December 2009

The major thing the warm-mongering alarmists like to scare the population with is that the Poles are going to melt and sea water level will rise hundreds of metres submerging much of the worlds coastline. It is of course complete poppycock.

If all you read are faked up “peer-reviewed” scientific journals based on doctored data and politicians dreams then you will emphatically believe that.

If you read interesting articles about intrepid explorers you find that such a thing is impossible. I say impossible because the math doesn’t work. And it is simple math that you don’t need a complex algorithm to hide the decline.

While others have been dreaming of a white Christmas, Kylie Wakelin has been dreaming of Marmite on toast.

The Twizel adventurer is just days away from becoming the first Kiwi woman to trek to the South Pole; and she spent Christmas Day in sub-zero temperatures trying to stave off frostbite and towing an 80kg sled loaded with food and equipment.

Wakelin, 36, is one of seven women travelling over 800km to the Pole to the mark the 60th anniversary of the Commonwealth.

She stepped in as New Zealand’s representative on the expedition in early October after its British leader, Felicity Aston, axed a New Zealand Army doctor, Major Charmaine Tate, 33, who had trained with the team in both Norway and New Zealand.

The women, all from Commonwealth nations, have been skiing 24-28km each day and are on track to reach the Pole by the middle of this week.

Speaking to the Sunday Star-Times from the polar plateau where the temperature has been averaging about -30C, Wakelin said the journey was beginning to take its toll on her body.

Right so here is the math for the terminally stupid who can’t see what I am talking about. The warm-mongerers say that at halting the alleged warming of the world at only 2 degrees more we will still have doomed the planet. I call bullshit on that. Let’s take an extreme view and pretend the lying, cheating, scientists have got it right and then add in Al Gore’s penchant for exaggeration and say that the planet is going to warm a massive 15 degrees. What will happen?

Nothing, the poles will NOT melt. Still haven’t got it. Ok I’ll dumb it down a little more for the warmenisers.

In the middle of SUMMER some intrepid explorers are walking to the South Pole, they aren’t there yet they are some way off, but they are experiencing temperatures of -30C. Taking the IPCC goal of 2 degrees off of that leaves them still at -28C. Unless I was lied to at school and all the text books and Wikipedia entries are also wrong, water freezes at 0C. So let’s take what the warmenisers would call utter catastrophe a warming of 15C. There would still be Polar ice caps because our intrepid explorers would still be walking towards the South pole in a relatively balmy -15C, still some way off that snow and ice melting catastrophically.

So, who are you going to believe, lying scientists cosseted up in their air conditioned offices making up data, altering records and “hiding the decline” or a woman freezing her tits off at -30C?

The answer of course is yes, and a classic example of how dumb the repeaters are is an article on Stuff from NZPA about missing chemicals a year after they went missing.

A chemical which could help make nearly $1 billion worth of the drug methamphetamine, or P, is still missing, nearly a year after it was stolen.

One thousand litres of hypophosphorus acid, a key ingredient in P manufacturing, was stolen from a Mt Maunganui factory in January – the biggest theft of its kind in New Zealand. The acid was worth at least $1 million on the black market and had the potential to make 900kg of P, worth about $900 million, the Bay of Plenty Times reported.

Details of the January raid on a Mt Maunganui factory were revealed at the sentencing of Tauranga beneficiary Terrence Rangihouhori Tata, 36, in Tauranga District Court this week.

Uhmmmm….they didn’t work out that it isn’t missing, it got made into methamphetamine and got smoked up a pipe by thousands of addicts. Of course the acid hasn’t ben recovered, because it doesn’t exist anymore.

No wonder cops have to chase breaches in name suppression they can’t even work out what happened to a precursor substance that went missing.

This just in from a correspondent to the tipline.

Just had a visit from the Masterton Plunket nurse to check on our three-week-old.  The nurse told us she is horrified that just recently the registrar of births (or whowever is legally responsible for naming) allowed a local couple to name their son Al Qaeda.  She was sure it would be disallowed, as other less offensive names but absurd names had been, but no.  The parents even stated to Plunket and others that they wanted the kid to have a mean, tough name – so they can’t even claim it’s about some sort of mad religious statement!

Words fail me, it beggars belief.

In Texas they are utilising the internet to out criminals not trying to plug the hole like the proverbial little Dutch boy and the Dyke as they are doing here.

Drunk driving in Montgomery County, Texas, this holiday season? Expect to see your name in Tweets, as the local district attorney’s office has vowed to name and shame drunk drivers on Twitter.

The tactic, hoping to dissuade drunk drivers using the threat of public humiliation, will see DWI (Driving While Intoxicated) arrests documented on the @MontgomeryTXDAO Twitter account, owned by Montgomery County District Attorney, Brett Ligon.

The idea was conceived by County Vehicular Crimes Prosecutor Warren Diepraam, and it’s not entirely new: the information is a matter of public record and some newspapers print the names of people charged with such crimes as a deterrent.

Fucking excellent, of course if we ever did that here there would be name suppression for celebrities, rich people, National Party Presidents and two bit entertainers

Cactus Kate made the Business Herald on page C4 today for their awards.

Jim Morrison peyote button award for most psychedelic blogger

Someone called Cactus Kate for her hallucinatory post suggesting the Herald had cut its legal budget and directed senior editors not to tackle legally difficult stories.

The Business Herald can assure readers that none of it was true and we continue to keep our company lawyers busier than ever. The tough times certainly haven’t made companies we report on any less litigious.

I imagine Cactus is on holiday somewhere in a 5 star paradise eating, drinking and rooting her brains out.

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I bet it also took them three weeks to come up with those lines and it was a group effort. Insults like that simply flow forth uninterrupted from Cactus and me like it is a genetic trait.

People wonder why I pick fights on issues. Look no further that today’s Press where we find that the piece of crap that mugged an 86-year-old victim of a vicious street mugging has received name suppression out of consideration for his 90-year-old grandmother. Surely it can’t take more than a day to the old duck her grandson is an asshole, more to the point she probably already knows it. Where does she live? Iceland? Surely there isn’t anywhere in New Zealand that takes a week just to get to to tell them their grandson is a pig.

If the cops thought that doing me over Christmas would make the issue nice and quiet they were wrong and they clearly don’t understand the power of social media over the Mainstream media.

Yesterday, arguably the quietest news day in the world and on blogs, I was on every radio station, every TV channel and today in every newspaper, including the frontpage of the DomPost highlighting this issue. My site has had the highest number of pageviews EVER, including eclipsing by a factor of 4 my previous best day at the height of the election campaign last year. I have lost count of the interviews I have given.

Now people will be sitting down at their BBQs talking about how crap the suppression laws are, how the perception is that the thugs, the famous and the rich can easily access name suppression willy-nilly.

The laws were written in 1985, the WWW wasn’t even written about until 1989 and it wasn’t until 1990 that a more formal proposal (on November 12, 1990) to build a “Hypertext project” called “WorldWideWeb” was put forward at CERN. On August 6, 1991, he posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup. This date also marked the debut of the Web as a publicly available service on the Internet, a full 6 years after the law was written.

Since that time we have seen the emergence with force, of the social media phenomenon with Twitter, Facebook and Myspace as most prominent examples.

The horse has bolted, the law hasn’t and will never keep pace with developments on the internet. Essentially the world has become smaller and the world has become borderless. My story is all over Twitter, it is syndicated worldwide via RSS and through traditional media syndication. It will probably make Boing Boing and Mashable as it is net related, it is just a matter of time.

All the Police have managed to do is make a small issue of a breach of name suppression into a global debate about the rights and wrongs of criminals being able to hide their details when the victims are often publicly named and their pictures shown for all the world to see. This is a first and firsts make news.

I have even considered using social media and net techonologies to develop my defense by putting up a wiki  and letting any lawyer or interested party help develop the defense. Then of course there is the possibility of live Tweeting the case. It has even got to the point where Kiwiblog is hanging off Whaleoil in a Wonderwheel search

This will not go away, and has turned for me from being a bit of a lark to being a full on campaign.

Consider my treatment with that of Michael Laws, who has pledged his support for my cause.

On 16 December 2008, at about 11:22 am, former MP Michael Laws briefly discussed the Peter Ellis/Christchurch Civic Creche case on Radio Live. He referred to two current MPs – Nick Smith and Lianne Dalziell – and their connections to the case. In effect, he identified three of the complainants who testified against Peter Ellis. You will be aware that suppression orders are in place preventing the identification of the child complainants in that case. Interestingly, Laws had previously been warned about breaching suppression orders in regards to a separate case.

The police have never charged Laws in relation to his comments about the Ellis case. It is unclear why that is so, given Laws’ history of breaching suppression orders. Maybe police are simply unaware of Laws’ comments (which is odd when you consider Laws’ history). You would think that police might monitor what Laws says on his radio show. But the argument could be made that Laws’ comments have not harmed the administration of justice. Theoretically I could make a similar argument, using Laws’ comments as an example of how, say, a technical breach may cause no harm to those being commented on. (Have the individuals in my case been harmed by what I have said or done?) I could also argue that police have been selective in charging me but not Laws. Surely, the law applies to all. Furthermore, I could argue that Laws’ breach is more blatant and more serious. He made it very clear who he was referring to.

Note the recording of the Michael Laws piece is posted on Youtube. Does this mean that the person posting it to Youtube is in contempt? How can a NZ court force Youtube to divulge the information about the account holder. What about the person who sent the information to Michael Laws in the first place? Where does contempt begin and end?

Michael Laws was also charged with contempt regarding a separate case of breach of name suppression. For example, Laws testified that ”both the local Police prosecutor and I considered the matter a waste of the court’s scarce time. We could have handled this with a simple and sincere apology.” (Would the police accept an apology in my case?) He was discharged without conviction.

As you can see this is not as simple as simply breaching Name Suppression.

This was in my inbox today.

Caring email from another Leftwinger

A Christmas Message from the Left

UPDATE: I replied to James with three words, one of which was his name. He has replied to me.

Slow Learner?

UPDATE: This guy makes Susan Boyle look like a fricken genius. I asked him what part of “fuck off” he was having trouble underatanding. Seems to be all of it. i must learn to use one word sentences when corresponding with James.

James Sleep makes Susan Boyle look like a Rocket Scientist

Merry Christmas to all my loyal fans and supporters. I have had a great year on the blog and I couldn’t have done it without your support.

The missus was surprised to see how popular blogging has become, they even have bloggers toys in the toy shops now. She got me these.

DPF and Whaleoil toys

from JoNova and WattsUpwithThat

You have to see this to believe it. Download the pdf and look up close and admire the detail that  Mohib Ebrahim has created to visualise ClimateGate at the same time wonder at how long science has been going off the rails and how our politicians and governments have been deceived.

This shows what was exposed by the CRU emails, the time-line chart consolidates and chronologically organizes the information uncovered and published about the CRU emails by many researchers along with some related contextual events. That the chart exists at all is yet another example of how skilled experts are flocking in to the skeptics position and dedicating hours of time pro bono because they are passionately motivated to fight against those who try to deceive us.

ClimateGate Timeline

Click on the image to see it enlarged, but download the full PDF to see the detail.

Download The PDF (788k)

There are also printable versions in A4, A3, A2, US letter and US tabloid for those of you (like me) who need printed versions to scribble on, and scrawl exclamation marks.

Print them off and send to your MP and to John Key.

The recession seems to have evaporated, or else people simply don’t care anymore.

EFTPOS provider Paymark says at the peak between midday and 1pm shoppers were ringing up 131 transactions every second.

CEO, Simon Tong, says the resulting 438,000 transactions for the hour is a record. However he says New Zealanders are continuing to spend at an amazing rate with over 100 transactions a second every hour since 10am.

Mr Tong says he expects in excess of $225 million to be spent today through EFTPOS alone, and that too will be a record.

Sounds like the recession is well and truly over.