Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers will turn off lights on the International Space Station.
And that will save exactly HOW much atmospheric CO2?
H/T Tim Blair
Posts from ‘March, 2012’
Pointless gesture of the year
A Dissent
It is gone 20:30 here on Queensland’s sunny Gold Coast and Earth Hour, the sanctimonious celebration of luddism and poverty, is rolling around the planet generating feelings of “wot?” and “meh”.
With that in mind, to explain to those few who still care, I am aping Anthony Watts in posting Ross McKitticks dissent for all to [...]
Challenging
Emma Alberici is an Australian Broadcasting Commission journalist. Being employed by the ABC she swims in a sea of intellectual conformity, never has her assumptions tested in lunchroom conversations with colleagues, and assumes her opinions are mainstream.
Then she interviews Melvyn Bragg……
Melvyn is a bit of a lefty isn’t he? How about bowling him a couple [...]
What is really happening in Spain.
Amongst all the media talk of “savage cuts” in government spending in Spain (supposedly government spending is being cut by “17%” - surely that should mean that government spending next year will be 17% less than it is this year, does anyone believe it will be?) I have noticed the following facts……
Civil Service pay is [...]
“Darwin Award” Is Barely Adequate
Down below, Paul has written a post about the “fall of the Moron civilisation”, and a very good post it is too. It describes how a certain South American civilisation, facing the invasion of the Conquistadores, responded by, er, killing their own people and setting fire to their pyramids, which turned out not to be [...]
What? No Aussie “Poetry” this Weekend then? ;-)
Well try some Fuckin right tidy aye Welsh stuff instead. What is described as a radio play in verse, but which I call a Movie for the Ears… The opening of Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas…
To begin at the beginning… It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and [...]
My best CD…
… I am listening to “Panic of Girls” but without a shadow of doubt the best set of tunes laid down by man, woman or beast was Blondie’s “Parallel Lines”. Epic. I may never have believed in God but dear sweet fuck I have always believed in Harry and Stein (and Infante and Burke). My [...]
Bradford West - election.
Bradford used to be a conservative city known for solid Yorkshire character. Mr Pickles (the minister in charge of local government) is from there (indeed he was once head of the council) - and…..
The Conservative vote has just fallen by 22% (over a poor result last year) in the Parliamentary seat of Bradford West - [...]
Australian Greens
Fellow Earthians,
Never before has the Universe unfolded such a flower as our collective human intelligence, so far as we know.
Nor has such a one-and-only brilliance in the Universe stood at the brink of extinction, so far as we know.
We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion [...]
Micromanaged Insanity
Control Freaks.
Let them eat cold pasties…
We really are supremely fucked. They (by which I mean Gideon, obviously) are putting VAT on pasties. Are we not cunticulated enough? Apparently (and this is weird) there is hell on about this in the South West of England despite the people who are really going to take a hit from this are Greggs who [...]
The Fall of the Moron Civilization.
A recent BBC programme was on the fall of a Moron Civilization (”Moron Civilization” is not the official name - but you will see….). The BBC may have got the facts wrong (they are not exactly famous for getting history, or anything else, right), but it is amusing to proceed on the basis that the [...]
Earth Hour
The corporate owners of Earth Hour, The Sydney Morning Herald, want to know your intentions on Saturday, in 150 words or fewer. I plan on educating them about the failure of the planet to cooperate with the Motley CRU, the rest of the Hockey Team and the IPCC, and then go on to tell them [...]
Ken Livingstone
Has anti Jewish bigotry become mainstream amongst progressives in London? Jews are all rich are they? Money grubbers maybe? Tell me, do they make Passover bread with the blood of Christian children? Poison wells maybe? Or is that sort of claim still a bit extreme for the moment?
Pogrom anyone?
Why is Ken Livingston still a member [...]
Perhaps I just see (and hear) things differently from other people.
Presently there is a lot interest in Barack Obama’s you-forgot-the-mike-was-on comments to the Russian Prime Minister. All about how November was his last election - and after it he, Comrade Barack, would be able to….
Most people (apart from the msm - the BBC, who normally broadcast Comrade Barack’s every word, do not seem to making [...]
