Canadian Cynic: Your Sunday morning Blogging Tory douchebagitude.
Blogging Tory "Hunter" gets all panty-tuggy and shrieky when brown people are murdered for ideological reasons. When white people are killed similarly, eh, not so much.How ... curious. I'm guessing it's a context thing.P.S. Does anyone else find it odd that the same folks who don't even like brown people to begin with are this upset when they're killed? That seems awfully inconsistent, don't you think?AH, THE IRONY: You'd think that yappy, screechy harridans like "Hunter" who profess to be terribly, terribly concerned about the plight of women might be supportive of government …
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Filasteen: “The Escalating Settlements Feud”
From the ‘Editor’s blog’:
I’ve left the escalating feud over Israeli settlements uncommented upon so far, but the US has now warned Israel that any attempt to expand settlement activity in the so-called E–1 corridor (between Jerusalem and Maaleh Adumim) would be “extremely damaging” and “corrosive.” This follows by less than a week US warnings against construction of apartments on the site of the Shepherd Hotel in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah district, a move which led to sharp reactions on the part of Bibi Netanyahu and the rather odd …
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Filasteen: Gay hasbara
These are worth a read: here and here.
To those people who devise such plans, whether we are gay or not, we are nothing but sheep to be herded here or there in the service of whatever grand scheme they have in mind. Pathetic … and despicable! They really must despise and hate the rest of us! …
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Filasteen: American, Israeli and Arab Approaches to Peace
Clashing Visions and Competing Interests …
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Creekside: Cannon and Van Loan tell Abdelrazik to piss off
.Abdelrazik wants the federal government to help him get his name removed from a United Nations terror watch list so he can lead a normal life again.You know - get a job, go to a doctor, get on a plane, have a bank account, accept anything from anyone without risk of their being charged with being in violation of the UN's 1267 shunning regulations. .Above are the responses to Abdelrazik's lawyers from Minister of Public Security Peter Van Loan and Minister of Foreign Affairs Lawrence Cannon telling them to piss off. Click em to read em, courtesy of The Peoples Commission via the indefatigable …
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Canadian Cynic: I {heart} New York.
Schedule for tomorrow morning is to hang out early at Times Square to possibly score cheap tickets to "Rock of Ages." I'm sure PSA is intensely jealous. REO Speedwagon! Journey! Styx! Bon Jovi! Boo-yah!"Don't stop ... beleeeeevin' ..." …
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unrepentant old hippie: The Shona Holmes Blowback begins
Blowback? Or collateral damage? Both?:
I am NOT Shona Holmes.
Waterdown resident Palmira Holmes wants angry callers to know she is not the same Holmes from Waterdown whose problems with Canadian health care have made her the U.S. poster girl for forces opposed to President Barack Obama’s health-care plan.
Palmira Holmes has been inundated with phone calls from people trying to express their fury over Shona Holmes’ decision to become the face of an aggressive American TV ad that slams Canadian-style health care.
Palmira Holmes says “it was like being bombarded” …
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liberal catnip: No black man in America is safe – because of me
The amount of overblown, wingnut-like hyperbole flying around in the so-called "progressive" American blogosphere over the arrest of Henry Gates has risen to such hysterical levels that it isn't even possible to discuss the facts in a rational manner.Take this exchange:Amen (13+ / 0-)seems to me that this idea of not placing all the blame on the officer sounds alot like the attitude back in the 70's of women who were raped or beaten that perhaps they were to blameby Bluerall on Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 08:34:05 AM MDT * that's asinine (0+ / 0-) The comparison doesn't even compute. by …
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Paulitics: New European report on anti-semitism is shocking, but for different reasons
The British government has commissioned a shocking new report from the European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (EISCA) which among other things argues that the law should be changed so that political commentators cannot draw comparisons between the actions of the Israeli state and those of Nazi Germany.
Antony Lerman writes:
“If you said ‘the way the IDF operated in Gaza was like the way the SS acted in Poland’ and a Jew found this offensive, hurtful or harmful, you could, in theory, go to jail.”
However that is neither the most shocking or …
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Daisy's Dead Air: Instrumental oldies, pt. 1
As some of you have undoubtedly figured out, the problem with purely-instrumental songs is: No lyrics, so you can't look them up online. And so, I've decided to play some instrumental oldies ... chances are, you've heard these tunes your whole life and never knew the titles. One of the most pleasant parts of aging is knowing these arcane remnants of pop-culture. Young people I work with invariably call me on the extension: What's the name of that? (I am regularly called on to identify all kinds of music, spanning decades.) I have included a couple of tunes here that I am always asked …
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The Cylinder: Iran – Global Day of Action [July 25]
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A follow-up … and another one. …
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Dawg's Blawg: Who is “Lawrence Cannon?”
Two pictures, allegedly of Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs. Clearly two different people. Note the narrow jaw in the second picture, and the sunken cheeks.Where is the proof that the man calling the shots at DFAIT today is really Lawrence Cannon? How do we know that he's even a Canadian citizen? …
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Canadian Cynic: Saturday Morning Cartoons.
Good morning, darlings.As much as I might’ve enjoyed the thunderstorm last night -- I love thunderstorms -- I have to wonder if everyone is as sick of rain as I am. Coffee? …
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Creekside: Not quite guerilla gardening
BC Ferries employee Wing Sun's wonderful little garden on the concrete wingwall wedged between berths two and three at the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal.As ferries load and offload on either side of him, he sprouts seeds, tends his plants, creates garden art out of found objects discarded by travellers, and paints designs in praise of nature on available outdoor walls. All done on his own time and dime during his coffee breaks and lunch hours, it's a lovely oasis in the otherwise quite unlovely ferry terminal.Thank you, Wing Sun, and to BC Ferries for seeing the value in his labour of love.. …
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Keeping it Real...: Lying and Deceiving the Voters Works
Maybe those who no longer vote in civic, provincial or federal elections are right.
Ask them why, and most will tell you our politicians are liars and crooks, more interested in catering to big business or big unions, lining their own pockets and rewarding their friends.
Now I still think we should vote: we owe it to those who [...] …
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My Blahg: HONOUR KILLINGS
Since it’s once again a hot topic in Canada and the knuckledragging Muslim haters are out in full force, here’s a couple of interesting bits of info on the subject that will help you combat their bigotry.
An article on the website Gendercide Watch points out where the root of honour killings lies.
“Honour” killings of women (and occasionally their male “partners in crime”) reflect longstanding patriarchal-tribal traditions. In a “bizarre duality,” women are viewed “on the one hand as fragile creatures who need protection and on the other as …
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Canadian Cynic: Holy motherfucking stupid, Batman!
Document the dumbassitude.JESUS CHRIST, the level of stupid and evil in the comments section over there is truly breathtaking. Blogging Tory "General Brock" seems singularly ignorant about what this issue is all about, and it doesn't appear that anyone can clue him in.Ah, well ... he's a Blogging Tory ... being a painfully retarded dumbshit goes with the territory. "Hunter" and Dr. Roy taught me that.JUST FOR THE FUN (AND PROFIT) OF IT, I think that every gay couple in Saskatchewan that wants to get married should now seek out Mr. Orville Nichols to perform the civil ceremony. Given that he …
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My Blahg: BLAHG BITS JULY 24/09
The Pork Party: Formerly Known As The Conservative Party
I guess the butcher shop is needed to help him dole out all that pork.
The federal minister responsible for economic development in Quebec has dished out more than $6 million worth of cheques to his own riding in the past two weeks, including nearly $100,000 for a butcher shop.
Denis Lebel, MP for Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean and the minister of state for the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the regions of Quebec, announced this week À l’Orée des Champs, a restaurant specializing in locally raised lamb dishes, will receive …
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