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Either that, or he must be making a list of all those “rabid lefties” and “anti-semites” over on Twitter.  He has just left us with a warning about his new Sun column come this Tuesday.  Wait a minute! Didn’t he and the Sun part company in 2007? Ah yes, this is the new guard which advocates “locking and loading”; he should be their star.

Anyway, he is ranting about George Soros, a billionaire who spends his money on left winged agendas. More specifically, ol’ Ezzy’s got his intestinal tract twisted in a pretzel because of Soros’ supposed  ”Nazi” activities during the Holocaust. He is referring to this interview on Sixty Minutes.

KROFT: My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson.

Mr. SOROS: Yes. Yes.

KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.

Mr. SOROS: Yes. That’s right. Yes.

KROFT: I mean, that’s — that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?

Mr. SOROS: Well, of course I c — I could be on the other side or I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. But there was no sense that I shouldn’t be there, because that was — well, actually, in a funny way, it’s just like in markets — that if I weren’t there — of course, I wasn’t doing it, but somebody else would — would — would be taking it away anyhow. And it was the — whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator, the property was being taken away. So the — I had no role in taking away that property. So I had no sense of guilt.

Mr. SOROS: Not — not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child you don’t — you don’t see the connection. But it was — it created no — no problem at all.

KROFT: No feeling of guilt?

Mr. SOROS: No.

KROFT: For example that, ‘I’m Jewish and here I am, watching these people go. I could just as easily be there. I should be there.’ None of that?

You see, Ezzy, of course, will believe anything his beloved Ann Coulter spews.  His beloved Ann, who, as we remember, believes that Jews need to be “perfected” and I imagine ol’ Ezzy is included in this badly needed improvement category.

Rich for ol’ Ezzy to go neanderthal on a scared 14 year old in hiding and doing what he needed to do to survive while losing much of his family and watching the attrocities around him.

Really rich for Ol’ Ezzy, considering he so proudly and vigorously defended Marc Lemire,  a known white supremacist who worked with  the likes of neo-Nazi leader,  Paul Fromm, called a bigot by the NattyPo’s  Johnny Kay, of all people, for Gawd’s sake and former president of the Heritage Front, a Neo-Nazi organization, until it disbanded in 2005, against a  Canadian Human Rights Commission, striking down Section 13. Yes, kids, he was feeling festive about it and probably still does to this day.  All about free speech, supposedly.

What a hypocrite! He chastises George Soros for events he had no control of as a teen-ager, but vigorously defends thugs like Marc Lemire, who chose their own twisted, psychotic, bigoted paths in life and would more than likely defend other such neo-Nazis and holocaust deniers in his quest to stay relevant and attempt to close down Human Rights Commissions.

Between his defense of white supremacist neo-Nazis, his known bashing of B’nai Brith and the Canadian Jewish Congress, & his pathetic school boy admiration of Ann Coulter, one has to wonder who the anti-semite really is?

One also has to wonder if ol’ Ezzy would still be turning purple over Soros’ past if he were funding the tea-bagger movement along with the Koch brothers and/or World Net Daily instead of Media Matters?

I wonder if this will get me on his Anti-Semite hit list now? I’m starting to feel lonely.

H/T Rusty Idols

After reading Dr. Dawg’s post, dripping with sarcasm,  a  take on the mentality of many Canadians regarding those four men arrested on terrorism charges earlier last week which included a Canadian Idol Reject and McGill University Med School Grad, Khurram Sher.  A very accurate take as Dr Dawg usually has with these things. DeBeauxOs drives it home in about ten words or less in Dawg’s comments section (sorry, I can’t link the Echo comment box for some reason, but you can find it at his post):

Trial by media.

The way things are going, Harper’s New™© Government can abolish the court system and send alleged criminals directly to their mega-jails.

Well, yes, that is more than likely exactly where Stevie Spiteful and Super Toews are headed. Trial by media; more to the point, trial by NattyPO,  Kory Klan, and other Harpercon friendly outfits.   Guilty until proven innocent is the mantra of the day being taught, particularly regarding non-whites, specifically, Muslims and accusations of terrorism and related charges.

And a devoted student following this order of the day is none other than Blogging SupposiTory, Ottawa’s Bimbo & Military trophy wife, Rightchik, Tammeee, the Tammy-Faye Baker look-a-like herself!  Yes, I caught her little open letter to none other than the Canadian Council of Immams.  Here goes. I will inserting my own quips in brackets in regular typeface, italics are her words ):

Gentlemen – it is time for you to speak out and condemn armed jihad (Translation, ex-communicate them and lock them in a dungeon if they don’t comply with this). Condemn all jihad that would use violence, deceit and threats to any and every non Muslim (I guess she means it’s ok if they use violence, threats and deceit on other fellow Muslims, though). Tell your congregations that the only way to convert someone is through dialogue (Really? Conversion? To what? Christianity?). Any other method is unacceptable. And if someone does not convert then it is the will of God (so you’re admitting that a die-hard jihadist who refuses to listen to reason from his Immam or community is in God’s hands?).

Preach a message of acceptance (They are! It’s you & your ilk that don’t accept them, or any other non-white for that matter!) . Every Christian, Jew, Buddhist, Pagan, Hindu, Atheist. Agnostic and everyone else should be loved and embraced as a neighbour, friend and brother (Really? Then practice what you preach, little girl. It seems to me you only love and embrace the God of Prada or Nine West or Gucci and faces that come from jars).

Issue a press release not only condemning the men who have been recently arrested – condemn their motivations and actions. Speak loudly and clearly as you denounce all violent jihad. (Ok, here is a classic example of what DeBeauxOs was talking about when she commented over at Dawg’s: trial by media; or in this case, trial by middle-aged barbie doll. Barbie ain’t alone, sadly. Classic example when shallow right wingnut  Barbie Dolls who have no life outside of being a military trophy wife are let loose with a keyboard. Dawg has links here and here of other wingnuts with their accusations and how they think these defendants as well as any other future off-white defendants should be handled.)

I’m going to let you in on a little secret – we’re not as stupid or gullible as you might think. (Really? Oh, this would take a novel, so I’ll just move right along here; remember, she thinks she’s no one unless she’s in 5 inch heels and 5 inches thick of make-up ) In spite of what our music, movies, politicians, liberal media (what Liberal media?) or guilt ridden lefties (guilt ridden? I’m a lefty, I can assure you, I ain’t guilt ridden! Why on earth for? I haven’t done anything to these folks or anyone else for that matter. I’m not the one preaching bigotry and injustice. Embarrassed would be a more accurate description of my feelings today)  would lead you to believe, most Canadians are very, very different (many, anyway, and not in a good way).

We’re tolerant, we’re patient and we will give anyone a chance (Really? News to me). You’re getting yours right now. But we’re not ones to be pushed around. Look at our history (Well, Tammee got one thing right; we did push Native people off their land, stripped them of their livelihood, forced them to assimilate,  kidnapped their children and hid them in Gawd awful residential schools under unspeakable conditions and forced them to convert to Christianity).

Do the right thing. Show us that you are truly Canadian (yes, do show Tammee and her friends and tough military hubby what a great ‘Canadian’ you are;  publicly humiliate and ex-communicate any member of your congregation even so much as having the same last name as someone on a terror watch list).

What I was trying to point out in the little excercise above was Tammee’s own hypocrisy and that of many who share her views, like those of the Blogging SupposiTories and other Harpercon cheerleaders.

Dr. Dawg did a fine job proving  DeBeauxOs correct  in his follow-up post, Oil on Troubled Flames, citing many of the right wingnut bloggers with links to prove this. This is troubling for Canadian society; a supposed democracy to say the least. Where would it end? Who or which group would be the next targetted? By the looks of things, it could well be the new Tamil refugees if they’re ever released from detention and allowed to stay.  Thanks to the Harpercon propoganda machine, bigotry is on the rise and now, since these kind of cases are being splashed in the media with all the  yellow journalim characteristics we’d find in some tabloid like the National Enquirer, more and more; each new case being reported with increasing degrees of sensationalism and innuendo without even hinting what evidence police or the prosecutors may have or may not have.

Those of us who dare to  vocally express our beliefs in “innocent until proven guilty” or allowing all criminal defendants, yes, including those accused of terrorism,  to a have a fair trial are given the label from these wingnuts, as bleeding hearts who would practically welcome Charles Manson in our homes.   No, gotta fill Uncle Steve’s mega prisons and how dare we speak against the great man. How dare we point out logic? In a Harpercon Utopia, I guess Defense attorneys, crown prosecutors and Judges would all end up on the unemployment line.

Over at wingnut, Jay Currie’s place of white worship,  he accuses Dr Dawg of being in denial. No, Jay, it’s just that these four suspects don’t really fit the terrorist criteria.  All four seem to be well adjusted, educated,  productive young men, who seem to enjoy life in Canada. It seems unfathomable that they would be sucked into even contemplate ruining  their lives; the lives of their families; everything they have for the sake of a terror group who doesn’t give a damn about them.   Haven’t we heard in the past that generally, the profile of  Jihadists are generally uneducated, disenfranchised youth who feel they haven’t much else to look forward to in life?

I’m not saying those four suspects are not guilty, nor am I saying they’re guilty.  We haven’t seen or heard all the evidence; the real evidence; not the vaccuum the right slanted media and the Blogging SupposiTories are only too happy to fill with their innuendo. Nor is it for me, or anyone else for that matter,  to judge.  That is up to a judge and jury of the defendants’ peers (if they can find an impartial one that is).  If they’re guilty, then let the judge assign the appropriate sentence. If they’re not guilty, then set them free and let them get on with their lives in peace, just like any other defendant in any other criminal case, be they white, off white, or yellow with purple polka dots.    I’m sure that statement to the wingnut element would  brand me as a Taliban sympathizer no doubt. Fine, so be it. They’re going to think what they like anyway, it’s what gives wingnuts  like Rightchik Tammeee  a reason to get up in the morning; far be it for me to begrudge them of that. There, some more of my lefty charity.

Another thing, I’m no legal expert, nor am I going to even attempt to pretend to be one, so, if there are any lawyers or even law students knowledgeable on the subject, please feel free to answer my following question in my comments section.  The defense attorneys for the accused must realize that their clients can’t get a fair trial with half truths and yellow journalism trying them before the court of public opinion, not to mention potentially poisoning a potential jury pool for the eventual trials; why haven’t they demanded a publication ban? Can they? Or has legislation changed on that too at the demand of  Kory and his Klan of Fox North?

What is is it with white conservative losers when they don’t get their way invoking Martin Luther King? We, in Canada, saw it not long ago with the bimbo, Sa-wah Palin look-a-like, Sarah Landriault when she discovered she couldn’t jump to the top of the employment ladder with no marketable skills, certificates, education or experience. That was nothing short of dispicable.

Then, we saw not only Glenn Beck and Sa-wah Palin, herself, scheduling their wingnutty hate festivities on the anniversary of Dr. King’s march for civil rights in the US, but actually invoke him to push their all white, Christian, intolerant, far right agenda. Man, Dr. King must be turning over in his grave about now. As Boris over at The Galloping Beaver describes this ironic message of Palin (and Beck’s):

It doesn’t need to be said that Palin’s “restoration” would seek a return the America that squeezed the trigger on MLK.

Disturbing doesn’t even begin to describe the theme of “Restoration of Honor”.  What I don’t get is why Alveda King would’ve even entertained the idea of speaking at Beck and Palin’s hate festivities. She must be the relative they don’t talk about.

However, unlike the 9/12 festivities of last year, I don’t think this tea-party had the energy. In fact, it’s to the point where I wonder if the tea-bagging movement is becoming a passing fad.

As yet another Glenn Beck extravaganza drew nearer, this time with Sa-wah Palin, I was looking forward to checking out the colourful misspelled signs of all shapes and sizes with such hateful, yet such stupid slogans as to be somewhat amusing. Call it morbid curiosity, much like the way many will stop to watch the aftermath of a car crash or train wreck.  I would learn that Glenn Beck had banned signs for the occasion, but that didn’t seem to stop a few from doing just that. Check out the link: a great diary with some amusing slogans.

I was checking the Twitter feed and the American blogs as well as some online media pages for some mishap or misstep, but, again, not much. Checked out Sa-wah Palin’s speech; but turned it off as I felt a migraine coming on. Honestly, she just has one of those voices that can feel like she’s drilling nails in your head.  She was just boring this time. Stupid can be funny, but Sa-wah has ceased being funny since comparing herself to William Shakespeare last month.

For me, to summarize the Glenn Beck / Sa-wah Palin extravaganza; boring! One big snore! And I don’t seem to be alone, neither. So much for all of Beck’s predictions of this extravaganza being the “turning point” and  “defibrillator on the heart of America”. I suggest you click that link and read Glenn’s predictions on how “miraculous” this event would be: I think that’s the most entertaining part of it: it all just went to snoozeville from there. Much of the audience looked like they could use a jolt of that defibrillator. So boring!

Other than the fact that Glenn Beck was wearing a kevlar vest under his shirt, his speech at first didn’t seem to offer anything of entertainment value and the audience was quite subdued. Then I read Jymn’s piece last night, where he observed Beck changing directions; one toward the more evangelical. I listened to the speech again and I have to say that Jymn is probably on to something.

He has turned his evil upside down so that it looks smiley face Stepford wive-ish. He has presented his rally as an open book (mostly the bible) for all people to join. The only stipulation it would seem is that you are all very, very religious, preferably Christian. He asked attendees to leave their signs at home (like true Beckbots, most did – great response from NAACP: “Dr. King never had to ask his followers to leave hateful signs and guns at home”.)

Beck made pains too to make the rally about the troops, of course. All immaculately planned and organized, Beck’s rally positions the tea party and the radical right to further their goals in turning the US into a theocracy.

Well, if as Jymn suggests, Beck is going from pathetic pundit to Revvin’ Reverend, I don’t think even that will succeed for too long. Hell, his message might have sounded outrageous and hateful, but he didn’t say anything different than what other American televangelists over the years have been spewing. He offered nothing original.  He bawled his eyes out, as usual. Big Deal. He has always done that.And by the by, the secret to Beck’s crocodile tears, apparently, is Vicks Vapo Rub. Take a look a the video here, if you dare, you will see that even his eyes and nose are starting to develop a tolerance toward the strong smelling cold remedy.

I remembered growing up, on Sunday mornings, before the days of satellite and digital cable; the days when we could access but a handful of channels and Sunday tv was pretty dismal, my partents would tune into American Televangelists like Popoff and Ernest Angley for the entertainment of it. We used to laugh at how these people would miraculously ‘rise from their wheelchairs’ or their ”cancer and diabetes and blindness was mysteriously cured’. We would chuckle at how these buffoons would hit people on the forehead, as it was suppposed to be a ‘touch from God or Jesus’ and they would all drop and faint on cue. Couldn’t Glenn Beck at least have done that? Would have made it more entertaining.

The point I’m trying to make here is that while there will always be an audience for evangelism and the preaching to bring America back to “fundamentalist values”, I think Beck may well have shrunk his own audience.

This brings me to my next point. After watching this non-event; Sa-wah playing the mom of a vet which was nothing more than her parading her kids into the spotlight, as she usually does, and Beck turning into Reverend Beck and sucking badly at it, the seemingly much lower than projected turnouts, I have to wonder if the American tea-bagger hit parade is becoming a passing fad?

There will always be that fringe Christian Evangelical far right element who will always attempt to push their agenda on everyone else and in American politics. There will always be tea-baggers whining that same refrain of “less taxes-smaller government”, grossly misusing words like ‘socialism’. They’re never going to go away completely and yes, they will more than likely make a splashy come back as they did when President Obama was about to introduce health care reform, but for now, I think they’re just a tired, pathetic movement.  As this Daily Kos blogger, who was at the ‘restoring dishonor’ festivities  put it:

In giving credit where it is due, they were mostly well-behaved and teh crazy was at a minimum.  They may like to speak of “revolution” and “replenishing the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants and patriots,” from the safety and comfort of their dial-up internet, but I don’t see that happening.

I would say that would sum it up best. I think the numbers have dwindled. Perhaps because they are tired of being shown to look like idiots when they can’t answer even the simplest of questions when asked by reporters as we’ve seen on YouTube at various Tea-bagger events in the past.  Maybe  they’ve (with the exception of those usual wingnuts where hope springs eternal and will die trying; those must be kept an eye on; very dangerous people)  even discovered that they can never move back to ‘restoration’ or ‘fundamentalism’ or ‘Christian reconstructionism’.

This time last year, Sa-wah and the newly self-proclaimed Reverend Beck along with bloated bleached buffoons like Rush Limbaugh and Michelle Bachman, were all brainwashing an already paranoid, uneducated American population with the impending end of the world if President Obama passed health care reform.  That was the main catalyst (certainly one of the tops) for the surgence of the tea-bagger hit parade.   Now, Obamacare, such as it is, has passed and I think most, no matter how against health care reform they may have been and still may be, they have seen that the sky hasn’t fallen down.

Sure, many Rethuglicans are planning to repeal the reform following the 2010 elections, but first, this motley assortment of misfits the tea-baggers have voted through various primaries have to get elected.   With the exception of the bible belt and states like perhaps Kentucky, I can’t see too many of them getting elected.  If anything, the tea-baggers are victims of their own success…or failures, depending which way you look at it.

I expect that mainstream Americans rude awakening is already happening, as they begin to see exactly what the shrieking of “smaller government and less taxes” brings them–paved, unlit streets in their cities and towns, as well as a rapidly deteriorating public education system.

I suspect that many Americans, after extended periods of unemployment and no prospects of future employment despite all efforts to find work, are now seeing that that whole “Anybody can achieve the ‘American Dream’ of prosperity if they simply worked hard and didn’t rely on their government” is nothing more than bull-shit propoganda.

Again,  while Beck transforms from potent pundit to roarin’ reverend representing the evangelical Christian far right sub-culture, while worrisome and never to be underestimated; I would also take this as a sign that  the weepy Glenn Beck may well be on his way to becoming a has been, as mentioned above, the Vicks Vapo rub ain’t even working anymore. I noticed that in Sa-wah as well during what little of her speech I heard; don’t know about you, but I got the feeling that she was straining to stay relevent. She talks about being the parent of an Iraq war vet. Big deal, so are thousands of people in America today. Many of whom have lost their children in these senseless wars, yet we don’t hear most of them shrieking her stupidities. They’re too busy trying to somehow pick up the pieces of their lives.  She offered nothing new. Not even any fun stuff like cheat notes smeared all over that white suit jacket!

The blogger from Daily Kos concludes this:

Put simply, this is a crowd of mostly older, white-folks-in-lawn-chairs™ who fear change, even if for the benefit of themselves, their families, and the country at large.  They are the heels in the sand of progress and like it or not, we progressives will drag them forward, kicking and screaming, to a better day, as we have always done.

I wish them all the luck in the world with this endeavor.   Lord knows they’ll need it.

Go read Apost8′s diary at Daily Kos, many fun pics and a poll over there.

Sidenote: Good to see that there was another group led by Reverend Al Sharpton, who not only continued to honor Martin Luther King’s memory and reminded the next generation of what he did and how they must continue his fight for civil rights and equality for all, but also   didn’t  allow Beck’s and Sa-wah’s  desecration  and perversion of  Dr. Martin Luther King’s memory. Turns out, both events simultaneously happened with little incident, other than the usual taunting between the two groups. Little skirmishes like:

“One woman from the Beck rally shouted to the Sharpton marchers, “Go to church. Restore America with peace.” Some civil rights marchers chanted “don’t drink the tea” to people leaving Beck’s rally.

Sharpton basically appealed to his group to take the high road; to not take their bate.

“The folks who used to criticize us for marching are trying to have a march themselves,” he said. He urged his group to be peaceful and not confrontational. “If people start heckling, smile at them,” Sharpton said.

After reading the above quote as well as the rest of that passage in the Huffington Post story, I got the feeling that Sharpton as well as the other civil rights’ marchers,  may almost (“almost” being the key word here) feel sorry for Beck and the tea-baggers.  I could be wrong, but that’s my impression, thus further giving me the idea that the tea-bagger hit parade in the US may well have hit its’ peak and is dwindling, that is, until their next crisis, whatever that may be.

Now for something entertaining. No, no painful videos of either Glenn Beck or Sa-wah Palin. How about a little segment of Psycho Talk with Ed Schultz , demonstrating how both Sa-wah and Beck have a combined IQ in the single digits.

My, are these geeks in Ottawa so bored that they have more than enough time to play on Wikipedia? Or are they under orders from King Steve?  We all remember when they played around with the Wikipedia pages regarding Stevie spiteful’s new war toys.  I wouldn’t put it past him. He is that hateful.

This time, some idiot, using computers over at the Correctional Services of Canada decided to give the Wikipedia page regarding the Canada Official Languages Act, inacted by then Prime Minister P.E. Trudeau in 1969, a makeover, calling it “Quebec’s Nazi Act”.  Ah! Classy! Here’s a clip that was added:

“The Quebec Nazi act is a law adopted by the Parliament of Canada in 1969 and substantially amended in 1988. The law gives Frenchspeaking Canadians more opportunity than English speaking Canadians in the government of Canada… It allows Quebecers to have preferential treatment in jobs over people who already live in Ontario.”

Really?

“Behaviour of this nature is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. The Minister’s Office has raised its concerns with the Correctional Service of Canada, who are investigating its origin and will follow up with appropriate action.”

I guess he would have to say that for the sake of posterity, even though, I’m sure his master and his  puppets, including ol’ Vic are more than likely all ga ga giddy over the latest act of their their little computer geek. After all, we all know what their base thinks of the French language. More specifically, what they think of Quebec.

Really rich for some Harpercon flunkies using the term ‘Nazi’ to describe the Official Languages Act, given how well they handle dissent and how the folks of Toronto were treated at the G20.

Here’s what Steve thinks about Canada being a bilingual country:

“It is simply difficult – extremely difficult – for someone to become bilingual in a country that is not. And make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it less bilingual today than it has ever been… So there you have it. As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.”
- Stephen Harper on bilingualism, Calgary Sun, May 6th 2001.

And it might also be interesting to know,if I may go a little off topic here,  in Stevie Spiteful’s own words, not only what he thinks of Quebec, but perhaps he too, doesn’t want it to become a ‘have province’

“The only way we will ever get positive constitutional change is when these people are confronted, defeated, and then work constructively within federation.” BC Report Magazine, September 29, 1997.

“The Canadian Dominion is itself safe unless … Quebec were ever to become a ‘have’ province.” IRPP Choices, September 2000, vol. 6, no. 6.

So, boys n’ girls, again, am I that off the mark?

Ah, poor Kathy. It must be hard being married to Blazin’ cat fur; Mr Shaidle. It must also be hard to be so unemployable and have to beg folks to buy books the 1$ bin at Walmart can’t even flog off.

She now wants to host a game show. Actually, it’s more like a cross between a game show and so-called reality TV. Kinda like a cross between American Idol and Canada’s Worst Handiman or something along those lines. No, it has nothing to do with talent or knowledge of Trivia.

I’ll just let Kathy explain it herself, in her own words:

People would nominate that neighbor or co-worker they hate, and they’d come on the show (because few people can resist going on TV even for the worst reason) and besides a driving test, they’d get ranked on:

• lingering, unpleasant cooking aromas and loud screeching “music”
• disgusting cultural habits like spitting (and worse) on the sidewalk
• refusal to speak English (even when they know how)
• refusing to line up for stuff and resistance to other quaint Canadian customs, like decent customer service and not marrying your cousin
• overwhelming attachment to the “old country”
• overall belligerence and troublemaking

The nation votes a la American Idol and the loser gets stuck in a dinghy and pushed out to sea.

What does the winner get?  Do they win dinner at Toronto’s finest restaurant as well as being trapped inside the CN Tower’s elevator with Mr. & Mrs. Shaidle? Nah, some booby prize.   Or does the winner get to push Kathy & hubby in that dinghy toward the winner’s home country? Or do they simply push them off the dinghy when they see the sharks?  Nah, don’t wanna frighten the sharks.

I don’t live in Toronto and this shouldn’t concern me all that much. However, my entire family does live there,  and I’m concerned about how life for them in that city would be, particularly with a wingnut like Rob Ford.  What I find absolutely mind boggling is how does a supposedly progressive city like Toronto even entertain the idea of voting this cantankerous evil twin of the Pilsbury Doughboy?  If any of  my Toronto readers from the Prog bloggers care to shed some light on this one, please do so…I’m at a loss here. I asked my mom why. She hasn’t a clue neither, nor do my brother or his girlfriend for that matter.  Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Cut the waste at city hall. Seems to appeal to so many.

So, let’s check the appeal of Rob Ford, shall we? Fern Hill has done the heavy lifting and compiled a rather impressive resume of the esteemed Mr. Rob Ford.

Rob Ford on AIDS prevention…

“(AIDS) is very preventable, if you are not doing needles and you are not gay, you wouldn’t get AIDS probably, that’s bottom line.” With respect to the increasing rates of women contracting the disease, Ford said; “How are women getting it? Maybe they are sleeping with bisexual men.”

Rob Ford on bike lanes…

“I can’t support bike lanes. Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks. My heart bleeds when someone gets killed, but it’s their own fault at the end of the day.”

Rob Ford on why oriental people are taking over…

“Those Oriental people work like dogs. They work their hearts out. They are workers non-stop. They sleep beside their machines. That’s why they’re successful in life. I went to Seoul, South Korea, I went to Taipei, Taiwan. I went to Tokyo, Japan. That’s why these people are so hard workers (sic). I’m telling you, the Oriental people, they’re slowly taking over.”

Rob Ford on G20 summit police brutality…

“I think the police were too nice. I would have had a zero tolerance approach.”

Don’t know about you, but I certainly don’t want to see what Rob Ford considers an adequate amount of police brutality.

Some more choice ‘colourful’ comments from an excellent round-up at the Globe:

April 17, 2002: During a council debate on whether there should be homeless shelters across the city, rather than only downtown, Mr. Ford says: “This is an insult to my constituents to even think about having a homeless shelter in their ward. And you want me to have a public meeting to discuss this? Why don’t we have a public lynching?”

(There’s video at the link.)

Yesterday, he called himself a ‘family man’ in a apparent swipe at married-with-child-but-gay George Smitherman.

Yeah, he’s a family man all right (from Globe link).

March 26, 2008: After Mr. Ford’s wife, Renata, calls police to their home, Mr. Ford is arrested and charged with assaulting her and uttering a death threat. A month later, prosecutors drop the charges because inconsistencies in Ms. Ford’s accounts make a conviction unlikely. “It’s the happiest time in my life when my family’s all together. … That’s all I wanted from the very beginning and that’s what I have now,” Mr. Ford tells reporters.

He also has truthiness and anger issues (Globe again):

April 15, 2006: Security guards remove a drunken and belligerent Mr. Ford from a Maple Leafs game after he shouts insults at an out-of-town couple. The attacks began after the man asks Mr. Ford to be quiet. Mr. Ford responds: “Who the fuck do you think you are? Are you a fucking teacher?” Failing to get a response, he turns his attention to the man’s wife: “Do you want your little wife to go over to Iran and get raped and shot?” The couple realizes the angry man’s identity after Mr. Ford leaves behind a business card. When reporters confront Mr. Ford with the couple’s complaint, he denies being at the hockey game. A day later, he comes clean, saying he lied because he felt “embarrassed and humiliated.” He also says: “I had one too many beers and I sincerely apologize.” Mr. Ford later e-mails the couple an apology, writing: “My complete lack of manners were unprofessional, immature, and do not in any way reflect my usual behaviour in public.”

Ford very recently also called for a cap on new immigrants in Toronto.

Ain’t he charming? After reading that and listening to my family after having visited them a few weeks ago, I have to cringe every time I hear or read about how Super Ford will just clean up that wasteful spending. Why do I get the feeling that in the wonderful world according to Rob Ford that the city of Toronto and its’ inhabitants are a waste? In fact, like Steve hates Canada, and handles it by ignoring facts to change it to his whims; Ford seems to hate Toronto to the point he wants to change it with total disregard for facts and realities.

All this Toronto municipal election talk is bringing me back to the Montreal municipal election campaign in November of last year with the rather odd assortment of candidates running. Let’s take a trip down memory lane, shall we? Trust me, after the depressing stories of Rob Ford and the abysmal candidates running against him in Toronto, I think you may find amusement in last year’s Montreal’s municipal campaign.

We have Louise Harel, a separatist who was instrumental in that whole forced  merger of Montreal debacle and will more than likely cut services. Her former right hand man, Benoit Labonte was caught lying about his relationship with a business man who was awarded some municipal contracts. He resigned in disgrace. He later told Radio-Canada that City Hall was run like the Mafia.

She claims she will ‘broom’ city-hall. All well and good, but as I mentioned above, she doesn’t have clean hands.

Next:

Our incumbent, Gerald Tremblay, mired in so much scandal who said he would raise property taxes come January in order to maintain services. The highlight  of  Maclean’s the past week:
“Montreal is a corrupt, crumbling, Mob-ridden disgrace.”

And, I’ve saved the best for last. The third place candidate, Richard Bergeron.

Enter our third candidate and would probably be the most fun: Richard Bergeron, a quirky sort and an Islam convert who had all kinds of conspiracy theories like George W Bush and 9/11:

“…terrorists might not have been behind 9/11. He said “two of the four crashes are particularly suspicious. Photos of the Pentagon and Pennsylvania crash sites never show debris of downed planes, he said. He speculated the Bush administration carried out the attacks as an “act of state banditry of titanic proportions” – that is, it used them as a pretext for invading Iraq and controlling its oil reserves.”


Here is how he justifies his smoking to La Presse: he smokes to stay healthy because, he said, it reduces his lung capacity and keeps him from injuring himself when he runs marathons too fast.

Read full details here.

You know something?  The unhappy (or happy; depending how you look at it) dysfunctional family that is Montreal City Hall suddenly look very sane to me. I am so appreciative of our scandal-ridden mayor with our construction contractors and their alleged ties to organized crime (unreported of course; watch Super Vic’s mustache turn up to a handle bar now) nowadays with his merry band of councillors and borough mayors, as well as the colourful opposition.

Mom, Dad, if Ford the bad fat assed wingnut becomes the next mayor of Toronto, come back home to Montreal where my extended dysfunctional family from city hall and I will give you a warm welcome.

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:

I note that the website operated by the Young Adult Faith Community of St. Joseph’s Parish is inviting parishioners to march with the Gay Catholics, Christians and Allies during the Capital Pride Parade this year.

I was baptized and raised in the Catholic Church. I left the Church many years ago. I’ve known many wonderful priests and Catholics (including members of my family): but I have also met too many who viewed their faith as a license to revile those whose sexual orientation they did not share. I am a married heterosexual (and a proud recent grandfather!): but I have never been able to persuade myself that a loving God and Redeemer takes the kind of obsessive interest in others’ sexuality displayed by some of His followers.

Had there been more Catholics who show the faith in God’s inclusive love demonstrated by the  Young Adult Faith Community of St. Joseph’s Parish, I and others might still be with the Church today.

Thank you for your attention.

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.

900ft Jesus does the heavy lifting, having found everyone who has been fired, demoted, and sent away. Thanks 900Ft Jesus for furnishing this list.

Fired or dismissed:

Luc Pomerleau, biologist, Food Inspection Agency for whistleblowing.
Douglas Tipple, consultant, PWGSC, set up then fired for his advice on real estate.David Rotor, consultant, PWGSC, set up then fired for his advice on real estate.
Arthur Carty, National Science Advisor, phased out.
Alan Leadbeater, Canadian Information Commission, dismissed.
Paul Kennedy, chair, Complaints Commission for the RCMP, term not renewed, mid-reportPeter Tinsley, chair, Military Police Complaints Commission, term not renewed, mid-report
Adrian Measner, Canadian Wheat Board, fired for disagreeing with Harper plansJohanne Gelinas, Environment Commissioner, dismissed for a scathing report
Linda Keen, CNsc, fired for doing her job
RCMP Chief Supt. Marty Cheliak, dismissed, apparently for speaking in favour of the long gun registry
Pat Stogran, ombudsman for veterans, dismissed for doing his job

Others who were probably forced out or encouraged to leave:

Robert Marleau, Information Commissioner, stonewalled, resigned
Jean-Guy Fleury, chair, Immigration & Refugee Board, resigned out of frustrationJean-Pierre Kingsley, Elections Canada, stonewalled, resigned while investigating the CONs

Smeared, muzzled, or set up:

Richard Colvin, diplomat, attacked viciously for telling the truth as part of his job
Rémi Beauregard, Rights & Democracy, died, heart attack after cruel attacks from Harper appointeesLouise Arbour, UN High Com. for Human Rights, was refused support on 2^ndterm, publicly rebuffed
Kevin Page, publicly rebuffed repeatedly, budget cut back
Munir Sheikh, resigned because he refused to lie for the Harper governmentThis list does not include those anonymous public servants who may have been fired or forced out for refusing to violate their non-partisan mandates but never made the news.Over two years ago – May 2008, we were warned of this purge:Information Commissioner Robert Marleau told The Hill Times recently that the Harper government has been quietly drafting about 25 government policies that impact on the rights of officers of Parliament, and that it has been happening without their knowledge or input.

All those people who dared to actually do their jobs properly, giving it their full efforts. So, anyone applying to work for the Harpercon government, here are the qualifications searched for: nothing beyond a grade 6 education will be considered. Must always agree with your superiors. Any disagreement with the King’s agenda would be considered insubordinate.  Of course, it is preferable that you are white, unilingual English and an Evangelical Christian. In other words, you only serve as window dressing.  Hey! That sounds like a perfect job for Sarah Landriault! There. That was easy.

Yes, the above may sound flippant, but, remember much humor is derived from the truth and what happened to the above good people who put the good of the people they serve before their megalomaniac employers certainly makes the above  criteria for an ideal servant to King Stevie Spiteful quite accurate. No, no dissenters.

I guess what happened to those protesters and innocent bystanders at the G20 shouldn’t be a surprise under the Harpercon regime given the wretched way he treats his own people. Granted they were treated far worse, but one can see the correlation between the brutality of the treatment of Canadian citizens exercising their rights to protest against government policies and new world orders being discussed at the G20 and  those on Stevie Spiteful’s payroll who are hamstringed from doing their jobs properly as it goes against Steve’s goals and directions.

And yes, contrary to many Harpercon cheerleaders, many of those public servants, watch dogs and bureaucrats were Harpercon appointees. Perhaps next time he’ll make them swear on the Evangelical bible.

Yes, Stevie spiteful is showing more and more to be fit for the rubber room. He displays his disdain for Canada and its’ inhabitants increasingly with each passing day.  It is obvious that his plan was that final hard shove to his far right should have taken place about now and it hadn’t; it was met with hostility instead as many on the right also wish to not only keep the mandatory census, but also have a distaste for the way our veterans are being treated and don’t like the way Col.  Pat Stogran is being pushed out the door simply because of his tireless efforts,  fighting on behalf of veterans and the widows of dead soldiers who are being treated badly by the bureaucrats working under the mandate of the Harpercons.   Pandorra is out of her box. One question for Stevie: if he hates Canada and Canadians and is frustrated with all that he’s tried, why the hell doesn’t he just resign? Just go away?

Not Hot: Jane Taber

Let me get this straight; in the world according to Jane Taber, Tony Clement who looks & talks like the Adams Family butler is hot? I had to read this twice. Even Jane can’t be this much of a cheerleader for the Harpercons, especially not for this flunkie.

Feeling all alone in his defence of the government’s decision to scrap the long-form census, the Industry Minister moved this week to mitigate some of the outrage by including language-related questions in the compulsory short-form census. He also announced the government would drop jail time as a punishment for not complying with the mandatory aspect of the census.

In an interview with The Globe and Mail, Mr. Clement talked about the fall-out from the controversy: “I would have preferred to have spent my summer a bit more quietly. In politics as you know, you take the adversity as well the good stuff. Right?”

Mr. Clement also talked about the media coverage: “I am not responsible for creating headlines. I am not responsible for how things are reported. But I did say and I still say Statscan gave us some options to mitigate the risks and we chose one of those options. That’s factually true.”

Are you also feeling all alone, Jane? Is Lurch’s missing link that great company?

Oh and Jane, the Harpercons were offered compromises to take the threat of jail out of the equation by the opposition. Guessed you all musta missed that one. Not to mention, the threat of jail is still lurking for those who don’t fill the short form or the agricultural census form. After all, how else are they going to fill those big-assed super private prisons?  Unreported criminals  simply won’t do.

Oh, boys n’ girls, it gets funnier:  Jane thinks the Parliamentary Press Gallery is Not hot because wingnut  radio talk host Dave Rutherford attacked them for being to “liberally biased”.

“We’ve seen the census coverage. We’ve seen some of the commentators – the columnists in Ottawa, Toronto – just hyperventilating about this ridiculous census story and they’re all saying almost exactly the same thing. Very interesting.”

And this is why the Parliamentary press gallery ain’t so hot? Because Dave Rutherford’s feeble lack of originality like most Harpercon media hacks?  Or was it simply because Taber was not invited to the parliamentary press gallery’s reindeer games?

Another thing our pal Jane Taber doesn’t think is quite so hot is Stevie spiteful’s polling numbers going on a downward spiral. And the Blogging SupposiTories think she’s a liberal shill?? Nuff said.

Oh and apparently, what is hot in her books is that Ol’ Jimbo Flaherty and Porky Puffy Duffy are out spending on what is, no doubt, useless to most Canadians and spreading the gospel according to King Stevie along with other Harpercons scurrying about with their pork barreling.

Yes, an epidemic is coming back with a fury, I tell you! Liberal Derangement syndrome is back!

Speaking of  nasty Harpercon super bugs, what I think is hot is the following  comment from Little Rock in response to another commenter, Derringer following Taber’s insipid column. I thought it was kinda cute:

From Finance Minister Jim Flaherty to Senator Mike Duffy, the Conservatives are everywhere, feverishly making spending and good-news announcements.

…that’s the problem with our current C.R.A.P party…they feverishly spend Canadian taxpayers money!…BUT…Derringer has prescribed a cure for our incompetent spendthrifts…

…Derringer

8/9/2010 5:52:06 PM
Warning of New Disease to hit CANADA in Fall of 2010

Information about Gonorrhea Lectim (Harperalis strain)

The Ontario Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about a new virulent strain of this old disease.

The disease is called Gonorrhea Lectim. It’s pronounced “Gonna re-elect ‘em,” and it is a terrible affliction.

The disease is contracted through dangerous and high risk behavior involving putting your cranium up your rectum.

Many victims contracted it in 2006…but it is only now that most people, after having been infected for the past few years, are starting to realize how destructive this sickness is.
It’s sad because Gonorrhea Lectim is easily cured with a new drug just coming on the market called Votemout.

You take the first dose in 2010 (HST variant) and the second dose in 2012 and simply don’t engage in such behavior again; otherwise, it could become permanent and eventually wipe out all life as we know it.

Most ridings are already on top of this, like many in the north, and apparently now in the east, with many more seeing the writing on the wall.

…election please!

Oh yeah, Jojo, compassionate, like, say,  Stevie Spiteful and the Harpercons? Stevie I want only free market wealth care for billionaires?  ”Canada is a Northern European state of the worst kind?”  Stevie who would cut old age pensions and EI in a nano second?  Stevie who wants thinks F-35s are more important than universal health care? Stevie who is responsible for the largest mass arrest in Canadian history?  Stevie who silences dissent in the most hideous of ways until he finds even more hideous ways to do so? Stevie, who kicks Helena Guergis out of caucus on the word of a questionable private investigator, who is now cleared of wrong doing by the RCMP, but will still not let her back into caucus or even run as a Harpercon in her own riding?  Steve who throws people like Linda Keen and Richard Colvin under the bus for simply letting him know some ugly truths? I’m falling off my chair with hysterical giggles now.

Wait! It gets funnier. See how Jojo chastises Iggy for bullshitting about his compassion:

Ah yes. Compassion. Being touted by the man who warned his younger brother to keep his distance during his ‘public education’ years:

“We went for a walk, and he said, ‘I want to make one thing absolutely clear to you. When we’re at Aunt Helen’s house or Aunt Charity’s house [Charity Grant, their mother's sister], you can say whatever you want to me. But if you ever see me on the school grounds, you’re not to talk to me. You’re not to recognize that I’m your brother. You don’t exist as far as I’m concerned. Do I make myself clear?’”

Oh Jojo you never did anything similar with your younger siblings when you were a kid? I think most of us who have younger siblings can relate to the above statement; I think most of us treated our little brothers/sisters as public embarrassments #1 and didn’t want anyone to know we were related to them.  Perhaps Jojo was an only child. Probably after her mom saw her; they broke the mold.

But then, as I’ve said, many of these blogging SupposiTories, like so many of these Harpercon cheerleaders and Steve himself, not only don’t have compassion, they’re evil. Anybody willing to watch human suffering and then blog or talk about it with such relish has to be evil; no redeeming bone in their body.

I bet Jojo ate paste when she was in kindergarten.

I bet Jojo didn’t even bother to show up when the Liberal bus showed up in her area when they passed like so many other people as well as I did. No, that would actually require some capacity to think for herself.  Perhaps even risking being kicked out of playing the Blogging SupposiTory reindeer games.  She, like most Harpercon cheerleaders, is incapapble of thinking for herself, so she lets folks like David Frum and Sun Media do her thinking for her. Very commendable!

So far, most who have actually been to an event have nothing but positive reviews. Maybe Iggy isn’t the most empathetic man t. Guess what? None of these politicians really are. But what he’s saying a Liberal party would do or not do if elected is certainly a far sight more compassionate than a Harpercon junta majority; hell,  Dracula, Yosemite Sam, The Joker from Batman, Attilla the Hun, etc (insert any villain here) would be more compassionate than Stevie spiteful.  I expect he could become comparable to Augusto Pinochet, particularly after what happened at the G20.