Sue Kedgeley, is lending her weight to the "Fibre to the Home" project. She believes that all NZers need healthy food, and complains that those in small towns and rural areas should not miss out on low-cost high-volume whole grains and legumes.

Parekura Horomia, never out-flanked, has partnered with his corporate sponsor, KFC, to launch a rival "Fat to the Home" initiative. He envisages large diameter tubes delivering goods (particularly edible goods) to disadvantaged South Auckland families that cannot afford their own car break-in kit. "Downloading 100 Megabites per second is chickenfeed", he says.

There is truth in the saying that the "highest calibre people are the biggest bores".

In a comment on my previous post, barf says:

kitty says "if we lose freedom in america, we lose freedom everywhere" that should send the NUT-JOB alarm bells ringing.

So, if USA succumbs to socialism and multi-culturalism and unilateral disarmament, and China decides to invade Australia, who is going to repel the invaders?

Europe won't. USA won't. We can't.

How can we keep freedom in the world... or at least the few parts that are still free?

In 1938, Hitler did not annex Austria by military force.

According to a fascinating eye-witness report from Kitty Werthmann, 98% of Austrian's voted for Mr Hitler to rescue Austria from 33% unemployment, 25% inflation and 25% interest rates.


I highly recommend that you read it -- it is very eye-opening, not only from a historical perspective, but also because of the parallels to today.

John Ansell has created a poll with 6 suggestions for a new NZ flag, based on a fern design.

I argue that

We need ONE flag that represents New Zealand. Not a sports flag (A), or a Green party flag (B) or a semi-colonial flag (C), or a wide-screen sports flag (D) or a Maori flag (E).

But a NZ flag. Thus I vote for (F): the Land and Sea flag.


(Note: it is not necessary to represent all the different people in a flag. Eg Canada’s maple leaf does not pander to French and English and native people groups. The Swiss white cross on red does not pander to German, French, Italian and Romansch factions — it is just Swiss. Both are excellent flags. Similarly, we need a NEW ZEALAND flag.)

I see signs of panic from George Monbiot. He admits that his side it losing the race to convince the public about Global Warming, but he is in denial (ironically) that it is about the science.

People are not as thick as his colleagues disparagingly assert ("room temperature IQs" maybe he means in degrees Kelvin?). We can see that the temperatures are flat or going down, even as CO2 levels keep rising. And the hyperbole from the alarmists is harming their own cause.

 

So he resorts to a straw man argument about old people.

 

Good grief. He should face facts.