Mr. Luxon: What will it be?

Mr Luxon and others are today at the native-fest up the creek somewhere in the mid-North Island.  Vote buying lubricated with copious wads of your hard earnt taxes.  Corruption and god-bothering with marching bands.  Bread and circuses...

Rātana’s long-standing position that Te Tiriti o Waitangi was anchored in partnership

No doubt he'll tell attendees one thing, ie. it's a partnership, whilst every other New Zealander knows it is a three article cessation of sovereignity treaty which does not mention 'partnership' or define any 'principles'.

“If that partnership is going to be impacted, then it will impact on kotahitanga [unity],”

Meanwhile the natives continue to make their threats.

What will today's message to the gathered masses be Mr. Luxon?

And the band played Waltzing Matilda...

Cruise Director Chris Luxon rearranges the deck chairs whilst NZ Inc sinks ever deeper.

With rabid separatists railing daily against their colonising masters, New Zealand is damaged beyond repair, I fear.

Oh, for a Milei or a Trump.

The latest BS from Climatard HQ

Hydroclimate whiplash – a term for the phenomenon of savage seasonal swings between catastrophic rain and sapping drought – is increasing, fast.

WTF???

Ever desparate to insert the planet is boiling or whatever is the latest religion to garner more $$$$ that BS takes the cake.

Driven by an atmosphere stoked hotter by the burning of fossil fuels, the whiplash is amplifying flash-floods, wildfires, landslides and disease outbreaks

Absolute BS!

Meanwhile, some current takeaways from Kalifornia:

Take a closer look at the pictures of the 'burbs.  A number of metal and concrete tile roofed properties appear to have survived.  The ones that incinerated more than likely had typically constructed to code tar soaked asphalt shingles on plywood with open eaves all tinder dry awaiting an ignition source.  Change the building code to outlaw such construction.  (maybe that's why the dingos across the ditch favour metal roofed sheds, on concrete slabs without eaves, in bushfire regions)

We've moved into a La Nina (or is it the other one? - can never remember).  Anyway the general theme is that the western Pacific / Indian / Atlantic Oceans will get all the rain for the next few years.  Hence the eastern sides of those same water bodies are in a prolonged drought.  Somewhere within the next nine years it will cyclically reverse and the opposite will occur where eastern Africa is as usual drought ravaged.

As for the downpours - anyone remember that undersea volcano that dumped half the Pacific into the upper atmosphere a couple of weekends or so ago.  Well all that water has to eventually come down.  It was well predicted to be an issue for 2-5 years!

Climatards, life goes on.  The source of our climate will rise tomorrow morning and all will be well.  You'll get your daily dose of cosmic radiation to keep you cosy as the heat of the fires fades without fuel load, albeit reduced by a big cloud of Sulphur Dioxide in parts of Kalifornia.  You're maybe good for another 30 years or so.

Not one dollar of mine or yours will change what that big yellow nuclear fusion reactor in the sky does to our puny planet.  After all this planet has endured 4,500 million years without any adverse effects.

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Mr Luxon: A question for you

Have just sent in my submission on the Treaty of Waitangi Bill.  Easily done and submitted.  Was surprisingly in the common language of New Zealand, namely English, except as usual for the website landing page.  Not one word of pidgin seen during the process.

However the 'do-not-reply' email noting receipt of said submission opened with a 'Kia ora'.  The rest of that email is in English without further pidgin insertions.  

I fear the public servant (a nameless, genderless scribe named as 'The Office of the Clerk') issuing such an email has taken it upon themselves to show their bias to those who submit on such matters.

That aside, I should be thankful that the other often-named governmental scribe, a 'nga mihi' has not penned the reply.  Again, still have not worked out whether that one is a he/she or it.

Mr. Luxon, why are government departments still allowed to presume the the recipient understands or cares about any other language than the King's English?  

All government missives should be in English other than where specifically requested or pertinent to the topic being discussed.