Posts by Tom Beard
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You can't make this stuff up:
The official platform of the Democratic party claims to involve strengthening America.[1] However, the Democrat voting record reveals a true agenda of cowering to terrorism[2], treasonous anti-Americanism[3], and comtempt for America's founding principles such as freedom of religion[4].
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Another goodie, under Global Warming:
It should be noted that these scientists are motivated by a need for grant money in their field of climatology. Therefore, their work can not be considered unbiased, though no more than any scientist in any other field .[4]. Also, these scientists are mostly liberal athiests, untroubled by the hubris that man can destroy the Earth which God gave him.[5]
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Puts a whole new spin on "faith-based" initiatives, doesn't it?
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From Conservapedia's article about Wikipedia:
"The administrators who monitor and control the content on Wikipedia do not represent the views of the majority of Americans, and many are in fact not American."
Not American! How dare they!
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I wonder sometimes if there's a secular parent left who doesn't have a horror story about trying to get their kids a state secular education.
When I was at a state high school not a million miles from where Russell and John Key were getting their education, I got sick of getting detentions for refusing to sing hymns in assembly. So I wrote an article in the school newspaper pointing out that as a state school we were supposed to be secular, and the school actually ended up having a referendum and eventually removing hymns from senior assembly! And a long history of busybodying started right there...
Before that, the tactic among my geeky atheist clque was to sing along, but replace the word "God" with "Carl", and "Jesus" with "Sagan". All together now: "Immortal, invincible, Carl only wise..."
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Rich:
We need more people using less energy. Having only 4 million people on a big chunk of land like NZ wastes energy - not least because those people want to visit each other and have stuff trucked to them. 8 million people could live much more sustainably than 4
That pretty much summarises my position on the whole thing.
We need to stop being a nation of farmers and become a nation of creators.
I'd have to agree with that, too, though I think there's a lot of scope for "creative farmers", or in the broader sense adding more valuable to our raw products.
I'm worried by the term "stationary energy": it implies that transport can't be powered by those sources. That will always be true of some transport, but there are plenty of public transport modes (trains, light rail/trams, trolley buses) that could indeed become carbon neutral. And the more we live the way Rich is suggesting, the more people will be able to travel without emissions.
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We haven't got the same jihad going on here in Wellington, thank god. Sure, significant heritage buildings and areas should have some protection, but I don't see billboards as "visual clutter": surely a big city should be all about sensory overload, visual contrasts and brash vitality?
There is a move afoot here to clamp down on sandwich boards, but I think that's a different issue: they do actually physically get in the way of pedestrians, and in a city where walking is a significant mode of commuting it's crazy to block off big chunks of the public thoroughfare. Roll on hologram sandwich boards and levitating billboards a la Bladerunner!
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On a completely different tack, and one unlikely to please the SPCA...
Mmmm, foie gras. Does anyone make it here? -
I like to ensure that I have a good solid breakfast to start the day: it's the only way to maintain good nutrition. Four fried eggs with lashings of hollandaise, a dozen rashers of pancetta, a generous hunk of black pudding, half a dozen old-fashioned pork sausages and three hash browns (twice-cooked in goose fat, of course), all served on French toast with a side of chilli beans (for roughage) and washed down with a pint of Lagavulin.
But kids these days...
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I'm a highly educated, handsome and thoroughly charming individual
It's funny because it's true.