Waaaaaaaaaaaaa!!

Shorter Canadian IDiot Denyse O'Leary: "Given that we've spent the last several years insulting, demeaning and denigrating the academic community for being closed-minded and not giving us a forum for our ID views, how dare they not give us a forum for our ID views!? Why, the nerve!"

For your consideration ...

Compare and contrast, if you will, Dr. Frink’s reasoned, intelligent and well-researched post on the upcoming Vancouver municipal election versus Raphael Alexander’s shrieky, "why are homeless people so needy and, and ... homeless" post just dripping with his soon-to-be-patented brand of compassionate conservatism.

I can’t see a difference. Can you see a difference?

I'm sorry ... the lesson here is what exactly?

So ... we should round up Christians, stick them with forks and plug them into the wall, is that it? Suddenly, I am so all about the religion.

(Wag of the tail to PZ.)

Saturday Morning Cartoons.

Let me remind you, folks, that you’re listening to "Truth or AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!"



Mmmmmmm coffee ... which appears to reduce the risk of Alzheimers, Parkinsons, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, cirrhosis of the liver, and gout. So everyone should probably have another cup — it’s on me.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

What Dave said.

Turning another corner, and light in the tunnel and ... etc etc etc.

Mission, um ... working on it:


Sorry ... what was that again?

Now it's time to rebuild the country, and create a pluralistic, stable and peaceful Iraq.

Quite right. Because after years of war, and thousands of dead American troops, and hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis, and a ruined country, and devastated infrastructure, and millions of displaced refugees, it's finally time to buckle down and get to work. And not a minute too soon, if I do say so myself.

Could you pick it up a bit, Stephen? I'm starting to nod off here.

Shorter Stephen Taylor: "Could I be any more patronizing, condescending, pompous or sanctimonious? I think not."

You apparently don't understand the word "irony," sweetie ...

Blogging Tory "NB Tory Lady" provides the unintentional hilarity:

I share with you a recent posting from Voice of the Association group in it's entirety. The Speaker of the House of Commons needs to do something about "Committees" and soon !! Events of the last year from this Ethics Committee "go beyond the pale" and make a mockery of Parliament.

Um ... no, dear. This is what makes a mockery of Parliament.

I'm glad I could help.

Just for PSA ...

Remind you of anyone?

Let me tighten that up for you.

The Girl in Blue oh-so-preciously states:

It's about time more people just came out and admitted it...
Conservative Women Rule!

But this girl thinks GiB’s shrieky fangirl headline requires just the teeniest amount of judicious editing — say something along the lines of this:

It's about time more people just came out and admitted it...
Conservative Women Rule at being mindless, talking-point-spewing, 50’s style, pearl-clutching, gun-toting, racist, homophobic, Big Daddy worshipping drones who are just waiting for some big, strong man to come along and rescue them!

Now I ask you ... doesn’t that capture the true essence of the average Blogging Tory Conservative Woman?

When stupid small dead animals blog: redux.

Yes, I just blogged on this but it's so precious, it deserves an encore. First, there's the shrieking dumbfuckitude from the backwoods of Saskatchewan:


And there's the metaphorical boot to the nads:


It's not always because they're dishonest. Sometimes, they're just stupid. But it's always one or the other.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Oh, this is delicious. I just happened to have a browser tab up from over an hour ago viewing that swill of Kate's and, lo and behold, the original version of that post is not quite the same as what's up there now. Here's the original:


And you can see the later version up there. Notice the difference? Why, yes ... yes, you do. The quietly-revised version now has an asterisk next to its lede of "50,000 new Deniers;", with the footnote reading:

*Note: Using the same inclusiveness as the IPCC bureaucrats when citing the number of authors they represent who allegedly support their AGW "consensus".

In other words, Kate now clearly realizes she's full of shit, but she tries to weasel her way out of a correction or retraction for using a dishonest way of counting by suggesting that other people did it first. In short, she knows she's made an ass of herself, but she'll be damned if she's going to admit it.

Atta girl, Kate: Never apologize. Never correct. Never retract. Even when you're caught being a lying douchebag, just suck it up and soldier on. It's the Conservative thing to do.

Your Blogging Tory moment of lucidity.

When someone at The Politic of all places accuses you of being childish, you have a major credibility problem.

WHOA ... more dissension in the BT ranks. This promises to have such entertainment value.

When stupid Blogging Tories blog.

Blogging Tory "Gay and Right" Fred does his job as a good, little BT stenographer.

Scienceblogs' Tim Lambert rips Fred a new asshole.

Movin' on ...

AND AT NO EXTRA CHARGE: Canada's Douchebaggiest Blogger™ Kate McMillan strokes herself to satisfaction over the latest faux news. RT is all over that one like Dick Evans on Gap for Kids underwear ads.

Are we done here? Yeah, we're done here.

Yeah, those 14-year-olds are looking pretty good from here.

Matttbastard lets us know what he thinks about the recent Calgary "rape" case, and you'll never guess who makes a guest appearance:

And of course we can't have a post on rape without a rape apologist (or minimizer, anyway) showing up in comments: Meet upstanding Canadian conservative Dickie Evans:

uummm... This took place back in 2005. If memory serves, the age of consent wasn't raised from 14 to 16 until the spring of 2008. Back then it was completely legal for this pig to have sex with that little girl after getting her drunk.

For that, you have to blame the [Liberal Party of Canada] and [New Democratic Party of Canada] because it was their opposition to a raise in the age of consent that had things held up for so long. Had the issue been addressed by the other parties, back in 1999, when it was brought up by Reform Party MP's, the subject of your post could have been charged and convicted with statutory rape instead of walking away with a simple slap on the wrist...

Blame the pig, yes, but save a little blame as well, for the left half of the political spectrum who thought that it was "OK" for the age of consent to remain at 14. Because of them, the pig was able to do what he did legally.

Fuckin' A, Dick! Those creepy leftists hung those kids out to dry, and it took the morally upstanding Stephen Harper Party of Canada to finally protect our precious young'uns. Which you'd think would be cause for right-wing bragging unless you actually went looking for that information:


Um ... whoops, how's that again?

The age of consent is 18 years where the sexual activity involves exploitative activity, such as prostitution, pornography or where there is a relationship of trust, authority or dependency. For other sexual activity, the age of consent is 14 years.

Well, isn't that awkward? 'Cuz if I was a sexual predator and got caught bonking a 15-year-old, I'd make damned sure my lawyer brought a screenshot of that web page to court. Because if you can't trust your own government's web site, hey, who can you trust?

Your Conservative Party of Canada: Protecting statutory rapists everywhere by giving them a gift-wrapped loophole on an official government web page. Is that cool or what?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Oh, for fuck's sake!

BY THE WAY, WHAT'S YOUR POINT? I have to admit, I'm confused as to what the folks behind Disorder of Canada think they're accomplishing here.

Yes, we're aware that the choice of Henry Morgentaler to receive an OoC was controversial. Yes, we're aware that a lot of people are pissed off about it. Yes, we're aware that a small number of pompous, self-absorbed dingbats have returned their OoCs in protest (some of them inappropriately returning other peoples' OoCs posthumously, which makes no sense). But now what?

Face it -- no one is going to revoke Morgentaler's award. Ain't gonna happen. So what exactly is the point of that website? To get more people to turn in their OoCs? I doubt that's going to happen since, if people haven't renounced them by now, I'm guessing they've decided to hang onto them.

But what if more folks are, in fact, convinced to return their awards? Well, so what? It's a free country. If they can be talked into it, fine. What are we supposed to conclude from that? In short, what changes? Quite simply, nothing.

In effect, it's like freeping an online poll. You can get whatever results you want if you work hard enough, but the results don't mean squat. So knock yourselves out, kids. Feel free to harass the entire membership of the OoC. And after the majority of them have told you (politely, I'm sure) to fuck right off, you might have the sense God gave a bag of kibble to realize that all that effort was an utter waste of time.

It's a dead issue, and all you're doing is whining that things didn't go your way. And nothing you do is going to change that. So grow up.

A groundswell of protest I'd like to see.

Blogging Tory Mark Peters will decide if you deserve to be Canadian:

Omar Khadr is not Canadian

Everyone -- from Romeo Dallaire to Bob Rae to Matt Good to whomever -- needs to stop referring to Omar Khadr as a Canadian. He isn't. Even mentioning his name in the same sentence as 'Canadian' is to denigrate the title.

Quite so, Mark. And in the spirit of the recent Order of Canada awarded to Dr. Henry Morgentaler which caused several ignorant wanks to return their Order as a symbol of protest, let me be the first to encourage you to renounce your Canadian citizenship in disgust, said citizenship now being tarnished beyond repair and clearly something you would not want to associate with.

P.S. I'm not going to ask Mark to rush into this. That last sentence was fairly long with some complicated words, so let's cut him some slack. We'll check back in a few days.

Dumb cunt of the week.

And now, the overwhelming stupid:

"Nothing like a wounded and tortured 16 year old boy to whet the inquisitors appetite and rain pride down upon our great and noble nation. Let the banners unfurl and the trumpets sound, we are a people that stand by the torture of children."

-Canadian Cynic, speaking about well-known terrorist Omar Khadr

So, in addition to being either too lazy or too stupid to link to the actual post in question, it was apparently too intellectually taxing for GiB to read the whole post to learn the author was not me but the eminently literate PSA.

Note to retarded wanks: There are three of us at this blog and some day, God willing, you will all be able to count that high. We can only hope.

P.S. "Well-known terrorist Omar Khadr?" I guess that whole "innocent until proven guilty" thing is a bit beyond someone's mental prowess as well. Quelle surprise.

Here ... you clearly need to be intellectually appalled.

Let's check in on what the pre-schoolers are chatting about this afternoon:

Ever wonder how a Christian apologist might argue for the existence of God?

Stupidly. Are we done here?

Why, yes, it WAS my idea, thanks very much.

Via Red Tory, we come across a stunningly brilliant suggestion:

Let’s Get Rid of Darwinism

... I’d like to abolish the insidious terms Darwinism, Darwinist and Darwinian. They suggest a false narrowness to the field of modern evolutionary biology, as though it was the brainchild of a single person 150 years ago, rather than a vast, complex and evolving subject to which many other great figures have contributed. (The science would be in a sorry state if one man 150 years ago had, in fact, discovered everything there was to say.) Obsessively focusing on Darwin, perpetually asking whether he was right about this or that, implies that the discovery of something he didn’t think of or know about somehow undermines or threatens the whole enterprise of evolutionary biology today.

Genius. Sheer genius. I wish I'd thought of that. Oh, wait ... I did.

Oh, no. I'm shocked.

Golly ... even the Americans admit what kind of sham this is:

Gitmo trials rigged, PM should push for Khadr's return: U.S. military lawyer

TORONTO — Despite Prime Minister Stephen Harper's assertion that Omar Khadr should be tried for war crimes in the United States, the American military lawyer who will defend the Canadian citizen at trial said Wednesday he doesn't believe justice will be done.

In a wide-ranging interview, Lt.-Cmdr. Bill Kuebler attacked the military commission that will try Khadr in October on charges he killed an American medic in Afghanistan when he was just 15.

"He's not going to get a fair trial," Kuebler told The Canadian Press from his office in Washington, D.C.

"Military commissions aren't designed to be fair. They're designed to produce convictions."

Really? No shit! Where have I read that before? Oh ... right. At which point, Kuebler descends into unintentional hilarity:

"I hope that the prime minister of Canada finally decides to stand up and act like a prime minister of Canada and protect the rights of a Canadian citizen."

Yes, Bill ... and the moment Stephen unwraps his lips from George Bush's dick, we'll let him know you suggested it.

Hyperbole, anyone?

JJ has words of wisdom:

Oh boo hoo hoo. Everything with these people is "the end of (fill in the blank) as we know it"... it has to be those apocalyptic religious beliefs.

And it really is that way, isn't it? For instance, people on the Left who criticize wankers aren't just, say, annoying gadflies or irritating whiners; no, they're inevitably shrieking, raving, deranged, psychotic moonbats.

If you're a staunch conservative, same-sex marriage can't just be something you disagree with or that you find distasteful. Fuck, no, SSM is a hideous travesty of natural law and will destroy the sanctity of traditional marriage and the very foundations of Western civilization itself.

If you talk about desecrating a communion wafer, you can't just be, say, a classless boor or something like that. God, no, it's a "hate crime" and "beyond hate speech".

And if you like to mock total imbeciles on a public blog, well, there's no possible way you can just be, say, rude and intemperate. Shit, no, you are suddenly a clear and present danger to the children and open to arrest. Or something totally fucking retarded like that.

Really, there's no grey area for these people, is there? Everything is screaming, panty-tugging, urine-soaked fear and panic, regardless of the topic. After a while, it really does get a bit tedious to listen to, doesn't it?

There are no words.

WTF?:

"On Friday the Catholic League reported that Thomas E. Foley, a Virginia delegate to the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Minneapolis has asked that increased security be considered for the event in light of Myers' threat to acquire and desecrate the Eucharist."

It's a cracker, people. It's a fucking cracker. Get over yourselves.

Ah, the joy of semantics.

On the one hand:

Ethicist Somerville Denied Order of Canada for Mild Opposition to Gay Agenda

On the other hand (from that same piece):

Somerville's assertion that homosexual couples should not adopt children, based on clinical evidence showing that children thrive best in the context of natural marriage, was met with fury from the homosexual activist and radical feminist community.

Tune in tomorrow when another nuanced and thoughtful right-wing position is countered with savage, mindless outrage by shrieking, leftist moonbats.

You say "homophobe" like it's a bad thing.

Shorter Blogging Tory Girl in Blue: "I have nothing against gays. I just wish they wouldn't act so ... well, you know ... gay."

BONUS DUMBASSITUDE:

"Uhh.. another thing I find unsettling: a place being a tourism hotspot for people of a certain sexual orientation."

Or the very thought of a cruise targeting a particular demographic? How thoroughly fucked up is that? Oh, wait ...

Not much difference there, except I'm guessing the gay cruise had better sex.

CIVIL DISCOURSE, AS IT WERE. Over in Blue's comments section, "Alex" brings his own debonair wit and charm to the table:

I was under the impression that [Rosie's] trips were just part of the yearly whale migration. You shouldn't criticize her natural instincts ....

Which might lead one to wonder just what Alex has contributed lately to the public dialogue. OK, then. Movin' on ...

Pot. Kettle. Black. Dumbass.

Ah, the outrage is palpable:

Tories outraged as ethics committee draws up witness list

OTTAWA — Conservatives reacted with rage Wednesday after opposition MPs on the Commons ethics committee agreed to 78 potential witnesses for its inquiry into the Tory election ad controversy – but excluded every witness the Tories proposed.

The demonstration of anger from Conservative MP Scott Reid at the end of the first round of hearings was unusual even for Parliament, as the Liberal chairman banged his gavel to adjourn until the inquiry begins in earnest next month.

“You should be ashamed of yourself,” the normally soft-spoken Mr. Reid shouted at chair Paul Szabo after Mr. Reid had been cut off in mid-sentence.

“You're a disgrace to this Parliament, Paul Szabo, just a disgrace.”

And if anyone's an authority of being a total fucking disgrace to the Canadian political process, it's going to be a Conservative.

People like Reid should really know when to shut the hell up. Seriously.

In/Out & Other Cons

Squealing and prissy, the Cons are in highest dudgeon as it appears they will be well and truly grilled during an inquiry into their shifty election finance practices.

Conservatives reacted with rage Wednesday after opposition MPs on the Commons ethics committee agreed to 78 potential witnesses for its inquiry into the Tory election ad controversy – but excluded every witness the Tories proposed.

The so called "in/out" scandal has led to search warrants and suspicion countered by endless roadblocks from the Cons, impeding investigation and inquiry. See, all of that guff about responsibility and transparency and accountability... well, they didn't mean it to apply to themselves. And they really do seem to believe that their perpetual campaign should proceed by any rule they can bend or get around. For instance, MPs are allowed to mail things to Canadians at no charge. It is a privilege and a perquisite that is intended to facilitate ready communication between the elected representatives and the citizenry.

This afternoon I pulled yet another flyer from a Con out of the mailbox. I was going to dump it into the building's junk mail recycling and when I looked down there were dozens of these stupid things discarded there. It's more of the campaign against the Green Shift proposed by Dion and the Liberals. I certainly have my own issues with Dion's leadership and questions about the function and value of this policy proposal. I'm more inclined to say we just have to make some fundamental changes to the way we do business here in Canada. I'd like to see some real caps on emissions. But I am willing to listen to any proposal that might reduce the pollution we are wallowing in.

Anyway, I stopped to have a look at this flyer, sent to me by MP Peter Goldring. Who the hell is Peter Goldring? I've received mailers from the dim witted Harold Albrecht and other regional Con jobbers. But I've never heard of Goldring. As I looked at all the flyers in the bin, I decided to help myself and I grabbed the ones off the top. I just finished adding notes on topical issues and counselling against waste and tomorrow I'll pop them back in the mail. Call me crazy but I find it a little insulting to receive what amounts to campaign literature while there is no election called. And I certainly don't enjoy scare letters warning me that trying to implement a carbon tax is going to cost me money. Not from a party that acts against pollution control at every step. Not when they come in mass mailings to flood another MP's riding. Not when they're sent from an MP from a few provinces away. Not when they are wasting physical resources and abusing parliamentary privilege. There is no cost on the face for these mailers but the sheer amount of waste and misuse by the Cons is paid for by Canadian taxpayers.

They say timing Mr Goldring is indeed everything. Today I received your wasteful note at the same time you and the rest of your crooked pals got held up for some long overdue scrutiny. And it looks good on ya. But just who is this Peter Goldring, busily spamming my riding in Southern Ontario? Well he's none other than the Member of Parliament for Edmonton East. And why would a member from the capital city of Alberta be blanketing a Liberal riding in another province with campaign spam? Because dear reader they are the party of the perpetual campaign. And they are sneaking around the spirit of franking privilege to pursue this endless task.

So yes, in the midst of Cons weeping at the sky over the injustice of having their shady dealings questioned in that little matter of the old in out, in out scandal (wherein they fuck the rules) I am gifted with another of their tricksies. So thanks to you Peter Goldring from the riding of Edmonton East. Because without your efforts and Canadian taxpayer dimes, I'd have never noticed you and I'd have never gotten to look at your claim to fame. For you are indeed the kind of puke that hires Gord Stamp as your campaign manager.

That would be Canada hating, Alberta separatist whackaloo Gordon Stamp, who was a Free Dominion regular, posting under the nom de blog of Psycho. That's just so... squinchy. Gord Stamp who ran your campaign and offered up such pithy comments as:

Alberta has no future in Canada. We refuse to be ruled by a corrupt dictatorship that continually stays in power by a bunch of eastern voting idiots.

Bouquets of Gray has a lovely collection of articles covering Stamp and Goldring and their tumultuous association. Eventually Stamp resigned because, well, he was a bit too visible with his separatist leanings.

Mind you it isn't that Goldring doesn't associate with nutters all on his own. Goldring was a featured speaker at a Free Dominion banquet. And as quoted by blogscanada his own opinions are somewhat, shall we say, retrograde.

Peter Goldring (CPC) This pivotal issue has brought unity to the people of Canada in recognition that they can no longer take their constitutional freedoms for granted. Further, it has brought with it the realization that all of us, as citizens of Canada and as human beings, must come to the aid to support our family values and the institution of marriage, and those who choose this definitive, child-centred relationship as their lifelong vocation.

Well Mr Goldring, I hope you take the time to read through the flyers I'm returning to you. And might I implore you to reconsider spamming my neighbourhood with your puerile nonsense. Here's hopinig the voters in Edmonton East make a wise decision and oust your plump rump from the position you currently hold. You can take some time to hang out with your separatist pals, your bigot buddies and perhaps the next representative of that riding won't be such a wasteful fool.

Have I got a deal for you!

Jason Cherniak decides to vent some outrage in all the wrong places:

Today, Israel traded known murderers and terrorists in exchange for the bodies of two dead soldiers. If that doesn't say something about the moral differences between Israel and Hezbollah, I don't know what does.

Yes, Jason, that does say something about the difference, and that's that Hezbollah know how to drive a hard bargain, and Israel doesn't. Now shut up.

And sometimes the snark writes itself.

As God is my witness, I have no idea where to start with this.

Sen. Dole attempts to rename HIV/AIDS relief bill after Jesse Helms

The Huffington Post reports that Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) has introduced “an amendment to name an HIV/AIDS relief bill after the recently deceased Jesse Helms,” who was a “strident foe of HIV/AIDS prevention, research and treatment.”

Helms was notorious for his ignorant comments regarding HIV/AIDS. In 1987 he described “AIDS prevention literature as 'so obscene, so revolting, I may throw up'” and in 1995 Helms argued that “that the government should spend less on people with AIDS because they got sick due to their ‘deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct.’”

Does anyone else get the feeling that ol’ Jesse might be spinning like a top in his grave right about now?

H/T to ThinkProgress.

You keep using that word "progressive" ...

Via Dr. Dawg, we find Progressive Blogger Diva Rachel who's gotten all moist over one Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Yeah, that would be this Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

I think someone needs to be shown the door. Kids? Your reputation is on the line. I'd make this fast and painless if I were you.

When really stupid Blogging Tories blog.

Blogging Tory NB Tory Lady attempts to be informative ... with hilarious results:


Um ... no. Neither Monsignor Goski nor Catherine Doherty returned their orders. They're dead. What part of "dead" represents such an intellectual challenge, dear?

Yeah, that's kind of awkward.

You rarely get straight lines like this.

Oh, dear Lord, help me to keep a civil tongue in my head:

Conservative Women Rule!

We keep on hearing about how women don't like the Conservatives, so, let me clue you in. The best Canadian blogger, Kate at Small Dead Animals, just happens to be a Conservative woman. Joanne, at Blue Like You, just happens to be a Conservative woman blogger. Then we have Sandy at Crux of the Matter, and NB Tory Lady, and the Girl in Blue, Joan Tintor, Five feet of fury, Conservative Queen, and many others. You can add to the list in comments, I'm sorry if I've missed anyone, but I suspect they can handle it, being Conservative women.

So, let's see then, we have (in no particular order) ... a pathological liar, racist and white supremacist who thinks millions of murdered Jews are just knee-slappingly funny; a cowardly, prissy scold who just needs some lumber and a handful of nails to complete her total descent into whiny martyrdom; a sycophantic, CPoC shill who mangles the English language for political gain; another vile bigot; a creepy stalker ...

I'm sorry if I've missed anyone, but I suspect they can handle it, being the screeching whackjobs and vicious, lying harpies that they are.

Damn. I knew that attempt at civility wasn't going to last.

The Return of The Unambiguous Weasel

Faux civility mole and torture fan Raphael Alexander soils the comments back here by excreting the following:

raphael alexander said...
You exaggerate about torture. They offered the kid a "subway" sandwich. He seemed quite normal in the interview, and for a moment seemed like he was going to get rescued. Only when he realized he was being interrogated and there was no chance of fleeing his crime did he begin to weep pitiably.

Omar Khadr may have been a child, but he's a man now. Let him take his medicine like a man. The boy in that video is long gone.

The boy in the video is all of 16 years of age, legally a minor. He had been subjected to sleep deprivation, solitary confinement and harsh treatment. He was denied all of rights due a prisoner of war, he was denied the rights due a minor being held in custody. Under our law and under the binding international treaties we as a nation are signatory to, he was tortured. The offer of a sandwich does not disprove torture. If Khadr's behaviour in that tape seemed normal to you Raphael, then I feel sorry for your kids. When they clutch their heads and rock back and forth muttering incoherently and crying we'll just ignore that shall we?

The tape was from his second day of CSIS interrogation, he'd been grilled before and he was grilled after. He was subjected to CIA interrogation without the company of a CSIS pal to offer him a sandwich. There is little doubt that he understood the gravity of his circumstance. There didn't seem to be any indication that he was being offered a trip home. However, you show your true colours with your last snipe, he committed an alleged crime as a boy. Fuck the law, fuck his rights, fuck our treaty obligations. Raphael is keen to rewrite the law in this instance because he is working from the presupposition of guilt. That's because under that gloss of civility, Raphael is the kind of scum that wants one law for them and another law for us.

It is not news that I view Raphael with contempt. He is little better than Patrick Ross with a patina of politeness. Raphael is another big fan of the mobile goalposts. If one set of assumptions don't work he has another, his values are as slippery as his arguments. He's happy to damn Omar Khadr and declare him guilty until some fixed up "judicial process" concurs, as surely it will. But when it comes to the child of the local Nazi supporters he has reservations about state interference.

In my own article of the topic I expressed severe concern about the state making decisions based on the ideological beliefs of the parents as being too subjective...

Well isn't that special, garnish with bullshit and a sprig of fabrication for the picture perfect dissembler's feast.

It was pointed out by many that while the Nazis are universally reviled, there are numerous other "hate" groups that exist, and even flourish in Canada. By our best estimates there are 3,000 white supremacists that eke out an existence in multicultural Canada, while there are easily ten times that number of immigrant parents who impart extremist beliefs on their own children.

By whose best estimates? Cry panic and let piss the pants of fear. 30,000 swarthy families teaching extremism here in poor, befuddled and multicultural Canada. And given the conservative understanding that all of those dirty brown folk can't control their impulses, they must then be breeding in terrible numbers. How many little terrorist kiddies are there mixing with the good white youths that scamper about the innocent playgrounds of Canada? Three or four, maybe five to a family... why there might be as many as 150,000 terror babies plotting the death and destruction of little Betty and Bobby. So why get upset about a single white power family when there are murderous brown hordes everywhere you look!

So many on the left claim that Omar Khadr and his brothers were victims of the evil deeds of their brain-washing terrorist father Ahmed Said Khadr, and as a "child soldier" Omar Khadr should be released from responsibility. But what this episode also shows is that while the state is quick to pick up on the evident warning signs of extremism where it pertains to white supremacists, it is lax in dealing with the extremist views of the multicultural community.

Here is a lovely example of one word carrying significant weight, "claim" is used to impugn all arguments that don't agree with Raphael's dubious views. As one of the many on the left I will more than claim I will make a flat out statement of fact, Omar Khadr was corrupted by his parents. As a child of 13 he was indoctrinated in a terrorist training camp and made a child soldier. There are no scare quotes to be applied Raphael, he was 15 when he was shot in the back and captured in Afghanistan. According to the rules of the Geneva Conventions and Protocols, as signed and agreed to by Canada, he was a child soldier. Further, many on the left are seeking his repatriation to Canada to face Canadian law, not to be absolved of responsibility.

We on the left, if I might adopt the royal tone for a moment, abhor the illegal imprisonment and extra-judicial incarceration of a child soldier. We further deplore the trumped up process being called a military commissions tribunal. The Guantanamo farce has no honest legal standing and no jurisdiction over Khadr. He is being tried for an alleged murder, committed in a battle zone. He is being held as an illegal enemy combatant, a detainee and not as a prisoner of war. If this is the case then his trial for murder should be taking place within the civilian justice system. It is not. But what does Raphael take from all of this? The state is eager to pick on the long suffering local Nazi and ignores the dreaded brown folk and their terror cults.

There are none so blind as will not see. Raphael is a xenophobic bigot. He will happily thwart the rule of law to pursue punishment rather than justice. That he couches his ugliness in benign language doesn't change that.

If he's old enough to bleed, he's old enough to slap around.

Well, now we know why the Blogging Tories are so fond of Fox News.

Dear Twatrick: Let me explain "bullying" to you.

There's the setup. And there's the punchline.

There you go, Twatsy. Now do you understand the definition of "harassment?"

AFTERSNARK: It's entertaining to read Mr. Kroll's alleged "apology," in which, when he should be truly grovelling for forgiveness, Chuck still takes classless potshots at Myers: "so called professor", "so called teacher", etc.

Kroll then displays his howling ignorance:

I wonder if that university where mr. myers is employed excepts [sic] any money from the state?

Um ... hello? University of Minnesota at Morris? Publicly funded, I'm sure. But here's the best part of Kroll's "apology":

In closing I still maintain that if mr. myers. Or anyone, who is encouraging people to desecrate the Eucharist, or if he is doing so himself, I would like to beat his brains in, would I? I don’t know.

Yeah, that's the kind of attitude that'll really close the books on this incident, eh, Chuck? Jesus Christ, what a goober. Two words, Melanie: "divorce court." Trust me on this one.

Who WAS that demented fuckwit on the radio? Oh ...

Hopped in the CCmobile just long enough to drop off a few things earlier, and caught the last few minutes of an Omar Khadr-related ramble on CBC Radio One, jumping into the middle of an absolutely deranged, dementia-laden screed by some mind-meltingly ignorant, gibbering whackjob whose position was (and I paraphrase):

"I don't think Khadr's being tortured, they don't torture at Guantanamo, it's not like Abu Ghraib, and besides there were all these people who were released from there who went on to kill again and did you know that the average weight gain at Gitmo is 18 pounds so they're obviously being treated well."

There was more idiocy while, the whole time, I kept wondering, who is this dumbfuck? And eventually, "... and I'd like to thank my guests, Peter Worthington of the Toronto Sun..." And, holy shit, doesn't that explain everything in a timely way? So let's rip Peter a new asshole, shall we?

Yeah, all that weight gain, they sure are eating well. Where have we heard that before? Oh, right:



Two types of fruit, dammit! Two types of fruit! The luxury!

And as for that crap about released detainees going back to the battlefield to kill again, well, just bite me.

The CBC: Trying to appease everyone by balancing liberal with retarded.

Yeah, Queenie, that one's for you.

Zing!

4:33:12 PM
Remember that tie Dimitri had on at the cabinet technically-a-shuffle that I was — less than kind in describing? Compared to what Ryan Sparrow is wearing right now, it’s the most stylish, flattering tie that I’ve ever seen. I’d take a picture, but that would seem creepy, since he’s sitting over there all unaware.

Give it time ... it'll come to you.

Apparently, due process has its limitations.

Um ... what?

Harper's office stands firm on Khadr position

... "Mr. Khadr faces serious charges."

Quite so. And, as we all know, that whole "innocent until proven guilty" thing applies only to people facing non-serious charges. It just saves time that way.

Stephane Dion. One bullet. Problem solved.

Apparently, the Conservative Party of Canada has ideas for dealing with that trouble-making Dion guy:


Now, just to be clear, the CPoC isn't actually suggesting anything in the way of semi-automatic weapons but if that happens to be the message you take away, well, they want you to know that it wasn't their idea. Plausible deniability and all that, you know?

Omar who?

Enjoy the irony.