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Comment: Open mike 31/08/2024
Written By: Mikey - Date published: 12:46 pm, August 31st, 2024
It could be that 'and' should follow 'appalled'.Comment: Open mike 30/08/2024
Written By: Mikey - Date published: 11:29 am, August 30th, 2024
Is that one of them straw men in your final paragraph?Comment: Open mike 29/08/2024
Written By: Mikey - Date published: 1:02 pm, August 29th, 2024
So, is Luxie backing Shane's claim that the judge is communist?Comment: Open mike 27/08/2024
Written By: Mikey - Date published: 11:47 am, August 27th, 2024
So is this grounds for a libel suit?Comment: Open mike 11/08/2024
Written By: Mikey - Date published: 7:46 am, August 12th, 2024
The resources that went into building those tunnels could have helped a lot of people live better lives I'd have thought.Comment: Open mike 27/07/2024
Written By: Mikey - Date published: 12:41 pm, July 27th, 2024
I don't see a ceasefire happening until Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya run out of rockets.Comment: Will he stay or will he go
Written By: Mikey - Date published: 1:00 pm, July 21st, 2024
It doesn't matter how able he might be, the perception is that he is doddery, and the electorate will vote on their perception.Comment: Open mike 16/07/2024
Written By: Mikey - Date published: 11:56 am, July 16th, 2024
I look forward to hearing Simpeon Brown's explanation.Comment: Trump shot
Written By: Mikey - Date published: 12:39 am, July 16th, 2024
Hilarious. The 'deep state' could crash his car / aeroplane / burn down his house / knock him over in the street / nudge him out a window, but instead they rely on a feckless 20yo?Comment: The great Pharmac backflip
Written By: Mikey - Date published: 10:21 am, June 27th, 2024
His 'Isn't it great?' is reminiscent of scomofo's 'How good es that?'Comment: Open mike 20/06/2024
Written By: Mikey - Date published: 1:31 pm, June 21st, 2024
Maybe they can be displayed alongside a list of the legislators and preachers who have broken them.Comment: Open mike 01/06/2024
Written By: Mikey - Date published: 10:12 am, June 2nd, 2024
He's a nasty piece of work, but the destruction of Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya is hardly genocide.Comment: Open mike 07/05/2024
Written By: Mikey - Date published: 10:42 am, May 7th, 2024
I don't think Israel will accept any terms that leaves Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya as a functioning organisation.Comment: Open mike 14/04/2024
Written By: Mikey - Date published: 9:18 am, April 23rd, 2024
So has any head of the Gaza Health Ministry since 2007 not been a member of Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya?Comment: Open mike 14/04/2024
Written By: Mikey - Date published: 7:25 am, April 22nd, 2024
Who runs the Gazan ministry of health?Comment: Open mike 21/04/2024
Written By: Mikey - Date published: 7:18 am, April 22nd, 2024
It's unfortunate that Russia is ruled by a psychopath who cares not a jot for the suffering he causes in his quest to bring back the Soviet Union.Comment: Forget this Trump trial
Written By: Mikey - Date published: 11:15 am, April 17th, 2024
He was utterly inept at foreign policy. I can't think of a single decent decision he made.Comment: Open mike 16/04/2024
Written By: Mikey - Date published: 11:33 am, April 16th, 2024
And Saudi sheep 'farms'.Comment: Open mike 14/04/2024
Written By: Mikey - Date published: 11:25 pm, April 14th, 2024
40000 dead according to hammass, who lie as soon as breathe. [lprent: It appears that you are simply lying with this false assertion of fact. I don't know of any death estimates from 'hammas' nor from Hamas. The estimates you are probably referring to are ...Comment: Open mike 14/04/2024
Written By: Mikey - Date published: 11:16 pm, April 14th, 2024
Which would be hammass, whose avowed intention is to destroy Israel and kill Jews. [lprent: Presuming you mean hammas == Hamas. If you want to troll do it elsewhere. Adding this troll wankery variant to the blacklist. Furthermore, if you want to make an ...Comment: The first Ministerial scalp?
Written By: Mikey - Date published: 12:14 pm, April 14th, 2024
Those whistles that only dogs can hear are pretty cool I reckon.Comment: Open mike 14/04/2024
Written By: Mikey - Date published: 12:09 pm, April 14th, 2024
Odd that hammass played into their hands with their psychopathic cowardly behaviour isn't it.Comment: Open mike 14/04/2024
Written By: Mikey - Date published: 12:01 pm, April 14th, 2024
It is unlikely. The attack is grounds for retaliation, whether it was successful or not.Comment: Open mike 14/04/2024
Written By: Mikey - Date published: 9:29 am, April 14th, 2024
End of the Reign of the Mullahs?Comment: National only wants to help tenants *
Written By: Mikey - Date published: 11:46 am, April 13th, 2024
Because they don't want to carry out repairs and maintenance? Because they want to hike the rent? Because their sexual advances were rebuffed?Comment: Daily review 11/04/2024
Written By: Mikey - Date published: 9:40 am, April 12th, 2024
Bob, fyoa.Comment: Open mike 10/04/2024
Written By: Mikey - Date published: 6:05 pm, April 10th, 2024
But that doesn't mean s/he is a homeless person. Is that your point?Comment: Open mike 09/04/2024
Written By: Mikey - Date published: 10:55 pm, April 9th, 2024
If genocide was the goal there would have been far more deaths.Comment: Israel’s latest atrocities
Written By: Mikey - Date published: 12:36 pm, April 7th, 2024
What could be done at a distance is to persuade hammass to release the surviving hostages and the remains of the murdered hostages, and persuade Yayar Sinwar to turn himself in. That would be a massive help.Comment: Israel’s latest atrocities
Written By: Mikey - Date published: 12:34 pm, April 7th, 2024
If hammass is using the populace as human shields and basing or concealing its fighters in hospitals, then that absolutely justifies what is happening.
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