Stupid Sex Tricks: Japanese invent cure for nerd loneliness!

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Yes, they really exist. Unfortunately, they’re not anatomically correct, and they make lousy conversation partners. But hey…whatever floats ya. I just hope they’re washable.

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Music for a Sunday: Classic wonderful weirdness

Mike Malloy uses this one on his radio show a lot:

And no, I don’t even want to speculate how many drugs you’d have to be on to do what the frontman does here. But I do salute him!

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Wankers of the Week: You know you are one when…

…you make like this dude:

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Well, that’s one way of being a wanker. Here are some others, brought to you by this week’s winners (pronounced wieners):

1. You can’t resist a photo-op, even when you should…like Stephen Fucking Harper. The last thing the quake-stricken Haitians want is to get their picture taken with this cynical, opportunistic wank, who’s not content to trample only their democracy, but Canada’s as well. I’m with JimBobby–the media should stay home and not bolster Harpo’s fortunes for one minute longer!

2. You can’t even pretend to show a little sportsmanship…like Dale Fucking Begg-Smith. You want to know what’s wrong with the whole Silicon Valley vision of late 20th-century über-capitalism? I’ll tell you: It’s an entitled teen millionaire who buggered off for Australia out of disdain for Canadian ski program rules. Loyalty to hometown and country? Not for him. The Aussies are also complaining about his lack of loyalty, so it’s not just a Canada thing. True to type, he made his fortune by questionable means. And then, when Alex Bilodeau very deservedly bested him, guess who iced over on the podium. What, is all that other gold not good enough? Some of us (like me, for one) would be grateful just to make it down the bunny hill without sitting on our skis.

3. You can’t even meet and talk with constituents who disagree with you…like James Fucking Lunney. Did I mention that he’s a Tory? Do I need to mention that he’s a coward? And that cowardice is true to Tory form?

4. You are completely dissociated from all sense of reality, both past and present…like Rush Fucking Limbaugh. Dubya drags his country into two wars which have now BOTH been raging longer than World War II…and whom does the Pigman blame? Yup, you guessed it…the black guy from Hawaii. Even funnier, he claims “there’s no war on right now”. Oh yeah? Tell that to all those guys and gals stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the latter case, some of them came from my home and native land, and would be quite surprised to hear that what they’re doing over there isn’t a war. Why, next thing you know, Rush will be claiming that the US was in World War II before Canada was…all those little acolytes of his with whom I’ve had the pleasure of wiping a floor certainly did.

But hey. Sometimes, if you listen really hard, you might just hear the Pigman tell the truth for a change:

Ah, that was lovely. I can never hear that song often enough…

5. You don’t even have the most basic idea of how your own country’s justice system works…like Monica Fucking Crowley. Military tribunals “didn’t exist until late 2001”? I’m sure the US military will be very surprised to hear THAT one.

6. You don’t know shit about climatology and can’t be bothered to learn…like James Fucking Inhofe. Congratulations on your national igloo, Mr. Senator. And sorry to hear about your sub-freezing IQ.

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7. You ride a loser’s coattails to nowhere, then bitch about it…like Sam Fucking Wurzelbacher. Next time you get the urge to reach for the dough, dude, just get your plumbing licence, keep your head down, and actually do something real for a living.

8. You conflate all criticism of the Israeli government with “an attack on Canada”…like Peter Fucking Kent. This inveterate wanker (whom I’ve already excoriated on two occasions) is Harpo’s junior foreign affairs minister. A less competent man for the job could hardly be imagined, unless your idea of reality happens to coincide with CanWest Global’s hard-right pro-Israel editorial line.

9. You don’t care a damn about your country, its people, or what they want…like Jorge Fucking Castañeda. Canada and Mexico don’t want to be part of a US hegemony disguised as a “union”, but you’d never know it according to Jorge the Apátrido. And that may well be the only thing those two countries actually have in common. As far as most Canadians are concerned (and the Apátrido isn’t), Mexico belongs to Latin America. And as far as most Mexicans are concerned, the US is just the place where you go to recoup a little of the cash that was stolen from your country, and send it back home. But hey, we could make common cause with the Mexicans anyway to defeat this rotten “union” idea, if it by some strange misfortune fails to defeat itself. What say, Mexico?

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10. You are so steeped in teabagger lunacy that you can no longer tell your own madness from the voice of God in your ear…like Gregory Fucking Girard. Yep, another crazy-eyed militant armageddonist for Jeezus has been caught stockpiling guns and ammo in advance of what would undoubtedly be either an attempt at terrorism or one upon the life of an elected president. God sure does work in mysterious ways! Why else guide the hand of a wanker to be one’s instrument…?

11. You are so steeped in teabagger lunacy that you’re willing to fly a plane into an IRS building…like Joseph Fucking Stack of Austin, Texas. Of course, the wanker forgot that his state DOES have representation in Washington, meaning all the taxes he had to pay in his apparen
tly worthless life were, in fact, 100% LEGAL. But of course, he didn’t even think to say boo about it till now, when, by coincidence, the head of state happens to be a brownish guy. He also forgot that the bailout he blamed on the brown guy, was actually the doing of the brown guy’s white predecessor–and he never complained about HIM. And he also picked a damn stupid way of complaining–which included trying to kill his nearest and dearest, as well as innocent random strangers. Do me a favor, all you suicidal wanks out there–just gas yourselves with car exhaust in your garage if you really MUST, and leave others the hell out of it. They will NOT appreciate the political points you’re trying to score with your own death, believe me.

12. You are so steeped in teabagger lunacy that you’re willing to celebrate the wanker above…like this fucking Facebook circle jerk.

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13. You rag on Barack Obama for his admitted, but minor experimentation with cocaine, but forget that your boy Dubya spent the better part of two decades with a rolled-up Benjamin affixed to his nose…like Jason Fucking Mattera. Lemme guess, Jason…you’re more a crack-smoking kind of guy? Or maybe crystal meth is more your speed? That would explain why you think all those helmet-haired, glassy-eyed, diet-deranged, Botoxed-to-death Stepford wives in your crowd are “beautiful”. It would also explain why you think tea-partiers speak in complete sentences (they can’t even spell, do math, or dress themselves!), and why you have nothing of real substance to say anywhere about anything. And afterwards, I’ll bet you went to the washroom to do a few lines of some unspecified substance off the Coultergeist’s bony ass, too!

14. You’re still going on about Bill Clinton’s BJ after all this time…like Newt Fucking Gingrich. Whose third wife is the extracurricular chick who used to blow him in the Capitol’s parking garage while he was after Bubba like a hound on a raccoon.

15. You never let facts get in the way of a good piece of bombast…like David Fucking Broder. Yeah, sure, Sarah Fucking Palin knows how to sell herself, all right. The question is, who but a complete idiot would buy this bimbo? And the answer? David Fucking Broder, for one. Because he is a complete and pluperfect idiot. Duh!

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16. You are trying to rewrite Canadian immigration law to its original form as a law of exclusion…like Jason Fucking Kenney. Will it keep REAL undesirables out? Hell, no; everyone knows, or should, that the world’s worst criminals all happen to be white, rich and prominently situated. This law will do nothing about those multinational motherfuckers. But it will keep top-notch Mexican chefs from ever darkening our doorstep again. Nice work, Jason.

17. You are so religiously insane that you would kick a sick woman out of your church just because she sought medical attention…like David Fucking Valdez. The Joho preacher-man kicked out Maribel Perez when she received a blood transfusion as part of her double-lung transplant. This anti-blood stance is based solely on a misinterpretation of a scriptural passage concerning blood sacrifice, and has nothing to do with medicine. But it certainly points out that Jehovah’s Witness anti-blood doctrine is not only confused, but when it comes down to cases like this, it is also profoundly un-Christian, in that it directly violates what Jesus himself said is the right thing to do for the sick, the needy and the suffering. Since when is it godly to cast out a sick person just for seeking treatment for her illness? And does this wank seriously believe God will favor him for doing that to her?

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And finally, you know you’re a wanker when…you show up late to the party, stoned to the gills and making zero sense, like this wanker did here. Dude, if you don’t yet understand why gun control IS crime control, or why the majority of Canadians loathe the Tories with a righteous passion, or why an onion ring gets more fans than Harpo, then you really need to spend less time with your record collection and your drugs, and even less time making excuses for those whom you claim not to support. BTW, there’s no such thing as an “amero”, no matter how fervently YOU believe in it. What you posted was nothing but a photoshop, based upon a phantasm created by some other drug-addled wank (see #9, above). Life is so much easier when your head’s not stuck in a tube of model-airplane glue, so kindly get yours out and join the REAL party, please.

Good night, and get fucked!

PS: Boy, it’s been a banner week for personal wankers here at Casa Bina. I should also mention the loon from Liguria, IP #82.52.128.184, who wanked here. You know you’re a wanker when…you spam my blog with pro-Palin crap (which I removed the link to), gratuitously attacking socialism, on an entry not dedicated to it. From ITALY. Where, if I’m not mistaken, some socialist aspects of society exist, no?

Buonanotte, e vaffanculo!

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Padre Nuestro Latinoamericano

Cuban actor Héctor Quintero recites Mario Benedetti’s great poem to a capacity crowd in Havana’s Revolution Square. Orchestra directed by Leo Brouwer.

Translation (mine) follows:

Our Father who art in Heaven

with the swallows and the missiles

I pray you return before you forget

how we came to the south of the Río Grande

Our Father who art in exile

almost never do you remember mine

of all the ways wherever you are

hallowed be thy name

not those who hallow in thy name

closing one eye so as not to see the dirty

fingernails of misery

in August of nineteen hundred and sixty

already it’s no use asking you

thy kingdom come

because thy kingdom is also down here

in the midst of rancors and fear

amid vacillations and filth

amid disillusion and somnolence

in this eagerness to see you in spite of everything

when you spoke of the rich man

the needle and the camel

and we all unanimously

voted you into Glory

at the same time the silent Indian raised his hand

who respected you but resisted

to think thy will be done

but once every so often

your will melds with mine

dominates it

inflames it

duplicates it

it is much harder to know which is my will

when I believe for sure that which I say I believe

in your omnipresence as in my solitude

on Earth as it is in Heaven

always

I will be more sure of the earth I tread

than the sky that ignores me

but who knows

I won’t decide

whether your power makes or unmakes

your will the same when creating in the wind

in the Andes of snow

in the bird who fertilizes his mate

in the chancellors who murmur yes sir

in every hand which turns into a fist

of course I’m not sure if I like the style

in which your will choses to assert itself

I say it with irreverence and gratitude

two emblems which will soon be the same thing

I say above all thinking of our bread

of every day and every little piece of the day

yesterday you took it from us

give it to us this day

or at least the right to give ourselves our bread

not only that which was the symbol of Someone

but that of crumb and rind

our bread

now that we have few hopes left and debts

forgive us if you can our debts

but don’t forgive us our hope

and don’t ever forgive us our credits

later tomorrow

we will collect what is owing

tangible and smiling foreigners

those who have claws for the harp

and a pan-American earthquake with which to wipe away

the last spit-wad hanging from the face

it doesn’t much matter if our creditors pardon

like ourselves

once

by mistake

let us pardon our debtors

still

they owe us like a century

of lost sleep and beatings

like three thousand kilometres of injuries

like twenty medals for Somoza

like a single dead Guatemala

lead us not into temptation

to forget or sell off this past

or rent a single hectare of its forgettance

now that it is time to know who we are

and having crossed the river

the dollar and the repaying love

let us take heart to the last beggar

and free ourselves from all pangs of conscience

Amen.

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Two quick announcements

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Your attention, please…

A commenter on my Open Letter to Peter Kent, Sofia Ramirez, writes:

*Please distribute widely* People in Toronto, Montreal and Caracas, Venezuela will be demonstrating in support of the democratic people’s movement in Venezuela and exposing the hypocrisy of the Harper Conservatives who are waging war in Afghanistan while avoiding public accountability at home. Conservative Minister for the Americas Peter Kent has publicly criticized Venezuela as ‘undemocratic’ for applying its laws to TV and radio broadcasters. Kent and his fellow Harper Conservatives shouldn’t speak about democracy at the same time as closing our parliament for months to avoid being investigated for complicity in handing over detainees to torture in Afghanistan. Thursday, February 25th @ 5pm 365 Bloor St. East (at Sherbourne) In front of Venezuelan Consulate For more information see/contact: Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=319821343005&ref=nf Latin American Solidarity Network (LASN): cca_toronto@hotmail.com Barrio Nuevo: barrionuevo.canada@gmail.com

Also, Cort G. e-mailed me this:

Saturday, 27 February 2010, 09:30 – 16:00

Pre- registration: vzteachin@hotmail.com

Saturday, Feb 27, Registration 9:30

Sidney Smith Building, Room 2117

100 St.George St. (North of Harbord St.)

The Challenge of Solidarity: Attend these events to participate, to learn and to help all of us to rise to the challenge of solidarity — building a movement against imperialism.

Registration: 9:30 a.m.

Donation: $10 or what you can

Opening Session 10 a.m. — 11 a.m.

Greetings by Venezuelan consul.

Opening address: Ten years of the Bolivarian revolution, covering Venezuelan history, the current context, and the challenge that Venezuela poses.

Speaker: Maria Paez

Workshops for the morning, from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.

1. Communal councils and grassroots organizing and the new state.

2. Imperialism’s economic crisis and Latin America.

3. Workers’ Control and the Unions.

4. Colombia/Venezuela/seven U.S. bases and more.

5. People-to-people solidarity.

Vegetarian Lunch 1 p.m.-2 p.m.

Workshops for the afternoon from 2 p.m. — 4 p.m.

1. ALBA and Its Challenge to Neoliberalism.

2. Venezuela and World Solidarity.

3. Women and the Venezuelan revolution.

4. Endogenous development and oil

5. Alternative media in Venezuela and Canada

Final plenary: Latin American Solidarity and the Canadian Left

Organized by: OPIRG, Centre for Social Justice, Barrio Nuevo, Hands Off Venezuela/Louis Riel Bolivarian Circle, Latin America Solidarity Network–Toronto, Socialist Project, Venezuela We Are With You Coalition/Coalicion/Venezuela Estamos Contigo. Co-sponsored by Toronto, Bolivia Solidarity,Toronto Haiti Action Committee

For further information, email vzteachin@hotmail.com

Location : Sidney Smith Building, Room 2117, 100 St.George St. (North of Harbord St.), University of Toronto

Contact : vzteachin@hotmail.com

Anyone who can make it, please do attend. Your support will be greatly appreciated.

And have a grrrrrreat day.

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Quotable: Abraham Lincoln on labor vs. capital

“Capital is only the fruit of labor […] Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”

–Abraham Lincoln, December 3, 1861

(Gee, sounds to me like Honest Abe was a bit of a socialist!)

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Watch out, empire…

…because Chavecito’s peasant militias have something to say to your nefarious plans:

And militia members like Adriana are not going to stand for any nonsense. Especially not since the discarded FAL rifles of the Venezuelan army are now in their hands, and they know how to use them.

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Stay classy, Aznar!

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How does a fascist rebut the criticisms leveled against him? With ineffable style, eloquence and grace, of course!

The ex-prime minister of Spain, José María Aznar was received today in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Oviedo with cries of “fascist”, “assassin” and “terrorist” from a group of a dozen or so students.

As he exited the building, surrounded by bodyguards, Aznar responded to the shouts with a raised middle finger and a smile.

Aznar attended the event as an invitee of New Generations of Asturias, to give a conference on current events in Spain.

The young people demonstrating against him gained entry to the faculty building 20 minutes before the slated start of the conference. Security personnel kept them out of the room where the conference was to take place. The demonstrators carried placards and chanted slogans such as “Aznar should go to jail, like Vera and Barrionuevo“. They also shouted insults at him.

As Aznar was giving his speech, in which he expressed harsh criticism of the government of José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero, two or three students, hidden in the crowd, stood up every ten minutes or so in protest, and were expelled by security agents.

“These gentlemen supposedly in charge of Spain today have ruined the country,” Aznar said. “They have no moral authority to say to the rest of us, who will be the majority, how to pick up the pieces and rebuild.

“The man at the head of the government of Spain did not have and does not have the qualifications to head the government,” Aznar said.

Translation mine. Linkage added.

Yep, Aznar’s an asshole. Was there ever any doubt? This IS the not-just-spiritual heir of General Franco we’re talking about here.

This is also the guy who let the train bombings of Madrid happen on his watch, and then blamed them on ETA, when in fact they were retaliation for Spanish involvement in Gulf War II. He was caught in the lie, and the outrage resulted in his ouster, and Rodríguez Zapatero’s win (on the grounds that the latter would pull Spain out of Iraq, which he promptly did. Spanish trains have been safe ever since.)

This sort of thing is, in short, perfectly in character for the Az-hole!

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Oh surprise, surprise…Haiti has OIL!

And lots of it. All unexploited as yet. Does this explain the militarized US “aid” response to the earthquake? You bet…

William Engdahl explains how Haiti’s unique geological situation–the same that makes it so vulnerable to earthquakes–also makes it minerally rich. If Haiti had not been chronically starved of cash for the last 200 years or so, the country could easily have had the technology and the personnel to develop those resources on its own, instead of being ripe prey for imperial predators.

Venezuela, just a stone’s throw from Haiti, is just now in the position to make itself independent that way, as it has begun graduating homegrown, university-trained engineers and geologists specializing in mineral resource development. That’s Bhad Nhews where foreign capitalism is concerned. They have an active interest in keeping the locals underdeveloped, undereducated, and thus dependent. This is probably what Engdahl means by “strategic denial”, along with the oil corporations’ active interest in keeping the price of their product artificially elevated by creating artificial shortages whenever the price drops too low for their liking. There are literally miles of full tankers idling at anchor in the Persian Gulf, under orders from head office not to sail until the price starts jumping. There are others, anchored at their ports of destination but not unloading, for the same reason. This market manipulation has been going on for quite some time already. It looks superficially clever, but is really profoundly stupid–what could be a more seductive target for a terrorist firebug than a great big boatload of crude? But of course, that risk also plays into the artificial price elevation…as does the mind-boggling cost of storing all that unused oil. Someone is benefiting from this, but it’s not the people of the oil-producing nations, much less the First World consumer.

And shhhh, don’t even mention Cuba…or Haiti. Both, like Venezuela, are sitting on top of heaven only knows how much of the black stuff.

Haiti’s unexploited mineral wealth could well be the biggest untold economic story of the century. It could also be the biggest untold tale of slavers’ vengeance ever.

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Stupid Sex Tricks: Yeah, I’d say so…

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Now, the big question: Is it the drinking or the sex that’s the problem here?

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