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Dear, dear, sweet Susie ALLCAPS! Long time, no see or hear! Perhaps because you’ve become just too boring for me. You’ve ceased to be entertaining. I believed it was because some health care professional took pity on ya and finally found the right psychotropic cocktail for you.   But, now, it looks like you’re off your meds again.

Yes, now Suzie’s pissed as fuck and she ain’t takin’ it anymore! No sirreee, Bob!  In addition to being an incurable fetus fetishist (we must remember, in the wonderful world according to Susie, there is no such thing as rape; everybody has fun when having  sex and we must also remember, that in her feverish brainstorming,  that it is better for children to suffer than for a woman to have an abortion), she is also extremely homophobic. Well, Ottawa is about to celebrate their LBGTA pride on August 29 and people at St. Joseph’s Parish in Ottawa are supporting the Capital Pride march on August 29. Here’s the info in case anyone in the Ottawa area wishes to march with them.

The Gay Catholics, Christians and Allies at the University of Ottawa is looking for supporters willing to march with the club in the Capital Pride this year (August 29). The club: i) builds an inclusive community, ii) spreads the message: God’s love is in all people regardless of their sexual orientation, iii) wants gay persons to be welcomed by the official Christian churches.

Please join us at the Pride and help make this message heard: all people (gay and straight) have the same gift of love to share! E-mail: clgbt@uottawa.ca

Suzie has decided to play Catholic gay police (what else could I call it?) and decided to rat them all out to the archbishop and is encouraging others to do the same.   She really must have too much time on her hands. I mean, isn’t it sufficient to simply stay away from the parade when it is being held? Apparently not. well, Suzie. Just what do you think that will accomplish? The Capital Pride parade will still go on with or without your input.  It will still go on with or without Archbishop Prendergast’s approval.  What will his excellency do to those Catholic gays? Ex-communicate them? Really rich from a group that covers up for priests who commit pedophilia, to which (according to your previous blog posts) you support?

deBeauxOs also informs us that dear sweet Suzie has been naughty as of late. Suzie, you been stalking the good Father Raymond Gravel? Does Suzie harbor unrequited feelings of lust for the good padre?  Seriously, though, I had the pleasure of meeting him some years ago. His openness and compassion were the only reasons I stayed with the church as long as I had until your master, Pope Ratzy and the Ayatollah Ouellet started turning the church into a more fascist regime. Thanks to your master, a good man was removed from Quebec politics as well.

Suzie, I know I should feel sorry for you. But you’re just so damned malvolent, that I can’t bring myself to do it. You are a terrible example of how Christianity should be, you freakish fetus fetishist homophobe psycho.  Your latest crusades of stalking the good Fr Gravel and ratting this Catholic Gay organization are certainly evidence of that.  Suzie, do all of mankind a favor and get back on your meds! Just because your life sucks doesn’t mean you have to inflict it on others. In this instance, misery doesn’t have to love company.  Just stay away from the parade if you don’t like it.  Another question you should answer, if gays, lesbians, bi-sexuals and transgendered persons are such deviants, how come God made them that way? (I’m assuming Suzie is creationist, naturally).

Balbulican takes Suzie’s advice and writes a thoughtful letter to Archbishop Prendergast.  Here it is! Scroll down,  I can’t seem to link to a particular comment with the Echo application.

Your Excellency:

Yours truly,

I would write to the archbishop, myself, but I’m too pissed right now and I think every other word would be of profanity. I haven’t stopped cursing since the Vatican hit an all time low by making  the ordination of women priests as grave a sin as pedophilia.  But,  I encourage others to follow Balbulican’s lead if they so desire.

Ah yes, if anyone thought Suzie was nutty before, check out the make over she gave her twitter page. Her profile pic is of, of course, a photoshopped fetus. Sick! Sick! Sick!

As for Fr Gravel, I hope he sticks around for a long time. One thing the church needs are more outspoken priests (and nuns for that matter) like him.

What is with that magic year 1962 when it comes to comparing crime statistics in Canada? Better still, what is with this longing for the so-called ‘good ol’ days’?  I mean, with anything; be it crime rates; be it women’s issues; gay rights; immigration; etc.

Oh someone is sucking up to his new boss these days.  And Goldstein ain’t alone.  Apparently, it is now in vogue, among other things for wingnut columnists to write about how Canada is a dangerous place to be and how Canadians are just very bad people.  And they are all a comin’ out a swingin’ for Master Steve’s very expensive tough on Crime bills. And they all like to play amateur statistician to boot.  The rancid Dr jabba the Roy has so proudly compiled a few of them today. However, Lorrie Goldstein had to have come up with THE dumbest conclusion and comparison at the end of his already abysmal column. Besides, he’s long overdue for one of my bitch slapping rants.

Well, lowering crime rates are probably one aspect as to why Sweater vest Steve has zero respect for Statistics Canada. And these wingnut columnists playing amateur statistician with their confusing math as to raise the blood pressure of any math teacher must be oh so pleasing to the master.  Yet, they seem to enjoy harping on one common thread; our crime rates are still oh so much higher than they were in 1962. Ok, let’s look at this, shall we?

Since 1962, unwed women and girls, and only them were blamed for unwanted pregnancies no matter the circumstances; whether the sex that resulted in these pregnancies was consensual or not. The man/boy never ever shouldered the blame or very little of it.  Especially in the case of girls and young college aged women, they were whisked off to special homes for unwed mothers, generally convents, where they were forced to have their babies and put them up for adoption in a hush hush manner, while their families back home can pretend all was right in their world; that their daughters were simply away at college or visiting relatives across the country while they still kept up with the Jones’s. We have evolved since then. Pre-marital sex is no longer the taboo it once was.

Many of those pregnancies were also the result of rape and/or incest. Again, the victims were blamed; a very high stigma attached. No one, but no one reported those crimes. It didn’t mean they didn’t happen more or less. In fact, we hear more of adult survivors reporting their suffering either at the hands of their family members, clergy, teachers, aboriginals who had survived the horrors of  residential schools, etc.

I really don’t have to bring up abortion in 1962. Back alley flop houses done by non-medically trained crooks with unsanitary tools in filthy conditions.  Or old wives abortion methods such as knitting needles and wire hangers.

What about the men? Boys were raised at that time (many still are) that they didn’t cry and that they were to be tough; to be a man and fight back. Reporting a crime such as a mugging would certainly have gone against their male pride.

What about other crimes?  Surely being the victim of other crimes prior to 1962 must have had a stigma attached to them, thus preventing them from reporting them.

So, when I read the dumb argument from idiots like Goldstein saying the reason for the crime rates in Canada going down is that fewer people are reporting them, wouldn’t it stand to reason that perhaps many didn’t report crimes prior to 1962?

And what is the deal with these cons longing for the good ol’ days? And I’m not talking only about crime rates neither.

Our new Governor General is someone who stepped out of the era of “The Man in The Grey Flannel Suit”

We have columnists like Babs Kay who devotes her columns to lamenting the invention of  Birth Control and the sexual revolution and in an effort to spread her own misery, tries to force down the throats that not only was the sexual revolution and legalized abortions are immoral, but continues to try in vain to continue to convince readers that they too should be unhappy about this and feebly attempt her readers into longing for the good ol’ days’.

Back in the ‘good ol’ days, women weren’t on the work force as much and the fields of work women took on were more limited as were their post secondary education opportunities.  I remember Diane Finley making some offensive statement awhile back basically saying that two income households were not a necessity but a choice. I remember thinking that she was hinting at wishing for more to stay home.

Those are just some major differences between prior to 1962 and 2010. I didn’t touch on evolving technology.

My point is that in comparing crime statistics or anything else to 1962 or prior to that against today is comparing apples and oranges. The results would be flawed, no matter how hard they try as they might to skew it in their favour.

Back to Goldstein’s idiotic argument in favour of Master Steve’s tax payer paid big-assed prisons. It is a goody, indeed:

…the knee-jerk argument from the hug-a-thug crowd that a (slightly) lower annual crime rate automatically means we don’t need as many police or prisons, is akin to arguing a lower mortality rate automatically means we don’t need as many doctors or hospitals.

In other words, it’s painfully simplistic and dumb.

No, Lorrie, you’re painfully simplistic and dumb-assed. I have one word to respond to that idiotic quote: Huh?

Of course we need more doctors and hospitals because they are needed to heal the sick so people could live longer.  Doctors (in principle, anyway) not only treat the illness and the patient, but they do much research in an effort to find out what causes these illnesses as to be better able to prevent them in the future in addition to finding cures for them. If doctors can successfully prevent more illnesses, then maybe eventually, they would need fewer hospitals.

The same goes for crime.  Look at crime as a sickness. Try to find the causes so as to better prevent them to begin with.  We know of some of the obvious culprits; poverty and unemployment.  Why don’t we try to find the causes of poverty and unemployment (well, I think most of us know that too, but you get the idea) and try to fix that? Create jobs. Create better training programs. Find ways of getting to those who are most vulnerable to slipping through the cracks and offer programs to help them get on their feet like vocational training.  Educational programs for children at risk.  And yes, better community relations between law enforcement and its’ inhabitants because right now, especially in more impoverished neighbourhoods, distrust is strong.  These ideas are just crazy enough to actually work! If we were to implement just half of these ideas, then I think we would see crime rates slide even faster and there really wouldn’t be any need for those big-assed prisons; not that there was any need to begin with.

But of course, this is Stevie Spiteful, Vic Toews, the Colonel Sanders look-a-like and their wingnutty columnists like Lorrie Goldstein who for whatever reason, seem to get their kicks from watching people suffer, while their fat cat ‘friends’ continue to get fatter.

Also, let’s not forget, these are people that, if they had their way, we would go far back in time, using Maurice Duplessis’s Periode Noirceur as a model for their utopic Canada.  No, never mind that,  Duplessis was probably too liberal for them.

What the hell is it about the women of the Blogging SupposiTories?  Is it just me, or are they even more sexist than their male counterparts?

I wonder if Ex-Lax Max likes girls who look like  Tammy-Faye Baker? Her crush on him is really shameless. I wonder what her hubby who is overseas thinks of this?  She pulls the double standard and hence, the target of some verbal bitch-slapping from your’s truly! She actually makes the anti-feminist slam against Guergis at the end of her miserable post.

Should be somewhat amusing to watch although really, go home Helena.  Resign your seat and take care of your baby.  Leave this stress behind, we all know it’s not good for the new one.

Nice.

Is Tammee suggesting that Helena Guergis stay home barefoot and pregnant? Or all women?

She is claiming to hear the rumours some of us have been hearing that perhaps the Liberals may be courting her, but Guergis is holding fast to her Con roots; either she runs as a Harpercon or an independent.  It seems, though, that Tammeee Rightchik and her commenters are just outraged; just outraged, I tell you, at the idea of her crossing over to the Liberals. What are you scared of? Why should you care? If Steve is running that star candidate, Dr Kellie Leitch (assuming the rumours are true, of course), why should you worry?

And that is the mystery. We know why Steve won’t take Guergis back, as that would mean Stevie Spiteful would actually have to humble himself and publicly eat crow. It may be possible that she may have cause for legal action, not that Steve would allow it to go anywhere. But, I want to know why anti-feminists like Rightchik Tammeee are so afraid of her? From what it looks like, they don’t even want her sitting as an independent or even a Liberal.  Although, the latter, I’m not inclined to believe will happen and I wouldn’t recommend that for the Liberals. Another post for another time, though. But why does she really want her gone?  We know it ain’t because she cares about the health of Ms Guergis or her baby. Caring isn’t in the repertoire of materialist ice-princesses like Rightchik Tammeee.

I also don’t hear a peep of outrage from Rightchik Tammee & the usual suspects regarding Jean-Pierre Blackburn’s little Tequila tantrum at an airport awhile back. In fact, I don’t think they even remember it.

As far as Rightchik Tammee’s faux concern for Guergis regarding her pregnancy,  it’s probably a helluva lot less stressful to work, many pregnant women have worked and will continue to do so, than the stress Stevie spiteful has caused her, not to mention that toad of a husband of her’s. Yes, he too may have been cleared of wrong doing by the RCMP, but he still strikes me as a toad.

To be perfectly clear,  I was highly critical of Helena Guergis’ behavior at the PEI airport, her use of sock puppetry (staffers writing to newspapers) and a few other transgressions.  Many of us were. But Steve never threw her out of cabinet, nor caucus for those sins.  Lord knows, we drew a lot of entertainment from the future revelations regarding her hubby when PI, Derrick Snowdy and all his sleaziness crawled out of the woodwork; remember #bustyhookers? I made a cartoon of  she and Jaffer in his and her straight jackets. I even had a visit from the PI Derrick Snowdy hisself at my comments section from a previous post, basically trying to put a muzzle on me.

We have heard that she was not a great minister of state for the status of women. Neither is farm girl Rona Ambrose. As a matter of fact, I don’t think Stevie spiteful would allow anybody to make any kind of effort with that portfolio.  Given his coveted majority, I daresay he would scrap the status of women portfolio altogether.  That outta to make our shoe princess happy.

Here’s more from earlier in her post:

Unlike Bernier, Guergis showed no remorse in the potential scandal, she proclaimed loudly her innocence and became quite – well – insistent that she did nothing wrong.  And while she may have done nothing wrong criminally by allowing her husband to use her office showed poor, very poor judgement.

No remorse, no repentance and without those she will find no redemption.

If Guergis had good grace (and good sense) she should have immediately resigned, apologized and moved into the background – quietly!  She didn’t and consequently is now out of caucus, out of the party and out of time.

She apologized for the airport incident. Whether or not she was sincere is another story, wouldn’t be the first time a politician was insincere with an apology,  but she did it.  Apologize for what?  Oh yeah! Silly me! It’s a no no to defend one’s self, apparently. Not to the Messiah Steve. Steve is always right (pun intended!).   Why would Ms Guergis need redemption?

Perhaps Ex-Lax Max should apologize for attempting to defend hisself back when he fucked up too? Oh right, he’s a dreamy male and can do no wrong. Yes, Tammee, Ex-Lax Max blamed Ms Couillard for his problems after much denial. Selective memory?  Gawd, she’s shameless.

I was also highly critical of the double standard between she and Ex-Lax Max; the fact that she was kicked out of caucus for unknown reasons and Ex-Lax Max was not and he made the big boo boo.  The double standard by Steve and his cheerleaders. Julie Couillard was publicly blamed & humiliated in the corporate  media for the sins of Ex-Lax Max. Guergis was blamed for the sins of her toad of a husband.

Now, it has come out that both Guergis and Jaffer have been cleared of any wrong doing by the RCMP.

She still believes Ex-Lax Max is still accountable to the people. Tell me, dear princess, if he’s soooo accountable, how come I, a Canadian voter, is banned from commenting at his blog?  It’s his right to ban me, but don’t dare come out and call him accountable because banning me or anyone else from commenting at his site is anything but. Hell, I even excercised great restraint and laid off the profanity and nick names. I really did!

Once again, I also know, that you don’t give a rat’s ass about the health of Ms Guergis or her baby. Because, simply put, you’re a shallow, cold, heartless bitch who only cares about shoe shopping and make up, because, there’s nothing else. Nothing even remotely resembling substance to your pathetic life except to be the trophy wife of some Canadian Forces major.  I wonder if he knows how she fantacizes over Ex-Lax Max?

I always knew the U.S. were known for two things; their litigiousness and their ever growing wingnuttiness. Particularly religious wingnuttiness.  Just when you think the law suit or the religious belief doesn’t get more ridiculous, more stories proving us wrong come up.

Here is the doozy: a bus driver in Texas is suing for discrimination based on his religious beliefs. Why? Get this one, boys n’ girls; because of his religious beliefs. No, I’m not kidding.  He was fired for refusing to take women to Planned Parenthood Centers.

Edwin Graning, who was hired as a driver on April 1, 2009, was “concerned that he might be transporting a client to undergo an abortion” when he was assigned to take two women to Planned Parenthood, according to his lawsuit, filed this week in U.S. District Court in Austin.

Graning is seeking reinstatement, back pay and undisclosed damages for pain, suffering and emotion distress. He is represented by lawyers from the American Center for Law & Justice, founded by evangelical Christian leader Pat Robertson.

Joanna Salinas, an Austin lawyer who represents the Capital Area Rural Transportation System, said, “CARTS denies that it discriminated against Mr. Graning because of his religion, and we are looking forward to responding to the lawsuit in court.”

The system, operated under an agreement among participating counties, offers bus service on fixed routes and through requested pickup for residents in the nonurban areas of Travis and Williamson counties and in all of Bastrop, Burnet, Blanco, Caldwell, Fayette, Hays and Lee counties.

After he was dispatched to take the women to Planned Parenthood in January, Graning called his supervisor “and told her that, in good conscience, he could not take someone to have an abortion,” his lawsuit said. The women’s names, their location and the clinic location were not included in the lawsuit. Planned Parenthood also provides health care services unrelated to abortion.

Graning, a Kyle resident, is “an ordained Christian minister who is opposed to abortion,” the lawsuit said.

His supervisor, who is not named, responded by saying, “Then you are resigning,” the suit said.

Graning denied he was resigning and was later told to drive his bus back to the yard and then was fired, the lawsuit said.

Graning’s suit claims violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

Read the rest here.

Yes,  the good Reverend thinks he deserves the keys to the courthouse in addition to a king’s ransome from his former employer from ‘preventing’ women from having abortions. And of course he does! What were his employers thinking? He’s a super hero! He saved the day! Hurrah! Hell! Give him the keys to the city! Never mind all the pap smears, counselling and other female health exams and treatments he may have prevented, but hell, it was all worth it! By Golly Gee! He saved the fetuses!!

Me thinks this wacked out bus driver has prohibited his own employment opportunities by not taking paying customers to where they want and have paid to go just because he doesn’t approve of what the customer may or may not be doing at said destination; in this case, possible abortions at a Planned Parenthood Center. 

In our minds, the Reverend Graning’s law suit should be a no brainer.  The case would and should be thrown out and he should be laughed out of court in much the same way as Orly Taitz, right? Well, we can hope that would happen.  But, let’s be realistic, Texas is the bible belt of the U.S. and folks tend to get more wingnutty as time goes by, and the very fact that a judge seemed to have agreed to keep the case on the docket is, well, disturbing to say the least. Don’t be surprised if  Reverend Bus driver does recover back pay, gets his job back and of course, gets the special privilege of either by passing the Planned Parenthood center entirely or having the route changed to the point he would never even have to pass within view of the building.

This oughta make Suzy ALLCAPSLOCK all warm and tingly inside. A hero after her own heart, right up there after Pope Ratzy, Cardinal Mar Ouellet, Dean Del Mastro and Sharon Angle.

H/T Blag Hag

There really aren’t that many words to say about this doozy.

Pope Ratzy has come out and said that pedophilia is a sin. No shit, Shirlock!!  But here’s the kicker; in the world according to ol’ Ratzy, so is ordaining women, apparently, it’s right up there too;

In the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church, both are equally “grave delicts,” according to revisions in internal Vatican laws published Thursday.

Women who attempt to preside over any ceremony or attempt to be ordained will be ex-communicated. Wow! I wonder if the pope or any of his flunkies have attempted to tell any female Protestant ministers this? Do they even have the balls?

“Lumping us with the men who are the perpetrators of these crimes is absolutely mean-spirited and completely out of touch with reality,” said Sudbury’s Marie Bouclin. From 1959 to 1966, Bouclin was a nun in Ottawa. After leaving her order, she continued to work for the Catholic Church until the early 1990s, eventually becoming the personal secretary to a bishop.

But Bouclin became overwhelmed with the ways she believed her church was unfair to women. After she spoke up about it one too many times, she was let go from her position.

Now, she considers herself a Catholic priest.

What I don’t get is why doesn’t Bouclin simply convert and become a Protestant minister? At least her church would not only respect her, but she would be recognized as full fledged clergy as much as her male counterparts.

And another thing, I don’t recall any of those pedophile priests being ex-communicated.

Now, here comes the manditory apologist where he starts spinning things, saying that the Vatican is not equating pedophilia with Ordaining women.

“It does a disservice to everyone when you draw these parallels quickly without reflection,” said MacCarthy. “It does a disservice to the victims of abuse and to the women who are making great contributions to the church.”

First off, Mr Apologist, your church has already done more than a disservice to the victims of abuse at the hands of your priests.

Next, and certainly not least, how can women make any significant contributions to the Catholic Church if  his popeness has made it a sin for them to do so?

You put both of these items in that same rule book.  More on their rules here.

Yanno, you’re not going to win new parishioners with these draconian, mean spirited laws.  I daresay you’ll probably lose more women.

Again, I hope that many Catholic women consider converting to Protestantism (if they choose to be clergy that is) or whatever else suits them.

So David Johnston, a septuagenarian academic type; president of Waterloo University and former principal of McGill University is going to be our new Governor General and apparently appointed with the blessing of both the Liberals and the NDP; as if that really matters in Master Steve’s world.  He would have gone and appointed him anyway. I guess Preston Manning and Mark Steyn were too busy after all. Read Chantal Hebert’s take on Johnston here.

So typical that Master Steve would pick an old white man from the generation of the “Man in the Grey Flannel Suit” era as Hebert puts it.   To be honest, had a Liberal or an NDP appointed him, I really wouldn’t have thought all that much about it.  Just a blurb in the grand scheme of things. But this ol’ sweater-vest Steve we’re talking about.  Steve, the misogynist. One only has to look at how shabbily he’s treated his female MPs over the years. Most recently, his pulling the double standard in his handling of both Helena Guergis, who as it turns out, was guilty of nothing more than an airport temper tantrum and being married to a toad, gets kicked out of caucus; yet, years ago, Ex-Lax Max Bernier, who was guilty of the far worse blunder of leaving sensitive documents of his (alleged) biker chick ex-girlfriend’s home after dumping her, was never kicked out of caucus and is becoming a rising star again.  As Dan Gardner once put it, Harper does indeed play on our worst instincts.  He certainly brings out my worst instincts. 

It wouldn’t have even mattered if Steve picked a man so much if he had picked someone less partisan like Rick Hansen.  After all, we did have three back to back women GGs: Jeanne Sauve, Adrienne Clarkson and of course, Michaelle Jean.  But pick a man  many Canadians could look up to. Someone not so much of a stuffed shirt.  Someone who wouldn’t sell his soul for the coronation and perks to go along with it; not necessarily a yes man who will do all of Steve’s bidding.

The appointment of David Johnston is just another hint at Steve’s intent to drive Canada backward.

No,  I have a feeling Johnston is going to do all of Steve’s bidding; that he more than likely sold his soul for this coronation and perks that go along with it. He will be Steve’s model Head of State complete with grey flannel suit to boot.

One thing is certain though.  Anyone who will clamor about Liberal / NDP coalitions potentially being formed; don’t bet on  Johnston consenting to it unless Steve knows for sure the math just ain’t there for them.

As far as I’m concerned: David Johnston…Preston Manning…if Steve the micro manager appointed him…it’s all the same to me.

Oh..wait! I take that back! Johnston doesn’t appear to be a Christian Evangelical fundy like ol’ Pres.   But then, Steve didn’t have a choice, given his cheerleaders are feverishly fighting Marci MacDonald’s credibility these days.

Maybe I shouldn’t take it back.  Johnston like anyone else, can be converted.

Fuck  off!

Things sooooo boring in Alberta that all you can come up with is Quebec bashing?

I’m going to tell you what I told your idiotic friend Tasha Kheirriddin: stay away from things you don’t understand. Remember High school English 101? Only write what you know!

You conveniently left out the part that Loyola is government subsidized. They could give back all the taxpayers’ dollars paid into their school and refuse to accept any more, or teach the secular class. As I’ve mentioned, a classroom is not a place for impressionable young minds to be taught that abortion and gay marriage are plain evul and if anyone refuses to believe that will go to hell.

And once more with feeling, it is irresponsible to teach kids that certain religions and cultures are superior to others.

What’s wrong with learning basic ethics like helping your fellow man, respecting your neighbour, humility….ah yes! You’re an Albertan, those are soshalist for you!

Pauline Marois was bang on when she said that religion should be kept at home and the churches.

As for the crucifix, it was voted upon; it was not arbitrarily decided. Unlike Steve’s Canada, the National Assembly actually does as best as it could to put some semblence of democracy.

No wonder Duceppe is reviving the sovereignty movement; to be called Canadian with the likes of an ignorant cow like you is downright embarrassing.

And you don’t love Canada neither; you love GW Bush’s Americana and would help Steve turn Canada into just that .

As for those gentlemen in gray ponytails you denigrate in your article; you jealous that you can’t get one to sleep with you?

Remove the quarter lodged up your ass then.

OH, and do you cream in your panties at the thought of PM STeve? Oh oh oh! I bet you do!

Now stop writing you useless hack and do…wait! Do you have any skill?

Go find a Klu Klux Klan  bake sale to cover…that’s about your speed.

Now Get fucked, you desperate old hag…

Now crawl back to your trailor park you piece of white trash. I hear there’s a certain frat boy in your province looking for Mrs. Robinson

And I’m being charitable today!

Anne Lagace Dowson has been filling in for Kimmmeeee Fraser this week and has been masterful, especially with the Gang of 4 this week.  She told them to basically shut up and let Egbert talk for once…instead of them ganging up on them as they usually do.

Since Tommy’s researcher who researches these topics (supposedly), Lo-wa the low hanging fruit should really spend more time doing her actual job of research and less time doing the Friday afternoon horror of “Single Ladies” with the valley girl relic and glorified data entry clerk at the Gazette or giving Tommy dancing lessons for Youtube, perhaps they would have had correct information.  Yeah, Lo-wa, word of advice, little girl? Don’t research topics that are too grown up.

Yes, in light of Cardinal Ouellette’s new career as a would-be lobbyist, CJAD, or Tommy Schnurmacher or his producer, Lo-wa, the junior right wingnut in a training bra or whoever’s idea it was for these topics decided today was abortion debate day. Remember that Tommy and Trude the Prude Mason (newscaster who can’t even deliver the news without a slant to the right)  are fetus fetishists extraordinaire who have proven today that they not only go beyond stupidity, but actually to be dishonest.

Before Trude goes into shrieking mode though, she does point out that an ultrasound at early stages only show a blob before she and Tommy start vehemently defending the rights of blobs.

The precise topic was: Should doctors be required to provide an ultrasound and inform her on the development of the fetus before getting an abortion?

Tommy shows his true fetus fetish colours by interjecting at some point saying that it’s not just the woman’s rights, it’s the fetus’s rights.

He and Trude basically go off making it look like doctors perform late term abortions here in Canada all the time .

When Anne calmly and reasonably as possible with this shrieking bunch of wingnuts tries to explain things like teen pregnancy being  down here in Canada and that teen-age girls are getting better informed about the consequences of unprotected sex and such;  that more funding for Planned Parenthood is needed; Better sex-ed programs in schools and encouraging parents to be more open about discussing the consequences of sex to their children. There, something logical. Perhaps even something that would be crazy enough to reduce abortion rates, but no, the fetus fetish element continued their shrieking bull-shit.

Then he goes on to talk about the “socialist” countries of Europe not allowing late term abortions and such. When Anne Lagace-Dowson attempts to explain that in France, they have better programs for unwanted children and superior planned parenthood programs than here. Tommy interjects in his usual arrogant ass-hole, I’m Gawd of the Zionists’ way, saying that they were not talking social assistance. Well, if you don’t want abortion, a solution must be found. Europeans do social programs for children far better than we do.

Then I remembered Fern Hill’s (Dammit Janet) post awhile back on the Netherlands and a debate one of the coalition member parties wanted to stir up, regarding the subject of ultra-sounds at 20 weeks. Currently, as the law stands, a woman can have an abortion up to 24 weeks. Allowing them to have an ultra-sound at 20 weeks when it will show adequately if the fetus will develop a disability, giving the woman 4 weeks to decide whether or not she can go through with balance of the pregnancy.

it is also worth mentioning that in the Netherlands, doctors  who euthanize  babies born with something deemed “incompattible with life”  must, of course report this. Since implementing that 20 week ultra sound, there have been, of course, fewer severely disabled babies born, but guess what? Not a single euthanasia performed since 2008. Not a one!  All because these disabilities and defects can be determined at 20 weeks through an ultra sound. Although, I think I’m starting to hear Tommy and Trude the Prude shrieking at this as they read it.

Just to say that not all European countries disallow all late term abortions under any circumstance.

And then, information. When Anne and Egbert try to explain how abortion clinics, doctors and genetic councilors (in the case of  a fetus with disability/defect) do give information, Tommy insists that it’s not enough. In fact, info from health care professionals given in a calm and rational way just simply won’t do. He kept harping on pamphlets; we all know what that implies, don’t we?  Tommy  would like us all to know that the best info would be those photoshopped doctored images of exploding bloody fetuses handed out by bible thumpers on steroids. He then really asks the galactically stupid question of what’s so harmful about brochures? Egbert and Anne say it’s all in the delivery of said info. And they’re available to answer any questions before the procedure.

Anne, I, as well as my fellow feminist bloggers  across Canada, I’m sure, would have liked it if you asked the fetus fetish element how they would feel about us going back to the days of back alley flop house abortions done by fly by night non health care professionals or desperate women playing around with wire hangers and knitting needles. But good job over all, and I hope you get the opportunity to ask them that next time…I would love to hear Tommy fumble and fuck up on the air.

Tommy, speaking of ‘designer babies’ (in reference to abortions due to not liking the sex of  fetus, disabilities, etc: he thinks they actually happen everyday!), you’ve really outdone your own stupidity!!  Designer babies, as you so dumb fuckingly put it are made in a petri dish. The 1988 Ivan Reitman sleeper, “Twins” Arnold Schwarzenegger would be the best example of a ‘designer’ baby… Trailer below.

And Tommy, like Ouellette, you don’t have kids, nor can you get prenant, so you have the right to shut the fuck up, you clusterfuck!! And Trude the Prude, be thankful you have two healthy kids; don’t presume to judge anyone who can’t find it possible to care for a disabled child with our increasingly abysmal programs (budget slashy-hacky, naturally) to help these parents.

And Tommy, you hate government intruding on our lives; Anne called you on it yesterday,  but you want them to restrict abortion, explain that double standard, will ya!!

And juxtapose!  Tommy would like to scrap the long gun registry due to the start up cost but has no problem with spending billions on abortion police or enforcement preventing late term abortions, something that  practically never happens here in the first place. Pro-life for a blob but obviously no problems not registering deadly weapons. Guaranteed more have hidden firearms they wish to keep hidden than doctors who actually perform late term abortions.

Stay classy Trude the Prude and Tommy!

To borrow a Canadian Cynic expression:  Kids! Tommy’s single!

Way to go Anne!! And thanks for trying to bring some balance to CJAD in Kimmmeeee’s absence this week.  You gave it a valliant effort, but no one and I mean no one can make Tommy or Trudy smart and logical and as for Lo-wa, I must apologize for earlier insulting low-hanging fruit.

Yes, he’s at it again and yes, he is indeed calling for not only debate but changes to existing abortion laws in Canada.

I have a question, Cardy: if abortion is, as you say, a ‘moral disorder’  then what do you call your priests who committed pedophilia? Or better still, the cover up by you and other higher ups in the church right up to Pope Ratzy of those insidious acts (well, there is  no term bad enough to describe them, except to say that it’s pure evil)?

He, like the other fetus fetishists, seem to have this misconceived notion that doctors perform third term and/or even partial birth abortions on any whim of their’s or the woman’s.

Get over it. Abortion is indeed the best invention since antibiotics to  cure for the clap.

Cardy, why don’t you spend all that energy seeking justice for each and every kid that was abused by one of your minions? To make sure that these guilty priests face the same  criminal legal system that we do? That’s what I want to know.

Oh, and  not acknowledging that rape occur doesn’t make that any less of a reality.

Women about to get an abortion certainly don’t need or want your approval.

H/T CC

UPDATE: De BeauxOs of  Dammit Janet is asking us if Cardi Ouellete should be registered as a Lobbyist.     I vote a big resounding YES!!!  Of course he should! He is talking and acting like a lobbyist,  is he not?

Commenter JA Baker  reminds us of the great George Carlin here:

I don’t know how you feel, but I’m pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches? Tax them. If holy people are so interested in politics, government, and public policy, let them pay the price of admission like everybody else. The Catholic Church alone could wipe out the national debt if all you did was tax their real estate.

This also reminds me of an old episode of All In The Family, For those born after the mid 80s,  that was a sit-com well before its’ time about a disfunctional family. Remember the episode where Archie is in a 3 piece suit writing a letter to then President Nixon and he’s interrupted a pair of nuns doing door to door fund raising.   The part where he pulls Edith aside and tells her, (paraphrasing; don’t remember exact line), “don’t give them more than half a buck, they will only spend it on gold candle stick holders anyway”…

From Dave at The Galloping Beaver:

Dimitri Soudas

is a coward.

He is a chickenshit, cowering piece of quivering liver. He cries for his mother when things don’t go his way.

He is a conservative.

He let’s other people fight his battles.

We have put the defence and the security of this country in the hands of the likes of him. Isn’t that reassuring?

Look what a piece of cowardly crap your vote got you.

Want a piece of me Dimitri? No problem, you cowardly turd. Single combat. Look it up.

They’re all that evil. Brother Steve, every Harpercon and their cheerleaders. There is nothing remotely redeemable about them.   A culture of greed.   Greed is supposed to lead to where?

They also seem to immensely enjoy to see much suffering.  When they sound happy, I have to wonder which poor family lost their child or pet or both, or which one of their elder relatives got shoved into a nursing home, suffering elder abuse.

Yes, they’re indeed dumb when we hear comments of eliminating the opposition permanently, or whining about Liberals not including Harpercons in their future plans or how about let’s fry Graham James but forgive the pedophile priests, and yes, even protect them from our judicial system at all costs. Priests get different rules from civilians.

Harpercon doctors witholding services until our health care system is good and Americanized. Who knew the hippocratic oath meant only heal the elite? Wealth care for billionaires and cause even more harm to the rest of the mere mortals. That ‘mature’ discussion about health care really means for the poor and not so healthy to suffer and go without so that the rich can get Hilton hotel styled care, simply because they’re rich.

A society that only worships rich people for being rich. What the hell did they ever accomplish besides that? Poorer folks more often than not, work much harder than the rich.

A growing society that worships money and Christian evangelicals. Contrary to popular belief, they do go hand and hand: one only needs to look at the PTL,  Jerry Falwell, and Billy Graham ministries.

Yet, oddly, they don’t get the entire blame for what’s happening these days. I blame us (progressives/left of center) mostly for allowing such evil to grow and fester.  No, not the political parties, but us, mere mortal civilians.  We don’t stand as one. We’re not unified.  The Harpercons and their cheerleaders are in complete lock step with each other.  Many have actually sacrificed some of their individual principles to be in lock step with them (ie: if they’re pro-choice, they’re going to fight the fetus fetish cause: if they’re Atheist; they will embrace Christian evangelical subculture), and will continue to do so.

Maybe it’s time for us to start compromising certain things on our wish lists in order to prevent a Harpercon majority. Sorry, but waiting for that party leader to jump through hoops on some white horse to save the day from Harpercon just ain’t happening.

It is up to us to prevent this.

Someone mentioned that it didn’t make sense for 30% representing the evangelicals and such to represent the actual majority. Well, I beg to differ here, if we continue to not vote or vote for fringe parties such as the Greens and yes, even ballot spoiling, we are part of the problem; not the solution. All of that helps Steve’s cause. That’s why he loves the Greens and other fringe parties; they never get seats, but get enough votes to keep him in power .

Here are the two choices: the status quo with all our divisiveness and utopic wish lists like parliamentary reform or parties with no coporate backing being held fast which gets us nowhere  or we just get together with a common goal; to prevent Harpercon majority and if possible, even unseat him and we do anything to achieve that end; even if it’s to vote Liberal while we hold our noses, if need be. That is the only way to fend off a Harpercon majority.

Yes, this is about picking the lesser of the two evils; no such thing as an ideal political party or leader.  Not when we allow corporations to own  campaigns.

Iggy is not going anywhere.  So he doesn’t perform carnaval tricks. And bitching about him isn’t going to get him out.  Are we really willing to entertain a Harpercon majority simply due to hatred for Iggy or making sure they pay for that choice in leader?

Any amount of pundits or bloggers sticking our 2 cents in, discussing coalition or no coalition and/or who would be a great leader for Liberal party is all academic.

But, I’m realistic enough to know that will never happen and that is why  Steve’s chances of a majority continue to grow.

Otherwise, we allow such evil to run our lives and we have only ourselves to blame.

Dave’s quote above applied to Dmitri Soudas, but really, we could insert any name of any Harpercon or their cheerleader or blogging tory. The exact same would apply.

Speaking of evil, irredeemable neo-cons:  still waiting for my subpoena….c’mon, tough guy(s)! Get your  big Daddy’s money and sue the working class bitch. C’mon! Ya know ya wanna!