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Rape culture? WHAT rape culture?

Posted on September 5, 2013 by Sabina Becker

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I don’t see anything here…

The trial for a University of Toronto architecture professor charged with sexual assault nearly two years ago began Thursday.

James Andrew Payne was charged on Dec. 10, 2011 with one count of sexual assault. Payne, 53, denies any wrongdoing.

The complainant, a 21-year-old woman, says she was sexually assaulted in her apartment near Dundas St. W. and Dovercourt Rd. at around midnight on a Saturday evening.

A report from swabs of the complainant’s body identify Payne’s DNA. The issue, the Crown said, is one of consent.

The complainant, “is saying she does not remember consenting … she doesn’t recall inviting him up,” said the Crown.

[…]

A university spokesperson would not explain university policy on faculty reporting criminal charges.

Experts told education reporter Kris Rushowy that while faculty contracts do not usually require criminal charges to be reported, the university code of conduct may.

…or here…

For the nearly 400 Saint Mary’s University students participating in a chant about rape during their orientation week it was more about the rhyme than the words, according to the student union president.

But Jared Perry told reporters Thursday that he now knows repeating the chant celebrating non-consensual sex with underage girls was wrong.

This is his second year as president. He said he has been repeating the chant since he first came to the Halifax university in 2009 – and never thought anything about it. He has never received any complaints about it.

His attitude changed quickly after a video of the Labour Day event surfaced this week and sparked a huge controversy both on and off campus. In less than 24 hours there have been apologies from student leaders and university administrators and investigations. Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter called it “disturbing.”

Mr. Perry characterizes being involved in this incident as “the biggest mistake I have made throughout my university career and probably in my life. … I feel terrible about it.” Although there have been some calls for him to resign his position, he said he will not.

or here…

“SMU boys, we like them young,” the students can be heard singing at the start of the video.

The chant includes the phrases: “Y is for your sister,” “U is for underage,” and “N is for no consent.”

It was performed by student leaders in front of about 300 first-year-students on Monday.

…do you?

If you really don’t see it, go back and read it again, and this time pay attention to the italics I added.

It really IS so nice to know that nothing has changed in any substantial way since I was that age. Profs still feel entitled to pursue students half their age; older students sing “funny” songs about rape to younger students (some of them under legal age), right during Frosh Week. Yeah, WHAT rape culture?

Never mind that there are rules in place prohibiting the poisoning of the educational atmosphere with, among other things, SEXISM. The university culture is less concerned with enforcing its own rules, it seems, than in perpetuating the age-old tradition of the older man preying on the younger woman (or GIRL), with sexual entitlement an obvious perk of the process.

We already know all the lyrics to THAT song, don’t we? Hell, we’ve seen the video, too. The “girls” are always younger and always wearing less than the guys. With remarkably little variation in all respects, except maybe the tune, it’s always the same old song. Sing along, or you’ll be called a humorless feminist bitch and the boys will never like you again!

Of course, the fact that “sex” of this ilk often ends in a nervous breakdown (or worse) is the dirty little secret of rape culture. Girls are taught from an early age to blame themselves for drawing male attention, however unwanted. No matter how hard you try to ward it off, it just keeps on coming. Not only can you not escape it, you get blamed for getting hit with it. You are always too “mature” for your age, too pretty, too whatever. You can’t catch a break.

It’s not enough to say “just don’t sing along if you don’t feel like it”. That just puts a further onus on the victims. It’s Frosh Week, dammit. This is a time for getting acquainted, not alienated. Nobody should have to avoid school, or orientation-week activities, due to a toxic climate of rape culture! So why do we so often demand that they do just that — or learn to override their own discomfiture?

The answer, in a word, is POWER.

Those who wield the most power over others see their own privilege the least, and take it most for granted. They have doctorates, and they often have tenure. Of course they will give nothing up without a fight. Meanwhile, those who need to fight them are in the weakest position to begin with. It’s a waste of money to quit school before you can even start classes. And students can ill afford that, now more than ever. Tuition rates have exploded; student loan debts are crippling. Capitalism has made higher education an ever harder privilege to afford. Is it any wonder, then, that frosh — especially females, who already face a world of lowered earning power by virtue of their gender — are cowed into going along, getting along, and singing along?

Until orientation week becomes about actual orientation, and not just perpetuating a disorienting “tradition” of power imbalance, don’t expect that song to change. Don’t expect to see anything there but more rape culture. And until someone yanks the needle up and smashes that record, that song is just going to keep on playing.

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Quotable: John Kenneth Galbraith on conservatism

Posted on September 4, 2013 by Sabina Becker

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Daniel Cohn-Bendit and the German Greens’ pedophile problem

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Sabina Becker

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“I stand for sex with children! How about you?”

Meet Daniel Cohn-Bendit. He’s a long-standing, high-ranking member of the German Green Party, as well as the Green faction chief in the Europarliament. And he’s also a major component of its Achilles’ heel: the pedophile contingent, which during the 1970s and ’80s was active in trying to wipe out two paragraphs of German criminal law, specifically those dealing with “sex” between adults and children. You’ll notice I put the word in quotation marks. There’s a good reason for that. You’ll see it soon enough, if you don’t already. Meanwhile, let’s talk a bit more about Herr Cohn-Bendit and the ever-spreading toxic stain he is.

For the past week or so there’s been hard talk about bombing Syria. Bashar al-Assad stands accused of using sarin gas on his own people. Evidence now points to the so-called Syrian rebels, who have al-Qaida ties and are financed and armed by the Saudis and the US. They are a most unsavory bunch. But since Bashar is the designated scapegoat in certain pro-war circles, that’s all been swept under the rug. And in a twist of very strange irony, one of those sweepers is Daniel Cohn-Bendit, who gave an interview to Der Spiegel in which he too beats the war drums, and rails against the “cheap anti-Americanism” of those opposed. It’s not the first time he’s done so, either; right there in the first lines of the interview, Cohn-Bendit shows himself to be the greenest warhawk in Germany:

SPIEGEL ONLINE: You were the first Green to call for western military action in the Yugoslavian war [over Kosovo]. Now the Syrian dictator, Assad, has very probably used chemical weapons against his own people. Can the west take that without a military response?

Cohn-Bendit: Assad has overstepped a symbolic boundary. That has to be avenged. But the reaction of the west must be embedded in a political strategy.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Are you against a punitive action that shows Assad that he has overstepped a red line?

Cohn-Bendit: A punitive action without political strategy would be wrong. But the west has to mobilize militarily. As a prerequisite — either for a military strike or to force a cease-fire and end the bloodshed.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Should Germany also take part in that militarily?

Cohn-Bendit: Yes, the federal government should participate in preparation for a military action with other EU countries.

Translation mine.

I find his phraseology extremely interesting: “overstepped a symbolic boundary”. They accuse Assad of genocide without concrete proof (and the hard evidence, embarrassingly, points the other way), so of course the boundary is merely “symbolic”. Meanwhile, in his own past, Daniel Cohn-Bendit repeatedly overstepped a very real boundary, and remains unpunished for it to this day.

“When a little girl of five or five and a half years old starts to undress you, that’s fantastic. It’s fantastic because it’s a game, an absolutely erotic-manic game.”

With this sentence on a French talk show in 1982, Daniel Cohn-Bendit wanted to provoke the public, in order to stand in the light he regarded so highly, that of the taboo-breaker. He didn’t quite succeed. None of the other guests in the program reacted with any recognizable upset, no one wanted to rein in the chubby-cheeked thug. Even in the press you never read any critical commentaries afterward. The public reacted quite similarly seven years before on the stunning, meanwhile famous-infamous passages from Cohn-Bendit’s “Le Grand Bazar” — not at all.

And why? Among French intellectuals, calls for punishment-free sex with children and adolescents fell on fertile ground. It was “another time”, as Le Monde wrote, somewhat shamefacedly, years later. Eve this reputable paper gave considerable leeway in the 1970s to the pedophilic circles, while the left-republican Libération attested to a “genuine social mission” in sex with children, as historian Anne-Claude Ambroise-Rendu noted in retrospect.

When, in January 1977, three men were facing trial over charges of sexual crimes against 13- and 14-year old children, various intellectuals, including Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Louis Aragon, Catherine Millet, André Glucksmann, Jack Lang, and Sarkozy’s future foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, declared solidarity with them. That was just “the times”, and thus, Cohn-Bendit too is trying to exculpate his then declarations: “The sexual debate knew nothing of sexual abuse.” The sexual-freedom impetus sailed in the years after 1968 in the lee of disappointment over the missing political revolution. So the prophets of fundamental change settled on self-reform, on pedagogy, on the emancipation of individuals from the pressures of a bygone, clerical and bigotry-soured class society. That was the jargon of the day. As always in times of deep political disappointment, the hopes fell on the not-yet-corrupted mindset of youth, now even that of children. Pedophilic affection advanced in the ferment of everyday upheaval, coexistence, and liberating love. So it was in France. Thus they experienced it, most particularly, in the Netherlands. And thus did a part of the German “New Left” also develop.

Translation mine.

Here’s the interview (not embeddable, sorry), in French with German subtitles, where Cohn-Bendit raves to his host, Paul Guth, about sex with children. He sounds pretty stoned, which stands to reason; he also brags that he ate hash brownies a short time before he went on air. (The Greens were also in favor of legalizing soft drugs.) Apparently the dope not only loosened his tongue, it got him to proudly reveal things most people would keep a deathly silence about, even if they were not personally ashamed of having done them. That is, most people who’ve actually perpetrated child sexual abuse. Not he! He seems to revel in having done not only that, but in bragging about it.

But here’s the thing: This man truly doesn’t see that what he did there WAS abuse, just because no physical force was involved. His definition of what’s abusive is remarkably narrow, and takes no account of what happens years down the line, when sexually abused children become emotionally disturbed adults. So convinced is he that what he did was not wrong that he even tried to get the laws against it struck off the books in the name of the Sexual Revolution.

And for a while there, it looked as if Germany might go his way. Alice Schwarzer, editor-in-chief and publisher of EMMA, Germany’s leading feminist magazine, knows the dark side of Daniel Cohn-Bendit all too well. She has been watching him and his ilk for decades now, presciently warning of the dangers of their plans, and she recounts:

It was the Greens who, at their second party congress in 1980, were already debating the striking-down of Paragraph 176, which levied punishment for sex with children under 14 years of age, as well as that of Paragraph 174, against sexual abuse of minor wards of the state.

[…]

On the basis of §176, which punished child sexual abuse with up to 10 years’ imprisonment, according to Der Spiegel, some 20-25,000 perpetrators a year were sentenced. Considering that this is just the tip of the iceberg — because most child victims are too confused, intimidated or dependent to fight back — then you get an idea of the magnitude of the crime.

Even non-pedophilic men — that is, those whose desire is not compulsively fixated on prepubescent children — were already frequenting the “kiddie stroll” of Zoo Station [in Berlin], or flying to Thailand or Mexico, in order to buy children even more cheaply there. The women at home had become just too inconvenient — and the children were not so available anymore.

Translation mine.

I caught the tail end of those “revolutionary” but in fact counter-revolutionary times when I started reading grown-up German magazines around age 12 or so. I even read Christiane F.’s now famous “Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo” (“We Children of Zoo Station”), a firsthand account of teenage prostitution and heroin addiction on the streets of West Berlin, published in two parts in the magazine Stern. (It was later republished in book form.) It was a harrowing read. A lot of the words were unfamiliar to me, but the meaning was clear enough. I was appalled that anyone would do such things to helpless children, especially girls not much older than I was. If I ever had to credit any cautionary tale with keeping me off drugs and out of trouble, that’s the one. (Amazingly, Christiane F. is still alive, and in 2008 she gave this interview at age 45. This despite a decades-long battle with addiction and HIV. She finally got off heroin in 1993, and she has a teenage son whom she credits with giving her the strength to do so. My hat is off to her; she is a survivor in the fullest sense of the word.)

The idea that anyone would want to normalize and legalize sex, and specifically commercialized sex, with children of any age, is appalling. The realization that more than one prominent German Green who did advocate for just that is still on the loose and sitting in the Europarliament? Disgusting. And the fact that this monster is squatting there, beating the drums for war against Syria? Well, let’s just say that even I don’t have a bad enough word for it in my extensive vocabulary. In no sense does Daniel Cohn-Bendit have any moral right to condemn other countries or their politicians. What he’s done in Germany, and to Germany, is bad enough without him dragging the country into yet another horrific war. And if the Greens care about being electable, they’d do well to jettison him…and all his fellow Old Greens who beat the drums for legalized pedophilia, back in “another time”.

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The ironies of the Venezuelan opposition, part 34

Posted on September 2, 2013 by Sabina Becker

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MariCori and Pretty Boy Leo…hereditary sellouts.

Good evening, and welcome to tonight’s installment of VenOpIronía, in which we learn the meanings of two seemingly contradictory words — patriotismo and vendepatriotismo — which the Venezuelan opposition has conveniently fused into one and the same. Just like their great-grandparents did over 150 years ago:

The hereditary bourgeoisie of Venezuela — there are no others, unless they enriched themselves preying on the resources of our land — have been a lumpen-bourgeoisie for centuries, for whom the least important thing is their country. This was shown by a document in the book The Time of Ezequiel Zamora, in which it is shown that ancestors of Leopoldo López and María Corina Machado were linked to the dispossession of an important part of Venezuela on the part of the United Kingdom.

The foreign minister of the Republic, Elías Jaua, linked to an extract of this document yesterday in his Twitter account, @JauaMiranda, in which the ancestors of López and Machado are tied to the offering of part of the national territory to the UK in 1861, in exchange for British intervention in the Federal War.

“Those who permitted the dispossession of a good part of our territory are the grandparents and great-grandparents of López, Machado and others”, wrote Jaua on Saturday. He finished by adding, “Deputy Machado and Leopoldo López are direct heirs of the sellout bourgeoisie which in 1861 offered territory to the English.”

In the document, there is an exposition “of many inhabitants of Venezuela” who called upon the Queen of Great Britain for that nation to intervene in the Federal War, in light of the positive commercial consequences which this could have brought the Britons.

“There is in Venezuela, among the thinking men, the opinion that it would benefit them to detach the territory of Guayana and negotiate with Great Britain, using it to pay the foreign debt contracted with the English, and also the external debt of the Republic which will recognize or pay in the terms it stipulates…” reads the text.

Translation mine.

Guayana, the region in Venezuela, butts up against Guyana, the English-speaking country next door. The similarity in names is no coincidence. The territory in question — claimed by both countries — is still a bone of contention in a long and confusing dispute. Venezuelan maps, particularly since Chavecito took office in 1999, show it as an extra “leg” on the country’s eastern flank. Guyanese maps, of course, do nothing of the sort. And neither, apparently, do those of the US and UK, both of whom had much to do in this arbitrary and unsatisfactory divvying-up of Latin America. Well, unsatisfactory for Venezuela, anyway…since 90% of that gold-rich region, and all its mines, was ceded to Britain with US “Manifest Destiny” presiding. (Hmm, maybe not so arbitary after all? Yup.)

Frankly, it doesn’t surprise me that MariCori and Pretty Boy Leo’s ancestors had something to do with this unholy mess. MariCori, after all, got to shake hands with Dubya:

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And this at a time when Chavecito — you know, the actual PRESIDENT of Venezuela? — was being assiduously shut out by that same White House. The US has a long standing history of rewarding local oligarchs with plummy amounts of money and “aid” (often consisting of weapons shipments, mercenaries, and torture devices) in order to make sure its own commercial interests in resource-rich regions are not threatened. And the Brits are, as we have seen with this week’s ongoing Syrian farce, often a proxy for you-know-who.

Just like old times, eh?

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(Not so) Stupid Sex Tricks: Take that, Robin Thicke!

Posted on September 2, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Some Kiwi law students put together this parody, which is undoubtedly better than the (not so) original:

Every bigot, shut up. Word!

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Happy Labo(u)r Day!

Posted on September 2, 2013 by Sabina Becker

And just in time for this day, a little good news from the working front of Toronto, courtesy of LabourStart’s newsletter:

Striking hotel workers in Toronto have won a huge victory, due in large part to the solidarity they were shown by fellow workers.

The bitter 13 week long strike at the Toronto Plaza Hotel ended this weekend as 80% of the workers voted to ratify a new agreement with the company.

According to their union, the United Steelworkers, the new agreement “removes all the draconian concessions demanded by hotel management and even provides a wage increase. Also removed from the final settlement was management’s insistence on new language that would have gutted basic protections and rights of union workers.” (Full details are here.)

According to a union staff representative, “Our members stood strong and their spirits were uplifted by the support they received from the labour movement, Toronto area steelworkers and the public throughout the GTA [Greater Toronto Area] and across Canada”.

At the request of their union, LabourStart launched an online campaign at the end of July targeting our Canadian supporters that generated 1,540 messages of protest.

According to a senior United Steelworkers official, “LabourStart played a key role in this victory.”

Linkage as in the e-newsletter.

The message from this is clear: Organizing, protesting and strikes WORK. And the benefits trickle down to non-unionized workers, too. The eight-hour day, the forty-hour week, and many more rights that are currently in danger of being wiped out? Thank a unionist for those. This isn’t just about one day a year off, it’s about fairness and rights EVERY day. And unless we all fight to keep them, they will be taken away…little by little, until nothing is left.

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Music for a Sunday: And it’s getting nearer

Posted on September 1, 2013 by Sabina Becker

I had a dream about trains last night, and this morning I came upon this stunning piece of history from this day in 1987. That settled my choice for this song. And this one:

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Wankers of the Week: Twerkin’ Turkeys

Posted on August 31, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Crappy weekend, everyone! Well, wasn’t that a turkey of a week? Let’s hope that by now, Miley has finally pried those painful-looking plastic booty shorts out of her poor little chicken butt, and gotten rid of that other awful thing in the jailbird suit that was riding it at that so-called awards show where she sang. Yeah, I’m talking about whatsisface, the nobody who thought he could sue Marvin Gaye’s family for a song style that he himself ripped off. I hope he does a fast fade back into obscurity after this. And these people too, in no particular order:

1. Pat Fucking Robertson. Well, I guess my suspicions have been confirmed: Patwa likes himself some “bosomy babes” (his words). In pornos. So much for fornication being a sin. But only if it’s for male consumption! Women, poor things, have to “compete” with that for the gnat-like attention of that loser they’re with. And if they can’t, they have to leave the sinful addict. But only if they’re not married! If they are, I guess they’re stuck with him. Speaking of which, I wonder what Mrs. Patwa makes of all this. PS: Uh oh. Watch out, people, he’s about to splatter the ceiling! PPS: Covering up the wank is another wank.

2. Debra Fucking Gauthier. And while we’re on the subject of Patwa and his porny little TV show, how about this woman? Sez she signed a pact with the devil and he made her a lesbian. And then she “saw the light”, i.e. got attracted to men while attending this “ex-gay” churchy thingy. This sounds like the plot of an especially cheesy movie, doesn’t it? Wait, we haven’t gotten to the good part yet…that would be when she falls in love with another woman and admits that this was all bullshit. Bated breath, etc. PS: Oh dear. Does this group sound familiar?

3. Jeremy Fucking Abbott. No, kiddo, criticizing Russia’s newly institutionalized homophobia is NOT the same as going into somebody’s house and rudely criticizing their décor. Unless they decorate with brutally mangled corpses of LGBT people, that is.

4. David Fucking Green. Why?

That’s why. Also, Jesus never said a word about abortion, and in any case, birth control pills don’t cause it — they PREVENT it. One would think that anyone wanting to prevent abortion would take that into account, but nope, nope, nope…it’s all about shaming the sluts and jerking the jezebels around. That is, it’s all about corralling and controlling women.

5. Peter LaFucking Barbera. So nice to know that “freedom”, to some, means the untrammeled right to take all freedoms away from others. Case in point: the Religious Reich vs. gay Americans…and soon, gay Russians. What part of “Congress shall make no law…” decreeing official religion or curtailing private speech does this clown not understand?

6. Bryan Fucking Fischer. And speaking of official religion and curtailing freedoms of speech and association, here he is, advocating the exact same thing. These Religious Reich guys are SO un-American.

7. Laura Fucking Ingraham. So nice to see how the rightards commemorate the March on Washington of 50 years ago…with authentic sound effects from the wrong side of history. And these people want to position themselves as the best friends the black folks ever had? Maybe they should start by not shooting themselves in the feet, ha ha.

8. Alexis Fucking Ohanian. Need another reason to loathe Reddit and avoid it like the galloping cyber-plague it is? Fine, how about the fact that its co-founder tried to work for skeezy, lying, meddlesome STRATFOR? Will that do? Works for me.

9. Kathleen Fucking Parker. Come on, black people! Do something riot-y. Kathy is counting on you. You wouldn’t want to disappoint her, would you now?

10. George Fucking Zimmerman. Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie, really needs to go the fuck away. NOW. (And Kel-Tec really needs to go bankrupt…and SOON.) PS: And Georgie needs to pay back what he cost the state, too, the fucking douchebag.

11. George Fucking Will. And in other Georgie-Porgie news, get a load of what the constipated poster-child of unlovability says about voting rights. Namely, something to the effect of “who needs them if you’ve got a single mom, that’s so much worse”. Yeah…that’s right, Georgie, just pile on those racialized disadvantages. Like #7, you can now stop wondering why black people don’t give a shit for you. (And women, too.)

12. Richard Fucking Nanula. What’s the difference between porn and prostitution? Apparently, the size of the audience for the ensuing video. That’s it.

13. David Fucking Samadi. Women have boobs, so they should pay more for medical care? Gee, that makes a shitload of sense. Just like it makes sense that we should pay more for clothing, shoes, cosmetics, etc., with only 70 cents on a man’s dollar. I have a better idea: How about dickheads paying double, to cover all the women who can’t afford it anymore?

14.Bradlee Fucking Dean. Oh look! A truckload of assfax and homophobic insults. And this guy has an audience because…?

15. Larry Fucking Silva. Homophobic discrimination is “just”, sez the man in the pink dress and the tons of bling. “Just” WHAT? Methinks he’s missing a word in there. And since he left it off, I’ll fill in the blank and say it’s JUST WRONG.

16. Louie Fucking Gohmert. He thinks it’s scary that “liberal elites” are using vaccines to “cull the population”? I think it’s scary that anyone stupid enough to believe that hasn’t died of his idiocy yet. THAT’s the part of the herd that needs thinning, if ever there was such a plan — and there isn’t. (And that, too, scares me.)

17. James Fucking Wiedmann. Yeah, too bad Hitler wasn’t an “alpha” fucking pickup artist who reads shitty right-wing doucheblogs. Then we could have avoided all this nasty antisemitism, death-camping, World War II, and so much more. Godwin violation much, Roissy?

18. Ken Fucking Cuccinelli. Why?

That’s why. “Not doing anything about birth control”, apparently, means BANNING it.

19. Howard Fucking Kurtz. You know you’ve lost the plot when all you can write about is boobies. Your ex-employer’s daughter-in-law’s boobies, to be precise.

20. G. Todd Fucking Baugh. What’s the G stand for? GROSS, would be my guess. What else would you call a guy who assumes that a teacher who rapes his student doesn’t deserve more than a month in jail for it, just because the girl appeared “older than her years”? I’m with the girl’s mother; she thinks the judge sucks, and that’s putting it very politely. After all, the victim of the unwanted attentions killed herself.

21. Tom Fucking Corbett. He gets his anonymous attorneys to put out the ludicrous idea that gays are like 12-year-olds, and therefore not fit to marry? Gimme a break. All the same-sex couples applying for marriage licences in Pennsylvania have been legal adults!

22. Rand Fucking Paul. Why?

That’s why. Bongwater Buddha has some very strange notions about freedom and slavery. In what parallel universe could the handing over of public water supplies to corporations like Nestlé be “freedom”?

23. Jeremy Fucking Hutchinson. If you’re going to push for armed teachers in all classrooms, it might behoove you not to go shooting teachers on the shootin’ range, bucko. Irony impairment is not a good look, know what I mean?

24. Lora Fucking DiMaggio. Face it, lady, your brother was a psychopath. And don’t blame the victims for what he did. There’s not a sixteen-year-old girl on the planet crafty enough to make a grown man wig out, kill her brother and her mom, and then kidnap her into the wilderness. I know it’s hard to accept that one is related to a maniac, but he was one, and that’s all there is to it.

25. Stan Fucking Solomon. While Dan Savage’s sex and love advice is not always on point (and his transphobia is icky and disturbing, not to mention the shadow it casts on his qualification to advise), I don’t wish him dead. And even if Trayvon Martin had been a thug (which he was not), I wouldn’t wish him dead, either. YOU, on the other hand, can keel over and snuff it any old time. The sooner the better.

26. Louie Fucking Gohmert. Y’know, there are times when I almost feel sorry for Gomer being so fucking dumb and all. And then I remember that his stupidity is the kind that actually kills innocent people in far-off lands, and I stop that shit at once.

27. Scott Fucking Walker. And speaking of Teh Stoopid and innocent people in far-off lands, Little Snotty Wanker thinks that Syria is to blame for his state’s bad job numbers. No, Snotty, that’s YOUR fault, and yours alone. Well, okay, not just yours alone. The only thing in Wisconsin stupider than you is the dumb dolts who voted for you, and then didn’t recall you when they had the chance. They got what they deserved; too bad they took a lot of better, wiser souls down with them.

28. Elisa Fucking Chan. Not only is she a nasty homophobe and transphobe, she’s also a crooked cover-up artist. She had her lame excuses and fake apologies already planned. Unfortunately, she didn’t foresee that the tape they were on would be leaked to the public. Maybe that’s why we haven’t heard much out of her ever since.

29. Jason Fucking Rapert. God can’t vote, doesn’t vote, and in any event, would never vote for an idiot like you. STFU about your imaginary hell and demons, already.

30. David Fucking Cameron. Beating the war drums against Syria without proof of WMD or, well, ANY good reason for attacking at all? That’s a paddlin’. And it’s also good for a big fat NO vote in Parliament. Ha, ha.

31. Paul Fucking Elam. Yes, Paulie, Karma is indeed a bitch…and when all the people you’ve been libelling right and left finally get together and launch a class-action lawsuit against your lying, slanderous ass, you’re gonna know what it’s like when She humps YOU. Better buy lots of lube, eh?

32. Robin Fucking Thicke. So, he’s really just a wholesome, family-values kinda guy who’s long and happily married, and not really a skeezeball like his latest “hit” makes him out to be? Um, check the mirror, dude.

33 and 34. Miley Fucking Cyrus and Justin Fucking Bieber. Yup, they’re a joint venture in wank. And thanks to them, twerking is about to become majorly UNpopular. Keep it up, kiddies, you’re doin’ great! (And by that, I mean go home…you suck.)

35. Wendell Fucking Docteur. Who the fucking fuck carries a gun while riding a bike? A racist bumfuck who lies to cops about hoodie-clad gang members when in fact no one shot him in the leg but he his own stupid bumfuck self. That’s who.

36. Rafael Fucking Cruz. If you ever wonder where Ted Fucking Cruz got rabies, look no further. His old man has it so bad he actually makes Ted look normal.

37. Kevin Fucking Swanson. So, Mark Twain was “demon-possessed” for writing Huckleberry Finn and turning people’s hearts against slavery? Yeah, it’s so Christian to keep slaves; “St.” Paul himself said so. I’d say this racist dude is possessed by the worst demon of all, and its name is Teh Stoopid.

38. Bill Fucking Holtzclaw. Y’know, if you teabaggers ever want to shed that racist label, you might want to start by, y’know, not being so fucking racist. And also by not trying to hide your racism under a fake concern for children’s morals.

39. Tim Fucking Scott. Why?

If you’re going to whine about not being invited to something, first make sure that no one in fact invited you. And don’t lie about it if they did.

40. Bill O’Fucking Reilly. And that goes for you too, Billo. Shame on you!

41. Jerome Fucking Corsi. So, sex isn’t supposed to be for fun? Well, with him, I can’t imagine that it would be. How on Earth his wife puts up with his shit is beyond me. Especially cranky shit like this.

42. Linda Fucking Harvey. Why is she so afraid to know the truth? Because she is committed to the peddling of homophobic bullshit. Without it, she’d be out of a job. Poor thing.

43. Steve Fucking Lonegan. I don’t know if Cory Booker is gay, either…so why speculate? Oh yeah, someone’s got Manhood Issues. Thanks for sharing, Steve. Now fuck off.

44. Daniel Fucking Cohn-Bendit. The pedo-political provocateur of the German Greens (translations coming, folkies, he’s a horror!) just opened his mouth wide and stuck his foot in it again, this time over Syria. When even the right-wing British parliament votes against war, you know something’s not right. And when the supposedly eco-friendly Greens start beating the drums for a very dirty war (can’t have any “cheap anti-Americanism”, after all), you know you’re completely through the Looking Glass!

45. Liz Fucking Cheney. Fine sister that she is, she won’t support same-sex marriage, even though she has a lesbian sibling. Who, I’m sure, is very happy in her relationship…with or without immediate family support.

46. David Fucking Marsters. Old man, let me give you a quick lesson in how the world works: There is NO way in hell that saying “kill the nigger”, in any context, could NOT be a racist threat. Except maybe in your bizarre parallel universe, where the senile old whites are apparently the ones who think themselves racially oppressed. Which, unfortunately for you, is NOT the way the world works. Got it now, cracker?

47. Gordon Fucking Klingenschmitt. John Jacob Jingleheimer got a good smackdown this week, courtesy of a certain Mr. Fugelsang. Who, unlike “Dr. Chaps”, actually knows his Jesus quite well.

48. Stephen Fucking Harper. Who else would send the Mounties to harass a couple of nice, quiet middle-aged ladies who were just peacefully protesting his dumbshit desire to march to war against Syria? This man is a fucking control freak, and his freakery is out of control.

49. Julian Fucking Assange. Not only does he have some mighty weird ideas about US politics (and the meaning of “non-violence”), he’s also behaving like a zit-faced kid in his so-called political campaign, and it’s got El Ecuadorable needing to school him in the art of respect, even though he’s in the middle of a summit right now. You know you’re a little shit when even the president of the country granting you asylum has to take time out of his busy agenda to dress you down.

50. Richard Fucking Chaffoo. How to look great in a selfie: First, get your face injected nine ways till Friday. Better still, a facelift…and implants. Then, once the swelling goes down, do a Kardashian duckface. If you can move your filler-injected lips or raise your Botoxed eyebrows, that is. I have a better idea: How about just not worrying so much about how you look…and not taking so many fuckin’ selfies? Gosh, that was difficult!

And finally, to all those who are hot for war against Syria because (a) they don’t like Bashar al-Assad, and (b) they don’t have all the facts about who actually gassed whom (and then LIED about it). Remember Iraq? Remember Saddam? Remember who sold the culprits all that poison gas? Remember who MAKES all that poison gas? Here’s another thought: If you don’t want other countries committing genocide, how about (a) not using them and theirs to fight your proxy wars, and (b) NOT FUCKING SELLING THEM ANY MORE FUCKING WMD? Gawd, how complicated is it to take an anti-war, anti-imperialism stance and stick to it consistently? You don’t even have to like a foreign leader to do it! That little kid in the picture could do it no problem, but a lot of supposedly well-educated “liberal” westerners are unclear on the very basic concept. And that fucking pisses me right the hell off.

Good night, and get fucked!

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: El Ecuadorable in Paramaribo

Posted on August 30, 2013 by Sabina Becker

UNASUR is having its big shindig — its 7th ordinary session, in case you wonder — in Paramaribo, Surinam, this time ’round. And everyone who’s anyone in South America is there today, including these two guys:

correa-paramaribo

That’s the president of Surinam, Desiré Delano Bouterse, on the left. And on the right, we have Rafael Correa, looking…oh gawd…even more spifftacular than usual, if that is possible. I don’t know how he does it, but I’m so glad he does…

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