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No small amount of amusement is being enjoyed by many on the left over the juxtapalooza going on over in the far reaches of the Canadian (and American) wingnutosphere. One of the welfare-hating superstar clan of the axis of BlazingCatShaidle-Mark Steyn-Small Dead Animals evil has been hit with a lawsuit, it would appear as a result of linking to a ‘far right’ site, that being steynonline.com.
Lawsuits are not news with these people, so divert your attention instead to the heart-stopping quickness with with the recipient of the suit and his other half adopted a welfare ain’t so bad when it’s for me stance. And I mean lightening fast.
Blazingcatfur is begging for money on his blog now that it is convenient for him. His wife does it on a regular basis. In fact, she’s quite the welfare queen.
So I turn you over to the past, a not very distant past, when CC had a blog and captured the essence of how these people really do support a welfare state, even when they don’t. The confusion over the ethics of accepting handouts is all there in its wingnuttiest glory. Well Kathy, found a real job yet?
Good catch, Jymn! I’m sure cc has so many of those in his archives, you must have had so many to choose from. I also recall a time Chatty Kathy admitted on her blog that she was unemployable; that she couldn’t get a real job. Will have to find the link, tho.
Found another cc gem related to your comment. It’s now up at LFR.
There’s a vast difference between charity freely given and government handouts. To conflate the two is obvious nonsense.
But I wouldn’t enjoy this too much. Free speech is the water in which you swim, and such an obviously absurd lawsuit dries up the pool for everyone.
ck Reply:
October 29th, 2010 at 7:34 PM
rabbit, you don’t know how to read, do ya? Damn, how many times have I got to ask Jymn when he posts for my trolls, to not string more than 2 syllables at a time? If you read further, he shows that La Shaidle herself, has been living off government grant for almost 20 years now!
I can read perfectly well. The post clearly said BFC asking for money is akin to welfare. I have nothing against welfare (sensibly managed) but the two things are quite different.
Free speech is the water in which I wish I could swim but I object to the feces and chemicals which greedy bastards and corporations pour into most lakes and streams making them unsafe for swimming. Likewise, promoting hate speech against minorities makes the media new and old a minefield no free person should have to traverse.
Nobody should be allowed to preach hate or demean minority groups, just as they shouldn’t be allowed to pollute our waters. Shit is shit. We should all be responsible for cleaning up the pollution and making information as free from victimizing commentary as we would in trying keep turds from floating in our streams.
As for begging, it is the lowest of the low. We must all be self sufficient. If you have a brain and are reasonably sane – as I believe the Shaidles are – you should be able to take care of yourself. Most people on some sort of welfare are incapable of taking care of themselves. Any responsible government and population should take care of them. It makes everyone’s life better.
But you can never, ever victimize those people by attempting to make yourself the victim. The only victims in this world are those who cannot take care of themselves. The Shaidles do this better than especially you and myself. You reward their beggar ways. Kathy Shaidle has been sucking on that same government teat for almost a decade! That is obscene. It is far more offensive than a one-armed guy down on his luck asking me for a quarter.
As I said, the Shaidles should be able to take care of themselves. But they freely indulge in questionable insults and hurtful commentary on minorities. They should be held to the standards every healthy, capable person should be held to. Welfare only for the needy. The Shaidles are not needy and never will be. They have the whole of the wingnut welfare state behind them.
I don’t swim in polluted waters and I choose not to be inundated by hate speech over the Internets or in the media. But with establishment media and new media we don’t always have a choice. To swim or not to swim? I open a link or a Google term and I may be hit with hate speech against minorities.
In Canada, we have protections to protect all people, not just the privileged. It is not freedom to rip apart minorities by treating them as swear words and demeaning terms like it is in the States.
ck Reply:
October 29th, 2010 at 9:58 PM
Well, not to mention the hypocrisy of these insane batshits! More than half of ‘em bash gov’t “entitlements” but we find out later that they have benefitted from them themselves. It’s the hypocrisy I gots a problem with as I’m sure you and Rabbit Hunter and the rest of the even moderately sane do.
The typical CONservative narrative goes something like this:
“We’re here to represent hard-working taxpayers, not the parasites who live off them.”
This is paraphrased, but anyone with half a brain cannot deny that this is the essence of the argument. So how can Kathy Fuckface and her wackjob hubby possibly justify holding out their hand to those same taxpayers and begging for money? After all, nice people don’t beg.
To frame this as a “everyone who values free speech should pitch in a few bucks” issue is ludicrous. If I libel someone or spew hatred, I open myself up to the possibility of a lawsuit or criminal charges. As a Canadian, I’m OK with that.
If they *really* need money, they should hit up their pal Ezra Levant. His nest is always nicely feathered (oiled?)…
ck Reply:
October 29th, 2010 at 9:51 PM
I dunno Rabbit Hunter, I mean, Ezzy’s well must run dry at some point, I mean, the LeRant seems to always get himself sued! You’d think he’d get it by now. Are they just letting anyone in Law school nowadays? And now he’s being sued by George Soros who has even deeper pockets.
Rabbit, move to the States. They have free speech. Good luck! (You’re white, I presume.)
Jymm:
“Nobody should be allowed to preach hate or demean minority groups”
And if I hate the Catholic religion? Or companies that mine asbestos? Or poverty? Disco? Communism? Fruit with stickers?
We all hate something. The idea that we “can’t preach hate” is absurd, and demonstrates how unsupportable your arguments are.
Free speech is the most important of all freedoms. It’s the key that unlocks all doors. It’s the right which has done more than anything to relieve oppression and improve our lot.
But apparently we’ve now figured what’s right and what’s wrong for all time, and can safely dispense with freedom of speech, limiting ourselves only to saying those things that are correct.
Jymm, move to North Korea. Then you won’t have to put up with all this nonsense of people just saying what they will.
ck Reply:
October 29th, 2010 at 10:30 PM
And if I hate the Catholic religion? Or companies that mine asbestos? Or poverty? Disco? Communism? Fruit with stickers?
I can’t believe I must explain the difference between hatred of disco or asbestos mines and white supremacist hate.
You’re comparing that to violence inciting bigotry? Or how about spewing lies about people without backing them up, but nonetheless potentially damaging their reputations? Oh man! You’re an example of why today’s neo-cons are no longer an ideology; you’re a diagnosis!
Oh yeah! Freedom to promote bashing brown people; life must suck for you folks if you must promote.
ck Reply:
October 29th, 2010 at 10:34 PM
Oh, and you and your ilk are fine ones to preach “free speech”; you’ve proven time and again that it’s just for neo-cons like you and your ilk and not for the rest of us, so spare me the indignation.
ck:
Jymm never said “white supremacist hate”. He said only that one shouldn’t be allowed to preach hate. So that’s what I addressed.
As to preaching “white supremacist hate”, well I don’t see a heck a lot of that around. A few neo-Nazi’s doing Seig Heils in their mother’s basement hardly warrants broad laws against hate speech. Canada is robust enough to withstand it.
In this intensely polarized political atmosphere we all tend to see our opponents as hateful. We can either accept that the other side has a right to speak, even when we despise what they say, or we can wage a censorship war. Trouble is, ck, there won’t be a lot of winners in that war.
ck Reply:
October 29th, 2010 at 10:53 PM
Like I said, spare me the indignation; on your side, clearly free speech is only for you, conservatives and not for the rest of us. Hell, even the media has to tout the Harper party line. Sun and G&M proved that with their firings of non-con writers.
the Shaidles spew Islamophobia; they proudly hate Mooslims and yes, they practically condone violence to them; read their blogs sometime. They’re not alone; part of a growing movement. This is ok to you?
Perhaps it was just dandy when Jim Keegstra was teaching impressionable children that the holocaust never happened, hell, let’s go further in your world and say that folks walking around in white robes and hoods is freedom of expression. How’s about cross burning. Where does it stop?
And on that note, I think I know your answer; Never.
You’ve overstayed your welcome. Dumbing myself down to your level is really tiring me out and giving me a head-ache. Say g’nite, Gracie!
Now, besides, you’re late! Go find Alice in Wonderland now.
Ck – “La Shaidle herself, has been living off government grant for almost 20 years now!”
Whoa, you might want to walk that one back a little. KS was once awarded some grants that were enough for her to live on so she could write full time *for awhile* (however long she could make the grant money last). My understanding is that such grants are lump sums, not funding in perpetuity.
ck Reply:
October 30th, 2010 at 11:06 AM
Regardless, the point is these ppl slam government programs, would begrudge others of them, yet are the first to grab these very same entitlements they so preach to slam and be rid of. If you’re going to slam the welfare state, I always say, “put your money where your mouth is…” I am always amazed at how they never do, including many of those tea-party candidates Olbermann featured on his special. It’s the hypocrisy I have a problem with, here.
“Regardless, the point is…”
Spoken like a true leftist.
I know: I used to be one myself.
That’s why, 20 years ago, I had no problem getting a few thousand dollars in lump sum govt arts grants.
It’s not like I, oh, I dunno, drove a car off a bridge and leaving a woman to die, to cite just one progressive hero. Or preach about carbon footprints while living in a giant house with my 5 kids, like Suzuki, if you prefer.
Anyway, I do have a real job, and make more money than you at it. I also don’t have an office, a commute or a boss, so I’m happier than you are too.
My resume is available online in multiple places. Simply spend a few seconds on Google.
(Know who doesn’t have a job anymore, after his employers found out how he wrote about women on his blog?
(Canadian Cynic!)
And yes, “hypocrisy.” The only sin progressives recognize, since they so enjoy practicing all the others. Like lying.
So let’s review: your reading comprehension skills are poor, you can’t “work” Google and you libeled me.
Just keep talking…
Also, I have the balls to post everything I say under my own, full, name. Unlike you.
It’s bad enough you’re a Quebecker who works for the government.
You are also a pussy.
ck Reply:
November 4th, 2010 at 2:37 PM
Meow!
You have balls?? Talk about not usin’ your real name! Mr. Arnie Shaidle posting under wifey’s name? Cute!
Hey, somebody’s gotta do the secretarial work for social workers helping the children at risk in this town. I realize neo-cons like you prefer to simply run them over in your car…but, we believe in second chances. And at least I have a REAL job & I pay taxes. What say ya??