Just Couldn't Leave It Alone, could you.So I followed JJ's link to the homophobic fruit bat and found: I find myself unable to even leave the house anymore without worrying about what in tarnation we are going to encounter. Tarnation.Someone actually talks that way.Just for the sake of context:Bart: [incredulous] Barbershop? That ain't been popular since aught six, dagnab it.Homer: [reproachfully] Bart, what did I tell you?Bart: [abashed] No talking like a grizzled 1890s prospector...consarn it.(Anyone finds this on YouTube, email me.)Related posts:The Sunday Survey of StupidAll this …
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So much to choose from, and that's without any reference to the stream of stupid coming from Michele Bachman's piehole.We'll start with another brief edition of What Pogge Said.From the beginning these negotiations have been kept secret. Nothing was admitted publicly until they were well along in the process and had "supportive stakeholders" lined up to go to bat for them in the media.I mean, given the Harpokons' record of openness and transparency, I just have such a warm squishy feeling knowing I can trust them on the deep integration file. Right?Then there's this lovely little nugget from …
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In the spirit of charity, I was going to suggest we take up a collection to buy this poor misunderstood child a hearing aid. We're not here to judge, after all. We're here to help.Then this:Moron Student Who Accused Jewish Prof of Anti-Semitism: I Am The Victim Here: 'via Blog this'Forget the hearing aid. Kid needs a gag. Or perhaps a brain. Maybe this guy can help.Also from Gawker:Sarah, if you try really really hard for the rest of the year, you may come out of college smarter than you went in. It's not a good bet at this point, though.Related posts:Thwap on "Islamicism" America …
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I'm all for respectful dialogue and agreeing to disagree, but there's a point at which you just have to admit it: we are right and they are wrong and clinging to their illusions just makes them look even dumber.For Christ's sakes. All those disgruntled Ford voters out there who are suddenly discovering that Mayor Stupid has no commitment to transparency and just loves him some tacky backroom waterfront deals with big developers – what the hell did you expect?Where have you been? Have you not been paying any attention to this clown and his brother?Were you so wrapped up in the anti-Miller, …
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thwap's schoolyard: "Islamicism":Every now and then I'll make an observation about Harper and his continuing stupidification of Canada, but really, when the thwapster brings his A game, no one does this better.Heh. "Looking at them like they puked." Personally, whenever Harper opens his mouth, I look around to see whether someone's just shit his pants, but hey, that's just me.'via Blog this'Related posts:All this Catholic-school business reminds me of a Mel Brooks momentThe Catholic school system needs to get its hands out of our pocketsAnti-Muslim Blogger: Slain Norwegian Teens Were …
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Just checking in.Any progress identifying / charging these cocksu – er, perps?No, eh? Oh, well. Pretty hard when witnesses don't come forward, isn't it.How about:Arresting the two assholes who kicked Adam Nobody in the face after he was handcuffed? Charging the cowardly sacks of shit who beat the crap out of Lacy MacAuley? Or the scumbags who tore John Pruyn's prosthetic leg off? Or the sadistic pigs who got their jollies kicking Sean Salvati around in the interrogation room and then parading him around naked, in front of a female cop? No? Well, do keep us posted. …
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Why not just have the Americans write our legislation for us? - Peace, order and good government, eh?: What pogge said. If I might just throw one more word into the mix: Comprador. Because "whores" and "traitors" just seems a little ... vulgar. 'via Blog this' …
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I suppose if I'm going to go on and on about church doctrine, it's only fair of me to put it in context.What can I do? The power of Christ compels me.Related posts:All this Catholic-school business reminds me of a Mel Brooks moment LGBT students run into a wall at the Toronto District Catholic School Board The Catholic school system needs to get its hands out of our pockets …
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I'm sorry, I just can't help it sometimes.It's probably not the most famous or best-remembered scene from Blazing Saddles (and in truth, it's got a lot of competition), but in light of the Catholic school system's way of dealing with gay and lesbian students, it seemed apropos.Related posts:LGBT students run into a wall at the Toronto District Catholic School Board The Catholic school system needs to get its hands out of our pockets The day they turned the Charter of Rights into toilet paper …
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And that's just for starters.The travesty that took place this week is common knowledge by now. Activist Leanne Iskander, who's got more courage in her little finger than most people have in their whole bodies, has been threatened with disciplinary action if she continues her advocacy for gay-straight alliances.From Xtra:Leanne Iskander has been blocked from starting an “LGBT support group” at her school and told that if she continues to advocate for gay-straight alliances she will face “disciplinary action.” Iskander, the founder of Catholic Students for GSAs (CS4GSA), and her …
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Sometimes the posts practically write themselves.I'm sure all the obvious Simpsons references have already been made, although the giant Ferris wheel thing does put me in mind of that scene from The Third Man with Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles.Either Mayor Stupid's on vacation or Brother Stupider's gone off message again. Can never tell with these two, and more often than not, it doesn't really matter.[<a href="http://storify.com/orwellsbastard/sometimes-the-posts-just-write-themselves" …
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Let Freedom Rain: "National Necrophilia Week": Ezra Levant wears orange wig, drinks Orange Crush. Mocks Layton's passing.: What Jymn said. 'via Blog this' …
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The Real Johnson: An Open Letter to Christie Blatchford: 'via Blog this' …
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I'm reminded at times of that aphorism (can't remember whether it was Mark Twain or Winston Churchill) about a lie getting halfway around the world while the truth is still getting its pants on.It seems you could make a similar observation when you're comparing decency with meanness of spirit. The yargle-barglers may have speed on their side, but then that's because what they do consists of little more than running around, screeching, and scattering handfuls of loose stool as far as they can throw it.View "The newest contest among the yargle-barglers of the Right" on StorifyLet 'em fill their …
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Activist Communique: An open letter to Christie Blatchford by Alice Moran | rabble.caNOW Magazine // Daily // News // A vainglorious, partisan spectacleThing is, Blatchford and her enablers probably get off on this sort of thing and see it as validation. Sad, really. …
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She's found a way to make @SueAnnLevy look classy.(Honorable mention to David Naylor for this.Well done, all.) …
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(With an apology to pinball machines everywhere.)That @cityslikr fella can be wonderfully succinct sometimes. I retweeted this earlier, but it deserves a whole blog post.Word. If you're ever curious about why so many of our fellow citizens seem ruled by fear, resentment, and ignorance, the Venomous LoserTM  and her hateful little screeds are a big part of the reason. Sun Media's toxic effect just wouldn't be as toxic without her.Some years ago, a singer / songwriter / satirist by the name of Tom Lehrer was said to have summed up his musical career thus:If, after hearing my songs, just one …
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: In Case You ARE WonderingDon't know why BCL isn't on the Tweeter, but that's up to him. In the meantime, seems the Venomous LoserTM is perfectly happy to use Toronto's firefighters and their taxpayer-funded equipment as a campaign prop ... Click to view at full size But, well, you know ... that was then, and this is now.... one wonders, is it unseemly to point out that the guy has to be there whether there's actually a fire or not, just in case? Just in the cause of raising the tone of civic discourse, instead of pandering to the lizard-brains and all that ...As …
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Wonderful thing, the Tweeter. Keeps things lively, and keeps you on your toes.So apparently there's some question over what I wrote about the Globe's ideologically reliable urban affairs curmudgeon and his role in helping propel Mayor Stupid into the Chief Magistrate's office. Over at ontarionewswatch.com, Editor-in-Chief and Ontario Bureau Chief @SusannaKelley apparently takes issue with a tweet from @AntoniaZ regarding a post from me yesterday morning.(Antonia already knows I worship the ground she walks upon. And for the moment, I'm going to give Ms. Kelley the benefit of a whole lot of …
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Our Climate Of Extremes | ThinkProgressYep. They're in the middle of their worst drought ever, heat records are being broken every day, but they're going to deny the scientific evidence of climate change and schedule days of prayer for rain.Seriously. Let's start sandbagging the border.Related posts:8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance | AlterNet #uspoli Krugman: The President Surrenders on Debt Ceiling - NYTimes.com Woodward and Bernstein are dead The malignant influence of the Kochtopus Economic, ethical and ecological collapse, according to Chris …
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Toronto News: Retiring deputy chief calls G20 reaction overblown - thestar.comYou know where I'm going with this, so I'll just let thwap and Lorne carry the ball on this one. They say it better than I can anyway.Hey, Tony? Don't go away mad. Just go away.Update:  Asshole.Related posts:SIU Concludes Reopened #G20 Nobody Investigation | #policebrutality More allegations of police brutality at the G20: Gabriel Jacobs Put lying cops on the stand and make them do it for the record On CBC, a further demonstration of Toronto cops' contempt for us Toronto Police: Unaccountable, uncaring, …
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So a few people – Thor and Nancy for starters – are linking to this piece from the Globe's ideologically reliable urban affairs curmudgeon, who's arguing, not without reason, that Mayor Stupid should have known all along that he couldn't guarantee that there wouldn't be any service cuts or layoffs.One hesitates to accuse Mayor Stupid of lying, chiefly because it's obvious that he can't tell the difference between true and false. You know those people who are so out of touch that they don't even know what the facts are? The kind who pull facts and numbers out of their asses and know …
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Honestly, where do you begin?First, Mayor Stupid's dismissing all the folks who spoke at last month's city hall all-nighter as left-wing, NDP, special-interest types trying to protect their free money. No surprise there, really. It's not as if the guy's got the intellectual wherewithal to comprehend the notion of "community" or anything.No. In his sad, tiny, resentful worldview, any popular action in defence of the bonds that hold communities together is union-driven, ideological political theatre (although, on reflection, that's probably far too multisyllabic for him).And then, adding another …
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While we're on the subject of journalistic ethics, let me just cite pogge and thwap. They've already said it better than I can.From pogge:Every year or two I find a reason to point to Declan's post on the Media Failure Two-Step. (And actually I could find a reason much more often than that.) To review, the Two-Step looks like this:Step 1) Cause something (bad) to happen through your reporting.Step 2) Report on this (bad) thing from the perspective of an innocent bystander.And then you just repeat indefinitely.Our latest example? With the Globe and Mail leading the charge, since …
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<a href="http://storify.com/orwellsbastard/this-is-where-we-juxtapose-part-godknowswhat-jerna" target="_blank">View "This is where we juxtapose, part god-knows-what | #jernamalism" on Storify</a>Although I sometimes wonder: given the mockery that whole "commies in the media" thing inspired, are the trolls at Sun Media really thinking any attention is good attention?Then again, …
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Typical bleeding-heart tree-hugger, getting all squishy about caribou and weeping into his tofu. Never mind the jobs involved in forestry and the Ethical OilTM Sands. And where's he getting his information? From the socialists at the CBC, of course.Soft-headed lefties. You ever think that maybe, just maybe, the government knows something about the caribou that you don't?Give us a break from the kumbayas, boys.Related posts:The Beijing Model? The Harper Model? Does it matter what we call it?#Elxn41: emerging theme from the week? Don't know yetNow what's all the fuss about?Conservatism, …
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8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance | | AlterNet#facepalm just isn't strong enough for this. …
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The President Surrenders on Debt Ceiling - NYTimes.comOK, can we do a couple of things for starters?1. Lose the illusion that Obama's got any balls, or that he's in any way "progressive," or that there's much substantive institutional and policy difference between Democrats and Republicans. All the drama coming from Washington is just so much kabuki theatre.Seriously, isn't it time to consider the possibility that the reason he's so quick to "compromise" with the other side, or "capitulate," is because there isn't really any disagreement between the two? Both Democrats and Republicans are …
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Anti-Muslim Blogger: Slain Norwegian Teens Were ‘Hateful, Privileged Brats’ | Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law CenterAnother look at the far right in all its glory. …
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Someone suggested during yesterday's marathon that the Fords can't help being ignorant and stupid. They are what they are. But this guy, by contrast, does it on purpose.[<a href="http://storify.com/orwellsbastard/giorgio-mammoliti-or-how-not-to-make-friends-and-i" target="blank">View the story "Giorgio Mammoliti, or how NOT to make friends and influence people | #TOcouncil" on Storify]</a>Did I say he makes the Fords look good? This guy makes the cast of Jersey Shore look …
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With this blog post at the Star, David Olive goes on a bit of a roll, getting in some pretty good zingers at Mayor Stupid and Brother Stupider.One can't argue with much of his take, in particular his characterization of the last election as a vote against David Miller even though he wasn't running. There's plenty of blame to go around for the success of that particular strategy, but we'll leave that alone for now. Plenty of other reasons for dismay:the hopeless, bang-head-on-desk ignorance the adolescent bullyingthe name-callingthe incessant pulling of facts and numbers from their …
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Franke James » Blog Archive » Canadian Government Tries to Silence Franke JamesWe can't really say we're surprised, now, can we. Subtle and not-so-subtle threats, putting the squeeze on NGOs and making sure anyone thinking of sponsoring the show knows there's a shit list just waiting for more names.That's how determined this gang of pinch-faced thugs is to squelch disagreement and dissent. Anyone who wants to talk about climate change needs to know: this is what's going to land on you.(H/t deBeauxOs, Jymn, Dr. Dawg, pogge, and Mr. Sinister, among others.)Related posts:Accountability, …
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Late-night submissions on a heavy Sunday night ...I thought I'd seen, heard and read it all by now.That worthless piece of shit used dum-dum bullets. The cherry on the shit sundae.Another sick, cruel piece of shit says those kids all but deserved what they got because, apparently, they said some things that weren't abjectly devoted to Israel.And a few other worthless yammering transmitters have been treating the facts as an inconvenient speed bump in their haste to continue repeating their revolting message of Islamophobia and demonization.Perhaps it's not the best time to try putting this all …
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12 Holberg Suite op. 40 - Sarabande by Orwell's Bastard Some hauntingly beautiful stuff from Grieg, who might be better known for Peer Gynt. If I recall correctly, though, the CBC used to use another passage from the Holberg Suite as the signature for one of its radio broadcasts.When people google "Norway," I don't want them to see lies and poison from far-right hatemongers in their search results.Related posts:Isn't it good, Norwegian wood ...A word from the Norwegian PartyNorway and the usual gang of stupids …
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As I said, not going to jump into that cesspool. Just trying to help make the Norway conversation about something else. Not like the assholes are going to change their minds or their narrative or anything.Related posts:From the Norwegian composer Edvard GriegIsn't it good, Norwegian wood ...Norway and the usual gang of stupids …
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It's all been said. Nothing to add.How about we just ignore that hateful bald fuckhead?Related posts:From the Norwegian composer Edvard GriegA word from the Norwegian PartyNorway and the usual gang of stupids …
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See what you've started?Wish I'd been around for this gig. …
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Which Lie Do You Buy? « All Fired Up In The Big SmokeA lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.– Winston ChurchillSo over at his place, @cityslikr's on about the fact that politicians have an uneasy relationship with the truth, and the cynicism and disengagement that breeds.The revelations of the past week – that Toronto is in fact run pretty efficiently, that City Hall is not awash in rivers of gravy, that the city does indeed have a revenue problem and not a spending problem – have put the lie to pretty well the entire platform …
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