Stupid Sex Tricks: “Disco stick” takes on a whole new meaning

Thanks ever so much to whoever came up with the brilliant (yes, that was sarcasm) concept of vajazzling. Now guys can do it to THEIR relevant bits, too:

Men! The makers of vajazzle crystal designs have heard your prayers, and answered them with “Pejazzle,” a line of “stick-on crystals just for men.” They go above your penis, to make it prettier!

You have, no doubt, heard of “vajazzling,” the beauty craze that took the world by storm, due to being super sexy and not at all weird, and is now basically expected of all women of childbearing age? If you are a straight man, you have probably stared at your female sex partner’s above-the-vagina area, glittering in the soft light of sex-candles, wishing that you, too, could shave your naughty hairs and glue Swarovski crystals there.

And now you can! The exclusive “pejazzle” line includes an “iron cross” design and a “red lips” design. Vajazzle salons in England say some 40 percent of their clientele are male. Don’t be shy! Haven’t you always wanted your penis to better represent your personal brand? Thanks to pejazzling, that dream can be a reality.

Hmmm…I think he was being sarcastic, too.

PS: No, I don’t think Prince William is the type to wear these, either.

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A poem for those who don’t get it

I decided to write this, en français, seeing as there are so many in France who still don’t understand what the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case is really all about:

Celà que DSK a fait,
n’est pas du tout une “liberté”
parce qu’il y manque fraternité,
et aussi donc l’égalité!

(What DSK did
isn’t a “liberty” at all,
because it lacks fraternity,
and also equality!)

Apropos the ridiculous conspiracy theories: I heard this morning that the alleged victim in this case, the hotel maid, is not a seductive CIA “honey trap” agent (who would, most likely, be white and blond), but a refugee from Guinea. (Common Dreams has her down as an “African immigrant” of unspecified nationality and immigration status.) Which not only debunks a great deal of the “entrapment” nonsense floating around out there in the French blogosphere, but makes this all the more emblematic of what the IMF does to people from poor countries, especially the women (who always and invariably bear the brunt of economies gone to hell from capitalist interference).

And may I remind you that a real Socialist would be talking not of reforming the IMF, as was DSK’s wont, but abolishing it, for those very reasons?

I hope this clears up all confusion. Carry on, mes amis.

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Don’t rape her!

A few friendly words of advice from some nice young guys to all you other guys out there:

Are you listening, Dominique Strauss-Kahn? Perhaps this list might furnish you a few clues. (Thanks, Uzza!)

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Wankers of the Week, Special Edition: Dominique Strauss-Kahn

More mood music is in order for this one. Take it away, Bruce:

Ah. That was lovely. Great Canadian singer/songwriter, folks–and with the added distinction of having had this song banned from the radio airwaves in the US because it had the audacity to call the IMF by its right name and describe its actions in harsh detail. And very germane to the subject of this post, too.

A couple of hours after my last post went up, I got wind that one of the biggest MFs of the IMF (dirty MF!) has been nabbed in New York. Here’s Reuters with that:

IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn was taken into custody on Saturday at JFK airport in New York and was being questioned in regard to a sexual assault, a New York police spokesman told Reuters.

Spokesman Paul Browne said the woman who filed the complaint against Strauss-Kahn, 62, was a 32-year-old chambermaid who fled the room after the incident.

Strauss-Kahn, a possible Socialist candidate in the French presidential election next April, left the hotel after the incident and boarded an Air France aircraft scheduled to depart for Paris, the police spokesman said.

“The NYPD realized he had fled, he had left his cell phone behind,” Browne said. “We learned he was on an Air France plane. They held the plane and he was taken off and is now being held in police custody for questioning.”

Browne said Strauss-Kahn had not been charged.

Police said the alleged incident took place at the upscale Sofitel hotel on West 44th Street near Times Square.

The chambermaid “was brought by EMS (emergency medical services) to the Roosevelt Hotel, where she was treated for minor injuries,” Brown said.

The New York Post goes into greater detail, if you’d care to read it. (Warning: take your anti-nausea pills first.)

Yeah, you can kind of see how this arrogant prick lost the party primaries to Ségolène Royal the last time, eh? Guess his chances are shot to hell now. And a good thing, too. I’m kind of taken aback that he was actually a Socialist. The IMF is capitalist to the hilt, and very predatorily so. How that (and his fancy-pants lifestyle) squares with French socialism, I do not know.

But I do know how it squares with capitalism: very neatly, alas. Apparently Strauss-Kahn has a long and sordid history of putting his coq where it doesn’t belong. Some more consensual than others, but all of them oh, so wrong. He’s such a gigantic wanker that I decided to give him this post, all to his widdle wonesome.

So, Dominique, enjoy your moment of disgrace. And may your lovely, long-suffering wife soccer-dribble your sorry ass all around the house when you finally get back home. Serves you right that you finally got caught doing to a lady what you’ve been doing to the poor nations of the world for years, you international motherfucker.

PS: Oh boy. Another woman has come forward, this one with some truly appalling details:

A local official of the Socialist party claimed that Strauss-Kahn had attacked her daughter, who is goddaughter to Strauss-Kahn’s second wife, in 2002.

Tristane Banon was in her 20s and writing a book when she approached Strauss-Kahn for an interview in 2002. In a TV programme in 2007, in which Strauss-Kahn’s name had been bleeped out, Banon allegedly described him as a “rutting chimpanzee” and described how she was forced to fight him off. “It finished badly … very violently … I kicked him,” Banon said. “When we were fighting, I mentioned the word ‘rape’ to make him afraid, but it didn’t have any effect. I managed to get out.”

Banon consulted a lawyer, but did not press charges. “I didn’t want to be known to the end of my days as the girl who had a problem with the politician.”

Banon’s mother, Anne Mansouret, told journalists on Sunday night she had dissuaded her daughter from legal action because she believed Strauss-Kahn’s behaviour had been out of character and because of close links with his family. “Today I am sorry to have discouraged my daughter from complaining. I bear a heavy responsibility,” she said.

Look like Strauss-Kahn’s misbehavior is entirely IN character. He has a reputation for what’s politely known as “zipper trouble”:

But in 2008, after a well-documented affair with Piroska Nagy a Hungarian economist and a junior colleague at the IMF, he was forced to publicly apologise for “an error of judgment”, but was cleared of abusing his position. He insisted the relationship was consensual, but when his wife, journalist Anne Sinclair, described it as a “one-night stand”, an indignant Nagy wrote to investigators saying: “I was not prepared for the advances of the IMF director general. I didn’t know what to do … I felt damned if I do, damned if I don’t.” Nagy left her job at the IMF after the affair, and hinted at harassment of female staff, adding that her boss had “without question” used his position to seduce her.

[…]

Strauss-Kahn’s alleged womanising appears to have been an open secret in French political circles for years. Thierry Saussez, a former adviser to Sarkozy, who took part in the TV show with Banon, said: “All this stupefaction from people is sheer hypocrisy. Everyone in Paris has known for years he had something of a problem. Not many female journalists are prepared to interview him alone these days.”

In 2009, the radio satirist Stephane Guillon dedicated his morning comedy slot on France Inter to Strauss-Kahn’s “obsession with females”. Some commentators suggested his behaviour was a reflection of French culture. In 2000 French writers Vincent Giret and Véronique Le Billon wrote almost presciently in their biography of him: “There is only one thing this famous man has avoided … a fall from grace.”

Looks like he finally got it…and not a moment too soon. But too late for more than one young woman, unfortunately.

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Wankers of the Week: Grand Delusions and Grated Expectations

Ahem. Before we get on with the wankapedia, how about a little mood music to set the stage:

Ah. That was awesome. And true, too. What on Earth’s this spell we’re under, and who the hell ARE we? I dunno, but I do know what’s wrong with it all. Here’s whose grand delusions have grated all expectations of a good week to come, in my eyes:

1. Matt Fucking Dean. So, the acclaimed fantasy writer/cartoonist Neil Gaiman is a “pencil-necked little weasel who stole $45,000 from the state of Minnesota”? Well, I guess an apology just makes that all better. Except that now we know Matt Fucking Dean is a no-necked, no-brained weasel who steals how much from the state of Minnesota in yearly salary and benefits?

2. Gary Fucking Faulkner, again. This time, he thinks HE “served up Osama bin Laden on a platter” to the US military, and should get a share of the reward money. Um, sorry, but NO. First up, there is none. Secondly, he’s just a whackjob with a samurai sword and delusions of grandeur. Thirdly, he belongs locked up, and I hope he stays there. I don’t think society is safe with him on the loose.

3. Chris Fucking Wallace. He doesn’t understand why torture isn’t okay? Okay, then let’s waterboard HIM and see what he says after that. Jeebus!

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4. Dick Fucking Cheney. Oh look, another one who doesn’t get it. Okay, Big Dick, you’re next on the waterboard. Let’s see how long your dicky ticker holds out. Oh yeah, and this comes as no surprise, either: He’s pro-imperialist on Libya. Probably just miffed because he didn’t get to order the current invasion — ya think?

5. Bristol Fucking Palin. Oh crap, just what we need — another fucking Palin “reality” show (note the quotation marks). Even worse, she’s been nippity-tucked just for this. When’s she gonna get a real job? PS: Oh, BROTHER. Does she think we’re all as dumb as she is?

6. Charles Fucking Koch. Riddle me this: If government shouldn’t interfere in private business, why does this fucking Randroid billionaire businessman get to interfere in the state government of Florida — or should I say, the hiring process at Florida State University, for a paltry million and a half? Oh, I get it: He’s a fucking Randroid billionaire cheapskate hypocrite.

7. Geert Fucking Wilders. Maybe I should wank-list those who invited him to spread his anti-Muslim gospel of hate here in Canada, but since their names aren’t given, I’ll just have to wank-list him. It’s not as if he’s not one anyway, right? And it’s not as if we as a nation wanted him…right?

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8. Jeffrey Fucking Cohen. Someone please tell this know-nothing that Venezuela IS free and democratic, has a popular elected leader, and doesn’t need “freeing” with the “help” of gringos like him. For once, a FUX station actually made a smart move in not airing their crapaganda. BTW, their “free speech” bullshit is pathetic. Lies are not free speech, because their purpose is to bind people up in unreality!

9. Henrique Fucking Capriles Radonski. It may be his “duty” to win, but it is his destiny to lose. He’s never going to touch the popularity of Chavecito, no matter what sugar-coated rubbish he spouts or how much of it. He is a phony on so many levels, it’s beyond comical. But hey, El Luniversal is gonna go on pushing their fellow putschist (notice how they don’t even deny his role in the illicit activities of April 11, 2002!), all the way over the cliff, so who am I to stop them? PS: Hey Henriquito, are human rights abuses — by your goons — a Christian value? Jesus has a place for you, and it’s not by his right-hand side. Hint, hint.

10. Jim Fucking Watson. “Respect for Life Day”? What about the lives of WOMEN? Oh yeah, I forgot: they don’t count. They’re only incubators. And jezebels. Shame, shame on the filthy harlots who make up half the human race. PS: Doublewank. Doubleplusdumb. How about a “Respect for Choice Day”, instead of all this silly shilly-shallying that actually violates city policy by bringing religion into it?

11. Carlos Alberto Fucking Montaner. Eduardo Galeano’s great book, Open Veins of Latin America, is an “idiot’s bible”, and Chavecito is “more fanatically Islamic than al-Qaida”? I’d say that this senile old wanker is more than overdue to join his terrorist co-religionist, Orlando Fucking Bosch, in the maw of Cthulhu.

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12. Donald Fucking Rumsfeld. Lawrence Wilkerson wants to waterboard him. And who can blame him — even if, like me, you’re adamantly opposed to torture? Rummy is so repugnant, even a saint would make an exception and dunk that motherfucker.

13. Doug Fucking Ford. “Penny-wise, pound-foolish” applies to him and his equally poundy brother, the boorish mayor of Toronto, both. With any luck, both will feel the pinch right back in their own capacious backsides before their terms in office are up.

14. Harold Fucking Camping. If the world doesn’t end on May 21, I won’t bat an eye. Because we’ve been here before, several times, and each time the fundies got disappointed big-time when the world kept right on going the way it always has. You’d think they’d be able to divine God’s message (basically, just live, and take care of the world and each other) from that, but oh, noooooo.

15. Damian Fucking Goddard. It might shock him to learn this, but there are gay hockey players in Canada. And they would like to marry the partner of their choice, not some poor unsuspecting soul that idiots like Goddard and the conservatives he supports would force upon them. Funny how the con-tards are all pro-freedom, but only as long as it’s their freedom and not that of all the rest of us. PS: Heh.

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16. Rick Fucking Scott. The governor of Florida wants to drug-test the poor? How about making the insanely rich pee in a jar for a change, as a condition of being allowed to live tax-free on everyone else’s dime? Too intuitive?

17. Arnold Fucking Schwarzenegger. I’m not surprised the Gropenführer is being dumped for his, well, gropin’; I’m only surprised that it took Maria Shriver this long to finally do it. I mean, it’s not as if his grab-(mulatto)-ass habits haven’t been out there for public consumption since before he and Maria were even an item.

18. Newt Fucking Gingrich. Sorry, Newty, but your wife won’t win you the presidency; she won’t win you anything except scornful laughter. We already know too much about how you went through your two previous ones — serving divorce papers up to poor #1 on her sickbed, no less. And #2, who was also ailing at the time of divorce, still remembers how #3 was your Other Woman while you were howling over Bill Clinton’s oral shenanigans. (Fun trivia fact: You even said the same things as Bill about YOUR oral-extramarital dalliances, as at least one of the ladies recalls!) And I hate to say this, but #3 looks like a Stepford zombie robot. Overprocessed helmet hair and what looks suspiciously like a too-tight eye lift; that permanently surprised expression is a dead giveaway. Does she sleep with her eyes open too? Or does she simply plug herself in and stand there all night in the corner, emitting a low, constant hum?

19. Philip Fucking Treacy. $3500 for THAT? For THAT??? “Open to interpretation”, my ASS — Princess Bea’s silly wedding chapeau was neither beautiful nor gorgeous. Gravity-defying, maybe, but that’s about the best thing to be said for that ridiculous contraption. (What is it, an ornate picture frame stuck onto a lilliputian pillbox? An abstract rendition of the Flying Spaghetti Monster? Your guess is as good as mine.) She’s actually very pretty, but you’d never know it from the pictures; that hat was designed not to flatter her face but to call attention only to itself. And she even had to remove it during the actual ceremony, because it blocked the view of those sitting behind her.

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Meow! Look, it’s a Time Portal for kitties from other dimensions.

And just think, kiddies, this is THE “it” designer of ladies’ headgear in Merry Old Head-Scratching England. He must be sniggering up his sleeve at the dirty trick he’s pulled off. And for so much money during a fucking recession, too.

20. Fucking Dubya. God bless you, Lawrence Wilkerson, for confirming what most of us have long suspected: that Dubya was never interested in “getting” Osama, but only in having a convenient pretext to make war on Iraq. No wonder the intel was all fucked up. It was done on purpose. And as we saw with Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame, anyone in intel who didn’t sing from the proper hymnal was thrown to the wolves. That was on purpose, too. And I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if Dubya turns out to be the one who ordered THAT, either.

21. Mike Fucking Huckabee. Welcome to Bizarro World, where Ronald Reagan is a revolutionary, where muggers wear tank tops reading “DISCO”, and where ignorance really is bliss. And where there’s a “blame America first” attitude that needs “correcting” — with flat-out BULLSHIT. Yes, let’s “recognize and celebrate faith, religion and the role of God” — in the making of morons who have to completely falsify history in order for it to make sense in their beclouded eyes. Guess who just torpedoed all hope of his own future presidential run, kiddies? PS: And of course, he gets “good advice from great advisors”! Oh, fuckaduckabee.

22. Margaret Fucking Wente. Hate to say it, Maggie, but I think you HAVE embraced your “inner slut”. What else would you call THIS?

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A heap of seething mad cow manure, on a gilded fainting couch made of false laurels, covered up with a Maple Leaf. Now that’s what I call flag desecration.

23. Dwight Fucking Probasco. Wasilla really IS the Asshole of Alaska. And small minds like his are the reason why. Suddenly, Sarah Fucking Palin’s “rise” to…whatever…isn’t so surprising anymore. Any town whose high school principal would ban a song like “Bohemian Rhapsody” from the choir’s repertoire just because Freddie Mercury was gay and some parents didn’t like that, deserves all the derision it gets. Such pea-brained pusillanimity is despicable, and worth getting away from as quickly as possible. I do, however, feel sorry for the decent folks who are still stuck there. And, happily, a lot of those decent folks are high-schoolers…who protested this stupid decision with all the derision it deserves, and got it reversed.

24. The Fucking Hundreds. In what fucked-up alternate universe is it hip and cool to treat women, literally, like pieces of meat? And no, I’m not buying the “irony” angle, either. Just as I’m not buying the sexist fucking t-shirt. Adios, muchachos.

25. Rand Fucking Paul. Lordy, lordy, good Gordie. Here I am, living in the land that was once the last stop on the Underground Railroad, and it turns out that thanks to our free universal single-payer healthcare, we are actually a land of slavery! Yes, people, welcome to Bizarro World — where black is white, day is night, wrong is right, and Rand Paul is still being taken seriously by someone for some reason; seriously enough, in any case, to win an election. In a land where REAL slavery once existed, and runaway slaves were punished when captured, no less. But hey, that’s okay; in Bizarro World, history, like slavery, means whatever a “freedom”-loving Randroid wants it to mean.

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26. Fucking Tennessee. You accidentally banned marriage. Good for you! That’ll show those marriage-minded folks.

27. Fucking Florida. You accidentally banned sex. Good for you! Say, maybe you and #26 should get together…that way, both marriage AND consummation will be accidentally off the list.

28. Hosni Fucking Mubarak. Trying to make a comeback by sowing discord (or trying to) between the Christians and Muslims of Egypt? Somebody really has trouble understanding that he’s no longer wanted. Or really fucking vengeful that his wife is under investigation for massive theft, and scared shitless that he’ll be next unless he retakes the reins of power, soon — by hook or by crook.

29. Richard Fucking Connelly. Looks don’t make the sex offender, and sexually objectifying them (if young, attractive and female) doesn’t make the point that not all child-sex offenders look like your stereotypical “weird old man in the bushes” pervert, either. What it does do, is make you look like a shallow, amoral asswipe who can’t cobble together a “listicle” for shit, and who just gets off on the attention. (Eww, that is so icky.)

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And finally, to all the fucking asshats who thought that a “Forever Alone Involuntary Flashmob” would be good for yuks. The joke’s on them: The Internet basically agrees that this real-life trolling foray was trashy and full of fail. It was hard to spot the stood-up guys in question, much less discern them as an “involuntary flashmob”; they just blended into the general milling-about that is Times Square. The anticipated anger and rage were, shall we say, kind of lacking. Not only that, but at least one of the intended victims wasn’t even upset when approached with the truth (he thought it was actually kind of funny), while three others got dates, thanks to a good samaritan who recruited some friendly female volunteers to make sure that the lonelyhearts would not leave Times Square feeling, well, “Forever Alone.” Which, by the way, is what anyone who’d perpetrate such a cruel hoax deserves to be, crouching and rotting in their anonymous cubicle until the end of their miserable lives.

Good night, and get fucked!

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Stupid Sex Tricks: A sacred bond?

Or a new form of panty-raiding. Take yer pick:

Classy doesn’t begin to describe this. (Actually, I don’t even consider hideous, hard-to-get-into, constrictive undergarments worth buying, never mind stealing.)

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Be afraid. Be very afraid…

Yet another kitteh video with well-synchronized “drama” music. Enjoy.

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Grooving in green

Yay, I love spring! Especially since you get to see this beautiful color a lot as the trees start delicately coming into leaf:

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And, oh yeah: It perfectly matches the eyes of the red-hot president of Ecuador, too.

PS: Anyone wanna caption this? It seems to be asking for it.

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Why the poor vote against themselves in Canada


What makes people vote against their own best interests? The Toronto Star’s Carol Goar has some answers. I’ll intersperse them with my own comments:

People in low-income neighbourhoods are the biggest victims of the drug dealers and violent young offenders Harper is promising to lock up. They want relief from the violence they can’t escape. They want to rid their communities of the gangs that lure their children into gun-and-gang culture. Crime crackdowns make sense to them.

In other words, these poor schmucks voted for a bunch of clowns who TALK “tough on crime”, but who want to take away from police the best weapon they have against the heavily-armed drug thugs — namely, the long-gun registry. And if you try to tell them what a stupid move THAT was, you’ll get the usual nyah-nyah about how “if guns are criminalized, we won’t be able to fight back”, or some such drivel. I’d ask them to google for news items showing a gun-toter foiling a robbery or drug deal in progress, but quite aside from those news items being nonexistent, these people probably don’t have access to the Internet OR the smarts to use it. It wasn’t part of their “back to basics” education that the Conservatives promised when they cut funding, y’know.

What Canadians struggling to make ends meet want most is a job; not government benefits, not abstract poverty-reduction plans, certainly not charity. Harper tapped into that yearning, promising to stabilize the economy and create employment. The New Democrats, aiming to beat him at his own game, said they would cut small business taxes.

Well, poor schmucks, the joke’s on you again. Harpo has nothing to do with stable economies, and he certainly doesn’t care about whether YOU find a job. But to know this, you’d need access to the Internet, and learn how to follow economic news a lot more closely. If you did, you might be embarrassed to learn what the Progressive Economics Forum has found:

In the first week of stability-inducing majority government, Canada’s economy experienced:

– A decline of almost 400 points over the week in the TSX composite, the worst weekly loss all year.

– A decline of almost 2 U.S. cents in the value of the loonie.

– Turmoil in commodity and futures markets, sparked in part by new U.K. rules limiting speculative positions in the silver market. The resulting downturn spread to other commodity prices (including oil) which had also been bid up by speculators.

– A miserable GDP report (issued the Friday before the election) showing that Canada’s real output was actually declining in February, casting doubt on the viability of the recovery.

– A jobs report issued this Friday that had a positive headline number (58,000 more Canadians working in April), but was gloomy in the details. 70 percent of those jobs were part-time, and almost two-thirds were in the public sector – many of them at Elections Canada working on an election that Mr. Harper said all along was “unnecessary” and economically damaging. In the goods-producing side of the economy, employment was falling (largely reflecting the impact of a sky-high loonie on manufacturing).

Is this what you voted for? No? Well, too bad — because that’s what the guy you voted for has given you in the past, and will continue to do in future. “Stability” and “jobs” — note the quotation marks. (You do know what quotation marks are, don’t you? If not, blame all the conservative cuts to your education system; I certainly do.)

It angers low-income voters to see secure middle-class bureaucrats getting pay hikes. Those trapped in entry-level service jobs seethe when public employees who earn far more than they ever will are rewarded simply for showing up. Those living on public assistance — employment insurance, welfare, old age security — dislike being treated with contempt by government officials. In both cases, cutting the public payroll has a lot of appeal.

And yet, these same schmucks are strangely silent when the big fat cats in charge — who make more than double what an average public sector employee does — vote themselves a big fat pay hike, and extra pension benefits, too. And some of them don’t show up on a regular basis either. If that’s not contempt of the poor schmucks who voted for THEM, I don’t know what it is. But hey, IOKIYAC, no?

Canadians fighting to stay afloat often have little regard for the anti-poverty organizers, professors and social planners who profess to speak for them. They don’t appreciate being lumped together and labelled. They don’t want political advice.

Well, ain’t that a pip. You try to help them, they spit in your eye. They think they’re smart enough to find their own way out? Sorry, but their zero-logic voting habits say otherwise. They couldn’t find their way out of the hole if you stuck big flashing neon arrows at the bottom, pointing up. If they “don’t want political advice”, then maybe they deserve the fleecing they get. I bet they don’t like to ask questions or consult roadmaps when driving, either…assuming they can still afford to drive.

Like most people, low-income voters mistrust politicians of all stripes. They don’t believe their promises and they don’t pay much attention to their rhetoric. Many don’t cast ballots. Those who do, opt for politicians who speak in plain language about issues that matter to them.

They don’t trust politicians, they don’t pay attention to what they say, they think politicians all lie…and then they trustingly vote for the biggest fucking liars of all, because those liars spouted the lies they wanted to hear. Anyone else sensing a HUGE contradiction here?

Okay, let’s go over these Conservative lies again:

Tough on crime, yadda yadda yadda. Meanwhile, they want to take away the gun registry that helps police fight crime. And the police aren’t impressed. What do Conservatives have against anticrime policing? And why are they so eager to help criminals like that Mountie-mass-murderer in Mayerthorpe go right on doing what they do?

We want jobs, yadda yadda yadda. But Harpo & Co. have not created jobs — at least none that will provide you sustainable and stable income. Why would you vote for the guy who is, in fact, the one most likely to keep you out of work, or underpaid and underemployed on the off chance that you do find any? Take it from one who’s been there since the first time around, namely the Great Mulroney Majority Recession — Conservatives can’t create jobs for shit. And for all they talk about fostering the right conditions for job creation, all they end up doing is giving the richest of the rich all the breaks. The little guy? Well, you’re not the one who kicked the money into their war chest, so of course they don’t give a shit for you. Even if you DID vote for them. Sucker.

Public sector bureaucrats make too much money, yadda yadda yadda. Well, then, maybe you’d like to stare into an empty wicket, inhabited only by spiders, the next time you’re trying to collect welfare or pogey benefits. Let me know how you make out when that happens, eh? Because the people who process your claims and bust their humps for you to get what you’re lawfully entitled to, are public sector employees. Or bureaucrats, as you like to call them. They are also the nurses who keep you from croaking when you show up in Emerg, and the teachers who saved your ungrateful ass (and those of your snot-nosed kids) from illiteracy. Downsize them out of their positions, and you’ll have a harder time getting what you only think is yours. You’ll also drive down your own wages as all those other job-seekers suddenly flood the already glutted labor market. But hey, why worry about that, right? It just sounds so good, all this cutback shit. And when you’re feeling vengeful, petty and spiteful, you don’t care that ultimately you’re cutting off your own nose.

Don’t tell US what to do, you condescending fucking do-gooders, yadda yadda yadda. All right, then, I won’t. All I’ll say from now on is I TOLD YOU SO. And SUCK IT UP. And YOU VOTED FOR THIS. And I’ll say it every time I hear one of you kvetching about the bastards you grabbed your ankles for. It’s simple language, and it ought to be clear enough for the simplest sheeple schmuck to understand.

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Hilarious, on so many levels

Courtesy of my friend Jim, on Facebook, this Panamanian news story came to my attention today:

The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) asked on Tuesday that the government of president Ricardo Martinelli investigate smear campaigns against Panamanian journalists, which represent “a grave fissure in freedom of expression” and “corrode the credibility of the press” .

In recent weeks, several journalists, including Lina Vega Abad, editor of the Investigations Unit of the daily La Prensa, were subjected to insults and an anonymous smear campaign on YouTube, in a form resembling television advertisements. Vega Abad’s professional career and personal life were questioned, according to denunciations, in response to her reports on irregularities in the government [of Panama].

A publicity spot by the ruling Cambio Democrático party, shown on TV last weekend, questions the honorability of reporter Santiago Cumbrera, of the Investigative Unit of La Prensa, because of his investigations regarding the diplomatic cables revealed by Wikileaks, which compromise government functionaries.

IAPA president Gonzalo Marroquín, of the Guatamalan daily Siglo 21, said that “it is evident that the reporters are being smeared in an effort to damage their reputation and thus corrode their credibility before society; for this reason, it behooves the government, as guarantor of press freedom, to investigate the incidents and punish those responsible.”

In early April, Alvaro Alvarado, journalist and host of the morning news show Telemetro, on Channel 13, also denounced smear campaigns against him. La Prensa also reported that during 2010, other anonymous videos were used to discredit the then editor of the judicial unit of the daily, Mónica Palm.

The president of the Commission of Press Freedom and Information, Robert Rivard, of the US paper San Antonio Express-News, added that “if the anonymous defamatory messages are not taken into account, if they are not investigated, they help to create a climate of intolerance and intimidation that lessens the public’s capacity to receive information.”

In its recent quarterly report, the IAPA warned about the climate of confrontation in Panama between the government and the press, expressing that the government usually “blames the communications media over certain situations and facts which are of a public character.”

Translation mine.

Why is this funny? Because this is happening in Panama, not Venezuela (which is the IAPA’s usual whipping-post when it comes to muzzling of the press). Because the IAPA, which should be called the IAPOA (it is a press owners’ association, after all, and not a journalists’ union) is prevailing on the right-wing, corrupt Martinelli government to essentially investigate itself in the smearings of journalists. And because the IAPOA is about as much a guardian of free expression as a fox is the guardian of a henhouse. And most of all, because the fox guarding the henhouse is asking the coyote to look into what happened to all the chickens.

PS: Somewhat germane to the subject, you may want to read mi amigo, Orwell’s Bastard, who has a spifftacular entry up tonight. If you wonder why corporate media get so little respect, the Barstid (who would know, because he works at a major Canadian paper; I won’t say which) has some clues for you. It’s certainly not a phenomenon limited to Panama, or Latin America. And neither is the nasty habit of right-wing governments trying to make diligent reporters’ work impossible. We have that problem up here, too.

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