So it would appear that Liam Fox is as stupid and self serving as we have come to expect of our political class in general. It is amazing that he resigned though. I thought that we had established that only criminal actions were a resigning matter, since New Labour introduced the New Morality into politics? The resignation being enough in itself and the sort of justice you and I could expect, arrest, court case, was then obviated.
You do have to admire Labour though. Unlike others, they, like a woman spurned will not give up and chase a story to ground. Don't get me wrong, when they uncover misdeeds they should do. But it does beg the question why we had to endure so much corruption and deceit under Blair and Brown, without anyone effectively hounding them.
Was the oh-so-obvious cover up of the death of David Kelly something that the Opposition thought they should go along with? Was it just because Cameron hoped he would get the same leeway if in a similar position, when Prime Minister? A dangerous pact to enter considering Labour are quite evidently a scheming bunch of ne'er do wells, unable to even maintain 'honour amongst thieves'.
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
You And Tangled Webs
It is usual to find the Left supporting entirely contradictory positions, as putting ideology before reality as they do is a recipe for disaster. Some birds take a while longer to come home to roost. The Global Warming religion was useful for the Left as it simultaneously addressed a desire to hate ourselves as over mighty Man and to also believe that Man, in the form of clever Lefties would resolve the problem. This resolution was their second desire; to shut down Western civilisation and its economic roots.
This is why 'the debate is settled', the BBC should not allow debate on air and opposition to Global Warming must see you classed as a nutter. But as bills go up it has become personal and the electorate are getting restless. They are asking questions, the questions that the Left have outlawed. The people can see how shallow and unsubstantiated arguments of the Left are, when the best they are able to say is 'it is, because I say it is' and 'you cannot oppose us'.
So, Cameron, in thrall to Green policies as much as any other who skips thinking, trots along to accuse the energy companies of charging too much. That they are is also due to government not being bothered to do its job properly, but Cameron is not looking to blame himself and the companies are hardly likely to say that they do it because he doesn't control them well enough.
No they are arguing the highly plausible and partly correct point that it is green taxes and costs that are driving bills up. Cameron didn't want that in the light of day either and Chris Huhne will be livid. Something he is responsible for being questioned, how dare they! Obviously no sane person would put up a wind turbine unless someone guaranteed to pay for it and its operating costs, making it a money tree rather than a business proposition.
So we all pay vastly increased bills, to suit Cameron's and Huhne's version of politics, which is based on lies and a false premise. All of these costs could be taken off our shoulders at the stroke of a pen and have no consequences whatsoever. But none of this explains the enhanced profits these foreign owned, energy companies are making. (Interestingly, many of these companies come to Britain to buy such infrastructure organisations, as in their own countries they are more closely controlled and profits commensurately less).
Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.
This is why 'the debate is settled', the BBC should not allow debate on air and opposition to Global Warming must see you classed as a nutter. But as bills go up it has become personal and the electorate are getting restless. They are asking questions, the questions that the Left have outlawed. The people can see how shallow and unsubstantiated arguments of the Left are, when the best they are able to say is 'it is, because I say it is' and 'you cannot oppose us'.
So, Cameron, in thrall to Green policies as much as any other who skips thinking, trots along to accuse the energy companies of charging too much. That they are is also due to government not being bothered to do its job properly, but Cameron is not looking to blame himself and the companies are hardly likely to say that they do it because he doesn't control them well enough.
No they are arguing the highly plausible and partly correct point that it is green taxes and costs that are driving bills up. Cameron didn't want that in the light of day either and Chris Huhne will be livid. Something he is responsible for being questioned, how dare they! Obviously no sane person would put up a wind turbine unless someone guaranteed to pay for it and its operating costs, making it a money tree rather than a business proposition.
So we all pay vastly increased bills, to suit Cameron's and Huhne's version of politics, which is based on lies and a false premise. All of these costs could be taken off our shoulders at the stroke of a pen and have no consequences whatsoever. But none of this explains the enhanced profits these foreign owned, energy companies are making. (Interestingly, many of these companies come to Britain to buy such infrastructure organisations, as in their own countries they are more closely controlled and profits commensurately less).
Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.
Monday, 17 October 2011
Dan Wheldon
The racing driver Dan Wheldon died in a horrific crash at the Las Vegas 300 Indycar race. As he is a sportsman from this area, I would like to salute him and his achievements and send deepest condolences to his family.
I gather that it has been years since there has been a fatality in Indycar and for that we should be grateful. Though who to I'm not sure, as the governing body of the sport doesn't seem a likely source of safety. Formula 1 is a race car sport with many twists and turns, slowing cars, but bringing them into close proximity. Fires are rare and all tracks (except Monaco) have large run-off area, gravel traps and cushioned 'walls'. This, added to the immensely strong car bodies and other safety features makes it a safe(ish) sport.
Indycar is run at high speed around a simple banked oval, with concrete walls on the outer edge (where centrifugal force pushes the cars). In the event of an accident the car is likely to strike the wall, disintegrate and then slide down across the track towards the in-field, probably in front of following cars, with any concomitant fire not being apparent as the fuel used, ethanol, burns almost invisibly. That to me seems a lot of stupid ideas, all brought together in one, already risky sport.
I gather that it has been years since there has been a fatality in Indycar and for that we should be grateful. Though who to I'm not sure, as the governing body of the sport doesn't seem a likely source of safety. Formula 1 is a race car sport with many twists and turns, slowing cars, but bringing them into close proximity. Fires are rare and all tracks (except Monaco) have large run-off area, gravel traps and cushioned 'walls'. This, added to the immensely strong car bodies and other safety features makes it a safe(ish) sport.
Indycar is run at high speed around a simple banked oval, with concrete walls on the outer edge (where centrifugal force pushes the cars). In the event of an accident the car is likely to strike the wall, disintegrate and then slide down across the track towards the in-field, probably in front of following cars, with any concomitant fire not being apparent as the fuel used, ethanol, burns almost invisibly. That to me seems a lot of stupid ideas, all brought together in one, already risky sport.
Money, Money, Money
Well, the stupidity goes on. The Eurozone crisis continues to drag the whole world into its designed drama but no one thinks of doing anything positive about it. We hear of enormous sums of money being proposed as 'bailouts'. Greece may be technically bankrupt (as opposed to actually bankrupt, which it is) and Spain and Italy need extra funding. Why? Because the Euro is crippling their economies and the French and Germans will not cancel the Euro project as it may fatally wound the whole EU project.
The empire builders are not ready to do that and probably never will be. War would be better than admitting to a bad idea (and losing a carefully constructed empire). Ironically, the Chinese are playing the Franco/German game now. They are offering to buy up European infrastructure and provide funds to keep the Eurozone going. That's nice of them, isn't it?
Of course the Chinese have a history of dealing with the EU, so are acutely aware how stupid they are (the Chinese underwrote the GPS system the EU is trying to threaten US with). The Chinese see two reasons for providing this support. Firstly, they will gain control of key segments of European infrastructure which they can milk or wreck as they see fit (much as UK infrastructure is mainly in foreign hands who then put bills up massively) and secondly, if they keep the Euro going, it will do the maximum damage possible to the whole Western economy.
These new wars are not killing so many people (yet) but they certainly are devastating in their way. Will some politicians wake up, or is this cycle now entrenched and we wait to see where the real fighting starts?
The empire builders are not ready to do that and probably never will be. War would be better than admitting to a bad idea (and losing a carefully constructed empire). Ironically, the Chinese are playing the Franco/German game now. They are offering to buy up European infrastructure and provide funds to keep the Eurozone going. That's nice of them, isn't it?
Of course the Chinese have a history of dealing with the EU, so are acutely aware how stupid they are (the Chinese underwrote the GPS system the EU is trying to threaten US with). The Chinese see two reasons for providing this support. Firstly, they will gain control of key segments of European infrastructure which they can milk or wreck as they see fit (much as UK infrastructure is mainly in foreign hands who then put bills up massively) and secondly, if they keep the Euro going, it will do the maximum damage possible to the whole Western economy.
These new wars are not killing so many people (yet) but they certainly are devastating in their way. Will some politicians wake up, or is this cycle now entrenched and we wait to see where the real fighting starts?
Condensing Boilers
Since 2005 it has been the law of the land that if you install a new gas boiler, it has to be a 'condensing' boiler. The reason the action was taken was to decrease the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, an ideological and political concern, not to provide an extra driver for the boiler manufacturing and installation businesses. The boilers often use a pipe running outside to cool water before it returns to the boiler as part of the condensing.
This pipe unfortunately freezes during the winter months, when the temperature becomes freezing and the boiler shuts down. Now, I'm not sure if the companies responsible thought that, due to Global Warming (which after all was what their boilers were 'fighting') there wouldn't ever be cold weather again, or if they were just phenomenally stupid. The whole project was pushed through by Prescott (other ideas, knocking down perfectly good houses to allow developers to build new ones and setting up illegal 'regional governments'), so it is highly likely that it is the latter.
British Gas are leading the way to solve the problem though, by charging customers to resolve what in many cases, would be their own faulty installation. Something I think, under the Sale of Goods act would be classed as 'unfit for purpose' (makes you think of Prescott again, doesn't it?). Isn't it strange how flouting the law seems to come naturally to large companies these days, just as it does politicians. Could the two things possibly be connected?
This pipe unfortunately freezes during the winter months, when the temperature becomes freezing and the boiler shuts down. Now, I'm not sure if the companies responsible thought that, due to Global Warming (which after all was what their boilers were 'fighting') there wouldn't ever be cold weather again, or if they were just phenomenally stupid. The whole project was pushed through by Prescott (other ideas, knocking down perfectly good houses to allow developers to build new ones and setting up illegal 'regional governments'), so it is highly likely that it is the latter.
British Gas are leading the way to solve the problem though, by charging customers to resolve what in many cases, would be their own faulty installation. Something I think, under the Sale of Goods act would be classed as 'unfit for purpose' (makes you think of Prescott again, doesn't it?). Isn't it strange how flouting the law seems to come naturally to large companies these days, just as it does politicians. Could the two things possibly be connected?
Wednesday, 12 October 2011
All Hail Shale!
The discovery of enormous amounts of 'shale gas' in the North West is brilliant news, for reality based people. This naturally excludes Chris Huhne the Energy Secretary. Chris, who is probably just a pretty straight kinda guy, doesn't have much interest in energy, or in fact climate change which is the other part of his important title. No, he is interested in ideology, more specifically Man Made Global Warming ideology.
In this he seeks to put everything behind his certain knowledge that CO2 in the atmosphere is deadly and will cook us all, or freeze us. But it will definitely be our fault. You see the climate probably is changing, it always has so it seems a pretty safe premise and until fairly recently it was in an upward, hotter direction. Then, rather inconveniently it stopped warming. So those tied to the ideology decided to ignore this new data (or 'hide' it, see 'Climategate') much as they had also had to ignore the Mediaeval Warm Period.
It is truly brilliant now that science has been released from the bonds of being, well, an exact science. And this is Chris Huhne's world, that is Chris Huhne the politician who is in a position to do an awful lot of harm. He isn't insisting on building and subsidising wind farms to cure a problem, he is doing so because his ideology says he must. So fuel bills sky rocket whilst absolutely pointless turbines go up, that are making some people rich, like the Prime Minister's father-in-law, but don't actually have a purpose.
Even when the blasted thing is met with the most favourable conditions and it is outputting at its maximum, a conventional power station has to be 'turning and burning' just in case the wind drops (or increases), thus negating the whole reason for the existence of the Quixotic devices. To believe otherwise you have to lack reason and logic.
Which brings us back to shale gas. If it turns out that there is anything like the amount we think there is, it will be ground breaking for the UK (no pun intended). It will mean cheap fuel for the rest of our and our children's lives, at least. It will remove at a stroke the need to rely on Russia for gas and it will help stabilise our economy. But with ideology led Chris Huhne anywhere near the controls, we run the risk of this bounty being ignored.
Though wind turbines are entirely pointless, they are the prescribed saviour mechanism and therefore, as with all religious scripture cannot be denied. Shale gas ticks all the boxes if you live in the real world, but we have a madman in charge of policy (apparently), so we must be prepared for trouble. Soon, the articles will doubtless start appearing on the BBC and in the Guardian saying that to use shale gas we would have to first sell our souls to the Devil and that anyone who supports it eats babies. These are the people, don't forget, who really do have the funds to pay for propaganda.
In this he seeks to put everything behind his certain knowledge that CO2 in the atmosphere is deadly and will cook us all, or freeze us. But it will definitely be our fault. You see the climate probably is changing, it always has so it seems a pretty safe premise and until fairly recently it was in an upward, hotter direction. Then, rather inconveniently it stopped warming. So those tied to the ideology decided to ignore this new data (or 'hide' it, see 'Climategate') much as they had also had to ignore the Mediaeval Warm Period.
It is truly brilliant now that science has been released from the bonds of being, well, an exact science. And this is Chris Huhne's world, that is Chris Huhne the politician who is in a position to do an awful lot of harm. He isn't insisting on building and subsidising wind farms to cure a problem, he is doing so because his ideology says he must. So fuel bills sky rocket whilst absolutely pointless turbines go up, that are making some people rich, like the Prime Minister's father-in-law, but don't actually have a purpose.
Even when the blasted thing is met with the most favourable conditions and it is outputting at its maximum, a conventional power station has to be 'turning and burning' just in case the wind drops (or increases), thus negating the whole reason for the existence of the Quixotic devices. To believe otherwise you have to lack reason and logic.
Which brings us back to shale gas. If it turns out that there is anything like the amount we think there is, it will be ground breaking for the UK (no pun intended). It will mean cheap fuel for the rest of our and our children's lives, at least. It will remove at a stroke the need to rely on Russia for gas and it will help stabilise our economy. But with ideology led Chris Huhne anywhere near the controls, we run the risk of this bounty being ignored.
Though wind turbines are entirely pointless, they are the prescribed saviour mechanism and therefore, as with all religious scripture cannot be denied. Shale gas ticks all the boxes if you live in the real world, but we have a madman in charge of policy (apparently), so we must be prepared for trouble. Soon, the articles will doubtless start appearing on the BBC and in the Guardian saying that to use shale gas we would have to first sell our souls to the Devil and that anyone who supports it eats babies. These are the people, don't forget, who really do have the funds to pay for propaganda.
Monday, 10 October 2011
Liam Fox
Liam Fox it seems has a friend whom he is helping out, by allowing him to be an unofficial adviser. Doesn't strike me as an ideal action from a Minister, but I haven't heard of any harm either. Word is rife though that he may have to resign.
We must have entered a different phase of politics as almost nothing was a resigning matter a few years ago. Ah yes, of course, Labour are in Opposition now so high standards, integrity and resigning are all back on the table. Whilst acting as a government and in their speeches since it is clear Labour don't actually have any policies and care little for anything other than themselves. But by God do they whinge.
As far as I can see this is a nonsense and should be resolved easily, but that is not what the Left want. Naturally, it is constant headline news for the BBC, the same organisation that didn't draw your attention to the fact that an unelected 'advisor' was put in charge of civil servants, quite against the rules, by Labour.
No, all the excitement over this affair is generated by the Left and its willing media friends. The Conservatives are rattled because they still seem to believe in matters of principle (something Blair deleted from government in May 1997).
We must have entered a different phase of politics as almost nothing was a resigning matter a few years ago. Ah yes, of course, Labour are in Opposition now so high standards, integrity and resigning are all back on the table. Whilst acting as a government and in their speeches since it is clear Labour don't actually have any policies and care little for anything other than themselves. But by God do they whinge.
As far as I can see this is a nonsense and should be resolved easily, but that is not what the Left want. Naturally, it is constant headline news for the BBC, the same organisation that didn't draw your attention to the fact that an unelected 'advisor' was put in charge of civil servants, quite against the rules, by Labour.
No, all the excitement over this affair is generated by the Left and its willing media friends. The Conservatives are rattled because they still seem to believe in matters of principle (something Blair deleted from government in May 1997).
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