his side as he stood near his car's open door. Then I heard the loud hailer being used by the police negotiator. Then I turned and went the other way.
I wonder what some poor buggers are going through in Sunset Rd this morning.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Could be a long "partnership"
Mad Mayer to Sue?
I imagine he might have a difficult job in court if the said talk back hosts simply refer to him as the Mad Mayor and leave out any reference to his city of precarious employment.
After all, who is it to say they were not referring to that madman Tim Tupped Green Sue Shadbolt or the egocentric Michael Eyeliner Laws or the Mare of Rodney or the mad rap artist Brown Len or the Crazed Chameleon from out west or , or, or anyone else for that matter?
North Shore City's great Chief Imbiber has managed to embed his nomenclature in the minds of every potential voter in the region. When he gets to court, the defense lawyer has only to put him on oath and ask him those three medical questions dreaded by all life insurance applicants:-
- Do you drink alcohol?
- How many standard drinks have you consumed during the last week?
- Have you ever been advised by a medical practitioner to reduce your alcohol consumption?
It's About Time........
First there was Australia's Malcolm Turnbull who, too late, found that Liberal voters don't like their leader getting into bed with Labor.
Now, America's first Afro-Ayrab President falls to an all time low. Talk of impeachment appears for the first time - on grounds of economic destruction, epitomised by Cap and Trade.
Could it be coincidence or is it that ordinary Yanks are waking up to Climategate and the biggest lie in history? Maybe healthcare is a factor but not so in NZ.
Where, for the first time since last year's election, John Key has taken a modest hit in a poll.
Last night's TV3 poll showed a whopping 9% decline in those who think he is doing a good job. Adolf reckons this decline is due largely to the foolish ETS and even more foolish journey to the carbonbunkum which is Copenhagen.
The next six months will make for very interesting watching.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Voluntarily lower my standard of living? Sure, why not.
I've been reminded of this by the feel-good blather recently about pushing the govt to do more in response to climate change.
In the comments thread of my post on the Copenhagen circus spectacular, deitynigel6888 wrote "I'll believe there's a crisis when the people telling us there's a crisis start acting like there's a crisis."
I believe it's a thought very much worth keeping in mind when considering climate change alarmism. It was directed at the fat cat politicians turning up in Copenhagen with their fleets of private jets and limousines, but could be equally well addressed to all the climate change "activists," including the scientists.
According to top climate scientists Lucy Lawless and other celebrities, we need to cut our carbon emissions by a minimum of 40%. This goal has achieved widespread public support, on the basis that it's up to the govt to do something about it. Well, yeah - if we're serious about this, the govt will have to take action. But if you personally are serious about it, why the hell aren't you taking some action yourself?
Talk to the average climate change worrier, and they are taking what they consider to be "action." They've installed compact fluorescent light bulbs; they've lowered the temperature on their hot water cylinder; they're using a bike or a bus more often; they're eating less meat; and so on. Er, yes. And these trivial reductions, a matter of a few percent, are in response to a supposedly desperate crisis, the last chance to prevent millions of people dying, the "moral equivalent of WW2," in which our only shot is to reduce our carbon emissions by at least 40 fucking percent? Really?
If you really do believe we're on a last chance bid to save humanity, act like it. That car's going to have to go. Likewise, the cellphone and computers. It's no good selling them, because that would simply pass the emissions on to someone else. What needs to happen is that the carbon in them is returned to the earth. I suggest burying them. Please don't use a digger to bury your car, that would emit a lot of CO2 - I suggest using a shovel. Maybe your equally progressive friends will help. Your typical poorly-insulated, single-glazed NZ piece-o'shit house that leaks heat everywhere and gets its power from the national grid needs a lot of expensive work: insulation, double-glazing, water-capture from the roof into tanks, some kind of independent power supply, composting toilet. You'll need to become a vegan - sure, it's bad for your health and really difficult to get enough nutrition if you don't eat the right kinds of food, but apparently meat and dairy are carbon-intensive. These are just off the top of my head, probably there's a lot more you could do. Certainly, you won't want to fly anywhere ever again (and don't give me that bullshit about paying some scammers who claim to plant trees on your behalf - we're talking about drastic reductions in your emissions here, not "offsets.") Once you've got started on those, come back with the "last chance to save humanity" stuff and maybe someone will take it seriously.
So Far So Good
He offered a premium Australian red wine to the first warmist who could provide details of just ten weather stations where Jones, Mann, Slazenger, Briffa and their self selected peers had 'homogenised' the raw data and found a decline in temperatures where before there had been steady or rising readings for the past couple of decades.
If they could put forward such evidence, they might have some chance of refuting accusations that all of them have systematically 'cooked the books' in favour of fundamentalist warmenising.
You'd think they would have had enough brains to cook at least a dozen or so sites the other way, so as to provide a bit of insurance. These scientists clearly have not studied the science of lying.
You've got to have just enough truth in there to disguise the enormous lie.
After two days, it looks as though thay failed and Adolf's money is safe.
The Lunatic of Lake Rd embarrasses the Shore again
The Mad Mayor denies having a drinking problem in the article.
Whaleoil, long time nemesis of the Mad Mayor, has the details, and has even kindly mashed up the phone messages into a famous US political party advertisement.
Honestly, help can't come soon enough for the North Shore with a John Banks led supercity.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
No Ball
I saw it as the bowler bowled. The umpire was blind.
There should be introduced immediately automatic scrutiny by the third umpire of the bowler's foot and it's legal or illegal position via a vis the batting crease.
Most bullshit ever
So the Met office has been recording temperatures for 160 years of the 5 billion years the earth has been in existence.
That's 0.0000032% of "ever".
These people seem to conveniently forget that the world has been heating and cooling in natural cycles that far exceed what we are experiencing now. So there is about a 0.00000% chance that next year will be the hottest ever. There is plenty of evidence to show that the world has been hotter than now, even the recent middle ages were warmer.
It seems that weather reporting is now firmly in the hands of hyperbole.
Everything is "extreme" when the reality is that we live in average times.
The weather is actually our friend.
Sure we get good days and some bad days but to promote it as something to fear is pathetic.
We should just be thankful that we can enjoy the planet whilst it is in an interglacial period.
Here is a photo of what extreme temperature really looks like. Some time in the past ( B.C. Before Carbon) this would have been a photo of a large chunk of ice.
Don't panic, it's alright, it's only a paper loss
I've been following iPredict and opened a small account a few months back: $100. It's pocket money really, but I just wanted to give it a go after observing it for a while.
My $100 was quickly turned into $148. I then gambled a little by putting most of it on one prediction: the OCR to be increased any time before 1 July 2010. But what I did was short sold it - I'm betting against the prediction.
So I was very interested in Thursdsay's OCR announcement because I knew the market would move on that. My basis for initially predicting against the 1 July increase was numerous statements by Dr Bollard that the OCR would not move from 2.5% until "the latter half of 2010", and also the fact that I think that both the world economy and ours are a lot more fragile than most think. I simply can't see any reason to apply any brakes in the next 12 months.
What I initially had to do for my prediction was to figure out the OCR date announcements in 2010 to see what "the latter half of 2010 meant". The OCR dates for 2010 are 28 January, 11 March, 29 April, 10 June and 29 July.
Dr Bollard's "latter half of 2010' meant, to me, that the first movement increse would not occur until at least 29 July, hence I sold the stock. My average price in was 72c. If it went to zero I would pick up a nice little gain.
But at Thursday's announcement, Dr Bollard said this:
If the economy continues to recover, conditions may support beginning to remove monetary stimulus around the middle of 2010. Recent tightening in financial conditions, driven by a higher exchange rate, increased long-term interest rates and a wider gap between the OCR and bank funding costs, reduces the need for more immediate action.The statement in bold had immediate impact on my iPredict stock: it moved North at a rapid rate. My gain is now a loss. The stock is now at 83c.
Here's where you can help. Do I need to cover my position by buying back my borrowed stock? I'm not too concerned about the $ loss as it's rats and mice stuff. But what I am interested in is proving that I am right and the predictors are wrong. Dr Bollard has not been entirely on the button in the past and most economists have also been far too bullish IMHO. My short selling of the stock really means one thing based on Thursday's announcement: will Dr Bollard raise the OCR at his 10 June announcement? In my opinion, his use of the words may and around the middle are still very vague and it's not certain he will. But 83% of the population with this stock on iPredict think I'm wrong. What I think is also important is that Bollard said inflation is running at about 2% for the 12 months so is well within the band.
I'd appreciate your views.
A name probably unfamiliar to many of you is that of John Masters, ONZM, MC, JP. The action which led to his award of an 'immediate' Military Cross in a cross-border operation in Indonesia in 1965 is considered by many to be worthy of a Victoria Cross. Political considerations prevented this. A Victoria Cross and all the attendant publicity would have blown the lid on Operation Claret. Neither the Indonesian or the UK Governments (and by extension Australia and New Zealand) wanted it known there were cross-border operations into Indonesia. It was only in the mid 1990s that the British Government acknowledged the existence of Operation Claret.
And now the John Masters story has been told in a quite excellent book 'A Bridge Over' written by Allan Marriott and distributed by Nationwide Book Distribution Ltd. P.O. Box 65, Oxford.
It covers John's life from his early days; training as an Army Pilot, Borneo, his time as the last commander of 161 Battery in Vietnam, the obscene prosecution taken against him by Vietnam Protesters when 161 Battery paraded down Queen Street on their return from Vietnam, his crusade to rebuild the Rannerdale War Veteran's Home in Christchurch and his spearheading of the campaign to achieve justice for Vietnam veterans. It was during this time that The Veteran came to know and appreciate a truly great New Zealander.
His Borneo MC is 'boys own' stuff. Trapped inside Indonesia and in danger of being overrun John was separated from his patrol when he went to the assistance of a Gurkha Sergeant Major severely wounded in the fire fight. Fighting the effects of scrub typhus John first carried the badly wounded Gurkha on his back deep into the jungle until exhausted he was forced to leave him against a tree. John then navigated himself back through the jungle and over the border to their base camp. When he got there and with his temperature soaring he insisted on accompanying the rescue party back across the border to the tree. Only John could find it. They arrived to find the Gurkha close to death. 12 hours delay and he would have died.
It is not an exaggeration to say that John Masters is revered among Gurkhas. He was made a Life Member of the Sinmoor Club, the Gurkha Regimental Association. Only the fourth such member and one of two still alive.
John Masters has lived his life by a single world 'Service'. Sadly that life is coming to an end as he is ravaged by cancer, perhaps as a result of his time in Vietnam.
John Masters has described me in his book as "his friend". I could ask for no greater accolade. It is an absolute privilege to know John Masters.
Copies of the book can be ordered at www.abridgeover.net
Futile Wastrels
Atheist fools.
How much will they cost?
How many food parcels could they have bought instead?
On Decline Hiding and Homogenising
There has been a series of blog dissertations showing exampls in which raw climate data has been altered (homogenised) to turn a decline into an increase. (Funnily enough the two most striking examples thus far happen to be Australia and Alaska. By the time we get half way through the alphabet John Key will be able to repeal his damn fool ETS without fear.)
Adolf has a challenge for all fundamentalist warmists like this one.
Find me just ten weather stations in the world where the raw data showed a steady trend or an increase over this past twenty years and which after your beloved homogenising (altering) has turned into a decline. After all, that's your only real defense against accusations that you have cooked the books.
When you do, Adolf will present you with a bottle of his favorite Penfolds Bin 389 - worth about $45 retail.
Adolf's spies tell him the tax avoidance industry has taken interest in climategate. Apparently at least one enterprising accountant has suggested to IRD that his clients repairs and maintenance expenditure is not excessive. It's just that the capital expenditure has been homogenised.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Not defending him and Tiger will be paying for those indiscretions in so many ways and probably forever. But I at least can draw a line between his public and private life.
History is littered with stars from every walk of life who disregarded the sage advice the Regimental Medical Officer gave to those joining 1 RNZIR in Malaya/Singapore ... if I recall correctly it went something along the lines of ...'a rampant cock has no morals'.
And I prefer to remember Don Bradman for his cricketing ability rather than his supposed predication for y**** g****.
Or JFK for having inspired his generation rather than bedding most of it.
Or Edward the Peacemaker for indulging in what in the Royal Household passes as to be expected.
Or FDR, a great US President who regularly cheated on Eleanor.
the list goes on.
But I for one will be watching Tiger's next competitive round from start to finish in the hope of seeing more of his brilliant golfing skills on show.
And bugger the chattering classes.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Some of you may not have seen the TransTasman MP rating for 2009. It is a mixture of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Some extracts ... you pick which category.
Chris Finlayson (7) - Seriously sincere most of the time with odd forays of chirpy insolence in the House. Finlayson is highly rated by both sides and, like Simon Power, can work across boundaries . He's going to need all of his abilities to complete the toughest task of all - a replacement of the Seabed and Foreshore Act which has broad support in Parliament. We have a feeling he's going to do it.
Colin King (2) - May not have noticed National is in power.
Rodney Hide (4) - ACT's leader crashed from his pedestal after a bad attack of perk trough, then seriously damaged himself with inane comments about John Key. Abject apology followed. Prodigious effort as Local Government Minister guiding Auckland through its transition but discovered his limits when he tried to reform local government.
Sir Woger (5) - Time warping MP hasn't changed - the Government is wasting billions, taxes are way too high, everyone else is wrong and he could fix everything. Has maintained absolute self belief since the 1980s. Often seems to make sense, which is a worry.
Maori Party
Te Uroroa Flavell (6) - Carried a heavy load in Parliament when his Party maintained its record of speaking on every Bill. Respected MP avoids useless rhetoric and makes a bigger contribution than is probably apparent.
Hone Harawira (0) - Apology not accepted. There are no excuses. His appalling behaviour was a disgrace. Has no respect for Parliament and shouldn't be there.
United Future
Peter Dunne (4) - No one doubts his competence as a minister but his party is sliding into obscurity. Whether he cares remains to be seen, but he may not find it easy to hang on to his electorate next time.
Ruth Dyson (4) - Hasn't really fired as shadow health minister but Tony Ryall is a very difficult target. Needs to strengthen her targets, lift her profile and drive hard issues. Disappointing. Missing Helen.
Chris Carter (3.5) - Foreign affairs appointment was unexpected and there are doubts he is the right stuff for the job. Distracted by travel perks excesses and unwise claims he was being targeted because he's gay didn't impress his colleagues. Used Samoa tsunami for self promotion. Another person missing Helen's protection.
Kelvin Davis (4) - Impressive Maori MP is listened to in the House. Has cross-over potential. A good asset.
Jeanette Fitzsimons (6) - She'll be sorely missed when she stands down in 2011. Maintained unswerving commitment , an unchallenged expert on on energy conservation the Greens won't be able to replace.
Kennedy Graham (3) - A brilliant man from an alternative universe. He's too far ahead of his time for Parliament to notice his contribution to planetary problems.
Jim Anderton (3) - Retirement beckons as his party dissolves into Labour. Spokesman for agriculture through weird coalition-in-opposition but his heart doesn't seem to be in it any more.
You can argue the toss but not the substance.
For KG
On reading the post, it turns out that not only am I gutless and unprincipled, I'm also a weasel. The vitriol was prompted by this thread on No Minister.
I responded in comments and was told:
Ok, you've had your say, and that's the first and last you get here.
Apparently, disagreement with the blog owner is not welcomed at Crusader Rabbit. The comments thread now informs me "Banned by webmaster. Your comments will not be added."
I'd like to say I was surprised, but I wasn't. However, given that I have this platform available to me, I can post my comment here:
Hilarious: you use terms like "gutless" and "cowardly" for someone who lets you argue freely against him on his blog (well, it's mostly abuse but sometimes there's an argument to discern in there), yet you can't bear someone coming here and disagreeing with you. That's unbelievably rich.
Psssst! Wanna Buy Some Cheap CO2?
Partial translation:-
Ninety percent of the transactions thus far have been fraudulent. The Carbon Con is an even better scam than credit card fraud.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
CarbonHagen's Heroes
Now I introduce CarbonHagen's Heroes - Gore, Clark, Rudd, Sarkozy, Obama & Key.
I know, I know, they're all villains really. But hey, what the heck. Let's have a laugh at their expense because they are all certainly laughing at us. Or at the very least, they're taking the piss.
Thanks to Whale Oil for the photoshop skills.


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While island life on Lost has hardly been a feminist utopia, it has provided fertile ground for an analysis of gender norms and hierarchies. Via traditionally masculine characters such as Jack, Sawyer, and Locke, as well as through the representation of various other 'non-normative' masculinities, the show suggests there are many ways to 'be a man.' More importantly, it has at times suggested that perhaps being human is more important than being a masculine man or a feminine woman. After all, when you are fighting for your life, 'doing gender right' is hardly at the top of you priority list. The show has certainly not been consistent with this motif though, and frequently lapses into tired, sexist love triangles, masculinized aggression fests, and save the poor little lady narratives.
Jack and Sawyer exude macho, hetero-masculinity (and annoyingly try to out-masculine each other in their love triangle with Kate), but their characters have nevertheless challenged the 'stock male action hero stud' type at various points throughout the show's narrative arc. They are more fully fleshed out than many a male character (and no, I am not referring to the ubiquitously de-shirted Sawyer). They are shown to be emotional, complex, vulnerable, nurturing – neither, in short, hold entirely to the Rambo-man-in-jungle motif. In fact, Locke is the more Rambo-like character – a rugged individualist and would be patriarch. Yet, he does take a collective/communal approach to solving problems and does not try to become the alpha male Jack and Sawyer do. He is a strong leader, but not one who lords it over the other characters. He, like Kate, is decisive but not bossy, strong-minded yet not dictatorly.
Jack and Sawyer, on the other hand, fall into the traditional 'good boy/bad boy' dyad. One week Jack is the good and Sawyer bad, the next week it flips. Via these characters, we are prompted to consider differing versions of masculinity. Do we like the good boy Jack who rules out of (supposed) benevolence or the bad boy don't-give-a-damn Sawyer who makes his (supposedly) selfish nature clear?
While the show keeps the gender hierarchy firmly in place form the most part (with masculinity being valued over femininity), it also suggests that this may not be a good thing for (island) society. Jack and Sawyer are shown as too rash and domineering, Ben is a downright creep-fest, and Locke puts himself first far too often. Kate would be a far better leader than any of these patriarchs. Yet, the show maddeningly lets her slip into stale feminine norms too often, which, I suspect, is due to non-feminist writers penning the script…
What are these writers thinking by marooning her OFF the island and putting her into one-dimensional mommy mode? Kate is hardly the type to drop everything in the name of motherhood, let alone your typical stranded and awaiting savior female. And for freak's sake, could she stop taking so much crap from Jack and Sawyer? Sleep with 'em as often as you like Kate, but keep your head on!
While Kate is back-tracking into the "problem that has no name" this season (re: Betty Friedan), Sun's presence in season 5 could be hurtling towards a more feminist future. Unmoored from dad and husband, I am looking forward to where this season takes her.
Perhaps this season the show will break with the rather normative way it has presented gender thus far, with females being framed in relation to males and/or to their children (or desire for them). The season opener made this motif particularly clear. All the male characters were actively trying to save the island, save each other, and figure out the mystery while the females were either in save-the-kid mode or sidekick mode (Sun being the only exception).
The second show of the series was not much better. Penny was merely the loving helper to Desmond and Julia continued to play a secondary role in comparison to the 'island saving' males. The female sidekick to Faraday (I can't remember her name, how telling is that???) was mere dressing to the narrative. Plus, she was infuriatingly depicted as going all gaga when Faraday declared his love. Yuck. And, while the 'army' was headed by a strong, gun-toting female, the real leader was (once again) male.
Thus far, all the time zones the island has travelled to have been hetero-normative, patriarchal, and cisgended. Maybe as the island is skipping through time, it will land in a feminist time-zone, one in which females and males equally share in the adventure and leadership, in which women too are the saviors, the important scientists, the visionaries. We need more than Kate and Sun and Julia – and more than the vision we are given now of mainly white hetero hyper-masculine males being the most valuable and valued island inhabitants. Perhaps they need to bring in Ilene Chaiken, Diablo Cody, Amy Sherman-Palladino, or Tina Fey to help pen a few episodes… What would Liz Lemon do on the island? How about Bette? What about Max (The L Word) or another non-cisgendered character/story-line?
(As a side note, Sawyer can keep his shirt off for all I care, but please avoid the lame meta-textual references reminding the hetero female audience they are being treated to a skin-show!)

subset: commoncrawl


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PENINSULA - The fall razor-clam season will get under way Oct. 15 at all five ocean beaches if tests continue to show the clams are safe to eat, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) and Olympic National Park announced today.
Long Beach, Twin Harbors, Copalis, Mocrocks and Kalaloch beaches are all scheduled to open for the first dig of the season Oct. 15-17 on evening tides.
A fourth evening of digging is also scheduled Oct. 18 at Twin Harbors and Mocrocks, where last year's harvest fell short of the number of clams available.
"Our experience last year showed that we have enough clams on those two beaches to provide some additional days of digging," said Dan Ayres, WDFW coastal shellfish manager.
Subsequent digs tentatively planned in November and December will follow the same pattern, Ayres said. All five beaches are scheduled to open for evening digging Nov. 12-14 and Dec. 30-Jan. 1, with additional digging opportunities Nov. 15 and Jan. 2 at Twin Harbors and Mocrocks.
The National Park Service has scheduled the proposed digs at Kalaloch Beach, which is located within Olympic National Park, to coincide with those at other coastal beaches. Final approval for digs at all beaches is contingent on the results of final marine toxin tests, which will be announced approximately one week before each proposed opening.
Although fewer clams will be available for harvest coastwide than last season, Ayres said the tides should provide a good year of digging.
"We're especially pleased that we'll be able to offer folks the opportunity to dig their way into the New Year, with the low tide on New Year's Eve, Ayres said.
Olympic National Park superintendent Bill Laitner added a safety note for evening clam diggers, especially at Kalaloch. "Kalaloch is considerably more remote than the other clamming beaches, and visitors should be prepared for primitive conditions. With no streetlights or lighted buildings in the area, flashlights or lanterns are a necessity."
Ayres noted that the idea of adding an extra day to razor-clam openings at Twin Harbors and Mocrocks was one of several proposals made by diggers during a series of public meetings conducted this month to plan the 2005-06 season.
Besides the openings announced through Jan. 2, there should also be enough clams on most beaches to allow for harvesting later in January, February, March and April, Ayres said.
Digging during the three scheduled openings will be allowed between noon and midnight. The best time to start is an hour or two before low tide, said Ayres, who recommends taking a lantern for evening digs. Harvesters are allowed to take no more than 15 razor clams and must keep the first 15 they dig, regardless of size or condition. Each digger's clams must be kept in a separate container.
A license is required for anyone age 15 or older. Any 2005 annual shellfish/seaweed license is still valid. Another option is a "razor-clam-only" license available in annual and 3-day versions. Descriptions of the various licensing options are available on the WDFW website at (fishhunt.dfw.wa.gov).


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Among the earliest public speakers were women who spoke eloquently in opposition to slavery. Laura Smith Haviland (pictured at left), a Quaker, became not only a "conductor" with the Underground Railroad, but after the war ended, made many public speeches regarding the conditions faced by freed slaves. Perhaps because she knew the emotional impact they would have, Mrs. Haviland carried with her irons, chains and other implements used on slaves to show during her presentations.
During her work with freed slaves, Mrs. Haviland became acquainted with Sojourner Truth, whose life's work centered around her call to be a devoted and passionate champion of abolition, and later, suffrage and temperance. She came to Michigan many times as a speaker, and eventually settled in the Battle Creek area to live out her final years. An example that shows the strength of her message is recounted in The Battle Creek Journal, which reported on the 1863 Sabbath School Convention, held in Battle Creek:
She said that the spirit of the Lord had told her to avail herself of the opportunity of speaking to so many children assembled together of the great sin of prejudice against color. 'Children, 'she said, 'who made your skin white? Was it not God? Who made mine black? Was it not the same God? '' Driving home her point with two hundred similar words she closed with, 'Now, children, remember what Sojourner Truth has told you and thus get rid of your prejudice and learn to love colored children that you may be all the children of your Father in Heaven'....This short speech from Sojourner was perhaps the most telling Anti-Slavery speech that was ever delivered at Battle Creek or in Michigan. Scores of eyes were filled with tears and it seemed as if every individual present sanctioned all she said...Another prominent but lesser known Michigan woman speaker, Nellie Cuellar began her career as a public speaker and activist when she organized a protest against the murder of three black share-croppers by a local sheriff. She, too, began her activism outside of Michigan, creating political education seminars to teach people how to lobby for their concerns on the local, state and national level. She moved to Michigan with her husband in 1930 and, among other civic and volunteer activities, helped organize coal strikes in Michigan and Virginia and other protest movements.
Olympia Brown, another outspoken woman and suffrage advocate and native Michigander, became the first fully ordained woman minister in the country, at the St. Lawrence Association of Universalists in Malone, New York. Inspired by another minister, Antoinette Brown (not related), she also trained many young women to enter the ministry. But in her tireless campaign for the vote, Brown found her most daunting challenges. She spoke not only in arenas where her words were welcomed, but quite often in places where her message was openly mocked and opposed. She gave more than 300 speeches in one four-month period in Kansas, and even though the suffrage amendment failed there, leaders of the movement considered her work a great success.
Many other women could be named on the roster of outstanding speakers in Michigan's history, from Anna Clemenc, a vocal advocate of the labor movement during the 1913 miner's strike in northern Michigan, to Millie Jeffrey, who was a member of the National Democratic Committee, chairperson of the National Women's Political Caucus, and by appointment of President Carter, a member of the Commission on the International Women's Year. The more we search for them, the more we find inspiring role models whose willingness to speak out and ability to speak clearly helped change the course of Michigan history.


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It's summertime, but it doesn't matter. This week I got sick anyway. It started as a sore throat and then moved into my chest. All I wanted was for someone to take care of me, but when you're the Mamá, you have to take care of yourself.
(Someone suggested I ask Suegra to take care of me. Muy chistoso. While I was sick she was making Sopa de Pescado for herself, and I was just thankful that my nose was partially stuffed up.)
I decided it was time to make Sopa de Pollo. I've tried a few different recipes but my favorite is the one below. This recipe is from the Bolivian grandmother of my nephew. She's of no direct relation to me, but I met her a handful of times, and one of those times I tried her Sopa de Pollo and begged for the recipe, which she graciously shared.
I say that she "graciously shared", because some women are not so gracious. At the party of a friend of a friend, (who knows how I even got invited, since I didn't know the hosts personally), I was given a styrofoam plate filled with food upon arrival, as is expected at all Latino-hosted parties. Well, the chicken was absolutely delicious. I can't remember all these years later what was so fantastic about it, but I found my way to the kitchen to compliment the woman who had made the food. She accepted my compliment with a big smile. When I asked for the recipe though, the smile disappeared from her face and she shook her head. Um, okay. Awkward!
Ni modo, this soup is way better.
Monica's Sopa de Pollo
1 onion, peeled and quartered
3 cloves of garlic, halved
3-4 stalks of celery, leaves included
1-2 laurel (bay) leaves
1 whole turnip, washed (a few radishes works fine, too)
2 carrots peeled
salt and pepper to taste
6-8 pieces of chicken (or 1 whole chicken)
2 cups chicken broth
1 1/2 cups of rice
2-3 potatoes (peeled and diced into cubes)
1 cup frozen peas
1 envelope Sazón Goya (Coriander and Annatto variety – package may say "Culantro y Achiote")
Cover all the first 6 ingredients with about 8-10 cups of hot water and let it get to a boil. When this broth begins to boil, add the chicken, with the skin on. Add chicken broth and 1 envelope of "Sazón Goya" to the original broth.
Note: When I made it this time, I didn't have Sazón Goya on hand. I just mixed in about 1 teaspoon Goya Adobo, 1 tablespoon achiote molido, 1 teaspoon garlic powder, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon turmeric, 1/4 teaspoon coriander powder. It tasted the same in the end and the recipe is very forgiving.
Let the soup begin to boil and then reduce the heat. Let it cook until chicken is separating from the bones. Pass the whole thing through a sieve into another pot. Discard the vegetables, (I eat the carrots), but take all the chicken pieces and rinse them in warm water. Remove the skin and discard. Break the meat in smaller pieces and discard the bones. Set aside.
Note #2: My husband and Suegra prefer that I leave the meat on the bones but I prefer to do it as described above. There are few noises in this world that I hate more than the sound of chupando los huesos. *shiver*
Let the sieved broth start boiling again and then add the rice; let it all boil on low heat for about 12 minutes (until rice is almost cooked). Add the potatoes. Let it begin to boil again and add the chicken back to the soup. Add frozen peas. Add salt and pepper to taste and let the soup boil for about 5 more minutes or until potatoes are cooked. If the broth evaporated considerably, you can add more water or more chicken broth to it. Serve.
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Semifreddo is ice cream's sophisticated cousin, known for its light creaminess and rich flavor. Dark rum-soaked raisins elevate the already lofty indulgence to heavenly status. Make this delightful treat in a loaf pan, no ice cream machine required. It does use a lot of bowls, however.
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|cinnamon stick
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|teaspoon vanilla extract
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1. Set the bowl and beaters of an electric mixer in the freezer to chill. Have on hand an instant-read thermometer and a 9-by-5-by-3-inch loaf pan.
2. In a small bowl, soak raisins in ¼ cup of the rum for at least 2 hours; set aside.
3. In a small saucepan over medium-low heat, gently heat the milk and cinnamon stick until hot but not boiling. Remove from heat and cool to room temperature.
4. In an electric mixer on medium-high speed, using the chilled bowl and beaters, whip the cream, vanilla, and ¼ cup of the sugar until it holds stiff peaks. Refrigerate.
5. Prepare an ice bath in a large heatproof bowl.
6. In another heatproof bowl, gently whisk the egg yolks with the remaining ¼ cup rum and ¼ cup sugar. Remove and discard the cinnamon from the milk. Add the milk to the egg yolk mixture.
7. In a large saucepan, bring several inches of water to a low boil. Set the bowl with the yolk mixture on the saucepan so the bowl is not in contact with the water.
8. Using an electric handheld mixer on medium speed or a whisk, beat the yolk mixture, checking the temperature often and scraping down the sides of the bowl, until the mixture is pale yellow and thick enough to coat the back of a spoon (170 degrees on the thermometer). Lift the bowl off the boiling water and transfer to the ice bath. Continue beating on medium speed until mixture is cold to the touch. Fold in the raisins.
9. Using a rubber spatula, gently fold the whipped cream into the yolk mixture until well mixed. Pour into the loaf pan; cover loosely with plastic wrap, and freeze for at least 5 hours or for as long as overnight.
10. Scoop the semifreddo into cups for serving.
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Use shocking
This is always an interesting topic when it comes to presentations. Let's see how and in what ways you are allowed to surprise or to shock your audience:
- Remember, what's funny to you may not be funny for others.
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Transworld's Duffel 10 Year Party VidAs told by TWS: Saturday night we celebrated Corey Duffel's ten year anniversary being pro for Foundation in our skatepark. A huge skate session, an awesome history of Duffel display in our photo studio, bands, food, brews, motorcycles and more—it was a wild night! Foundation's retrospective video, Skateline roasting included, will be on the site soon, you're gonna love it. Check out some footage from the best trick contests, performances by Kids In Heat and Pass The Axe, and the big Dodge Dart surprise.
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Both circular and rectangular fields follow the path of the Snake River on the Snake River Plain, in southern Idaho, USA. The large lake is the American Falls Reservoir, created by the dam of the same name.
The dam and reservoir are a part of the Minidoka Irrigation Project on the Snake River Plain and are used primarily for flood control, irrigation, and recreation.
The darker brown areas that differ from the otherwise tan terrain of the uncultivated parts of the plain are lava fields. The largest of these is Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, which encompasses three major lava fields and about 400 square miles (1,036 km2) of sagebrush steppe grasslands to cover a total area of 1,117 square miles (2,893 km2).
All three lava fields of Carters of the Moon lie along the Great Rift of Idaho, with some of the best examples of open rift cracks in the world, including the deepest known on Earth at 800 feet (240 m). There are excellent examples of almost every variety of basaltic lava as well as tree molds (cavities left by lava-incinerated trees), lava tubes (a type of cave), and many other volcanic features
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Keith and Kristin Barron enjoy the cherry blossoms last spring as they sit beneath the cherry trees donated to Ohio University by Chubu University in Japan.
Photographer: Ross Brinkerhoff
Ohio University's Sakura cherry blossom trees are projected to start blooming on or around April 9.
Photo courtesy of: University Communications and Marketing
Apr 7, 2014
By Kathryn McFadden
The Ohio University Sakura cherry blossom trees represent a relationship with Japan's Chubu University that has lasted for more than 40 years. Once again this spring, the University will celebrate the partnership by funding the evening illumination of the trees during their peak bloom season in April.
The trees are located along the Hocking River, between the bike path and the Convocation Center. Each year, they bloom for a period of just under two weeks in early to mid-April.
The Linguistics Society of Ohio University will host a gathering to welcome the start of blossom season at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 9, in Gordy Hall.
Christopher Thompson, chair of the Department of Linguistics and executive director of Japan Relations, will give a short talk about the "behind-the-scenes" history of the trees, originally gifted to Ohio University by Chubu University in 1979.
Ten to 15 students from Chubu University also will join celebration. The university community is invited to attend.
The trees are projected to start blooming on or around April 9.
Once the trees burst with petals along the Hocking River, it's important that visitors honor the trees, said Hiroyuki Oshita, an associate professor of Japanese and linguistics and adviser to the Japanese Student Association.
"The public should not break branches or climb the trees," he advised.
The University launched a website last year, www.ohio.edu/cherryblossoms, that will feature a rotating slideshow of images of the cherry blossom trees as they transition from winter buds to spring blooms. The site is sponsored by the Vice President for Research and Creative Activity and features contributions from the Department of Linguistics.
The trees will be illuminated in the evening from approximately 8 to 10 p.m. during their blooming season.


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"We might go underwater."
that's really the only interesting route this could take. But where next, the sky?
The filmmakers plan to shoot the movies back to back with much of the same cast. Asked whether stars Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana had signed for the sequels, Landau said, "We won't have a problem. (He made Clash of the Titans and she made a film with Paul Walker. We got them by the balls."
What does that even look like, anyone have any examples? Or does Cameron just want to be the pioneer of something again.
James Cameron Talks about Building Momentum on Writing AVATAR 2 and AVATAR 3Source: ColliderCameron says that for him to get into the headspace to write the sequels, he needs isolation. Im calling you from New Zealand right now where Im writing on a little farm, Cameron told PGS. When you live in a special world like Pandora, you have to live in that world.
I was talking the other day with Peter Jackson and said, You had it easy dude. You had the books when you did the second and third Lord of the Rings. I have to create my own books in my head and extract a script from it. Im deep into it and Im living in Pandora right now.


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Blackout Arrowhead: Nov 18 vs Bengals - Reserve Your Gear Today
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Frustrated with the level of play and general direction of the Chiefs? Want to join the SaveOurChiefs movement and "Blackout Arrowhead?" Afraid to wear black and think you can't support the Chiefs?
You can order SaveOurChiefs black hoodie, long sleeve tee or short sleeve tee printed in CHIEFS team colors to support the team and players on Sunday, November 18 against the Bengals. Hoodies - $25, Long Sleeve - $20, Short Sleeve - $15. Call Sports Nutz @ (816) 923-7529 to reserve yours today! Reservations for product are being taken now. Gear is available now at the 40 Hwy location ONLY. Blackout gear cannot be purchased from any other Sportsnutz location.
10% is donated back to us and we are donating 100% of remaining funds to charity at the end of the season.
(October 17, 2012)
Organizers behind the Save Our Chiefs movement have designated November 18, 2012 against the Cincinnati Bengals as the official Blackout Arrowhead game. Not a blackout in the traditional sense where the game isn't televised but instead one where the fans wear black to the game. Why a Blackout? To send a visual message that Chief fans are tired of broken leadership and subpar performance on the field. Black is a color commonly attributed to "mourning" which is the state of mind, play and spirit of the Chiefs fan base.
Organizers released this official statement on Wednesday, October 17, 2012:
"We, the donators and supporters of the banner and movement, have been accused of being fair weather fans. This is simply not true. We are passionate fans who live and die with this team on Sunday. If we were fair weather fans, we would have found something else to do a long time ago. Instead, we have gone hoarse by the second quarter and not been able to speak right the next day. We have painted our faces and worn costumes, even formed charitable organizations that have raised tens of thousands of dollars to benefit the local community. We have made life-long friends and are as dedicated a Chiefs fan as anyone else.
We haven't given up the team. We are tired of losing. We are tired of not being competitive. We are tired of seeing Arrowhead as a shell of what it used to be.
We who have been loyal for so long deserve better than what we have received. We have endured 19 painful years with no playoff wins. While it's acknowledged that the organization has won the AFC West, as recently as 2010, they mean nothing when they are immediately followed by playoff losses. We have had a single appearance in the AFC championship game since 1970 (1993) and we lost. In 1984, the AFC Championship trophy was named "The Lamar Hunt Trophy". How sad is it that we have never once held the trophy that bears our founders name?
Thousands of us remember the desolation of the 80's and it is something we do not want to see repeated. Thousands of us remember going to games in the late 90's and early 00's and feeling the rumble of the crowd in our feet and chest. We would high five and hug total strangers after a touchdown or a clutch defensive stop. We remember being unable to talk to the person next to us on defensive 3rd downs... all because we knew that we could disrupt the opposing offense and inspire our defense.
Our goal with this movement is to create change so we don't end up forgetting those experiences. We ask everyone to attend the Chiefs/Bengals game on November 18 to wear black and cheer for the Chiefs. Send a message that Sea of Red will quickly change and disappear if change isn't made. Arrowhead will once again be empty like it was in the 80s.
To learn more about the Save Our Chiefs movement please follow us at www.saveourchiefs.com, at www.facebook.com/SaveOurChiefs, on Twitter @SaveOurChiefs, or the original thread on www.chiefsplanet.com.
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Before I call and order, how can I get my hands on this from down here in Hillbilly Hollywood?
Are they going to ship to other states or is this just a local thing?
Nothing but love.
Going to be a little chilly for t shirts, so plan accordingly!
I'll take a hoodie.
Live out of state, call them and order :)
lol, i called the sportsnutz number and it's busy
how much are they? i wanna buy one for me, but i live in Cali n stuffs!
****ing ordered! This whole thing is just ****ing amazing! Kudos to Marty, prcapone, and everyone else who has donated time, money, and creative ideas to make all of this happen!
Hoodies - $25, Long Sleeve - $20, Short Sleeve - $15. Call Sports Nutz @ (816) 923-7529 to reserve yours today! Reservations for product are being taken now.
I like the idea and concept...But I have a problem paying for something that I'm only going to use/wear once. When would I ever wear it again, especially since it already has a specific date on it.
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Alright, this is the thread where you tell everyone what the last movie you saw was and what you thought about it. I'll go first.
I saw Munich for the second time this weekend.
I LOVE this movie. IMO, it's Spielberg's best in over a decade. Since Shindler's List, even.
Also, Eric Bana is a pimp. He's cool in every movie he's made. Even the ****ty ones.


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Notice the full page advert for the UK National Championships in the latest mag? Well, the UKSA have just announced all the latest details regarding the event, which can be read as of now!
"We are proud to announce further details of the UKSA National Championships on the 6th-7th September with £10,000 prize money up for grabs (Yeah, you read it right).
Presented by Vans and supported by Relentless, Independent Trucks, Flip Skateboards, Casio G-Shock, Skullcandy and Protec.
The National Championships will be held at Adrenaline Alley in Corby, Northamptonshire. The skatepark boasts a re-built street course specifically for this event, a fun and fast hipped bowl and of course the finest vert ramp in the country.
The street event will be open to 100 invited UK British skaters with representatives from all the top UK teams. Invited skaters include Danny Wainwright, Tom Penny, Geoff Rowley, Brian Sumner, Alex Moul, Mike Wright, Ben Grove, Kris Vile. This surely will be the best chance to see the UK's best skateboarders under one roof since the days of Radlands!
The newly built street course will have some extra additions and surprises added towards the run up for the event. The competition format will keep the skate sessions fired up to ensure you get to see the best from all involved.
Vert will feature top names including Andy Scott, Pete King and Sean Goff as well as the new breed such as Sam Beckett, Sam Bosworth and Paul Luc Ronchetti.
This is the final leg of the 'UK Independent Vert Series' so expect to see some serious destruction!
Evening entertainment will include live bands, best trick throw outs and a bowl jam.
Hosting the show for the weekend will be Sidewalks own Ben Powell and of course, Birmingham's second best son (After Ozzy – or was that Noddy Holder?) Bob Sanderson. Expect to laugh until your head rolls off!
Tickets will be available in advance from Adrenaline Alley. Release date TBC. Tickets are £16 for the weekend in advance or £10 per day on the door. Capacity at the venue is fairly limited so we advise buying in advance to be sure of a spot.
As always, for the latest information go to www.ukskate.org.uk
Any questions please contact Nic Powley: {encode="[email protected]" title="[email protected]"}
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Hey guys,
Here it goes, me breaking down and selling my most prized part of my collection.
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The complete Norman Keep model stands at over 17 inches high and includes at least 6000 black 1X2's and 800 light grey 1X2's alone in the exterior. The walls are at least 2 thick throughout the entire model. The front guardhouse/entrance with a working portcullis pulls off, allowing access to its interior. Each level also pulls off, including four successive floors linked by a brick-built spiral staircase. The second floor is furnished, including beds in the guard room. The basement is unfinished (as all good basements are), but I will include more than enough 1X2 light grey and white light grey plates to cover it in a checkered pattern.
The model itself includes all old colors, the only new colored piece is the winch for the portcullis.
Price: $800
Estimating shipping, it will be around $60 to ship it to NYC (with a box weighing 40 pounds of 21 X 15 X 17 inches). I think it weighs 40 pounds, I don't have a scale that goes up to that and I haven't had the gumption to take it anywhere and get it weighed. For interested buyers I will get a more accurate shipping quote.
For any public questions, please see the topic I posted in the MOC forum. For private questions, just PM me.
God Bless,