Normal service has been resumed

A year and a couple of weeks. Well it had to come to an end I suppose but NZ politics has drifted back into its bad old habits over the last couple of days; and it looks like it is going to get worse. We've had a year of the gummint doing stuff I pretty much approved of and then bloody Nick Smith (Doctor of what, pray) comes along and stuffs it up. All the ingredients of a right royal cock up New Zealand style are on display.

Damned Nick Smith is in the wrong party for openers. His behaviour over the last couple of days has been the sort of stuff Labour or the watermelons would be proud of. He is a disgrace to National and has to go. He has brought back the spectre of passing stuff under urgency that is in no way urgent. This stupid Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) is a garbage piece of legislation based on a garbage premise, based on garbage science (more of this later) that will deliver a garbage result - a f. expensive garbage result to boot. Bad enough yet? Wait there is more. To get this piece of unnecessary crap legislation through parliament under ersatz urgency he has sold muskets and blankets to the Maoris. Now I couldn't give a rats arse how much DOC land Smith gives to anybody (they run about 70% of the country so there's heaps to spare) to plant trees on. Who cares? They could do something more useful with it, like put an aluminium smelter on it, but if they want to fill it up with radiata that's fine by me. They can all prance around and pretend they are still in the 1830's amongst the pine trees to their hearts content. I don't care. They can take their snake oil carbon credits and sell them to Burkino Faso and I couldn't give a continental. But what really gets up my nose is that both sides of the deal (the Nats and Maori) are buying and selling policy. The Maori a month or so back wouldn't have a bar of an ETS. A few crates of fire water and a couple of mirrors and they are over it like a rash. The highly principled Nats were above the low life Labourites flogging off policy to anyone who would buy. Or they were until psuedo-Nat Smith gets the keys to the policy box.

And who is letting Nick Smith carry on like this? John Key, that's who. I had hoped that John Key was going to be the one who would at last run around shouting that the emperor has no clothes in the climate change department. I'm sure that at one point in the not too distant past he was agnostic at worst and seem to recall some encouraging signs of scepticism. However he had a private audience with the Gore Monster and came out a changed man. Well he has timed his conversion to the dark side of lunacy very poorly. He is the one who can stop Smith plunging this country into financial ruin for no reason and it doesn't look as though he will do it.

What is the bloody hurry to get this stupid bill passed? The Copenhagen conference next month ain't going to come to a consensus on anything because, as we shall see in a minute, potential fatal cracks are starting to appear in the IPCC. Many former warmists are saying 'Hang on a minute, maybe things aren't as we were led to believe'. Conned to believe, more like. So we don't need to front up in Denmark being the leaders of anything. Key has said that if we don't have a new ETS in place we are obliged to follow Labour's legacy ETS the details of which I have mercifully forgotten. I remember enough to know that it was a fiscal disaster though. Crap. All we have to do is replace Labour's ETS with absolutely nothing. That'll do very nicely - oh and build a couple of fossil fuel fired power stations while you are at it.

Timing is everything. All this climate change politicking is in the very week when all the leaked emails from the climate doom merchants have come to light. The litany of deception, lying, massaging of data, main stream media manipulation, crippling of the scientific peer review process - the list is endless - make any remaining science the IPPC and the sable hued minions of satan cling to like a shit soiled security blanket totally worthless. Even if any of the science was any good it is now so tainted as to make it totally worthless.

I trust we are all up to speed on the stuff from the Norfolk Broads. What appears to have emerged is that (a) the scientists have been manipulating the raw temperature figures to show a relentlessly rising global warming trend; (b) they have consistently refused outsiders access to the raw data; (c) the scientists have been trying to avoid freedom of information requests; and (d) they have been discussing ways to prevent papers by dissenting scientists being published in learned journals

But do we hear of this? Do we buggery. The bloody media are shielding even this from us. A few lines that there might have been a few naughty emails around but move along nothing to see here and please look at this footage of the Antarctic ice shelf getting smaller. There was actually a bit of this on the news tonight as a background to comments from a weird beard wearing an ethnic motive shirt. This makes me feel ill and it is cruel and unnatural punishment to show me this bollocks when I am trying to eat my dinner. The aforementioned current most evil man in the country, Nick Smith, was confronted by the collapse of the science his political chicanery is based on and he just laughed it off. His reply was typical of the left wing bigot that he obviously is. 'It doesn't coincide with my opinion or what I want to think and it is therefore wrong'.

I'm not happy. I had a year of not having to worry about what happened in Wellington but it has all come back again. But look on the bright side. That bloody woman is still in New York. I'm afraid even that doesn't cheer me up that much.

I know. I wonder if I can arrange for John Key to have a private audience with Lord Monckton before Friday.

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DoC nightmare

Don't start me on the sway that DoC holds over this country - it is truly terrifying

Get yourself a good stiff drink, sit down and read this:

Scary Report

Then tell me in the morning if you had nightmares.

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Whangamata Marina

I am both delighted and deeply dismayed that Whangamata has got its marina. Let me say from the outset that I couldn't give a stuff whether there is a marina in the town or not. Or whether eskimos can gather pipis from the harbour or not. The marina is just a vehicle that illustrates the parlous state the governance of this country is in.

I am delighted that the judicial system has rightly triumphed over political meddling. I am dismayed that it has taken so long and in fact that the conflict arose at all that it had to be rectified. The Herald's Editorial reckons that Carter should resign on the back of this. Of course he should, but both you and I know he won't because there is no such thing as doing the honourable thing in New Zealand politics. The worthless wretch is such a pitiable member of the human race that he probably still doesn't realise that he has trangressed. All the opprobrium being rightfully heaped upon him will be like water off a protected duck's back. Like a cracked record I harp on about the folly of failing to keep the judiciary and executive separate when running a country and this whole sorry affair is a prime example of what can happen when you stuff it up.

Just to compound the errors, look at the way the back down was handled yesterday. Carter doesn't have the balls to reverse his own decision so he flicks the hospital pass to Benson Dope. The High Court ruling gave Carter no choice but to reverse his decision but he says he passed the buck because he could not make a decision without bias. Bollocks. If you have a decision made for you there is no 'deciding' to do and bias doesn't come into it. No, he couldn't bring himself to stand up straight like a man and admit he was wrong. Come on, you spineless toad, say it. 'I was wrong'. You can't, can you, because you are a politician belonging to a Party that deals in duplicitous weasel words as its only form of currency. You can't because you are devoid of any of the principles that proper people use to run their lives. You can't because you are a waste of space.

The High Court delivered its decision in September?, October? and gave the uselesss Carter two weeks to come up with the definitive ruling. But no, Spineless Boy a) ducks for cover and b) waits until a few days before Xmas before sending his 'mate' over the top in the hope that everyone will be too full of eggnog to notice. The media tried in vain to get Carter, Benson Dope or anybody from Government to comment on the climb down yesterday but no one had the gumption to front up.

The whole thing is shameful on a magnitude that defies belief. The Marina Society has apparently paid about $1 million over ten years to get this far and they will get back about 10% of this in Court awarded costs. Carter is out of pocket to the tune of $0.00 and will likely keep his job so that he can go and grandstand over protecting the great white shark from recreational fishermen - three caught over the last twenty years.

Carter is but one example of the sort of pond life that runs this country and it is very, very ugly.

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New Docmeister

Down in Blenheim for the day but an hour in the pencil hasn't erased the horrors of the news from DoC that leapt out at me from the pre airport Herald.

Be afraid, be very afraid. DoC have got a new head honcho and he looks scary. His aim during his tenure is to add to the 'soft and cuddly stuff people love us for' - I'm serious, he really says that - with doing his bit to stem the tide of global warming (I paraphrased that last bit). He sees the first obstacle as convincing the people who don't think the science is robust. Well if he cares to spend an hour or so at Obald Towers I'll soon lick him into shape and sell him a lure or three.. Remeber this bloke is head of an organisation that is supposed to have no input into policy at all.

Better go - using someones elses laptop on a trade stand.

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Off road, rorts and fireworks

Bit late this morning; bloody work.

An off road trail type race has just been refused permission to go ahead in the Waitakere ranges for reasons of 'social displacement'. What the f***ing hell is that? Bureaucratic obfuscation in the form of uninteligible language is what that is. Those who would rule our lives regard it as the AK47 of their armamentarium - a universal get you out if trouble device that has lethal fire power both at close quarters and at long range that can be used at any time. This race is for about 450 idiots who want to run from Whatipu to Muriwai Beach through the bush (God knows why, there are perectly good tar sealed roads that can easily deliver the same result) using mainly already designated tramping tracks. The land is owned by DoC (what a surprise), and the Waitakere and Rodney Councils. You would have thought there was enough bureaucratic input there for 45km of bush track, but no. These worthies think the race is OK. But along trots the Auckland Regional Council (Parks Divison) and says there has not been enough public consultation (the trenching tool to the AK47) and the event will cause 'social displacement'. Head of the Park Nazis is none other than Sandra Coney. Just when you think you have finally managed to slip the 1080 into the meusli supplies of these pratts they get recycled; year after year after year and pop up in the most unlikely places their interfering busybody agendas to push.

While we are on councils I see the Auckland mob's business class junket around the world has reported back on the way forward for Auckland. We have got for our $85,000 fourteen pages of nonsense. Fourteen pages is about five thousand words which is considerably shorter than most of the assignments my younger daughter has to produce for first her year undergraduate papers. Presumably 'Ratepayer Rort 101' doesn't require such academic rigor. At $6,000 a page we get such gems as building a model of the CBD so the ratepayer can get a better idea of the plans for the future. There is also an idea that pedestrians should get priority over those who drive their Hummer to the theatre for tickets. Are we surprised that Bruce Trotsky Hucker feels the report is a 'valuable contribution', or some such meaningless guff, to Auckland's future. You know how to get rid of them.

Garth George has been looking inside my mind, the cheeky bugger. He also has had a gutsful of being told what to do by nanny state. He also cannot stand the global warming nonsense, but this for slightly different reasons to mine; he bases his belief that it is all a load of nonsense on a deeply held religous faith and good on him for that. He also cannot stand the idea that 'they' will decide what is on offer in vending machines and that 'we', god forbid, cannot be allowed to make our own choice of which slot into which we place the coin. He also is appaled that Telly Tubby Marion Hobbs sees fit to ban the sale of fireworks (except to approved groups with a council permit, of course) because a few scrotes tie bangers to kittens. Ban things enjoyed by the majority instead of putting the people who can't be trusted with them in the slammer - that's the way. We'll control everything you do in life - and we've got thinking on our hit list - if its the last thing we do. Get rid of them and leave me alone. Off to the Red Shed for some sparklers and it's my business what I do with them; I have a few ideas.

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Punch on da teefs

A day I'd been awaiting for a while has arrived with that obnoxious nematode Chris Carter getting the punch on da teefs he so richly deserves. It ain't over yet but the little toad is running out of options. The judgement is apparently a 'strong one' - are they like cups of tea? - and would be unlikely to be overturned on appeal. The Marina wallahs have been given leave to apply for costs. Or so Mai Chen tells me. I would imagine employing this young lady don't come cheap but the Marina Society has spent their money wisely. There was a profile of her in one of the Sunday papers a few weeks back. Seriously impressive woman. Head prefect and Dux of Otago Girls High, degree in law at Otago and then her Masters from Harvard before setting up a law partnership with Sir Geoffrey Palmer (with her name in front of his) by the time she was thirty. I am delighted to see proper quality at the helm of a case winning over a Governemnt Department headed by a useless wretch like Carter. I know nothing of his background before he decided to waste my tax payers dollar in Parliament but I bet he wasn't Head Girl at Otago Girls High - although later behaviour might put that in doubt. When it comes to costs the Marina Society are in this to the tune of about $1.5mil over the ten years (ten years for God's sake) all this has dragged on. If and when Carter has to back down (i.e. he loses) he will be out of pocket to the vast sum of $0.00 He can go around causing unconstitutional mayhem and when he stuffs up he just walks away at no personal cost. Wrong. The bottom line of all this is that the Minister should have not been in a position where he could have made the decision in the first place. The Environment Court needs to be the last station on the line and then worthless toads like Carter won't even be tempted to put their hands in the Cookie jar.

Remeber that Carter's minions told him before he made his decision in March that he was on shaky ground and he didn't listen. His web of emails and 'I didn't take things I heard after the Environment Court decision into my deliberations' bollocks have been found out because he was so pig headed that he thought the rest of the world was wrong and he was right. I would assume wise counsel will advise him to not apppeal this and reverse his decision. However, recent events have shown us that these ratbags are nothing if not inventive in their methods of doing what they damned well like and bugger the rest of you. Very interesting to see what he does next. An evil part of me hopes Carter does appeal and then lose but I really should have grown out of amusing myself by pulling the wings off flies by my stage in life.

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Baches and Steppenwolf

Rather unexpectedly new life has been breathed into the Taito Philip Field business with a new 'witness' revealing (or not as it turned out) new 'evidence' on TV last night behind the cloak of an actress - how silly does this way of revealing things look? If played properly all this should end up with the gent from Mangere getting his come uppance but the portents are not good. If recent history is anything to go by National will drop the ball and the government will dot down under the bar at the other end for a fourteen pointer. O me miserum.

The Mayor of Rodney is telling DoC to indulge in sex and travel over the seven mini baches on the coast between Omaha and Leigh (remember these came to minor prominence a month or so back). Never one to laud the praises of any one in council under normal circumsatnces but on this occasion I'm inclined to shout from the bache tops 'Go the Mayor. You little beauty' DoC or OSH, who is the most odious of them all? Dunno, but OSH is making a strong run on the inside with my hearing an as yet to be substantiated rumour whilst spoiling a good walk at the weekend. It is rumoured that every branch on every tree that is six feet and under from ground level at the North Shore Golf Club (and I would assume every other golf club in the land) has to be removed as it represents a hazard to players. That this is patently absurd and also patenetly impractical (imagine what a seven foot tree is going to end up looking like) unfortunately does nothing to bring the veracity of this rumour into doubt. We are barking letting these wallies get away with this - if it is true. We are barking letting them get away with most of the other stuff they get away with even if it is not.

Back to the Herald. A very informative piece on the inside of the back cover giving some background to NZ's Bill of Rights which is old enough to have sex today. I always thought that Cullen was a bumbling oaf. I was very wrong. His insights into the dark art of left wing politics are very well honed indeed. I didn't realise that our Bill of Rights is really a Claytons one and that it's progenitor, Sir Geoffrey Palmer, saw it somewhat lobotomised at inception. The arguments as to why we a have a watered down version and what might happen if we had the full strength version are fascinating and at the root of this is something I keep banging on about, namely the total separation of the executive and judicial arms of government. This is all further complicated by the fact that we have a single chamber Parliament. Cullen says we need no further beefing up of the Bill as the great unwashed would prefer to let the final arbiter be the elected representatives and not an appointed judiciary. Well he would say that, wouldn't he? It all depends of course of the calibre of the elected representatives (not forgetting we have no upper house as a safeguard) and who gets appointed onto a Supreme Court. People have called NZ's Parliament a legislators paradise as they can effectively do what ever they like. I have seen no evidence in the last few years to refute this. Also quoted is what you may want to avoid, the system as run by the US where the Supreme Court is so politicised it's not funny. Apparently Canada has it just right - I'll go and have a snoop. And all along I thought the only good thing to come out of Canada was Steppenwolf.

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More DoC

DoC currently administers somewhere between 30% and 40% of New Zealand's total land area and that is likely to rise to nearer 50%. They have their beady eyes on coastal waters. They are supposed to be have no policy making role at all but spend vast amounts of their time and ever increasing budget doing little else. They are in a unique position where they can claim that any failure on their part to turn any land under their control (be it a Natonal Park or landfill, and they do control some of the latter apparently) into a purely conservation and nothing else area means they are underfunded and need more resources. To date they always get it. They are not allowed to consider anything else (economic developement, heritage, nothing) apart from returning land to its 'native state' when they make decisions about anything. The countering and balancing views on these subjects are supposed to be supplied by other peri-governmental agencies which over the years have mysteriously failed to appear at all or have become so atavistic as to be useless. The Minister's decisions are not subject to any avenue of appeal - we have already seen this in action this year. The set up is beyond belief.Be very afraid of this mob. They suggest policy, represent themselves at any 'public hearings' on same, seem to be able to lose opinions that don't agree with theirs and then administer the result with the sort of 'black and white, no shades of grey, we are only following the rules' methodology so beloved of totalitarian outfits. Nasty bits of work.

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DoC

What have we this morning?

Our friends at DoC, the minions answerable to Comrade Carter, are flexing their not inconsiderable muscle up on the Rodney Coast between Leigh and Omaha. Apparently there are seven baches right on the coast (although pictures of them make them appear more of the dimensions Clark Kent would use as a changing room) that have been there since WW2 when they were set up as accommodation for American servicemen (eh?). These abodes are on land that is a) a designated cemetary (gazetted in the 1890s) and b) on DoC land.

I put it to you that the amount of disruption these seven dwellingettes are causing to anything is approaching zero. The only way you can get to them is along the beach or across private land via a locked gate. Admitted by all is that they discharge no raw sewerage into the sea. Been there for sixty years, just leave them alone would be a sensible man's stance I suggest.

Oh no you don't. They have to go 'cos the rules (i.e. DoC's draconian powers under its charter or what ever it has) say so. DoC are asking Rodney Council how long this situation will be 'tolerated'. What are these people on? What good does moving these baches do for anyone except the DoC Jobsworths who presumably can put another notch in their clipboard and regain their bragging rights at the tofu and feta bar. DoC is an organisation out of control and has been allowed to become same by a succession of administrationis of varying flavours over the years. Having a particularly virulent strain of the Marxist government in Comrade Carter currently at the Department's helm gives no confidence that the siuation will be righted anytime soon.

A little background reading that some might find illuminating:

Scary report on the Department of Conservation

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