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Wankers of the Week: Sticking to Their Guns edition

Posted on September 19, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Can you believe the wheel is still spinning? It is, and so are all these brain-dead hamsters:

1. Glenn Fucking Beck. Living proof (but just barely living) that playing “telephone” with news of your own failed protest is a bad idea. Dude, you’ve got a whole huge media machine where you can, you know, just call the National Parks Service to get a crowd estimate. Why didn’t you do that, instead of consulting the notoriously unreliable right-wing nut-o-sphere for figures that vary widely, but all coincide on one point–namely, they’re dead wrong?

Oh. Shit. I forgot. It’s Glenn Fucking Beck. That’s just not how he rolls, because the truth would kill his ratings. He doesn’t have to fact-check anything, because he’s just an entertainer. Like Rush Fucking Limbaugh, who of course doesn’t really control the Republican party. And the right-wing nut-o-sphere is never wrong, either. Mea fucking culpa!

2. Michelle Fucking Maglalang, alias “Malkin”. Don’t you or your ghost-writing fascist hubby know how to pick up a phone and call the Washington office of the National Parks Service, either?

3. Troy Dale Fucking West. Nice to know that this whole “post-racial America” phrase is just that, eh?

4. Randall Fucking Terry. Oh look, somebody really likes going out there and scaring innocent post-born children. And this with Hallowe’en more than a month away. Trick or treat, smell my feet, give the sexists more red meat!

5.James L. Fucking Pouillon. Yes, I know I’m a little late with this one. But when the man’s own son has just now weighed in to the effect that his old man was a woman-hating wanker who only “protested” abortion in order to torment women, well…what more seriously needs to be said about Randall Fucking Terry’s role model, the latest instamartyr?

6. Roxanne Fucking Wilson. Boom boom, ain’t it great to be crazy? Just ask Mrs. Addison Graves Wilson what it’s like to be married to a nut and not know it until now.

I feel a song coming on. Ladies and gents, give it up for Ms. Tammy Wynette and her pure platinum football helmet:

Ah. That was lovely.

7. Addison Graves Fucking Wilson. Yes, he’s still a wanker this week. And he’s likely to remain one for several weeks more, if not the rest of his unnatural life, at this rate. But one thing he’s not, never has been and never will be, is an immigration attorney. (PS: He lies!)

8. Peter Fucking Marshall. How did this not-so-reverend manage to graduate divinity school? Must have been another of those unaccredited outfits that take “homeskooled” racists. And we wonder why Texas has such poor academic ratings? Wonder no more!

9. Geraldo Fucking Rivera. Who knew that J-Lo represented the future of ~~capitalism~~ democracy? Oh, only the man who broke into Al Capone’s vault and, to his everlasting embarrassment, found it empty. What a coincidence, that’s just how I find Geraldo’s “journalism”!

EDIT: Oh, holy shite…

Anybody got that centrefold…?

10. and 11. Rand Fucking Cardwell and Elias Fucking Alias. Somehow, something about them just keeps on screaming “Douchebags!” Whatever could it be?

12. Joe Fucking Garofoli. Exactly who is this dickweed to pronounce on “civility in discourse” having gone to the dogs, when all Pete Stark did was say he wouldn’t pee on some crazy old birther’s leg? And why is that somehow equivalent to Addison Graves “Disease” Wilson yelling “You lie” at the duly elected president of the United States? If you’re gonna go for an equal-rudeness angle, shouldn’t you remark first on the rudeness of the accusatory old fart, and how it mirrors that of Wilson? And doesn’t Rep. Stark’s response seem a lot more like Barney Frank‘s? It seems a more logical comparison by far…although I really don’t expect logic from the punditocracy anymore.

13. Mark Fucking Williams. Nice try at doubletalk; nicer job of calling him on it by Anderson Cooper. Newsflash: Barack Obama is not honor-bound to “embrace” teabagging nutjobs who talk out of both sides of their mouths. He won, they lost–isn’t it time someone got over it?

14. and 15. Connie Fucking Rhodes and Orly Fucking Taitz. The former files a frivolous lawsuit; the latter think
s she’s Nelson Mandela now? This while complaining about “yellow people”, according to one commenter who met her and overheard it? Words fail…all words except batshit crazy, insane, dissociated and nutso, that is.

16. Kevin Fucking Brady. The epitome of teabagger entitlement and stupidity in one thick, badly cracked nutshell. Yo, Congresscretin: You do NOT get to have your cake, eat it too, and force someone else to pay for the slice. Ayn Rand’s books are filed under Fiction for a reason: Real life does not work that way. Next time, all you free-market fuckwads can bring your own damn transportation to Washington. Either that or suck it up, pay your taxes, and STFU.

17. Rush Fucking Limbaugh. Bring back segregated buses? Great idea, Rush! Let’s segregate them between racists and non-racists, and make the racists (that’s YOU, blobbo!) sit on the roof.

And finally, the stupid fucking shitbird from Hinsdale, Illinois, who came on here to wank. Hey, don’t hate me because I’m beautiful (and much smarter than you). I’m Canadian–we recognize what guns were made for, and acknowledge that they can’t just police themselves. And neither can those who own them. Most shockingly of all, the lawmakers of Illinois seem to agree–gun control IS crime control. Hell, even a Republican newspaper columnist sees the light on this issue, so why not you? Didja shoot your eye out? Apparently you did, because you missed half the facts that were staring you in the face. Fortunately, you got me to point them out to you. (You’re not welcome–moron.)

Fuck you all very much, and good night.

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Help Our Stateside Friends Get Healthcare: One way to remove the obstruction

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Sabina Becker

And it’s non-surgical, too–meaning it’s cheap, cheap, CHEAP!

Remember, folks–single-payer mental healthcare saves lives!

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: The unbroken spirit of Honduras

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Sabina Becker

A new COTRAIN documentary by Venezuelan journalist Liliane Blaser, showcasing the people the presstitutes keep writing out of the story–the REAL Honduras:

I especially liked their adaptation of “Guantanamera”: “Van para fuera…golpistas van para fuera…”

Fat chance that Gorilletti and his US enablers will be able to put any of their small-government neoliberal putschist nonsense past this bunch. They’re gonna make it hard for anyone with right-wing sympathies to do business in Honduras, and that’s just fine by me.

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New sexual orientation discovered

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Sabina Becker

It’s called heterostoopid, and here’s a fine example of it at work:

Heterostoopid = straight people so dumb they should be denied marriage licenses, so they can never have the “potential” to breed and contaminate the gene pool.

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Haha–teabaggers funny!

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Sabina Becker

How funny?

This funny.

Good thing it’s not illegal to be so very stupid, is all I can say.

PS: Torontonian’s comment here is also Teh Funneh.

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Quebec blogger murdered in Mexico

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Sabina Becker

One of the last pictures published on Renée Wathelet’s blog, En direct des îles. “Jeux d’eau” (“water games”) is from her Flickr page.

A very sad note from the Canadian blogosphere. Thanks to “Monmick”, who sent me this article in French from the Montreal newspaper, La Presse:

Quebec blogger murdered in Mexico
A 60-year-old woman from Quebec was savagely murdered yesterday morning in her apartment on Isla Mujeres in Mexico. Her killer, a 24-year-old man, stabbed her at least 36 times with a knife before being arrested.
Once more, the circumstances have been ignored surrounding the ugly deed which cost the life of Renée Wathelet, who for years had been sailing between Montreal and Mexico.
The victim, born in Belgium, had decided a few months ago to settle down for good on the island, just off the coast of Yucatan.
The murder happened at her apartment, in a condominium complex facing out on the Caribbean Sea.
The suspected killer, José Joaquin Palacios, was arrested on the spot while trying to flee. According to Mexican authorities, he was not intoxicated, but may be suffering from mental health problems. Palacios appears to have claimed to have killed Mme Wathelet for personal reasons. The connections between the victim and her killer have yet to be determined.
Well-known in cyberspace, Renée Wathelet kept at least two personal blogs, endirectdesiles.com and professionnomade.com, and was a fixture on Twitter and Facebook.
The news of her death has shaken those close to her, and many members of the blogging community.
The mother of three had worked as a financial advisor. In Mexico, she was dedicated to her blogs, as well as looking after stray animals with a veterinarian friend.
This morning, one of the victim’s sons prepared to leave for Mexico. According to him, his mother had interrupted a break-in as it happened. “She was a marvellous person, devoted to everyone, a pacifist. I’m going to carry out her last wishes,” said her son, visibly shaken by the senseless-seeming crime.
Renée Wathelet had asked that her ashes be scattered over the sea. Passionate about her travels, the sea, and swimming, she had decided to put down roots in Mexico because of the sun and the warmth of the people, her son said.
The last contact he had had with his mother was a few days ago, when she sent him a picture taken September 15.
The death of Renée Wathelet has created a shock wave through the blogging community. “If there is one truly kind person in the blogging world, it’s her. She is something like a spiritual mother to bloggers,” said Michelle Blanc. She and her friends had organized a little celebration for Wathelet at her apartment in Outremont just before her departure for Mexico. “We are really in shock,” Blanc said.
“I knew her as a super-humanistic person. She cared a lot about animals. I can’t understand how anyone could break into her place and kill her. It’s really horrible!” said Cécile Gladel, an independent journalist and blogger, who reported the death of her friend on her blogue, cecilegladel.blogspot.com.
Just before having been killed, Renée Wathelet published an entry on her blog, endirectdesiles.com, about the beach she loved. “Lost in thought, I arrive at the little cove where every morning, I take time to take time. A moment in which I can attune my breathing to the rhythm of the waves; a moment in which I look to the north, towards Montréal–hello everyone, yes I think of you every morning!”
About an hour later, she whom her friends called “the nomad”, lost her life.
The suspected killer is in jail, and the police are continuing their investigation.

Translation mine.

My thoughts go out to all she left behind. You are her footprints on the sand.

Blessed be the name of Renée, now and always.

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Who NOT to vote for in Honduras

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Mel Zelaya has called ’em out:

Via a communiqué, Manuel Zelaya accused several aspiring political candidates of having made decisions behind the back of the Honduran people, who “have patriotically resisted the beatings and violations of their human rights.”
The constitutional president’s signed communiqué accuses Elvin Ernesto Santos, Pepe Lobo, Bernard Martínez and Felicito Avila of a “secret political arrangement which they have kept going for these [past two] months.”
“We denounce that in secret meetings this weekend, between Carlos Flores Facussé (de facto foreign minister), Camilo Atala (banker), Luis Alberto Rubí (attorney general), Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez, Arturo Corrales (businessman) and Ricardo Alvarez (mayor of Tegucigalpa), with those candidates mentioned above, they are planning to boycott the Arias plan, at the suggestion of US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, refusing to restore President Zelaya.”

Translation mine.

Remember those names, particularly if one of them “wins”. There will be protests–and worse–if that happens.

PS: For whatever this is worth, the president of Uruguay has just expressed his categorical rejection of ANY president who does not legitimately succeed the tall guy in the sash. And he did it right in New York at an OAS meeting, to boot. Let’s see the anglo media spin this–most likely they’ll cover it right up.

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Yet another Venezuelan oppo crook seeks “asylum” in Peru

Posted on September 17, 2009 by Sabina Becker

If you’re at all aware of who’s who in the Venezuelan wingnutosphere, this one’s name (and his arm-long rap sheet) will be familiar. If not, ladies ‘n’ gents, allow me to introduce someone who’s been long overdue for a good thumping here…

Early this morning, the “political leader” Oscar Pérez, better known as “Cabeza ‘e Motor*”, member of the national directorate of the Alianza Bravo Pueblo party, formally solicited asylum of the foreign ministry of Peru, claiming to be “politically persecuted by the government of President Hugo Chávez and the representatives of the rest of the public powers of Venezuela”, meaning, in particular, Attorney General Luisa Ortega Díaz.
An arrest warrant went out for Oscar Pérez last August 27, from Tribunal 37 of Metropolitan Caracas. Pérez is suspected of instigation to delinquency and delinquent association, as a result of his part in a march on Saturday, August 22, in Caracas, when an attempted riot was thwarted by members of the Metropolitan Caracas Police and the National Guard.

Translation mine. Linkage added so you can see that this is NOT political persecution, but criminal prosecution, that Pérez is trying to elude.

And if you need further proof that it’s crime, not politics, that’s at issue here, have a gander at this:

That’s the opposition’s idea of a “peaceful” march. Deliberate violence, deliberate provocation–followed by (they hope) a crackdown that will give them a perfect excuse to try to oust Chavecito yet again. (April 11, 2002–same shit, ‘nother day.) Pérez was right in the thick of this, inciting–as he likes to do, when he’s not busy shoving innocent people around:

This was taken two years ago, when Pérez (on cellphone, in striped shirt) assaulted a man who didn’t want oppo graffiti on his vehicle.

Or how about journalists?

Here he is, repeatedly assaulting Carlos Echeverri (long hair and shades) of Avila TV.

And here he is bullshitting about a vehicle he STOLE (he’s a repeat offender on those grounds, too). He claims it was given to him by the government of the state of Miranda. Even if that’s true, it’s evidence of corruption on the part of the oppo governor of that state. Giving cars to unelected and violent delinquent political cronies is kind of an odd practice, don’t you think?

BTW, Oscar Pérez is far from alone as a common criminal seeking “political” asylum in Peru. Here’s one of his cronies, Manuel Rosales, before HE fled. See if you can see some striking similarities between the behavior of his bullyboys toward journalist Jorge Amorín, and Pérez’s behavior toward Amorín’s colleague, Carlos Echeverri:

And oh joy, oh bliss, there’s another bogus asylum-seeker, too:

Nixon Moreno (don’t you love that name?)–wanted for a vicious assault on two police officers, attempted rape, and attempted murder. The Apostolic Nunciature in Caracas actually sheltered this sinning bastard, if you can believe it. Now the Peruvian government confirms that he’s there, too–seeking asylum, but not yet granted.

What’s that song Otto keeps referencing when something like this happens? By Jove, I think I’ve found it:

* Cabeza ‘e Motor = “Motorhead”, a reference to his past as a notorious car and motorcycle thief. Personally, I prefer Cabeza ‘e Mierda–“Shithead”, a reference to his ongoing status as one of many “leading” turds in the local punchbowl.

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Help Our Stateside Friends Get Healthcare: What the teabaggers don’t want you to see

Posted on September 17, 2009 by Sabina Becker

BTW, the first comment on my first entry of this week is worth checking out…and if you own stock in medical insurance, now would be a terrific time to divest.

Just a humble suggestion.

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Watch your back, Lugo…

Posted on September 17, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Yo, Jesus: You look after him, y’hear?

Uh oh. Looks like the president of Paraguay just went rogue:

The president of Paraguay, Fernando Lugo, rejected the presence of 500 US soldiers in his country until 2010, under a program called New Horizons, on Thursday.
“This is not a categorical rejection. We just don’t believe it’s convenient that the US Southern Command be present in Paraguay with 500 members for this type of exercises,” said the president in a press conference, according to the AFP news agency.
Lugo explained that a new defence, security and sovereignty scenario, generated by the Union of South American Nations (Unasur), “supports regional integration in the first place.”
Lugo commented that at the latest Unasur meeting in Ecuador, “the huge presence of US soldiers in the region was very much questioned”, referring to the agreement between Colombia and the US, in which seven Colombian military bases are to be used by US soldiers.
“A deployment of 500 persons, military and professional, within the country, will not go unnoticed. For this reason, I believe it will be neither prudent nor convenient [to permit them in Paraguay],” said the president.
During the reign of former president Nicanor Duarte Frutos (2003-2008), the US military presence in Paraguay was known as Operation Medrete and included 400 uniformed foreigners.

Translation mine.

Somehow, I knew it was only a matter of time before Lugo decided to quit being diplomatic and just tell it like it is.

I hope he’s got good bodyguards, he’s gonna need them from now on.

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Wankers of the Week: Sticking to Their Guns edition

Help Our Stateside Friends Get Healthcare: One way to remove the obstruction

Festive Left Friday Blogging: The unbroken spirit of Honduras

New sexual orientation discovered

Haha–teabaggers funny!

Quebec blogger murdered in Mexico

Who NOT to vote for in Honduras

Yet another Venezuelan oppo crook seeks “asylum” in Peru

Help Our Stateside Friends Get Healthcare: What the teabaggers don’t want you to see

Watch your back, Lugo…

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