Saturday, January 31, 2009
Pass The Popcorn
Pope Benedict the 16 th has decided to rehabilitate the excommunicated Richard Williamson and three other men. Williamson was claiming last year that there is no evidence of six million Jews being killed as a “deliberate policy of Adolf Hitler” and “there were no gas chambers”. He was excommunicated...
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Gallipoli: 1918
The Red Cross notice only 35 men are still alive of those who were captured during the Gallipoli campaign by the Ottoman Empire. Dardanelles Commission (1) Report Findings (1) NZ, in particular, was bitterly against this Commission, as the British Government chose the person who was supposed to...
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Sunday, January 25, 2009
End Of An Era
A few words on former US President, George W. Bush. He has been compared to a douche bag. This is unfair. He has always seemed to me to be a dysfunctional sewage treatment plant - shit goes in, more shit is added, shit goes out. I shall miss him.
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And The “I Plucked The Numbers Out Of My Ass” Award Goes To…
The IFPI. This week they claimed 95% of music downloads are illegal. This figure is possible but unverifiable. The IFPI got the figure by estimating. What annoys me is that the “estimate” (used for confirmation bias:I.e we feel a lot of music is being pirated therefore we will estimate a big figure)...
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U2 In America
The Presidential inauguration in America doesn ’ t need commentary from me. Instead I ’ ll talk about U2 who gave a performance in the lead-up ceremonies. From a New Zealand perspective I was among the group ’ s earliest fans. I even travelled to Ireland in the eighties to hear them perform before a...
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Greece
Ballistics experts have determined that the death of the teenage boy which triggered the rioting of late las year was caused by a ricochet. Hardly earthshaking news. But the report also claims the guard fired “in the direction” of the boy and not “in the air” as the guard claims. This is not...
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Rio
The governor of Rio de Janiero has vowed to clean up the Copacabana beach - starting with the brotherl “Help”. There will also be an odour control system to combat the smell rom a nearby sewage treatment plant. According to Wagner Victer, “Now, instead of smelling of human waste, Copacabana will...
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Sports
A Massey University researcher in New Zealand, Matt Barnes, has made the discovery that alcohol interfers with muscle recovery. This means that sportspeople whjo take an after-match tipple are effectually and effectively reducing their muscular ability for the match next week as the this effect of...
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Emotionally Blackmailing Aussies
Last week some moron ignored a fence and stepped on a Fairy Tern chick at Mangawhai Spit, north Of Auckland, New Zealand. As there are only 40 of these birds (39 now) known to exist in the entire world this event goes beyond the tragic. Meanwhile Aussie brothers, Ashish and Akshay Miranda, died when...
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Garth George
Garth George has a weekly column in the NZ Herald. Last week his burning question ws “Why are the products of the booze barons not required to carry labls such as: alcohol can kill; alcohol can cause you to stop breathing or stop your heart; alcohol can destroy your brain, destroy your liver, damage...
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