Apparently, the latest brainstorm emanating from Canada's Wingnut-o-sphere is that Saskatchewan's marriage commissioners who are terribly, terribly upset about being told to do their (public, taxpayer-funded) jobs -- that is, to officially marry whoever comes before them that is legally entitled to be married under federal law, including gays -- should be allowed to hang on to their well-established bigotry and be given a pass from said federal law because (if I read this correctly) they were bigots long before the law was changed.Yes, if I am not mistaken, the suggestion to "grandfather" …
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Libertarian whackjob Rand Paul enjoys his victory while it lasts, because it doesn't last long. …
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Well, this is depressing:Texas OKs school textbook changesCritics claim conservatives trying to revise historyAUSTIN, Texas - The Texas State Board of Education adopted a social studies and history curriculum Friday that amends or waters down the teaching of the civil rights movement, religious freedoms, America's relationship with the U.N. and hundreds of other items...In one of the most significant changes leading up to the vote, the board attempted to water down the rationale for the separation of church and state in a high school government class, pointing out that the words were not in …
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Blogging Tory Victor Wong does bad things to people with a mouthful of morning coffee:So the Prime Minister likes to hang out with Bryan Adams, Taylor Swift, Yo-Yo Ma, Nickelback, and so on. He plays piano and privately jams with his son, a decent exercise in family bonding. What’s more, he doesn’t seem to make a big deal out of it ...Quite so, Victor, quite so.Punchline entirely superfluous. …
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Blogging Tory Adrael MacRaphelander has one of his occasional moments of partial lucidity, then brings the unintentional hilarity:By the way, [National Post] Full Comment has a whole new look with nice big glossy pictures. I think they’re trying to compete with the Globe and Mail’s blog section.Damn. And I just used this cartoon:P.S. The comments section there is a real hoot as countless people twist themselves into ugly shapes to deliberately miss Adrian's point. …
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The secret:Contemptuously dismissing people as wanky douchebags technically counts as "content," right? …
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Bus, Rod:Harper to 'recommend' defeat of Tory MP’s abortion billOTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper will vote against a private member's bill promoted by one of his own MPs that would add new Criminal Code penalties for those who coerce women to have an abortion.A senior government official also says that while the prime minister will not "whip" or demand Conservative MPs vote as he votes, it will be "very strongly recommended" that Conservatives vote to defeat the bill.See, that's what happens when you count on the batshit fucking crazy demographic to keep you in office -- eventually, …
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Blogging Tory Alberta Ardvark is outraged -- outraged, I say -- about government censorship on the other side of the planet:First they came for Facebook and now the Pakistani Government has banned You Tube and 450 other sites including Wikipedia for being "sacrilegious" to the nation's Muslim majority.When you give the government the power to censor, they will use it.You may agree with the government on a particular ban, but one day you won't, and by then it will be too late. Think Human Rights Commissions for something a little closer to home.Say, anybody remember this amusing …
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Bitchslap!Harper — who once said he would never appoint senators but instead wanted them elected — has now appointed 33 Conservatives to the 105-seat upper House in the past 18 months.Pretty much sums up the sleaziness of the man, doesn't it?AFTERSNARK: Say what?Harper has typically waited for a number of Senate vacancies to open up before making a group appointment, but officials in the government say there is too much important legislation to be passed before the summer recess and every Tory vote is needed.In unrelated news, blowing six weeks on prorogation recently was a perfectly good …
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Oh, dear ... not so well. In unrelated news, Canada's conservatives who profess to be terribly, terribly concerned about this environmental disaster would like to remind you to Shut The Fuck Up about your stupid Earth Hour.I would have used quotes but it's just a paraphrase. …
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Ezra "Bubbles" Levant, the man who pimped the appalling literary dishonesty that is Ann Coulter, is outraged by alleged errors in someone else's book.If you have the time and are so inclined, why not pop by the Post and leave a comment to that effect? Be civil. Be polite. Try to avoid use of the phrase "vacuous, yammering douchebag." …
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And here's where I get to be awesomely lazy and let you do all the work by recommending bloggy-type things out there that would appeal to the regular readership here at CC HQ. (And by appealing, I mean having the nads to refer to screechy, vacuous douchebags as, you know, "screechy, vacuous douchebags". Or, for the sake of brevity, "Ezras.")Leave recommendations in the comments section. Use hyperlinks. If you don't know how to use hyperlinks, figure it out. Or join the Blogging Tories. Whatever.I'll start things off here. And ... go. …
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Via Audrey II, we have a reasonably cogent argument against "equal time":I would put it another way:"So, when you refer to 'equal time' and 'academic fairness,' you'd like us to balance the presentation of experimentally-supported and objective science with unadulterated, ignorant, scientifically illiterate, Christian wingnut bullshit?"Yeah, that's tighter. …
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Whew:Shell promises Arctic drilling will be safeAnd I was so worried there for a minute. Silly me. …
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Here's the intellectually-crippled "Hunter," yammering on patriotically:Being a non-hyphenated Canadian, I get ticked off at immigrants who expect us to bend our rules to accommodate their culture. This can be worked out if everyone comes to the table with a love of Canada.An excellent point, Hunter. But what do we do with those people who despise Canada? You know ... like this hateful cretin:... I was asked to speak about Canadian politics. It may not be true, but it's legendary that if you're like all Americans, you know almost nothing except for your own country. Which makes you probably …
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You know I only do this because it annoys the crap out of some folks, right? Of course you do. …
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Slap fight! Sorry, but the train wreck aspect of this is weirdly compelling.And, yes, that makes me a bad person. …
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The spectacular and public self-immolation of Blogging Tory Sara Landriault continues at breakneck speed:A reporter scamming her way to selling newspapers, she if [sic] full of it!Too Munsch information, Robert!The result of Munsch's admission of his problems has been to stigmatize them even more, as in Landriault's response, which can be summed up as: "He's mentally ill and he took cocaine and drank! Evil man! Get him and his books away from my children!By Naomi Lakritz, Calgary HeraldThis statement was never made by me nor was it even hinted at. Naomi is such a low life writer she decided to …
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... what a shame it's about to turn to shit.Blogging Tory co-founder Stephen Taylor: Giving Canada's vengeful, creepy stalkers their own social club.AFTERSNARK: It's probably worth pointing out that Blogging Tory BC Blue's place is becoming Creepy Stalker Central in the Canadian Wingnut-o-sphere. I'm sure that wasn't his plan; it just worked out that way. …
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Apparently, some truly stupid people have been blogging lately about same-sex marriage in Saskatchewan, whining about how marriage commissioners who refuse to perform same-sex marriages were totally blindsided by the relatively recent change in Canada's marriage laws that legalized such marriages and therefore they shouldn't have to perform them. For those truly stupid people, I humbly submit reality (all subsequent emphasis tail-waggingly added):The Marriage Act, 1995 sets out the procedures that must be followed for a legally binding marriage in Saskatchewan. The Marriage Unit provides …
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Question: "... are we really being led by a man too chicken to answer the genuine, spontaneous queries of a few wonky kids?"Answer: Yes.This has been another installment of "Simple answers to simple questions."P.S. And the bitch-slapping continues for Mr. Bubble ...BY THE WAY, you can always spot the Conservatives in the comments section:They're the ones who think education is a laugh riot.AND HERE'S WHERE WE JUXTAPOSE: It just occurred to me that the earlier post had Blogging Tory Sara Landriault bawling about how being a stay-at-home mom left her with no marketable skills and exactly …
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It's not like I'm trying to beat up on poor Blogging Tory Sara Landriault, who self-destructed so spectacularly in the course of a single blog post. But, oh my, how did all that eye-rolling wingnuttery stay so carefully hidden all this time? Here's Sara, bitching and whining about ... well, you'll just have to read it yourself:How hard it is for a woman to return to the workforce after being home for 9 yearsWomen are stepping back from the career track to do the mom-and-family thing - not because they must, but because they canMargaret Wente speaks the truth about women and work. …
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The next time Ezra Levant opens his festering piehole to pick nits with someone else's prose, why the fuck don't you ask him why he then promotes the hideous literary dishonesty that is Ann Coulter?Maybe it's just me, but that seems like a fair question.I LOVE ME SOME GOOGLE:If there's anything you want to know about Ezra, just ask. That's what I'm here for. …
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Shorter Blogging Tory Gay and Right Fred: "When I say I support freedom of expression, I don't mean for other people!!" …
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Blogging Tory and "Choice for Childcare" blogger Sara Landriault has a message for you:Personal note:Fuck off!Sara will now return to lecturing people about civility and decorum, and blogging about proper child care and how best to raise those fucking kids of yours.P.S. We're not done with Sara yet. Oh, no. …
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It's a day that ends in "y" so, somewhere, a Blogging Tory has posted something abysmally idiotic. Oh, look:Why Kagan Should Be WithdrawnPresident Obama's Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan made war against the US military's recruitment efforts at Harvard because of Clinton's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, ...And then, there's reality: The truth is that Kagan went above and beyond the law’s requirements as they were interpreted by the federal courts. In 2004, a U.S. Court of Appeals declared the Solomon Amendment, which requires universities to either grant access to military recruiters or …
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Shorter Blogging Tory Sara Landriault: "Sick people suck."One hopes none of Sara's kids end up mentally ill, cuz that's when they'd learn that Mommy is quite the heartless bitch. …
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(CC NEWS) -- In a surprising legal decision handed down this morning, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal ruled that current marriage commissioners in that province have the right to refuse to officiate at same-sex marriages, but only if those commissioners agree to have gay sex first."We think it's a particularly elegant solution," said one member of the Court, who preferred to remain unnamed. "It's based on this recent law out of Oklahoma that said that women who wanted to have abortions first had to view a sonogram of the fetus, and have all the details explained to them before making that …
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... I have no idea whose side to take here. …
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During which Stephen the Corpulent lubes up, Mike Duffy bends over and the Canadian public gets fucked.HOW ... ODD: If one follows the link from Steve V's to here, that CTV article appears to have been massively rewritten already. The title is no longer "PMO says it didn't rewrite youth forum questions," it's "Harper wants economy, not 'sideshows,' focus of G20."The fact that something's changed can be seen here, where the title is, once again, given as "PMO says it didn't rewrite youth forum questions - CTV News," but that link clearly takes you to the newer version.One apparently needs to …
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Shorter Raphian MacDouchebag: "I am incapable of intellectually processing two independent issues at the same time. Here, let me demonstrate." …
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Rapidly making a name for himself as one of the Dumbass-o-sphere's most deranged lunatics, Blogging Tory "BC Blue" can't even defend his own rantings:Liberal president Alfred Apps is getting a taste of his own party’s medicine when he and his law firm were connected to one of the central figures in the Jaffer/Guergis saga by private dick Derrick Snowdy during his testimony in front of the government operations committee."Connected?" "Connected," you say? Oh, dear, that must be horrifically embarrassing -- to be caught intimately entwined with a shyster like Gillani. So, Blue, what exactly …
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Via ETP, we are once again reminded of the overall ugliness of one Maria S Nunes:... how come Conservative women are so beautiful and articulate whereas the other side have people like Rachel MadCow and Ariana Whatever.Commenter CK stops by Audrey's to point out the hideously obvious:Just dropped a line off over there, although, since she moderates her comments, not sure if it'll get published; basically suggested she take a look at Wendy Sullivan, Kathy Shaidle and Denyse OLeary and Sandy Crux.In unrelated news, I give you the newest Miss USA: Lebanese immigrant Rima Fakih:And then there's …
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Stephen Harper's favourite band, Nickelback, extolling those right-wing virtues we all know and love:Rock and roll, alcohol and some sweet, sweet girl-on-girl action. Works for me. …
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How about, "As the representative of a number of amoral monsters that buttfuck children, I would now like to lecture the rest of you about the propriety of social mores."Did I get that about right? …
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Well, I do hate to fly in the face of public opinion.I tried to be humble once. It didn't take. …
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