The EFB and strip clubs

You really don't expect this succession of semiregular ramblings to spend time on the stripclub nonsense do you? I will only pause to highlight one Labour MP who claims his only foray into such an emporium of carnal offerings was to accompany an eighty year old bishop into a gay strip club because the man of the cloth 'had always wanted to go to one'. I can only applaud the MP for taking the piss out of the question. My only worry is that he might not have been and was deadly serious and as it was Tim Barnett this may be the case. Enough of this crap. In the absence of real news (as correctly pointed out by RH - vide supra) we should be concentrating on this Electoral Finance Bill and not conducting straw pollls as to who has ever walked past a TAB shop.

The EFB does get a little space this morning but the overall thrust of the paper is more eco-nonsense. Jeanette Yellow Teeth is apalled (or devastated to learn or mortified or.........) that the running of the carbon credit market will be out of the control of Parliament. The decisions on this crock might be made by Cabinet or, shock horror, unelected bureaucrats. Let us leave aside the fact that there should be no carbon market in the first place, we've been through all that before and the arguments remain unchanged. Botox Woman is showing her lack of grip of reality again. She is proving that in the Coromandel humans really do mate with vegetables. She really thinks that as a list MP she should have more say over what goes on in big decisions than the the woman serving her down at the tofu bar. She seems to think that if a decision is made in that totally skewed so called representation of the people that masquerades as Parliament things are hunky dory. The parliament we have got under MMP New Zealand style is a complete travesty. Minorities are given far more prominence than they deserve. If it were not for MMP we would be saved the embarrassment of a Parliamentary Green Party altogether. Jeanette Wrinkle Chops wants big item decisions back in Parliament becasue that is the only forum in the whole land where she and her ilk can exert their totally unjustified sway over our lives.

Hurricane Dean has brought its greatest wrath onto a largely unihabited portion of the Mexican coastline thank God, but has done further damage outside of the Yucatan peninsula by encouraging the Herald to print a syndicated article suggesting my Landcruiser and my Jag are the reasons that we are getting more and stronger hurricanes. Bollocks. We won't go through all this again even for the benefit of slow learners, but the whole thing falls down, yet again, on the lack of proper evidence. Evidence that is free of bias and is reproducible. I was going to post a few of the hurricane tracking links on another part of this website last night but couldn't in the end be bothered. The reason to do this was to illustrate the totally random accuracy to which even short term (like twelve hours short term) forecasting of big ticket items like sodding great tropical cyclones is prone. Four different websites had Dean coming onshore at six different places with a spread of three thousand miles - and this was in eight hopurs time. I think one of them was right, well rightish. Remember climate is a collection of bits of weather. In maths if you mutliple one error by another the resultant error is always much larger than the sum of the parts. etc. etc. Yawn

All this crap in the Herald is pure obfuscation to take our minds off the Electoral Finance Bill. Bill, no William to avoid unintentional aliteration, English tries to keep those who can do joined up writing abreast of what bloody Labour wants to foist on us. He points out that the proponents of the bill admit that the wording will have to be 'fine tuned' - more of the legislative panel beating that was pointed out last week. THis BIll has to be stopped. English points out that wit its current wording even political blogs will run foul of the law's provisions as of 01/01/08.

So maybe there is some good in all of this - 'Granny Herald this morning' will be forced to shut down or I'll be forced to skirt lures with BA looking over my shoulder.

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