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... Whether or not Mark Steyn is a nut, today I read a National Review article of his "MarkSteyn,Nut-At-Large" in which he predicts that a woman's right to reproductive choice will inevitably lead to a world-wide rape epidemic and global sex-slave industry.
As a general rule, large numbers of excitable lads who can't get any action are not a recipe for societal stability. Unless the Japanese have invented amazingly lifelike sex robots by then (think Austin Powers's "fembots"), we're likely to be in a planet-wide rape epidemic and a world of globalized industrial-scale sex slavery.
Gee. Shouldn't predictions be... a little more futuristic? But here's a better prediction that isn't a prediction either: What if women in countries where males are preferred to females were magically granted the same rights as women in the west? Maybe then sex selection would tilt in favour of girls and the world would be full of sugar and spice and everything nice instead of raping sex traders.
Sigh. How come I'm the one who's supposed to give up my rights, when he's the one who's crazier'n a bag of hammers?
I went to a high school musical last night, which was surprisingly good (people are clearly spending plenty of their hard earned working family incomes on singing and dancing lessons for their kids) but which came with a very stern introductory warning by the musical theatre teacher (yes, Virginia, some schools DO have musical theatre classes - just... not likely in your neighbourhood - the public system is more public in some neighbourhoods than in others). The warning concerned copyright laws advising the audience that video-taping any part of the performance is strictly forbidden by law - particularly Disney law - and since this was a Disney production, please please please: OBEY THE LAW!
Now, I can't imagine why anyone would want to record a high school musical in any case, but golly gee, Disney - hardass much?
Meanwhile the particular play performed last night centered around Horton, the Dr. Seuss character who hears a Who with an over-the-top absolutely fanstastically fabulous Cat in the Hat setting him and The Whos down in Whoville up for a fun-filled two hours. (As an aside, there were little kids in the audience, so wrapped up in the performance, that they came perilously/delightfully close to actually being IN the play - it really was that good.) And it was at the very first "a person's a person no matter how small" that I realized this is the play that has resurrected the controversy about "Horton Hears A Who" versus the Pro-Life Movement which has adopted him as some kind of mascot - expressly against the wishes of Dr. Seuss and the Family Trust.
It added an interesting dimension to the play because, knowing a few of the actors in it, the Pro-Life Movement would be dismayed at how far and how hard it has fallen behind in its campaign to convince society that the rights of the unborn should take precedence over the rights of women as fully recognized persons in law - which brought to mind the awful Bill C-454 and its sleazy New Conservative attempt to re-criminalize abortion through what it pretends is just another redundant and partisan stuff o' nonsense tough on crime initiative that - unsurprisingly - does absolutely nothing to prevent crime.
Because that's really is, isn't it. So much crime could be prevented but our governments clearly do not have the will to spend the money necessary to make public safety our reality instead of all of this after-the-fact crime and punishment, with a lot of tough talk which is really just the worst kind of politically-motivated ass-covering for managerial neglect and failure to perform one's duty to the public to ensure, at the very least, that public space is safe. For instance, after the play, I walked to a friends house for a ride back downtown (the school is in the suburbs) and I was genuinely nervous for my safety - at 9:00 p.m. The walk was dark, deserted, and lacking sidewalks. The idea of teenaged girls having to make the same trek, almost made my blood boil, so obvious was the fact that none of our tax dollars go towards making public space safe for girls and women.
Some tough guy government we've got here, eh ladies? After the criminals are caught, anyway. Up until that point, it's afraid to even spend our tax dollars appropriately for fear of losing that little bit of grassroots support that holds our entire society ransom to stupid petty short-sighted wing-nutty interests.
It is unjust, is what it is. There is absolutely no attempt at actual safety being made by our governments - for girls and women, anyway - out in the suburbs. There just isn't. It's beyond disgraceful - it's absurd. I was afraid for my personal safety walking to my friends house from a high school at 9:00 at night in a nice suburb of Ottawa, the nation's wealthy and privileged capital. I can't imagine what it's like in YOUR city.
Better public transit that runs all night, sidewalks with plenty of street lighting even in the remotest of suburbs that developers should be made responsible for when they build all their godforsaken tract housing, safe work/education/recreation places with walk-safe programs for all women, cops out and about on the beat AT NIGHT when hard working taxpayers in low paying jobs are trying to get home to their valued families - no matter how and where they live - these are the things that would help prevent crime, but since they cost money in our valued days of tax cuts - we're stuck with politicians of the mindset that crime + punishment = New Conservative success story.
Anyway, the Whos down in Whoville when they really needed to get the attention of society (Horton, the Elephant, was about to be punished for guarding their dust speck of a world) shouted, "THINK!"
Maybe we should make like The Whos down in Whoville and try shouting "THINK!" over and over during the next election campaign.
Well, I'm off to shoot the shit en Francais. But, I swear, if the teacher calls me "en retard" again when I walk into class, I'm deckin' 'im.
And that's another thing, I thought I was a terrible liar in English, gawd, you should hear me in French. My hobbies are fishing and traveling to Martinique, my husband is a mathematics professor and I run a store where people come from all over the city to buy their fruits and vegetables. Basic fruits and vegetables. Nothing fancy. I only sell apples and oranges, carrots and potatoes.
Say, is there an "I Hate Adam Sandler" Anti-Fan Club? Because if not, I'd like to start one. To join, you have to list things funnier'n Adam Sandler. I'll start:
1) Cancer
I've been taking an intensive French course all week in hopes of one day being able to pass a Government B-level test (I've never tried one before, but I hear they're quite... quite, as the very English might say) and I've noticed something clever about myself, which is that I'm much less righteous in French than I am normally, which is in English, backed up with hand gestures and a furrowed brow (my eyebrows can actually knit during an argument). And even though it's just because I don't have the vocabulary in French to be as righteous as I am in English, I'm pretty sure it's made me an even more intolerable leftie than I was before because now I feel like I've learned to listen to the opinions of others - others with even less vocabulary than me but who clearly hold opinions to the right of Attila the Hun.
I know. It's a reach, but there's got to be an upside, silver lining, Pollyanna Sunshine moral to this great big Gawddamned bilingual hoop we're all forced to jump through in this phony bullshit cold hard rock with a polite tight smile of feigned tolerance country we call Canada.
Oh, by the way, what I meant to say was that I love learning the language. French, I mean. Everybody else in my class does, too. And we absolutely can't get enough of French culture. OhmyfuckingGawd. Who can, eh? I mean, c'mon. It's culture. And it's French. While we're all just plodding nonFrench people with even a W.A.S.P. or two clogging up the joie de vivre works. So yeah, after I pass this test, if I can ever line one up (because unless you're already IN the government and lined up for a test in order to keep your job, you can pretty much forget it for now because the government is actually low on evaluators and high on employees requiring testing) I plan to study MORE French. Seriously. I just can't get enough French shoved down my friggin' gullet.
Say, you know what doesn't work well for me in French? Humour. Man, that's a tough sell in French. Especially with French language teachers. I was just joking about that swarming after class. Who knew seniour bureaucrats could spring into action so quickly?
Here's a funny notion - what if, by some logistical miracle or total breakdown in the American voting system whereby delegates and super delegates vote according to a supposedly embedded code of honor, Hillary wins and Obama is out of the race?
Ooh, how awkward will that be? Anyway, if I were her and if I were to win, now, after everybody treated me like such an asshole, I'd be all, "Haha! I knew this would happen!", and go on a search and destroy mission against my enemies within the Party and then make Bill Clinton my running mate as a reward for standing be me - "for a change".
Then I'd do whatever it took to make Obama say, "McCain in 2008!" Just to make him look like an asshole, too - thereby destroying everybody's hopes and dreams that there is a politician out there who isn't an asshole.
Why is it Hillary's fault if everybody else (supposedly, but especially in the Obama campaign) interpreted her remark about Robert Kennedy still being in the race in June (when he was assassinated) as having ANYTHING to do with Obama? I mean, c'mon. What a load. Yeah, she's out and she's been out for QUITE a while, but this is just spin to set the scene for why Obama won't be choosing her as his running mate (a dream ticket if ever there was one, but he don't want no "sweetie" on his ticket upstaging his ch-ch-change, that's for damn sure). Anyway, here's Robert Kennedy Jr. to add his relevant take on her remarks:
"I've heard her make that argument before," Mr. Kennedy said, speaking on his cellphone as he drove to the family compound in Hyannis Port, Mass. "It sounds like she was invoking a familiar historical circumstance in support of her argument for continuing her campaign."
Yes. It does, doesn't it. Gawd. Imagine a Kennedy making everybody else sound stupid...
This is an interesting story to me because I've been following the Canadian Human Rights Commission "Trials and Travails" via Ezra Levant's blog and, well, this news article is about somebody saying something, too. Something bad, that is. Because apparently, we're all supposed to pretend now that lots of young, black women from Haiti with old, white SEPARATISTE husbands are appointed the Queen's representative in Canada:
VictorLevyBeaulieu&TheNegroQueen
In an article published Wednesday in the independent monthly magazine, L'Aut'Journal, Beaulieu said Jean was appointed to the governor-general's post because she was "black, young, pretty, ambitious, and because of her husband, certainly a nationalist as well."
In an interview with La Presse yesterday, the author defended his text, saying had not intended to be racist, but his eight references to the 'negre reine" caught the attention of Bloc Quebecois MP Vivian Barbot.
Really? It was/is the reference(s) to her husband, a Separatiste Svengali, that always catches mine. I mean, it's not her fault, of course, but how come every time we have a woman appointed to anything in this country, there's some prima donna man of unsavoury political ambition attached to the appointment? And why should the Bloc give a shit? Why are they still here, for that matter? They lost the referendum several years ago. Fuck off, already, assholes. You promised you'd fuck off. Assholes. Or rather (if I may, CHRC) "lying assholes".
It's as simple as that, really. So why are we pretending it isn't? That simple, I mean. Buddy two wives, legally, only has one:
ForThatMatter,WhatTheHellIsAnImam?LegallySpeaking'n'All
Use the law of the land, ladies, and sue for divorce. Or don't. It's quite simple, really. But it's your choice. Imams don't have real powers.
Watching my dog lay on the couch this morning, dozing, it occurred to me that maybe, instead of the short memories we assume they have, what they actually have are long memories, long memories that only involve stolen food. I mean, whenever my dog does something bad, it involves the theft of food. But we never do anything by way of "bad dog" because by the time we notice he's snatched a ham sandwich off the counter, we figure he's forgotten about it and it would just be silly to yell at him because he'd think we're yelling at him for something else. But maybe, people food theft is the only thing he ever remembers and that's why, any chance he gets, he snatches some - and then keeps a low profile because he thinks that's how we forget about it.
Hm. In other words: "Don't forget what happened to Vince Foster when he stuck around too long. I'm juss sayin'. Don't overstay your welcome."
NextWeek:"SaveObama'sLife!BringBackSegregation!"DemandsHillary
Ah, Gawd lurve 'er. She's a feisty one. Seriously. If I were her campaign director (?), I'd suggest going with a cocked finger now at the end of every speech. Just to keep 'em guessing. And jumpin'.
Sigh. Meanwhile, watch for the bitch (i.e. "woman") hating jackals to spin this into "unfit" to breathe the same oxygen as "The One".
Here's an anecdote told to my creative writing class last night. The teacher read it somewhere and whoever told it heard it from someone else and just tossed it out during an interview about writing.
An eight year old boy is told by his mother and father that his six year old sister has leukemia and is going to die if they can't find a good blood match for her. They explain to him that she needs good blood to replace her own blood in order to live, otherwise - she'll die in a short while. "So, with your permission, we'd like to have you tested to see if your blood would be a good match to replace hers." The boy replies after thinking about it for a little while, "Okay. I'll get tested." The test goes well and the parents tell him, "It looks like your blood IS a good match. The next thing we need is your permission to go ahead and do the transfusion. You'll be saving her life, son. This is a very important thing you'll be doing. But the boy says, "Let me think about it over night, please. I want to do it, I just need time to think." Fortunately, the next day he seems fine and more than willing to donate his blood to his sister. He gives his permission. The family sets out for the hospital and the boy lays down on the gurney and gets set up to have his blood taken. His sister is beside him. After a while, the doctor asks, "How are you feeling? We're almost done."
The boy asks, "Then why am I still alive?"
I'm trying to think when I've read something quite as mindlessly sexist as this bit of puffery from Don Martin of one of the many sexist CanWest newspapers out there clogging up the newsworks, but I can't. First of all, there's no such thing as the "soccer mom", as far as I'm aware. It was just a media invention. Secondly, the lack of proper food labelling has nothing to do with gender and everything to do with economics and men and women, both, if they care at all, care about it. And thirdly, the claim that women are a monolith opposed to tax cuts is so yesterday it may as well be a pantsuit. Women don't like Stephen Harper because he's got a hidden agenda that is no longer hidden thanks to his successful stacking of judicial panels with pro-lifers and his Party's burying of anti-choice initiatives in otherwise superfluous crime bills.
He wants to save the unborn from Feminists more than he wants us to be the Northern United States of New Conservative Canada, even.
It'sRetardedColumnistDayAgainAtCanWest
I mean, Dude, you're the one referring to Stephane Dion as having "mousier complexities" (whatever the fuck that means) and Stephen Harper as having a "rapidly thinning physique". I dunno. Maybe you're just gay. NOT that there's anything wrong with that - it's more likely the stupid that's holding you back - especially in Gayer'n Gay Calgary - where they like Stephen Harper even more'n they like prancing around in cowboy hats and leather chaps, where women are women and men are GAY, where women like their men like they like their coffee - GAY!
Okay. I'll stop. Now, never stereotype women as stereotypes again.
Apparently, there's a catwalk fight brewing behind the scenes of America's Next Top Model amongst the gay gossips (gaysips) of fashion because the most recent winner was a Plus Size (i.e. normal) woman who had GAINED weight in order to qualify for the Plus Size crown she was destined to wear.
I, for one, care not because she was by far the prettiest of all the women to have appeared on the show to date, although I find it hard to believe she suffered at the hands of mean girls in high school as she claims. I mean, c'mon. Even I didn't suffer at the hands of mean girls in high school and I looked like a cross between an eyebrow and PeeWee Herman.
Of course, it may have been my school that defied all the odds because the prettiest girl at it was also the nicest - and she also got all my jokes, including the mean ones making fun of even lesser creatures than myself. "You're so funny. We should hang out." Alas. It was not to be. Because at my high school, the BOYS were the mean girls and she was always surrounded by them. Idiots. She could only go out with one. What were the other 9 expecting?
Anyway, this Whitney chick who won America's Next Top Model (That You'll Never See Or Hear From Again) crown certainly didn't strike me as the type to take much bullying. I mean, she seemed more than capable of dishing it out to the poor malnourished competition - but take it? I don't think so. If anything, the other models looked envious to the point of worshipful every time she fried up a potato.
But Madonna was recently going on about being an outcast at her high school, too. Hm. An outcast cheerleader, eh? How... at odds with everyone else's reality... But I guess part of modern celebrity is pretending you weren't nearly the asshole in high school that you appear to be now, because really, to hear the actors and actresses of today tell it, they were nothing in high school if not taunted and mocked and undeservedly so. I dunno. I guess if you appear in enough movies depicting one dimensional high schoolers being mean to each other (clearly I wasn't even unpopular enough to warrant mean, failing to achieve even THAT state of grace) you come to believe that it was just like that for you, too.
Sigh. I'd like to believe it, but alas, I'm pretty sure I was every bit the asshole in high school that I am now. Although, now I have the whole internet at my disposal, too, whereas back then, there was just me trapped in my locker by those loser jerks (my friends) who thought it would be fun to get through a lunch without someone (me) making at least one wisecrack about SOMETHING (ahem, okay - them).
C'mon CJC, you're missing the Muslim forest for the Neo-Nazi trees:
Nazis,Schmazis-It'sTheIslamists,Stupid!
When I finish my book "The Sooeycide Plots" I want the agent for this band: "The Suicide Pilots" to promote it. Seriously, that band gets more free press than a Foreign Affairs Minister's ex-girlfriend:
TheTorontoStarGetsHookedByAnotherOne
Syria?!Seriously?!
Enh. If it were me, I'd keep the Golan Heights and give up Gaza. But what do I know? Nobody asks me anything, unless it's "What's for supper?" Go ahead. Don't listen to me. Trade the Golan Heights to Syria because it promises to be peaceful. What could possibly go wrong?
Growing up, marriage for women just seemed like a big ol' sexist mistake to me. But my mom was a widow, who earned her own money and made all her own decisions and didn't do what was expected of her by re-marrying. You know, so a man could take care of her.
Instead, she took care of herself and us and didn't have to answer to a man around the house to do it. She went to work every day and used her holidays to travel pretty much around the world with a friend who remained single until she turned sixty (when she married a two-time-widower and inherited his double family of kids and in-laws, just in time to appreciate them). My mother lived a life so far removed from the mothers of my friends, that, well, I hate to break it to all the old guys out there reading this, but their loving wives would have traded their lot in life for my mom's in a heartbeat.
Meanwhile, my friends' Dads would note to me how hard it must be for my mother not having a man around the house. That always got my back up and, shrinking violet that I was, I'd always point out that when she needed something fixed, she saved herself the bother and hired a handyman to do it. And as soon as there was one, she'd hire a handywoman, instead.
Exept she'd say "handyperson" because the pendulum only had to swing to the middle to reach equal rights, in her opinion.
Meanwhile, the mothers of all my friends seemed to have to answer to men for everything. They had no independence because they had no money of their own (even when they had jobs, their money went into their husbands' bank accounts) and never travelled because their husbands didn't really want to go anywhere. And anything that they wanted, had to come through him, so it meant wheedling and needling until he'd act like he was doing her the favour of the century and buy it.
You know, like a new stove or fridge. Or a clothesline for hanging out their laundry because they liked the smell of their workpants dried in the breeze.
Anyway, I know it's different now, that because women can leave - and do - men have to try a little harder than they used to to keep the little ball and chain happy. And they do, I guess, except marriage still doesn't work in 50% of cases. In my opinion, it's because the set-up is so ridiculously sexist that it's almost always just a matter of time before a woman realizes it would be easier to do everything on her own, rather than trying to get the man onside first - and then doing it. Because that, to me, was 100% of marriage - trying to get the man to do what I wanted when I might just as easily have done it myself - EXCEPT - I was married and in marriage, women lose their independence.
Now, my mother would rather have been married to my father into their old age than to have been widowed as she was, but she certainly had no desire to re-marry, either. And she had a good reason for that - a whole and full life as an independent being, answering to no man.
Okay. How come men can be as ugly as fungus on a tree stump and still get and toss aside pretty women?
MuttLangeCheatsOnShaniaTwain?!
Now, the lesson here for beautiful women is, you can't trust an ugly man, either. Maybe even, especially. In fact, the ugly man might hate you more because you're beautiful than the ugly women do. Take it from me, Sooey the Beauteous. Stick with your own kind and leave the ugles for the other ugles, Shania. By the way, Jodie Foster is single...
Do you ever wonder if some people run for public office just to get even for all the wedgies they got in high school? FROM TEACHERS?!
PierrePoilievre
You've really got to wonder who the RCMP is working for - us? Or Taser International? I mean, not only has it doubled its use of Tasers, but it has blacked out all references to injuries suffered by its victims in the reports officers must file after each use of the Taser. In the United States, officers are suing Taser International for injuries suffered during training exercises. Up here, officers are blacking out the evidence.
Can't anybody just suck it up anymore? I mean, so what? So you're protrayed as a demographic and terrorist threat to western civilization in the North American mainstream media? Feminists get that sort of coverage all the time and it hasn't held us back any. Except in terms of economic, political and social power, of course.
Religious protection includes religious hate speech. So, what are we to do about it, FFFellas? Religion is protected from Man's Law AND Taxes because that's the way you Christian Conservatives want it.
BlameGGGawd'sMMManRepsOnEarth,DDDudes
... NOW do you support Hillary, Ted Kennedy?
TheTelegramEditorializes
I was halfway with them but I have one question re the final line:
If we start seeing racism under every rock, all hope is lost.
Who's the "we" being addressed by this undoubtedly all-white, mostly male (all male?), probably Christian editorial board, I wonder?
Sigh. I guess this is what politics must be reduced to when MPs try to take away women's rights - other MPs out-manouvering them with more and better unnecessary legislation:
Haha,Pro-Lifers:BillC-543TrumpsBillC-484
Apparently, the Pentagon plans to build a new, 40-acre detention complex on the main American military base in Afghanistan.
Finally - plausibility.
By the way, here's an interesting factoid I picked up: the United States executes almost as many prisoners as does China. Per capita, you nod? Stop nodding. There was a brief moratorium last year (in the U.S. - not China - China's getting ready for the Olympics) while the humaneness of lethal injection was debated. Otherwise, China gets the gold, the U.S. just missed out on the bronze (Saudi Arabia nailed it), while Iran gets the silver. To be fair, though, the U.S. may have just missed out on the bronze because it outlawed executing children in 2005.
But I wonder if it holds the most prisoners indefinitely and without charge or legal representation? Like, in big prisons built on foreign soil that Canadians are fighting to make safe for... such... western... ish... now...since... 9/11... stuff... good... freedom... fries...Harold... Kumar...
Ah, forget it.
WhoKilledRetiredJudge?
Just kidding, just kidding. Call off your lawsuits. Er, and kneecappers if you happen to have any hanging around your entourage.
Ellen&PortiaGoWhereNoManHasGoneBefore
But seriously, they should read the comments to the story about their upcoming nuptials to truly appreciate what they're missing in not being more into Conservative men.
And rich people saw that "It was good":
InTheCornerWithEedjits
I guess the thing Rightwing Americans and Canadians can't accept about universal publicly funded healthcare is how civilized it is.
Indeed, to not have to worry about money when you're sick is truly a wonderful thing to those of us without gobs of inherited loot, isn't it. Oh, and to not have to be grateful to rich people for making it all possible (since we all pay into it) - Beauty, Eh?
Apparently, Barbara Coloroso, of all people, has had one of her books pulled from the Toronto public high school curriculum and replaced with TWO books - by men (I guess the theory being that a woman has to work twice as hard to write a book and therefore...???).
However, the book isn't on parenting, a subject normally associated with the former nun, it's on genocide: "Extraordinary Evil: A Brief History of Genocide".
Genocide,Schmenocide-WeThoughtItWasAboutBullying
Anyway, I don't know "much" (i.e. "anything") about the Turkish slaughter of the Armenians because I went to high school in the days when no one even knew there was such a people as Armenians.
Or Turks, really, if I stop and think about it. But I'm, like, fifth generation Scottish Canadian, so... well.. you know... (if you're fifth generation Scottish Canadian, too... AND BE HONEST!)
Anyway, my point is, perpetrators should take a lesson from the Brits and acknowledge their brutality towards other peoples because it really won't hold you back in any significant way from being British bankers. And look at America the Beautiful. It perpetrates all kinds of crimes against other peoples and yet, it runs the world. And Germany certainly bounced back after The Holocaust. I mean, look where Germany is at these days - one of the world's biggest economies, in the G8, consistently third in medals at the Olympics...
So yeah, instead of "they were war casualties", try, "yeah, we committed genocide". Maybe it'll even fast-track your application for full membership in the Eurpean Economic Union.
DeadMenSayTheDarndestThings,SaysRCMP
But Harper should sue the RCMP for implying that, while there's evidence of something, there's just not enough evidence of bribery.
At this point, isn't America America's worst enemy?
But it must be weird to feel so persecuted when, really, how often does America actually experience the wrath of its enemies? Literally, I mean. Still, if Americans are worried that Obama won't protect them from their enemies like McCain will, they should vote for Hillary.
I know, I know. They aren't THAT worried.
Here's a clip of Chris Matthews catching out a blithering idiot (i.e. Rightwing Pundit) on not knowing what references to appeasement actually mean in the context of Neville Chamberlain:
WhyIsStupidAlwaysSoLoud?
So, anyway, I was reading last weekend that Israel's Rightwing government has a plan in the works to give the Golan Heights back to Syria in exchange for peace. I mean, YIKES! Personally, I wouldn't give Syria the finger, let alone land for peace. Why the hell would anybody trust Syria? How stupid would you have to be to think Syria would keep its word and not turn around and attack you from the Golan Heights?
Neville Chamberlain stupid? Or Ehud Olmert stupid...
LetMeMakeItUpToYou,Honey
So, Obama has a bad habit of calling "people" "sweetie", eh. Gee. That's pretty... gay.
Yeah, yeah. At least Bush gave up golf. McGuinty just renamed a highway. And what's Stephen Harper done except tell everybody else to wear red on Fridays? I mean, does he even wear red on Fridays? What's he wearing today? It's Friday. Is he wearing a red suit?
Obama's"Sweetie"
What's next? Calling John McCain's wife, Cindy, a cunt?! Too?!
(Ignore comments or your brain may shrivel up and fall out your ear.)
FreeMarkSteyn'sBrain
...they still end up looking like 'useful idiots' serving the purposes of militant socialist social-engineers on the one hand, and of soft-Jihadi lawfare-mongers on the other.
Sure they do - if you're wearing Special "K" Krazy glasses from Kookoobananasville. To everyone else they look like ordinary Canadians seeking fair comment in a embarrassingly retro news magazine run by the chronically failed upwards Ken Whyte and owned by the rapacious and formerly negative billing Rogers monoconglomopolydevil666hellinc.
Are all bimboyish New Conservative Ministers of Foreign Affairs going to be the sons of slightly-less-than-legitimate Old Conservatives until the Conservatives finally morph into NeoCanRepubliCons? Well? Are they?
No offence Mrs. H, but 24 Sussex isn't yours. It's ours. And like our cities everywhere but particularly here in Ontario where Mike Harris was once Premier and where his evil henchmen are now all over your hubby's Cabinet like cheap suits, its infrastructure is crumbling. Taxpayers know this, that's why we think you shouldn't drink the water. Lead goes straight to your brain, you know. Think socialist on this one "penny wise, pound foolish". And of the billions of dollars going to fix Afghanistan's destroyed-by-Conservative-governments' infrastructure.
(Psst, if the Auditor General says it needs fixing, maybe try not to politicize, in the usual Harper partisan way, her concern for OUR heritage properties to make it all about you and your hubby's New Conservative Government of Canada - AND FIX IT. When we vote y'all out of office, it won't be because you thought ahead, believe me):
WhyNotFireSheilaFraserForDoingHerJob,Too?
Whoa. Who knew David Lewis could be so right? GM, which just closed a plant in Windsor, after dickering employees down to nothing, is back at it with its hand out to the government for another kick at the can and a new plant. Gawd. There's no handup like a corporate handout, eh?
I dunno. Given the inexcusable ignorance of the current Government of Canada with regards to anything of import, and with halfwits like Jason "Al Queda! Al Queda!" Kenney in power to show us who's stupid and Jim "Rudity! Rudity!" Flaherty who's stupider in elected office, I think we'd better think in triplicate about scrapping the Senate. I've certainly done a 180. Keep it. And keep it unelected. Canadians are too stupid for democracy. Yes indeed - come on down voters of Calgary SouthEast. And Whitby/Oshawa, too. Now check closely for something on the toe of my pointy boot. Closer. Closer. Not quite, closer. Almost, closer.
When my son was born, his Dad whooped and blurted out, "A son! I've got a son!" I had kind of figured I was going to have a son because during an ultra sound on his due date (he was two weeks late, like my first daughter - my second daughter was only one week late, which always made her seem one week early) the doctor asked, "Do you want to know the baby's sex?" And I said, "No." To which he asked, "What do you have now?" And I said, "Two girls." At which point the nurse pointed to something on the screen and they both chuckled and he said, "My advice is to get ready for something a little different."
Anyway, I was relieved when I had a son because I had my doubts about three girls getting along as well as my two girls already did (for some reason 3 girls always ='ed bad in my mind - I pictured two playing happily burying the third in the sand or tying her to a tree in the woods or cutting off all her hair and gluing it to her face) - so I was happy to have a boy be the third wheel because I pictured a boy holing up in his bedroom reading quietly like my brother had always done in our household of females.
Anyway, daughter number one didn't care at all about the new baby, but daughter number two cared a lot. Too much. So much so that she sat on my knee while I breastfed him keeping watch and would ensure the door was tightly closed when I put him up for his nap and carefully take away his soother and suck on it herself to make sure he didn't acquire any nasty habits in his infancy. She also liked to rock him in his chair - a lot - so that it eventually had to be put on the floor and surrounded by cushions...
But before too long, she figured out that he was good for playing with, unlike her sister who preferred a more sedentary toddlerhood, and they became buddies of a less intense kind and I felt like I could turn my back on them for a few minutes at a time while she played and he crawled around trying to grab at her toys.
My father-in-law, meanwhile, was thrilled with his grandson and took to buying the sorts of toys that we hadn't bothered with for the girls (we hadn't bothered with much, really - almost everything was given to us by people only too happy to get rid of it and since they were girls, it was mostly girl stuff we ended up getting). Trucks, mostly. He bought a lot of trucks for his grandson (the only one, so far). And anything that made a lot of noise. After a while, I noticed anything that didn't make a noise, could be made to make a noise by bashing it over and over into a wall.
This was new to us, this noise thing, because until my son, we didn't have anybody making noise just for the sake of making noise. So the girls would cover their ears and yell, "Make him stop!" and I felt for them but I also thought, "Hm, he's a boy - maybe he needs to make noise." and I'd send him downstairs to where his Dad would be playing electric guitar to bash his truck over and over into the wall.
Eventually, though, his Dad would come up the stairs with his ears covered, "Make him stop!" and I realized it wasn't gender making the noise, it was just one little boy and I took to hiding the trucks that made the noisier noise and leaving around softer toys for bashing into the wall over and over and over - including the odd Barbie who for some reason was not liked by daughter number two (like I said, daughter number one didn't play - she observed, assessed, processed, retained or discarded based on some sort of personal values calculation) and could be spared for a good wapping over and over against a wall.
But then he stopped making noise and discovered video games and there isn't a parent alive who won't admit that boys and video games go together like girls and, well, there's just nothing that goes with girls the way video games go with boys. There just isn't. Is it the games? Is it the boys? Which is it? Because it's definitely a gender divide - there's just no getting around that bit o' sexist fact.
Personally, I think any case of "Doctor Knows Best" should be held up beside the treatment given to Tracy Latimer, as a reminder that one could just as easily conclude "Doctor Is Out of Touch with Humanity".
MoreChemoVsAnUncertainFuture
Girl, I missed my prom because I went to the tavern first. At least you got a picture of your prom dress. And some day, you can look back on your big night and say to your kids, "Fuckin' mofos wouldn't let me in AND wouldn't gimme my money back but I was the one who ended up in handcuffs?! Ain't no justice in this world, kids. Ain't no justice."
Luckily,ItDoublesAsAWeddingDress
This morning I came across this fascinating race-based question on an internet forum: Did turning white cause Michael Jackson's paedophilia?
See what I mean? ClearAndPresentDiscrimination
Another letter saying the same thing as all the others, misrepresenting the facts, but printed anyway by the MSM in its War Against Muslims that it pretends is a campaign for freedom of the press: NowWe'reCallingTheStudents"Blackmailers"
Sorry, but in a free and democratic society, people should have the right of redress when the press is clearly waging a campaign of villifcation of their identifiable group. And that's what the MSM has done here and continues to do - accuse Muslims of being a stereotype which it, the MSM, has created and perpetuates day after day after day.
FolksyOl'JohnBoyMcCain
Now see, Hillary could top that with another chocolate chip cookie recipe, but Obama just won't be able to climb down from his "The One" perch (remember when he was real?) to do his stereotype (maybe a Hawiian punch recipe or a lei crafted from recycled garbage bags) for American audiences. Because real Americans (as opposed to the Hollywood Americans) don't want hope OR change. They want folksy bullshitters to keep the dream alive that anybody can become President of the United States.
I'm just callin' 'em like I see 'em. I mean, will Obama get on board with the Pentagon to bring about the average American's dream of using the(ir) moon as a missile launch pad?
You know what I lurve most about Hillary staying in the race? She really brings out that "scratch the surface" sexism in men on the left. I mean, I've always known it was there (I worked at the Provincial NDP) so I like it when it breaks through the skin and is blurted into a microphone.
Always remember, no wait, never forget - if he's a man running for public office and his lips are moving, he's lying. I know - bitch.
Since our stupid governments and law enforcement agencies clearly relied on taser research done by Taser International as all the proof they needed that tasers were safe (in spite of numerous lawsuits south of the border that would indicate otherwise) I hope the The Braidwood Taser Inquiry listens to independent researchers like Dr. Zian Tseng who says that any normal, healthy person could die from a taser jolt and not piece of shit scumbags like Taser International owner Tom Smith, who for some incomparably stupid reason is also testifying.
By the way, Dr. Zian Tseng apparently testified at the Inquiry today that when he first started reporting his finding about the real effects of tasers on the human heart, Taser International contacted him to "reconsider" the statements he was making to the media - even including an offer to fund his "reconsidered" research.
My guess? The Inquiry will decide, in spite of all evidence and research to the contrary, in favour of the research done by American thug Tom Smith and his evil empire Taser International and our law enforcement agencies will continue to kill people with tasers. Because we're that stupid a country now with extra stupid people running it.
I find this letter to the editor notable because 1) it was printed, 2) versions of it are consistently and unfailingly printed over and over and over in our mainstream media, 3) like all such letters it now includes the de rigeur pretense of "you have to print this letter" (as if it won't be printed) to mock the demand (finally) by Muslim Canadians for some balance in Macleans to counter its highly biased reportage of the "Islamic Menace" as defined by its Islamophobic columnists: HowManyLettersToTheEditorDoesItTakeToScrewInATerrorist?
But I'd like to know why such letter writers think the Muslim law students who take issue with the relentless publishing of anti-Muslim articles by Macleans shouldn't be allowed to continue to seek redress no matter how many times they are denied it? I mean, why should they be made to stop demanding a rebuttal in Macleans any more than Macleans should be forced to publish it - which, if it had any balls whatsoever (it doesn't) it would have done long before now? Really, there is such a bigoted double standard at play here, it's truly bizarre.
And this isn't a case of standing up for free speech and against press censorship - it's a case of denying fair comment. Because Macleans can and has denied fair comment on this issue and for some reason, everybody is on the attack against the people asking why.
As the War in Iraq deaths by electrocution and the War in Afghanistan deaths by roadside bombs mount, I'd like to ask who is really served by civilians wallowing in sentimentality in traffic on renamed highways as the dead in these pointless wars are brought home to rest.
I dunno. I hate to be a party pooper, particularly when young people are dying for reasons I don't think our government will ever be able to justify, but it all just seems self-serving for those people who want to pretend, for their own partisan political reasons, that support for these wars is noble and not just something that comes out of our taxes.
I've also had enough of the implication that if you don't "ooh" and "awe" over such cynical manouvres as renaming highways, that you're somehow less of a citizen. It's grotesque, really, more a reflection of our offensive political leadership these days than anything redemptive.
I read this column by Heather Mallick and was struck by how seldom we in the New World look upon white western Europe as fatally backward. I mean, you'd hardly think today, if you just wandered on to Earth from another planet, that it was the Germans, not the Palestinians, who perpetrated the Holocaust. Instead, you'd think Germany was the home of racial tolerance and egalitarianism, not the hotbed of anti-immigrant sentiment and sexism it actually is, as are many of its white European neighbours - as they've always been and maybe always will be.
And to read the news today, the behaviour of Josef Fritzl is very clearly something we associate with the Taliban, but not something we would think to associate with white European men - hence our shock that this sort of thing would go on unnoticed in a white European country - even a white European country like Austria, with its open armed welcome to Kurt Waldheim, Jorge Haider, and all manner of anti-immigrant political movements. Funny how we manage to be complacent about white society's unequal treatment of women, while focusing to the point of going to war (something Americans certainly waited until the last minute to do when it was Germans threatening to take over the world, not Asians or Muslims) on Muslim society's unequal treatment of women.
So read Heather Mallick's piece. It raises some interesting questions about who we wouldn't dream of tackling on their treatment of women:
OnBeingFemaleInAustria
RallyingToRestrictWomen'sRights
You know, I could, by extension, make the case that the taxpayer funds these days off school for kids to demonstrate on behalf of religious beliefs at the expense of freedom of choice for others. But, I won't.
Apparently, for some stupid reason, people trust doctors over lawyers. Meanwhile, there's a study out that clearly wasn't done by a drug company, claiming that breast-fed babies grow up to be smarter'n bottle-fed babies.
Now, there may be a variety of reasons for that, but it's of no comfort to my ex, whose mother was told by her trusted doctor that she shouldn't breastfeed because formula was better than breast milk for the baby. And really, what could possibly have been his motivation in telling her that and why, given that so many doctors (all of them men) did tell women that in the 60s, do we trust doctors at all?
My ex, because of his mother's doctor, has to live with the knowledge that he's not as smart as he could be. Sure, fun for me - "don't forget to think extra hard today to make up for the fact that your mother didn't breastfeed you when you were a baby", but a real drag for him during meetings when he's expected to say something witty on account of he did once and now it's expected of him by co-workers.
I mean, let's face it, elderly people are over-prescribed medicine to the point of death in some cases and dementia in others. Children - toddlers, no less - are put on depression medication. Unnecessary operations and surgeries are performed all the time, while necessary ones - and I'm thinking of the current situation in Newfoundland regarding the breast cancer misdiagnoses - are not done.
Anyway, I've never cared for the accord granted to doctors because I've never met one I particularly liked or trusted - unless I was after free trial drugs, of course (the pill comes to mind in university, where doctors handed it out like candy, even though it was 100xs the prescription any of us needed). And certainly the doctors I knew growing up were almost uniformly the worst sexist assholes, their children behaving for all the world like privileged brats who could do no wrong because the old man was a trusted pillar of the community/prescription drug pusher.
Whereas a lawyer, well, you can trust a lawyer to want to win your case or settle for doing the least harm.
I found this on redjenny's site (her link is in the lobby of sooey's):
GodIsHate
Anyway, since people can claim that god believes in "whatever" why is it so de rigeur that presidential candidates at least feign a belief in god in order to get elected to public office? I mean, if one person's god of love is another person's god of hate, why pretend god isn't just an opinion and go with, "god says it's time to elect a 100% woman president, not a 'enh' black man president because 'the one' means 'bad' in godese".
But speaking of yuck and ew with god on top, Charles McVety (Stephen Harper's Christian Henchman) of Canada Christian College (not very Christian, even less of a College) is now bff with Frank Dimant of B'Nai Brith (not very B'nai, even less Brith), who will be teaching the eager beaver gentiles a course called: Saving Israel for the Apocalypse.
Just kidding. It's called something else - Evangelicals are smarter'n they look these days. Heck, who am I to criticize, an ex-homemaker trying to get a paying job in a world that has no regard for lego OR mud-pie-baking skills - they're running both America AND Canada now, getting censorship (C-10) AND abortion re-criminalization (C-484) bills passed, the Bible cleverly buried in the details of taxes and crime.
Gee, according to Prime Minister and New Conservative Uber Christian Evangelical Rightwing Military Fetishist Same Sex Marriage Hating Feminist Hating Authoritarian Strongman and Anti-Democracy Maniac Anti-Media Fanatic Pro-American Synchophant and Pro-Corporate Psychotic Nutcase, Stephen Harper, we have Nazis in Parliament:
AndCriticizingCanada=Communism,ForThatMatter
Okay, Mr. Loony Tunes - names. Canadians demand names. And they'd better not be just the Liberal Leadership candidates you already called Nazis, either. New names. Canadians want new names.
Ted Kennedy apparently said the other day that Hillary Clinton isn't fit to be Vice President. He retracted it after he'd remembered to put on his pants, but it reminded me of how much I despise the Kennedy clan, mostly for its sexism, but also for grabbing the standard bearer for Liberalism in America and hanging on like grim death with their flies undone and their poxy cocks hanging out.
I mean, women have really been screwed in America over the years, eh? On the right they've had those ridiculous rich old political couples with views on women that have more in common with the 1800s than 1950s television, even, and on the left, there's the Kennedy clan, raping murdering stupid sexist pigs of the first order supported by their long suffering women who seem to believe it's their lot in life to stick with the lowest order of male available, unless they're retarded - in which case they get sent to an institution to live out their days in peace away from their drooling lecherous sociopathic kinfolk.
I hope Hillary Clinton tells Ted Kennedy to go jump in the lake.
Here is a list of crazy people who are the 25 most nfluential people on the Right:
Hm...NoWriteInsForMiltonFriedman,Eh?
Okay. Now here is today's question: If all of them were drowning and you could only save one of them, which one would it be?
Nope. Sorry. The Minister of Foreign Affairs dating biker chicks? He made his private life public news and now he must be mocked sans mercy:
Maxime'sOldLadyFromHell
I know Presidential medical check-ups are a source of pride and joy to Americans because the state of the President's health is supposedly public information (and what's up with that, anyway?) but I'm here to say today on SooeySays that once President Bush "The Moron" Jr. is out of office, we will find out that he's been suffering from early dementia brought on by excessive drug and alcohol abuse imposed on an already stupid brain and that the information was kept secret so as not to give comfort to America's enemies.
I read on a blog this morning a line that included this phrase: "in violation of all rules of blogging".
That's what I like about blogging - violating all the rules of which I am not aware and with which I have no plans to acquaint myself.
Anyway, back to blogging - is Monsanto the Anti-Christ, do you think?
This is funny:
FuckYouAmerica
Cindy McCain says she will never make her tax returns public even if her husband wins the White House and she becomes the first lady.
Yeah. And she forgot to add, "And that's a big if. C'mon, America. Why do you think I have a pre-nup that's been in effect for 28 years?"
Obama must be feelin' good about the old ball & chain today, eh?
To read the blogosphere (post The Agenda with Mark Steyn and his Accusers) you'd think the three law students who debated him on the show are somewhat less than legitimate citizens, students, and debaters. There's no reason for anyone to be saying this other than the fact that flat out bigotry, probably fueled by articles such as the ones printed by Macleans which cast a wide aspersions net on the characters of Muslims and which are being objected to, finally, has replaced reason in what was never a debate.
Because it wasn't/isn't a debate, it's just been termed one by Mark Steyn et al to lend some political correctness to what is really just one-sided bigoted scapegoating and fear and loathing of Muslims that has, as I say, finally been met with a few Muslim Canadians saying, "What the hell? Shut the Front Door!"
There's no debate because all that has happened is that Mark Steyn and Friends, who think Muslims are a threat to western civilization for various reasons that don't really make any sense to anyone who doesn't start from the bigoted position that Muslims = bad, are being called on their bullshit by the people they've been maligning. Finally. I mean really, what does someone who doesn't start from the Muslims = bad position say to people who do start from that position other than, "Hitler called - he wants his opinions back"?
That does not for a debate make.
Anyway, the three students I saw who debated Mark Steyn were very Canadian as far as all appearances go - unlike Mark Steyn, who doesn't even live here - and were doing exactly what I would be doing in their shoes at their age - taking on The (Old) Man. Because Mark Steyn is absolutely a propagandist for the Establishment, he's not some free speech advocate at large, and all he's been doing with his alarmist rhetoric since 9/11 is banging the war drum. In other words, he makes up crazy supporting arguments for the bigger crazier argument being made by the United States government that a War on Terror is necessary because Muslims = bad. I mean, it's always been bigoted, but when you print article after article after article in a country built on immigration and supposedly independent of the crazy neighbour busily wreaking havoc around the world, eventually the wrong (in your opinion - or why the articles at all?) people are going to read one and quite legitimately wonder what the hell is going on with all the bigotry suddenly filling the pages of OUR national newsmagazine.
TimHortonsIsWatchingYou
Three managers greeted her, saying she had been caught on video, giving free food to a child.
Three managers on one shift? Cripes, talk about top heavy management. But what about the baby? The baby took the timbit, afterall. Shouldn't s/he be charged as an accessory?
Anyway, I've always wanted to boycott Tim Hortons, ever since those roll up the rim to win commercials. And I had no idea about the surveillance cameras, so now I have an even better reason to boycott the chain. In the meantime, I think the fired employee should challenge this statement:
Giving food away free is against the rules, said Tim Hortons district manager Nicole Mitchell.
I mean, make Tim Hortons prove that timbits are actually food. Because food should have a level of nutrition to qualify as food, I think, and I doubt timbits would make the grade.
I also have it on good authority (an employee of Tim Hortons) that they use various methods to prevent homeless people from eating any of the truckloads of food they throw out every day.
But seriously, why is Tim's so beloved by Canadians, anyway, when it's essentially just a coffee seller, and the coffee industry is probably doing more to destroy our habitat than anything else we've got going on consumatron-wise?
Is it too late for Ralph Nader to declare his candidacy? Because that would be heelarious. And he could justify it on the grounds that Obama cuts loose supporters for being too black and Hillary wants the Presidency so bad she won't give up until Mason Dixon knocks her out.
MyMomWearsBiggerArmyBootsThanYourMom
I know I shouldn't dare, but, geez louise, nothing like waiting until the real fight's over to show up with your cyber posse: "Where's he at? Let's kick some already been kicked butt. Like, some more. Again. Oop. He's moving. Runnnnnn! Leave the injured behind! Runnnnnn!"
Was that Mark Steyn's first time on television?! Holy crap. I almost feel bad now. I had no idea he suffered from... something... Telephobia? It was like watching Vinny defend his cousin at the beginning of My Cousin Vinny except Vinny has court rage, the cousin is guilty, and the judge is having major regrets that he's agreed to try the case.
Breaking down in tears would have been an improvement. Me, breaking down in tears, I mean. As it was, I cut my viewing with laundry duties. I mean, and he would have punched somebody in the face if he'd known this, but at one point while he was sitting there defending his not-even-race-based theories, there was a crawler at the bottom of the screen, "What's wrong with Mark Steyn?" I kid you not! My viewing companion and I were laughing so hard we were like, "TVO. Stop. Please. Enough with the comedy. This is killing us already."
Seriously, it was like Mark Steyn set himself up to look like a total wad on television and TVO was like, "Uh... okay...", and decided to run a poll during the show. "What's wrong with Mark Steyn?" Gee, I dunno. HE'S CRAZY?! Steve Paikin looked like the time he had the Israeli/Palestinian show and they were discussing terroritory and the Israeli side said it was all fair and good and then the map went up showing the actual amount of terroritory that had been taken over by the Israelis from the Palestinians and it was like, "Okayyyyy... so... the map would indicate... uh..." I mean, it's not like he could turn to the Palestinian side of the panel and say, "It's game over. Okay. Thanks for coming. Bye."
Man, it was game over even before Mark Steyn started shouting at the Kid Lawyers from somewhere off camera during THEIR 15 minutes with Steve Paikin. But it was really game over when he did because then the camera would pan over to him where he was stranded sitting in a chair looking to be facing the wall as if he'd been sent to the corner for a time-out. I half expected to hear him shout off camera, "Make-up! I need some make-up here! These lights are making me sweat like a Chinaman at an SPCA meeting!"
It didn't help his case that one of the three Muslim law students was a dead ringer for Howie Mandel, either. And that the other two were women - without head coverings and all the other stereotyping rigamarole. And when Steve went around the panel asking them their origins, my companion was like, "I hope he doesn't ask Steyn his origins - those students have probably been in Canada longer than he has".
He didn't. I guess it wasn't relevant to ask the guy accusing an entire group of Canadians of being a menace by virtue of their backgrounds, just how Canadian HE is - the one with the (Boer?) accent and all.
Anyway, without going into the HRC complaint (and instead of attacking the students, if Steyn had any smarts he'd have ignored the fact that they used a legitimate avenue to lodge a legitimate complaint as defined by that avenue, and focused on the fact that there's an avenue at all - I mean, you can't blame them for using the system - unless you want to look crazy) Steyn himself made it clear in his attempt to defend them that his arguments are... to be generous? Kooky.
What's next? He'll sue the students et al for defamation. Cripes, maybe even sue TVO for having him on the show and ruining his reputation.
Yes, indeed. If you thought the great Freedom of Speech debate couldn't get any more tedius and repetitive, tune into The Agenda tonight at 8:00 p.m. TheAgenda:AnIslamophobicNutSpeaksOut
The pre-script is on Steyn's blog, if you want to catch up on the latest paranoid conspiracizing from the leader of the Freedom Five, but I'll warn you - he's added Steve Paikin to the list of Islamic Terrorists, Feminists, Muslim women (for having more babies than their Christian sisters), Liberals, Socialists, Conservatives (since they currently oversee our HRCs), and, of course, our HRCs - who are all out to get him.
Ah, how clever you are, Mark Steyn, to have uncovered the diabolical plot of Steve Paikin to get you on The Agenda for a one on one and the opportunity to state your case on public television to the types of viewers who enjoy watching political discourse based on information.
Anway, the whole thing has made me feel like an Internet Pariah because I don't agree with the people defending the HRCs (which seem to only take complaints from people in the know - which is to say, people who have no real need for an HRC because they're making a complaint to one, if you catch-22 my drift - and also, I think it's all a bit McCarthyish for 2008) but I also don't agree that Mark Steyn is some kind of free speech hero just because he got called on his halfwit bigotry. Because bigotry is one thing, but halfwit bigotry is just embarrassing for all of us. Unlike homosexuality, halfwit bigotry is best kept in the closet. That's what my Scottish bachelor Uncle (and professor of CanLit) used to say, anyway, "Always yell your racist slurs in the closet where you're sure not to be overheard by one of those visiting white slave trade professors from Africa passing by your room."
Sigh. It's hard having opinions so superior to those of other humanoids. You'd think it'd be easy, but it really isn't.
LauraBushBashesBurmaJuntaForIneptResponseToStorm
Is she doing that on purpose, do you think? I mean, it's possible she can't stand George, either, and is just trying to fuck him over. But if you listened closely during the press conference, apparently you could hear him yelling in the background, "Hey, Stupid Lady - it's Mirrormar now!"
You know, if I was Hillary Clinton and I was running for the Democratic Party's nomination and I knew my only competition had a showboat pastor happy to hold forth to the voting public about his jussssst slightly less than legitimate beliefs, I'd corner the market on bullhorns and say, "Here you go, Sir - let it all out - I FEEL YOUR PAIN!"
I mean, c'mon. Obama's already got a legacy, she wants the Presidency.
And then, when she's snatched that nomination away from "The One", she can hand the bullhorns over to McCain's gruesome pastor, the unholy RevRend Hagee. Oh man, that McCain will be so sunk once that Hagee gets airing his beef with unholy America, thanks be to Gawd.
Ah, Disney girls. Remember Annette Funicello in the Mickey Mouse club? I don't, but I bet a few old men do. Gawd. I wonder what it was like for them watching the Mickey Mouse club with their little girls and there's Annette singing the Mousekateer song with her huge breasts and those cute little Mickey Mouse club ears, all winks and smiles and sparkle and dimples, nodding "yes!", and not even close to legal.
Which brings me to Antonia Zerbisias, who has this column on the go: That'sRight,I'mBabysitting-$100/Hour-JustInCaseTorStarTanks
But seriously, who the hell is Hannah Montana?
Just kidding. I have a vague idea. But it's amazing how out-of-the-loop parents can get when they stop paying any attention to what their kids are into. The other day, for instance, I said something I thought was relevant to the teen scene which was met with the most incredulous stares that I felt like how George W. Bush must feel every time he opens his mouth in front of a microphone - you know, if he had any feelings left after all that cocaine he shovelled up his nose when he was barely middle-aged and still trying to find himself.
And he's President of the United States. Speaking of which, I guess "Say no to drugs or you'll never grow up to be President of the United States" doesn't carry much weight with the kids these days, eh? I mean, everybody can think you're a drug-brain-damaged moron, but, you know, with luck, some Terrorists! might come along and fly a plane into a building and Americans will vote for you as President. Assuming they already did, of course, and you're a sitting President so you can make the transition from joke to hero. Seamlessly.
Or maybe even with a photo spread in the same Vanity Fair currently showcasing sex kitten, Hannah Montana, showcasing you and your team (heheh - remember Donald Rumsfeld?) on the job in the Oval Office, all heroic-looking and posed for all the world like action heroes.
So yes, back to Hannah Montana. The thing about kids and pop culture is, it all moves so fast it's hard to keep up. And, unless it's Raffi or Sharon, Lois and Bram, it's pretty much guaranteed to be dreck, but, if you look closely, you'll notice that some little girls never grow out of the Hannah Montana phase. I mean, I'm not pointing any fingers, but SOMEBODY is buying Mariah Carey CDs. Maybe a lot of them are the mothers of Hannah Montana fans. Gulp. Or worse - their Dads.
There's just no accounting for taste, is the real problem, here. Afterall, people bought Billy Ray Cyrus (real life Daddy/Manager of Miley Cyrus, aka Hannah Montana) CDs, too. So, is the problem that little girls are gyrating in thongs and lipstick to Hannah Montana? Or that they aren't doing it to say... Brahms? Or Debussy? Or even, Madonna?
I say the above because I can remember at least one of my kids gyrating to Madonna's Immaculate Collection with her Sailor Moon doll, which we had to seriously elbow a couple of thousand shoppers out of the way to get to, sticking them with the Sailor Jupiters (bwahahahahaha) - and now she's a scholarship student just one level away from taking her dance teacher exams - which Madonna was at one time, too, ironically - EVEN THOUGH her dad (and wicked stepmother) wouldn't let her watch television growing up.
Whaddaryagonna do? As a parent, you can THINK tv is just the best babysitter ever, but the next thing you know, they've figured out how to get from TVO to MuchMoreMusic and while they're developing a taste for Norwegian death metal, you're forking out $100 a month to Rogers because Ted, the evil prick, knows that, as long as he keeps MuchMoreMusic isolated in one of the expensive packages, parents have to pay him big-time for their kids' love.
Anyway, the thing that always gets me about us (adults, I mean, particularly the fakers like Ken Whyte of Macleans' "Skank" cover fame, speaking of that evil prick, Ted Rogers) is that we seem to forget how sexual(ized) WE were when WE were kids. Cripes, I remember being in grade five and having a crazy 8 dress that was so short, every time I went to the blackboard (which was a lot because I was smart - and am still - am smart I are) and raised my arm to write, the boys (and the girls, who were sooooo jealous that I'd thought of it first) could see my sexy underwear (plaid nylon panties that I'd stolen from my older sister, the queen of all things hot, and not just in Sault Ste. Marie, either).
But, (and here's where Macleans editor Ken Whyte would really point a hard (heheh) "Skank!" finger at ten-year-old me), I was really doing it for our teacher, who was from Guyana and whom we all had a crush on because he was tall, dark and handsome. And at the risk of totally freaking out any of my NeoNewCon readers - MUSLIM!
I took him on about the Muslim thing, by the way (I wasn't always as politically correct as I am now) but he just laughed and said, "Lots of people are Muslim, ten-year-old Sooey". Whoa. No kidding, dude. I think you forgot to mention that lots of people are TERRORISTS!, too.
But those were simpler days, of course. Although, I should probably point out that he was kind of tenacious about the "being different" thing because the next day, he brought in a bag of cow eyes. Seriously. It was either a brilliant tactical move, "You think you little jerks are tough? - Look at (heehee) what I eat for breakfast - cow eyes on toast!", or, now I think of it, an early and clumsy attempt at conversion.
Nevertheless, in spite of the crazy 8 dress (or perhaps because of it, who knows, stupid retarded boys AND Mr. X) I was also a virgin (unlike all the girls in the grade six half of our grade five/six split, but, like I said, it was the Sault) until I was over 18 - mostly because I was smart, but also because I thought any guy who liked me must be perverted or have some kind of serious mental defect and so if he liked me even a mote, the sensible thing to do was to run away home to fantasize safely in my purple bedroom about Bob Dylan or Gene Hackman or, and here's where it gets a bit weird, David Brenner.
Of course, I grew out of that phase (shortly after I turned 18 and uncovered the mysteries of sex - penis/vagina, penis/vagina, penis/vagina) to assume that I could have any man I wanted - an assumption which proved to be quite correct as it turned out, but don't tell my mother because she'd just say "I told you so" (her advice to us on sex was pretty much "be careful - men are hard to get rid of") - and the knowledge that sex appeal is indeed a very powerful thing and, like good taste, some of us have it and some of us buy Mariah Carey and Billy Ray Cyrus CDs.
But such is life and the unfairness of it all. Still, the undeniable fact of choice is that people will make bad ones and the more choices there are out there combined by the sheer numbers of people making them, well, it's all going to add up to a lot of bad taste and tacky purchases and gyrating little girls in thongs and lipstick. The upside is that some of them will grow out of it to become Norwegian death metal fans AND there's E-bay for the Sailor Moon memorabilia. Unless you get saddled with one of those kids who won't let her Dad (aka Mr. E-Bay) sell off all her tacky childhood crap. Then you have to get into a little contracting out and items known as "The Disappeared", but it can be done.
Trust me. Oh yeah. It can be done.
What can't be undone, is Madonna. Man, she's like The Terminator/Energizer Bunny or something, eh? I mean, when do we all get to grow out of Madonna? It's like she is/was some kind of marketing genius the way her videos hold up with each new round of little girls gyrating to "Papa Don't Preach" - which, by the way - all you new parents out there - don't bother trying to explain abortion to little girls. I know, I know, can we explain, at least, Sooey, why we're vaccinating them, or not, for the HP virus? Well, yes, because otherwise, they get all their information from the advertisers for Merck-Frosst, because, you know, Hannah Montana isn't selling sex so much as she's selling Disney which depends on advertising to keep Ol' Walt frozen in his crypt so when he comes back from the dead - OMIGAWD! - movie rights!! Stamped it!! "Zombie Walt & The Disney Girl Cult Killers"
... And you can't see them because you don't have "special" glasses.
It doesn't even take a reading between the lines to get to the bottom line of the argument put forth by NeoNewCon pundits regarding freedom of speech in this country. It is essentially this, that the Islamic Menace is bigoted, too, and that its SpokesImams are anti-Semitic.
Fair enough. Although, you'd think we'd have laws against that kind of thing.
Also, what I've come to realize from a quick glance over their columns (I can't listen to them or watch them, I can only scan them, until the day I can't even do that) is that NeoNewCon pundits really and truly believe the Islamic Menace is real, as real as the Liberal Media and the Socialists who run the world and the climate change fraud being perpetrated on us all by the weather.
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The federal minister in charge of Canada's multiculturalism file cautioned an anti-racism conference Friday against exploiting the power of human rights commissions to silence offensive speech.
Now, I tend to agree with them that SpokesImams are, well, let's just say that if they aren't anti-Semitic, they sure are good at pretending they don't care for "The Jews". But religion has a kind of one-way protection under hate speech laws that allows its SpokesPoohbahs to say whatever, really, doesn't it, while the rest of us are left shaking our fists at the television, radio, newspaper (because they all have pulpits in popular media, these days, just like REAL pundits) in elitist secular humanist frustration at the stupidity of the masses of all faiths.
Believe me, as a woman, and a Feminist, blahblahblahdeeblah, stridently. And yaddayadda with extra shrill on top.
So, in defence of the NeoNewCons, I suppose it IS scary when you believe so fervently in your own propaganda that it appears as if everybody else is just mindlessly heading down to the basement to check out an eerie sound, even though the lights aren't working and there's a killer zombie on the loose, nodding in agreement that our free speech laws are outdated and unfair and somebody should maybe do something about them some day, and tsk tsking about political correctness gone wild, all the while heading over to the darkest scariest corner of the basement where the killer zombie waits with his axe, still dripping with the blood of the family dog he slaughtered outside because he's sick of transporting drooling canines in his taxi... er... oops. I've gone too far with what it must look like to NeoNewCons.
Or have I?
Aw c'mon. I thought America was all about free speech and anything goes and let's hear it because we can handle it. What gives? I mean, somebody must agree with what RevRend Wright is saying or he wouldn't be saying it - would he? It's not like he just pulled those beliefs Obama's so quick to distance himself from out of his ass, you know, for effect during a campaign featuring a black man as the very possible winner of the Presidency. Unless he did. In which case, why are we talking about it at all? Meanwhile, if some Americans, really and truly, deeply believe that the government of the United States caused AIDS, then that doesn't say much for the faith in their country all Americans are supposed to have according to their own propaganda does it. And I'm not sure what the point is, or how it's any different than what every American politician has always done, if those beliefs are ignored just because they don't jive with other, more mainstream beliefs, such as the belief that there was a Patient 1, a flight attendant, from Air Canada, who caused AIDS. I mean, Obama started out as the non-politician (supposedly, at least, that's how he was packaged and delivered on Oprah - as the non-politician) so how come he's doing what politicians always seem to do when the people around them speak THEIR truth, one that isn't the politically correct truth of America the Beautiful, land of the brave, home of the free, blahblahblah.
There's a new Angus Reid poll (April 16-17 online survey of 1,015 adults) claiming Canadians have lost respect for journalists, along with politicians and lawyers. The reason given for the loss of respect for journalists is the proliferation of media.
Really? That's pretty stupid. The reason should be because of media ownership/concentration.
Apparently, Bob Rae gave the reason why politicians are down in polled opinion. Again. He said it was because politicians are always running each other down, that politics focusses too much on the negative and people are tired of it.
Really? I think people have less respect for politicians because they prop each other up, that politics doesn't focus enough on the negative, that it's kind of an inside club up on the Hill with an Opposition afraid to take any risks in case it loses an election. Again.
But, quite frankly, who cares what pollsters tell us we think when there's absolutely no good reason to have any respect whatsoever for pollsters OR the people they poll? I mean, really.
Yes, yes. The wage gap between immigrant men and native born Canadian men is what it is and it's hard getting a job in your chosen profession here if your qualifications come from elsewhere.
Sigh. Well, maybe take a look at the wage gap between native born Canadian women and native born Canadian men and you'll feel better, immigrant men.
Then try getting a job in Ottawa if you don't speak French fluently but speak and write English well enough to have a university degree in it.
I know, I know - cry me a river:
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Redderneck Update:
Hey for that matter, try getting a job at French CBC if you aren't a Separatiste. It's a stupid country, Canada. Right now, there's a government recruiting drive on to hire bilingual minorities (so if you speak French...) from across Canada, even though the government can't keep up with the level of French testing it requires for existing employees, who are under constant and unrelenting pressure to pass increasingly difficult levels of French testing, in spite of the fact that most of them will never ever use French in the course of doing their jobs. It's just this giant stupid grabillion dollar hoop everybody has to jump through over and over and over until they either retire or die.
Okay. See you over at smalldeadanimals, leftard lieberal moonbats.
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And apparently, quite mad. Quite. Mad:
What stopped him was that nobody was going to see Baby at the nearest Organic Whole Food Recycled Coffee House Eco Co-op & Dental Clinic. Which makes Baby a prop. A political prop, which Jones whipped out at the right time to further her cause.
Uh... Yah... Her cause... Which would be...?
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As if we were pretending to be in a lefty commitee, but were really in the midst of Schindler's List, except the precious things we were being asked to beg and negotiate over weren't human beings, but freedoms, democracy, and the reputation of Mark Steyn and Ken Whyte, amongst other things.
Hm. My advice? Maybe leave off the reputations of Mark Steyn and Ken Whyte to lighten the load for the journey on up the freedom road.
... But, having just done my taxes, I'd dearly like to know who the numbnutters were who voted for these cocknob New Conservatives.
Ouch, baby. Coincidentally, just after Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi complained at an OPEC summit that: "Canada is one of the world's costliest oil producers and requires high prices to remain viable" - a clause was added to the Energy Independence and Security Act that effectively bars the U.S. government, in particular the Department of Defense, from using Alberta crude because it is deemed unconventional and too dirty. I kid you not. Oil. Unconventional. And dirty, to boot.
Well, shut the front door - it ISN'T all about the oil. It's all about the environment. Gosh. Saudi Arabia. Leading the way to tomorrow.
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