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Short ‘n’ Stubby: Suddenly, Toronto SUCKS!

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Sabina Becker

Well. How’d everyone like last night’s municipal elections? Ms. Manx was watching the tweeter in spite of vowing not to, and the results had her doing a facepaw. Toronto has elected a boorish, drunken, wife-beating, racist, homophobic dickweed for a mayor. Or rather, the suck-ass SUBURBS of Toronto did. (Item: Both Paul Bernardo and Russell Williams hail from Scarborough. Sheer coincidence?)

Anyhow, here’s what the Stumpy Cat found on the tweeter about the whole disaster:

The Torontoist compares Ford adversely to Mel Lastman. One thing Ms. Manx has heard over and over is that Mel actually LIKED Toronto when he ran it. The Stumpie agrees, saying she met the man when she got his pic for the Ryersonian, and yes, she got that impression too. (She also thinks the photo at the linky is full of win. Yes, that’s exactly what the city is gonna look like for cyclists. Ford HATES them.)

The Toronto Star makes an object lesson out of the defeat of former council member Sandra Bussin. Moral of story: Taking huge campaign cash from someone to whom you later grant a no-bid contract does not pay. The voters remember. The big problem with the article, though, is that it’s being played as a problem of incumbency, of getting too big (and established) for one’s britches. Term limits, however, won’t solve the real problem, which is corruption. And corruption knows no term limits, only dollar values.

Politics Respun analyzes the election outcome, particularly the baffling bit about Ford, relating it to what George Monbiot writes about people voting against their better interests. In short, it appears that the problem is “values” voting–that is, voting for the candidate that appears to conform to what you believe in (be it Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy), rather than rationally sitting down and doing your homework on the fucker and finding out what he really stands for. Ms. Manx nods sagely and says that sounds about right. If it’s not voter apathy at work, it’s voter ignorance. Both are Bhad News for democracy.

Back to the Star again. What the hell is this mindless boosterism? Ugh! That’s not analysis, that’s an after-the-fact Ford campaign ad. And it’s ugly shit, too…Ms. Manx has seen the graffiti that lives in Toronto’s alleys. Some of it is gorgeous; some imparts unexpected wisdom. She even did a photo essay on it to try to get people to look at it with fresh eyes. All of it adds character and interest to the bland face of a big city. Anyone who’d want to get rid of that will NEVER get her endorsement. And if you believe that “more subways” crap from a mayor who ran on a tax-cutting platform, our stumpy-tailed friend says she has a lovely bridge in Brooklyn that she’s just dying to unload, cheap. And she also says PAWS OFF THE WILDCAT STRIKERS!!!

Politics and Profit lists 4 things that Rob Ford should do as mayor, but undoubtedly won’t. Most worrisome item? #1, with a bullet.

Rev. Paperboy takes Rob Ford to the Woodshed, and delivers a satisfying smackdown.

And Christie Blatchford is just really, REALLY fucking vile. That is all.

Toronto, you USED to rock. Ms. Manx, however, says she prefers to wait four more years before she comes back for any length of time. Your streets have only gotten meaner in the interim, and the only thing that consoles her about it all is that this mayor’s honeymoon will be shorter than Mel Lastman’s stature. In fact, she bets it’s already over!

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Congratulations, Team America World Police!

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Sabina Becker

It’s been only eight long years of illegal captivity and torture, and finally, you wrung a “confession” out of your designated scapegoat, poor, brainwashed Omar Khadr, he of the batshit-crazy fundie-Islamist family. Feel proud!

Meanwhile, here’s a little song, which I’m sure you won’t comprehend in the least:

Fair trial? What the fuck is that? Apparently, a thing of the past.

PS: I was saying…?

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Venezuelan journalists censored on Twitter!

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Sabina Becker

Yes, it’s really true. Roberto Hernández Montoya, one of VTV’s two Robertos (who have a show called “As You Can See”) has been following the @VVperiodistas saga, and he tells all:

I recount: Certain journalists at Venevisión created this anonymous account at Twitter in order to vent their spleen against the government, which their channel would not allow. The broadcaster apparently complained to Twitter over the use of their name and logo, and Twitter immediately cancelled the account. They created another, @VVperiodistas2, with the threat of another closure, and had to create @VVperiodistas3 and so on ad infinitum. In effect, some jokers created @VVperiodistas3 and the ruckus began. Believing their lies, several journalists, starting with VVperiodistas2, dedicated themselves to insinuating something like that Chávez had ordered the closure from Tehran, and Twitter, obediently, cancelled VVperiodistas. The maverick journalists later released a statement which clarified that the responsible party was their own channel. In it, they called Gustavo Cisneros “the magnate of silence”. In compliance with certain conditions, Twitter reinstated @VVperiodistas, hopefully for good. On Thursday the Venevisión security guards assaulted some journalists from Globovisión…Venevisión apologized, following the denunciation from @VVperiodistas.
Venezuela is bubbling over on Twitter. How nice that no one can censor it.
It’s poetic justice, because according to them [that is, opposition TV channels and print media], censorship is communist, and capitalism is all freedom and fun for young and old. That is, don’t you know what it’s like in private companies, where they trap you in a Bolivarian cage and toss you out? Moreover, the Venezuelan state is so bourgeois that in some places, being a Bolivarian will inhibit your rise through the ranks, and implies harassment and dirty looks, where they fire you plain and simple. They’ll chant “not one step back, OUT!” at you in their big marches.
O yes, they know that, hence the pseudonym. No one put their name to it. They know how Cisneros is with his detractors […] Capitalism is coercion and duress. It allows neither charity nor Christ.
I hate censorship, above all that which private enterprise exercises, that despotism without enlightenment. Solidarity with the comrades at @VVmasoquistas! Yes, it’s good for a laugh.

Translation mine.

BTW, the skirmish between the Globovisión journos and the Venevisión security goons took place recently during a parading of the “Misses”–that is, the candidates for Miss Venezuela–in Maracaibo. You can see it on the Robertos’ show, here (in the first segment.) Venevisión, alone among the Venezuelan private TV channels, censored it.

And, BTW, VTV is the state channel. The one the opposition (via Venevisión, Globovisión, etc.) is always claiming is full of Chavista propaganda, and a threat to freedom and democracy, and blahblah. The fact that they’re allowed to scream such blatant nonsense unimpeded is proof that it’s not the government censoring them. The fact that it’s their own channels’ owners doing the censoring is an interesting irony, and one that should not be lost on anyone.

And neither is the fact that one of the Robertos–state-TV channel propagandists and Castro-communists, according to the oppos–is @VVperiodistas’ numero uno fan.

Yes, indeed, it IS good for a laugh!

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Uruguay: Fascists are sore losers…

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Sabina Becker

…and they are getting sorer. This gentleman…

…is the Uruguayan minister of defence. Like his president, he’s a former leftist guerrilla who did jail time during the military dictatorship. And he had to fend off a protest recently that appeared to be about one thing, but was really about another:

A group of ex-militaries and their family members confronted the Uruguayan defence minister, Luis Rosadilla, in a march to protest the poor conditions of the Military Hospital, and called him a “liar” and a “Tupamaro assassin”, according the local press.
Some 500 people, gathered by the National Union of Retired Members of the Armed Forces (Unir-FFAA), marched on Saturday afternoon to the ministry office to be received by the minister, who during the 1973-1985 dictatorship had spent several years in prison for belonging to the Tupamaro guerrillas.
According to the newspaper El País’s digital edition, the minister arrived especially to be on hand to meet the demonstrators, who seemed to arrive in a heated temper, and who had shaken their fists during the march at various motorists along the way.
Upon arriving at the ministry, the ex-militaries changed their chants of “Long live our country and the Armed Forces” to “Free the military prisoners” and “liar”, while Unir-FFAA authorities appealed for calm from the group.
As well, the former military members protested the intention of the ruling Frente Amplio (Broad Front) coalition to do away with the Immunity Law, which prevents crimes committed by uniformed military members during the dictatorship from going to trial, despite the fact that the citizens have twice indicated in referendums that they would support such a measure.
While the Unir-FFAA leaders explained to Rosadilla “the emergency situation” of the Military Hospital, which places the medical coverage of its 160,000 users at risk, the angry shouts against the minster interrupted the conversation.
Rosadilla appeared angry, and called the talks over. As he headed back inside the building, the shouts of “Tupa liar”, “assassin”, “son of a bitch” and “revanchist” grew louder.
Colonel Jorge Puente, president of Unir-FFAA, told the newspaper El Observador that the Budgetary Law approved by the government of president José (Pepe) Mujica, also a former Tupamaro guerrilla, “is destroying” the armed forces.
“Sometimes I can’t sleep for thinking it’s a Machiavellian plan, but I hope I’m wrong about this and would like to think the authorities understand the importance of the armed forces,” said the former officer.

Translation mine.

A “Machiavellian plan”? No, Colonel, that would be what you and yours did during the dictatorship. This isn’t really about the budgeting for the Military Hospital, is it? No, of course not. Even an old Tupamaro wouldn’t deny his worst enemy decent healthcare, lest he prove to be just as bad as the fascists who once jailed him. That’s not what this is about at all. It’s a “protest” against popular opinion, which in two separate referenda now has called for lifting the immunity of military repressors and putting them on trial for crimes against humanity. That’s what’s really at stake. Uruguay, like its neighbor, Argentina, had a dictatorship problem during the 1970s and ’80s that has yet to be fully resolved. And what this small bunch of ex-military officers is really protesting against, is the chance that it WILL be resolved…and not in their favor, either. In Uruguay, the military repressed more than just Tupamaros, it jailed and killed a lot of innocent people. And to deny them the chance to seek redress is just perpetuating the problem. Who’s the real revanchist here?

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Quotable: Glenn Greenwald on the ironies of islamophobia

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Sabina Becker

“I’m always amazed when I receive e-mails from people telling me that I fail to understand how Islam is a uniquely violent, supremely expansionist culture that is intrinsically menacing. The United States is a country with a massive military and nuclear stockpile, that invaded and has occupied two Muslim countries for almost a full decade, that regularly bombs and drones several others, that currently is threatening to attack one of the largest Muslim countries in the world, that imposed a sanctions regime that killed hundreds of thousands of Muslim children, that slaughters innocent people on a virtually daily basis, that has interfered in and controlled countries around the world since at least the middle of the last century, that has spent decades arming and protecting every Israeli war with its Muslim neighbors and enabling a four-decade-long brutal occupation, and that erected a worldwide regime of torture, abduction and lawless detention, much of which still endures. Those are just facts.

“But if we all agree to sit around and point over there — hey, can you believe those primitive Muslims and how violent and extremist they are — the reality of what we do in the world will fade blissfully away. Even better, it will be transformed from violent aggression into justified self-defense, and then we’ll not only free ourselves of guilt, but feel proud and noble because of it.”

–Glenn Greenwald, at Salon.com

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Copiapó: The fallout begins

Posted on October 24, 2010 by Sabina Becker

Miner Edison Peña is pulled from the collapsed San José mine. He was the 12th man rescued.

The rescue of those Chilean miners was not the end of the story. It was just the end of one chapter. Now the next has begun, and for one trapped miner, it’s not pretty:

Miner Edison Peña, 37, one of the 33 who were rescued from the San José copper mine, has been hospitalized for anxiety attacks that will not let him rest.
Peña, known for his penchant for jogging, was admitted to the Atacama clinic of the Chilean Safety Association (ACHS), where he remains under sedation and observation.
“He presented with a severe anxiety attack and we had to sedate him. We are analyzing the reasons for it,” Dr. Jorge Díaz, regional director for the association, told La Tercera.
Peña is the first miner to be hospitalized after the medical discharge of the rescued.
In the last few days, the worker showed mental instabilities, anxiety attacks, and a lack of motivation, which caused great concern in the medical team. This, despite the fact that Peña tried to continue his physical training and who had received several invitations to sporting events in the days to come. Because of that, he was discharged and allowed to travel to Santiago, as he had planned to do with his family. In the capital he will continue to receive treatment at the mental health unit of the ACHS.
The attorney representing the 33 miners, Edgardo Reinoso, questioned the discharges that “two or three” of the workers received after their rescue from the San José mine.
“Some of them should not have been released. It’s known that some are in a serious situation, a very serious one, from a psychological point of view. We lament that the hospital has released them so quickly. I don’t know what will be the outcome of that, but I believe that with at least two or three of them, the job was not well done,” Reinoso said in an interview with ADN Radio.
The lawyer did not want to reveal the identities of the workers, but acknowledged that one of the most affected is Edison Peña. “He is very ill and I think that he has not been well treated,” said Reinoso.
[…]
The miners “are infinitely grateful to the rescuers, for all that they have done for them, but at the same time they know, and have not forgotten, that they were underground for two months due to somebody’s fault, not only that of the owners of the mine, but also of those who authorized the reopening of the mine,” said Reinoso.

Translation mine.

Edison Peña is sure to have company in the mental ward before long. He’s not the only one in a fragile state of mental health, as his attorney has hinted.

And when you look at the situation of Chilean miners in general, it’s not hard to see how something like this could happen.

In the lead up to the rescue, the 300 colleagues of the 33 trapped men were fired from their jobs at the San José mine. They were released without pay, and almost totally ignored by the media.
For many of those whose life experiences are perhaps closest to that of the families of the rescued miners, the rescue was almost certainly bittersweet. Among them are dozens of families in Chile alone who lost mineworker relatives this year, and hundreds whose loved ones have been killed in Chile’s mines over the past decade.
According to data from the Government of Chile, between January and August of this year, 31 miners were killed at their workplaces. Eleven of them were killed by machinery. Six died trapped underground. Seven fell to their deaths. Others were squished by falling rocks, electrocuted, asphyxiated or blown to pieces.
On Sept. 7, 2010, four miners were killed on the job in Antofagasta, the next large city to the north of Copiapó, when their work truck collided with a vehicle carrying explosives for the mine. This story went almost unreported in the North American media.

The mines are dangerous all over Chile, indeed all of Latin America, and there’s not a country in the world where a cave-in can’t happen. But this case stands out, not only because of the incredibly long survival of the miners, but because it’s just so blatantly the fault of the mine’s owners that no escape races were in place for the miners to use. Were those in place, there’d have been no drama; the miners would have gotten out, and life would have gone on as usual, and their plight would go unremarked. This story IS a story because of one simple safety measure that the owners just couldn’t be bothered to spend a few extra bucks on.

It’s also going to remain in the media spotlight because of the hideous greed of the owners, and the corruption of the Chilean authorities, who bear a share of the blame for letting them reopen the mine, STILL without the escape routes and ladders they were supposed to install. What do you bet the owners will turn out, in true Chilean capitalist fashion, to be stinkingly rich–and thus, well able to afford not only the escape ladders, but also all the salaries of the workers they refuse to pay?

And it’s also going to remain in the news because the spotlight will be on miners like Edison Peña, whose mental recovery is going to take longer, much longer, than it took his own government to rescue him. Mentally traumatized miners used to be invisible, but that all is going to change. It will HAVE to. Let’s hope that this uncounted loss of worker-hours will finally be addressed by government regulators in a manner it deserves.

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Stupid Sex Tricks: How to wank like a gachupine

Posted on October 24, 2010 by Sabina Becker

A Spanish TV host demonstrates his two-stroke self-love technique. Very enlightening, eh?

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Music for a Sunday: Bloody marvelous

Posted on October 24, 2010 by Sabina Becker

But at night, when all the world’s asleep…

Roger Hodgson, ex-Supertramp front man, treats one of his best songs to a full orchestra. It’s a tiny bit slower than the original (which I learned to sing in seventh-grade music class–yes, I had a REALLY cool teacher!), but it’s lost absolutely nothing in the translation.

And it still makes me feel so logical.

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Short ‘n’ Stubby: Russell Williams roundup

Posted on October 24, 2010 by Sabina Becker

It was a foregone conclusion that Russell Williams, recently convicted of dozens of break/enters, thefts, plus two sexual assaults and two murders, should be stripped of his military rank. Ms. Manx approves, and wishes his military pension would also be taken away; it’s not as if he’s gonna have much use for it anyway, seeing as he’s serving two concurrent life sentences in Kingston Pen, with no chance of parole for a very long time. Maybe that, too, will come about in due course. Meanwhile, here are some other things the Stumpy Cat approves, in terms of journalism and blogging on the Williams case:

Our friend Elizabeth Pickett has an excellent piece up at Rabble, castigating the sensational coverage of his crimes as a “fetish” gone berserk. And she makes an excellent point:

One thing is clear: the effect of handling the case this way has been to feed into every stereotype about serial rapist murderers and to place Russell Williams as far away as possible from any description of humanness. That way we can file him tidily away in the mental vault we keep for depraved monsters.
Is that to ensure that few of us will be prompted to wonder just how and where he fits on our socially sanctioned continuum of male violence against women? Is that so we don’t learn something that would implicate our military institutions, our systems of law enforcement, our courts of law, our legislators, and all of us in a wilful and systematic blindness to the inequities and inequalities that oppress womenfolk every hour of every day of every year in which we live?

Similarly, Your Heart’s On the Left takes on the military’s culture of machismo. Surely it has nothing to do with this at all? Don’t be so sure. Remember, Williams isn’t a fetishist, and certainly not a cross-dresser. A psychopath who, in his fantasies, controls others, will naturally gravitate to a job in which he can do just that, unchallenged–and the upper echelons of the air force will cheerfully turn a blind eye to him, as they did here. He fit right in, and had he not been caught, he’d still be using his position of authority to advantage–and killing more women.

Also not to be missed, within the same piece: A mention of “trophy” pictures of a teenager brutally murdered by the now-infamous (and disbanded) Airborne regiment in Somalia. Remember Shidane Arone? Canadians of a certain age can’t forget him. Seems that Williams’s particular brand of psychopathy (he also photographed the women he raped and murdered, as well as himself in various articles of stolen underwear) was endorsed and sanctioned by the military’s culture of machismo and the glorification of violence. Of course, back then, THAT was swept aside as an “isolated” and “aberrant” incident, too. I guess it could look that way, if you forget that rape, torture and humiliation are old and brutal weapons of war. (Just ask the women of the Balkans what they fear most, being killed or being raped by their enemy. Rape was actually included in the “ethnic cleansing” programs that the region is so infamous for.)

The Regina Mom also seizes on the military-machismo aspect. Does it take us women to notice this sort of thing? Apparently, yes. Considering how much it affects us (and women within the military, like Williams’s first murder victim, Cpl. Marie-France Comeau), it stands to reason, does it not?

But happily, women aren’t the only ones who get it. A few good men also do, like the Chronicle-Herald‘s Laurent Le Perriès, who notes the connections that cannot be tidily explained away with words like “fetish”. He recognizes that our entire culture is pervaded by the idea of rape as a mainstream, virtually “normal” thing, which it ought not to be. Rape is being seen–still–as just an outcrop of sex, when in fact it is the most horrific, lasting and damaging kind of violence there is. The result is a distressing trivialization of the suffering of rape survivors–most of them female. And also slut-shaming and victim-blaming, which add insult to injury, isolating the victim/survivor from the mainstream of society.

And finally, as Antonia Zerbisias notes, as long as all these things are viewed out of their proper focus, we can expect to see a lot more slipshod policing of any crimes of violence against women. All the more reason, then, for us to hold our media and our institutions accountable for their part in cases like this.

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Wankers of the Week: Pumpkin puke edition

Posted on October 23, 2010 by Sabina Becker

‘Twas the week before Hallows, and all ’round the Earth,

The wankers were wanking. ‘Twas no cause for mirth.

They frightened the horses and sickened the kids

With the dumb things they said and the crap that they did.

I’d soap up their windows and TP their trees,

But to lie down with dogs is to get up with fleas.

Instead I’ll just list them; I’m sure you’ll agree

That the trick is on them and the treat is on me!

1. Jay Scott Fucking Newman. Remember that there’s a separation of church and state? He doesn’t. Basically, he’s the Communion Nazi–if you voted for Obama and don’t repent, no wafers for you! Since when is penance required for a “wrong” (i.e., for a pro-choice candidate) vote? Since NEVER. Father, if you don’t want to pay taxes on your church’s tithings, don’t you dare tell your parishioners how to vote. (And hands off the altar boys, too.)

2. Ken Fucking Buck. Yeah, being gay is exactly like being an alcoholic. That’s why there are so many chapters of Gay Anonymous, duh. And yeah, alcoholism is like totally a lifestyle choice, too! How in fucknation does one get stupid enough to think shit like this? Is one born that way, or does it come from the doctor dropping you on your head immediately after? No, of course not. It’s a choice, and it comes as a result of homophobes recruiting you from an early age. If the voters of Colorado pick this assclown to represent them, they’re gonna have buyer’s remorse–and probably some nasty diseases–for damn sure.

3. Adam Fucking Josephs. If you thought Officer Bubbles was a wanker last week, read his Scribd legal claim this week and see just how much of one he is. Sheer (humorless) comedy gold. PS: LOLz. PPS: And oh, the irony.

4. Bob Fucking McCarthy. Yep, McCarthyism is back…and this time, it’s going after the peaceful Sufi Muslims of the US. Specifically, one small town in New York, whose reputation is now mud. At long last, sir–have you no shame???

5. William Fucking White. No, hate speech is not “free”, and no, you’re not anonymous on the Internet when you spew. There ARE laws in place to protect the people you only think you have the right to harass, and under them, you can get sent to the Big House, where you’ll be incommunicado for an awfully long time. My trolls might want to clicky the linky, and soil their pants accordingly.

6. Angela Fucking Merkel. Multiculturalism “doesn’t work”? Tell that to my parents, Angie. It worked fine for them…but then again, that’s why they’re Canadians now, and not still living in Germany. When my mom came into Germany as a refugee from Yugoslavia just before the end of the war, they treated her like a foreigner, and not another German, even though an ethnic German is what she was. If they treat their own like second-class citizens, imagine how they treat Turkish immigrants. This insulting, patronizing “learn German and abandon forced marriage” business helps no one and nothing, since most Turkish German citizens have already done so anyway, of their own free will. And more disturbingly, it sounds like not a damn thing has improved since the war ended, either.

7. Joe Fucking Miller. You know you’re in trouble when you have ethics complaints undisclosed. (It doesn’t help if you shove 8-year-olds around.) And you know your campaign’s in trouble when an unaccredited “security” firm (really, just mercenaries) first harasses and then handcuffs a reporter for nothing more than asking questions. And speaking of which, you know you’re a wanker if you hire your “security” mercs from a highly questionable company run by…

8. William Fucking Fulton. Oh, where to start with this one? Blatant racism: Check. Unconvincing denial of same: Check. Trouble with business licence: Check. (And that’s only as a “sporting goods” shop, NOT a security company.) And then there’s the professionalism problem; check out how he (or some hired hand?) deals with customer dissatisfaction in his yellow-pages listing:

Nice language, eh? Just what you’d say to drum up business, inspire confidence in your customers, etc. The world is just gonna beat a path to your door there, bucko!

Funny he should be so disparaging about female genitalia, too, since he’s also been under restraining orders for stalking and, oh yeah, sexual assault. Terrific guy all around, this one!

9. Calvin Fucking Hill. Teaching students about sex is not the same as encouraging them to have it. I should know, because I learned about it early…and took my sweet time getting around to the “having” part. And yes, knowledge played a direct part in that. Ignorant kids are the ones most likely to hop in the sack, precisely because they don’t know all the facts or take the time to protect themselves. Ignorance is bliss, at least until you get used, dumped, sick or knocked up. Sexual ignorance destroys lives. But you know what’s really galling? Mr. Keep-‘Em-Ignorant here is a big fat dildo-peddling hypocrite. He made a bloody fortune selling the same erotic tools he doesn’t want college and university students to know about. I wonder if he also has a wide stance or requires rentboys to lift his luggage; wouldn’t surprise me if he did.

10. Alan Fucking Dershowitz. Yes, there was a bigot and a holocaust denier at the panel discussion he attended. And it was Alan Fucking Dershowitz.

11. Justin Fucking Rehberg. No, burning a cross (with a noose attached) and yelling racial slurs on an interracial couple’s front lawn is not a bit racist. Especially when it inspires an anti-racism march in their support!

12. and 13. Todd Fucking Seavey and Helen Fucking Rittelmeyer. For God’s sake get a room, you two. Oh wait, on second thought, don’t–just get out from in front of the camera if you’re gonna have a spat.

14. Daniel Fucking Greenhalg. This one is a predator, and a skeevy one at that. What little authority he had, he abused atrociously. At least now, his uniform won’t entitle him to any special privileges, other than having to watch out for where he drops the soap.

15. Ginny Fucking Thomas. Not only crazy enough to be a teabag, but to demand an apology from a woman who owes her NOTHING–and to whom she owes one, in fact. If I were Anita Hill, here’s what I’d write to her:

Dear Mrs. Thomas:
I am very sorry that the truth offends you.
With all due respect (i.e. NONE)–GET STUFFED.
Sincerely,
Anita Hill

And speaking of apologies owed, I’d say Clarence Fucking Thomas is long, long overdue for several, himself.

16. Bill O’Fucking Reilly. Yes, Billo, the whole world is horrified. Horrified that you’re not in jail yet. Horrified that you still have a show, horrified that you’re still ghosting books, horrified at the mere existence of you.

17. Toni Fucking Harris. Aside from the fact that it’s just plain excessive to put prepubescent girls in as “junior” cheerleaders, who could possibly think it’s a good idea to make them shake their butts at the crowd in order to “please” it? And what portion of the crowd do you think is the most “pleased” to see under-aged butts wiggling?

18. And that goes double for you, Lisa Fucking Ernest. Tight skirts and booty-shaking for SIX-YEAR-OLDS??? In what strange parallel universe is any of that a good idea?

19. David Fucking Stern. This one’s something worse than a wanker, since he makes people homeless for a living. And speaking of living: How many fucking luxury cars can one man drive, anyway? A fitting karma would be for him to lose them all so he doesn’t even have one to live out of when the Universe takes its revenge on him.

20. Juan Fucking Williams. Well, it was about time NPR cut this islamophobic wanker loose. At least now it will appear to justify its “liberal media” BS tag again. Meaning, there is a chance now that it will appear to report more objectively and honestly…we hope. Meanwhile, guess who’s gonna be stepping up his crapaganda level at FUX Snooze? (PS to NPR: Time to get rid of Mara Fucking Liasson, too. Anyone with connections to FUX must GO.)

Oh, and what is this Stokely Carmichael shiznit? Or this other shiznit? Gee, it’s beginning to look like NPR finally made a really good business decision, for a change!

21. Maggie Fucking Gallagher. Yes, you DO have the blood of gay suicide on your hands. But don’t worry, you’re not the only one. All those homophobic idiots who listen to or sympathize with you do, too. Plenty of guilt to go ’round, hon, so help yourself to a nice fat slice of the poo-poo pie! And for God’s sake, stop the fucking whining. Jesus rolls his eyes every time you open your mouth, girl.

22. Rich Fucking Iott. Last week he was listed for playing Nazi. This week, he’s listed for playing soldier. Next week, he’ll undoubtedly be listed again…for playing with himself.

23. and 24. Rush Fucking Limbaugh and Karl Fucking Rove. Oh, get a room, you two…no, wait, on second thought, don’t. I love it when the Nazis start eating their own. It’s so Night-of-the-Long-Knives-y. Please, carry on. And may the worst man burp!

25. Jodie Fucking Foster. Sorry, but anyone who defends Mel Fucking Gibson has just lost me. Feminist icons don’t defend domestic abusers–it’s as simple as that!

26. Joy Fucking Masoff. Historical revisionism, anyone? There is no way a slave can fight for anything willingly, being a slave. And much less for the “right” to keep slaves.

27. Angelina Fucking Jolie. Yes, that’s right, she’s listed. Why? Because in the real world, women don’t fall in love with their own rapists. And especially not in the ethnic-cleansing conflicts of the Balkans! In what strange parallel universe is it okay for a woman to direct a movie based on such a vile notion?

28. Vincent Fucking Johnson. Once again, trolls, take note. Death threats are illegal and authorities take them seriously. The Internet is not anonymous, and it is not going to shield you any longer.

29. The fucking bastard who drove a bulldozer over Rachel Corrie. I don’t for an instant believe he didn’t see her; she was wearing an orange vest and was unmissable. Surprise, he’s lying! Why is he being granted anonymity? Because Israel’s fucking government gave him the order. And it wants to make sure the world gets the message that Israeli soldiers have total impunity for any crime they do, anywhere, anytime.

30. Art Fucking Robinson. Surprise! Another teabag candidate is a racist. Who reads racist lit like it’s some kind of classic (which it isn’t; it is long out of fashion, and for a good reason). Let’s hope Oregonians are smarter than to fall for this piece of trash.

31. Sharon Fucking Meroni. Figures that someone co-ordinating Repugs to go “challenge” the voting rights of minority voters would be a racist Birther. And yes, she appeals to the unemployed–whites, no doubt–to help out in the Repugs’ campaign of prejudice. It’s time to make vote-“challenging” illegal, USA–it’s just plain antidemocratic.

32. Kelly Fucking Khuri. Yes, the John Birch Society WAS extreme. FASCIST extreme. Just like the Teabaggers. Who are, of course, the descendants of Birchers. (And if you think that’s not extreme, get thee to a gas chamber.)

33. Russ Fucking Murphy. And speaking of extremist tea-tards, get a load of who’s backing Christine O’Fucking Donnell. Who is still doing her damnedest to out-stoopid Sarah Fucking Palin, BTW.

34. Jennifer Fucking Petkov. If anyone ever deserved to be called an unfit mother and to lose her kids, this woman is IT. Making fun of a 7-year-old dying of Huntington’s is just about as low as one can sink, short of killing her oneself.

35. Stephen Fucking Harper. Who will henceforth be known as Taliban Stevie Peevie, for reasons too clear to deny. And who sucks up to the military while throwing women under the bus. Somehow, those two seemingly unrelated items tie together, don’t they?

36. Stephen Fucking Broden. Whenever you get sick of democracy, that’s cool–there’s always violence. Annie, get your fucking gun.

37. Mark Fucking Steyn. The only place HE should be booked to speak is a max-security psych ward for the criminally insane. Hey, he’d have a capacity audience for the first time in his miserable life!

38. Fucking Dubya. Yes, he’s still around. Hasn’t drunk himself to death yet, but it sounds like he’s workin’ on it. Says his biggest failure was not privatizing Social Security. Oh, you mean like that roaring success of Pinochet’s that ruined Chile? I (still) say the US’s biggest failure was not impeaching that greedy good-for-nothing motherfucking bastard.

39. Ethan Fucking Ogden. Like Wanker #34, an utterly unfit parent. There is NO excuse for what he did. NONE.

40. Pierre Karl Fucking Peladeau. Because it’s not a subsidy when TORIES do it!

41. Orrin Fucking Hatch. Wasn’t he among those who persecuted Anita Hill in a flagrantly sexist manner for telling the truth the first time around? (So much so that the women of the US cleaned House and Senate, and voted for Bill Clinton to boot?) I seem to recall that he was. Nice to see that he’s still at it, so touchingly defending his pervy Uncle Clarence and dear, deluded Aunt Ginni. At least the man is consistent, albeit consistently a WANKER.

42. Karl Fucking Denninger. Yes, the Father of the Teabags has finally weighed in on the monster he helped to make. If you don’t want to attract douches, Karl, how about not being such an idiot yourself? The US constitution has not one clause in it enshrining capitalism as the law of the land. It does, however, say an awful lot about paying your taxes to support the common good. Something, I’m sure, that you don’t give a rat’s ass about.

And finally, to this week’s highly up-close-and-personal wanker, a cracked bell:

You list me, I list you. And block you and report you for spam, since you seem to be in the habit of making hate-mongering lists targeting those who make you look like an idiot (not that you need any help there). Also like you had a hard time graduating kindergarten: I’m “ugly”? “Inside and out”? Um, no. Actually quite the contrary, as I’m repeatedly told by those who actually KNOW me. You do not.

I don’t know who you are either, Cracked Bell, but I can see you need help, and lots of it. I suggest a good foundry, one specializing in repairs to defective metals. You need to stop listening to Glenn Beck, as I’m sure that’s what left you so damaged in the first place. And get a life. (But I repeat myself…)

Good night, and get fucked!

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