No science in the Stadium

You can pick it like a nose, can't you. Front page of the The Royal New Zealand Herald this morning and we have the long awaited and much anticipated arrival of the Treaty into the stadium debacle. Oink, oink; slops on offer down at the wharf. This thing goes from bad to worse. All this debate should have been held (if it needed to be held at all) two years ago before we tendered for the tournament and not now when the clock is ticking ever louder. It no longer has anything to do with footy and everything to do with politics and business. I agree with those who say that a waterfront stadium in Auckland would be very nice. So would my owning a 54 foot Assegai. Do we need a waterfront stadium? - no. Do I need a 54 foot Assegai? - reluctantly, I have to also say no. What the hell are we going to do with a 60,000 seat stadium after the World Cup? You can shoot a cannon through Eden Park during most Super 14 games without fear of hitting anyone as it is. Ask the people in Sydney how much use the stadium built for the 2000 Olympics now gets. This is all to do with political points scoring and blackmail. Helen wants to look good (and she must be doing it through gritted teeth knowing her affection for the fifteen man game) in the eyes of the punter and will give Auckland a waterfront stadium as opposed to her returning to type, ignoring the sporting bloke and making him pay for the upgrade to Eden Park.

Talking of Helen being a manipulative duplicitous ratbag we come onto all this newly found emphasis for saving the planet. The editorial (the bit that is not nicked from somewhere else) eloquently explains out what I have been trying to point out in a rather more cumbersome way for days. This new found direction is no accident. What it does bring to the fore, however, are some of the more subtle possible ramifications for left wing politics in this country. If Labour swipes the climate crap off the Greens what do they, the Greens, have left? Nix. Even they couldn't imagine running a country on a platform of legalising dope and not smacking kids. The Greens therefore have to start attacking their mates in an act of self preservation, hence the outburst over Ford Fairlanes.

The good thinig about all this is that nailing your colours to the climate change mast is doomed to failure in the medium to long term as it is all based on lies. Remember what your Mum told you? Tell a porky and you have to tell a bigger one to cover it up. The labyrinth of lies that is growing around 'Bugatti Veyrons are wrecking the planet' is getting murkier by the day. We have already 'forgotten' the fact that the world was hotter in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries than it is now. As we have the fact that the sun is hotter than it has been for thousands of years (not a change since 1992 like most of the doomsayers pin their hope on). We ignore the fact that the world being a little warmer at the moment predates the rise in 'greenhouse' gases and not the other way round. Think about that for a minute; the 'cause and effect' plank of the earnest ones is gone right there. We sweep under the table that all these predictions of doom and gloom are made on computer modelling which to date has not predicted anything that has subsequently been born out by measurable fact. We forget that the famous (infamous) Mann Hockey stick is a lie and a deliberate one at that. We ignore the fact that the program that produced the hockey stick will spit out the same shaped graph whatever data you feed it. This climate change crap is the biggest international scam the world has seen for over a century.

OK, Helen, if you want to base your political future on that crock, bring it on.

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