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Wankers of the Week: Crass Warfare, Too

Posted on October 1, 2011 by Sabina Becker

Crappy weekend, everyone! Well, how about that occupation of Wall St.? It’s still going on, despite today’s police raid. And it looks like it’s going to go on…how long? Indefinitely? Or just until crapitalism finally crapitulates? Well, that’ll probably be never, so indefinitely it must be. Oh, oh, what a lovely class war. And speaking of wars, here are some of our enemies for the week. In no particular order…

1. Tony Fucking Blair. Now we all know why he was Dubya’s poodle. When a request to the UN for recognition of Palestine as a state is too “confrontational” for his liking, you know he’s still bent over in you-know-whose woodshed. The embarrassing thing is, he can’t seem to wipe that inane grin off his face. Even the current stodgepodge squatting in Number 10 isn’t so fascistic towards Palestine, or so stupid. One rather gets the impression Toady LIKES playing the fool on the world stage.

2. Tony Fucking Clement. Apparently, NONE of the fat the SupposiTories are promising to cut will come off the pork from HIS barrel. Nice to see they have their spending priorities in order, eh? PS: The euphemism of the week is “unorthodox funding arrangements”. Means CORRUPTION and TORY PORK. (You’re welcome!)

3. John Fucking Baird. A hundred years from now, our great-grandchildren will be shaking their heads at the idiocy of those who let these babbling, unCanadian barbarians into office. I’m doing it already, and I don’t even have any kids. STFU, Squealer!

4. Anthony Fucking Bologna. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail…and when all you have is a can of pepper spray, every innocent protester looks like a rioter. I know his nickname is probably Tony Baloney, but I have a better one. From now on, let’s call him Officer Mace-Face. He’s done it more than once this week, so the handle fits!

5. Tiffany Fucking Alston. Marriage equality for all? Fuck it. Let’s just embezzle money from the public purse to pay for our own tacky “dream wedding” instead, shall we?

6. Dakota Fucking Ary. And while we’re on the subject of gay-bashers, how about this one? Just 14, and already he has a track record for it! Yeah, that’ll win you brownie points from Jesus…a guy who hung out with twelve other men, at least one of whom got jealous whenever he kissed Mary Magdalene. So much so that the jealous one betrayed him for thirty silver shekels to the Roman authorities. Yes, there IS a moral in here. Can anyone tell me what it might be? Bueller?

7. Dick Fucking Cheney. Yes, he was in my home and native land. And no, he wasn’t arrested for war crimes. But hey, at least he got the “welcome” he deserved. Bonus: The private club where he attended the swank reception has a reputation for harboring pedophiles!

8. Mark Fucking Zuckerberg. Sharing implies active participation, not passive submission, Fuckerberg. And in case you haven’t yet heard, your brand of it is called privacy invasion. And there are federal and provincial privacy commissioners up here who are none too happy with it, either.

9. Christie Fucking Blatchford. Yup, she’s back, with more toxic blatchings. This time, about the audacity of a woman whom the police left tied up naked (by Russell Williams, the now infamous pervert-burglar and murderer) for five hours while they went scrounging for their cameras. Apparently it’s “brave but wrong-headed” of Lori Massicotte to sue the OPP for being a bunch of bumbling dicks and contributing to her pain, humiliation and anguish at the hands of her tormentor. Only in Blatchville, where pigs wear lipstick and fly…

10. María Corina Fucking Machado. Why?

That’s why. “Responsibility” is a noun, not a verb. But she still squandered 9 whole hours asking herself (and tweeting about) how Chavecito would conjugate it. And just think, SHE wants HIS job — and seriously thinks she stands a chance of getting it. Hey MariCori, conjugate this: ¡IDIOTA!

PS: No, this does not apply in her case. Her profile pic is unaltered; the hacked profiles all wore red berets and had an “N33” on them. Trust me, this is MariCori’s own dimwittedness shining through. I’ve seen unedited videos of her in action. She really IS that fucking stupid.

11. Jeffrey Fucking Servos. If you wonder why black kids are always yelling “Fuck da Police”, consider this: They bust black kids, and more than a few poor and unconnected white ones as well, for having just a crumb of marijuana in their pockets. And then some of them are busted themselves, for crack cocaine possession AND snorting ground-up OxyContin in their cruisers. AND when expelled from the force for being a menace to society, they have the nerve to go before the Human Rights Tribunal and demand their jobs and a hefty cash settlement back! What’s truly funny about all this, though, is that it’s being reported by the Toronto Sun, the most cop-hugging right-wing rag in the city. They hate the provincial Human Rights Tribunals with a passion, because the Human Rights Tribunals tend to tackle (among other things) matters of racism. And their “reporting” (note quotation marks) is centred around the one hand around glorifying cops and the other around denigrating civilian human rights authorities, and making small-time drug users out to be the worst people in the world. So this must have made the managing editor’s head damn near explode. Enjoy it, kiddies — it’s a cheaper laugh than pot.

12. Sarah Fucking Palin. Hey everybodyyyyyyy, she’s NOT running for president, after all! Probably because she’d then be questioned seriously about her ethics (or lack thereof) at last, and led away in handcuffs. At least, that’s the subtext I’m getting. Can we finally put a fork in her and call her done?

13. Michele Fucking Bachmann. Jerry Falwell’s money-losing, unaccredited “university” is the “greatest in the history of the world”? I guess it would look that way if you’re one of the ones who couldn’t get into the accredited kind that requires, you know, a working set of brains.

14. Rose Marie Fucking Belforti. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: If you have something religious against legal same-sex marriage (or birth control, or abortion, or spaying cats, or whatever), don’t work for the state. And don’t blame your own prejudices on God. Go find a job that doesn’t conflict with your fucked-up “values”, and leave the public sector jobs to those willing to actually DO them.

15. James Fucking Cafferty. Speaking of fucked-up values, doesn’t the State Dept. vet its foreign service personnel better? Or is it up to the FBI to do that retroactively, with a secret honey-pot site for kiddie-porn seekers? This guy could have been molesting kids and uploading photos to sites like it in the meantime. And doing so overseas, where the risk of being caught is much less.

16. Tim Fucking Hudak. Well, you can’t say he’s not loyal. He stands by his skeevy Reform-a-Tory candidates even when their spouses are fucking thugs. Or is this another case of IOKIYAC?

17. Brad Fucking Trost. And speaking of skeevy Reform-a-Tories going rogue and embarrassing their party, how about this one? Not only does he look like Harpo and Harris’s little blond brother, he wants to have singlehanded control of every woman’s uterus on the planet. And he calls HIS position “moderate”! No, I’m not fucking kidding. Maybe it’s just as well that he’s a nobody from nowhere, and that Harpo is secretly scared of women. The abortion debate is closed, and with 8 out of 10 Canadians solidly pro-choice, it’s going to remain so. US-style anti-choice incrementalism isn’t gonna fly here, kiddies. (Except off the end of my pitchfork, by the seat of its pants, straight into a raging bonfire.)

18. Mittens Fucking Romney. It must be nice to be so fucking rich that you can actually forget having gone to Harvard…TWICE.

19. and 20. Maurice Fucking Vellacott and Leon Fucking Benoit. Will someone please take these two anti-choice assholes, and #17, and fly them to Amsterdam, and just dump them all in the red-light district, already? Because it’s obvious that they all need to get laid in the worst way, and I don’t see any volunteers stepping up to the plate! Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood has some news that might just shock them about how Canada is REALLY helping to prevent abortion around the world. And it has nothing to do with religious bigotry, and EVERYTHING to do with dispensing reliable birth control, through the International Planned Parenthood Federation.

21. Jim Fucking Flaherty. No, you know what Ontario REALLY can’t afford? More fucking SupposiTories. This one, as an old Harrisite Parasite (along with Tim Fucking Hudak) broke our province so badly that Dalton McWimpy still hasn’t fixed it after two terms. We need a change, yes, but not a pendulum swing back to the Nasty ’90s. I remember the Harrisites the same way I remember grunge — and I do NOT mean that fondly.

22. Peter Fucking MacKay. How about repatriating all the taxpayer money you wasted on your jet-setting junkets, Petey? And how about not lying about it anymore, either? Too much Personal Responsibility™ for ya?

23. Harris Fucking Himes. It’s awfully hard to argue that you’ve been set up by pro-choicers and LGBT activists when it was YOU doing all the scamming, eh? But hey, you can’t blame a bastard for trying. After all, PATHOLOGICAL LYING is a Conservative Family Value™!

24. James Fucking Forrester. See above, and add HA HA FUCKING HA!!! Sure must hurt to get pwned by Michelangelo Signorile, who might just be the best-informed gay man on the planet. I’m willing to bet he’s walking funny since he took THAT ass-kicking. And this one, too. And this one!

25. Charmaine Fucking Yoest. If you ever wondered where our right-wing idiots get their anti-choice, anti-birth-control talking points, it’s easy: From certain spinny neighbors to the south. Like this one, who insists that PPFA isn’t “transparent” enough, when in fact the organization may as well be made of plate glass. I suspect no amount of “accountability” (note quotes) will ever be enough for THOSE people.

26. James Fucking Moore. Funny how it’s fair in one court, foul in the other where the Canadian flag is concerned. When the Liberals decreed Flag Day, the Harper Government™’s now-minister of heritage (not Canadian heritage, Harper Government™ heritage) sneered. But now he’s trying to turn our flag laws as absurd and draconian as those in the States. Since when is it patriotic to copycat the Yanks? Oh, since the Government of Canada became the Harper Government™. Need you ask?

And finally, to the fucking bastards who write those lousy, crappy Java scripts on Facebook. It’s not enough that they’re making billions by invading our privacy and selling our data to unscrupulous bastards. If I had a dollar for every time that shit caused my browser to hang, and me to lose a download, I’d be as wealthy as Fuckerberg. Anyone for a class-action lawsuit?

Goodnight, and get fucked!

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Quotable: Confucius on poverty and wealth

Posted on October 1, 2011 by Sabina Becker

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: The ghost of Chavecito

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Sabina Becker

Who is this healthy, handsome baseballer, anyway?

Shoot, that ain’t no one but the ghost of the man the Miami Hairball wants us to give up for dead. Hilarious how undead he is, eh?

BTW, other hilarities abound. Check out these headlines:

“Hugo Chavez Forced to Appear to Deny Rumor of Failing Health”, sez FUX Snooze. Wouldn’t it be quicker and easier to simply say “Oh Shit, He’s Still Healthy”?

“Hugo Chavez: Reports On My Health Read ‘Like a Novel'”, sez ABC. Well, that’s true. It’s all made-up shit. Actually, he probably meant a telenovela, a trashy soap-opera. They have melodramatic plots like that all the time.

And then there’s this pathetic (and very poorly written) one: “Miami-paper: Chavez rushed to hospital; Dictator denies health problem”. Who you calling a DICTATOR? He’s democratically elected, you wanks!

But hey. If the headlines haz Teh Stoopid, it’s because of the old adage: Chávez los tiene locos — Chávez drives them crazy. He’s democratic, not dictatorial, and he just won’t die. Nothing drives the lamestream media crazier, and for that reason, this Friday is especially festive.

¡Viva Chavecito!

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The National Pest “apologizes”

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Sabina Becker

A few days ago, the National Pest published an extremely homophobic (and blatantly accusatory) ad about public schooling in Ontario. Today, we get this non-apology apology, or non-retraction retraction, if you will…

Earlier this week the National Post ran an advertisement that has caused some controversy. The ad, bought by the Institute for Canadian Values, argued against aspects of the Ontario school curriculum that include instruction about certain aspects of human sexuality. Specifically, it objected to teaching young children — those between junior kindergarten and Grade 3 — about transsexual/transgender/intersexed/two spirited issues.

The National Post has procedures in place for vetting the content of advertising, especially advocacy advertising. The procedures are intended to ensure that such ads meet a standard of tone and respect that is consistent with furthering constructive dialogue about important public policy issues.

In this case, those procedures were not followed. An ad that should not have run in its proposed form was allowed to run.

This ad will not run in the National Post again.

So far, so good. So what’s so bad about this? This:

The National Post believes strongly in the principles of free speech and open, unhindered debate. We believe unpopular points of view should not be censored simply because some readers may find them disturbing, or even offensive. Free speech does not apply only to views that will not offend anyone.

The ad in question was attempting to make the case that the Ontario curriculum was teaching very young children about issues that, at that age, should be the domain of parents. In addition, it made the case that even when parents or teachers may object to the material being taught, they did not have the right, in the case of parents, to remove their children from the class, or in the case of teachers, to decline to teach the material on the grounds that they objected to it.

In an open society, these positions are worthy of being part of a debate on this issue. They are also legitimate arguments to make in a paid advertisement in a media outlet.

Where the ads exceeded the bounds of civil discourse was in their tone and manipulative use of a picture of a young girl; in the suggestion that such teaching “corrupts” children, with everything that such a charge implies; and in their singling out of a specific group of people who have made choices about their sexuality with which the group disagrees.

I didn’t choose to be straight, much less because of anything I was “taught” at school, in any grade. My LGBT friends didn’t choose to be queer for such reasons, either. But the bigots of the National Pest chose, as adults, to run an ad promoting bigotry in the guise of concern for the well-being of children.

And they’re still doing it, albeit more subtly and politely, with this half-assed apology that makes the tacit assumption that sexual orientation is a “choice”. I trust you didn’t miss the old canard that hate speech is “free speech” which is only unpopular and/or offensive, either. It’s the justification for their whole existence as an outlet for the petty hatreds and deep-seated spite of old white straight people. The Pest is most certainly NOT a reliable newspaper. It is a crapaganda rag for conservatism, and the sooner that we understand that, the better.

I suppose that we should accept this “apology” in the spirit in which it was made…a spirit less of unprejudiced goodwill or sincere contrition than of “I’m sorry I caught you with your fingers in the cookie jar”, or maybe “I’m sorry I slapped your fingers when you got them caught in that nasty old cookie jar”.

Sorry, Pest, but I don’t forgive you.

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Dear Miami Herald: You are SO full of shit.

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Sabina Becker

That’s Chavecito, on VTV today. Does he look to you like he’s at death’s door? No? Then you’re more observant than one Antonio María Delgado, crap reporter extraordinaire.

I know I should take it for granted that the Miami Hairball — er, Herald — can’t report the news from Latin America to save its miserable life. So shit like this shouldn’t surprise me. And it doesn’t. But still, this is so disgustingly despicable….

In a sign his condition might be deteriorating, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has been sent again to the Carlos Arvelo Military Hospital in Caracas. Wednesday, his doctors were considering transferring him to the private Caracas Clinics Hospital, where he could be better treated for his renal-insufficiency problems, said sources close to the situation.

The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Chávez entered the hospital on Tuesday.

“His general condition was compromised,” said one of the sources who saw him when he entered the Military Hospital. “When he arrived, he was in very serious condition.”

Another source said that he was in a bad state when members of his secret service took him from the Presidential Palace to the hospital.

…not to mention hilarious when you get to the final paragraph:

On state-run television Thursday, Chávez asked Venezuelans to “pay no attention to the rumors” of his declining heath. He also said he would be making public appearances again when he fully recovers from his cancer treatment.

Gee, even THEY have to admit that he’s not dying, or anywhere near it. Albeit grudgingly. Wouldn’t want to compromise our carefully established position as a disociado rag, would we now?

And they want us to pay to read the full version? Thanks, but no thanks. When you try to titillate with false facts from anonymous (and thus probably bogus) “sources” that even the bizmedia and commercial whore media are not reporting (because, for a wonder, they both decided to go with the facts when it comes to Venezuela), you don’t deserve any more eyeballs. Or money.

So yeah, Herald, I guess what I’m trying to say is, You are SO full of shit. And it’s getting so monotonous having to call you out on it all the time that even the supermarket tabloids are looking downright interesting. Even Bat-Boy is more of a real entity than these anonymous “sources” you set so much store by.

Why not just come clean and admit that you’re making shit up?

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Ker-SPLAT!!!

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Sabina Becker

How to deal with privatization and fascism in your midst? Take a lesson from Chilean students. They’ve been on strike for years against it, and this year things are coming to a head, with a right-wing Pinochetist president in office. And when one of the Pinochetist’s lackeys, a local mayor, illegally closed the schools, causing students to lose an entire year, something hit the fan:

A day of protests took place outside the municipal offices of Providencia. Citizens came to throw tomatoes and rotten fruit as a sign of repudiation of the words of mayor Cristián Labbé, who arbitrarily closed the schools and caused all students who were on strike to lose their year.

Federal Deputy Tarud told Terra that “the measure adopted by Labbé to close the schools was absolutely illegal, since only the Ministry of Education has the right to do it. Mayor Labbé is acting as he did during the worst times of the [Pinochet] dictatorship, thinking he can still rely on the DINA [secret police].”

For that reason, a group of citizens arrived at 6:30 pm local time to demonstrate their rejection of Labbé, and in such a way as they used to do with anyone who defrauded the public while in office: by throwing rotten tomatoes at him.

They also threw eggs at the muncipal office building, and were detained by the Carabineros.

Translation mine.

This was last Friday. And in case you’re wondering why the parliamentary deputy made reference to the infamous DINA, the CIA-connected political police of the Pinochet era, this page might hold some clues. Cristián Labbé, a former Chilean army colonel, is in fact a torturer who worked at the infamous Villa Grimaldi secret prison, operated by the DINA. Disappearances, deaths and terrible suffering took place on his watch. His name is fifth on the list of known torturers. He has never been held accountable.

And he’s still as arrogant and cruel as ever, blaming his old nemesis, the “Marxist left”, and accusing them of being “the motor and beneficiary of public disorder”. No democratic right of protest in the new Chile, which is remarkably little changed from the old Chile, seeing as Labbé is still free and still in power. No doubt he still thinks he has the law on his side.

It will be interesting to see if that other old Pinochetist, the current president of Chile, actually lets him go on getting away with murder, or whether he will apply the law of education — shoddy as it is in Chile — and remove this lawbreaker from office.

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Quotable: Joe Hill on general strikes

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Sabina Becker

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Short ‘n’ Stubby: Ms. Manx occupies Wall Street

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Sabina Becker

It’s one of those drizzly, autumnal days around here. Usually, just the kind of weather that would send a kitty indoors, to curl up on her humans’ laps, with her tail wrapped cozily around all fours, purring and not letting them get up. But since Ms. Manx is a cyberkitty, and in any case has no tail beyond a stub, she’s restless…and out prowling. And sure enough, she’s found some things for us:

Over at the UK Guardian, Ed Pilkington notes the disparity between what the First Amendment says and how the NYPD seems to be interpreting it. He finds it symptomatic of the brutality of US society in general. Ms. Manx notes that it goes much further and deeper than that; it’s a symptom of capitalism itself, and the UK had its own share of that recently. Remember how the London police brutally “kettled” teenagers during the protests against school fee hikes? Or how they gunned down an innocent Brazilian electrician by mistake for a terrorist railway bomber? Or how they killed a black man for who knows what reason, then cracked down hard on the protests that ensued, characterizing them as “riots” and “looting”? Ms. Manx wants us to understand just one thing: The real rioters are always the police, and the real looters are always those who send them out against the rest of the bottom 99% of humanity. And it’s not only in the US that it happens, it’s just there that it’s happening right now.

Speaking of what’s happening right now, the Stumpy Cat has found something VERY interesting at the selfsame Grauniad: the officer accused of macing or pepper-spraying a group of women (one of whom talks about it here) at the protests has a record of police brutality, and has also been named for it at a protest in 2004 against Dubya. The Manx cattily remarks that such things are typical. They ALWAYS send out the brutal ones when there’s a peaceful protest. They want to provoke violence, so that there will be a pretext for breaking up the protest altogether, or for mass arrests. It’s no more a coincidence than when the vicious prison guard, Charles Graner, was sent to Iraq to torture prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Someone made that decision, someone in the shadows at headquarters. It’s a good start that the brutes are named, but the Stumpy Cat says we need to go further, naming their commanders, both in uniform and out. Accountability has to go all the way to the top.

Meanwhile, Wonkette’s headline here says it all, albeit ironically. Everyone knows since the Beatles first sang about it that the real piggies are the ones in the starched white shirts. But the media have been instructed to ignore the little man behind the curtain, and the fact that the protesters aren’t “green-haired freakers”, as Greg Palast once called them, but just a motley assortment of nice normal folks of all ages from the 99%, isn’t sitting well with the media. Nice people behaving themselves makes for boring video, not to mention no pretext for kettling, head-busting, mass-arresting and protest-breaking. Not the message the corporate media want to be caught sending.

But maybe the media ARE waking up; MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell certainly has, and the Stumpie gives him two big paws up for that. She would also like to tell him to watch his back; the corporate honchos have the knives out. Remember Keith Olbermann?

All the same, it’s kind of shameful that they took ten whole days to get their butts in gear and REPORT this. Guess it helps that Michael Moore showed up, eh?

ADDENDA: While not directly linked to #OccupyWallStreet, a pilots’ strike also took place there today. Maybe they could join forces with the protesters? Some cops are already doing so, from what I hear.

And Susan Sarandon is in the house, so to speak. “I’m just here to be educated,” she says. By virtue of just showing up, she’s already shown herself to be smarter than a great many. The Stumpy Cat gives her a big two-paws-up as well.

Also, don’t miss Yes Magazine’s article on how it all got started, and why.

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Teabaggers come to Ontario. Ontarians properly horrified.

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Sabina Becker

O, Canada. You’ve certainly seen more than your share of imports from our neighbors to the south. Some, like the Vietnam-era draft dodgers and conscientious objectors, have been a blessing to our society. Others, like the KKK and this guy, make me understand only too well why our Latin American friends are constantly yelling “Yankee Go Home!”:

Michael Prell, who bills himself as a “strategist for the Tea Party Patriots,” has joined the campaign of Tim Hudak, the Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. Hudak is part of a new generation of politicians pulling the Progressive Conservatives further to the right. He pledged to abolish the Ontario Human Rights Commission, for example, in a deal to secure his position as party leader. In 2009, while speaking to a Canadian Christian right group, the Association for Reformed Political Action, he declared that he was opposed to abortion and had signed petitions calling for the defunding of abortions. He has also supported taxpayer funding to religious private schools. Recent proposals for tax cuts and changes to the healthcare system are very Tea Party-esque.

Hudak’s campaign manager is Mark Spiro, who founded the Canadian company Crestview Public Affairs in 2004. According to the company’s website, “In 2009, Mark coordinated the voter contact strategy for the successful campaign of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.” It is apparently Spiro who managed to insert Prell into Hudak’s campaign. In turn, Michael Prell claims, in the Acknowledgments of his book, the Spiro is his “best friend and business partner.”

Michael Prell’s book, Underdogma: How America’s Enemies Use Our Love for the Underdog to Trash American Power, pillories the poor and those that take up the causes of the poor and disempowered. It reads like a 21st Century justification for Social Darwinism and American Exceptionalism. Prell proudly declares his allegiance to the Tea Party Patriots faction, and his website indicates that when people buy his book on site, “100% of Michael Prell’s royalties go to the Tea Party Patriots.” Not surprisingly, Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots declared that “Underdogma is the first great Tea Party book. All Tea Party Patriots should read Underdogma.”

Nice, eh? Tim Who-Dat is taking lessons in victim-blaming from his gringo counterparts. Seems so fitting somehow.

The only problem is, politics of THAT stripe are not welcome here:

Opposition to the Tea Party is not a partisan issue in Canada. Alicia Johnston of the Liberal Party of Ontario warned that “the extreme right wing Tea Party movement in the US is routinely exposed for lying, being incoherent, vacuous and deeply divisive.” And former Progressive Conservative Premier Ernie Eves warned against Hudak’s wing of his party were becoming “the Tea Party version of Ontario politics.”

…not even among Conservatives. Or at least, not the ones who still bother to attach that old and increasingly less fitting “Progressive” prefix to their party name. That is to say, the Ontario PCs, who I recall actually being somewhat progressive, many years ago. (I still have fond memories of our PC “education premier”, Bill Davis, who is still living…and not only properly horrified by THIS particular brand of conservatism, but also critical of that of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves, our last two Tory premiers. They were god-awful, but Hudak is bidding fair to make them look like the good cop.)

The federal Reform-a-Tories, on the other hand, have always been strictly regressive, and therefore are more than happy to take “lessons” in uncompassionate conservatism from the worst of our neighbors to the south. And it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that someone at the federal level turned Who-Dat onto Prell & Co. They’re looking for a “hat trick”, remember?

Now, if we only knew who it was, so we could kick him the fuck out of Ottawa. After all, that’s a city in Ontario, too. And one that has suffered more than its share of evangelical conservative fools from all over the friggin’ place.

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