Open mike 02/02/2010

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1. mickysavage 1

   2 February 2010 at 7:36 am

   I just heard Tolley on Morning Report.

   Apparently current testing is more than adequate and the information held concerning children is already quite detailed. She also said that the tests conducted by schools would remain different but the results standardised, somehow.

   Instead of introducing a new testing regime why don’t they just invite parents to ask teachers what the current results are?

   As a parent I have never had problems finding out what my children’s reading ages were.
2. Morgan 2

   2 February 2010 at 7:37 am

   National scraps another left wing success. Pull down the fence at the top of the cliff and put the ambulance at the bottom National says.
   • Morgan 2.1

     2 February 2010 at 7:39 am

     Sorry wrong link. This is the one

     http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10623537
   • NickS 2.2

     2 February 2010 at 11:28 am

     So, instead of considering the costs of incarceration + crime impacts from each of the youths who’ve gone through, instead Powers is basing the C/B ratio off short term costs? It’s a bit hypocritical of Powers, given he keeps trumpeting long-term benefits as a reason the current white elephant transport projects he’s pushing.
   • Draco T Bastard 2.3

     2 February 2010 at 12:42 pm

     National prefer more crime as it’s easier to control people through fear.
     • Ron 2.3.1

       3 February 2010 at 10:39 am

       Most interesting thing about this is the Power has blatantly lied about the costs. His own department puts them at more like $170,000 per graduate.
   • BLiP 2.4

     2 February 2010 at 12:57 pm

     With the profit motive now infesting the Justice system, what incentive do the foreign owners have in reducing their “market”? Or, maybe, someone can point to a business model where the ultimate objective is to eliminate its core product.
3. winston smith 3

   2 February 2010 at 8:46 am

   Yet more embarrassing revelations about shonky practices at the IPCC:

   http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10623534

   How will the warmists spin this latest egregious error?
   [we’ll say that a few isolated problems with a few claims does nothing to undermine the massive body of evidence that human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are changing the world’s climate]
   • mickysavage 3.1

     2 February 2010 at 8:59 am

     Perfection would be great, stuff ups almost inevitable. Funny how the coldists rely on isolated incidents to reaffirm their rigidly held world view while at the same time they denigrate all of the remaining science no matter how solid it is.

     Hey is that the North Pole and South Pole disappearing?
     • lukas 3.1.1

       2 February 2010 at 9:15 am

       ‘Hey is that the North Pole and South Pole disappearing?”

       Ten bucks says that comment will be used as proof in the next IPCC report.
       • NickS 3.1.1.1

         2 February 2010 at 11:21 am

         Except of courses there’s a small mountain of research on ice loss from both areas.

         Then again, it is lukas…
         /shrug
4. Pascal's bookie 4

   2 February 2010 at 8:59 am

   More than a third of the streetlights in Colorado Springs will go dark Monday. The police helicopters are for sale on the Internet. The city is dumping firefighting jobs, a vice team, burglary investigators, beat cops — dozens of police and fire positions will go unfilled.

   The parks department removed trash cans last week, replacing them with signs urging users to pack out their own litter.

   Neighbors are encouraged to bring their own lawn mowers to local green spaces, because parks workers will mow them only once every two weeks. If that.

   Water cutbacks mean most parks will be dead, brown turf by July; the flower and fertilizer budget is zero.

   City recreation centers, indoor and outdoor pools, and a handful of museums will close for good March 31 unless they find private funding to stay open. Buses no longer run on evenings and weekends. The city won’t pay for any street paving, relying instead on a regional authority that can meet only about 10 percent of the need.

   “I guess we’re going to find out what the tolerance level is for people,” said businessman Chuck Fowler, who is helping lead a private task force brainstorming for city budget fixes. “It’s a new day.”

   http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_14303473

   It’s Rodney Hide kinda town. (Taxpayer Bill of Rights)
   • Draco T Bastard 4.1

     2 February 2010 at 12:46 pm

     It’s Rodney Hide kinda town.

     Yep, and a National one and neither of them understand that.
5. The Voice of Reason 5

   2 February 2010 at 12:05 pm

   Rather good arrticle and related radio programme on the Beeb website on why people vote against their own self interests. It’s hooked to the US voter’s antipathy toward healthcare reform, but it has some points that seem rather relevant to the NZ scene, particularly as to how Labour will need to position themselves before the next election.

   http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8474611.stm
6. winston smith 6

   2 February 2010 at 2:14 pm

   http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7111068/Revealed-the-racy-novel-written-by-the-worlds-most-powerful-climate-scientist.html

   No, that’s not a reference to Pachauri’s best known work of fiction – the award-winning 2007 IPCC Report.

   It’s a reference to his other oeuvre – a smutty novel.

   Hard to distinguish between the two, really
   • BLiP 6.1

     2 February 2010 at 2:29 pm

     The good ole “smear” tactic – ignore the science and attack the person so as to detract from the idiocy of the denialists’ own pseudo-science and attempt to fill the airwaves with seedy distractions. Won’t work. The science is in, the Earth is warming, your children will suffer and spit on your grave.
     • winston smith 6.1.1

       2 February 2010 at 4:10 pm

       hard to attack the science when there’s none evident – the only thing commonly in evidence about the IPCC is their ability to pass off opinion as fact.
7. BLiP 7

   2 February 2010 at 4:02 pm

   meanwhile – National Ltdâ„¢ further enhances New Zealand’s 100% Pure image by missing the first Copenhagen deadline.

   Good ole King John The Clueless of Charmalot – watta guy!

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