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all_your_base - Date published:
1:06 pm, September 19th, 2007 - 2 comments
Categories: climate change -
Tags: climate change
Arrrrg, the starrrrs must be aligned. Not only is it international talk like a pirate day and a day of significance to Pastafarians worldwide but it’s also the day before the government announces its carbon emission trading scheme.
Having not yet seen the scheme the Nats don’t really know what to say as evidenced by Key’s incoherent performance on Breakfast this morning. As usual, Key fell back on his standard answer of “tax cuts” as panacea to all the world’s woes – including climate change it would seem.
Jacqui Dean tabled the following graph in Parliament though – apparently she found it on the Internet – suggesting that perhaps a return to pirating might be a possible solution to global warming. Colleagues reminded her that they might be partly to blame, having effectively stamped out traditional high seas, doubloon-burying, parrot-wearing pirating with the abolition of the trades apprenticeships scheme back in the 90s.
Strange that they had no such aversion to the Fay/Ritchwhite style that was also popular at the time.
The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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Here’s the first paragraph of Key’s profile as translated by the Pirate translator:-
John Key werrre bein’ borrrn in Auckland but mov’d t’ Chrrristchurrrch when a sprrrog, and a bottle of rum! The orrrnerrry cuss werrre bein’ educat’d at Burrrnside High School and then gain’d a B, and a bottle of rum!Comm frrrom yon th’ Univerrrsity o’ Canterrrburrry, and a bottle of rum!
Great work! Fingers crossed that an MP does a translated press release…