SPANK that bitch! SPANK HER, I say!

[UPDATE, Jun 20, 2009: Unsurprisingly, the post in question has been disappeared, which is why we're such a big fan of screenshots here at CC HQ. But you knew that, right?]

Over at Blogging Tory "Dust My Broom," blogger "Krazy" wants to let you know what he thinks of free speech. Or free expression. Or physical violence. Or just plain slapping around uppity women (with a side order of sexual assault):



I'm thinking Blogging Tory co-founder Stephen Taylor's legacy is slowly but surely cementing itself into place.

BONUS TRACK: And the ugliness comes out in the comments section ...

YEEHAW! The comments section over at DMB just gets better and better. There's original author Krazy:

That Marine is giving the young lady what she should have gotten when she was a child so she wouldn't grow up to be a leftard and picket in front of a Marine Recruiting station with a peace sign.

Here, let me tighten that up for you, Krazy: "Women who exercise their right of free expression deserve to be insulted as 'leftards' and get violently disrobed, humiliated and assaulted in public."

Let's all keep that in mind the next time some uppity pro-life broads want to have a pro-life demonstration on Parliament Hill, shall we? A little aggressive clothing removal and sexual assault might do them a world of good, is that it, Krazy?

And, curiously, the few (right-wing) women who have weighed in don't see a problem with an assault on other women. How ... odd.

Ah, the irony, the delicious irony.

Prominent conservative blogger and batshit crazy whackjob John "Butt Missile" Hinderaker has some pompous, condescending advice for President-elect Barack Obama:

Obama thinks he is a good talker, but he is often undisciplined when he speaks. He needs to understand that as President, his words will be scrutinized and will have impact whether he intends it or not. In this regard, President Bush is an excellent model; Obama should take a lesson from his example. Bush never gets sloppy when he is speaking publicly. He chooses his words with care and precision, which is why his style sometimes seems halting. In the eight years he has been President, it is remarkable how few gaffes or verbal blunders he has committed. If Obama doesn't raise his standards, he will exceed Bush's total before he is inaugurated.

And if you don't appreciate John's sage, well-considered advice, well, you can just fuck right off, you ignorant, cock-sucking douchebag shithead.

I need more of a challenge in this job. Seriously.

Heh.

Indeed.

Your Blogging Tory moment of lucidity ... OK, moment's over.

In order to keep his Pajamas Media membership in good standing, Blogging Tory Damian Penny is forced to write something sane every so often. And that's when the flying monkeys descend from the skies ...

(Wag of the tail to Montreal Simon.)

ONCE UPON A TIME, I was all about the brevity.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

You will be surprised by this only if you are an idiot:

Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans from American taxpayers or the troubled assets the central bank is accepting as collateral.

Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in September they would comply with congressional demands for transparency in a $700 billion bailout of the banking system. Two months later, as the Fed lends far more than that in separate rescue programs that didn't require approval by Congress, Americans have no idea where their money is going or what securities the banks are pledging in return.

In unrelated news, one of the stupidest bloggers in Christendom thinks socialism, well, sucks.

Confrontation is such an ugly thing.

Shorter Blogging Tory Jarrett Plonka: "It's always sad when a stupid person and a not-stupid person can't see eye to eye. It makes the Baby Jesus cry."

I am Canadian Cynic.

You are Canadian Cynic. We are all Canadian Cynic.

At least as far as "Raphael Alexander", if that’s really his name, is concerned. This is kind of fun.

The cognitive dissonance should be positively crippling.

The entertainment value here should be awesome:

Jewish Group Wants Mormons to Stop Proxy Baptisms

NEW YORK (AP) -- Holocaust survivors said Monday they are through trying to negotiate with the Mormon church over posthumous baptisms of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps, saying the church has repeatedly violated a 13-year-old agreement barring the practice.

It should be amusing to see how the more deranged members of the Blogging Tories decide whose side they're going to take here. Just let me get some popcorn and make myself comfortable.

Kathy Shaidle: You go, girl!

And in the midst of her latest ranting homophobia, we have the following gem:

... The homosexual agenda is not gaining ground because it is morally backed. It is gaining ground simply because you, Mr. and Mrs. Heterosexual, do nothing to stop it. It is only a matter of time before some of these morally bankrupt individuals such as those involved with NAMBLA, the North American Man/Boy Lovers Association, will achieve their goal to have sexual relations with children and assert that it is a matter of free choice and claim that we are intolerant bigots not to accept it.

Um ... geez, Kath, you might have checked with Dick Evans before getting all NAMBLAy and everything. Last I checked, he's still a bit sensitive about that.

BY THE WAY, the Rev. Boissoin that Kathy is quoting is a bit behind the times. At the moment, there are morally bankrupt individuals whose goal it is to have sexual relations with children. They're called Catholic priests. Try to keep up, Rev.

Christian Barbarians!

Unable to contain their primitive lusts, even in a sacred place, blood thirsty Christians once again prove that their irrational tempers make them unfit for polite society.



Hahaha! Get 'em monkey boys. What was that about the Prince of Peace? See what happens when you start believing all that crazy sky buddy stuff.

It's all in when you decide to stop quoting.

Over at the Stephen Taylor Home for the Perpetually Bewildered and Pathologically Dishonest, Blogging Tory "Gay And Right Fred" gets his quote on:

Oilsands weath hugely underestimated....

More than $1.5 trillion in wealth....

The wealth in Canada's oilsands, even taking into account the recent plunge in world oil prices, is nearly $1.5 trillion, more than four times the $342 billion officially estimated by Statistics Canada, a Canadian think-tank argues in a report released today.

That works out to a $34,591 increase in the wealth of Canadians to $243,950 for every man, woman and child, according to the analysis by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards.

Last year, Statistics Canada valued the oilsands at $342.1 billion, or five per cent of Canada's total tangible wealth of $6.9 trillion, the centre said.

However, the federal agency's method of evaluating that wealth underestimates the quantity of oil the oilsands contain and the speed at which that wealth will be extracted, it said.

The reasons the agency underestimates the wealth in the oilsands is that it takes a restricted view of reserves, including only those that can be exploited now, Andrew Sharpe, chief economist at the centre and one of the authors of the report, said.

The official Statistics Canada estimate of the reserves, at 22 billion barrels, is "very small compared to those obtained using more appropriate definitions" resulting in an underestimation of their true value, it said. Further, the failure to take into account the projected growth of the industry significantly magnifies this underestimation.

More reasonable measures of the total oilsands reserves put them at 173 billion barrels, or eight times the StatsCan estimate, the centre said. And the rate at which that oil is projected to be extracted -- from 482 million barrels per year in 2007 to a peak of 1,350 million barrels in 2015, and at the 2007 price of $70 Cdn per barrel -- boosts the estimated present value of the oilsands to about $1.483 trillion, more than four times the official estimate of $342.1 billion.

Curiously, Fred decides to quote almost the entire article ... with the exception of the very last one-sentence paragraph:

But the extraction of that wealth comes with a hefty price tag, the Ottawa-based research firm also cautioned, estimating that the social and environmental costs resulting from the emission of greenhouse gases alone at $69.4 billion.

Yeah, that bit would have been handy to know. What rotten luck that Fred ran out of blog space right about then. Dontcha hate it when that happens?

Yo, CM! Whassup?

Life as it be on Blogging Tory CM's planet:

The Left are the bigoted, prejudiced, discriminating haters. Not the right.

The Left are so quick to throw out names such as "bigot", "xenophobe", "homophobe", and "close minded" to those on the Right they disagree with. But if you judge people by their actions I would contend that the Left are the true bigots, xenophobes, and closeminded haters.

And then, sadly, there's reality:

Lesbian Couple Violently Assaulted In Front Of Children

A court date has been set for a violent attacker who assaulted a lesbian couple as they were picking up their children from elementary school in Oshawa. The attack, which bloodied one of the mothers, was witnessed by numerous children, including the assailant’s own son.

Jane Currie and Anji Dimitriou, the victims, described the attack to Capital Xtra and the Durham Region:

[The attacker] said to Anji, “Which of you two men spoke to my kid? Fucking dyke lesbians.” I jumped out and just as I came around he spit right in her face. She wiped the spit off and he punched her in the face and hit her again in the back of the head.

I said to him, “you asshole what are you doing? You just beat a woman” then bang I got it.

Mark Scott’s violent assault left both parents with black eyes, and one with four stitches. Eyewitnesses confirmed that the attack was unprovoked, and likely a hate crime.

Fucking lesbians ... being all lesbian and everything in public. Dontcha just hate it when that happens?

Space!

Mmmmmmmmmm ... coffee.

And on that note, if you live in the K-W area, you should get your organic, fair trade coffee here. I am, even as we speak, fondling a large cup of freshly-French pressed Tanzanian Medium Roast. Yes, you should be intensely jealous.

And, yes, you should go shop there. This has been an unpaid public service announcement.

Short-term memory? What short-term memory? -- Part deux.

Shorter Blogging Tory co-founder Stephen Taylor: "As the co-creator of a Canadian conservative aggregator that proudly hosts some of the most racist and intolerant bigots in the Canadian blogosphere (including one who thinks making fun of millions of dead Jews is knee-slappingly hilarious and another that celebrates the violent deaths of minorities), let me lecture you all on political correctness."

Short-term memory? What short-term memory?

Shorter SDA guest blogger Cjunk: "Having -- for months on end -- demeaned, insulted and denigrated Barack Obama as a phony, puffed-up, content-free stuffed shirt, I will now disavow everything I ever wrote and accept the earth-shaking significance of what just happened. That's so I don't look like a total fucking retard."

Honour Among Thieves

In the wake of the ongoing financial crisis there have been too few heroes and an awful lot of short sighted, greedy bastards in the news. I take great delight in doffing my cap to one Peter Wuffi, the former CEO of Swiss bank UBS AG, fired in the summer of 2007. Unlike so many of the executive class swine that have filled their personal coffers as those of their shareholders, employers and customers were emptied, Mr Wuffi refused the huge cash and bonuses due him under his contract.

Former UBS AG chief executive officer Peter Wuffli has renounced 12 million Swiss francs ($10.2-million U.S.) in payments he was to receive under his contract when Switzerland's largest bank fired him as the subprime crisis began, the bank said Sunday.

In this day and age it is almost impossible to conceive of a top executive placing ethics over personal gain. The rarity of this exemplary behaviour is unfortunate but it sets a sterling example for his peers. I wonder if his North American counterparts might be so inspired...

“I have voluntarily renounced a total of 12 million francs that was due me under my contract,” Mr. Wuffli said in the interview. “High payments cannot be justified for top people who leave an enterprise suffering difficult circumstances.”

UBS spokeswoman Sabine Jaenicke confirmed Mr. Wuffli's decision and said it was the first by any former top manager so far.

“It remains to be seen if other people will follow Wuffli's example,” she said.

Remains to be seen but I wouldn't hold my breath.

Dear Raphael:

Fuck off, you whiny, passive-aggressive dipshit.

That is all.

P.S. The Blogging Tories are stupid. I am open to counter-arguments.

OH, DEAR ... this one is not going to win Raphael any awards among the culturally enlightened:

The natives in Canada were a primitive and culturally stagnant people who were naturally supplanted by the more advanced Europeans.

One can only wonder whether the same historical inevitability will befall Canada's primitive and culturally stagnant conservatives.

Nope, Delisle's still there. Damn.

I got your cooperation right here.

And you thought Big Daddy’s fuzzy blue sweater vest was just a prop, boys and girls. For shame.

The Harper government is striking a conciliatory tone as it prepares for the opening of Parliament, emphasizing the need for co-operation on the economy and downplaying the potential for confrontation.

As part of the kinder, gentler tone, Prime Minister Stephen Harper had a "cordial and businesslike" meeting Friday with Liberal Leader Stephane Dion.

Pardon my skepticism but I think the real Big Daddy is the same small, petty man who had no qualms about insinuating that the Liberals’ opposition to the Conservative government's proposed changes to how the judiciary is selected was just an attempt to protect Navdeep Singh Bains. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink — say no more.

Or when he took yet another page out of the Republican dirty tricks playbook, thus confirming once and for all his complete lack of originality, by saying this when the Liberals had the unmitigated gall to question the Afghan detainee issue:

"I can understand the passion that the leader of the Opposition and members of his party feel for Taliban prisoners," Harper said Wednesday during Parliament's question period.

"I just wish occasionally they would show the same passion for Canadian soldiers."

And let’s not forget his nasty little tirade about "rich artists" which included the following not so kinder, gentler gem:

"I think when ordinary working people come home, turn on the TV and see a gala of a bunch of people at, you know, a rich gala all subsidized by taxpayers claiming their subsidies aren't high enough, when they know those subsidies have actually gone up – I'm not sure that's something that resonates with ordinary people."

The only thing missing is a gratuitous reference to "Joe Six-Pack", n'est-ce pas? So what could possibly be the cause of the scales falling from Big Daddy’s eyes, his revelation on the road to Damascus, if you will?

A senior government official says Harper intends to focus almost exclusively on the global economic crisis and measures to help Canada weather the storm. The official suggests Harper isn't eager to immediately push ahead with a series of tough-on-crime proposals, including stiffer sentences for young offenders and reduced use of conditional sentences.

All three opposition parties say they will oppose the measures, even at the risk of defeating the minority Conservative government.

Gotcha, you corpulent, opportunistic, mouthbreathing weasel.

Sunday Funnies.

The real reason John Manley isn’t running for the Liberal leadership is finally revealed.

Document the dumbassitude, Sunday morning Blogging Tory edition.

Um ... OK:

Do the Left not understand that the majority of Californians want to keep the definition of marriage as it has been since the beginning of time?

Take it away, folks.

BONUS TRACK: If you're about to gouge out your eyes with a soup spoon after reading that link, hie thee over to Sadly, No for an antidote to the burning stupid.

UH OH ... this should get entertaining. Welcome, Pharynguloids. Yeah, Canadians really can be that moronic. Socialized medicine might be cool, but it can't cure the stoopid.

EXTRA WINGNUTTERY AT NO EXTRA CHARGE: I am amused that "Conservative Minded," who accuses the Left of being hateful bigots, has on his blogroll both Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh. Irony is officially dead, isn't it?

The same unmitigated crap, at twice the bandwidth.

When you want to know about Cindy Sheehan's vagina, and you want to know about it right fucking now!!!1!1!!

The Premature eJankulator: Because some people don't like to have to wait for their crap.

Pardon my giggles.

As God is my witness, I have no idea where to even begin mocking this ... it’s too easy.

Fair warning boys and girls, I could actually feel my IQ dropping while reading Chapter One.

I’m going shopping.

It’s long past time that this girl’s much missed boots (which used to be mine) were replaced.

I just thought you all needed to know that 'cause a little retail therapy is exactly what's required when life decides to kick your ass.

Where's the damn camera cable? I have new boots!

And suddenly, the revelation turned ugly.

Shorter Sandy Crux: "Apparently, a disturbing number of my Blogging Tory colleagues are a bunch of frothing, screeching, mouthbreathing whackjobs and utter loons. When the fuck did that happen?"

OH, DEAR GOD ... read the comments if you have the stomach for it. I seriously have to stop subjecting myself to that level of dumbfuckitude. It can't be healthy.

AFTERSNARK: There is so much one could say about the hideous ugliness that lies just beneath's Sandy's surface, but I'm going to let stevedore-turned-philosopher Erich Hoffer have the last word:

What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.

Further than that, deponent sayeth not.

Way to go, California.

You may have enshrined hatred and bigotry into your state constitution with the successful passage of Prop 8, but you’ve also ensured that farm animals now have roomier cages while they await their trip to the slaughterhouse by approving Prop 2. Thus proving once and for all to this girl that humanity truly is doomed by its own precious fucking stupidity.

You rock. No, really.

The party of the troops.

It seems like just yesterday Big Daddy was telling the troops that he, he would not cut and run.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper reaffirmed his government's commitment to Canadian troops serving in Afghanistan on Monday, telling hundreds of soldiers there that Canada won't "cut and run" as long as he's in charge.

"You can't lead from the bleachers. I want Canada to be a leader," Harper told about 1,000 troops at the Kandahar airfield base the day after he arrived on an unannounced visit to Afghanistan.

But I guess it's easier to support them while they make things go bang then it is when they come home with issues.

Few Canadians will give a thought to the veterans who are filling lines at soup kitchens and crowding beds at homeless shelters - those who ended their military service so psychologically scarred that it was impossible to fit back into life at home.

Their marriages have broken down, they have fallen into cycles of substance abuse and addiction. Now they are on the street.

Although other countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom, have programs and special shelters for homeless veterans, advocates such as retired colonel Patrick Stogran say Canada has ignored the problem.

Warriors come back from combat without the proper support, he says. "It's like leaving someone bleeding on the battlefield," says Stogran, who is Canada's first ombudsman of Veterans Affairs. "Someone sleeping in their car can't integrate back into society."

Never fear, boys and girls. I’m sure Big Daddy and his merry band of flag-waving, troop-supporting, patriotic wingnuts have a plan (emphasis added).

Canada is starting to take the problem seriously. Veterans Affairs is quietly putting together a policy on homeless veterans at the urging of Stogran. The issue has crossed the desk of the Veterans Affairs Minister Greg Thompson. A briefing note for a November 2007 meeting, obtained by The Canadian Press, says "the current economic boom in Alberta and associated increases in the cost of living have had an impact on some veterans."

Although the document notes a number of reports of "people identifying themselves as veterans accessing food banks and homeless shelters in Alberta," the department doesn't commit to action. Instead, the note details how the department and other organizations are helping veterans.

"The needs of our clients are a priority for Veterans Affairs Canada," the note says. "We encourage Veterans, their families or other agencies who may be involved with them to let us know if they need help."

Ooopsie.

Well, I will just guarantee that the Blogging Tories are all over this. Wow ... double ooopsie.

Finally, the truth can be told.

Saturday Morning Cartoons.

Musketeers? En garde? My blade?

You go, PZ!

It's about time -- no more playing nice with these people.

"Well? I'm waiting!!"

Shorter whiny Blogging Tory JoJo: "Well? It's been 67 whole hours and Obama hasn't solved everything yet. Lazy, shiftless nigger."

BONUS TRACK: The comments there are a real treat. Trust me. MaryT entertains as usual.

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE: The stultifyingly ignorant JoJo whines about Obama's apparent lack of productivity, or even a plan, at 7:30 pm, November 7. So what was Obama doing that morning? Oh, look:

First, we need a rescue plan for the middle class that invests in immediate efforts to create jobs and provides relief to families that are watching their paychecks shrink and their life savings disappear. A particularly urgent priority is a further extension of unemployment insurance benefits for workers who cannot find work in the increasingly weak economy. A fiscal stimulus plan that will jump-start economic growth is long overdue - and we should get it done.

Second, we must address the spreading impact of the financial crisis on other sectors of our economy: small businesses that are struggling to meet their payrolls and finance their holiday inventories; and state and municipal governments facing devastating budget cuts and tax increases. We must also remember that the financial crisis is increasingly global and requires a global response.

The news coming out of the auto industry this week reminds us of the hardship it faces - hardship that goes far beyond individual auto companies to the countless suppliers, small businesses and communities throughout our nation who depend on a vibrant American auto industry. The auto industry is the backbone of American manufacturing and a critical part of our attempt to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. I would like to see the Administration do everything they can to accelerate the retooling assistance that Congress has already enacted. In addition, I have made it a high priority for my transition team to work on additional policy options to help the auto industry adjust, weather the financial crisis, and succeed in producing fuel-efficient cars here in the United States. I have asked my team to explore what we can do under current law and whether additional legislation will be needed for this purpose.

Third, we will review the implementation of this Administration's financial program to ensure that our government's efforts are achieving their central goal of stabilizing financial markets while protecting taxpayers, helping homeowners and not unduly rewarding the management of financial firms that are receiving government assistance. It is critical that the Treasury work closely with the FDIC, HUD and other government agencies to use the substantial authority they already have to help families avoid foreclosure and stay in their homes.

Yes, JoJo really is that unconscionably lazy and ignorant. But she's a Blogging Tory -- it goes with the territory.

DEAR GOD, THE BURNING STUPID: The comments section over at JoJo's really is indescribably moronic. On the one hand, you have screechy douchebags like JoJo, whining about how Obama hasn't actually accomplished anything in the 67 hours since his win and how "The buck now stops with Obama" and why the fuck hasn't he taken charge and solved all of America's problems yet while, on the other hand, you have retarded dumbfucks like NeilD, who seems a bit miffed that Obama is (you guessed it) doing stuff and talking about stuff and why the hell is he doing that shit and can't he just keep his mouth shut until he's actually Prez?

I want these people sterilized. Humanely, but sterilized nonetheless. We can't afford any more of them walking around, masquerading as humans.

Beggars

General Motors, makers of mediocre vehicles, are losing scads of money as a result of the global economic downturn. That and nobody wants to pay for their wares when they could purchase a Toyota or Honda and be assured of a quality ride. With their fortunes slumping, the company has decided to lay off 500 workers in Oshawa and more than 3,000 in the States. As seems to be the trend when enormous corporate fuck ups wreak havoc, the world's biggest welfare queens turn to government for hand outs and tax payer cash. Yay free market capitalism.

The news came the day after the heads of Ford, Chrysler and GM -- once called the Big Three, due to their dominance of the industry -- as well as the head of the United Auto Workers union went to the U.S. Congress seeking $50 billion in federal aid to help them ride out the crisis.

Of course, Rick Wagoner the CEO of GM is pulling in about $8.5 million smackeroos for piloting the company into the dumper. I don't suppose he'd like this math but if you cut his salary and compensation in half and did a little division... well he'd still be frickin' rich and a modest salary of $25,000 could be provided for 170 workers. But that's crazy talk, after all, without exorbitant compensation you can't get the very best corporate minds. The sort necessary to preside over losses of billions of dollars in a single quarter. I wonder how much they could have managed to lose if they'd paid him $12 million.

Heritage. I Got Your Heritage Right Here.

In an effort to squander money, time and effort spent, Canada's New New Government put the kibosh on a proposed national portrait gallery.

"After seven years of planning and several million dollars of public investment, the federal government has scrapped a project to build a national portrait gallery, Heritage Minister James Moore said late Friday."

Newly hatched Heritage Minister, James Moore chose the Conservative witching hour, late Friday, to announce that after an investment of millions that the project was just going to fade from the agenda.


Between drinks Moore burbled something to the effect that the project was the victim of "unstable economic times". That would be CPoC shorthand for Steve Harper having discovered that the national portrait gallery would be home to pictures of persons other than himself.

Dear Republicans:

You lost. Big time. That means it's time for you to shut the fuck up. God, the whininess, the unending, tedious, teeth-grinding whininess of these people is something to behold, isn't it?

Oh my.

Looks like somebody has leaked copies of the proposed policy resolutions for next week’s mouthbreather Conservative Party convention, boys and girls.

One can only hope that this gets Big Daddy's Spiderman Underoos© in the bunchiest of bunches.

She's pissed ...

... and she ain't gonna take it anymore: Openly gay musician Melissa Etheridge tells the state of California to fuck right off. You go, girl.

P.S. And, apparently, the Mormon Church is learning that being discriminatory assholes has consequences.

Everyone deserves a good smackdown occasionally.

I don't know who this person is, but you'll notice some of the usual dingbat suspects sprinkled throughout. Given a chance, douchebaggery will always out, won't it?

What could possibly go wrong?

August 29, 2008:

Conservative Pioneer Viguerie: Palin Is Perfect Vice Presidential Pick
August 29th, 2008
By JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief

Conservative pioneer Richard Viguerie just sent out this email-press release praising GOP Presidential nominee-to-be Sen. John McCain’s selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for Vice President as “perfect.”

So, Dick, you Bible-whomping douchebag ... refresh my memory, how exactly did that work out for you whackjobs? Oh, dear ...

Feel free to pipe up with advice whenever you feel like it, Dick. Really.

Gumdrops!

Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are

But he’s really super. He is, he is, he is!

Dear Ambassador Wilkins:

With all due respect, are you fucking kidding me?

"Many Canadians might be surprised by this statement," Wilkins told The Canadian Press. "But I would submit to you that Canadians are going to miss George Bush more than they think they are."

I would submit that you have your head up your ass if you honestly think that the Boy Emperor and, more importantly, his divisive policies will be missed for one second by anyone who is capable of rational thought.

But it gets better.

And he says the continent is a safer place thanks to George W. Bush. "He has protected North America. There has been no attack on North America since 9-11 and I think he deserves a lion's share of credit for that," Wilkins said.

Considering that 9-11 occurred on Dubya's watch and perhaps, just perhaps, could’ve been prevented had he, you know, listened to his security advisers, I hardly think that’s a ringing endorsement.

I’m just sayin’.

Yours in endless amusement,
LuLu

Genetic engineering, and what you're stuffing into your face.

First, go read Alison. And if you want to know more, well, try this. And I think we'll be coming back to this real soon now.

P.S. You'd think that the GM contamination of our food supply is an issue that cuts across ideological lines and that, hey, maybe the Blogging Tories might be equally concerned about something like this.

As if.

Criticism, constructive and otherwise.

A plaintive cry for guidance:

In a sign of how far the party has fallen, the Republicans set up a hotline and website yesterday appealing for suggestions from the public on how to rebuild.

Here's a thought -- why don't you start by drinking everything you find under the kitchen sink?

Now piss off, and enjoy the political wilderness.

Sometimes, there are no words.

It's when they get this casual about their bigotry that you know there's no possibility of discussion anymore.

Blogging Tory co-founder Stephen Taylor must be so proud.

When dumb housepets attack.

I'm sure there's a Blogging Tory joke in here somewhere:

Shut up, Doc. Just shut the fuck up, you ugly fat fuck.

Not surprisingly, the Blogging Tories' Jabba the Roy is all weepy and blubbery (pun ever so intended) over a murdered 13-year-old rape victim:

A despicable crime

A 13 year old girl is raped and then sentenced to death for adultery. These jihadi fiends stoned her to death. bin laden nad his jihadi friends must be so proud. Backers of the sharia law must be jubilant. This is true jihadi justice. I think I will vomit now.

Curiously though, dr. roy is one of those putrescent Blogging Tories still sporting the ever so tasteful portrayal of the Status of Women Canada as, well, pigs:


And what, one wonders, does the Status of Women Canada do? Oh (emphasis leg-humpingly added):

Status of Women Canada (SWC) is a federal government organization that promotes the full participation of women in the economic, social and democratic life of Canada. SWC works to advance equality for women and to remove the barriers to women's participation in society, putting particular emphasis on increasing women's economic security and eliminating violence against women.

Yes, that's ugly fat fuck and Blogging Tory dr. roy, getting all crocodile teary over a murdered rape victim, while publicly taking a stand against eliminating violence against women. The irony speaks for itself, don't it?

To Blogging Tory co-founder Stephen Taylor: A normal human being with any sense of shame would be embarrassed to be associated with these vile, despicable misogynists and hypocrites. Luckily, you're a Conservative. Shame doesn't enter into it.

"Is there nothing Obama can't do?"

No, Kate, you ignorant, shrieking, bitter harpy, there isn't. Now fuck off.

This promises to be such fun for the next six or seven months.

Apparently, no one loves us anymore.

I remember the good old days. *Sigh*.

I blame the Liberals.

Night of the Long Knives.

You know things are just going to get worse if Fox News is gleefully throwing you under the bus.

CAMERON: There was great concern in the McCain campaign that Sarah Palin lacked a degree of knowledgeability necessary to be a running mate, a vice president, and a heartbeat away from the presidency.

We are told by folks that she didn’t know what countries were in NAFTA — the North American Free Trade Agreement. That’d be Canada, the U.S., and Mexico. We’re told that she didn’t understand that Africa was a continent, rather than a series — a country just in itself. A whole host of questions that caused serious problems about her knowledgeability.

Considering they appear to share the same breathtaking levels of ignorance and lack of curiosity, it’s no wonder "Hunter" thought Palin was the awesomest, most bestest candidate for Vice-President evah!1!!!1!11111!!!

This is going to get delicious.

CC here: Well, duh.

LuLu again: Nothing says losing gracefully quite like circling the wagons and promptly firing inside. These people can't do anything right.

CC redux: Heh. Indeed. Your move, LuLu.

LuLu 2.0: Take that. I eagerly await your reply, Mr. Bond.

Hmmmmmm ... I win (I'm even more of a winner if I include the link).

Suffer the children, in a Biblical kind of way.

Blogging Tory "Jabba the Roy" gets all Scripturally child protective:

Sickening

Matthew 18:6But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea

Man, is dr. roy going to be pissed when he reads those depressing psalms. That's sort of how the Bible works -- something for everyone, as it were.

BONUS TRACK: If I were Jabba the Roy, I don't think I'd go down that Scriptural road regarding child protection, if you know what I mean:

13 Do not withhold discipline from a child;
if you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

14 Punish him with the rod
and save his soul from death.

And sadly, some people take that advice a bit too literally. But that's cool. 'Cuz it's Scriptural. Or so I've been told.

Mattt

Thanks for all the love.

Keep that hope alive.

Hearts and minds, baby, hearts and minds.

Um ... this is not going to help the cause. I'm just sayin'.

And we have a winner …

Just when you think there’s no more crazy left in the crazyfest, MaryT shows up.

The sheer insanity is breathtaking. Seriously.

Gosh, Ezra ... that didn't work out very well, did it?

When stupid pundits pundisize:

A risky prediction: McCain will win

By Ezra Levant on October 31, 2008 8:13 PM

Survey says ...

Yo, P.M.!

So ... how are things going over there at the quality-obsessed, "Under New Management" Western Standard?

Oh.

I'm guessing P.M. needs another day or two before the grand opening.

We have a new contestant, boys and girls ...

Looks like Obama's presidential victory has caused Frank aka "Mr. Potatohead West" to throw a crazyfest rivalling anything we’ve seen from Hunter.

Racism is the belief that race matters more than ideas. Today we saw that play out over the airwaves as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation showed how it really feels. It's Obama's race that matters to them, not his Marxist philosophy.

There is another lump of coal to chew on this morning.

This is that symbolism matters more than actions. Well, we've had the symbolism in spades; now we'll see how we like Obama's ideas; ideas poured into his little head as a boy by a leftwing, anti-American mother who idolized her African lover who left her with her baby to fend for herself. She was full of hate for America, so much so she couldn't bear to live in it, or as Obama's pastor of 20 years put it, 'God damn America.'

I suppose this is probably not the best time to ask how his book sales are going, huh?

This could get hilarious.

I think Hunter’s head just exploded.

No, seriously.

CC here: God Almighty, but Hunter is a dumb bitch:

Our ace in the hole is oil. If they try to stop auto manufacturing in Ontario, we can slap them with reduced oil supplies.

No, Hunter, you ignorant twat, we can't:

The only condition that NAFTA imposes on Canadian energy products is that all buyers in North America must have equal rights to buy those products...

NAFTA prohibits the Canadian government from imposing (under normal conditions) any restriction that causes U.S. imports of Canadian energy to fall. In essence, therefore, NAFTA does prevent the Canadian government from imposing a policy like the National Energy Program in the 1980s.

Feel free to read that again if you're as astonishingly retarded as Hunter -- "all buyers in North America must have equal rights to buy those products." In short, Canada does not have the right to restrict the sale of oil to the U.S. in retaliation for anything. Period. Full stop. End of story.

Fuck, but I just can't handle the stupidity anymore. Seriously. God, but that woman is an imbecile.

Appearance is everything.

Shorter Five Feet of Will Blog for Food™: Grampy did nothing but kiss minority ass throughout his entire campaign and those ungrateful bastards had the unmitigated gall to vote for the brown guy. Nice. I weep for America.

Remember, boys and girls ... that’s what a Canadian Blog Awards’ sanctioned feminist looks like.

... and this is why the Canadian Blog Awards will be crap.

Oh, look:

Best Feminist Blog [Nominations]
...
http://smalldeadanimals.com/
...
http://www.fivefeetoffury.com/
...
http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/
...
http://bluewavecanada.blogspot.com/
...
http://www.lassooftruth.com/
...
http://girlontheright.com/
...

Wake me up when another year of pointless CBA idiocy has gone by.

Yo, P.M.! Let's rap!

Recently, one P. M. Jaworski of the Western Standard beseeched thusly:

But we only control the posts, Ti-Guy. People should judge us on that basis, not on the basis of what lunacy and madness might lurk beneath.

And we plan on doing just that, P. M., so let's start with a snippet of video, during which "Joe the Plumber" gets his nads ripped off, pureed, and handed back to him by CNN:



And what's P.M.'s take on this? Um ... yeah:

CNN anchor takes on Joe the Plumber. Joe the Plumber wins

I believe we here at CC HQ have found a new chew toy. Welcome aboard, P. M. This could be the beginning of a beautiful beatdown.

Bitchez!

"Centre-left":



Get used to it.

Dear Blogging Tories: Burst into flame and die.

Following the link from the very first article at the top of the BT aggregator this morning, we read this:

John McCain: A Class Act
November 5th, 2008 by Paul Holmes

This is John McCain’s concession speech. This man is nothing but class.

Normally, I'm not a violent man, but Ti-Guy has the right idea -- the whole lot of those idiots should be led into a large stadium somewhere and gassed. For the good of civilization. The sane people among us deserve no less.

P.S. Let the shrieking and phony, contrived outrage commence ...

LET THE "HOLY FUCK, I CAN'T BELIEVE ANYONE COULD SAY ANYTHING THAT MORONIC" BLOGGING TORY CONTEST BEGIN. It's going to take at least a couple cups of my Ten Thousand Villages fair trade, organic Ethiopia dark roast to get rolling, but surely there's a contest to find the absolutely most dumbfuck thing uttered by a BTer imaginable this morning, so let me suggest a candidate.

Here's "JR" from Victoria, who writes:

I just got back from the movies (Clint Eastwood's Changeling - excellent movie, by the way) and turn to CNN and see that Obama has won. So much for my Hope! Now we have to Hope that Obama and the Dems won’t Change too much for the worse.

Quite right, JR, because the biggest worry Americans should have right this minute is that Obama will come in and ... fuck things up. Yeah, that's their most pressing concern, JR, you imbecilic twatwaffle.

So feel free to steel your spine, click over there, do a quick recon and report back with the most mind melting examples of dumbfuckitude you can find. It shouldn't take long. I can't imagine you'll have to scroll very far. Neo Conservative or Hunter should be near the top of the page, anyway.

I'm for bed ...

The hoping and changing and sparkly ponies will just have to go on without me. But when I wake up tomorrow, everything better be alllllllllllllllllllll fixed.

I'm just sayin'.

All kidding aside ... you have no idea how happy I am to see Grampy McSame and Bible Spice get buried in the landslide. It really is just too, too delicious.

Now where's my pony?

Still waiting ...

Well, sprinkle me with brown sugar and call me breakfast ...

... who never saw this coming?

When reality snaps ...

... it's not a pleasant sight.

Is it over yet?

No, seriously ... is it?

Just cuz.

Apropos of absolutely nothing ...

There's Small Dead Idiots, and then there's the real world.

Journamalism:

Palin Cleared

Governor Palin cleared of ethics violiations.

Posted by Kate at November 3, 2008 8:48 PM

Reality.

What would you do without me?

Journamalism, Western Standard-style.

At the moment, one P. M. Jaworski of the Western Standard has his "Hello, Kitty" briefs in a bunch, having taken umbrage with my criticism of his pet project, and opining thusly:

But we only control the posts, Ti-Guy. People should judge us on that basis, not on the basis of what lunacy and madness might lurk beneath.

Um ... OK.

Thanks for stopping by, P. M. Try not to molest any children or small animals on the way out.

SNICKER. Indeed. Someone should introduce P. M. to the first rule of holes.

But on the other hand ...

Apparently, "knowing" Kathy Shaidle is context-dependent:


Tune in again tomorrow to see Hugh taking less than three minutes to realize he can't get away with a whopper of that size.

Vote Or Else We Go Door To Door

Irony, sweet irony.

Apparently, I am a bad person because of my hideously unfair generalization. But that's just what all of us terrorist-loving, baby-murdering, socialist, moonbat leftards do, isn't it?

Tune in tomorrow when all Obama supporters suddenly become Marxists.

Is It Wednesday Yet?

Okay. Tomorrow is the big day and all the Kool-Aid jugs, both red and blue, will get drunk dry. Whoop-itty-doo. This endless, tedious American election cycle has been focused on little more than hopes and dreams. My fervent hope and my dream of dreams is that soon I will be able to log onto the Canadian intertoobs without being deluged by news of how squishy, gosh darned swell Obama is or how scary, creepy and poopy McCain is. I am sick to death of reading otherwise rational Canadians insisting that once Obama is elected that there will be ponies and rainbows forever. That the Bush legacy will be dismantled by an eager Democratic Senate and Congress, that the religious right will have their influence and access snatched away by the collective power of the wishing that will make it so.

I've not had much to say in the last few weeks because my lack of faith in the Obama juggernaut has been, it appears, heretical. I've not been feeling too welcome or encouraged to share my opinion. So a few snips aside, I've kept to myself. And fair enough, I understand that after the long years of George Bush, anything that isn't a complete waste of skin will seem like a glorious leader. But I just can't get over the disconnect of people in one breath hailing the conquering hero and appending their gushes of praise by noting that in reality Obama lies somewhere to the right of Steve Harper on the political spectrum. Hello? Anyone in there?

The grand transformation that is sweeping America this electoral season comes down to the ability of a black candidate to be seen as electable. Alas, in the year 2008 that is the great American step forward and it speaks volumes about the hidebound ignorance and undercurrents of racism that still underpin much of America. Both Islamic Pakistan and mostly Hindu India have had women as heads of state. America's great achievement and signal of progress is that one of their parties was willing to put forward either a woman or a black man as Presidential candidate. Forgive me not joining in the rapturous applause at the sight of the world's most well armed nation reluctantly joining the modern world.

Obama is an attractive, younger candidate with a sonorous voice and a charismatic presence. He has managed to propel his campaign on stirring platitudes and empty catch phrases and folks have eaten it up. "Yes we can!" Stuart Smalley would be so proud. Gosh darn it, he's good enough, he's smart enough and people like him. Thing is, every time I ask the obvious question, yes we can what? I get the worst of answers. More platitudes. For months I have asked the supposed progressives with whom I dialogue such questions. For months I haven't received compelling responses. I'm told that it is good enough that there is hope. Well hope is important and the power to engender hope is impressive. But I prefer a little specificity when it comes to my hopes and dreams. Blanket expressions of generalized hope are nothing more than wishful projection and that my friends is a sure recipe for disappointment. Therein lies my fear for the Obama presidency, should it come to pass.

As far as I can tell, the Republicans are taking a dive in this race. McCain is the sacrificial senior and Palin is the base feeding anchor that will help sink that campaign among the more rational of the right. I find it difficult to believe that the Republican machine that has been such a potent force for the last four decades would stumble this consistently and this often. It is as though they aren't even trying.

It was early afternoon on a Monday in late September, and we were the only two people at the phone bank. Damaged tables of prefabricated wood stood end to end around the drab office space. On the tables were phones and miniature white laptops.

A week earlier, I'd seen a flier calling for McCain volunteers. When I arrived at the headquarters, the local campaign chair, an affable, bearded man named Brian, showed me how the call system worked. Other than getting my name, phone number and address, he asked few questions.

An even more telling view of the apathy of the Republican campaign is available from Five Thirty Eight.

Offices in Troy, Ohio were closed on Saturday October 11. With perfect coincidental timing, two elderly women dropped by to volunteer but found the office shut. At Republican state headquarters in Columbus later the same day, one lonely dialer sat in a sea of unoccupied chairs. In Des Moines on September 25, another empty office. In Santa Fe on September 17, one dialer made calls while six chatted amongst themselves about how they didn't like Obama. In Raleigh this past Saturday, ten days before the election with early voting already open, two women dialed and a male staffer watched the Georgia-LSU game. In Durango, Colorado on September 20, the Republican office was locked and closed. Indiana didn't have McCain Victory offices when we were there in early October.

I doubt anyone bothered to tell McCain but he's been sent to sea on a raft and his only company is the crazy lady who's thinking about eating the old guy. For decade on decade the Republicans have built and refined a power grabbing machine and it is suddenly nowhere to be seen. My suspicious nature brings me to a truly tin foil worthy conclusion, the Republican party is throwing the election. They knowingly chose a candidate that didn't have support from the base. They knowingly chose a candidate who had made many enemies within the Republican corridors of control. They selected a guy whose ego and arrogance were matched only by his ambition, an ambition that blinded him to any and every reality around him. To gain the candidacy he had to abase himself before the party, the base and brokers. The capstone to the long career of a former hero was to have been his rise to ultimate power as President but that story, it seems, will not be told. The party has allowed McCain to flounder and they've saddled him with a freak show running mate. In one swift move they've thrown a sop to the wallet wielding maniacs that form the religious right, a promise toward future battles during a rebuilding time for the party. Palin is for the moment, a star shining bright in the retarded firmament of the zealots. Despite her rapacious ambition, she will be cast aside before the whole ugly cycle starts anew. But the fresh fundie dollars will roll on in.

If I am wrong and this is the very best effort of the vaunted Republican machine, then I stand in awe of the nearly complete failure of their proven apparatus to gather and horde power, to massage and control the media and the message. Yes Obama is good and yes the Democratic party has done a good job but the Republicans just aren't this inept, disorganized and disinterested. The only thing that makes sense to me is that this is a fix. The wheels of state are coming off. Two long and failing wars in difficult and unpopular terrains have broken the armed forces, emptied the treasure vaults and stripped America of influence and moral persuasion around the globe. Thousands of American families are living in tent cities in the wake of a mortgage scam that has collapsed a good deal of the economy and caused massive instability in markets world wide. The repercussions are still being felt and the implications are dire for many in the middle class. America is a nation in crisis and it will surely get worse before it gets better and while hopes and dreams are a pleasant salve in the short term, a Band-aid on a sucking chest wound is not a cure.

The next President will have to negotiate and navigate the processes that extract American forces from the sink hole they have been consigned to in Iraq. Many of those same broken and demoralized forces will need to be redeployed to the failure of Afghanistan, if there is to be any chance of righting that debacle at this late date. The full weight of the trauma of returning veterans will begin to be felt on the grossly under-equipped and under-funded resources of the Veterans Administration. Where will the funds come from to care for the valiant souls whose bodies and minds were spent with so little care? What sources will fund the rebuilding of the American might after so much materiel has been spent and destroyed on these foolish missions? And with the current administration making increasing incursions into the territory of Pakistan there is every possibility that a President Obama could face a new and far more deadly battle ground, should the passions and outrage of Pakistan ignite. Let's not even touch on the recent American assault across the border of Iraq into Syria, the result of which has been for the Syrians to pull their forces away from protecting the border. It is as though the Bush administration were using their waning days in power to sow unrest and seek instability as a perverse parting gift to the world.

The upshot as I reckon is this, you don't need to be a genius to see the avalanche of shit heading toward the American state and gathering momentum. The rumble of the collected disasters are becoming deafening. Should the Republicans go down to defeat as all signs indicates they will, then the entirety of the damage, distress and disaster will land at the feet of a Democratic Congress, Senate and President. The difficult decisions needed to start righting the ship of state will be forced upon this new government. I don't see how any progress can be made without raising taxes, cutting away the fat and making some very harsh and unpopular decisions. And should those decisions be made, there will be the Republicans waving from the sidelines of power, cooing 'told ya so' to the public and blowing kisses to the base. They will effectively have slipped responsibility for the filthy mess they made while in power and left the ugly work of cleaning up to the other guys. Any farmer will tell you that you have to shovel up all the shit in the yard, it needs to be done but nobody wants to give you a hug right after. Obama and the Democrats are going to end up owning the rotten mess that Bush and the right wing have left festering in their crooked wake. And it isn't as though the Democrats aren't at least partially complicit in making that mess.

If Obama were a progressive minded politician, if he were putting forward an agenda that radically shifted the balance of power back toward that which the framers intended, he would face an intractable obstacle within his own party. Spineless jackals like Harry Reid aren't about to sprout ethical standards any sooner than they are wings. Nancy Pelosi is not about to turn on her true constituents in corporate America. The conservative Democrats in both houses have more than enough clout to stall and quell any effort to truly turn the tide of American politics. They are just as deep into the pockets of the corporate gangsters as the Republicans. The same executive over reach that galled them in opposition will be a bludgeon they relish using once in power. And that is where hopes and dreams falter. Your hopes don't count, your dreams aren't coming true and while yes you can elect a different guy, you're pretty much deluded to think that the different guy will echo your voice in the halls of power in this day's America. The change you can believe in is a change of brand and a new logo. I wait to be proven wrong on issues that matter, like habeas corpus, extraordinary rendition, black site prisons, balancing security against constitutional rights and the disturbing accumulation of power in the executive. Bring on some justice for the war criminals and their accomplices and I'll be the first to admit the error of my doubts.

So enjoy the day tomorrow, eat the popcorn, pop the bubblies and celebrate to the full. You've earned every moment of a day's fete. Let every celebrity endorsement, no matter how foul the source, ring out from your keyboards and Youtubes. Sing the songs and dance the dances but understand this, if America is truly to be transformed, it will not be because one man, regardless of colour, takes office. The American transformation will only come through the concerted effort of American citizens to hold that man and his fellows to task. And again, forgive me my doubts but the real majority of Americans don't believe in the need for change. By which I mean the real change, of policy and the sacrifice, needed to achieve a better, more just society. They are too well trained, too well indoctrinated into the myth of exceptionalism and I predict that the sort of change they will need is the exact sort of change they will fight against tooth and nail. So until I am proven wrong, I will continue to advocate for Canadians drawing back from American influence and control. No to deep integration. No to further "free" trade. No to common defence. No to American control over our security in the fallacious war against terror. No to the sharing of our personal and/or biometric data with a deeply corrupt police state. No under Bush, no under Obama. No.

As for my fellow Canadians, I look forward to your renewed commitment, wit and wisdom once the Kool-Aid binge wears off.

Poor Sooey ...

... all that work to set up a forum, only to have it overrun by the kids from Special Ed. That has to suck.

And nothing's really changed since then, Vic.

Via TBogg, some of us are re-introduced to something we read many, many years ago:

There are souls that, crablike, crawl continually toward darkness, going backward in life rather than advancing, using their experience to increase their deformity, growing continually worse, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in the intensifying viciousness.

"Les Miserables", by Victor Hugo

And that's why, if you're passing by Delisle, Saskatchewan, you might as well just keep driving. Nothing to see there. Really.

It's a simple principle, really.

Shorter "Western Standard" usual suspects: "Nope, nobody here votin' for the nigger, why do you ask?"

(Wag of the tail to Dr. D.)

She's so adorable, with that folksy racism of hers.

Here's something I'll bet you never knew: You can be a vile, despicable bigot, as long as you laugh it off afterwards with, "Hey, I was only joking!" I never knew that. Did you know that? I didn't know that.

Stephen Taylor has so much to answer for.

BUT SERIOUSLY, FOLKS, the "SDA Nation" annual hoedown and hootenanny just outside Delisle, Saskatchewan:


What? Geez, I'm just joking. Grow a sense of humour.

Dear Stephen Taylor: About pigs and lipstick ...

Hey, Steve (can I call you "Steve"?), I'm curious ... with all this talk lately about intolerance and incivility and name-calling in the blogosphere, I'm interested in your take on members of your Blogging Tories blogroll who are still portraying members of a womens' rights and advocacy group as, well, pigs. Literally:


I'm sure you remember that little brouhaha from a while back, when numerous members of your BT blogroll viciously attacked the group "Status of Women Canada," an attack which included taking their proper abbreviation -- "SWC" -- mangling it to get "SOW" and, well, I'm guessing you can see the end result up there.

Yes, that was some demonstration of right-wing tolerance and civility, wasn't it -- beating up on a womens' rights group to the point of portraying them graphically as swine. Yeah, that was a real knee-slapper, you betcha. (Not quite as hilarious as making fun of dead Jews but, then again, what is?)

And the amazing thing is, it's still going on! Why, even as I type, BT member dr. roy (or "Jabba the Roy" as we call him around here) has that graphic up on his main web page here. And given that he's an official member of the BTs, it seems only fair to ask what your policy is on BT members describing women who advocate for other women in need as barnyard animals.

More to the point, since the Blogging Tories are so clearly a propaganda arm of the Stephen Harper Party of Canada, one might even ask a CPoC spokesperson how they feel about the party's blogging arm doing that sort of thing. It does seem like a reasonable question, wouldn't you say?

In any event, I just thought I'd ask given that, since so many of your BTers are capable of getting their panties in a knot over nothing more than intemperate language, it seems at least a little hypocritical to tolerate that sort of graphic, demeaning, sexist rubbish on the web site of one of your own members.

I just thought I'd point it out. And don't thank me -- exposing Blogging Tory bald-faced hypocrisy, intolerance, sexism and misogyny is what I live for.

Wingnut "socialism."

Dear wingnuts: Fuck off. That is all.

Sunday Funnies.

Now this is brilliant.

Who was that masked man?

Oh ... him.

Minority Steve's Big Winners

900 Ft. Jesus has a number of really quite marvellous takes on Fat Steve's fabulous new mandate (sit down Stockwell, not that kind of man date) and his closet of horrors. The snark, it is good.

Thanks for clearing that up for us, dude.

Blogging Tory "Christian Conservative" wants you to know that, "for the record," he'd rather no one assassinated Barack Obama. I'm assuming it's important for ChCon to get that into the public record so that he has an alibi. Or something.

P.S. ChCon would also like you to know that he's quite comfortable pontificating on things American and political without ever learning how to spell "Biden." Or "Voila." Apparently, that's hard werk.

PSApalooza -- you had to be there.

It all started while I was working on my first beer -- that's when the bar fight broke out, shortly after which the cops showed up, one of whom I recognized (a weirdly small world, isn't it?), whereupon I started chatting with the doorman/bouncer, who I'd actually met before at co-blogger M@'s previous book release party, and whose website you can visit here.

A couple more beers, PSA takes the stage, we rock out for a while, and it's home again, home again, and a couple glasses of Trius Red before the inevitable unconsciousness.

I need to get out more often.

Gonna put on ... my-my-my-my-my boogie shoes.

Off to PSApalooza shortly ... don't wait up. Seriously, don't wait up.

"Dude ... play some Van Halen!"



"Uh ... I was kinda thinking of 'Hot for Teacher,' but, yeah, that one's good, too."

"So dumb that it hurts."

Yeah, that's about right.

"Shut up," he explained.

Apparently, someone named "Snerblix" over at Sooey's isn't a big CC fan:

A student at Waterloo. He's clearly achieved so much in his lifetime. A worthless douche, he says.

The woman, apart from being a lawyer, has a Master's degree in Chemistry, was the first ever female harbourmaster in Canada and the first ever female CEO of a Port Authority in Canada, and is now a Cabinet minister.

When Canadiancynic can start to match that,then he can talk.

Following that logic, how dare I presume to criticize Stephen Harper since, after all, he's prime minister and I'm not?

I'm not a betting man, Snerblix, but if I was, I'd bet that I've had my Master of Science degree longer than Lisa Raitt has had hers. So, Snerb, old boy, how about you just put a fucking sock in it, thanks ever so much.

God, these kids nowadays. An argument for Ritalin if there ever was one.

I fought the law, and the ... holy crap!

Man, I gotta get me one of those:

Reality is such a bitch, isn't it, Hunter?

Yo, Hunter! How's that moist panty Sarah Palin worshipping going? Uh oh.

This has been another installment of "Why 12-year-olds shouldn't blog without adult supervision."

Budget balancing is hard werk.

You know who we haven’t checked on in practically forever, boys and girls? SUZANNE!!11!!!!11!111111!!!1111!

Let’s see what our favouritest fetus-fetishist evah is up to 'cause that should be bunches of fun.

The Ontario Ministry of Finance wants is conducting an online pre-budget consultation.

CLICK HERE

The Minister asks:
Given the current fiscal challenges, what government programs could be delayed, phased in more slowly or eliminated?

My response:

Stop funding abortion. Stop funding sex change operations. Eliminate all funding for all elective surgeries. Sell TVO. Eliminate funding for the women's directorate. Eliminate non-elected regional governments. Stop any funding to the arts and athletes. Just stop adding programs. We pay 9 billion interest on the debt. We don't have the right to add more programs. Privatize health care.

Eeek ... I guess when I said "bunches of fun", I really meant "eye-gouging crazyfest". But never let it be said that LuLu does not give credit where credit is due. After all, our gal SUZANNE really put some effort into that list.

In the midst of her oh-so helpful looting and pillaging ... I mean budget balancing for the good of us all (yeah, that's it), SHE manages to hit abortion rights, transgender individuals aka "Teh Gay — ewwwwwww" in SUSIE’s tiny little mind, sick people, feminists, artists and athletes. Of course, the fact that most of these groups have a tendency not to vote for mouthbreathing, social conservative whackos is purely coincidental.

No, really.

Normally, I'd be annoyed ...

... but it's just the National Post so, really, who gives a fuck? I might come back later and pound Eyre's nads flat with a lump hammer if the motivation arises.

NOT SURPRISINGLY, Canada's stupidest "Roman Catholic Christian" practically creams herself over that rubbish.

Saturday Morning Cartoons.

"Where is the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!"



Mmmmmmm ... I love coffee. But you already knew that, didn’t you?

If it's from Delisle, it must be idiotic.

Canada's Mostest Bestest Squinchiest Blogger Kate McMillan takes it to the CJP (no link -- if you don't trust my copy and paste, feel free to go wade through Kate's compost pile if you want):

October 28, 2008
Bloggers Don't Have Baghdad Bureaus?

The Canadian Journalism Project gets their ass handed to them by a girl.

Posted by Kate at October 28, 2008 7:18 PM

And what "girl" would this be, and whose ass is being handed how? Oh ...

Posted by Kathy Shaidle 2008-10-28 13:56:04

Just when I thought the "experts" at J-Source couldn't get any dimmer... Michael Yon is a blogger who did indeed set up a Baghdad bureau, and relies upon reader donations to do his reporting: http://www.michaelyon-online.com/

Yon ... Yon ... oh, right ... that Michael Yon.

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

Fucking liberal media.

I am so not shocked:

CNN plans ‘View from the Right’ election special, but no ‘View from the Left.’

Today, CNN announced that it will be hosting a one-hour special this weekend called “Election Countdown: View from the Right,” featuring prominent right-wing pundits. However, it doesn’t appear that there will be a corresponding special featuring progressive voices.

In unrelated news, I've heard that the mainstream media has a liberal bias. Had you heard that? I'd heard that.

The burning stupid, Ezra style.

Um ... wha ...

A risky prediction: McCain will win

By Ezra Levant on October 31, 2008 8:13 PM

Give Ezra credit ... he's finally said something that's not legally actionable. Really, incredibly, astonishingly, buttfuck, head-up-his-add stupid, but not legally actionable.

In Ezra-world, that's what you call progress.

From the religulous to the sublime ...

Pharyngulafest last night, PSApalooza tonight. I'll bet you're jealous. Yeah, you are. You totally are.

Now go away. I have work to do.