1, 2, 3, ... um, lots.

Heh. Indeed:

The Republican presidential nominee from Arizona landed at the Columbia Regional Airport around 12:30 p.m. As McCain disembarked from the plane, a man yelled, "Go get 'em, John."...

A crowd of about 15 people assembled outside the airport's fence to see him descend from the plane.

Okay, here's a rule of crowd estimation. It is okay to say a crowd was thousands, or hundreds, but it can never be "about 15", if there are "about" 15, you've got time to get the number exactly right.

Here's another thought -- if you're the Republican presidential nominee and you can't even pull in more people than Kathy Shaidle and free donuts, you're in a world of hurt. I'm just sayin'.

Beware the Blogging Tory language police.

Shorter Blogging Tory Robert Jago: "If you ignore the fact that Stephane Dion didn't actually, technically use the exact phrase 'never again,' let me be totally outraged at how Stephane Dion used the phrase 'never again.' Because the Jews own that phrase. Own it, OK?"

Quite right, Robert. After all, as we all know, the proper way to pay our respects to Holocaust victims is to equate them with motorcycle registration numbers.

Thanks for stopping by, Robert. And don't forget to shut the fuck up on your way out.

OHMIGOD OHMIGOD OHMIGOD ... AmericaBlog's John Aravosis just used the phrase that no one but Jews are allowed to use. Let the hysterical pearl clutching and panty twisting begin.

When life imitates art, with ugly consequences.

Been there, done that.

If you ignore the actual facts, you'll see I have a point.

Shorter Blogging Tory "The view from the right": "If you overlook that the pro-life club put on a "life fair" unsafely, populated it with non-CSA-affiliated people and handed out misleading and dishonest literature, then I can claim this was all just a travesty of ideological discrimination."

When stupid Blogging Tories blog.

Blogging Tory Jonathan Strong is terribly, terribly concerned:

I don't believe we will see gulags or the end of democracy if Obama wins, but I do believe his presidency would erode the conservative values of individualism, personal ambition, personal responsibility, the rule of law, the constitutional right of freedom of the press (because of the fairness doctrine), and the free market's role in society.

Yes, Jonathan ... after eight years of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, the whole notion of constitutional rights, the rule of law and personal responsibility would be in grave danger under President Obama.

See, kids? That's what happens when you don't stop eating the paint chips.

HEH. TBogg gives Jonathan a savage towel snap to the nads without even realizing it.

Dear Liberal Party of Canada

You are fucked.

Oh if only Colin Powell would endorse them.

From now on I'm voting for the Bloc, Canada's party.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Dear American voter fraud-obsessed Blogging Tories: Suck on this, you douchebags.

Oh, and then piss off.

Don't worry, kids ... he wasn't using his nads for anything useful, anyway.

Via Chester, we see Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi carefully unsheath the genitals of National Review's Byron York, place them gently on the anvil, and pound them to the width of Kate McMillan's soul.

Yesterday's pre-election statements are inoperative.

(CC NEWS) -- Having campaigned relentlessly on a platform of global warming being a total fiction and the invention of lefties, socialists, treehuggers and "those creepy gays," Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently announced $100 million in aid for "developing countries to fight climate change."

When asked whether his sudden and unexpected generosity with the public purse might extend to reversing his recent budget cuts to arts and culture, Harper responded, "Oh, please. They're artists, for fuck's sake!"

Heh.

Indeed.



Cue the sputtering right-wing outrage in three ... two ... one ...

UPPERDATE: Sadly, they've predictably the video down, but the salient point was Stewie looking down on his Nazi uniform to see a "McCain - Palin" campaign button. How the writers got away with that is a mystery.

Obama/McCain...

I just don't care. I find it utterly impossible to muster a lick of concern over who gets to be King of Nightsoil Mountain. Whichever of the deeply mediocre candidates claims victory, will inherit a toxic waste dump for their prize. Senile, flag waving geriatric and delusional church lady versus smiling sloganeer empty suit and smiling sloganeer empty suit. A battle for the ages! With victory comes inevitable disappointment. I'm with Stageleft on this one. With Canada determined to screw itself into the political mud, why the fuck are we directing our energy and attention to the politic stupidity of a foreign country run by crazy people and killers?

When really stupid people blog.

Over at Kate McMillan's White Robe Drive-In and Holocaust Comedy Club, guest blogger Captain is ... well, he's just being a total colostomy bag:

I Have to PAY for Canadian Budget Statistics???

Fellow SDA'ers, as I am merely a humble guest writer, I thought it would be appropriate that instead of deluging you with stories from the US, I try to pull some interesting statistics and charts about Canada so that we may all take home an exciting and interesting education in Canadian economics.

My goal was simple; compare health care expenditures as a % of GDP and the budget over time to provide all those interested a measure as to just how much of your budget goes to the health care system as well as what percent of your income goes to health care.

I found a great site called Statistics Canada that had all the data a budding economist could ever want. I quickly found the database where I could pull all the necessary information and upon clicking the "enter" button, received this little notice; ...

(Your request contains 4 payable series, at a cost of C$12.00.

What in the name Puff the Magic Dragon is this?! I have to PAY to get what should be public information? Is this some kind of attempt to keep economic information from the poorer masses or some bureaucrat's idea of a power trip?

Nothing like keeping vital information that would empirically disprove socialism away from the population.

Posted by Captain at October 19, 2008 11:47 AM

Predictably, Captain -- while wanking furiously over a bill of $12.00 -- has never seen fit to get even the teensiest bit upset over this:

Harper defends database shutdown

Prime Minister says Co-ordination of Access to Information Requests System too costly; Dion says PM leads most 'secretive government in the history of our country'

Mr. Harper was forced to explain in the House of Commons Monday why his government quietly killed off a database called the Co-ordination of Access to Information Requests System.

Created in 1989 and revamped in 2001, the CAIRS database is a monthly compilation of all Access requests received by federal agencies. Canadians could use it to see the information that had already been made public or was in the process of being released, and could then make a request to see the documents themselves.

The database “was deemed expensive, it was deemed to slow down the access to information, and that's why this government got rid of it,” Mr. Harper said during Question Period.

Drop by tomorrow when Captain again writes something completely fucking whiny and idiotic.

Brilliant.

So ... anyone want to start a pool on just how long it takes for the Republicans to use the colour of the General’s skin as the defining factor behind his endorsement?

Sure, let's talk about "ACORN."

And now that a number of Blogging Tories have stroked themselves into a screeching frenzy over allegations of humongous, massive, ginormous ACORN-inspired voter fraud down south, you can take the time to read someone who isn't a frothing, Stephen Taylor-enabled imbecile. And CNN weighs in, too.

You're welcome.

I’ve got your agenda right here.

Shorter passive-agressive, pearl-clutcher extraordinaire Raphael Alexander: Of all the nerve! Where do these pushy gay activists get off trying to teach teenagers about liberal, elitist, ivory tower concepts like social injustice? What? Do they honestly think the average parent wants to raise an open-minded child? Sheesh.

And furthermore. You should really check out the comments for some extra-special RA-approved shenanigans, boys and girls.

I need more coffee ...

Sunday Funnies.

Sunday morning cartoons.

My turn:

Smackdown.

In which regular CC HQ commenter "Southern Quebec" takes it to 12-year-old Blogging Tory "Hunter". Check back later when Hunter responds petulantly with, "Boy, you lefties sure, like, get all upset about, you know, stuff and everything. Ha ha!"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

My head just exploded.

I can out-TBogg that in three notes.

Over at "Basset Hounds 'r' Us," TBogg takes it to high-profile wank Ed Morrissey. But, really, that is so lame. I mean, if I want some serious journalistic misrepresentation, I don't even need to leave the neighbourhood.

P.S. Every morning when I leap out of bed, I thank God for the Blogging Tories -- your one-stop shop for dumbass wankitude.

Ya gotta chase your dreams, baby.

In which Blogging Tory and fan of minority violent crime "Neo Conservative" realizes there might still be hope for him.

IOKIYAD (It's OK if you're a douchebag).

Blogging Tory Paul MacPhail is all, like, in your face, losers!

St. John's mayor wants seat for Newfoundland at federal cabinet

They had their chance. It's what's known as a federal election.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The mayor of St. John's is calling on the public to convince Ottawa to appoint somebody from Newfoundland and Labrador to be responsible for the province at the federal cabinet table.

The Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper doesn't have an MP from the province after losing races for all of its seven seats during Tuesday's federal election.

It's time the mayor had a talk with Danny Williams about that little ABC thing.

Yeah! So just bite me, OK? Ha! Losers!

In what I'm sure is totally unrelated news, Stephen Harper once appointed the entirely unelected Michael Fortier as Minister of Public Works and Government Services because Stephen wanted "regional diversity" and "We need a cabinet minister from Montreal."

Most of you will, I'm sure, immediately appreciate the douchebaggy hypocrisy. Then one of you can explain it to Paul.

Because it makes me smile ...

Some Billy Bragg from my wild teenage years -- and more than a little appropriate after reading this.



My poppa has always loved Motown music so I grew up listening to The Four Tops, The Temptations, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Martha and the Vandellas and my dad's personal favourite, Brother Ray, just to name a few.

Nothing succeeds like total fucking failure.

Yeah, tell me again about the free market:

Wall Street banks in $70bn staff payout
Pay and bonus deals equivalent to 10% of US government bail-out package

Financial workers at Wall Street's top banks are to receive pay deals worth more than $70bn (£40bn), a substantial proportion of which is expected to be paid in discretionary bonuses, for their work so far this year - despite plunging the global financial system into its worst crisis since the 1929 stock market crash, the Guardian has learned.

Staff at six banks including Goldman Sachs and Citigroup are in line to pick up the payouts despite being the beneficiaries of a $700bn bail-out from the US government that has already prompted criticism.

In unrelated news, raising the minimum wage by a dollar an hour would be a terrible thing for the economy. Or so I've been told.

Dear stupid Blogging Tories: About "Joe the Plumber" ...

A number of the typically premature ejaculatory BTs have recently seized on the story of one "Joe the Plumber," whose televised confrontation of Barack Obama as to how Obama's tax cuts would affect Joe was immediately spread far and wide throughout the Dumbass-o-sphere as proof of how those tax cuts would hurt poor, hard-working folks like Joe.

Joe the Plumber told Sen. Barack Obama that he might buy a business worth $280,000, but is afraid higher taxes will cut into his dream, CBS News correspondent Wyatt Andrews reports.

Sen. John McCain then used Joe's story to claim Obama will raise taxes for millions of small business owners.

"And what you want to do to Joe the Plumber and millions more like him is have their taxes increased," McCain said during Wednesdays third and final presidential debate.

And then there's reality (emphasis leg-humpingly added):

The fact is, millions will not be hit by a tax hike. An estimated 335,000 small business owners - just 2 percent of the total - would be impacted by Obama's tax increases.

According to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, Obama's tax hikes apply only when personal income, not the value of the business, rises above $250,000.

"What goes on your income tax form is your profit, not your gross receipts," said Eric Toder of the Tax Policy Center.

But wait ... it gets sooooo much better:

So today, Joe, who said he makes much less than $250,000, reluctantly admitted Obama would lower his taxes.

"I would, if you believe him, I would be receiving his tax cuts," Wurzelbacher said.

And, oh, yeah:

But Joe's anti-tax leanings are also playing out in his personal life. It turns out - he's behind on state taxes.

So the man whose personal story steered a Presidential debate over taxes owes some $1,200 in back taxes, according to the state of Ohio.

Heh. Indeed. Thanks for coming, Joe. Stupid Blogging Tories. Stupid, stupid Blogging Tories.

BONUS TRACK: Just for shits and giggles, make sure you appreciate how Joe lies during that initial confrontation. As you can see from the first few seconds of the video here, Joe initially claims (emphasis added), "I'm getting ready to buy a company that makes about $250,000 ... $270-280,000 a year."

No, it doesn't. As Joe later clarified, the company he was thinking of buying was worth that much, which means that it would typically make considerably less per year. And, as you can read above, Joe has admitted that he currently makes far less than $250,000 per year. In short, Joe spewed total bullshit during that first encounter in order to provoke a confrontation. So he totally deserves the shellacking he's getting at the moment.

Coincidence?

I think not.

Saturday Morning Cartoons.

I say, I say ... I love coffee, really I do.

Apparently, we have all the good words.

Over at Kate McMillan's Dead Jew Snack Shop and White Power Komedy Klub, guest blogger "EBD" is gittin' all territorial about the English language:


And it doesn't end there. What about "gay rights", "biological evolution", "supporting the troops", "public education" and "scientific literacy?" Apparently, leftards have snapped up all those words, too.

Oh, and "surplus." Don't forget "surplus."

Greedy leftard douchebags.

P.S. There's a certain irony to wankers pissing and moaning about the co-opting of language, given that they have, over the years, managed to quietly take possession of things like "patriots", "real Americans/Canadians", "morals and values", "pro-life", "pro-family" and so on.

Yeah, let's talk about propaganda, shall we? Fucking dimwits.

You know: the yokels.

Sarah Palin is very particular about what parts of the country she likes:

Palin also made a point of mentioning that she loved to visit the "pro-America" areas of the country, of which North Carolina is one. No word on which states she views as unpatriotic.

Yeah, that sounds vaguely familiar:



HOLY SHIT, could these people get any more offensive?

It's just easier to call them stupid.

Over at Kate McMillan's "Small Dead Jew Emporium," commenter Yomi Mizuhara rouses himself from Lysol-induced incoherence to blither thusly:

Take Heart, my good Canadian (and Minnesotan, for you Captain) allies! I call from Oregon to give you great news: Obama is only getting hundreds of people to his rallies.

Of course he is, dear. And thanks for sharing. When you run out of Lysol, there's all sorts of other interesting stuff under the kitchen sink.

How does Peggy Noonan keep getting work?

Even when she has a moment of lucidity, Magic Dolphin Lady still manages to sound like a complete imbecile. I'm guessing it comes from being a conservative. That seems to be the common thread.

Only the names have been changed to protect the douchebags.

My fellow Canadians: Welcome to Canada under a Conservative government. It's eerie, isn't it?

Biting the head off a live child on camera might have helped, too.

Shorter Mark Steyn: "If only John McCain had been more cranky, crotchety and ill-tempered on national television, things would have been different, let me tell you."

It's Friday, so Stephen Taylor must have changed his mind by now.

Fresh off of Stephen Taylor's sanctimonious reference to The Economist's endorsement of Stephen Harper as a man of "prudence" and not susceptible to unnecessary panic, Harper's first post-election act is to steal from Stephane Dion frantically lash together a six-point plan to protect us all from the imminent, catastrophic financial meltdown.

Tune in tomorrow when Taylor writes on how this demonstrates Stephen Harper's "leadership."

A million here, a million there ...

... and pretty soon, you'll have access to those public e-mails that should be legally yours in the first place.

The Dion Liberals

Well it hasn't taken too very long for the stalwart Liberal insiders to start gunning for Stephane Dion. I have been vocal in my criticism of his leadership from the get-go but the Liberal Party as a whole is at fault for their current sad state. Stephane Dion did not make the party into the weak kneed losing machine that we see suddenly trying to crawl out from under blame for their historic losses. Stephane Dion did not single handedly fail to raise funds, confidence and interest from inside and from outside of the party ranks. And Dion did not fail to make an honest effort to lead a party that seemed to be indifferent to the tide rising against it. Now suddenly the knives are drawn and we see what really drove the Liberal Party through this electoral season, spite, avarice and bloody minded stupidity. To say nothing of rank incompetence. Way to go, fools.

Where were the Liberal voices over the last two years calling out Harper and the Conservative smear machine for their low brow, anti-intellectual attacks on their leader? Where were the Liberal responses to the constant barrage of ridicule and belittlement heaped on M Dion? Where were the Liberals willing to fight back against the sociopathic void that Stephen Harper displays in lieu of charisma? They were all bumbling about, quailing in fear of the big blue meanies and plotting their own ascendance. For months at a time it seemed the only Liberal voice defending Dion was that of terminal crybaby and obnoxoius wanker Jason Cherniak. That was the face of courage of in the Liberal Party? You sad fucks are lucky you won as many seats as you did.

So now the Liberals, in full flounder, are going to plunge into the next four years of Harper's uninterrupted, minority autocracy busily shooting their own feet off at every turn. At a time when continuity of leadership will be vital, the Liberals will set to squabbling and jockeying for the empty vessel of power. And what a display of future losing power we will get to witness. Bob Rae, hated and reviled through much of the last remaining Liberal stronghold in Ontario or Michael Ignatieff the authentic ivory tower elite who is perhaps the only potential candidate with less charisma than Dion and less warmth than Harper. Good luck with that. Here's my prediction for the two presumptive front runners, Canada will never, ever elect either of those two as Prime Minister.

Strange as it may seem, after my having called for Dion to be replaced while the Liberals were hiding from votes and refusing to stand up against the Cons, I am now going to call upon Dion to dig in his heels and tell the party snot rags that surround him to get fucked. This campaign showed Dion to be a decent person, certainly a smart person and a man with at least some potential. There are simply no better choices for the Liberals at this time. Another leadership convention will burn away what funds are available and serve no purpose but to further make the party appear unfit for trust or leadership in the house. With the reduced caucus, it is an opportunity for the Liberal Party of Canada to start throwing back at the Cons. As official opposition without enough seats to pose an immediate threat to the Cons, minus a large well of support from the Bloc and Layton's wannabe party, there is no reason not to start kicking the living shit out of every Con effort to frame legislation. Clearly the tone of Canadian politics under the Cons has taken a turn for the ugly, the juvenile and the mean. It is time for the opposition to take off the gloves and rake Steve Harper's dumpy ass over the coals.

Find a picture of Steve looking like a giant goober and paste that bitch on every billboard in every battleground riding in the land. Mock the awkward clumsiness of the man, tear him apart and piss on the pieces. Where are the clips of Mr Wooden garbling his French? Put them on an endless loop for the citizens of Quebec to enjoy. And most importantly, develop coherent policies, frame them in an attractive package and kick the living hell out of every retrograde move the Cons make. Harper and his team of adolescent stooges have set the ground rules, time to beat them at their own game. If the Liberal Party of Canada can't figure that out then we'll be watching them fade into irrelevance.

You keep using that phrase "presidential" ...

I'll take "Senile dimwits who should be shuffled off to a nursing home" for $400, Alex.

Money well spent: Part deux.

Shorter Canadian conservatives: "And now that we've gleefully spent over $200 million of your money on a federal election that effectively changed absolutely nothing, we'd like to explain why money's tight so we can't possibly give these children a school."

Those whiny women and their "health."

As Time's Jim Poniewozik put it, "Um, Sen. McCain, women don't like it when you put 'health of the mother' in air quotes."

Well, normal women don't like it, but whackjobs like SUZANNE think it's just fine. But that's only because they're batshit fucking crazy.

BONUS BOOT TO THE NADS: TPM's Josh Marshall refers to this as getting "gobsmacked":



That's what happens when you don't do your homework, John ... you end up looking stunned on national TV.

Sweet tap-dancing Jesus.

I think mouthbreather might actually be too good for these people (emphasis all mine).

The McCain campaign’s depiction of Barack Obama as a mysterious “other” with an impenetrable background may not be resonating in the national polls, but it has found a receptive audience with many white Southern voters.

In interviews here in the Deep South and in Virginia, white voters made it clear that they remain deeply uneasy with Mr. Obama — with his politics, his personality and his biracial background. Being the son of a white mother and a black father has come to symbolize Mr. Obama’s larger mysteries for many voters. When asked about his background, a substantial number of people interviewed said they believed his racial heritage was unclear, giving them another reason to vote against him.

"He’s neither-nor," said Ricky Thompson, a pipe fitter who works at a factory north of Mobile, while standing in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart store just north of here. "He’s other. It’s in the Bible. Come as one. Don’t create other breeds."

I have no idea where to go with this. Seriously. I've asked this before but it obviously needs repeating, how the fuck do these people actually manage to walk upright weighted down as they are with their breathtaking ignorance?

I need a drink – it’s noon somewhere in the world.

The Morning After The Blight Before

Well. Who'd a thunk it? My riding turfed out the seemingly safe Karen Redman for the fetus fetishist Con jobber. Some folk are shocked, shocked I tell you that the always pleasant and innocuous Redman lost what should have been a guaranteed seat. Me, I voted for an independent candidate. Why? Oh why did I not swallow my gorge and vote "strategically" for Redman? Because I value a candidate who shows up, who stumps in the riding who responds to fucking letters and emails. There was pretty much no discernible effort made on Redman's part to actually run a campaign in my neighbourhood. Over the last few years I have had occasion to contact her office on several issues. I have received precisely no response from her or her office. Nada. Zero. Zilch. I received not a flyer, not a call, not a visit from the candidate or her team. The Con, as ugly as his views are, sent out literature, left messages on my phone and a door knocker sorry I missed you thingy on my door. He ran a campaign.

Am I happy that my riding elected a fetus fetishist idiot Con? Nope. Am I sorry that Karen Redman lost her cushy job? Nope.

Here's the deal Canadian politicians, you are all on notice. Fat Steve you and your gang do not have the confidence of Canadians. After two solid years of negative ads, belittling Dion, you could not win a majority. Why? Because we do not trust you with one. And let the sky bully save you if you think you can pull another snap election out of your ass. The record low turn out last night speaks to the general sense of contempt that our politicians have come to deserve in the last few years. Stephane Dion and the Liberals, you made Jason Cherniak cry. I hope you're happy. Listen up you determined losers, Bob Rae and Iggy are not, I repeat, not the future. They are oblivion. The Liberal task is now to remake the party from the bottom up. If you sad sack dinks ever hope to return to power you have to figure out how to run a campaign and deliver a leader with a team that Canadians see as a viable alternative to the Cons. You are a pack of passive goofs. Stephen Harper is the fat kid who pushed you around at recess.

Happy Jack Layton, go fuck off now. You picked up a few seats but for all of the polling and all of the hand me down Obamaisms, you still suck. Your big push to become Canada's official second place party failed. Time to drift into the oblivion you so richly deserve, perhaps a used car lot or a furniture store like ol' Mel Lastman. If the NDP wants to have a future shot, look deep into your hearts and put Charlie Angus at the front of the line. There's a guy who has the balls to square off with the Conservative pig people, who understands the issues of a changing social and technological dynamic. There is a guy who could actually move you up in the standings and give you a shot at power. So you'll ignore him and carry on sucking. No surprise there.

M Duceppe, thank you. You were the stop gap and the ethical voice this country needed in the campaign. Please extend the mandate of the Bloc to the rest of the country. I'd have voted for you in the blink of an eye had the option been there. The Bloc had the most appealing platform, the most stalwart leadership and a kick ass, original theme song. Congratulations to you and your team, the only party in this election to deserve congratulations.

Elizabeth May, whatever.

Dear Dippers: What the fuck is wrong with you?

In the riding of Saanich -- Gulf Islands:

CPoC Gary Lunn: 27,988
Liberal Briony Penn: 25,367
Margin of victory: 2,621

Number of votes for withdrawn NDP candidate Julian West: 3,667.

Thanks, Dippers. Thanks ever so fucking much. Assholes.

LEARNED WELL FROM THEIR REPUBLICAN MASTERS, THEY HAVE. It's amusing to see how thoroughly Canada's conservatives have taken to the thuggish, sleazy election tactics of their ideological colleagues down south. Here's one of the GOP's favourite voter suppression tactics:

In Maryland's 2002 gubernatorial election, anonymous fliers were distributed in black neighborhoods in Baltimore gave voters the wrong date for Election Day and told them to be sure to [unnecessarily] pay parking tickets, overdue rent and outstanding warrants.

Why, yes, hit the electoral district with misleading information that will clearly benefit your candidate, and do it so close to election day that there's no way to counteract it. And how would that work up here? I'm glad you asked:

Automated phone calls urge vote for candidate who withdrew
Saanich-Gulf Islands residents targeted in apparent scam

A number of residents in the Saanich-Gulf Islands riding received recorded telephone messages Monday, urging them to vote for NDP candidate Julian West - who left the race after controversy over a public-nudity incident 12 years ago.

Irene Wright, executive member of the NDP's federal riding association for Saanich-Gulf Islands, said Monday night night people started phoning her around 5 p.m. to say they had received an automated call encouraging them to vote for West in Tuesday's election.

And who would be responsible for such reprehensible tactics? Gosh, I don't know -- which party would be the only one to benefit from siphoning off Liberal votes to a non-existent NDP candidate in a tight race?

Think hard ... it'll come to you.

BONUS TRACK: The Onion weighs in.

$25 billion here, $25 billion there ...

... pretty soon, it adds up to real money:

After initially putting up $25 billion of public money to buy mortgages, the Department of Finance is prepared to increase that limit as needed up to $225 billion, at which point the risk of taxpayer losses starts to rise sharply.

In wholly unrelated news, the fundamentals of our economy are strong. I just thought you needed to know that.

Good work if you can get it.

In catastrophic financial collapses, as in comedy, timing is everything.

And your point is ... ?

The National Post's religious imbecile-in-residence Father Raymond J. de Souza seems surprised:

Election after election, Quebec votes for Quebec

And election after election, stupid people vote for Conservatives. What's your point, Ray?

Dear Jason: You've mistaken us for people who give a shit.

Sadly, you won't have Liberal hack Jason Cherniak to towel snap to the nads anymore:

This is my last post on politics. After almost four years of blogging, I have decided that I have had enough. When I started, I was about to start articling at a major Toronto law firm and I was moving up in the Liberal Party.

Quite so, Jason. When you started, you were a mere blogger. And after four years, you have ascended to the lofty position of ... um ... well, best to not go there, eh, Jason?

I've continued to move up in the party, but I also know that too many people see me as a blogger first.

Uh, no, Jason, people see you as a whiny hack first, and a lame douchebag second. "Blogger" falls somewhere around eighth, between pool boy and annoying guy who always asks, "Is it hot enough for ya?"

Hasta la vista, Jason. Don't forget to not write.

Money well spent.

Well, that was worth $200 million.

Fuck.

I suppose the best that can be said is that Big Daddy didn't get his much-desired but oh-so-elusive majority.

I'm going to bed.

Harper's Pet Journo

Poor gigantic asshole Mike Duffy is stationed at Jacko Layton's NDP headquarters where he must share oxygen with the wretched socialists. Perhaps he and toxic scrag Robert Fife tossed a coin and Fife won, getting to go to Calgary and be the first to suck wash Steve Harper's shorts. According to the bilious and bloated Duffy, Fife is "standing on guard" at Harper's little charnel house of the Canadian culture and soul. As I watch, Duffy is giving a platform and a video cuddle to Gary Lunn who is claiming hundreds of "scrutineers" at the polls and Duffy is giving Lunn an uninterrupted opportunity to talk shit, a little more than 4 minutes straight. I think I'll have to go vomit soon. I don't think I can watch too much more of Mike Duffy Live without popping an embolism. Okay now it is moving on to the talk radio goofs and evidently "only the Conservatives want to talk about crime". I quit. Fuck you Duffy you gigantic partisan whore. Bah.

Election 2008: Dumpster Diving

Fuck. I'm off to vote for some stupid bastards now. For the record, I detest this election. I don't recall a time when I thought less of the political choices being offered the Canadian citizenry. The Cons and the Libs are both inept, right of centre jerk offs that deserve a good trouncing. Certainly Harper and his team of juvenile sycophants are further to the right but the Liberals utterly spineless behaviour during the last parliament is hardly an attractive calling card. Still, compared to the endless campaign of nose picking and fart noises carried out by the Cons, they are marginally less disgusting. The NDP under Layton are a sad spectacle of begging and pleading to get a shot at being in second place. Here's a message for you Jack, Obama is an empty suit with a pleasant voice. He's a roll over candidate that gives away any progressive credibility or cause the moment a contentious vote arises. And you Jack, are no Obama. Liz May gets full points for nettling big Steve during the debates. I hope the Greens get a seat or two for no better reason than to bug Harper, beyond that meh. I do wish the Bloc were running nationally, as Duceppe is the only leader I have a lick of respect for.

Fuck the election. Fuck Harper for calling an unnecessary election. And fuck all of the parties for fielding such a knee deep shit swamp of choices.

David Frum's nads ...

... and how he gets them handed to him on a plate.

P.S. Watch the Video. David Frum. Severed head on a pike. No, I'm not kidding. What a fucking douchebag.

BONUS TRACK: David gets TBogged. Sadly, getting TBogged isn't physically painful. If only ...

Blogging for the hard of thinking.

Kate McMillan: "Shrieeeekkkkkkk!"

Reality: "Um, no."

Small Dead Animals: When you absolutely, positively need to be hideously uninformed on everything, all of the time.

Pay attention.

Take a close look at this before you head out to the polling stations, boys and girls. It’s no longer a matter of voting smart, it’s a matter of voting strategically. This country, our country, can't afford a Big Daddy-led majority.

Don’t believe me? Take a look down south at what 8 years of the Boy Emperor’s virtually unchecked rule has cost the United States in terms of blood, treasure and global standing. That’s us in a few very short years if Big Daddy and his Reform Alliance wolves dressed in Conservative clothing manage to get their long-awaited coronation.

Now get your asses out there and vote.

H/T to Impolitical for the excellent link.

No questions, please – part II.

It’s strangely compelling how Grampy’s campaign has become this train wreck of absolutely catastrophic proportions.

Several things about John McCain’s Monday caused some head scratching, including the tease of some new economic policies to a town hall meeting with no Q&A.
[…]
Then came the event in Wilmington, N.C., held at — irony alert! — Cape Fear Community College. McCain stood in front of the crowd and said he would take questions or comments after he delivered his remarks. He finished his prepared speech and tacked on a longtime stump story about the bracelet he wears. But then the music and handshaking began. No questions or comments to be heard—at least those directed at the senator. “I thought this was a town hall meeting?” a man asked the press corps.

To cap off the day, McCain tried channeling Clark Gable. During an interview with CNN, reporter Dana Bash asked about McCain’s attacks on Barack Obama, including the Democrat’s relationship with Bill Ayers, the 1960s radical turned college professor.

“Very frankly, Dana, I don’t give a damn about an old unrepentant terrorist,” McCain said.

I almost feel sorry for him. No, I’m serious ... and then I remember that this is the same man who thinks Caribou Barbie and her race-baiting, bible-thumping, mouthbreathing redneck stupidity should be one heartbeat away from the presidency.

Needless to say, what little sympathy I have promptly goes up in flames.

Yeah, yeah, free speech, whatever, we'll get to it.

Shorter Canadian conservative free-speech warriors: "Of course we're appalled by this travesty of justice, and we'll address it as soon as we get through publishing our 3-year backlog of posts swooning over Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn."

Why really stupid people shouldn't blog.

Blogging Tory "Christian Conservative" takes recent history and revises it a new orifice:

Organized Sign Theft hits Guelph on E-Day

In the lowest of dirty tactics in what has turned out to be an extremely dirty campaign, supporters of one of the campaigns were been caught roaming the city, stealing the arterial signs of Conservative candidate Gloria Kovach

Yes, ChCon, stealing someone's campaign signs ... the "lowest of dirty tactics" ... much worse than that time someone spraypainted houses, keyed cars and cut brake lines. I mean, that was bad but, holy fuck, stealing someone's signs? What is this world coming to?

I could go on but, really, it's just easier to call ChCon an asshole and move on.

Did not think that one through: Part four.

In which Blogging Tory Jarrett Plonka, getting a word in edgewise around all of his BT colleagues whining about unfair left-wing liberal media bias, points out the overwhelming Tory endorsement. There will, of course, be absolutely no appreciation of the irony.

Cancel the Elections!

I'd much rather elect one of these guys than any of the cabbage heads running for office.

Did not think that one through: Part three.

Blogging Tory JR takes a stab at humour:

Barack's ad

Meanwhile, in Presidential politics:

Barack Obama has put out an ad that simple minded John McCain cannot use a computer.

Well, guess what? Barack Obama can't land a jet plane on an aircraft carrier at night.

A piece of advice, JR: Snarky rebuttal based on John McCain's talent as a pilot? Not a smart move.

It's because they lie.

All the time.

(Post kept deliberately brief for the sake of MartinK.)

P.S. I await the immediate and savage denunciation of this right-wing sleaziness from moral scold and ethics beat cop Steve Janke. Unless, of course, Steve feels, you know, "comfortable" with that sort of thing.

Let's watch.

Did not think that one through: Part deux.

Blogging Tory "Barrel Strength" provides the pants-pissing hilarity:

Obama in office and the silencing of his critics

Please don't make me explain the irony.

Did not think that one through.

Canada's Most Superest Awesomest Gushiest Blogger gets all moist over the kind of humour the rest of us outgrew around the age of nine:



That lame attempt at right-wing humour is brought to you by the loyal supporters of Canada's current prime minister who, after less than two years, threw up his hands, threw in the towel, dissolved Parliament and went to ask the Governor-General if he could, well, you know, start over.

Sometimes, the snark just writes itself, doesn't it?

Pardon my proselytizing.

Shorter SUZANNE: Allow me to completely ignore the irony of pointing out anti-choice choices for those Catholics who might be confused about who they should vote for tomorrow. If your riding is sadly lacking in an anti-choice candidate, then be sure not to waste your vote on any incumbent who might be a "rabid feminist, abortion radical".

You only wish I was joking.

When idiot media do math ...

... things can get ugly in a hurry.

In three ... two ... one ...

Uh oh:

Winter arrives early in snowy Saskatchewan
Updated Mon. Oct. 13 2008 10:03 AM ET

Winter appears to have arrived early in Saskatchewan. It was hit by a heavy snowfall over the weekend.

Wait for it ... you know it's coming.

No questions, please.

Now that Big Daddy has entered his Garbo phase and proven once and for all that being questioned is sooooooooo beneath him, one wonders how the Canadian people can possibly establish where he really stands on the issues.

Well, wonder no more, boys and girls – this girl thinks there's a way around the information embargo. Just leave your thoughts and concerns in the comments and Big Daddyesque responses will soon appear. It’ll be just like he was here at CC-HQ.

No, really.

Priorities.

As the campaign enters its final weeks, Caribou Barbie wants the American people to know that she really, really, really understands which issues are, like, super important, you betcha.

"In times like these with wars and financial crisis, I know that it may be easy to forget even as deep and abiding a concern as the right to life, and it seems that our opponent kind of hopes you will forget that," Palin told a crowd in Johnstown. "He hopes that you won't notice how radical, absolutely radical his idea is on this, and his record is, until it's too late."

Palin has mostly avoided raising her opposition to abortion rights on the campaign trail since she was tapped as Sen. John McCain's running mate, a fact she readily acknowledged in her remarks.

But Palin said Obama's record on the matter is too extreme to be ignored, and she spent 10 minutes of her 30-minute speech discussing abortion.

And who says that the Republicans are completely out of touch?

And furthermore ... Astonishingly enough, it's still the economy, stupid.

Barack Obama has surged to a seven-point lead over John McCain one month before the presidential election, lifted by voters who think the Democrat is better suited to lead the nation through its sudden financial crisis, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that underscores the mounting concerns of some McCain backers.

Likely voters now back Obama 48-41 percent over McCain, a dramatic shift from an AP-GfK survey that gave the Republican a slight edge nearly three weeks ago, before Wall Street collapsed and sent ripples across worldwide markets. On top of that, unrelated surveys show Obama beating McCain in several battlegrounds, including Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania and Iowa _ four states critical in the state-by-state fight for the presidency.

Sweet tap-dancing Jesus – do you ever wonder how people that removed from reality still manage to walk upright? I do.

Because that's different, that's why.

Blogging Tory, Boy Detective and female bodily fluid authority Steve Janke is all about the law and legal shit and stuff like that:

Elizabeth May has made her call for Green Party voters to cast their votes for the Liberals or the NDP in order to guarantee a win for the Liberal Party and Stephane Dion.

This move has been widely predicted.

But now there is a rumour is that in exchange for influencing the votes of Green Party supporters, Elizabeth May would be appointed a Senator by Stephane Dion, then brought into cabinet as environment minister.

Elizabeth May is denying everything. Of course she is. Someone probably introduced her to Section 481 of the Canada Elections Act.

This appalling breech of political ethics is, of course, totally, totally not the same as Stephen Harper appointing the unelected Michael Fortier to the Senate or bribing former Liberal David Emerson to cross the floor by rewarding him with a cabinet post as Minister of International Trade. Because it isn't. So there.

Blogging Tory Chuck Cadman Watch: Day 4.

Another day, and nary a peep from the entire Blogging Tory collective about this exciting, recent development. I'm sure you're shocked.

Here, let me help you with that howling generalization.

Shorter Right-o-sphere: "The most innocuous examples of rudeness or incivility on the part of "progressives" demonstrates, absolutely, positively and beyond any conceivable possibility of doubt, that the Left -- every single one of them, without exception -- are frothing, hateful, horrible, vile people who want to murder your children and burn your Bibles, while mass public displays of naked racism, shrieking intolerance and calls for physical assault, culminating in screams of "Traitor!", "Terrorist!" and "Kill him!" from those on the Right can be indifferently dismissed as the harmless rantings of an "occasional nut" from whom any ideological extrapolation would be grossly unfair and prejudicial.

Fuck you and your reality.

Shorter Stephen Harper: "No, really, fuck you and your reality."

Say you're sorry as if I care.

Shorter Premature eJankulator: "It's critically important that both the Wilfert campaign and Jason Cherniak denounce and condemn this appalling vandalism, even though I'll dismissively take a massive, steaming dump on those condemnations if they're offered. 'Cuz that's the kind of infantile, ignorant fuckwit Blogging Tory I am."

Blogging Tory Chuck Cadman Watch: Day 3.

Shorter Blogging Tories: "Chuck? Chuck who? Never heard of him."

Holy fuck, the burning stupid!

The Globe and Mail demonstrates the dangers of editorializing after too many Jell-O shots:

On balance, Mr. Harper remains the best man for the job in the tough times now upon us. He deserves if not four more years, at least two more years.

And if Stephen the Pustulent hadn't called an unnecessary, promise-breaking snap election, he would have had almost two more years.

Duh.

Lisa Raitt: Stupid or dishonest? You make the call.

Heh. Indeed. And the funniest part:

When my son asked Lisa Raitt about being a drop-in candidate, she told him, “There was no choice; the election came up suddenly.”

Lovely -- the party that springs an unexpected, short-notice election on us uses an unexpected, short-notice election as an excuse.

You can't even parody this stuff any more.

Dear Taliban: If you want Stephen, just follow the trail of urine.

In which the square-jawed, steely-eyed Stephen "Captain Canada!!" Harper promises to protect us all from the evil terror of Islamojihadiswarthypeopleism from somewhere beneath his favourite desk.

Just follow the pathetic whimpering; you can't miss him.

Heh.

Indeed.

And furthermore ... money quote from the wonderfully cutting Mr. Rich:

But we’re not at Election Day yet, and if voters are to have their final say, both America and Obama have to get there safely. The McCain campaign has crossed the line between tough negative campaigning and inciting vigilantism, and each day the mob howls louder. The onus is on the man who says he puts his country first to call off the dogs, pit bulls and otherwise.

It is long past fucking time the press started calling out Grampy and Bible Spice for their racist, hate-filled rhetoric. This is not, and never has been, something that could be mistaken for your standard, garden variety smear campaign. It’s a lynch mob – complete with hysterical villagers screaming about the "stranger" in their midst. The only things missing are the pitch forks and torches. And the Republicans own it.

Looks like the gloves and, more importantly, the white hoods are finally off.

Sunday Funnies.

I love Betty White.

I guess you had to be there.

Canada's Absolutely Most Superest Bloggiest Blogger tries her hand at edgy humour:



A bit of friendly advice, Kate ... given recent developments, opening with a sarcastic reference to cutting someone's brake lines doesn't really work for a lot of people. I'm just sayin'.

ONCE IN A WHILE, THE GODS SMILE ON ME. Yes, we here on the Left are angry. Very angry. Terribly, terribly angry, what with the clearly hyperbolic bloviating about, you know, severed heads on pikes and all that.

Luckily, the good folks over at "Sadly, No" do all the heavy lifting, so we can reproduce compassionate conservative gems like, oh, this, from one Dale Franks:

I’ll make a deal with the Left: You wanna impeach President Bush? Go ahead. Knock yourself out. In fact, let’s just go to the polls and turn the whole government over to the Democrats. You wanna run the whole show? Fine. Elect Howard Dean President. End all surveillance against possible enemy combatants, unless you can get a warrant based on probable cause. Withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan immediately. Permanently kill the PATRIOT Act. Do whatever you want to do. I’m perfectly willing, at this point, to do it your way.

Huh. That sounds reasonable. Oh, wait ... Dale's not done.

I mean, really, what’s the worst that can happen? An American city goes up in nuclear fire? Well, it’ll probably be New York, Chicago, or LA. You know, a major city. I don’t live there, nor do most Americans. So we’ll be fine.

Um ... OK, some childish fear-mongering but no big deal, that's fine ... uh oh ...

But here’s the other half of the deal: If that happens, we get to march on Washington, drag you naked and screaming from your offices, and hang you from the ornate lampposts that line The Mall.

I'm assuming Dale simply forgot the smiley face on the end of that, right, Dale? Right?

Dale?

P.S. I'm thinking that tweaking Dale's prose might make for some amusing reading. How about:

"Sure, we'll let you responsible, prudent, fiscally conservative Republicans look after the economy. But if you fuck it up totally to the point where it wrecks the world economy and requires most of a trillion dollars in taxpayer money to even begin to fix, we get to march on Washington, drag you naked and screaming ... etc etc yadda yadda yadda ..."

Curiously, all of America's cities are still nuclear fire free, but the economy? Well ... it seems like someone should be swinging naked from a lamppost right about now, don't you think, Dale?

Dale?

Blogging for the hard of thinking.

Blogging Tory "Splatto" is a bit pissed over that obvious mainstream media hyperbole:

Harper Never Said ‘Satan’
Posted on October 11th, 2008 by Matt, proud member of the Blogging Tories

Harper says he’s been demonized as ‘Satan’ in Quebec

This article claims that Harper is accusing opponents as demonizing him as ‘Satan’. Nowhere in the article is there a quote from Stephen Harper with the word “satan”.

Is it really acceptable to use such a hyperbolic title for a news story, attributing a word to an individual that wasn’t actually uttered?

And if we follow the link to read the same content that Matt is yanking his undies over, we read:

"In this campaign the Bloc has called me every name in the book. They literally went through the entire dictionary. And not the Little Robert (French dictionary). The Big Robert," Harper said, drawing laughs.

"For the leader of the Bloc, I'm the devil incarnate. The devil who will take us all to hell.

See, Matt, while he didn't actually use the word "Satan," he did refer specifically to the "devil," which is normally understood, in Western civilization, to be in a Christian context which ...

You know what, Matt? It's just easier to call you stupid.

Logic, as it is rogered up the ass.

Blogging Tory "Canadian Cincinnatus" thinks he has a winner on his hands:

The Taliban calls out the Canadians
According to strategypage.com,

“A Taliban spokesman has announced that they are concentrating their attacks on Canadian troops in order to persuade Canadian voters to elect a government willing and eager to get out of Afghanistan.

So, if I understand this correctly, the Taliban are now trying extra hard to kill Canadian troops because ... we're having an election. And the fact that we're having an election right this minute is whose fault, exactly?

Did not think that one through, did we?

A time for self-absorbed douchebagitude.

"It's a time for certainty, which is why, with an impending financial crisis, I broke my promise about fixed election dates and threw the country into an unnecessary, distracting and costly federal election for nakedly opportunistic political reasons."

"Vote for me or the kitten gets it."

Whoa Nelly!

See more funny videos at Funny or Die

I swiped this from the evil depths of Jim Dandy Enterprises makers of the terrifying Colon Ratchet (now with refreshing minty aroma).

Just because.

'Sup, dawg?



We cool? Yeah, bro, we cool.

It's because they lie. All the time.

It's freakin' congenital.

Oh, dear ...

Once you've spent months demonizing your opponent as a dangerous, evil, Muslim fanatic, it ain't so easy to close that box, is it, John?



On the bright side, at least you've identified your real base.

Words fail me.

No, there really isn't a limit to how vile and loathsome they can be.

How delicious.

Now this, boys and girls, just smacks of smackdown.

John McCain has created a monster. No, wait. Two. John McCain has created two monsters.

One, of course, is Sarah Palin. This cute 'n' sassy Alaskan cookie, this g-droppin', moose-shootin' regular gal, this soccer mom who talks like a teen (and whose teen will soon be a mom), this utterly fearless and thoroughly shameless liar who looks like a stripper playing a secretary and who, like many a confident ignoramus, talks to reporters as though they're the idiots she thinks she's putting one over on: Forget those big-boob hotties in bikinis menacingly wielding power tools on calendars in body shops. This is the pinup babe for All-American Power Porno.

It's all here, from the pious jerkwater Christianity that flaunts its ignorance and waits for applause, to the dimpling, sexy-winking speeches not only devoid of content but actively, preeningly demagogic. Poli-sci, acting, and psych majors are encouraged to monitor Palin's stump appearances; it's the closest they'll ever get (if we're lucky) to watching a natural demagogue at work live and in real time.

Oh la la ... and it only gets better. So off you go and read the whole damn thing. Yes, now.

Saturday Morning Cartoons.

Pauvrette moi … I am ze bankrrrrrrrrrruupt. Ahhh! Le pussy férocious! Remove zhat skunk, zhat polecat pole from ze prémésis. Avec!



Mmmmmmmmm ... coffee. And don't you just love the fractured Franglish? Perhaps Big Daddy and his handlers, in their infinitely petty, small-minded attempts to score points, will compare Dion to Pépé next.

What? It could happen ...

I wouldn't draw any parallels. Would you draw any parallels?

Canada's whiniest fetus fetishist, well, whines:

More about the Henry Morgentaler/Order of Canada ceremony

Gotta love this.

Stefan Jetchik, the Christian Heritage Party candidate in Louis-Hebert, complained that the ceremony was only announced the day before.

"If you want to present a medal to a person whom is not very recommendable, you will do it in a military camp, protected by soldiers, and you will announce it at the very last minute and do it in the most pro-choice province in Canada. That's exactly what is being done now, " he said.

On the other hand, waiting until only a week before a federal election before releasing your platform? Brilliant strategy. And, oh, yeah:

After having made a short declaration on Friday, Mr. Morgentaler briefly hesitated after a journalist asked him a question. However, he left the presse conference without answering it.

According to Marthe Blouin, a spokesperson for the Governor-General, the physician's staff insisted that he not have any exchanges with the media, and they had been warned of this before his statement.

So this paragon of courage and determination, this man who survived Auschwitz and Bordeaux prison couldn't answer a lousy question from a probably friendly audience? ... why in the world would they not let him talk? What the heck are the afraid of?

Yeah, clamping down on the media ... what kind of spineless, weaselly, pants-pissy douchebag of a cowardly cocksucker pulls that sort of shit? Oh, wait ...

We're gonna not party like it's Yom Kippur.

In which some folks need to lighten up a little:

Riots have broken out in the mixed city of Acre, reportedly triggered when an Israeli Arab man drove his car during the Yom Kippur religious holiday.

Dozens of cars and shops were damaged as hundreds of people took to the streets, Haaretz newspaper reported.

... The Arab man was reportedly attacked by youths who said he was making noise intentionally, Haaretz said.

The Arab man is reported to have said he was simply driving to a property he owned in the eastern part of the city.

In unrelated news, Israel's Jews announced that the Mideast peace process would be more successful if everyone just learned how to be more tolerant and understanding. And if that didn't work, well, they have all those Apache helicopter gunships. If you catch my drift.

Will someone just put Kory out of his misery?

And the verdict is (emphasis leg-humpingly added):

... former FBI agent Bruce Koenig, the sound expert Mr. Harper hired to prove his allegations, submitted a report dated Friday to Mr. Harper's lawyer, which also had to be sent to the Liberal lawyer Chris Paliare.

In the report Mr. Koenig concluded that the first part of Mr. Zytaruk's interview with Mr. Harper, which contains the key portions that the prime minister has contested, was intact.

The second part, beginning roughly one minute and 41 seconds into the tape, was a new recording that was made over the final part of the original recording, he said. But the first crucial minute and 41 seconds had not been altered.

Mr. Koenig reported that the tape “contains neither physical nor electronic splices, edits or alterations, except for the over-recording start that erased and replaced the end of the first part of the designated interview.”

For which there is, of course, one and only one obvious and inescapable conclusion:

Kory Teneycke, a spokesman for Mr. Harper, maintained that the findings do not undermine the prime minister's case – and in fact can be used to buttress Mr. Harper's claims.

In other news, Teneycke claimed that the recent, spectacular Canadian financial meltdown and $25 billion bailout validates the Conservatives' prudent, fiscal stewardship, and he only wishes the bailout amount could have been larger to prove his point even more.

BY THE WAY, it's not clear what that infantile buttfuck Teneycke is crowing over when he squeals with glee over some sort of vindication. Is it that it's been established that part of the tape was taped over with a later interview? But that's not news -- we've known that for months:

Koenig, who also performed an authenticity analysis of the Linda Tripp telephone recordings in the investigation of former U.S. president Bill Clinton, reported irregularities in the copy tape and portions where an earlier recording had been taped over, ...

So the taping over is old news, and it's not what anyone cares about. But that doesn't stop Teneycke from fabricating shit out of thin air, then pretending it's somehow relevant.

Jesus, what a weaselly little shit.

And sometimes, the free market works just fine.

At one of the 385 incestuous, cross-referential blogs in her link farm, Canadian Intelligent Design whacknut Denyse O'Leary bemoans the loss:

Anchor Christian retailer Mitchell’s goes into receivership

... The high Canadian dollar and the growth of Internet retailing were blamed.

Or maybe just the fact that the market for scientifically illiterate crap, overpriced superstitious twaddle, and hideously tacky Jesus bobblehead dolls is drying up. There's that possibility, too.

My own view (Denyse O’Leary’s) is that one other factor is are [sic] at work here: Big box stores are less antsy than they used to be about carrying “religious” material, just as big newspapers became less antsy about reviewing it. The up side was lower prices, but the down side may be the loss of the specialty Christian bookstore as a cultural centre.

Denyse has a point, since it's not clear where regular churchgoers -- you know, those people who go to church regularly -- where those people who can be found in church on Sundays, might want to occasionally get together, culturally speaking.

Yes, Denyse, that's a puzzler, all right. A real stumper. Let us know if you come up with any thoughts on that one.

"Chuck? Chuck who?"

They're so adorable when they're desperately looking the other way:


Yes, that is a screen grab as of 6 a.m. this morning, showing that the word "Cadman" does not appear on the main page of the "Blogging Tories" web site. Anywhere. Not once.

Profiles in weaselly, pants-pissing douchebaggery, the lot of them.

Welcome to "SDA Nation."

Well, sure, technically, it's from Cincinnati, but if you were wearing a snug white hood without proper eyeholes, could you tell the difference?

Caption contest!

"No, candidate Raitt does not care what you think. Piss off."

You reap what you sow.

Dear Grampy McSame:

I'm curious -- did someone adjust your meds? Because I can't think of any other reason for this sudden turnaround on your part.

Why it seems like just yesterday that you and Caribou Barbie were whipping the mouthbreathers into quite the froth with your hate-filled, racist, dog whistle rhetoric. Oh wait ... it was.

My bad.

Disdainfully yours,
LuLu

Go.

Read.

Your gosh-darned "liberal" media.

Thanks, Lorna ... when people lose their homes and are going hungry, they can eat their fucking Bibles. Is it too late to move to a smarter planet?

What else could possibly go wrong? Oh ...

Well, fuck me ... that's gonna leave a mark:

Audio expert says Cadman tape not altered

A tape recording at the centre of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's $3.5-million defamation suit against the Liberal party was not altered as the prime minister has claimed, a court-ordered analysis of the tape by Harper's own audio expert has found.

Let the pissy, whining, Blogging Tory rationalization begin.