Pot pouri

I attacked the Herald with renewed vigour this morning having only had the chance for a cursory glance yesterday. How disappointing. Same old, same old. There is only so much one can write about the global warming scam even if the Messiah was in town yesterday; hasn't he put on weight? You have either been hoodwinked by the nutters by now or you have come to your senses and can sift the wheat of truth from the chaff of scaremongering. As an example of the latter there is a syndicated report from a conference in Kenya where some clown predicts that 'up to 72% of the world's bird species will be extinct' by next week/month/year/eon unless we sell the Landcruiser and buy bicycles. Now, let's be a little realistic here. Can anyone who is not permanently chemically altered really believe such rot? 72% (not 70 or 75, nice round numbers, but 72.) Nearly three out of every four dicky birds on the planet being nailed to their perch. Where on earth (pun intended) did he get such a patently absurd figure from. Think of a number treble it, have another Jim Beam and announce it to the eager word as a scientific study.

I think final comment on the waterfront mess should really wait untill the end of next week when a decision has been made. This really is a game of 27 halves with the score changing almost by the hour. Pond Scum is not having an easy time of it and I see Trotsky Hucker is not going into poodle mode as Big Ears would like. There is a lot more to come here before the final whistle and I'm not sure if Helen (and make no mistake, it's her say that will count in this) is getting speed wobbles over whether she wants to garner the footy vote with the risk that the whole thing will go tits up in a construction sense or not. There is an opinion on the opinion page (funny that) which is very poorly written but comes to the very sound conclusion that spending all this dosh in the expectatoin that there will be a toursit windfall as pay out is not exactly based on fact from other similar events overseas. If you pay a public relations firm to write a report for you it will pretty much say whatever you want it to say.

As evidence that even this looney bin has a way to go in the global idiocy stakes was a report I heard on the Harman Kardon whilst driving to the fields. There are 198 prisoners in the UK who are going to get $8,000 each for having their human rights abused. How so? These crims are drug addicts and when banged up were not given their drugs and were forced into rehabilitation programmes without their consent. This infliction of cold turkey amounted to torture; the fact that their substances of choice are illegal drugs notwithstanding. The UK government was going to fight this but found that the legal costs (they would have to pay for the lawyers on both sides of the case as the prisoners got legal aid) were going to be prohibitive and they settled. Now come on New Zealand, raise your game. We can do that.

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