Environtologists and the Church of Environtology

You can find the following quote at:

http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/religion.htm -=-=-=-=-=-=-=- "Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had. Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period.” -Michael Crichton -=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Which brings me to what I like to call "Environtologists and the Church of Environtology". Yes, I know that sounds a bit like another nutty and dangerous group that seeks to both control and fleece the rest of us, but all the more reason to deem the title "apt". I've got nothing against working towards a cleaner and smarter world, but I've got plenty against a world ruled and taxed by lefty marxist humanists who are willing to stamp on every individual freedom in their efforts to create a cruel atheistic society where mere insects will end up with greater protection than most of us. Particularly the "least" or more helpless of us. The climate has always changed, is changing now, and will continue to change. Right now it is changing for the better, and even if current CO2 levels are in someway directly linked to human behaviour (doubtful), our crops and wild flora are currently are starved for the stuff and would do better with at least 3 times the levels (which is why it is artificially boosted in certain controlled environments). Marxism has always failed, is failing now, and will continue to fail. Right now it is being forced to swap its previous jargon and agenda and pick up all the Environ jargon and agenda instead. It is still just as evil. The Roman Catholics among us would know of and understand/appreciate the principal and practice of "Indulgences" as used by that Religion. Well, this new religion has got something similar. I'm referring to the modern form "Indulgences" called "Carbon offsets." Refer to that link given at the beginning of this blog entry for more on that comparison. It would seem that Atheists, Secular Humanists, Marxist and general loonie left (including "The Greens") have their nice new world wide religion well underway. With Al Gore as their Prophet (who is maybe even The False Prophet talked about in certain ancient records), and allegedly thousands of allegedly happily agreeing scientists as their priesthood and laity, and a whole new generation of blank slates being programmed with this stuff from an early age in school (just like with evolution and dinosaurs and whatnot), this religion is going to become a hit in no time. Literally. regarDS

An alternative Richard Dawkins Resource

This entry, which shall no doubt be subject to numerous edits over time, is an attempt at an alternative resource to all those pro "Richard Dawkins Resource" pages out there. After all, not all of us are fans of that particular Fanatical Religious Zealot and his Atheistic Evolutionists Uniformatism (AEU) cause, right ?

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Credit where credit is due, as per the links.

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From an interview between Steve Paulson and Richard Dawkins, 13/10/2006

SP: Why do you call yourself an atheist? Why not an agnostic?

RD: Well, technically, you cannot be any more than an agnostic. But I am as agnostic about God as I am about fairies and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. You cannot actually disprove the existence of God. Therefore, to be a positive atheist is not technically possible. But you can be as atheist about God as you can be atheist about Thor or Apollo. Everybody nowadays is an atheist about Thor and Apollo. Some of us just go one god further.

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David Quinn debates (read as "trounces") Richard Dawkins regarding "The God Delusion"

http://catholiceducation.org/articles/science/sc0086.htm

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Richard Dawkins And The 11 Second Pause

http://www.tccsa.tc/articles/dawkins_pause.html

Includes direct corrospondence from Richard.

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Arthur S. Lodge on "Richard Dawkins: Designer!"

From: http://members.tripod.com/aslodge/id96.htm

Dawkins' famous computer example is an argument for design, not for the NDT!

Richard Dawkins (1987) describes a computer example of changing letters, one at a time at random, in a string and shows that, after only 41 generations of "breeding", the desired Shakespearean phrase is obtained. At each stage, however, the criterion for retaining a new letter is that it shall agree with the letter in the corresponding place in the final design!

Dawkins chose the Shakespearean sentence at the outset. He then used it as a template for accepting or rejecting all subsequent letter changes. This is a clear example showing the influence of a designer. The fact that each letter change was made using random choices (continued until the template-approved letter was found) addresses only the question of efficiency.

Reference: Richard Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (W. W. Norton, New York)

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Richard Dawkins, Hyper-skeptic

http://www.errantskeptics.org/DawkinsR.htm -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

"Dawkins the Dogmatist" A review by Andrew Brown.

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7803

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Phil Dwyer opinions on Richard Dawkin's "Gerin Oil" ("Religion") article.

For anyone who doesn't know him, Richard Dawkins is the biggest intellectual fraud and academic charlatan currently active. His work consists of a thinly-veiled apologia for market capitalism couched in the populist jargon of pseudo-science. It is of sociological rather than intellectual interest: future generations will marvel at how such a transparent ideologue could have been taken seriously.

They will conclude that only the present climate of Darwinist fundamentalism and scientistic imperialism could have allowed such an exotic, arcane and frankly weird person to become a public figure. In other words, he's rubbish, and anyone who takes him seriously is an idiot. Sorry to be so frank, but that is the simple truth. This is opinion.

I think Dawkins is dropping his guard, and openly revealing himself as the atheist fanatic he was all along. The man simply hates God. Atheism is an article of faith for him, quite as much as belief is for a religious fundamentalist. But articles like this do have the virtue of discrediting by association Dawkins's absurd meanderings about memes and genes, and if he is allowed to continue in this vain he will quite possibly ruin the carefully-constructed credibility that Darwinism currently enjoys among the half-educated. I say we should give him all the rope he needs.

A few more articles like this, and people will begin to wonder why they took his crap about genes so seriously. In 20 or 30 years, Dawkins's contemporary popularity will be held up as the prime example of our era's irrationality and superstition.

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regarDS

Microsoft Vista and Paris Hilton

It has becoming increasingly obvious to me that Microsoft Vista is a Paris Hilton of an operating system. Why ? 1) We are meant to think it is hot when it is not. 2) We are meant to think the people of world need and want it when in fact most of us do not, nor are ever likely to. 3) It pops up seeking opinion and/or attention on the most banal aspects of its day to day operation before attempting to do or achieve the slightest thing. 4) You've got to go a long way off the grid these days to avoid encountering it. (Yes, I realise that I am not helping in that regard ) I could go on, but I'm (like) so bored with this already. Do the world a favour and just say no to the promotion of either ...

regarDS

The Early Voter gets to sleep in ...

Howdy folks. I decided today that I didn't want to have to run the propaganda gauntlet and line up with the hoi polloi on Election Day when I should be busy getting my sleep between shifts.

So I went into an AEC office and had an air-conditioned room virtually all to myself to take my time casting my votes, and as a result, I now thoroughly recommend to one and all that one should find a place where one can vote early rather than leaving it to "the day".

How much more time and advertising do you need to help make up your mind anyway ?

If you're in Perth city then one such place is 111 St Georges Terrace, 10th floor (signposted in the foyer), which is at the corner of St Georges Terrace and William Street, and diagonally opposite to the BankWest tower.

My Green Ballot paper was pretty easy - I'm in the safe seat of Pearce so I could put virtually anything without causing an upset, but I did a "1,2,3,4,5 ... 9" response favouring the incumbent over the nutters, but I did forget that a valid vote (you never see advertised on official "how to vote" cards) can also apparently merely be a 1 for your main preference and then 2 for everyone else, which obviously spoils any preference deals. Oh well.

Some guy once got thrown in jail for handing out "how to vote" cards telling folk that, didn't he ? Perhaps the "1, 2, 2, 2 ..." loophole has been closed up now anyway.

(Goes off and does some research). Yup, that loophole is no more and if you DO elect to do a "1,2,2,2 ..." etc, you will have just rendered your vote informal ... as in "donkey voted".

See: http://www.abc.net.au/elections/federal/2007/guide/howtovote.htm for info on voting and what constitutes a valid vote.

My vote order for the Senate started out according to the "Liberal" ticket but went off the rails around half way down, but at least I got the C.E.C twits and Pinko Commie Wallies towards the end of the ticket, and most importantly, the Climate Change Nutters at the very bottom .

Yup, even I reckon Labor is better than the Oz Democrats and "The Greens" (shudder) .

Anyway, if you want to cancel out my vote, then do something other than the following.

1 Liberal

2 National

3 Christian Democratic Party

4 Family First

5 Democratic Labor Party

6 LDP

7 Group P (Campbell and Co)

8 Group M (Wynne and Co)

9 Carers Alliance

10 Conservatives for Climate and Environment

11 Non Custodial Parents Party - Equal Parenting

12 What Women Want - Australia

13 Labor

14 Australian Democrats

15 The Greens

16 Senator On-line

17 Group Q (Armstrong and Co)

18 Ungrouped (McNaught)

19 One Nation

20 Citizens Electoral Council

21 Socialist Alliance

22 Climate Change Coalition

Here is to an Oz Government that isn't too much one way or another, and definitely doesn't have "That Gillard Woman" in it ...

regarDS

An escape from the Loonie Leftie pandemonium of fear-mongery

Sick of all the fear-mongery being foisted upon us by the Loonie Left and the (mostly) Loonie Left world media and their plans to turn the whole globe into a nanny state ?

Tired of how the moment the weather fails to support the "Cult Of Climate Change" dogmas and orthodoxies, some new scare is quickly broadcast to keep us distracted, compliant, and trusting of the religious fanatics ... ie, every person in a position of power who has jumped on the "AGW"/"manmade global climate change" bandwagon and feeding at the tax-payer supported troughs while they promote The Big Lie ?

Wanna join in on this latest fearfest "Swine Flu" thang in a more satisfying way ?

Then here is the distraction for you.

Get thee to: http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/Pandemic-2.html and enjoy creating some pandemonium of your own upon a virtual globe in this freeby online game !

In one of my first tries, a non-lethal (ie, no symptoms to reveal it too soon) taste of "der spatz brain borer" parasite was delivered to every country on the globe except madagascar within 16 days, and then the entire population (sans madagascar) was infested within 38 days, and then "der spatz brain borer" parasite was cranked up to bring about rapid death via Hypersensitivity, Cysts, Fever, Nausea, Vomiting, Depression, Dementia, and Insanity ... but I dragged that out to last over 120 days to keep it interesting.

A bit like my blogging and forums involvements when you come to think about it ...

Sure, tis prolly a bit on the "bad taste" side of things ... but so too are the constant efforts by "them" (the Loonie Left, et al) to control you by fear , so rather than be offended, why not deem this freeby online escape as being a tool for dealing with (and breaking out of the control of) those irrational fears ?

Anyway, here some poor screen shots of my efforts to achieve what the likes of the WWF wants for the globe and humanity. Really !

Ooops, my turn to foist some fear. Heh.

regarDS

PS: CLE, I don't know whether to thank you or curse you for making me aware of this game, so to play it safe and cover all options, deem a virtual chocolate bar infected with "DSBB" to have been mailed your way. :)

Enemies of humankind and life itself

From: http://www.co2science.org/ ... yet another site on Natural Climate Change that is worth bookmarking, IMHO.

SOQ

"CO2, a tiny but essential component of the atmosphere, wields nowhere near the climatic power often ascribed to it. As presently constituted, earth's atmosphere contains only 370 parts per million (ppm) of the colorless and odorless gas we call carbon dioxide. That's just a little over three-and-a-half one-hundredth of one percent, i.e., 0.037%. Even if its concentration were tripled, carbon dioxide would still comprise only a little over a tenth of a percent of the air we breathe, which is far less than what wafted through earth's atmosphere eons ago, when the planet was a virtual garden place. Nevertheless, and as illogical as it would seem (and truly is!), a mere doubling of this minuscule amount of CO2 is perennially predicted to produce a suite of dire environmental consequences, including dangerous global warming, catastrophic sea level rise, reduced agricultural output, ravaged natural ecosystems and dramatic increases in extreme weather events, such as droughts, floods and hurricanes."

and

"In the case of the biospheric benefits of atmospheric CO2 enrichment, it is an indisputable fact that carbon dioxide is one of the basic building blocks of life, comprising the major "food" of nearly all plants on earth. With more CO2 in the air, literally thousands of experiments have proven, beyond any doubt, that plants grow bigger and better in almost every conceivable way, and they do it more efficiently, with respect to the availability of important natural resources, and more effectively, in the face of various environmental constraints. And when plants benefit, so do all of the animals that depend upon them for their sustenance, including us humans. Without question, therefore, CO2 is the elixir of life, the rock-bottom foundation of nearly all that lives on the planet, be it in the ground, in the oceans, or in the air."

EOQ

So, why would the evil greens and loonie lefts be seeking to artificially control and reduce the amounts of such a valuable substance that provably can bring so much increase and wealth of food to the planet ? The short answer is THEY HATE PEOPLE, especially people able to easily support themselves and subsist outside their control, rule, and care, and especially people who are aligned with conservative Judeo-Christian mores and moralities. They want a planet with far less people and of those who remain, they want them to be unencombered by traditional christian attitudes and views. I'm sure they will get their repeat of the bloody French revolution on a global scale before too much longer. Maybe even punctuated with a reintroduction of that famed bladed instrument for those who dare to stand in their willfully ignorant way. ;) After all, blood letting soon follows on from such people hating mentalities once their arguments are shown to be nought but lies, fraud, and hot air. Considering the typical human condition, it is only natural ... regarDS

A Kruddy Blogroll ... Oz taxdollars paying for fraud and spin ?

Aw, how cute, Krudd has a new blogroll, and no doubt a team of public servants to keep it nice and clean. Our tax dollars busy ripping us off yet again ... Here is his first entry, with the original to be found at:

http://www.pm.gov.au/PM_Connect/PMs_Blog/Climate_Change_Blog

Kevin.Rudd says... I decided to kick off my blogging career with a focus on climate change. The latest scientific research on climate change confirms our worst fears. Climate change is happening faster than we previously thought, creating a more serious threat to our economy, our environment and to future generations. I recently returned from a meeting of leaders of the world’s major developed and developing countries in Italy, where our discussions focused on our global efforts to tackle climate change. This meeting - the Major Economies Forum on Climate and Energy – made some important progress. In particular, it recognised the clear message from climate science that the increase in global average temperature must not exceed 2 degrees celsius. That means the international community is accepting the need for tough long-term targets on reducing carbon emissions. But the hardest work is still ahead. Much more needs to be done if we’re to achieve a successful global agreement on climate change in Copenhagen in December. Australia is determined to be on the front foot in global efforts to tackle climate change. We know that our nation is more exposed to the impact of climate change than perhaps any other developed economy. Without strong global and national action, climate change will permanently damage our natural environment and hit our jobs and our economy hard. The Great Barrier Reef – one of Australia’s most iconic natural wonders which generates jobs for around 60,000 people and more than $4.9 billion in tourism revenue – is particularly vulnerable to climate change.

The next step for Australia is to take strong action at home through Parliament passing the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme in August. This scheme will for the first time put a limit on Australia’s carbon pollution. By taking action at home in Australia, we can give businesses certainty and give momentum to the international negotiations that are so crucial for our national interest. It’s our responsibility to act now on climate change. That is why I urge all Senators and Members of Parliament to support this vital legislation for our nation’s future. How do you think we can make Australians more aware that we need to act on climate change now?

And here is my response to that load of lies and spin, which (for now) is an accepted comment to our Kevvy300billion's blog as at "Jul 16th, 2009 at 8:30 pm"

> "The latest scientific research on climate change confirms our worst fears." "our" is a reference to Ms Wong and yourself, yes ? After all, "the latest scientific research" is consistently and repeatably showing that the global climate change that the planet is enjoying is not only cyclic but also has virtually nothing to do with atmospheric CO2 levels let alone humanity's miniscule contribution to them. Which obviously means that the proposed ETS scheme is not only totally unfounded and pointless, but also somewhat fraudulent to say the least. Which goes a long way to explain your "worst fears". > "Climate change is happening faster than we previously thought, creating a more serious threat to our economy, our environment and to future generations." Should natural climate change manage to progress on the path of warming (sadly, it appears to have stalled in that regard) then this can overall only be good news to the planet and our economy, environment, and future generations. Especially so if atmospheric CO2 levels could in someway be TREBLED After all, current atmospheric amounts of that lifebringing CO2 are virtually at starvation levels for the planet's flora for which the rest of life depends upon. It's a pity mankind cannot actually do that much to influence atmospheric CO2 levels, but if we could, we would do better to increase it ! That being said, the real science is clearly showing that in relation to climate change, atmospheric CO2 levels lag behind global temperature changes not lead them. So, no need for any of the hysterical alarmism about natural climate change and especially no need for any kind of ETS in relation to CO2. Also, I think people need to remember that the IPCC (the InterGOVERNMENTAL Panel on Climate Change) is a political body, and science is decided by facts not consensus. It certainly wasn't scientific consensus that did decades of stomach ulcer sufferers any favours, yes ? regarDS

Yeah, I realise I am largely pissing in the wind here but if enough of us do even that, perhaps this disasterous ETS thing can be hosed off the floor along with AGW alarmism. Anyhoo, at least ONE Senator seems to have rejected AGW and is firmly onboard to stand in the way of the ETS.

From: http://www.stevefielding.com.au/climate_change/ we can see that Senator Fielding not only ACCEPTS the reality of climate change (as do I and near everyone else who are wrongly described as "deniers" ... we only deny the foolish notion of MANMADE climate change and that man can do anything either way to influence global warming or cooling) but also is calling "on the government to answer my question with a straight answer. If they’re not prepared to do so, I’m happy to fight the lone battle in the senate until those senators who are honest with themselves break party lines." See the provided link for the entire article (which details his meetings with Minister Wong, the Oz Chief Scientist, and a brief meeting with The Goracle) from his own blog, and then visit the following link to read the "Due Diligence" report prepared by scientists after Ms Wong and the Chief Scientist failed to either answer or impress.

http://www.stevefielding.com.au/images/uploads/7._Carter-Evans-Franks-Kininmonth_Due_Diligence_on_Wong-Z__.pdf If you are of typically conservative voting habits, I would also urge you to write to your local member to let them know that you will be unable to support the Coalition should Malcolm Turnbull and Co choose to side/vote with the Government in support of an ETS, and that you would rather support Climate Change Realists like Senator Fielding who are willing to ask and demand answers for the hard questions and stand in the way of a blind pursuit into folly and ruin for this country. regarDS

To the Federal Leader of the Opposition

A letter I just sent via links available here: http://www.liberal.org.au/contact/ and http://malcolmturnbull.com.au/ContactMalcolm/tabid/87/Default.aspx and http://www.dennisjensen.com.au/contact.asp and http://www.nationalswa.com/contact.aspx and http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/memfeedback.asp?id=SJ4 (The Hon Wilson Tuckey MP's website) and no doubt more to follow. The version I sent to Dr Jensen was prefixed with:

"Dear Dr Jensen. Sorry to read what has just happened to you re: pre-selection, particularly considering your views regarding AGW Alarmism. I do hope you continue with the good fight in that regard, either with the Liberal Party or as an Independent. I submitted the following note to the Liberal Party webpage and Malcolm Turnbull's webpage this morning because I am very much concerned by the direction that the Coalition seems to be going in relation to the typical AGW alarmist position and the Rudd & Wong "ETS". Also, because of Mr Turnbull's stance and recent decisions I find that I can no longer speak of the Liberal Party in good terms while he remains its leader and in support of any kind of ETS. Letter is as follows, and thank you for your time:"

To the Federal Leader of the Opposition. In every election over the last 27 years I have voted for either the Liberal party or the Coalition, either directly or via preferences but mostly the former. I will be unable to continue this trend in the next election should the Liberal party continue in anyway to support the alarmist nonsense and fraud that is "man made climate change", CO2 being "a pollution", and any kind of "Emissions Trading Scheme" related to CO2. Instead, I will be supporting candidates who demonstrate climate change realism, which at the moment seems to only be the Family First party. Yes, the climate is changing, it has always changed, and it continues to change, and atmospheric CO2 levels always lag behind global temperature changes and not lead them ... and regardless of mankind's pitiful contributions to the same. Besides, when it comes to atmospheric CO2 levels, the planet is virtually starving for the stuff anyway, and would benefit by actually being doubled or more. Make no mistake. If the blogs and forums are anything to go by, there are a lot of longstanding typical coalition supporters out there who will be casting their votes elsewhere unless the Liberal party soon chooses to admit to the folly of AGW ("manmade global warming) and associated fraud of an ETS, and instead adopt a unified Climate Change Realist position that is contrary to the kind of disaster the ALP (let alone The Greens) are trying to inflict upon Australia. Also, don't under estimate the power of "the internut" in terms of reaching people and shaping public opinion. At the moment, it would appear that KRudd and Co are continuing to use it far more effectively that the Coalition. Personally, I think you will find that if you decisively establish policy that not only opposes the ALP's "ETS" but also rigourously demands answers to the kinds of questions Senator Fielding recently asked on the topic, and made it all very public, then the Australian Public would overwhealmingly support your party. The average voting age Ozzie can sniff out BS from 50 paces and most of us probably know by now that there is something distinctly fishy about the whole AGW Alarmist thing and that to implement an ETS would be to put the country and economy through a hiding for nothing, so with that in mind it would be quite foolish to do a "me too" to what Rudd and Wong want to inflict upon us. As a blogger and prolific forum participant I will be continuing to warn against AGW Alarmism and an ETS, and similarly will be denouncing any and all political parties who support those scams. In fact, this very letter is also about to be posted to my own blog and a highly google referenced forum, and I will also be supplying it by way of comment to the PM's new blog on the topic of climate change. I firmly believe that how your party chooses to approach the (Natural) Climate Change topic will directly affect your chances at the next election. To merely support or echo the ALP postion will render you irrelevant, but should you choose to take a stand against the Alarmist hysteria and nonsense, you could not only be returned to Government but also save Australia from ruin. Thank you for your time. regarDS (name included)

KRudd's last stand ?

I'll not pollute this blog by posting KRudd's latest round of dishonest rhetoric and sophistry. If you want to read his address to the Lowy Institute made on 6/11/09, then go here: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/the-pms-address-to-the-lowy-institute/story-e6frg6nf-1225795141519 His address makes a couple of things abundantly clear. One of them is that it is clear that he doesn't actually believe in man-made global climate change, and another is that he is quite desperate for the AGW trojan horse to deliver its planned payload, and not because he thinks it is good for the climate or the children of the world, but rather (and only) because he thinks it will be good for his political future and place in history. The fact his address is riddled with weasel words and phrases and appeals to (unquantified) authority (i.e. "genuine body of evidence") that are typical of those who want to be seen as being in honest support of something they don't actually believe the word of, and who do not wish to tell a direct lie, show that he is really only giving convenient lip-service and that he doesn't actually think for a moment that our children and childrens children are under any threat by mankinds pitiful contributions of CO2 to the atmosphere ... and doesn't he just luuurv the convience "precautionary principle" offers in that regard, too ! Thus, he shows himself to be almost as much a fraud as the ETS he and Wong have cooked up to betray and ruin the country with. His obvious desperation to see the AGW trojan horse be brought through the city gates before Copenhagen, is delicious. To build on the gambling theme he chose to repeatedly use in his address, I think he knows everyone knows he's holding a dud hand and is bluffing, but he has put so much of himself into the pot that he might as well see it through, because to abandon his play now would be to lose absolutely, whereas while he continues with the obvious bluff, some miracle may still save him. A man of great blindness of faith and twisty-turniness of character is our Kevin "to infinity billions and beyond" big spender ... As this whole thing comes unstuck and the knowledge of the truth continues to grow and spread throughout this nation and the world as to how complicit in utter fraud some of our elected have become in relation to building nation destroying sovereignty robbing policies (and accompanying taxes and laws) around the AGW environmentalist religion, I wonder if we are going to see a repeat of the Oz Governer General vs Gough, and USofA "watergate" type thing. Hmmmm, no, prolly not. Our current GG is too into herself to ever do what is required in relation to dismissing a PM and government that has betrayed its country and should no longer be in office, and I suspect that the USofA would still be more inclined to make it easy for some nutter with a gun to take care of such business than do the whole impeach thing again. Actually, speaking of nutters with guns, I couldn't really see the Obamanation delivering the kind of address our desperate "the sky is falling, but I can save you" KRudd just gave. Well, at least not on USofA soil ... they shoot at the very table those who seek to cheat and defraud, don't they ? In closing, I'll quote the tiniest bit more of KRudd's sickening address. He mentioned a certain collection of names quite a few times (even Lord Monckton's ... but our Kevvy didn't say anything about the absolutely disgusting draft treaty the UN are pushing. The little Judas probably helped put the draft together anyway ...)

Malcolm, Barnaby, Andrew, Janet – stop gambling with our future. You’ve got to know when to fold ‘em – and for the skeptics, that time has come. The Government I lead will act. - Kevin Rudd, 6/11/09

Ooooh, I wonder what new laws our desperate little weasel of a PM is busy cooking up to see the likes of Andrew Bolt and Janet Albrechtsen silenced ? Re-education camps where "arbeit macht frei" ? I don't reckon MSM is going to be in much support of Kevvy for much longer. Interesting recent news is that Rupert Murdoch reckons KRudd "is delusional". You can read about that here: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26316630-2,00.html

"If Rudd thinks we can set an example for the rest of the world with a cap-and-trade system on greenhouse gas emissions - the ETS - all it would do is push up the cost of living in Australia and the rest of the world will laugh," - Rupert Murdoch 07/11/09

How's that for a fair shake of the sauce bottle in the fullness of time, Kev ? You'll be needing that job in the UN by the time all this is over, coz no one is going to want you in Oz. Anyway, you should fit in well over at the UN. They aren't all that big on "due diligence" either. regarDS

Climategate - All your emails are belong to us !

Want to know more ? Put "climategate" or "cru emails" or "climate change fraud" into your favorite search engine. "bing" at http://www.bing.com will return nearly over FOUR times the results that "google" does ... and with less bias towards the side of Climate Change Alarmism ! The short of it all is that thanks to a whistleblower who released 1000s of emails and documents into the internut, CRU (Climate Research Unit) scientists who have had the ear of the IPCC have been caught out colluding in quite the criminal manner in order to help promote the lie of Anthropogenic Global Warming in order to no doubt protect their public funding and reputations. More to follow ... but in the mean time, I'll let the moving pictures do the talking. regarDS

January so long ago ...

Despite what the blog date claims (I've backdated it exactly a month to Oz day), it is actually very nearly March 2010. Dunno where the last couple of months got to but rather than launch into some inane waffle, here are some newtubes of some of the outdoor activities and travels that have helped make 2010 fly by so far. Okay, perhaps a little waffle before the tubes ... Not long into January, LSCP (for those who came in late, that's "Life Style Choices Partner" ... so chosen because I'm not allowed to say her name on the internut in blogland), and I embarked upon a coastal trip from Perth to Dunsborough, Margaret River, Walpole, Albany, a week in Esperance, then cut back diagonally to Perth again via Hyden/Wave Rock. Along the way we did a couple of scuba dives on the HMAS Swan (in about 25m or so of water off Dunsborough), and a couple of dives on the HMAS Perth (in about 30m or so of water off Albany). If you're interested in what that might have been like then search those names on youtube as plenty of other folk have filmed their below water experience at those wreck locations. Okay, first up is a wander around the Tree Tops walking near Walpole: Next up is a bit of this and that filmed from around Albany: And you knew I wouldn't be able to get through a blog post without having yet another sneer and poke at the AGW environmentalist religion, so here tis ... a newtube rant on location in Esperance at one of those all but useless ugly noisy white-elephant "wind farm" thingos: But here is a far more prettier side to Esperance. A beach drive to the Cape Le Grand National Park: I might get around to including a newtube of our Hyden/Wave rock visit another time, but for now I'll finish up with some footage taken of the 2010 Oz day we spent on the Swan River: So there was but a tiny glimpse into my January ... and it all seems so long ago now. :( regarDS

For Whom the Tolls Bell ?

"Today I ..." wanna post a view on the latest bureaucratic rent-seeking being suggested for the once fair CBD of Pert.

They wanna put a toll on car access.

(sigh)

Aside from a crap road system as it is (shouldn't a riverside road follow the river all the way in both directions ? shouldn't a coast road actually follow the coast all the way ?), the city is basically already DEAD compared to how it used to be back in the late 1970s early 1980s.

Back then, the city was the Place To Be near every night and especially on Thursday nights.

Rather than lifeless malls we had things called ROADS and PARKING SPACES where everyone would cruise in on/in their hotted up cars and motorbikes and park all in a row. The first bikers in on the evening would reserve half a dozen bays and before long there would be 30 or more motobikes backed in against the curb and angle parked.

There were people everywhere doing a strange thing called TALKING with each other. Lasses would be displaying/modeling their latest clothing purchases to leather and denim clad blokes and everyone would turn to watch the latest polished chromed and crimson red painted V8 hotrod to burble past in one of endless "bog laps".

There were Hari-Krishnas to harass as they gave out vegan books with weird art-worked covers and Potter's House God Botherers to troll, uh, argue with as they frothed in your face about hell. There was a smell of a couple of dozen different food places in the air and the sound of buskers and laughter.

The city was alive and useful.

Then the bureaucrats got in with their endless and ever expensive to administer "regulation".

The city died.

People like me eventually just gave up on the place ... and these days we are all far more inclined to plug into the world of skyrim or halo or an ipod.

Pert needs LESS regulation and MORE reasons to actually go to it.

Trying to make people pay to drive into the city is neither of those things.

It is just more bureaucrat cholesterol slowly choking the heart to death.

And what a healthy, vibrant, and beautiful heart it USED to be. ... but no more.

Still, Pert-ites, do yourselves a favour and get yourselves up to Kings park one early evening.  While you are still somewhat easily and freely able to, that is.

It is kinda a shadow of how things used to be in the city centre once upon a time. IE, there are just people walking around doing nothing in particular.

Just Being.

Kinda like how it used to be once upon a time in the actual city before they took away Murray Street and made it a soul-less mall.

Oh, and has it really been over a year since my last post ?

Wow. My how time flies when ya having fun.

So, until around the same time next year ...

regarDS

Happy Birthday Guy Fawkes.

"Today I ..." would just like to publicly convey my thanks to one and all, both seen and unseen, near and afar, living and passed on, who has ever had anything to do with my life and times and the long and winding path that has amazingly seen me reach the utterly unexpected age of 48.

You all know who you are and regardless of individual levels of input/care/love and all that, I couldn't have done it without yas, so Cheers !

As for Mr Fawkes, well here is hoping that something explosively big (though not the kind of explosive that Mr Fawkes endorsed) happens soon and Oz is at last rid of the sad joke that is our current PM and her wedded-to-the-Nazi-Greens utterly inept and wastrel minority political party, along with her abominable and ridiculous tax on life bringing CO2 that she is trying to inflict upon us all as part of her Fabian Socialist agenda.

Today would be a good day for such a hope to come true. 

Pretty please ?   

regarDS

Indulging my carbon offset nipples !

"Today I ...", in the "offline world", got to share a social occasion at "Little Creatures" in Freo with somebody who (if I understood the job title correctly) earns their bread and butter by not only supporting and promoting the Grand Lie of AGW/MMCC (Anthropogenic Global Warming / Man Made Climate Change), but also via the Great Fraud/Scam of our era, "Carbon Trading".

We had only known each other for prolly less than 5 minutes when The Discussion got underway, and all because LSCP ("LifeStyle Choices Partner" for those who have come in late) asked him what he did for a living and he foolishly answered "Carbon Management".

Can you image my glee and the tingle induced to my erogenous zones upon hearing such a thing ?

At one stage we had to turn things back down to about 11 (refer to The Amp on "This is Spinal Tap" ) coz he didn't like me talking about public funded professional scare-mongerers Karoly and Flim-Flannery in disparaging terms.

By the time I got to drop the name "Andrew Bolt" at our drinking table (the great names of James Delingpole and the award winning science blog "wattsupwiththat.com" already having been mentioned), my warmista drinking companion was calling me "satan" and I was calling him "gullible". :-) 

LSCP's take on the evening is that this poor fellow just simply could not believe that I was serious in my rejection of the mythical "consensus" he Truly Believed in, along with the utterly failed hypothesis of global climate change being caused by levels of atmospheric CO2, let alone mankind's pitiful contributions to the near to starvation (for flora) levels of atmospheric CO2.

To be fair and on the flip side, I just simply could not believe he was serious when he suggested that the quality of life I was enjoying thanks to relatively cheap energy generated by plant-food creating coal, could not possible be making me happy and that I would actually prefer to live without all those wonderful things cheap energy brings me.

My LSCP's view was that he thought I musta been just taking the p!ss, even though I said I had been part of a grass-roots letter writing movement that produced over 400,000 items of corro to pollies about the nation and that in turn helped see Malcolm Turncoat ousted as Liberal Party leader which in turn saw KRudd, Killard (so renamed because of her "roll out the red carpet to queue jumping economic opportunists" border control policies that has seen who knows how many wannabe illegal immigrants drown at sea), Turncoat, and Penny Wrong's ETS/CPRS stopped in its tracks.

Anyhoo, twas all fun (well, from my POV), nobody lost an eye, and I just had to LOL at his end of the evening compliment to me of "they say satan always takes an appealing guise".

I told him to put "derspatz" into google or "Hitler" + "AGW" into youtube. ;)

Actually, it has been a while, so here again is my take on Hitler's reaction to Briffa's Yamal tree ring data and all it implied.

I'll only include the youtube link because for some strange reason embedding mucks up the captions.

See: http://www.youtube.com/embed/cTGLpqFGyYM

... and for good measure, here is a favorite youtube of mine from the "JollyGreenWatchman":  http://www.youtube.com/embed/-esLrrqGKkE (linked coz of caption issues when embedding)

Anyhoo, cheers, ummm, "Gullible" (name changed to protect the identity of a modern day peddler of what is akin to the useless Roman Catholic "Indulgences" ala "permissions to sin" system of old :-)), it was all fun, and I'm sure that lump of cow you ate for dinner was raised a vegetarian.  :-) :-) :-)

Oh, and on the subject of carbon trading, here is an idea that might even tempt this little so called "satan":

OTOH, going to bed for money is called prostitution isn't it ?

Oh, and here is yet another youtube I found interesting. All about the Bias of the BBC (much like Oz's "ABC") and "The Guardian" (much like Oz's "The Age"), particularly in relation to the Big Lie of our era, "Man Made Climate Change".

Enjoy. :-)

See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO63oWe6XXo

My parting comment today is something I informed a iPad carrying drone for Bono's "One" activist/fake charity group at a 360 degrees concert late last year.

"Left wing politics is the problem, not the solution"

Something which painfully apparent here in Oz at the moment.

regarDS

My Favorite Online Places ... and why.

Thought I'd share some links to some of my favorite online places. In no particular order, these include:

Andrew Bolt: http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/

James Delingpole: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/jamesdelingpole/

Jo Nova: http://joannenova.com.au/

Anthony Watts (the award winning science blog "Watts Up With That): http://wattsupwiththat.com/

John Rays excellent blogs "Greenie Watch" and "Dissecting Leftism": http://antigreen.blogspot.com/and http://dissectleft.blogspot.com/

And here is an excellent youtube series that should give a good hint as to why the above are favoured by me ... and further clue you in as to what my politics are:

Intro: Collectivism vs Individualism


Part1: The nature and origin of human rights


Part2: Group Supremacy


Part3: Coercion vs Freedom


Part4: Equality and Inequality under law


Part5: Proper role of Government


No prizes for guessing what I am in favour of and give my support to ... and what I am against, oppose, and denounce.

regarDS

Magpie vs 25kv AC overhead powerlines. Magpie wins !

"Today I ..." was astounded at the resilience of a local humble Oz magpie.

There I was, happily internutting, when all of a sudden there was an Almighty bang from outside down the street and my internut connection dropped out.

"That sounded like overhead powerlines shorting or a step-down transformer blowing its knives and/or its guts" thinks I.

Strangely enough though, my notebook power supply stayed on, but a test of the lights revealed exceeding dimness ... a sign of a brownout/reduction in mains voltage.

Considering it was a clear blue sky without a puff of wind to blow lines together or trees into them, my next thought was "oh sh!t, the work-dudes building a house a couple of doors down, have accidentally hit the step-down transformer next to the building site" so I rush outside in my PJs to make sure everything is ok and if I could be of assistance.

Sure enough, the work-dudes ARE shouting at each other and pointing to near the transformer enclosure, but they all appear to be ok and no errant gear is near it.

Well, except for a limp black and white form and another more active one stalking around looking concerned at it.

Yeah, a pair of magpies, and prolly the two that were unhomed and used to play around the tree featured in the youtube in my last blog post which includes a clip of them chasing each other around between the branches.

Okay, here is the clip again:



Anyhoo, the work-dudes fuss around the downed magpie that had managed to arc/short-out the overhead 25kv AC supply to the step-down mains supply transformer with an Almighty Bang.

One of the work-dudes flips the unfortunate creature over and you know what ?

It gets back up to its feet.

I kid you not. I'm standing there in my PJs in the street watching from about 40metres away, and this creature that should be, for all intents and purposes, the pre-cooked filler for a magpie pie, gets back on its feet and just stands there looking like it is thinking the magpie equivelent of "WTF" ... which was clearly what we were all thinking.

So one of the work-dudes gets it a container of water and puts it near the stoned crow wannabe and before you know it, it stepped over to investigate the container contents.

Then its friend hops over to say "WTF mate, you ok ?" in magpie (yeah, it does the "do do do doodle doodle do" thing similar to what I captured in the youtube in my last blog post), and the recently mega-zapped tells it to bugger off for the moment coz it still has its buzz on ... IE, it zots its beak at it as if to say "don't stand so close to me".

Within about 5 minutes, it is wandering about the verge on which it crash landed from about 6 or 7 metres up to, so I go back inside to unplug things like TVs and fridges which don't like brownouts that much (underpower is WAY worse for electrical stuff than blackouts), and when I come back out, the magpie had wandered off completely and its mate was gone too.

I wonder if it, or its chicks, are now going to develop super powers ?

I'm also just simply amazed that it was able to survive being a living short-circuit to such a high voltage AND the concussive bang that happened when it pretended to be a switch. A short-circuit that took Western Power around two and a half hours to fix !

"Today I ..." am also LOLing at the irony of "der spatz" (the sparrow) being "booted" offline by a magpie getting a 25kv AC boot.

I mean, when it comes to little birds vs bigger birds, its usually the former that chase the latter off, yes ?

Oh, and one more.

"Today I ..." was also pleased to learn that a bull in a bullring in Spain decided it didn't want to play the game of being tortured to death for the amusement of a sick in the soul audience but instead decided to join them where they sat and teach some of them and their children a deserved lesson they are not likely to forget in a hurry.



Yay Magpie, and Yay Bull !

regarDS

All good things ...

... come to an end. :(



regarDS

Ich bin ein Snowboarder ...

Here are some youtubes of derspatz proving that you're never too old to learn new things ... and for me and LSCP, that meant trying out Snowboarding at Coronet Peak, Queenstown in New Zealand in the July school holidays just gone.

For a slobbish "likes to hang loose" cool and froody bighead like me, I discovered it came kinda a natural ... and I don't think I'll ever go back to skiing now. :)

But don't take me at my word, not while there are long and boring youtubes to be endured ! Most of the following were taken using a tiny webcam thingy I had clipped to my beanie, so where I look, you see !

First up ?

Me and LSCP riding the fast lift DOWN the mountain:



Next up, a long and boring (coz, let's face it, I was going pretty slow) run down "Meadows Express"



Here is a similar run to that except I take a detour and include some footage of LSCP doing pirouettes on a snowboard. ;) :)



And now for a spill so daring and dramatic that it took me clean off the mountain !



Excellent fun which I well recommend ... and the fact that I appeared to be some mad old man talking to himself while zipping(ish) down the piste (hey, I was giving camera commentary !) tended to keep living obstacles away. Heh.

Snowboarding. Try it some time ... but if your butt bruises easily then I would recommend that you get some padded pants first.

Isn't that right LSCP ? :) :) :)

regarDS

sweethings

regarDS

angelady

regarDS