1. Comment on And then there was….

    Sure, Adam, journalists “play” people because they’re “hand in glove with government”, but that isn’t an accusation of deliberate dishonesty at all /sarc. Keep telling yourself that. [OAB. One lie I might have let slip. But when you’ve come back in and …

  2. Comment on And then there was….

    As I said, read the OP. no mainstream media are going to be running that story; they are a part and parcel of the game, acting hand in glove with governments.

  3. Comment on And then there was….

    Oh I agree: making one’s mind up about things on day one, with limited information and a head full of bias, is a mistake. What a good thing no-one here does anything like that /sarc The right accuses journalists of being lügenpresse. It’s a real pity when …

  4. Comment on Open Mike 30/06/2018

    1. Being wrong once in a while builds character. 2. If your predictions are sufficiently broad, your chances of error diminish. 3. Is the “trouble” a problem for Hansen or us? A fat lot of good It’s done him.

  5. Comment on Open Mike 30/06/2018

    The quote has multiple interpretations. Slow clap for picking the least nuanced of them and making an insult out of it. Well done, bravo.

  6. Comment on Open Mike 30/06/2018

    “The trouble with Hansen is he’s never been wrong”.

  7. Comment on Open Mike 30/06/2018

    Meanwhile… …tricking the public to accept the fantasy of 100 percent renewables means that, in reality, fossil fuels reign and climate change grows. James Hansen.

  8. Comment on And then there was….

    The people who murder and send co-ordinated death threats to journalists are certainly into conspiracy theories, Adam. After all, who can blame them? Journalists are guilty of covering up war crimes and print made up stories about poison and chemical …

  9. Comment on Daily Review 29/06/2018

    Dear Madam, We regret to inform you that your application to The Wormtongue Academy has been rejected. To qualify, you must demonstrate genuine talent. Yours sincerely, [insert name here]

  10. Comment on Another day, another mass shooting in the US of A *

    Send you over to the USA, where you can join ICE, and wear a smart uniform with shiny buttons, and open and close the gates when the trucks roll by. That way you can evade your personal responsibility for supporting penal policies that increase the crime …

  11. Comment on And then there was….

    If the USA betrays the Kurds there will be a genocide in Rojava. Trump will facilitate it. But of course our loving allies Vladimir and Bashar will never allow it. As everyone knows, they’ve been victims of The Guardian and their Liberal/Fascist propaganda …

  12. Comment on And then there was….

    When the next bit of information about the Skripal investigation is released we’ll know a bit more. Can’t be bothered arguing about it. Remind me how long Russian and Syrian troops had in Douma before the OPCW. Of course, they’d never cover up evidence, …

  13. Comment on Daily Review 28/06/2018

    It’s a perfectly simple question: the US government has kidnapped children, telling their parents they were being taken for a bath. From the link in comment 1: As the White House faces court orders to reunite families separated at the border, immigrant …

  14. Comment on Daily Review 28/06/2018

    Entirely different people, not to mention talent level. What do you make of the practice of hauling kidnapped toddlers into court?

  15. Comment on Soper gets sucked in by National’s fake Ardern quote

    Here’s another perspective Dr. Mapp. The National Party’s relentless bad faith and dishonesty isn’t just an insult, it’s an assault. Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence.

  16. Comment on Soper gets sucked in by National’s fake Ardern quote

    National was lying. It is a perfectly reasonable interpretation. National denies it. Pretty straight forward. Anyway you have your view, I have mine. Wayne Mapp. [see what I did there?]

  17. Comment on Daily Review 28/06/2018

    Toddlers all rise. The court is in session. What you mean oi oi oi! The court is in session! My name, is Judge Roughneck! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc4F7mYFw24

  18. Comment on Open Mike 28/06/2018

    Michael Avenatti holds that the next POTUS will appoint two or three to the SCOTUS. That made me feel a bit better. I assume Trump will burn the Reichstag between now and the midterms, but a good outcome in November could lead to impeachment and President …

  19. Comment on Soper gets sucked in by National’s fake Ardern quote

    The sense of what the PM was saying was perfectly clear. Yes: I watched the video to refresh my memory and what she says is perfectly clear: Labour’s proposed sector wide bargaining framework will not lead to more strikes. Also, I note the (let’s be …

  20. Comment on Soper gets sucked in by National’s fake Ardern quote

    Garret et al 2016: …we provide empirical evidence for a gradual escalation of self-serving dishonesty and reveal a neural mechanism supporting it. … The findings uncover a biological mechanism that supports a ‘slippery slope’: what begins as small acts …

  21. Comment on Soper gets sucked in by National’s fake Ardern quote

    The link to Soper is to the wrong story: here’s the one you want. Soper’s brain has adapted to dishonesty, I suspect. [Thanks. Right you are. I have corrected – MS]

  22. Comment on Daily Review 27/06/2018

    Why would I need to rethink it? Immigration increases both supply and demand and therefore has a neutral effect upon wages.

  23. Comment on Carmel Sepuloni announces much needed changes to improve WINZ

    It’s appropriate that hospitals have places given over for quiet reflection and contemplation, even though the religious will pretend ownership.

  24. Comment on Carmel Sepuloni announces much needed changes to improve WINZ

    Get your church out of my state. Now.

  25. Comment on Daily Review 27/06/2018

    When did I claim that immigrants “steal our jobs”? The supply of workers increases, the demand for workers increases. Let me know when you figure it out.

  26. Comment on Carmel Sepuloni announces much needed changes to improve WINZ

    The requirement that staff peer review one-anothers’ decisions is a good move, though, and it’s clear that Sepuloni isn’t done yet. She can’t just smash the ministry: people rely on it.

  27. Comment on Godwin’s flaw?

    …the same sort of thing conceivable. The non-privileged sectors of US society have been living with ‘the conceivable’ for some considerable time now. What ‘civility’ are they afforded?

  28. Comment on Carmel Sepuloni announces much needed changes to improve WINZ

    Yes, your bigotry is like a teenage tantrum.

  29. Comment on Daily Review 27/06/2018

    How cynical and dishonest is the National Party? In Question Time on Thursday, Parker was asked by National MP Amy Adams if the purpose of the Overseas Investment Amendment Bill was to exempt developments like Te Arai Because they’re really really …

  30. Comment on Children should never be used as bargaining chips

    You think an illustration is equivalent to kidnapping and extortion. What could you possibly offer this topic?