Earth Hour 2009

I hope some readers of this blog have been led here by flyers ACT on Campus have been handing out in Christchurch and looked upon Earth Hour with a critical eye.

There's a film that tells the other side of the story you can view online for free: The Great Global Warming Swindle

This is the defining moral and political cause of our times and we need to get it right.

ACT are unique in seeking a critical and informed response to climate change.

ACT on Campus Canterbury go even further, we say man-made global warming and the carbon emissions taxation initiatives are a swindle! Hopefully we've managed to explain our reaction in person, and why we ask all politicians to ditch this voodoo politics.

Rick,
Christchurch

One day, a Labour supporter, a National supporter and an ACT supporter go for a round of golf.

At the start of the fourth hole, they catch up to three elderly gentleman who are playing extremely slowly and seem to loose their golf ball after nearly every shot.

By the end of the ninth hole, the group has become quite frustrated with the delays and their complaints are overheard by one of the three elderly gentlemen who approaches them at the tenth tee. The man explains that his two older friends are in fact blind and apologies for their slow play as he must help them find their ball after every shot.

The Labour supporter immediately approaches the other two elderly gentlemen and, unheard to the others, spoke with the men for around five minutes before returning to the other two and explaining that he had apologiesed profusely and explained that he hadn't realised that they were blind. Next the National supporter approached the men and spoke to them for a while, they shook hands and he returned to the other two and he explained that the men had agreed to allow them to go ahead so they wouldn't hold them up any longer. Finally the ACT supporter approached the men and spoke with them for barely five seconds. The two elderly gentleman burst out laughing and clapped the ACT supporter on the back. He too returned to his friends and told them what he had told the blind gentlemen: "Really, you should be playing at night. You'll probably get a discount from the club too!"

Ron Paul debates legalizing Marijuana on Larry King on CNN versus Stephen Baldwin.

Are you getting a raw deal?

In our New Zealand Politics paper today, we were privileged to be delivered a lecture by the (token) leader of the Opposition, The honourable Phil Goff. Also in attendance were Phil's office-lady, an ecstatic looking Brendan Burns (Tim Barnett's replacement as MP for Waimakarari), and the ever-uninspiring back-bencher list MP, Charles Chauvel.

David Garrett On Criminals

Glad to have been joined by David Garrett on Tuesday and by Heather Roy on Wednesday this week.

After half a day without their favourite blogs (including AoC), National caved in and agreed to delay the introduction of S92a until the end of March.

A great result for all of us, from across the political spectrum, who campaigned against it - not just in the last few weeks, but all the way back through last year when Labour were trying to pass the bill initially.

Here's a great video by Laurence Lessig about copyright. Freedom lovers will enjoy the last few minutes particularly where he rails against the age of prohibition that we have developed - not just in IT - where we live our lives against the law.

Enjoy:

"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work." - Henry Morganthau, US Secretary of the Treasurer during FDR's New Deal, 1939