and spot the evasions and half-truths:
‘Prime Minister John Key has promised that New Zealanders will continue to pay no more than $5 for subsidised prescriptions, whatever happens to Pharmac under the Trans Pacific Partnership.
He made his comments to reporters in Christchurch today when questioned about the latest leak of TPP text by Wikileaks which suggest there will be greater requirements on Pharmac for transparency in its decision-making and potential for review.
“Ultimately for New Zealanders, they pay $5 for prescription drugs sponsored by Pharmac,” Mr Key said. “The Government pays any additional costs.
“So whatever happens as a result of TPP, New Zealanders are going to carry on paying $5 for their prescriptions.”
He said again that the Government would not sign anything that under-cut Pharmac in a dramatic way…’
This amounts to nothing more than “trust me”, and coming from a politician, that’s laughable.
We’d trust you a little more, Mr. Key, if you made the agreement you are signing Kiwis up to public, so we can have an informed debate about it.  Until then, you won’t mind if we lump this bullshit in with secret negotiations to hand Maori more taxpayer’s property and your arrogant response to the results of the smacking referendum. Oh, and your support for the odious Helen Clark’s bid for a U.N. job.
Trust? I’d sooner trust a ratel on speed.

H/T Francis Porretto

Liars and traitors.
The ballot box is worthless.

‘Most people think ‘man’ when they think ‘scientist’ – how can we kill the stereotype?
..Children learn to associate science with men at early ages. Over 40 years ago, less than 1 per cent of American and Canadian elementary school children drew a woman when asked to draw a scientist. My latest research, published in Journal of Educational Psychology, (says it all, right there. kg) shows that gender-science stereotypes persist even now, worldwide..’
There’s a real simple answer to that idiotic question: give women male brains via mass transplant operations. Because nothing else will undo evolutionary effects on men and women’s brains. Why is it that clowns such as this guy – and most of these fuckwits seem to be leftard academics – think that it’s possible to simply wish way millions of years of development in the service of their ideology?
The damage they do is incalculable, yet I’ve never heard even one of the arrogant bastards admit to that possibility.

‘Controlling the Dialogue
…The Human Rights Commission has clearly overstepped the mark by embarking on a censoring campaign – the very thing it says it exists to oppose. What’s worse is that it is trying to pretend that their reporting will not stifle media freedom, when clearly it will. They say “Our aim is not to limit media freedom, we want to start an open conversation about balance, fairness, social responsibility and quality in reporting.” That, of course, is simply playing with words to mask the real effect…’
Read on, and it gets worse. Much worse.

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‘British Nobel laureate creates sexism storm’

Lazy day today. Did some shopping, rigged up a longer-range target and oiled the garden seat I made. And fixed up a worktop light so I can see what the hell I’m doing when cooking.

The bastards aren’t fireproof:
EXCLUSIVE: EU Chiefs Attempt to Stop TTIP Debate, ‘Crack in Corporatist Stitch-Up’ Proclaims Farage
London, United Kingdom – Breitbart London has learned that the President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz is to make an unprecedented attempt to stop the debate surrounding the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) in the European Parliament in Strasbourg tomorrow.
We can exclusively report that in addition to the vote being cancelled, as noted several hours ago, the European Union’s chief bureaucrats are in meltdown following major public backlash against what has been described as a “major corporatist stitch-up”.

“In 18 years in the European Parliament, I’ve never seen anything like this”   Nigel Farage.  
And THIS

‘Is there actually no evidence of man-made warming at all?
…Thus there is no evidence whatsoever of any GH warming from human-released CO2 — during the whole of the 20th century or earlier.’
‘…For two-and-a-half decades, the planet has been defying the experts’ expectations. At the 1988 Toronto conference experts warned temperatures would rise by between 1.5C and 4.5C by 2050. With 27 years gone and 35 to go the rise is barely a quarter of a degree… [G]lobal temperatures have levelled over the past 15 years, a hiatus the IPCC did not predict and cannot explain. Yet the catastrophism will not abate….’
and:
‘Climate scientists criticize government paper that erases ‘pause’ in warming’
Are the wheels falling off the AGW gravy train at last?

From Andrew Bolt: ‘Yet more proof that Twitter warriors are all thumbs and no legs’