Sunday, October 11, 2009

And here's where we juxtapose ...


Isn't it curious how the same Canadian right-wing troglodytes who are pissing themselves over how Barack Obama clearly has no right to the Nobel Peace Prize, how he's completely unqualified for it and how he's done absolutely nothing to deserve it ... are perfectly fine with a creationist chiropractor being Canada's Minister of Science and Technology?

I just thought I'd point that out.

8 comments:

Lindsay Stewart said...

Welcome to the two wrongs not making a right department. Obama doesn't deserve a Nobel Prize for Peace and Gary Goodyear is a thumb sucking nitwit. Just saying.

Larry Moran said...

Well said, Lindsay. I think it's ridiculous that Obama was given the Nobel Peace prize and I think it's ridiculous that Gary Goodyear is even a Member of Parliament, let alone a Minister.

GaryB said...

Well, it's not up to us to determine who does deserve the NPP, it's up to the committee. They've obviously made their choice.

It is up to us to determine who runs this country. For our government to appoint someone so steeped in woo and creationism as Minister of Science is unacceptable.

The right continually claims Harper does not have a hidden agenda. They are right, with this appointment it is quite out in the open.

Backseat Blogger said...

You present no evidence that Mr. Goodyear's personal beliefs have influenced the handling of his portfolio. If such were the situation then you would be right to mock and call for his resignation. I'd even join you. But such is not the case.

And since when has an MP's private religious beliefs become okay in public discussion? Why is Mr. Goodyear's (totally batshit crazy) beliefs the standard against which you snark and why does it seem that only Tories that merit your attention?

There are a lot of Catholic Liberal MPs. Why not mock them and their beliefs? By your standards, cc, they should be as much a target as mind numbingly stupid creationists. I mean Catholics believe in a dead Jewish zombie who may or may not have actually existed. They also worship the virgin mary, who's a demigoddess in all but name as the Queen of Heaven.

I would think they would be perfect targets for a lot of snark.

Ti-Guy said...

You present no evidence that Mr. Goodyear's personal beliefs have influenced the handling of his portfolio.

He tried to have a conference on Israel/Palestine shut down and his office threatened SSHRC's funding.

He also thinks a question about evolution is about his religious beliefs.

You can give him all the benefit of the doubt you want, BB, but all it does is make you look like a credulous rube, which I would think would be undesirable in someone with a louche reputation already.

CC said...

BB spews stupidity thusly:

"There are a lot of Catholic Liberal MPs. Why not mock them and their beliefs? By your standards, cc, they should be as much a target as mind numbingly stupid creationists."

Gosh, BB, what ever could the difference be here? Oh, wait, I know.

MPs are elected by their constituents and, therefore, you expect to find numerous airheads, wingnuts and doughbrains being elected. It's just statistical.

The position of federal Minister of Science and Technology, on the other hand, is an appointment by the Prime Minister, and you'd like to think that, with all those MPs to choose from, that appointment would represent the absolutely very best choice of someone with a solid grounding in, you know, science -- not a Bible-whomping, creationist ignoramus.

I'm glad we had this little chat, BB, although I'm sure it will have done nothing to educate you. Nothing else has.

Backseat Blogger said...

rather than trying to edumacate me, CC, why don't you trying and find some actual evidence that the Minister's creationist beliefs have influenced funding decisions in his Ministry.

And since when has there been a litmus test to be Cabinet minister? And what would you have that litmus test be? That they have to meet with your personal approval? I think the electorate has a different opinion than you.

Metro said...

@Backseat:
Goodyear's beliefs became part of the public discussion when in response to a straightforward question that any Science Minister should have answered with a firm, clear, "Yes," he instead claimed religious privilege not to answer.

There's no litmus test, but it would be better, and more honest, of Harper to appoint someone whose beliefs don't get in the way of the facts. Instead we got the usual Conservative partisan hackery.

Goodyear has no place heading the science ministry of an industrialized nation.

WV = "nonspere"
Just one letter away from how Goodyear probably feels about the Earth.