Daily review 10/10/2019

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  1. Sabine 1
    10 October 2019 at 7:24 pm

    Please vote,

    cause the rich and powerful that run for office need YOU give them credibility.

    fixed that banner of yours.

    • McFlock 1.1
      10 October 2019 at 7:38 pm

      On a related not, at pub recently a chap I know is running for local office. Telling him I gave him the most points on the STV form and only one point to a known jerk was a witty jape.

    • JanM 3.1
      10 October 2019 at 8:35 pm

      Nearly threw up watching the sly little Jessica Mutch Mckay making a meal of it tonight – including the misinformation that JLR was kicked out of National – didn't he resign?

    • Fireblade 3.2
      10 October 2019 at 8:38 pm

      Look up in the sky, it's a bird…it's a plane, it's Superman!

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySvAs5ppkRw

      No, it's just a bald man with a parachute.

      • Exkiwiforces 3.2.1
        10 October 2019 at 9:27 pm

        No, it’s a old white bald male doing a HALO (High Altitude Low Opening) jump and the punters in Botany are aghast, shock that his chute hasn’t opened yet as he attempts to landing into Botany.

        • McFlock 3.2.1.1
          10 October 2019 at 9:35 pm

          12,000 majority for JLR in 2017. Nats usually like to vote according to head office advice (e.g. Epsom), so even if JLR splits the vote Luxon's chute will probably deploy alright.

          Unless Judith switched his pack for one with an anvil in it. Luxon comes in and does okay, she's never going to get "PM" in her CV. That's probably worth more than a few grand for Oravida.

          • Exkiwiforces 3.2.1.1.1
            10 October 2019 at 11:51 pm

            Well the flip side to your 45", is that Luxton could up end doing a Donnie Bash? Which in turn could put in turn CoL government in for at least another 3 terms in which it would be able to this Super Tanker/ Road Train of this Neo Con/ Neo Lib economic BS around?

            Or, if Judie does become the Leader of the "No Mates Party"? Then she would make old Maggie aka the Iron Lady look sane and the Devil will be looking for a new job as Herr Hitler and, co would asking for a Saint Hood from the almighty. But the catch is from about 2023 or 25 onwards us X, Y, Z etc and the swingers from the Scrabble Group (the Rainbow Mob or whatever they call themselves these) will out number the boomers and the likes of her fellow followers would give us at least a 3 to 4 term CoL Government or longer baring any major shit fight in the Asia/ Pacific Region.

    • Anne 3.3
      10 October 2019 at 8:45 pm

      He's world class folks… world class. John Key says so and it takes one to know one. (sarc)

      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12275415

      And I agree with you Jan M above. Have never trusted Jessica Mutch from day one. A Nat fan girl with a hugely high opinion of herself.

      • AB 3.3.1
        10 October 2019 at 11:22 pm

        World class at what? Being a decerebrate suit?

        More important question – is a completely bald man electable? We know an ugly man can be (Muldoon) or a fat one (Kirk and Lange) or a terminally dull one (Bolger and English almost), a stuffy/pompous one (Holyoake), or one who radiates an almost other-worldly dishonesty (Key). But bald? Surely not.

  4. Sabine 4
    10 October 2019 at 8:27 pm

    this should be interesting

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/09/california-power-outage-shutoff-wildfires

    Schools are closed. Traffic lights down. Tunnels dark. Businesses unopened. Hospitals running on generators.

    Much of northern California is facing life without electricity or gas for as many as five to seven days, after the country’s largest utility company cut power to an unprecedented swath of the state as a preventive measure against wildfires.

    The power shutoffs by Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) may affect up to 2.5 million people by the end of the week. The first wave of shutoffs began on Wednesday to portions of 20 of the state’s 58 counties. PG&E was expected to shut off power to 10 more later in the day.

    i saw a number of 800.000 people that will be without electricity. I wonder how long before people will start to be unhappy about that.

    • In Vino 4.1
      10 October 2019 at 9:31 pm

      Wait a minute. I seem to remember Californian and Australian wildfires taking place at opposite times of the year. Now it appears to be simultaneous.

      Would some global warming denialist like to point out how many times this has happened before, or give some sun-spotty explanation as to why it is now happening?

      • Blazer 4.1.1
        10 October 2019 at 9:35 pm

        Not sure if your anecdotal recall is the basis for any relevant dissertation IV…surely you don't..either.

        • greywarshark 4.1.1.1
          11 October 2019 at 10:59 am

          Blazer – Are you a global warming denialist' seeing you have responded to In Vino? Or just another one of the negativity crowd who fit the description of using contradiction as in the Python skit on the link.

          • Blazer 4.1.1.1.1
            11 October 2019 at 11:18 am

            Seeking balanced,measured debate about the implications of global warming/climate change hardly qualifies as a 'denier', except by those zealous,one eyed and extremely arrogant protagonists that seem in abundance …here most days.

      • McFlock 4.1.2
        10 October 2019 at 9:49 pm

        Google says it depends on which part of Aus you're talking about, but the gist of links seems to be that the fire seasons in California and Aus are both widening a bit (hence the overlap being more common) – California especially because its climate is becoming much more dry.

        • Exkiwiforces 4.1.2.1
          11 October 2019 at 12:08 am

          Pity much of most of Oz are experiencing 4-6 degrees above avg temps atm and the fire behaviour being experiencing is something that would normally see after Xmas for the Mexicans south the tropics aka Northern Oz.

          Heck we had 3 major bush fires in the Darwin rural area a few weeks that all had crown fires (canopy fires) these types of fires move so fast that they are almost unstoppable on flat ground and also these type of fires are so rare up here that you have more chance of wining Powerball than fighting a crown or canopy fire.

      • Poission 4.1.3
        11 October 2019 at 12:33 am

        The australian wildfires at present ( spring) are due to the decrease in the antarctic polar vortex.

        https://twitter.com/ZLabe/status/1181227277163450368

        The sign of the PV is inverse to CC expectations and consistent with what would be expected under a healing of the antarctic ozone hole.

        The scientific facts often ruin a good yarn.

        https://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/meteorology/figures/merra2/pv/mpvweas_360_2019_merra2.pdf

  5. Exkiwiforces 5
    10 October 2019 at 9:50 pm

    It’s a shame the bugger didn’t die after what he in ET and on current situation in West Papua. Then justice would be served to that cowardly ****, *******, ****** etc please in your own insults to this butcher of ET and West Papua.

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-10/indonesian-security-minister-wiranto-injured-in-public-stabbing/11591674

  6. Pat 6
    11 October 2019 at 1:11 am

    Over thirty years ago

    "A confidential report prepared for Shell’s environmental conservation committee finds CO2 could raise temperatures by 1C to 2C over the next 40 years with changes that may be “the greatest in recorded history”. It urges rapid action by the energy industry. “By the time the global warming becomes detectable it could be too late to take effective countermeasures to reduce the effects or even stabilise the situation,” it states."

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2019/oct/09/half-century-dither-denial-climate-crisis-timeline

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