I wonder if we'll get the Afghan equivalent of Godzilla.

Shorter Five Feet of Kill Them All and Let God Sort Them Out™: Nuking Afghanistan, while totally fun, probably wouldn’t be nearly as advantageous to the West as nuking Japan. After all, everyone knows teh Moozzliiimzzzzzz are too stupid to come up with a better calculator.

Sunday Funnies.

Now just try and tell me that this wasn’t one of the most brilliant shows evah. Go on ... I dare you.

Just go.

Start at the top and read. You'll thank me.

Oh. For. Fuck's. Sake.

Why conservatives are retards.

You're fired. No, really.

Who's up for some good, rousing cock slapping? Come on ... who's with me!?

Vanity Fair's James Wolcott lays a James Wolcott-sized beatdown on poster boy for total douchebaggery Jeff Godlstein. Curiously, even douchebags like Godlstein have their dewy-eyed, adoring fans.

Actually, that might have been too much pure, uncut douchebaggery for a single post. I'll try to space it out more carefully next time.

AFTERSNARK: Everything you ever wanted to know about Godlstein, and now desperately, frantically want to have erased from your memory banks.

When the hammer drops, it always hits the stupid first.

Oh, Lord ... reality is going to come as such a baseball bat to the nads for this guy:

Over at the Temple of Sycophantic Groupthink, the Canadian blogosphere's resident obsessive psychopath once again fantasizes about having destroyed a life: ...

Which is actually quite ironic. Evidently, the Canadian blogosphere's leading cyberstalker has never so much as tried to run a phone book search for "Patrick Ross" -- because of course there's only one "Patrick Ross" in the city of Edmonton.

...And these are merely the listed numbers.

Which is the beauty of having a fairly common Irish name.

Hmmmm ... put self in position of HR manager, get resume from one "Patrick Ross" from Edmonton ... Google on "Patrick Ross" and "Edmonton":


Have fun super-sizing those fries, big guy.

YOU GO, GOOGLE! Heh. It's been only a couple of hours, but Google has already done its job. Gaze, if you will, upon the new and improved results for that very same search:


Have fun, Twatsy. Drop us a postcard from the oilfields of Northern Alberta.

Heh.

There's just something cosmically appropriate about that, isn't there?

We will never forget ... you know, what's his name, that guy.

And when a Canadian soldier falls in action, he or she will be "remembered." Which is kind of curious when it's Blogging Tory "Neo Conservative" doing the remembering 'cuz, after the initial remembering, you never really hear about them again on Neo's blog -- here or here or here or here or here or here or here or here or here or here or here or here or here or here or here or here or here or here or here or here. Apparently, over at Neo's place, remembering has a shelf life. A really, really, really short shelf life.

We now return you to your regular program of Neo jerking off to people getting murdered.

Canada's Blogging Tories: Because we grieve for the fallen, and the loss of every one of Canada's courageous and patriotic ... all right! Another dead nigger! Whoo hoo! Sorry ... where was I?

I can has helicopterz?

Oh, look. I'm particularly fascinated by this part:

2. Requirement:

The Department of National Defence (DND) has a requirement to procure a minimum of sixteen (16) new MHLHs [Medium to Heavy Lift Helicopters] and their long-term in-service support that covers a period of 20 years with options to be exercised at Canada's sole discretion, to extend for the life of the helicopters.

So if, only two years ago, we absolutely, positively needed 16 new of these babies, how is it that we're suddenly quite happy with six used? And I'm sure that those more knowledgeable in the arcane MERX-speak of Ottawa will be happy to peruse the rest of that doc and find other amusing bits.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Well, suck my ass ... is there someone in the know who can comment on the accuracy of this bit of bad craziness?

Our defence minister, Peter Mackay, slinks home with some 'tails' between his legs

According to a report in Jane's Defence Weekly, the Canadian government has agreed to buy six used Chinooks – 'D models' – from the US Army. The six ex-US Army helicopters in question were selected by the vendor. This is a little like walking into a used car lot and asking the salesman to pick out six 'previously-owned' vehicles for your fleet.

Well, isn't that special? Can it get any more embarrassing? You bet:

In effect, our Minister of National Defence has managed to negotiate an inferior deal for the same model of used CH-47Ds available through the US Army’s CHAPS program ( the Cargo Helicopter Alternate Procurement Strategy). Instead, we are dealing with the US Government.

The US Army is not in a position to provide support services of any kind for this purchase – no training, no maintenance personnel, and, most importantly, no parts supply line. Canada will have to, once again, prevail upon our closest allies – the Netherlands, Australia, and the UK – to help us out with anything that they can spare from their own over-stretched supply lines and spare parts intended for their small fleets of Chinooks in Southern Afghanistan.

Read the whole thing. Now, since I'm such a reasonable man, I'm willing to throw this one out to the readership and ask -- how much of this is accurate? Or worrisome? Or just plain freaking humiliating?

The lines are open, and operators are standing by to call you a "douchebag."

When wankers whine.

Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse ...

Now I ask you ...

Who doesn’t like a good shunning?

While this is all so terribly Old Testament of you, Charles -- I was wondering if you had any suggestions that might work in the real world?

I ... I ... I feel faint ...

Shorter Champion Pearl-Clutcher NB Tory Lady: There’s an abortion clinic in Fredericton!!1!!!11!!!!11! Will no one think of the fetuses?

Saturday Morning Cartoons.

Oh, I luuuuurrrvvvvvv this one. Now go away ... I'm sick, I can't taste my coffee and I'm in a bad mood.

Do you feel safer?

I feel safer.

Flash! Breaking News... John Edwards is a Cock Noggin

Earlier today I was at the gym doing cardio and gawking at the tellie. They had it parked on CNN with news that Russia had attacked Georgia. Open conflict in that unstable region, great, just what the world needs. I figured that I'd finish my workout to the endless repetition of images of explosions and armoured vehicles. But no, twas not to be. For that tale got wiped right off the old screen by the breaking news that John Edwards had indeed had adulterous sex with a woman. The remainder of my workout took place under the cathode light of this tawdry news. Now I'll admit that, as a male, there is a very insistent little voice in the old trousers that often seems to usurp control of the self. There is good reason that some refer to the masculine reproductive apparatus as the dumb stick. Edwards is not alone in his indiscretion. Lots and lots of people cheat on their spouses. And as much as men are labeled dogs for their pursuit of conjugality, it should be noted that in the hetero universe, they're doing all this bucking and snuffling with someone. The ladies ain't immune from carnality.

What separates the Edwards news from run of the mill sordid fuckery is his public profile. The fool was running for the Democratic nomination. Did he honestly believe that in today's crotch snuffling political climate that an extramarital affair would remain a secret? Has he actually met any Republicans? What a fucking idiot. The optics are just terrible on this. Not only did he cheat on his wife (while she fights a serious cancer) but he lied about it repeatedly. Edwards seemed like a good candidate, clean cut, all American, white bread, nice guy. And now, after taking advice from the evil, blind trouser mole his political career is toast and he gave the screeching Jeeziz gang a stick to wallop liberals with. Way to go moron. The allegedly left leaning press is going to play this into the frickin' ground. Too bad he wasn't buying time on hookers for diaper duty or hitting on strangers in public toilets or paying for buggery and meth with collection box cash. 

On the other hand, Dennis Kucinich handed Bush-enabling milquetoast Nancy Pelosi a petition with 100,000 names calling for the impeachment of America's crooked president. Funny, while Obama is rolling over and playing to the middle, wishying and washying all over the damn place, Dodd and Kucinich are actually leading and fighting for justice and for the constitution (which from this Canadian's point of view is a pretty damned impressive and worthy document). The Democrats could have had a great candidate in Dodd or a great but less telegenic one in Kucinich. Regardless, Edwards would still be a cock noggin for not keeping it in his britches and then for lying about it.

Do not adjust your set ...

... that incessant, irritating whining is not your fault.

OH, NOEZ! Brace yourself:

Maybe when Sandy get’s [sic] back from the cottage we can really go to work on this crowd.

Here's a thought, Jack -- you could try to engage us intellectually. If nothing else, it would catch us off guard.

WHEN WHINGERS WRITE DUMBNESS: Well, kids, we apparently have a whole new wanker chew toy, as Jack mumbles:

It wasn’t much and true to form I couldn’t respond on [CC's] site because you need a “Blogger” ID to do so.

That's right, Jack -- I set it up precisely that way as an intelligence test, and also to be viciously exclusionary and censorial. Pay no attention to those prior posts of mine in which I explained that I did it this way simply to reject "Anonymous" commenters as having more than one of them in a single comments section gets confusing in short order when you have to start referring to "Anonymous @ 3:14 pm" just to keep things readable. No, clearly, I have far more nefarious motivations in mind, is that it, Jack?

Oh, and there's this:

“Anyway" [sic] ... I decided this afternoon to close the comment area on Sandy’s entry.

Well done, Jack ... and the fact that you folks regularly close comments sections, exercise selective moderation, delete individual comments and disappear entire blog entries, while I have never lost a post or moderated my blog clearly means that I am the intolerant, closed-minded one who is frightened of dissenting opinion.

Yeah, let's go with that, Jack. I'm sure that makes perfect sense to the right kind of people. The retarded ones.

BONUS SLEAZY WEASELITUDE: In case you hadn't noticed, CPoC propagandist and enthusiastic Stephen Harper fluffer Sandy Crux has deleted every single post from her "Crux of the Matter" site related to Big Daddy's vaunted "accomplishments."

Every. Single. One.

That would include those posts in which I left a comment correcting Sandy whereupon she was forced to admit that, yes, I was right, at which point she went off to adjust her list. You know ... like here, for instance.

Expect more embarrassing published dumbfuckitude to be flushed whenever it becomes inconvenient. When dealing with these dishonest yobs, taking screen caps just becomes a way of life, doesn't it?

Your daily BT stupid.

Ha ha! That Barack Obama and his stupid tire pressure gauge ... what a maroon!

Obama's Deflating Campaign

... Obama's solution is to tell people to inflate their tires. "Making sure your tires are properly inflated, simple thing, but we could save all the oil that they're talking about getting off drilling, if everybody was just inflating their tires and getting regular tuneups," Obama said. "You could actually save just as much."

But how many people are driving around on flat tires anyway? He thinks this will increase efficiency by 3%, but there's no guarantee that even 3% of cars need tires inflated. Obama goes on and on about alternative energy, but there are no foreseeable alternatives to oil at all in the next 50 or even 100 years.

Um ... whoops (emphasis tail-waggingly added):

According to the Department of Energy, underinflated tires alone cost the country more than 1.25 billion gal. of gasoline annually—roughly 1 percent of the total consumption of 142 billion gal. According to the Annual Energy Outlook 2007, published by the Energy Information Administration, offshore drilling would increase domestic production of crude oil by only about 1 percent.

Join us in about 17 seconds when another Blogging Tory says something retarded.

Damn it! You turn your micro-managing back for a minute ...

and the loons wriggle out of their straitjackets. Dontcha just hate it when that happens?

P.S. And as Political Bytes notes:

More investigative-minded readers may find it interesting to read the entire biblical chapter quoted here. First Timothy 2 goes on to ask that the "woman learn in silence with all subjection," and not "to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence."

Dear SUZANNE:

Shut the fuck up.

Signed,
a man.

Dear Big Daddy:

In the midst of all your funding announcements for helicopters, unmanned drones and slushbreakers, I was wondering if you could explain why there aren’t just a few pennies left over for this.


Yes, yes, I know ... Canada’s back and being back obviously requires things that go bang, but seriously? This is starting to look pretty bad for your Not-So-New Government™. After all, didn’t your shiny Stand Up for Canada policy platform from the 2006 election campaign have the following to say under the heading “Opportunity and respect for aboriginals”?

Every year for twelve years the Liberals have paid lip service to aboriginal issues. But their real legacy is bad water, bad schools, and bad housing. Every year aboriginal spending goes up, but life for Canada’s aboriginal peoples keeps getting worse. And meanwhile the disputes, claims, and lawsuits pile up.

The Liberals should be ashamed of themselves. It’s time for a new approach.

Actually, it’s long past time for a new approach ... so you first, you mouthbreathing, do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do hypocrite. I'll be waiting.

Yours in perpetual disdain,
LuLu

P.S. Maybe you could take notes from Shannen Koostachin — now that’s a girl who knows how to get things done.

P.P.S. Check out Cameron Holmstrom's blog for more information on how you can help the kids of Attawapiskat.

Dear Jack:

You see? That's what happens when you give worthless, sycophantic propagandists the keys to the blog.

Join Jack next week as he demonstrates that he's learned absolutely nothing from getting thoroughly spanked in public, and promptly fucks everything up again.

GREETINGS, JACK'S READERS. Go read this. Then fuck off.

When hacktacular propagandists are easily impressed.

Whoo hoo ... good news!

Canada's military will soon be getting new medium-lift helicopters and unmanned surveillance drones, Defence Minister Peter MacKay announced on Thursday.

At a press conference in Longueuil, Que., MacKay said Ottawa will lease up to six Russian-made choppers and later buy six used U.S.-made Chinook helicopters.

Hot damn ... it's about fucking time! I hear those Chinooks are pretty decent machines. Say, refresh my memory ... didn't we used to have a whole fleet of Chinooks? Oh, right:

Canada's Old Choppers Doing Duty for Dutch

Sold In 1990S; Old Chinooks still in service in Afghanistan

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - There was a touch of irony in a recent ceremony at Kandahar Airfield for a Royal Netherlands Air Force helicopter that passed its 10,000th hour of operation. The old workhorse of an aircraft once belonged to Canada until it sold its entire fleet of Chinooks to the Dutch as a cost-cutting effort in the early 1990s.

Now, while Canadian soldiers wait for a squadron of their own new helicopters to airlift them over the bomb-infested roads of Kandahar province, the Dutch are happily using our old fleet.

Well, shag me twice ... who the smeg was responsible for that lameass decision? Oh ...

In fact, all seven of the Chinooks the Mulroney government sold to the Dutch air force are still flying today and are rotated through missions to Afghanistan.

Of course, idiots who are unaware of that historical tidbit will continue to be unduly impressed.

You had to know that was coming.

Kicking ass and moving on.

I think we're done here.

Dear Patsy: You are so utterly fucked.

From the CC HQ mailbag, with names changed to protect the moderately innocent:

You know how you're always pointing out that blog posting will come back and bite the idiot fringe on the butt and how they always minimize and say you're exaggerating?

I had a job interview yesterday, by video conference to [name of distant country on other side of the planet]. Just before we got going for real one of the guys asked "is your son named [name of son]?" And I said "ummm... yes." and he said "good, I found the right blog".

Oh, yeah, Patsy ... you are screwed big time. Have fun asking folks if they want to super-size that.

Good moooooooooooorning, Waterloo!

Coming to a talk radio station near you this morning:

10:00am

Hated church group plans to protest the McLean Funeral.

Should the government stop these people from crossing the border?

Oh, and I did e-mail Mr. Allan a pointer to this yesterday. Let's see if he does anything with it.

WHOOPSIE: You kinda had to know that was coming. I guess Jeff's not going to have quite so much to talk about now.

Document the whiny, pearl-clutching, pants-pissing dumbfuckitude.

Well, sprinkle me with brown sugar and call me breakfast ... who could possibly have imagined this:



And thanks for playing, Jack. The next time I need a family-size pack of pathetic whiners and liars, I have your number.

P.S. By the way, Jack ... those Sandy-sized urine stains on the hallway carpet? I recommend Febreze.

AFTERSNERK: Yes, Red Tory's comment just after Jack's does sum things up nicely, but RT missed perhaps the most important point, which is:

You cannot have a civil discussion with those people.

Quite simply, even if you show up with polite, genteel, nuanced and thoughtful commentary, you will be mocked contemptuously. You will be denigrated for what you've written previously, who you read on a regular basis, what site you arrived from and a number of other utter irrelevancies.

Then it's on to stage two, where your commentary will be twisted, distorted and misrepresented and normal English words will be weirdly redefined, while the goalposts are moved furiously around you. Eventually, suffocating under a deluge of arguing in bad faith and ridiculous dishonesty, you will quite justifiably snap and head for the door, throwing off a parting shot such as, "Jesus, you people are ignorant retards!" At which point you have now become just another data point in the mounting evidence as to how none of those leftard moonbats can possibly participate in polite society, and isn't that just a shame, tut tut.

And so it goes ...

P.S. And if all of the above doesn't sound hideously familiar, you haven't been paying attention.

I’m just doing it for the womenfolk.

Dear Ken:

May I call you "Ken"? Thanks bunches.

Please accept my sincere congratulations on constructing such an incredibly self-serving, sanctimonious, heart-string-tugging straw man. No, really.

Mockingly yours,
LuLu

No, it's not your imagination ...

... that really is the smell of pee-soaked panties.

P.S. Are we taking any bets on when that post disappears entirely? I'll give you odds.

AFTERSNARK: And the pearl-clutching selective censorship begins:



And remember ... these are the people who are going to protect you from the terrorists.

"... and in conclusion, God hates you all."

Dear Bible thumpers: These people belong to you. Never forget that: You created them. You own them. They're all yours. Enjoy.

Everything I needed to know about utter wankitude, I learned from the Blogging Tories.

Shorter Canadian Whine-o-sphere: "As kick-ass, take-no-prisoners, troop-supporting, pro-war, studly, he-man keyboard commandos and REAL women who can look after ourselves and laugh at all those lefties and their "nanny state" mentality, we reserve the right to piss our pants uncontrollably and have an absolute case of the pearl-clutching vapours whenever someone writes something mean about us."

Did I get that about right?

Dear SUZANNE:

While I realize that the average fetus-fetishist (yes, I’m talking about you) is relentlessly divorced from reality, comparing this to this is nine kinds of stupid — even for you.

Let me try to explain ... your example consists of an alleged threat. JJ’s example consists of actual attacks, firebombings and murders. Can you see the difference? I can see the difference.

Yours in perpetual amusement,
LuLu

Against my better judgment ...

... it had to be done.

Can you say "shameless pandering," boys and girls? I knew you could.

Money for this. But not for this. Which of those two situations represents possible votes in an upcoming election?

No, no, take your time. It'll come to you.

"Varlet! Bring me my nails and hammer!"

Shorter Ezra Levant: "They WHAT!? They dismissed the charges!?!? How dare they? Why, the nerve! How shall I support myself in the whiny martyrdom to which I've become accustomed? Son of a bitch! I'm so angry, I could strangle a Muslim with my bare hands! Uh oh ... did I just say that out loud? Shit ..."

It's time to become officially worried.

Blogging Tory and violent crime aficionado "Neo Conservative" graduates from simply enjoying the murder of people he doesn't care for ... to suggesting he actively wants to help the process along:

Margie... get me the bolt gun...

...it's definitely time to thin the herd...

"Yes, we were pretty sure he was the perp all along. There was vulgarity etched into the victim's body, and it was in this really stupid combination of font changes. Sort of a dead giveaway."

It's going to be fun watching BT co-founder Stephen Taylor try to explain all this once Neo finally snaps and takes out a bus stop full of people. "Neo? Neo who?"

Ah, well, I tried. My hands are clean.

Sometimes, the stupid is overwhelming.

Blogging Tory and mudfortunate dr. roy is all about the decency and family values:

TV is anti family

The Parents Television Council has released a new study showing TV to be anti marriage and pro adultery. Are you surprised?

Quickly ... right-wing, Republican, family values Fox News to the rescue! Oh, wait ...



Dear Stephen Taylor: Please, for the love of God, find some smarter wingnuts. I need a challenge.

Cock gun. Aim carefully at foot. Squeeeeeze trigger ...

Some Wendy "Right Girl" Sullivan-flavoured patronizing condescension:

Good God. The Cynic is actually part of a thriving counter-culture. Who knew? I thought he was just an angry adolescent boy with mommy-love issues…

This is from that paragon of emotional maturity and stability who once wrote:

As opposed to the other 364 days

When the Natives do absolutely nothing except smoke, drink and fuck their daughters.

Would anyone else like to step up and smack themselves in the face with a baseball bat? No, really, we have multiple queues, no waiting.

This is why we don't engage them.

What every conversation with a Blogging Tory sounds like:



On second thought, I may be giving them too much credit.

When really stupid Blogging Tories blog.

It is quite possible that this idiot is such an imbecile that she isn't even worth the time to lay a beatdown on anymore.

P.S. It's really quite astonishing that a member of the BTs can be so contemptuous of a regular contributor to the National Post of all things, given that the Post has been such a nauseatingly staunch supporter of the CPoC all this time. I mean, if you're Stephen Harper, and even the Post is taking you out to the woodshed for a thorough spanking, you have to think that even the crazies are starting to back away from you.

Everything I ever needed to know about insulting dickheads ...

... I learned from TBogg:

For those seeking to locate the "rightosphere" or the "Twitterverse" turn left at the Wankosphere and keep going until you see a treehouse on Dumbasstopia with a sign that reads 'No Girlz 'r Dark Peplz Aloud'.

In my next life, I want to come back as TBogg. With my luck, I'll more likely come back as one of his basset hounds. The really drooly one.

Neo? Is that you?

When "culture of lifers" comment:


In other news, I'm apparently still a big meanie. Go figure.

We get mail.

From the CC HQ mailbox this morning, from someone who prefers to remain anonymous:

You sir, are rude, crude and disgusting.

Your language is vile. Your attitude towards people is shockingly bad, piling up rudeness and denigration, then rolling in it as celebration.

Quite so. But beneath all that, the letter writer still has a firm grip on reality:

What you are not is WRONG. Yes errors do happen, but they are corrected effectively as soon as possible. The blog you produce is not WRONG, though.

Where you call some-one on the facts [using the vile language you do], you have evidence, straight-line logic or alternative statements by that person which disprove their position. In each and every case I can recall, you are not WRONG. That is why I read the blog.

What your detractors fail to account for, each and every time, is this fact. The demonstrable lack of wrongness means that they can only complain about style. For those who prefer rude reality to polite fantasy, the choice is clear. Either the critics can get better on the facts, or they can remain in their faith-based fantasy.

Thank you, thank you very much. I'm here until Thursday. Try the veal.

Oh, for fuck's sake!

Could you ladies please keep the whining down? Some of us are trying to work.

P.S. It's particularly painful to watch Sandy be so mind-meltingly ignorant as to not even understand the definition of a "troll" when it comes to the Internet. As with everything else when it comes to Sandy, she simply makes it up as she goes along.

But here's the best part:

[Trolls] are not a law unto themselves. They only have power when people give it to them, when people react. I say we take back the power and leave them to rot in the sewers of their minds.

That works for me, Sandy, dear. You keep publishing hideously dishonest swill on your blog, and I'll keep disemboweling it and exposing you for the partisan hack you are on my blog, and we'll all get along just fine.

Are we done here, Sandy? Please tell me we're done here. Because I'm not sure I can take any more of your pathetic bleating and pearl-clutching. It's really quite unbecoming.

It's not the insincerity, it's the dishonesty.

Blogging Tory and Jabba-the-Hutt stunt double dr. roy gets all misty and hurt in the pages of the National Post:

I was born in Kerala, India, and I am now a proud Canadian. I was very upset to see people from my part of the world be rude to Stephen Harper in B. C. It was extremely ungracious to attack a guest, especially a guest bringing an apology. The Komagata Maru incident happened many years ago and the present federal government is the first to have apologized for it.

I suspect that our fellow Canadians are dismayed by this show of rudeness. I certainly am.

Here's a hint, Doc ... people get kinda pissed when you lie to them and fuck them over. It's sort of human nature.

CONSPIRACY THEORY MUCH? Indulge me on this one. "Impolitical" ponders:

What is baffling is why the PM would proceed in issuing the apology in the park when the group had clearly expressed opposition to that informality and had suggested it would not go over well.

Perhaps -- just perhaps -- that's exactly the reaction he was after. Think about it. You suggest that you are planning to do X; you get feedback that doing X is virtually guaranteed to piss people off; you go ahead and do X anyway, and people get pissed off. What's to be surprised about?

Is it possible that public anger from the Indo-Canadian community is just what Harper was looking for? Maybe he's just plain tired of giving out all these apologies and, besides, the Conservatives don't much like brown people anyway so, hey, here's a plan -- promise them one thing, then jerk them around and get them hacked off, after which you accuse them of being ungrateful whiners and the rest of the CPoC community picks up that meme and runs with it.

Is it working? You damned betcha it is:

Kelly McParland: Harper isn't sorry enough for Indian leaders

Quite right, Kelly. Fucking ungrateful towelheads. Just make sure you gloss over the glaring misrepresentation of what the Indo-Canadian community had been promised, 'cuz that's kind of an awkward detail and it wouldn't fit nicely into your right-wing spin. Best to just accuse those annoying brown people of being whiners. It makes for a better story, doesn't it?

Conspiracy theory? Hey, I've heard worse.

Mission impossible accomplishment! Or something like that.

Blogging Tory (and the owner of the ugliest fucking blog in Christendom) "NB Tory Lady" gets all moist over the supercalifragadeliciousness of Glorious Leader Stephen Harper:

Bridging an impasse: the Harper Government does the impossible

Wow! Doing the "impossible." Normally, I'm suitably impressed with people who do stuff that's just really, really difficult. But the "impossible?" I can certainly understand the reason for NB's prolonged Harpergasm. But let's read on.

Voice of the Association Group has their say, read it as written below.

Um ... OK, no idea who these "Voice of the Association Group" folks are but, apparently, we're supposed to be impressed that they're weighing in on this. And what exactly do they have to say?

In a masterful stroke of bridging an impasse in public policy, the Harper government has done what was once thought impossible.

Yeah, yeah, we get it, did the "impossible," whatever, can we move on already? What exactly happened here? Oh ...

According to a report in today’s Globe and Mail, “A committee of seemingly competing interests is reworking part of the Harper government's green plan after conflicting complaints from industry and environmentalists. The panel of environmental groups, industry lobbyists and federal and provincial officials must report to cabinet by mid-September on ways to improve the Conservatives' air-quality plan.” ...

So here you have, sitting down at the table together, uber-environmentalists and the big polluters that Stéphane Dion wants to tax out of business. How’s that for building consensus?

Well, that's pretty damned special, NB, and my hat is off to Dear Leader Stephen and ... and ... and ... uh ... you know, while we're here, do you mind if we read that G&M piece a bit more carefully. Maybe the bits you left out, NB? I know you won't mind. So ... what do we have here?

Stakeholder group reworks Tory air-quality plan

Um ... OK ... they're "reworking" the Tory plan? What exactly does that mean? Let's keep reading:

A committee of seemingly competing interests is reworking part of the Harper government's green plan after conflicting complaints from industry and environmentalists.

The panel of environmental groups, industry lobbyists and federal and provincial officials must report to cabinet by mid-September on ways to improve the Conservatives' air-quality plan.

Its recommendations are likely to be seriously weighed by the Tories as they prepare to publish regulations on air quality and greenhouse-gas emissions.

Yeah, read that already, but one gets the feeling there's a bit more to this story. Ah ... here we go:

“We all want an alternative to what the federal government originally proposed. I think there's a consensus that there (are) some real, fundamental flaws in it.

“So we all know that we can only come up with that alternative if we all keep working together.”

The committee was struck after widespread discontent with the federal regulatory framework for air emissions announced by the Conservatives in April 2007.

Oh. In other words, these disparate groups and organizations agreed to work together because they realized they all shared a common philosophy -- that the CPoC's plan sucked dick. Yes, that's quite the accomplishment there, NB -- being so universally reviled that even natural enemies agree that they might as well work together to oppose you. Gosh, but you must be so proud.

P.S. And while we're at it, what's with this "Voice of the Association Group" that NB Tory Lady seems to keep whinging on about? Let's see:

$ whois mrdconservative.com
[Querying whois.verisign-grs.com]
[Redirected to whois.melbourneit.com]
[Querying whois.melbourneit.com]
[whois.melbourneit.com]

Domain Name.......... mrdconservative.com
Creation Date........ 2005-04-23
Registration Date.... 2005-04-23
Expiry Date.......... 2009-04-23
Organisation Name.... Conservative Party of Canada
Organisation Address. 331 Elmwood Dr.
Organisation Address. 4-840
Organisation Address. Moncton
Organisation Address. E1A 1X6
Organisation Address. NB
Organisation Address. CANADA

Oh.

"Stephen Harper does the impossible! Because the Voice of the Association Group Conservative Party of Canada says so!"

Just when you think they can't get any more hacktacular ...

AFTERSNERK: Commenter Bert is also super-duper excited and can't stand to be left out of the celebration:

Is there anything this guy (PM Harper)doesn,t do asks the teacher to her class.OH OH i have one thing he doesn,t do Jimmy says exitededly.Tell the class what it is little Jimmy Canuck says the teacher.He doesn,t let Canadians down like the Liberals do.Well Jimmy thats great and you get an A+ for being right.If only the rest of Canada would be so bright and see what is happening,instead of holding on to the hate.

Whereupon Bert was given a gold star, and they all had cake and Kool-Aid and took a nap.

Oh, dude, I SO know where you're coming from.

Barack gets it:

At a town hall meeting in Berea , Ohio, today, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, pushed back against the GOP attack on his advice to a voter last week that having a tuned up car and fully inflated tires would help save energy...

"Now two points, one, they know they're lying about what my energy plan is, but the other thing is they're making fun of a step that every expert says would absolutely reduce our oil consumption by 3 to 4 percent. It’s like these guys take pride in being ignorant."

Blogging Tories, Barack. Barack, Blogging Tories. It works that way up here, too.

The lighter side of rural Saskatchewan.

Community cable TV, Delisle-style:



Afterwards, they all gathered at Kate's place for beer and burgers.

You only wish I was kidding.

Shorter Kompassionate Konservative Joanne: Pardon me while I completely trivialize the concept of consensual sex vs. rape in order to take a few cheap shots at Dion and his Liberal "Green Shift".

Don't worry, JoJo -- I took a screen cap of that heinous fuckery masquerading as a post. You know, just in case you suddenly grasp the complete and utter tastelessness of what you've written and disappear it. After all, it's not like you have history of that.


Remember boys and girls, we're the hate blog.

And furthermore ... let's see what JoJo does next, shall we?

Now she's starting to piss me off ... Joanne has put me on moderation. I guess she doesn't realize that screen caps are your friends.

Holy dancing Jesus.

There's classy and then there's not so much.

Yesterday evening John McCain took part in the Sturgis Rally 2008 at Buffalo Chip in South Dakota, an annual tribute to veterans. The candidate was so enthused, he told attendees, that he encouraged his wife to participate in the festivities: "I told her with a little luck, she could be the only woman ever to serve as both the first lady and Miss Buffalo Chip."

As the Huffington Post reported on Sunday, the Miss Buffalo Chip contest is more than a little risque -- not to mention bedeviled by violence:

ESPN's Jim Caple described the as "essentially a topless beauty pageant. And occasionally bottomless, too."

"During a drenching rain Wednesday night, the contest broke up into smaller groups and one woman wound up dancing naked on a bar top. Her boyfriend/husband saw her and angrily dragged her away as she struggled to put her pants back on and muttered something about how, "It's only this one week a year."

How sweet. Sadly, the pageant also sees its share of domestic abuse, which even the event's organizers admit to Caple is a major problem.

If that doesn't bring in the Evangelical wingnut vote, nothing will.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! OMFG, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

And there was much rejoicing in the wankersphere due to the recent availability of fried chicken parts in war zones, so that even Canada's Bestest Blogger™ was caught up in the rapturific ... uh, rapture of it all.

And then there's the eventual outing of reality.

Canadian Cynic: When you prefer to not be an ignorant, gullible retard. Right, Kate?

BY THE WAY, I am seriously pissed with myself because the instant I read that original news piece, my first reaction was, "There is no way this can be true. Give it time, and it'll turn out to be another right-wing hoax." But, sadly, I wrote no post saying so.

Damn. Another missed opportunity to be right about everything.

OH, NOEZ!!!!!

Apparently, I am a bad man. I will try to deal with the public criticism and humiliation.

OK, movin' on ...

AFTERSNERK: How utterly droll:

This is public notice that I intend to not only advise blogger at every opportunity but the police as well. I don’t hide behind anonymity and neither should CC. We live in a free society where freedom of political affiliation should be the norm. While we have the right to free expression, Canadian Cynic has clearly crossed the line to abusive misogyny and that is what I would call hate.

If other readers agree, please send your thoughts to: abuse@blogger.com

So much for that "free speech" thingy. Does Ezra Levant know about this?

BY THE WAY, SANDY, it's spelled "misogyny." Not "mysogyny." Jesus, what a twat.

WHEN STOOPID PEOPLE COMMENT: Over at Sandy's place, Blogging Tory "NB Tory Lady" assures us she's achieved serenity:

Do not go to [CC's] blog. Ignore it. I have peace of mind by ignoring.

Then, sadly, follows up with:

I flagged CC’s blog with blogger…as objectionable material (hope more will)

Some advice, NB ... Blogger is unlikely to take seriously the moaning and kvetching regarding my intolerable offensiveness from anyone who publicly claims to have found "peace of mind" by ignoring me. I'm sure you can draw that logical connection for yourself.

Or maybe not. I really don't want to overestimate you kids.

"And please give generously to the Canadian Association for the Treatment of Attention Deficit ... hey, let's go ride our bikes!"

This is why we don't engage them ... this is why we mock them. If there was ever a clearer need for Dexedrine ...

By their principles, ye shall know them.

Finally, someone pays the price for being a sleazy hack. But don't worry -- I'm fairly sure Kate McMillan is still safe as a Blogging Tory. That sort of principle shit just doesn't fly up here.

Luca saves us all piles of time.

But the important question we have to keep asking ourselves is, "Is Our Children Summarizing?"

Following Dr Roy's and Blue Like You's posts regarding the need for an abortion law in Canada, I would like to chip in, keeping in mind my ignorance of the medical ramifications of the subject.

If there was ever a better summary of the Blogging Tories groupthink collective, I've yet to read it.

When wankers just fucking lie.

Dear God, how does one become a "college professor" and remain this much of a total douchebag?

by jdcarmine
Aug 02 2008
9:50 AM

Wonderful! I am a college professor and this is even more stunning when comparing liberals and conservatives. For example, last semester none of my liberal students had even the foggiest notion where Iran was relative to Israel and none could find the West Bank on a map. None knew where China and Russia were relative to the Middle East. But...All the conservative students knew these basic facts which made it easier for conservatives to discuss the significance of the Iraq war whereas the liberals could only spew platitudes about it.

Hey, I know ... let's examine the empirical evidence, shall we? Survey says:

The frequency of Americans’ misperceptions varies significantly depending on their source of news. The percentage of respondents who had one or more of the three misperceptions listed above is shown below.

Well, how about that? Liberals smart, conservatives stupid. How utterly unsurprising. I suggest any of jdcarmine's students demand their money back. They've clearly been ripped off.

At which point they'll lecture us on civility and compassion.

When capitalists end up being complete failures.

Hilarious.

For your viewing pleasure, a list of dr. roy’s recent posts at the Blogging Tories. Notice the rather amusing cropping of the title of the third one?

Have I got a few suggestions on where to start ...

Someday, all the pretentious, worthless hack journalists will be dead.

And, sweet Jesus, it can't happen soon enough for me.

"... and if kippers grow on trees, it will not rain."

Shorter deranged fetus fetishist SUZANNE: "The fact that both the husband and wife agreed that abortion was the right thing to do only proves that, yet again, abortion was the wrong thing to do."

Maybe there is a God.

And She’s had just about enough of Fred Phelps and his hatemongering clan of mouthbreathers. A few more of these little acts of righteous smiting and I might actually consider going back to church.

P.S. Just in case you're wondering SUZANNE, Fred's one of yours — just like the Army of God. Nice bunch you fight the good fight with ... no, really.

You know what you can do with your apology.

Heh. Indeed. Which won't, of course, stop this latest cookie-cutter, assembly line apology from being added to Sandy Crux's list of vaunted Stephen Harper "accomplishments." You know it's coming. After all, it's what you do when you don't have anything legitimate to brag about.

Timely, in a creepy kind of way.

Blogging Tory and violent crime obsessive "Neo Conservative" wants you to take responsibility for the mentally-unhinged that walk among you:

It simply shouldn't have happened

Apparently all kinds of people knew this guy was coming unglued... and did nothing about it...he wasn't struggling... he was on his way to a homicidal meltdown and you stood by and watched.

I trust the irony is self-explanatory.

BONUS CRUNCHY, WINGNUTTY GOODNESS: Witness the hilarity in the comments section at that first link, in which people who live in Realityville try to explain to Neo how things actually work, and how Neo is having none of it. Quelle surprise.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Over at Neo's House of Violent Crime and Evil Brown People, commenter "Noni Mausa" asks what appears to be a serious, considered and thoughtful question regarding mental health care in Canada. Neo responds by obsessing over female genitalia.

Mental health professionals are welcome to leave their diagnoses in the comments section.

Because even totally fucking stupid journalists deserve to write for someone.

The embarrassment that is the National Post:

Atheist Conference

The awkward reality:

Join us for the largest Humanist convention in Canadian history!

What's the point of a punchline? They're idiots.

And this is why we mock them.

Do I really need to say anymore -- other than the fact that this is the best laugh I've had all day?

Ooooh, ooooh! Pick me! Pick me!

Blogging Tory "Fuschi's Canadian Forum" asks the question:

Obamamania

Does the extraordinary turnout in Berlin say something about Obama, or about Berliners? Perhaps it says something about us all, including Canadians, who support him in overwhelming numbers. And, what might be the common nucleus of this reaction?

Um ... perhaps that sane people everywhere are tired of the current American administration, which consists exclusively of ignorant, war-mongering, corrupt retards and scientific illiterates?

Admittedly, that's just a guess.

Sometimes, words just get in the way.

Shorter Blogging Tory Neo Conservative: "Mmmmm ... mmmmmmmmm ... oh, yeah ... unnnnggghhhhhhhhh! Yeah, baby ... just like that."

Woe is me.

Shorter ProLife ProWoman: Why, oh why, does no one understand my noble struggle to save the fetuses? My victimization knows no bounds but still I soldier on, safe in the knowledge that someday all women can be free from that horrendous burden called "choice".

You only wish I was kidding.

Sunday Funnies.

A little Young Frankenstein with your coffee?

Earth to Stephen Taylor ... come in, Stephen Taylor.

Blogging Tory co-founder Stephen Taylor is amused by the notion of a Canadian politician trying to emulate an American one:

Is Stephane Dion trying to channel the success of Barack Obama’s campaign? Hope and change and change and hope.

Now, all Dion has to do is work on adapting Obama’s inspirational speaking style and then he’ll win a landslide majority and get back into power “as soon as possible”.

At least he’s hopeful.

Yes, Stephen ... Canadian politicos aping their southern counterparts ... pretty hilarious, wouldn't you say? Or maybe not.

Was it good for you too, Neo?

Shorter Blogging Tory and Stephen Taylor compatriot "Neo Conservative": "Oh, man ... Tasers, shootings and another dead Canadian. Does life get any better than this?"

Sweet tap-dancing Jesus.

Big Daddy and his security-breaching, news-dumping, in-and-out fuckwits have reached a new high when it comes to their accountabiliciousness. Shorter version — it was allllllll the jiggly, biker chick girlfriend's fault that Mad Max had such an embarrassing ooopsie when it came to his confidential NATO briefing books. No, really.

Do you think Sandy will put this little item on her gushy, spittle-flecked list?

And furthermore. You can always rely on the Trusty Tory for undeniable proof that the average mouthbreathing, Big-Daddy-humping BT will swallow anything that absolves their glorious, transparent and accountable government. Ass clown.

For what it's worth, TT you fucktard, I have an extremely high security clearance. I've also transported confidential documents in a NATO standard briefcase which can only be opened with a combination and a key. More importantly, the documents are not to be removed while in transit from point-of-origin to point-of-destination.

So you have your choice of possibilities here — either Mad Max opened his briefcase and removed the documents in Couillard's apartment or he gave her the key and the combination and she removed them. Guess what? Regardless of how it played out, the blame lies solely on Bernier's shoulders.

I guess accountability just isn't what it used to be, huh?

Saturday Morning Cartoons.

"Once upon a time" ... great opening, huh?



There isn’t enough coffee in my cup. This girl’s got a raging case of insomnia again — you're jealous, aren't you?

Credit where credit is due.

The Politic's Adam Dyck earns his merit badge in snark. Sadly, we're pretty sure that his sandbox partner Matthew will be along shortly to fuck things up again.

Goodbye, and thanks for all the fish

(Posted by Dr.Dawg): My thanks to CC for offering shelter after I was driven off my site by a rogue spam-seeking Blogger missile. I'm back up, thank goodness, after less than twenty-four hours. Blogger has posted a sort-of apology, too.

Funny how so many of us think these things are all about us. As I note at my place, a large number of people were hit, and a lot of the political ones simply ASSumed that the enemy had done it. CC did the digging, and found that the Blogger-bot was an equal-opportunity assailant. As for my part in the general paranoid blog-rage, my apologies and my promise to do a little more research in the future before ASSuming the worst.

Have a good weekend, everyone.

Whooopsie.

Looks like Big Daddy’s vaunted accountabiliciousness is just the tiniest bit questionable.

The Harper government is dismissing suggestions that it tried to play down the release of a major report warning about serious health effects from climate change.

In fact, they're so dismissive of these suggestions, Tony Clement even allowed his valley girl communications director to speak to the press (emphasis gleefully added).

The Conservative government's hand was forced when parts of the report were leaked to the media last week, Smith said.

"This is not my preferred way to roll out anything," she said.

"But when things start leaking and then the stories say that we are hiding something - which we're not only not hiding, but we're scrambling to get out there - it's a bit unfair, it's a bit crazy. . . .

"Frankly, as rollouts go, I so would have like to see this go way differently and way better."

Like ... you only wish I was kidding, you know?

No, not that outrage ... the OTHER outrage!

Shorter "culture of life" fetus fetishist SUZANNE: "Given the appalling recent murder of Unitarians by a homicidal madman who hated liberals, I am now going to shriek horrifically about ... something else."

Journamalism, as it iz praktised.

If someone pays me enough money, I too could write stuff this idiotically retarded.

OH, NOEZ!!

Left-wing freeping of an online poll? Man, that's gotta suck! I could have sworn that freeping the crap out of someone's poll was something to be proud of. Oh, wait ... only when idiot wankers do it.

My bad. Carry on.

Sound and fury, signifying possibly not much.

OK, this whole "spam blog" thing might just be stupid technology run amok after all, as Impolitical has also been bitten. Ah, well ... never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by idiotic administrators and bad programmers. That's what I always say.

Well, OK, I don't always say that.

YEAH, IT'S THE TECHNOLOGY. I'm seeing reports of numerous blogs from both sides of the spectrum having been boned this way. So let's just chalk it up to some idiot, summer intern programmer at Blogger and move on.

They breed like rabbits! (repost from Dawg's Blawg)

Conservatives, that is.

The American Hoover Institution research fellow Peter Schweizer is here to regale us with yet more tall tales and fanciful frolics in a binary universe composed entirely of liberals and conservatives. Thanks a bunch, W.S. Gilbert:

I often think it's comical – Fal, lal, la!
How Nature always does contrive – Fal, lal, la!
That every boy and every gal
That’s born into the world alive
Is either a little Liberal
Or else a little Conservative!
Fal, lal, la!

Fal, lal, la, indeed. Grab some sushi and a latte and listen up.

"Today's liberalism is completely wrapped up with the notion of self," Schweizer begins portentously. When I had managed to wipe the hysterical tears from my eyes as this classic bit of projection sank in, I began to realize that the cons do this sort of thing rather a lot these days. "I know you are, but what am I," in fact, seems to be the most over-used trick in the cons' dog-eared playbook at the moment.

Dallying with fascism? "Hey, you're the fascist." Espousing racism? "You'r the racists!" Cons are selfish, individualistic, triumphalist about the less fortunate? "No, no, no you're the selfish ones! We really care about others, unlike you, you greedy pigs."

Go to San Francisco, Seattle or Vermont--liberal enclaves all, says Schweizer--and you won't find a lot of kids. I'll admit that the addition of San Francisco gave me a bit of a chuckle, but Schweizer is in no chuckling mood. Conservatives have 41% more children than liberals. They're winning the culture wars through procreation. They're following the Nike Creed. (Next step: outbreeding Muslims? Mark Steyn would be pleased.)

A minor digression, if I may, because it's getting hot in here. Our southern pundit is only interested in same-politics marriages. He says nothing about mixed marriages. But maybe that's because they're doomed from the start:

Said the right-handed honeysuckle to the left-handed bindweed,
"Oh, let us get married, if our parents don't mind, we'd
Be loving and inseparable, inextricably entwined, we'd
Live happily ever after" said the honeysuckle to the bindweed.

To the honeysuckle's parents it came as a shock.
"The bindweeds," they cried, "are inferior stock!
They're uncultivated, of breeding bereft,
We twine to the right and they twine to the left."

A bee who was passing remarked to them then,
"I've said it before and I'll say it again,
Consider your offshoots, if offshoots there be,
They'll never receive any blessing from me".

"Poor little sucker, how will it learn,
When it is climbing, which way to turn?
Right, left, what a disgrace,
Or it may go straight up and fall flat on its face!"

--

Together, they found them, the very next day,
They had pulled up their roots and just shrivelled away.
Deprived of that freedom for which we must fight,
To veer to the left or to veer to the right!

Veering to the right, in any case, is just the ticket for Schweizer. And we'll get that on a national scale by continuing to fluff up our conservative demographics. "Come," he says (as it were): "[R]aising children is a difficult and selfless act that is also an important civic duty."

Ah, the joys of conservative sex. A passage from 1984 springs lissomely to mind:

As soon as he touched her she seemed to wince and stiffen. To embrace her was like embracing a jointed wooden image. And what was strange was that even when she was clasping him against her he had the feeling that she was simultaneously pushing him away with all her strength. The rigidity of her muscles managed to convey that impression. She would lie there with shut eyes, neither resisting nor co-operating but submitting. It was extraordinarily embarrassing, and, after a while, horrible. But even then he could have borne living with her if it had been agreed that they should remain celibate. But curiously enough it was Katharine who refused this. They must, she said, produce a child if they could. So the performance continued to happen, once a week quite regularly, whenever it was not impossible. She even used to remind him of it in the morning, as something which had to be done that evening and which must not be forgotten. She had two names for it. One was 'making a baby', and the other was 'our duty to the Party' (yes, she had actually used that phrase). Quite soon he grew to have a feeling of positive dread when the appointed day came round. But luckily no child appeared, and in the end she agreed to give up trying, and soon afterwards they parted.

Indeed we are in a looking-glass world once again. Repeat after me these conservative mantras: War is Peace. Ignorance is Strength.

Now, I always get a kick out of right-wing nutbars telling us what liberals think, and why they do what they do and don't what they don't. I'm not a liberal: I live in a parallel universe, I guess. But I'm not unfamiliar with liberals. My father was one. We argued for decades.

So when Schweizer tells us that liberals aren't having kids because they're pessimistic about the future, or because they regard children as a burden, or because they put their own well-being first (well, 28% of them do, we discover, but so do 15% of the conservatives), that allows me, in all fairness, the right to speculate in a similar psychedelic manner. Why do conservatives have kids? Because they oppose birth control, because kids keep the little woman tied down at home, because they're a great tax deduction, and frankly because they're a lot of fun to beat.

In any case, the fecundity of conservatives poses a real dilemma for liberals, Schweizer says, because 80% of children adopt the political attitudes of their parents. What are endangered liberals to do? He finds a professor somewhere to articulate his own classic white-guy fears: Darren Sherkat, a progressive, who might be having a little fun himself summoning up every conceivable conservative bugaboo. Increase immigration, Sherkat says. Enlarge the Black population (that one alone will have some cons I know on their fainting-couches). Take over the schools and the universities to mold the minds of the young without having to do the hard work of raising them. Write popular books. The lesson for conservatives, then, is clear: be on your guard against all of these hostile liberal takeovers, and keep on, ah, trucking.

Here I was just recovering from the MASSIVE POLL. Now this. And these guys accuse us of committing junk science? But never mind. Whatever one thinks of this zany Hoover fellow, he does offer a far more pleasant alternative to the death and destruction more popular conservatives appear to favour as their final solution to the liberal problem. For the Left, at least from a conservative perspective, our counter-strategy is obvious: we just need to stay in more.

H/t LuLu

Blogopolitical dirty tricks

(Posted by Dr. Dawg): I woke up this morning (Friday August 1) to discover that my blog had been locked down by Blogger as a spam blog. As I write this, it may be three or four days before my request for a review is acted upon. Many thanks to CC for the invite to stay at his place until my roof is repaired.

Obviously my blog has none of the characteristics of spam blogs at all. I know a little bit about spam-detection software, and Blogger's would have to be primitive to the point of dysfunctionality to make that error in my case. There is no detectable temporal content or structural regularity at Dawg's Blawg--indeed, I pride myself on that. :) And while my loyal opposition might indeed snort from time to time about "irrelevant, repetitive, or nonsensical text," to use Blogger's phrasing, I'm pretty sure I pass the Turing test.

However, as I found when I indignantly searched through the Blogger site, it appears that people may simply submit complaints, naming specific blogs as spam. Instead of triggering an immediate review by Blogger, the blog is apparently locked down until someone gets around to looking at it, which can take several days, as noted.

If the other side really wants this kind of war, I can think of a few wingnut blogs that sure look like spam to me. I would suggest, however, that escalating might be unwise. It seems, in fact, that we have our very own version of MAD (mutually assured destruction) until somebody at Blogger smartens up and decides to review first and shoot later.

I would welcome suggestions, however, about what we should do about this new dirty trick. Where are the speech-warriors now that we need them?

PS: For those reading and commenting on my "They breed like rabbits!" post of yestreen, my apologies. I made a quick editorial change this morning. But can I re-publish? Nope. Not until the "Blogger team" gets around to reviewing my blog. With CC's indulgence, I'll republish it temporarily at his place.

UPDATE: I probably should have held my fire on this one. If folks want a little Friday morning entertainment, go to Google Blogs and search, as moderate Republican Carrie's Nation suggests, on "google blogger spam censorship." The paranoid clamour is truly interdenominational. Conservatives, Catholics, progressives, are all targets of each other. The Illuminati must be laughing their asses off.

When whiny, pants-pissing conservatives act like assholes.

According to the good Dr. Dawg, the doctor's blog has been temporarily de-activated from updating due to someone complaining to Blogger that it is a "spam" blog -- an asinine accusation, to be sure, but one that Blogger handles automatically by shutting you down until they can hold a "review." How delightful. How free speech warrior and everything.

So I'm arranging for Dr. Dawg to have temporary author privileges here until this is resolved. Until, of course, the same snivelling, pants-pissing whiners do the same thing to us.

Is this the new right-wing strategy? 'Cuz if it is, things are going to get ugly in a hurry.

Well, yeah, but that's different.

Shorter Canadian conservatives: "As people who went totally, around-the-bend, shrieking, batshit crazy over a meaningless joke about Stephen Harper, we have to ask, what's all this fuss about eliminationist rhetoric?"

They do make it easy for me, don't they?

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

Ezra Levant: Jew, western Canadian conservative, scourge of neo-Nazis everywhere, and ... uh ... best buddies with Kate McMillan.

The cognitive dissonance must be absolutely crippling.

I knew it!

Shorter Blogging Tory "Barrel Strength": The fact that Obama is so paranoid about being seen publicly with Moooozzzlimmszzzz proves, proves that people are right to be suspicious about his religious beliefs. No, really.

Stephen Taylor must be so proud.