...of the 'crime' of 'speeding' above approved speed limits. I've a horrible 'lead foot' - and its cost me dearly! Seems lovely Helen is hell-bent on making New Zealand far *worse* of a speed-trap mine field than the People's Republic of California. Yet another reason why I probably shouldn't drive on my next visit to New Zealand (in addition to the whole steering wheel on the other side of the car and driving on the other side of the road thing...)!

My car gets way better efficiency on the open road - wish we had autobahns! That bitch has a cheek to limit speeds too.

As New Zealanders are laid bare from the carbon footprint liability of $1 Billion thrust upon them by Comrade Clark, Chileans thank their government for not prostituting their country to the Kyoto mob. All the while one of their volcanoes belches out the nation’s 500 years worth of carbon credits in just a few days..

Meanwhile, with one petulant eye on Ruapehu, Clark is punk'd by an avalanche of reality (only because it is election year) of the dire situation she has placed the entire country in. In a frenzied witch-like cacophony of phlegm laden spittle, Helen executes yet another “cunning plan” to extort more money from the peasants. Her mind as unbalanced as her books, Clark unsheathes her sword (a gift like the Pope’s) and shakes it in the air. “Slash the speed limit” she cackles. Ms Clark’s demented irrationality becomes more evident as the expense of changing the umpteen thousands of road signs does not ring “Ding Dong”

Your perspective sounds correct but I hope you're wrong about the "decades long imperative."

As the carbon credits trading is based on a politically motivated agenda, what will doom it is these same politicians being booted from office for the economic hardship that these measures combined with rising costs of living will inevitably cause.

The business of credits trading is wholly unproductive and will do harm environmentally. Like the notion that military spending contributes to an economy. A falsehood because all the money that is required in wartime could have been spent productively elsewhere.

Harm because less money is then available for innovation and anti-pollution.

As a youngster in the 70's we had some extremely harsh winters and major media  promulgated the theory that the Earth was entering another "Ice Age." Ice cores from Greenland and the Poles were submitted as evidence. Graphs representing global tempature changes over the recent eons indicated a trend towards another Ice Age.

Now Al Gore and his crowd  have hit a upon the idea to create a class of financial instrument to counteract the economic impact of their theory. And yes Virginia it is a theory. As an expert in financial markets the smell of the rat becomes more apparent. (Anyone recall Enron's failed attempt to create a market for bandwidth?)

If they are successful we will be able to trade derivitive investments that allow some the right to pollute. My theory is some people own energy ie oil, coal, etc, and some people do not, interests that do not own energy believe they need legislative leverage over those that do.   

The youth of the world are buying the argument hook line and sinker. It's a decades long imperitive and like most major trends isn't likley to go away soon. As "The Who" wrote, lets hope "We Don't Get Fooled Again." 

...I've missed a good opportunity in the Wesley Snipes tax evasion case, and I owe Mr. O'Cresswell a whole column as well... I'll get to work on a follow-up to the Obama release I did a month ago now that he has supposedly distanced himself further from Rev Wrong. I'll revisit the Snipes case when the trial reconvenes in (I believe) a few months.

Mind you, the flattery is well deserved and sincerely delivered regardless of the potential for spanking avoidance...

If you think by flattering me you'll escape a spanking for your own dearth of press releases lately, you're right of course.

But get writing anyway!

You're doing Galt's work Linz.

Gore: Deadly Cyclone a 'Consequence' of Global Warming
By Jeff Poor | May 6, 2008 - 17:13 ET

It was bound to happen eventually - someone from the global warming movement tying the recent Myanmar cyclone to the so-called climate change phenomenon.

"And as we're talking today, Terry, the death count in Myanmar from the cyclone that hit there yesterday has been rising from 15,000 to way on up there to much higher numbers now being speculated," Gore said. "And last year a catastrophic storm from last fall hit Bangladesh. The year before, the strongest cyclone in more than 50 years hit China - and we're seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated with continued global warming."

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2008/05/06/gore-deadly-cyclone-co...

"More than seven in 10 voters insist that they would not be willing to pay higher taxes in order to fund projects to combat climate change, according to a new poll...

The implications of the poll could also blow a hole in the calculations of the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, who was forced to delay a scheduled 2p-a-litre rise in fuel duty until the autumn in his spring Budget, while his plans to impose a showroom tax and higher vehicle excise duty on gas-guzzling cars will not take effect for a year. He is now under pressure to shelve the increase in fuel duty because of the steep rise in the price of oil."

http://www.solopassion.com/node/2291

If it wasn't for vocal, rational people, the hysterical useful idiots would no doubt successfully frighten the masses into more and more statism at the expense of civilization itself. Reason is, as always, the only guard against the cannibals! Thank you yet again for another slap in statism's face!