Rick Santorum’s abortion

Would that all right-wing political campaigns were terminated this ignominiously. It might make them think twice before they open their mouths again and start screwing women with their ignorance, eh?

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Quotable: Frederick Douglass on upbringing

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This house is clear!

Can you feel that, buddy? Huh? Huh?? Huh???

I have exorcised the demons!

Well, actually, my BFF did it. Saved my luddite ass, as usual. He’s the one who helped me get rid of the odious bumper sticker of Those Who Shall Henceforth Remain Nameless. Thanks, Ben!

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Music for a Sunday: Time to get ready for the storm

I’ve been having severe joint pain for the past two days, and when I saw this, I realized why. That same storm system is now bound for southern Ontario. So far no precipitation, but that could come any minute now. Nope, no gardening for me today…

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Wankers of the Week: A Titanic load of turds

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Crappy weekend, everyone! Yes, the Titanic catastrophe was real, and this week, it turned 100 years old. Yes, that’s right: for 100 years now, we’ve been hearing about the idiocy and arrogance of people who really, actually thought they could build such a thing as an unsinkable ship. I know, hard to believe, eh? And you know what else is hard to believe? The idiocy and arrogance of the following, in no particular order:

1. James O’Fucking Keefe. Yes, he’s at it again…trying to do “gotcha journalism” (note the quotes) that relies on manipulation, fabrication and outright LYING for its “gotcha”. How much longer before this pro-disenfranchisement sleaze-weasel comes to Canada to work for the Harper Government™, I wonder?

2. Rich Fucking Lowry. Took him long enough to fire Pervyshire over his lengthy racist screed (published elsewhere), which was egregious by National Review standards only because it failed to conceal its racism with enough dog-whistling and equivocation. This may provide some clues as to why Lowry had such a problem recognizing the problem adult he had on his hands for so long. After all, the National Revisionist was founded by a notable “polite” racist, and is “politely” racist through and through, throughout its decades-long history. In fact, institutionalized racism is its raison d’être. But it has to be polite, it has to be legalistic and scientistic, and it has to maintain a certain degree of Plausible Deniability…even though, as its head honcho’s own screed on the Trayvon Martin case has shown, there can be no denying that the entire rag IS still deeply and hideously bigoted. Through and fucking through. Little wonder, then, that they couldn’t recognize the Perv for what he was. They are all, in fact, the same. To admit that he is one is to admit that they are all one, and that would spell doom for the National Revisionist. Couldn’t have THAT, now, could we?

3. Peter Fucking MacKay. When will the Harper CONservatives finally admit that they cannot be trusted with a single red cent (soon to become obsolete, or so we’re told) of taxpayers’ money? Petey-boy here is dumb enough to think that a discrepancy of ten BILLION fucking dollars can be fobbed off on the public as a silly widdle “accounting error”. Let’s not forget that the penny-and-pound-foolish SupposiTories wangled their first minority government on a platform of “transparency and accountability”. And let’s finally have the courage to say that THEY FUCKING LIED TO US EVERY STEP OF THE WAY!

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4. Mark Fucking Judge. He doesn’t know who stole his bike, but for some reason he’s awfully convinced that the thief was BLACK! And therefore, he feels entitled to “not feel bad for black people anymore”. I don’t know what’s more racist, his racist assumption about the race of the unknown bike-stealer, or his pulled-from-the-ass conclusion that he’s now entitled to be racist and “not feel bad” about it anymore. Maybe he WILL feel bad at being mercilessly made fun of because of his self-justifying racist fucking stupidity instead?

5. George Fucking Zimmerman. Yes, he has a website! Yes, he’s using it to raise cash for his legal defence! And no, it’s not a bit racist! Why do you ask? PS: And now he’s doing his own PR, too. Apparently against legal advice. This should be good…

6. John Fucking Derbyshire, again. Yes, please DO give up writing; you suck at it anyway. But no, do NOT become a butler. Your surly attitude, contrary to the old Wooster-and-Jeeves image of British butlers who are smarter than their masters, won’t stand you in good stead. You’re not smarter than anyone else; you’re just an elaborately self-justifying racist snob. And speaking of “hysterically deranged”, have you taken a good look in your own mirror yet? And yeah, why indeed read deranged people? That’s precisely why I don’t bother very much with you, when all’s said. PS: Ha, ha.

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7. Mandolyna Fucking Theodoracopulos. Speaking of elaborately self-justifying racist snobs, here is #6’s new editor and BFF. Who, despite the fact that her “magazine” has a masthead full of vocal, obnoxious, and well-known racists, does not want to address the issue of his racism at all. But who DOES want us to feel sorry for her new protégé, because he has leukemia and all. Sorry, lady, but his blood cancer didn’t make him a racist, nor does it entitle him to be one. And it will not guilt-trip me into refraining from calling him one, because he IS one. And I happen to believe in calling things by their right names. And that’s why I’m going to call this disease by its own right name: KARMA.

8. and 9. Paul Fucking Madore and Mike Fucking Heath. “Same-sex marriage” is already a taboo term in the Religious Reich, as it’s much too neutral and reasonable-sounding. “Gay marriage”, which sounds more inflammatory, is now also passé. The term this pair of bollocks wants us all to use is “Sodomy Based Marriage”. They also consider being LGBT to be a “culture of death”! Someone please inform them that gay couples do nothing in their own bedrooms that straight couples have not also been doing for as long as heterosexuality has existed. So, by that token, ALL marriage could be sodomy-based. And yet, strangely, God hasn’t struck us all collectively dead! How about THEM apples?

10. Rebecca Fucking Silva. Friends don’t let friends drink and, um, breast-feed. That is all.

11. Judith Fucking Miller. You know you’re a shitty hack stenographer when you force Jon Stewart — the best fake newsman in the US — to illustrate his coverage of your shitty hack stenography with…a LOLcat.

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I mean, just look at that face. Shameful!

12. Sam Fucking Brownback. What’s the matter with Kansas? Barbers don’t face even due regulatory burdens. Doctors, especially abortion clinic doctors, are another story. They have UNdue regulatory burdens coming out the wazoo.

13. Sean Fucking Hannity. Oh, of COURSE the Baby Jesus was “reaching out” to George Zimmerman in the hopes of telling “his side of the story”. That’s actually the ONLY side FUX Snooze was planning to tell, because they’re racist — er, I meant to say Fair and Balanced — that way.

14. Chris Fucking Christie. Considering his girth and the fact that his entire income consists of government cheques and paternalistic entitlements, I don’t think he’s a good one to be talking about couch potatoes living on gummint handouts.

15. Warren Fucking Kinsella. Insulting my friend Fern Hill (of Dammit Janet! fame), by insinuating that she hangs out with Nazis, is a big fat wank in the form of a tiny, but exceedingly stupid, little blog entry. Faking a comment (two, rather) in the name of my friend Antonia Zerbisias, who is definitely NOT obscure, or permitting someone else on your blog to do so? That’s like saving up your jizzum and using it as hand-lotion for the NEXT big fat wank. Congratulations, Warren, you da (slimy, stinky, crusty) MAN.

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PS: In case the faked-comment link suddenly doesn’t work (oh, gee, now why would THAT be?), here’s one that does. It shows the original comment, which was then spoofed to insult the commenter. Yeah, Warren, you’re a real class act.

16. Newt Fucking Gingrich. Fiscal responsibility? Apparently NOT a conservative Republican thing. Anyone unfortunate enough to have sold campaign merch to Newty is still on the hook. Meanwhile, “frugal” Newty has yet to pay off his massive bling bill at Tiffany’s, or so I’ve heard. Draw your own conclusions…

17. Andrew Fucking Thomas. Sheriff Joe is the World’s Worst Sheriff. Guess who (among his cronies) is fast becoming a contender for the title of World’s Worst Public Prosecutor?

18. Bernard-Henri Fucking Lévy. You can tell the character of a man by the company he chooses (Dominique Fucking Strauss-Kahn, anyone?); also by whom he chooses to insult. (And, as Nabokov said, you can always tell a murderer by his elaborate prose style.) Never fear, Bernie, you’ll never win a literary Nobel for YOUR maunderings. Unlike the great Günter Grass, who I’m sure really couldn’t care less how “dead” you think he is.

19. Ciara Fucking Matthews. Well. SHE sure sounds like a charmer. And considering the charming Repugnican company she keeps, I’m sure that’s entirely par for the charming, CHARMING course!

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20. Lou Fucking Engle. Dude, give it up…your “pro-woman” astroturf anti-choice “movement” isn’t fooling anyone. Well, other than the people who are dumb and doltish enough to follow YOU, anyway.

21. Foster Fucking Friess. Yes, the Big 3F is a wanker again this week. This time, for “hoping” that His Barackness’s teleprompters are bulletproof. Hey, Old Fart, I hope the same is true of your pretend cowboy hat.

22. Allen Fucking West. I’ve heard it said that he is either certifiably insane, but I think he may in fact be possessed by the spirit of Ol’ Tailgunner Joe. Who else’s voice do you suppose could be telling him to resurrect the anticommunist witch-hunts of the 1950s? Please, somebody, call an exorcist!

23. Herman Fucking Cain. And while we’re on the subject of certifiable insanity, WTF is up with all those chickens???

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24. Jan Fucking Brewer. Sheriff Joe is the World’s Worst Sheriff, his buddy is on the fast track for World’s Worst Public Prosecutor, and now this mangy cur-woman has become the World’s Worst Governor. Arizona, you are three for fucking three. I guess that makes you the World’s Worst Place To Be Human. Congrats!

25. Axl Fucking Rose. Bitch, PLEASE.

26. Ann Fucking Romney. I hate to think what was served at her birthday party. Especially if it was barbecued. And no, I don’t believe she worked an honest day in her life, either.

27. Tim Fucking Tebow. Shut up and sing. And get up off your fucking knees, already.

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28. Rick Fucking Santorum. He’s out of the running, but the wanks are still coming. And this time, it’s really a doozer. We all know that he’s not exactly shy about using his severely disabled daughter, Bella, to score cheap political points when his own record comes up short (as it so often does); now, he’s actually made her a lifetime member of the Fucking NRA. How “pro-life” of him! I hereby give him a lifetime membership on my wank-list.

29. Samantha Fucking Brick. Still wanking on about her looks. Gawd, woman, get a life already! You’re not the only narcissist out there, after all.

30. Mike Fucking Eiskant. Oh, show me those big, beautiful…hey, is this thing on? Yes, it is. And it caught you wanking on the job. Literally. Which is why you landed up here on my weekly wankapedia, even though you could just as easily have made it under Cops Behaving Badly — Officer #69.

31. Ralph Fucking Shortey. His justification for open-carry laws in Oklahoma is a load of gobbledygook. But what else would one expect of such a dumb fucking turkey?

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32. Lawrence Fucking Sekara. Selling shirts saying you believe George Zimmerman isn’t just questionable taste; it’s an outright endorsement of the racism of a killer who muttered “fucking coons” before he moved in for the kill on Trayvon Martin. As for the “right to trial by jury” bullshit, the man wasn’t even charged until black community leaders raised hell. He would have gotten away with murder if people hadn’t raised awareness. And now he’s gonna GET his trial by jury. So stop fucking babbling about other people’s double standards, and acknowledge your own, dude.

33. Keith Fucking Ablow. Yay, FUX Snooze’s favorite fucked-up gender theorist has theorized again about gender. And pulled a doozer out of his ass again. This is getting to be something of a habit with him.

34. Jake Fucking England. Yeah, sure, some of his best friends are black. Where have I heard THAT before? And why do I always (and only ever) hear it out of the mouths of racist bottom-feeders? Next thing you know, he’ll slip up and say some of his best friends are niggers. Or that it’s not really a racist word, or that only the bad ones are, or whatever other permutation of racism is “acceptable” to closet racists who find themselves suddenly outed.

35. Bill O’Fucking Reilly. Looks like Falafel Dude has a long history of hanging out with topless women. Now why would FUX Snooze want to conceal THAT? It’s not as if they don’t deal in naked boobage all the time…as witness Billo himself.

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And the answer, with Billo, is ALL THE FREAKIN’ TIME.

And finally, to Scott Fucking Tribe. I found out recently just how welcome real progressives actually are on the Prog Blog, and the answer, to no one’s surprise, is NOT AT ALL. And judging by the speed of the Facebook unfriending (he got me before I could get him), some people there are a weeny bit touchy about being called on that. Oh well — their loss. The majority of my traffic here is international anyway, and that’s the way I like it; I would never want to be a parochial “progressive” (note the quotes). Also, most of my regular Canadian visitors also happen to still be friends of mine, on Facebook AND in realtime. I just needed one last wanker to round out this list, and we may now consider that one to be duly noted.

Also, GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE. And GOOD-FUCKING-BYE.

Good night, and get fucked!

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It’s shit like this…

…that confirms to me that the Progressive Bloggers aggregator has aggregated just a little too much unprogressive gunk. Or, as Pale would put it, they were so open-minded that their brains leaked out. And this is what took the place of all that grey matter. Crud. Curt, short, and rude.

So much for reasoned debate, eh Scott?

See, this is what happens when you let the anti-choicers (who are anti-progressive and thus, anti-awesome) try to tell you what “reasonable” is. You get crap everywhere.

But hey! It’s so nice to see that the so-called Prog Blog has decided to come out on the side of the Women’s Moderation Movement.

You know what that is?

Well, I’ll give you a hint. It’s not a real movement.

Women’s Moderation, as distinct from Women’s Liberation, is nothing but appeasement and compromise. It’s what we women have been doing forever. Some of us did it out of the foolish notion that it would get us somewhere if only we said pretty-please with enough sugar on it; all of us did it because it was not as though we were being given any real choice in the matter, anyway. We compromised, we appeased, we grovelled. And it never got us anywhere. Whenever one of our oppressors told us to jump, we didn’t ask any questions, other than (timidly) How high? And whenever one of our abusers hit us, we rolled over. Sometimes we played dead; sometimes, we WERE dead.

And any which way you slice it, we were not free.

And we were not making progress, either. Which is kind of the whole point of being progressive, isn’t it?

Yeah, that’s what Women’s Moderation gets you: It gets you nothing, except maybe sometimes when it gets you dead. Sound reasonable to you, ladies?

Didn’t think so.

But apparently the Powers That Be at the Not-So-Progressive Bloggers have decided that it IS reasonable to let the enemies of progress get a foot in the door. And it’s not the first time they’ve done that, either. We’ve seen anti-green energy blogs, “red” Tory blogs, and now this. Liberalism so illiberal that it is virtually indistinguishable from the not-at-all-progressive-anymore Conservative Party. Lots and lots of crap gets caught in that aggregator, and yet no one ever cleans it out. Meanwhile, the smell…

Is it any wonder all the real progressives are fleeing? Is it any wonder I wanted out?

Well, now I’m out. And the air is smelling cleaner already.

Now, if someone would kindly lend me a windshield scraper so I can get their deceptive bumper sticker off my sidebar, I’ll be all set.

Thanks, real progressives, for sticking with me…and let’s keep on truckin’.

PS: Just had to share this. It’s perfect:

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: It was ten years ago today…

…that Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play:

Actually, the Venezuelan people didn’t need no stinkin’ band. They rescued their president from a US-backed coup attempt with no outside help whatsoever, and with him, their democracy. The State Dept. would rather you forgot all about that, no doubt. But I’m not about to do that, and neither should you. This is one very lucky Friday the 13th for Venezuela, because their beloved president is still with them, and so is their democracy. ¡Viva Chavecito!

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Quotable: H. G. Wells on socialism

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Who needs an editor? Not Fidel…

…but the unnamed snotball who wrote this for the Canadian Press? Oh yes.

Look, CP presstitute-person, whoever you are, hiding behind your tradition of unsigned editorial cowardice…I understand that you may not like Fidel Castro, but it’s still a fact that he is FAR more popular in all the Americas than Harpo is up here. And the reason for his popularity, not that it matters to the likes of you, is simple: He has kept mafias and monopolies from dominating Cuba. In other words, he stands for Cuban sovereignty. Or, to put it another way: He kicks Stephen Harper’s sweater-vested ass.

Obviously our silly scribes up here in the no-longer-so-great North have no idea how popular the Cuban Revolution actually still is. They seem to think that it was only popular for the time it took to drive out Fulgencio Batista. And that once Fidel revealed himself to be a Marxist-Leninist, it all went downhill.

WRONG.

There is a reason why Fidel lived to retire as president, rather than being killed or forced to flee like any other dictator. And that is the fact that he remains popular. He kept all his promises from the outset of the revolution, starting with land reform; he made sure that his own family’s hacienda was among the first to be nationalized. Of course that didn’t sit well with his mother, who probably had been counting on her sons’ taking up the family tradition of land-owning aristocracy, but…oh, well. Fidel and Raúl, and all their fellow barbudos, made good on their promises to the point of living up to them personally, which is why there is still so little opposition to them today. Had they gone the route of their Russian counterparts, who made a big point of calling each other “comrade” while owning luxurious dachas in the best parts of the country, Cuba too would probably have fallen to predatory capitalism after the Berlin Wall came down.

Instead, Cuba weathered even the worst, the so-called Special Period. Cuban cars are still running, decades after their US counterparts were all either junked or enshrined in automotive museums. Cuban gardeners grow fresh organic vegetables in communal gardens, even in downtown Havana. Cuban pharmaceutical plants, even without massive foreign capital investment, are turning out drugs that work; a recently developed anti-cancer injection, derived from the venom of a native species of scorpion, enjoys such high regard that people are coming from as far away as Italy to receive it. And Cuban medical schools are training doctors from all over the Americas, for careers that will take them not to lucrative private practice, but to helping the sick who need them most. And those can be found in the poorest parts of Latin America, not to mention the ghettos of the United States and…dare we say it? Yes, we do…the native reserves of Canada.

Meanwhile, Cuban educators are teaching people all over Latin America to read and write; Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador have now joined Cuba in being declared free of illiteracy by the UN. It would appear that the Cuban literacy program, developed during the revolution by Fidel’s band of barbudos even during the fighting in the Sierra Maestra, has paid dividends!

Canada and the US do not enjoy such distinction. It seems that our politicians are more interested in starving the public systems of funding than they are of making sure that we occupy a real place of pride in the world. It is as if they were actively conspiring to make sure that the corporations own and enslave us all, and that we learn only how to adapt to that, and not to think for ourselves.

That is most emphatically NOT the case with Cuba.

Cuban schoolchildren learn to analyze world events in a way that would bring tears to the eyes of any social-studies teacher up here. They are certainly not cut off through dictatorship or communist propaganda. They do in fact receive news of current events from the outside world, and what I have read in the Cuban media convinces me that it is honest, accurate and uncensored. The only thing lacking there is money, and this is not because of Fidel and his bullheaded adherence to Marxism; it’s because of the US and its bullshit adherence to its economic blockade. Not for nothing does Fidel draw the distinction between them and us; remember, Canada has always had normal relations with Cuba. Canadians have been able to travel there freely when US citizens were actively forbidden by their own government…or when that same government sent them there to spy, and to try to spark a counter-revolution. We all know how well THAT has turned out so far: 638 failed assassination attempts against Fidel. A Guinness world record!

Meanwhile, Fidel remains alive, retired, but still writing. And thumbing his nose merrily at it all.

And now our lovely corporate media is also touting the stupid party line from south of our border. Even the supposedly fair and impartial CP has gotten in on the game; shameful.

Unlike Fidel, I don’t have the time or the space here to give them a more thorough history lesson. Or the inclination, really. All I can do is suggest that they start by reading Che Guevara’s Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War; they might then start to get an inkling. They might also want to watch Steven Soderbergh’s two-part film on the life of Che; it’s a well-wrought and mostly faithful rendering of the actual events. (I have to say, though, that I feel bad for any actor who’s ever played Che; not only was the original much handsomer, he also had far better lines.)

And above all, the CP needs to start hiring fact-checkers again. It’s really fucking embarrassing when a little blogger like me has to school them on the very basics.

Or, for that matter, to remind them to keep a civil tongue in their heads.

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Un chat existentiel

Poor Henri. The indignities of daily existence! How he bears them with fortitude and a certain je ne sais quoi. (Including a human who can’t really speak French all that well, but who still succeeds remarkably in articulating what Henri is probably thinking.)

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