Wankers of the Week: All gone to shit

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Crappy weekend, everyone! Oh gawd, what a week it’s been. Not only is misogyny having a moment, so are misanthropy and malaise. It’s enough to give one the cramps, which is exactly what it did to me. If you’ve been wondering where I’ve been hiding for the last couple of days, I got two words for you: THE BATHROOM. And if you wonder who sent me there, here they are…in no particular order:

1. Mahbod Fucking Moghadam. Yup, nothing like the mediocre memoirs — oh sorry, “manifesto” — of a failed pickup artist turned mass killer turned suicide to bring out the drooling australopithecine grunter in us all. If you ever wondered just how inane the overhyped wiz-kids of Silicon Valley really are, here’s a particularly shiny example. This one decided to use his own website, supposedly dedicated to deciphering rap lyrics, to wax rhapsodic — i.e. RIDICULOUS — about said “manifesto”. Thus proving that Rap Genius has precious little to do with rap, never mind genius. PS: And he resigns. Not that it changes much of anything, but hey.

2. Robi Fucking Ludwig. Only on FUX Snooze would they try to link everything back to homosexuality…including the frustrated, murderous, HETEROSEXUAL impulses of a killer who had sworn revenge on “feminism”, which he essentially defines as “women who dared to reject wonderful perfect princely ME ME ME FUCKING ME!” PS: Aaaand she’s fired. Alas, not by FUX Snooze, but by Coldwell Banker…who, quite reasonably, wouldn’t want to face a potential backlash by gay clients.

3. Franklin Fucking Graham. You might not want to be called “a homophobic” [sic], but you’ve earned it, so OWN it. Claiming to “love the sinner and hate the sin” still makes same-sex love out to be a sin, when all’s said.

4. Bibi Fucking Netanyahu. Jesus was an Israeli! O RLY? And he spoke Hebrew! Um, no. Nobody back then was speaking Hebrew anymore, only chanting it during services in the temple. Well, at least the Pope got it right; he said Aramaic. Bibi, on the other hand, just had to argue. And how hilarious, too, that he tried to claim exclusively for Israel a man whom all Palestinians revere as a prophet, and the Christian ones as a savior, to boot.

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5. Kenneth Fucking Lewis. Nice no-pology you done there. Smells like a steaming pile of horseshit, too. How about a REAL one next time, preferably with no self-justification?

6. Daniel Fucking Calhon. Holding your breath is for walking past graveyards, not driving through tunnels. Know your idiotic superstitions!

7. Margaret Fucking Wente. No, women are NOT “hard-wired” to want to look perfect all the time. That’s bullshit social conditioning. Also, we’re tired of hearing “lean in”; some of us are already flat on our faces from it. And, BTW, last time I saw you, you weren’t looking so hot either.

8. Samuel Fucking Wurzelbacher. Fuck you and fuck your “constitutional rights”. Last time I looked, the right to live was also enshrined in the US constitution, well before the Second Amendment, and you know what that means? It means that that trumps ALL “right” to own guns, you stupid gun-sucking motherfucker. PS: And he’s still whining about that. Gawd, what a gigantic baby.

9. Todd Fucking Kincannon. Why?

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That’s why. Gunsuckers are the ultimate in cowards, and no, your son would NOT have been “shooting back” — because that’s how so-called “collateral damage” happens, as any RESPONSIBLE shooter would tell you, you fucking SEXIST moron. When some guy is shooting at random from a moving vehicle, there’s not even any time for “shooting back”.

10. Cliven Fucking Bundy. Joining a “new” party full of fringe wackalopes? Good. Please take all the other idiots with you, too.

11. Gordon Fucking Klingenschmitt. For the thousandth time, John Jacob Jingleheimer…trans people are not interested in “raping your girls”. They’re using public washrooms for the same things everyone else is: go to the toilet, wash hands, mirror check, and DONE. Why is it so hard to understand that a trans woman is, in fact, at risk of being raped herself if she uses the men’s room?

12. Pat Fucking Robertson. No, Patwa, a man doing household chores doesn’t need cookies — or sex — in return. It’s HIS house too, remember? Of course he’s going to have to contribute to the upkeep of it. Especially if his wife works too. Just imagine if the gender roles were reversed here how ludicrous your “advice” would sound. Does a man owe sex to a female breadwinner? Does she owe him chores to prove she “loves” him?

13. Stephen Fucking Harper. Oh look, Prime Minister Pipeline is now trying to rebrand himself as the “environmental” PM. As if we’d forget that he’s the one who fucking WRECKED our environment by ramming through every possible pro-petrobusiness piece of legislation he could.

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14. Rush Fucking Limbaugh. Yeah, let’s not politicize a tragedy by blaming macho-man right-wing values and sexism and the Man Card gun culture. No, let’s pin the tail on the usual donkey here: THE MOVIES! After all, Elliot Rodger’s dad worked in them. Yeah, that makes so much more sense! Oh yeah, and let’s also blame women’s bare, seductive butts while we’re at it. Somebody’s been reading Warren Fucking Farrell, methinks.

15. Daryush Fucking Valizadeh. Yeah, let’s not examine right-wing macho-man values and sexism and the bullshit that is pickup artistry. No, let’s just blame women for not giving Elliot Rodger the nookie that he was owed. Better still, let’s blame him for not having good enough “game”; never mind that THERE IS NO MAGIC KEY TO GETTING SEX OUT OF WOMEN. HE TRIED IT AND FUCKING FAILED! Sorry for the ALL FUCKING CAPS shouting, but this cannot be said loudly or often enough for these fake-ass losers with bullshit books to hawk. Or their dim-witted followers, either.

16. Aaron Fucking Aranza. Add one more item to the ever-growing list of things you can’t do while black: Dancing with your friend at her 15th birthday party. Her dad might take a poke at you, and he might also beat the shit out of her just for good measure.

17. Julia Fucking Gasper. Riddle me this: How does dying from a violent assault on a cold night while tied, crucifixion-style, to a fence, constitute “fraud”? Because that’s how Matthew Shepard died, and that’s what this idiot thinks he is (and all other hate crime victims, too). At this rate, it’s little wonder that she lost an election. Might want to work on that platform a bit, eh?

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18. Donna Fucking Edmunds. Speaking of “might want to work on that platform a bit”, how about this flibbertigibbertarian? She thinks it’s “fascist indoctrination” to attend equality training, and that shops should have a right to refuse to serve women. On that latter point, I agree with her — any shop that sees HER coming should lock its doors. Just, you know, so she sees the flaw in her argument.

19. Evan Fucking Spiegel. Aaaaand THIS is why Snapchat sucks. Anything conceived by fratboys is automatically a piece of crap.

20 and 21. Glenn Fucking Beck and Stu Fucking Burguiere. It’s always a good time for rape jokes, right??? Of course right…because beer commercials are totally based on real life experiences!

22. Keith Fucking Ablow. Let’s get a few things straight here, since FUX Snooze’s resident schmexologist is determined to screw them up: Lorena Bobbitt didn’t “castrate” her husband for “cheating” on her, she cut off his dick because he raped and abused her. And of course a man doesn’t have a right to force a woman to carry a pregnancy to term just because “it’s my baby too”. (Yours, Keith? What are you, a sperm donor?) In Canada, we got our last abortion law struck down over precisely that fact. And yet, he thinks that’s “crazy”? No. What’s crazy is that men are still getting to make all the decisions about what goes on in women’s bodies. And women are paying the price for this bullshit. That’s what’s fucking crazy.

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23. Rudolph Fucking Randa. Pardon me, yeronner, but your breath stinks of…KOCH. Must be all those junkets you’ve been on. That’s a conflict of interest, if I’m not mistaken. It’s also illegal and should have led to a recusal. So, why didn’t it? And please don’t give us any more of that “political speech” crap. Money-driven politics is not about freedom of speech, but about drowning out the speech of anyone who doesn’t have the doh-re-mi.

24. Earl Fucking Cheney. Since when is it a restaurant’s job to police gender norms? Oh, about since NEVER. And no, your daughter is not a “young lady”, she’s a young BIGOT. Just like her bigoted old man taught her to be. Decent ladies — and gentlemen — of any age don’t go around calling other people fags. PS: Ha, ha.

25. Naaman Fucking Adcock. I don’t know what’s the difference between “Jewish brains” and any other kind, but I’m pretty sure that threatening to blow them out of your own stepson while you’re stinking drunk yourself is one helluva wank.

26. Daniel Fucking Sohn. Dumping your dog without even filling out papers explaining your reasons for doing so is a wank; making shitty excuses when the animal tries to follow you home again is an even bigger wank. I’m not a dog person, but this sort of thing just sickens me.

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27. Ken Fucking Blackwell. Again with the blame-the-queers for the UCSB massacre. No, no, no, no, fucking NO. How many times does it need to be said that this is not a question of rips in the “social fabric”, but of loopholes for gun acquisition, and the fact that gun culture is misogynous by nature? Jayzus.

28. John Fucking Derbyshire. Oh look, the Perv just couldn’t resist the urge to piss all over the phenomenal Maya Angelou’s casket. Lest we forget, the Perv is the beneficiary of Wingnut Welfare, which is Affirmative Action for talentless, whining, mediocre white men, purveyors of semi-literate gibberish, and formless, meaningless babble (to use his own words, of course). And to top it all off, he’s never read her words…by his own admission. So how does that qualify him to judge her? Oh yeah: He’s white. And Anglo. And an asshole. What more qualification does he need?

29. Robert Fucking Jeffress. Even assuming that same-sex marriage does result in the shutdown of “Christian” hate-radio stations, how is this a BAD thing?

30. Tom Fucking DeLay. And since when, exactly, was God ever a Repug? Such absurd statements could only come from the Bugman, whose brain has clearly fallen victim to his good ol’ exterminator chemicals.

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31. David Fucking Prince. No, Satan isn’t influencing the media coverage of Michael Sam. Unless, of course, Satan takes the form of talent being rightly recognized in spite of the sexual orientation of the talented one.

32. David Fucking Barton. And of course, he defends the Native American genocide. It’s the Christian thing to do!

33. Phil Fucking Robertson. Hey, who better than a phony redneck to tell the Repugs to get right with God? Maybe he and #30 can sneak off for a hit of bug spray after the show, eh?

34. Vinod Fucking Khosla. Again with this nonsensical “I own the beach” shit. No, dude, you do NOT. And your blocking public access to it is illegal, too.

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35. Chris Fucking D’Elia. Who the fuck are you, why the hell are you on TV, and where in fucknation does a ratty-haired dickweed like you get off calling women shitty for calling out misogyny where and whenever it happens…to THEM? Go take your entitled whiny mansplaining elsewhere. Preferably the toilet. And don’t forget to flush. And wash your hands!

36. Rand Fucking Paul. Forget Coachella…the hottest hipster festival is, of course, the flibbertigibbertarian wankfest of Silicon Valley. No cute clothes or flowery headbands, and no music worth listening, but hey! You get to hear him and a whole lotta other pie-in-the-sky types drone on and on and on and on about totally economically disastrous, impracticable shit. Should be a hot ticket.

37. Gurbaksh Fucking Chahal. How to follow up that video of him beating up his girlfriend (over 100 blows in just half an hour, for those counting), and calling her a whore in court? With threats to sue everyone and their little dog, too. Yeah, that’ll get him his credibility back.

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38. Sheri Fucking Few. Tell ya what: I’ll support the teaching of “intelligent design” as science when you support my right to impose pagan school prayers on everyone. Deal?

39. Andrew Fucking David Fucking Truelove. Why the double Fucking? Because that’s how stupid it is to steal signs from memorial playgrounds in the name of Sandy Hook Twooferism. But at least he’s finally been arrested for his vandalism. Now, if only there were some way to make it up to the parents of the victims he claims didn’t ever exist.

40. Riley Fucking Allen Fucking Mullins. Why the double Fucking? Because that’s how moronic it is to purse-snatch someone waiting for the ferry…and then “friend” her on Facebook, perhaps with an eye to casing her house. Happily, that’s how she got the cops onto him.

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And finally, to all the “nice guys” of the PUAhate forum (which, ha ha, had to be shuttered thanks to Elliot Rodger and his lonely todger). If you ever wonder why all the women can’t see what Nice Guys™ you are, maybe it’s because your inner shithead keeps popping out and getting in the way. No, actually, scratch that “maybe”…it’s DEFINITELY because of that. Your unholy combination of entitlement, arrogance, desperation and sociopathy is the problem, not your self-declared “niceness”. And as long as you insist on seeing, treating and talking about us as if we were no more than your just due for being the owner of a boner, you can expect to go on being rejected. All of you are well on the way to being Forever Alone.

Good night, and get fucked!

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The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun…

…is a good guy with a lasso:

In case you can’t see the video, here’s the basic gist:

According to The Atlanta Journal Constitution, deputies said that 25-year-old Celestino Moras showed up drunk at a rodeo in Bartow County on Sunday, and was asked to leave because he was not invited to the event.

The property owner told WSB-TV that Moras pulled out a pistol and opened fire, leaving three shot.

When Moras ran out of bullets, one of the rodeo cowboys reportedly lassoed him. Moras was then beaten by other guests, who tied him up until deputies arrived.

Authorities said that two people were shot in the lower body, and one person was shot in the neck. However, WSB-TV reported that “the three wounded guests suffered only minor injuries and were treated and released from local hospitals.”

A fourth person suffered cuts on the hand from a knife.

Moral of story: Never bring a gun to a knife fight at the OK Corral. Or something like that.

Yee-haw!

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“Not All Men” is still too many

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Not all men are like Elliot Rodger, the 22-year-old who stabbed three roommates to death before going out on a shooting spree motivated by an unholy cocktail of misogyny, mental illness, and frustration at his “incel” status and his failure at picking up women.

Not all men are like this bunch of hooligans, who took potshots at some young women just for not having sex with them.

Not all men are like Marc Lépine, who went on an antifeminist crusade with a Ruger, killing 14 women and wounding several other people.

Not all men are like the boys who harassed me on an almost daily basis when I was between the ages of 12 and 17 — the same ages which, according to Julie Lalonde, demarcate the age bracket in which the greatest number of males will commit sexual assault.

Not all men are like the stoned-looking weirdo who sat masturbating in his car in broad daylight while asking me for directions to a street just a few blocks from where I lived during my student days in Kingston.

Not all men are like the older man who rudely propositioned me behind the wheel of his car when I was 20, grabbing my hand and sticking my finger in his mouth and telling me he wished it were my nipple.

Not all men are like the young guy who pulled up to the curb next to me in Toronto and tried to get me into his car, thinking I was for sale just because I was female and walking alone.

Not all men are harassers, rapists, murderers or creeps. But tell that to any woman who’s ever had a too-close encounter with one of them. “Not all men” is cold comfort to an awful lot of women.

“Not all men” is no comfort to me. I still have trust problems thanks to all those guys who made my life a shitpile over the course of my formative years.

“Not all men” is no comfort to one who was a student, and volunteering at the Queen’s Women’s Centre, when the Montréal Massacre went down. I remember how so many of the victims were in exactly my own age bracket then, too. It’s no comfort to me, because I went to school — and the Women’s Centre — terrified that I could have been next. And if not me, then maybe some other young woman I knew.

“Not all men” are why I keep saying “No thanks, I’d rather walk” when offered a ride by a “kindly” male stranger — or even a “nice” guy I know. “Not all men” are why I walk away when I see a car with a male driver slowing down as it approaches me. “Not all men” are why I walk faster if there’s a man directly behind me on the sidewalk. “Not all men” are why I flip the bird at any guy who can’t take a polite hint when I want to be left alone.

No, of course not all men are like that. Not even a majority are. At least I hope so. But I honestly don’t know. I’m not the one to tell, because I have run into way too many who were like that.

“Not all men” still covers an awful lot of men.

“Not all men” is still just too damn many, because NO man should be like that.

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Michael Geist on the erosion of privacy in Canada

A very important talk from three days ago, and an hour and a quarter well spent if you care how much privacy you really have online (spoiler: virtually none). And the worst part is, all this spying and spooking is about to be enshrined in a law that you, the citizen, did NOT get to vote on.

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Music for a Sunday: Always the blackfly, no matter where you go

Couldn’t find any songs about picking wild asparagus, and couldn’t think of any either. But this one is still relevant, and not just in Northern Ontario, either. Early spring is blackfly season here in the South, too.

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Wankers of the Week: Robbo’s Rehab, Part Derp

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Crappy weekend, everyone! Well, how about that Rob Fucking Ford. Even in rehab, Robbo still manages to fuck up royally…and it’s confirmed that he really is there…in beautiful Muskoka cottage country as the season kicks off, how convenient. Especially for the woman who drunk-drove his Cadillac Escalade and got busted for it. And she left her fancy watch in his room, too! Oh, oh…Robbo is really in the doghouse now. I’m sure his long-suffering wife is just counting the days till he gets out so she can serve him those divorce papers. Meanwhile, here’s who else is full of shit…and in it up to their eyeballs:

1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Andrew Fucking Clark, Michael Fucking Church, Andrew Fucking Clements, Richard Fucking Morrison, and Rupert Fucking Christiansen. What are you, music critics or poo-flinging monkeys? Opera fans are not amused by the updates from your sad, badly-aging boners. Nobody cares what you think about how a young female singer is built, or whether she pleases your eyes. People read you to know what your EARS picked up, you fucking clods. How about reviewing her SINGING, next time? And if you can’t do that, maybe it’s time you were replaced by someone younger and sharper who knows what the hell they’re there for.

6. Timothy Fucking Johnson. The best way to deal with a text-messaging whoops is to accept that mistakes happen. The worst way? Well, that’s the way this wanker did it, which is to put a 14-year-old girl’s number up on Craigslist for every pervert to send dickpix to. And to harass her and her mother instead of accepting their apologies for dialling the wrong number.

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7. Eric Fucking Schmidt. No, you are NOT entitled to more privacy than anyone else. And if you think you are, why the hell are you at the helm of one of the world’s biggest privacy-invaders?

8. Corey Fucking McCarthy. What the hell do you think a not-yet-two-year-old is going to learn from being thrown in a pool when she can’t swim? Oh, that her sperm donor is a fucking jerk and a near murderer. What else?

9. Lonnie Fucking Hutton. Because it wouldn’t be a real wankapedia without a real wanker, here you go. Get this one drunk, and he will hump every inanimate thing from ATMs to picnic tables. Murfreesboro, how’d you get so lucky?

10. Matt Fucking Barber. This guy’s more obsessed with gay sex and bestiality than those who actually practice those things are. I fully expect that any day now, we’ll hear that he’s been caught with his pants down…behind a stallion. (Or maybe in front of one…yeah, he looks like the type.)

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11. Rick Fucking Santorum. Meanwhile, Icky Ricky vows he’ll die trying to stop same-sex marriage. Strangely, I’m quite all right with this. Do it for the children, Buttsploodge!

12. Robert Fucking Keller. So, you don’t think you have to face criminal charges for uttering death threats against a black kid? That you were only uttering your “opinion” when you thought an innocent child should be put to death for living with white relatives and socializing with white kids? Well, that’s just, like, YOUR opinion, dude.

13. Katy Fucking Kasmai. Ever wonder why Google Glass users are fast gaining a reputation as privacy-invading, ill-mannered assholes? Here’s one more shining example of their “activism” for a world where everything is always on camera, everywhere. Glassholes of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your good names!

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14. Ted Fucking Cruz. Teddy, if you’re going to go flinging wild accusations about political parties and what they plan to do to free speech, shouldn’t you, you know, actually cite fact? Because the First Amendment doesn’t protect the right to lie, and it never did. Wasn’t designed to, in fact. Freedom of speech is not an absolute right anywhere in the world, and as much as that may shock you, it’s also the truth.

15. Adam Fucking Carolla. No, Adam, there is no “gay mafia”, in Hollywood or anywhere else. If there were, would Ellen Page have had to stand there with her voice quavering while she came out? And yes, by saying such things, you are in fact outing yourself as a homophobe. Why so insecure?

16. Doug Fucking Ford. Even without Robbo, the Frod Nation shitshow MUST go on! And Dougie most thoughtfully obliged by saying that a group home for disabled kids was ruining the neighborhood and bringing down the property values. Oh…like having Dougie as their municipal council member wasn’t doing that already?

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17. Charles Fucking Van Zant. Shorter: Public schools make kids gay! I do wish that someone would just once explain to me how there are never any gay kids coming out of private schools, say. Or homeschooling. Especially when, in fact, there ARE.

18. Alan Fucking Robertson. Big Daddy Phil is like John the Baptist? Sure he is…if John were a raging, hypocritical homophobe. Somehow, though, the New Testament missed all that.

19. Pat Fucking Buchanan. Hatred for the queers sure is a funny thing. Just a couple of decades ago, he would have been calling Russia a nasty red communist menace, and today he’s calling it a traditional Christian paradise. Christ, old man, get on home to Cthulhu already!

20. Aaron Fucking Brodeski. Internet porn can go to your head…and so, it seems, can obsessively fighting over it. So much so that you forget to use the big one and end up exposing the little one at a gas station. Yup, the Cassock Closet is one helluva place…

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21. Tom Fucking DeLay. No, the US constitution was NOT written by God. The Framers all signed their names to it…and in the case of John Hancock, very very prominently!

22. Ben Fucking Carson. Welfare is evil…but only for OTHER people. Whereas, in his case, it clearly paid off. Why else would he be campaigning against it now?

23. Larry Fucking Klayman. Just because you believe the Moon is made of green cheese, doesn’t make it so. Just because you believe the Earth is flat and the Sun revolves around it, doesn’t make it so. And just because you believe your president was born in Kenya…well, you can guess the rest.

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24. Philip Fucking Irvin. Psssst. Wanna know how to truly, infallibly gay-proof your kids? It’s simple: DON’T HAVE ANY. That’s it!

25. Rafael Fucking Cruz. If school prayer truly helps prevent teen pregnancy, why were there so many pregnant girls at my middle school and high school? We had prayer, and it didn’t fucking work. Maybe comprehensive sex ed would have been better…and condom dispensers in the washrooms, better still!

26 and 27. Richard Fucking Johnson and Mel Fucking Feit. Save the males! Save the males! Um, guys? The masthead at the New York Times is still overwhelmingly male-dominated. Are you forgetting that? Also, if women are getting all the glamorous intellectual jobs these days, why are so few men signing on for the glamorous, intellectual job of wiping babies’ bums?

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28. Jerry Fucking Boykin. When even Dubya thinks you’ve gone too far with the Holy War bullcrap, trust me…you’ve gone too fucking far.

29. Vance Fucking McAllister. Oh, nice. Congressman Snog thinks duct tape and garbage bags are a good way of fixing leaky oil pipelines. Red Green would be proud.

30. David Fucking Foskette. And one more actual wanker! This one’s got a novel reason for creeping around in bushes and exposing himself: namely, his freshly (and fully) waxed nether regions.

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And finally, to the Fucking NRA and Open Fucking Carry gunsuckers who are throwing a stompy tantrum right now because some restaurants won’t let them come in pointing loaded guns at people. I guess it’s not too surprising that a lot of you are little pipsqueaks who’d come out the worse in a hand-to-hand fight; also no surprise that others probably run like pregnant cows. And it’s really, really fucking hilarious that none of you could eat a measly burrito without having to tote an AR-15 or whatever it is that’s popular in penis-compensators these days. What are you, afraid that a hungry Mexican could steal the food right from your hands? Exactly how dangerous ARE chain restaurants, anyway? Surely not so dangerous that you’d have to come in armed. But hey. I’m sure the folks at Chipotle will miss you and your Man Cards terribly now that you’re not in there waving them around and scaring the other patrons off anymore. PS: Ha, ha. Looks like your widdle strategy backfired. Wish your guns would do the same!

Good night, and get fucked!

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Eva’s Ecuadorable day

Lucky duck Eva Golinger gets to spend a day with the president of Ecuador…and even dances with him. I am totally envious. And I won’t even bother to deny it!

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Maria Conchita Alonso’s latest load of bat guano

Oh, oh…what have we here?

Poor dear. It sounds like she’s trying to sing. She’s not doing a very good job. But then again, there are a lot of things Conchita isn’t very good at. Like acting, for example. Or, hell…just acting like a friggin’ human being. Take, for example, this:

Cuban-Venezuelan actress María Conchita Alonso, now a US citizen, has said that she would like for the United States to invade Venezuela “with bullets to get all those damn communists out” of the country.

That was how she put it during an interview on “La Voz de América”, in an audio clip rebroadcast curing the VTV show “Con el Mazo Dando”, hosted by the president of the Venezuelan national assembly, Diosdado Cabello. The clip was also tweeted by the minister of communication and information, Delcy Rodríguez.

On the clip, Alonso, who was born in Cuba but emigrated to Venezuela at a young age, said that what was happening in Venezuela “has repercussions in all of Latin America and even in the United States”.

For that reason, she considers it “very important” to impose sanctions on Venezuela, and proposed “taking visas away from Chavistas, who have been indoctrinated for years, as in Cuba, against this country, but who come here (to the US) and buy houses, horses, and everything.”

The actress added that another sanction should be to freeze their bank accounts, “since this money isn’t theirs, it belongs to Venezuelans.”

“In my opinion, invade the country, since the Cubans invaded without firing a shot, because they’re handing Venezuela over to Cuba, I want the United States to invade with bullets to get all those damn communists out of Venezuela,” said the actress.

Regarding those declarations, Communication and Information minister Delcy Rodríguez stated on her website that “beyond the worrisome threat of invasion to Venezuela, even more serious is the complicity of self-exiled Venezuelans in Miami.” Such is the case, she says, of María Conchita Alonso, “who, rending her garments out of a false love of her country, irresponsibly incites the invasion of the US Marines.”

“We all know the harmful consequences which a North American military invasion would bring about in our land. If we consider the lived experiences of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria, we know that a gringo military invasion would affect the entire nation, and the family lives of the people would be destroyed,” said the minister.

Translation mine. Linkage added.

So we can see that here is another so-called Venezuelan who doesn’t give a shit if the country she claims to love (in such terrible songs) is invaded and destroyed by the US war machine. In fact, as it stands, Conchita doesn’t care that her beloved “freedom-loving” opposition is holding the country for ransom, and has killed at least 40 people in the latest round of violence alone. No, she won’t be happy, and she won’t consider Venezuela free and peaceful, until an overwhelming majority of Venezuelans are shot and killed. For, after all, six out of every ten Venezuelans are Chavistas.

And as we can see, her idea of “freedom” is strange even in the US, where the so-called Venezuelan exiles are anti-Chavista, and in any case, those are the only ones rich enough to buy “houses, horses and everything”. The others, who immigrated due to dire poverty back before Chávez, and who support the Revolution because they remember what life used to be like there, are invisible. They don’t count. After all, they live in the inner cities, indistinguishable from all the other poor, brown Latinos. Does she want to see THEIR bank accounts frozen? There’s not much in them to freeze. Maybe she should call for the freezing of rich “exile” bank accounts, instead. But no, that would be an infringement on good ol’ Murrican freedumb…

As for the part about that money belonging to the Venezuelan people…well, duh! It belongs to the people who brought it, and they do so happen to be Venezuelan. But I don’t hear her saying boo about Jota-Jota. Maybe because his money doesn’t come from Venezuela, but from the Colombian drug trade (among other things)? Maybe. I guess it doesn’t deserve to be part of the latest hypocritical round of sanctions, called for by right-wing dunderheads like Marco “The Clown” Rubio and Bob “The John” Menendez.

And of course, let’s not forget that Conchita’s brother Robert (not Roberto, ROBERT) has a long and extensive history of putschist activities…and an ocean of innocent Venezuelan blood on his hands.

In any case, she has some nerve, clamoring for invasion out of supposed love for a country she hasn’t actually been in for longer than she claims to have been watching it go to hell. “Hell”, of course, being a vast improvement over what it used to be when Conchita was still squatting there.

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Jaime Lusinchi is dead

The former president of Venezuela, Jaime Lusinchi, accuses crooked, putschist media mogul Marcel Granier, of RCTV fame, of being a coward. Savor that hilarious bit of irony, folks, because one of its key players is now an ex-parrot:

Jaime Lusinchi, former president of Venezuela, died after a long illness on Wednesday at 90 years of age in Caracas.

Lusinchi, a pediatrician by profession, was director of the Acción Democrática party (AD), and president of the Republic from 1984 to 1989.

He began his term with a stable economic proposal; however, the situation of the land took a critical turn, partly due to the decisions of his COPEI predecessor Luis Herrera Campíns, who applied foreign exchange measures leading to a more than $700 million drop in the reserves of the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV).

During Lusinchi’s term, there were also irregularities in the running of the currency exchange system in the Office of Differential Exchange (RECADI), including political parties.
His frequent indisposition or absence in working matters, due to his alcoholism and the consequent delegation of many governmental functions to his private secretary and sentimental companion, Blanca Ibañez, made him an object of public questioning and controversy.

As well, Lusinchi maintained a heated, public confrontation with Marcel Granier, director of Grupo 1BC and RCTV, whom he accused of using his communications media to attack [Lusinchi] as retaliation for supposed economic concessions not granted.

Under his rule, two of the crimes against humanity by Puntofijismo in Venezuela took place: the massacre of El Amparo (in the state of Apure), on October 29, 1988; and the Massacre of Yumare (in the state of Yaracuy), May 8, 1986.

At El Amparo, 14 fishermen were murdered by police and military officers in an anti-guerrilla raid ordered by Lusinchi; in Yaracuy, nine civilians were accused of being guerrillas, and murdered by a commission of the old Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention Services (DISIP).

During Lusinchi’s mandate, the Paseo José María Vargas was built in Caracas, the John Paul II Living Complex in Montalbán the second line of the Caracas Metro railway system, and the Domingo Luiciani Hospital in El Llanito.

The second phase of the Guri Hydroelectrical Centre and the San Agatón Hydroelectrical Centre were completed as well.

Following his term as president, in 1993, the old Supreme Court of Justice ordered him to stand trial after finding indicators of corruption, for which reason Lusinchi fled to Costa Rica and Miami.

Translation mine.

I don’t imagine the late Lusinchi will be much lamented, even though the present-day Venezuelan opposition is comprised in some part of his old Adeco supporters. AD and COPEI are both rumps today, and young fascists have replaced old drunken corruptos (and their “sentimental companions”, which is a nice way of saying mistresses). But perhaps Marcelito Granierito will squeeze out a few impotent crocodile tears just for old times’ sake, eh?

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The quest for communist coffee in Venezuela

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Ivana Cardinale is a Venezuelan writer and translator. And last Monday, something very strange happened to her as she was looking for a package of her favorite coffee. Here is her account of that exhausting, exasperating day:

Before I tell you of my experience of Monday, May 19, I want to note that during these last 15 years of Revolution, 14 of them with our Supreme, Eternal and Infinite Comandante, Hugo Chávez, and one with our president, Nicolás Maduro, the opposition have screamed and brayed that in Venezuela there is a dictatorial, Russo-Chinese-Castro-Chavista-child-eating rrrrrrrégime, when in reality, what has existed in our land is the best example of democracy in the world. So exemplary has our democracy been that they had to assassinate the Comandante by inoculating him with a totally unknown cancer, one of those made in the death-laboratories of the CIA, in a desperate attempt to eliminate this democratic model.

Having an exemplary democracy, they have called us communists during all these years, a term whose meaning they ignore. But to the opposition jackasses, who live to insult and underestimate the intelligence of the people, the time has come to jog their memories with concepts.

What is COMMUNISM? It is a system of government or a political movement which promotes the formation of a society without social classes, in which the means of production are common property. This implies that said means cannot exist as private property. This will bring to power the working class, which is the foundation of a true Revolution.

So, now that we’ve reviewed the concept of communism, in Venezuela there exists a society with social classes, the means of production are for the most part private, private property is respected, and the working class continues to struggle for vindication, since many private businesses continue with their exploitative policies.

Now I will tell you what happened to me on Monday. I went out to buy coffee at Automercados Plaza in the Plaza Centre, in Palos Grandes. On Sunday, an employee at said supermarket informed me that they had unloaded a truckload of coffee, and they would put it on sale the following day. “It will be on sale tomorrow,” she told me.

When I arrived on Monday at the market, I looked for the coffee but couldn’t find it. I asked a worker who was putting cookies on the shelf, “Where’s the coffee?” He replied: “THERE IS NO COFFEE.” So I said, “No coffee? But didn’t they unload a whole truck full of it yesterday?” The man, with a fearful face, replied, “That’s in the Excelsior Gama, not here. THERE IS NO COFFEE, THERE IS NO COFFEE,” and fled from me running as if in terror. Might he have thought I was from INDEPABIS?*

Frustrated, I headed for Chacao in my search for the so-desired coffee. I went into Abasto Madrid and asked a box boy: “Is there coffee?” He replied, “No, there isn’t…but look.” Then he pulled out a plastic bag from Abastos Bicentenario and told me, as he showed me two packets of a quarter kilo each, “I got this coffee (Flor de Patria) at 80 bolivars.” Stupefied, I told him I’d go on looking elsewhere.

I went to the Magdalena Supermarket in Chacao, and asked an employee, “Is there coffee?” and the man told me, “Not here, but in Petare** there’s plenty. Go to Petare and see all the coffee the buhoneros*** are selling. Whatever you can’t find here, they have it. When you see people lining up in the supermarkets, most of them are buhoneros. They want to get rich starving the people.”

Here I must make another aside, since it begs the questions: Is there or is there not a law forbidding buhoneros to sell foodstuffs? With what sanitary permit do the buhoneros sell food? Exploitation of the poor by the poor?

Returning to the subject, I went on looking for my coffee and went to the Unicasa on Guaicaipuro Street. Nothing. No coffee. So I went to the Automercado Lux on Francisco de Miranda Avenue. They didn’t have the desired coffee either.

I decided to go back to Palos Grandes and the Excelsior Gama. I came up by the third avenue off Francisco de Miranda, and saw people coming down with bags full of packs of coffee. Each person was carrying some 20 packets of the pricey stuff. They weren’t carrying any other shopping, just packets of coffee, and in those quantities. I sped up in order to get my favorite drink. While I was climbing up, more and more people came down with bags full of coffee. When I entered the supermarket and arrived in the coffee section, a man gave the last two packets remaining to a lady who arrived one second before me.

So I asked the man, “And the coffee?” He replied, “These are the last two packages. It’s gone.” And, fed up with my fruitless search, I said to him, “It’s gone? No wonder it’s gone, since you put out the merchandise and let people take 20 packages, leaving the rest without any.”

The escuaca**** who took the last two packets broke into the conversation, braying in a loud voice, “There’s no coffee because there’s no production in this country!”

In a loud voice, so that everyone could hear me, I replied, “Production? What are you talking about? This is a coffee-producing country. What’s going on here is HOARDING and SPECULATION. The merchandise arrives, and this supermarket incites hoarding, allowing one person to take up to 20 packages. Look at all the shopping-carts full of coffee! They didn’t come here to buy groceries. They only came to buy 20 bags of coffee and hide them in their kitchen cupboards, leaving everyone else with no product!”

The woman fled before this verbal barrage, and everyone standing in line with their shopping-carts full of coffee was petrified. They didn’t utter a peep. They stood as if frozen before my vociferous complaint.

I am telling you what happened to me on Monday because I believe now is the time to start expropriating these putschist supermarkets who are making a mockery of the people and the State. The owners of these supermarket chains are all in a plot to bring down the government. There is no doubt.

The opposition have been calling us communists for 15 years even though we are not. Okay, fine, then expropriate these supermarkets once and for all, so that for once they can truly say that we are communists, and expropriate every business that participates in the crimes of usury and hoarding!

Enough of supermarkets and food stores making fools of us. Enough abuse, enough violation of laws, and enough of hoarding, hiding and overpricing. Enough of buhoneros selling food and exploiting the poor. Enough of complicit people submitting to the whims of the hoarding, manipulating, putschist businesses. EXPROPRIATE!

After all, they’ve always been calling us communists, and they’re still calling us communists.

Translation mine.

*INDEPABIS is the Venezuelan federal consumer-rights agency, dealing with matters of speculation and unjust pricing. It has had its collective hands full of late with putschist merchants participating in the effort to oust Nicolás Maduro. Artificial scarcities and inflated prices are key weapons in the arsenal of opposition merchants, serving to further alienate and dissociate the already vociferous right-wing. Ironically, those same merchants are now complaining that their business is being hurt by their putschist comrades waging guarimbas in the streets!

**Petare is one of the poorer neighborhoods in Caracas.

***Buhoneros are informal street-vendors. They were illegal under previous governments, but received social security under Hugo Chávez. For public health reasons they are not allowed to sell food and drinks, which require special permits, especially if there’s alcohol in them.

****Escuaca is another way of saying escuálido, Chavecito’s favorite term for the ever-complaining, tiresome squawkers of the opposition.

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