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Now here’s a headline with the impact of a hail of bullets to the face: No, really: But I think we should be taking the possibility of a Dick Cheney bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012 more seriously, for a run would be good for the Republicans and good for the country. (The sound you just heard in the background was liberal readers spitting out their lattes.) Why? Because Cheney is a man of conviction [...] Maybe he meant to say “a man who deserves a conviction?” (via Wonkette) … [Read more...]

I didn’t think it was possible, but I just found a twitterstream with even more stupid per square inch than #tcot: #climategate Don’t click unless you’re wearing a stupidproof vest! … [Read more...]

Further to my post about melodramatic anti-choicer Frank Chauvin, whose court challenge disputing the Morgentaler Order of Canada was kicked to the curb on Friday: After months of being included in the long(er than eight) list of OC medal returnees, Chauvin says he’ll finally return the medal: “I kept the medal until this hearing was over and now it’s going back,” said Frank Chauvin, a devout Catholic who received the Order of Canada in 1987 in recognition of his work with children in Haiti. Right.   And the court’s ruling was a big surprise, no? The court found that Chauvin … [Read more...]

Shorter Harper : If you point the war crimes finger at me, I'll deflect it at the troops.Faced with mounting condemnation for government ass-covering over Richard Colvin's testimony about Afghan detainees, Harper resorts to an oblique slight-of-tongue blackmail :"There were allegations of Canadian troops involved in torture. We’ve been very clear that's not the case." So who is pointing fingers at the troops?No one. No. One. But. Steve.Least of all Richard Colvin, as he made abundantly clear right away at the beginning of his Nov. 18th testimony before the Committee on the Canadian Mission in … [Read more...]

Wow, this is old but I missed it and is it ever exciting! I keed.  Not exciting, but pretty freaking funny. In the great “Facts Optional” tradition of Conservapedia and the Conservative Bible Project, stand back:  there’s a Conservative Christian alternative to Twitter! A few weeks ago, a Christian Twitter user (Christweep?) was hit with a one-week suspension from Twitter for spamming.  The user, James L Paris, immediately upshifted into Persecution Complex mode and claimed he was suspended for supporting Rush Limbaugh.   Paris harrumphed: I guess I am making some liberal … [Read more...]

Back in my misspent youth, Molson “Brador”, a beer that was only sold in Quebec, was considered the Ultimate Beer.   With 6% alcohol by volume compared to the 5% of our average domestic beers, a halfsack of Brador was an efficient investment of beer capital.   Never mind Budweiser with its wimpy 3.2% ABV — among decadent and depraved Canadian youth of the 70s, Brador was the de facto king of beers, and every weekend  a couple of us would make a run to Montreal and return with a trunkload of the stuff. Apparently the search for mindblowingly intoxicating beer goes on.  Move … [Read more...]

Gee, thanks, Steve.  Our country is so safe with you at the helm.  NOT!!!   From The G&M:   U.S. firm sheds liability for Canadian nuclear peril Nuclear plant supplier GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy shielding finances from the risks of an accident at a Canadian nuclear station   Martin Mittelstaedt From Saturday’s Globe and Mail [...] … [Read more...]

I think I better start following the climate change debate if this is any example of the hilarity coming out of it. The climate-flavoured asshattery continued apace this week, rising to a screeching crescendo on Thursday when the Drudge Report mistakenly linked to a post at Scienceblogs’ Deltoid with the headline “New Zealand Climate Science Coalition caught lying about temperature trends“. Drudge apparently didn’t read any further than the headline.  Since the “NZ Climate Science Coalition” sounded like a group of actual scientists instead of, well, you know,  … [Read more...]

Oh guess what guess what guess what no you’ll never!… Dr. Morgentaler gets to keep his Order of Canada.  What a surprise! (/end sarc) Most of you will recall how fetus fetishists attempted to get a “blizzard” of returned Order of Canada medals in protest against Dr. Morgentaler finally getting this well-deserved and long-overdue honour.   (Oh what fun that was last summer — MASSIVE amounts of fun!)  Needless to say, the perfect storm of returned medals never materialized… the final tally was about nine(9), including “4 from beyond the grave”, as … [Read more...]

Amy Goodman of Democracy Now was stopped at the Canada-US border on Wednesday and questioned for 90 minutes by Canadian Border Services Agency. She was on her way to the Vancouver Public Library to launch her new book Breaking The Sound Barrier as a benefit for community radio stations. .What's your speech about? they asked."Tommy Douglas," she said.What else?"US healthcare debate."What else?"Copenhagen, the global economy, the wars in the mideast."What else?" - - - - ?"Are you speaking about the Olympics?"What about the Olympics? Oh, you mean when President Obama went to Copenhagen to push for … [Read more...]

Hmmm ... 94% to 6% in favour of Colvin's testimony on an unfreepable one-vote-per-IP poll. Ok, just checking. I was wondering how that parade of generals appearing before the Afghan parliamentary committee was going over.Everyone impressed the generals had access to Richard Colvin's reports but the committee members doing the investigation are denied the same access? Hell, it's just one more Con puppet-head show now..Watch Peter MacKay's one minute smirking response about it here :Minister MacKay on how the generals got the documents. (h/t Scott) and then sign this letter demanding a public inquiry.. … [Read more...]

I’m shocked, SHOCKED, I tells ya: Roman Catholic Church leaders in Dublin spent decades sheltering child-abusing priests from the law and most fellow clerics turned a blind eye, an investigation ordered by Ireland’s government concluded Thursday. Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, who handed over more than 60,000 previously secret church files to the three-year investigation, said he felt deep shame and sorrow for how previous archbishops presided over endemic child abuse — yet claimed afterward not to understand the gravity of their sins. Martin said his four predecessors in … [Read more...]

Dammit Janet has come up with the “Maurice Vellacott Award” — an honour recognizing leadership in what DJ calls “gynophobia” (which I think is probably the irrational fear of women managing their own reproductive systems).   It kind of reminds me of Andrew Sullivan’s awards that are named after Michelle Malkin et al. When you think about it, Canada has enough wingnuts that there are many awards that could named after the leading Canadian lights in deranged disciplines from misogyny to fetus fetishizing, and occasionally bestowed upon deserving individuals: the … [Read more...]

…especially you socially conservative so-called “free” so-called “speechers”…Hello?  Hello?? (*tap-tap*  Is this thing on?) … [Read more...]

More teabaggy Goin’ Roguey- booky-waity-lineuppy wingnutty goodness…   … [Read more...]

Then : October 19, 2009 MacKay seeks answers on torture memos"MacKay said Monday that neither he nor his deputy minister ever saw diplomat Richard Colvin's reports, which were circulated widely within the Foreign Affairs and National Defence departments, as well as among senior military commanders.".October 16, 2009MacKay denies seeing Afghan torture reports"Defence Minister Peter MacKay says he never saw a former diplomat's reports containing allegations of torture of detainees transferred by Canadians to Afghan prisons. MacKay, who was foreign minister at the time, insisted Thursday that he knew … [Read more...]

A new Angus Reid poll on what Canadians believe about a number of social and ethical issues has bad news for fetus fetishists — 66% of Canadians are pro-choice, up from 61% just two years ago: With so many moral issues at a crossroads, Angus Reid Strategies undertook a national survey last month asking Canadians to consider 21 ethical issues. Their answers—on issues as diverse as animal rights, prostitution, homosexuality and illegal drug use—show some profound divisions by gender and region. But taken together, they seem to reveal a rather astounding liberal tilt in our morality, albeit … [Read more...]

Let the squeals of misplaced outrage begin: Oh, boo hoo hoo! All this self-pitying outrage from the Queen of the Rabid, Rancid, Maggot-Infested, Shit-stained Smear herself. There was no “smear” in this case.  The possibility that some brain-damaged right-wing fruitbag might have killed Sparkman in a frenzy of anti-government fury wasn’t dreamed up by “The Left” the way Malkin hallucinates her paranoid notions — it was a very real possibility that was investigated by law enforcement as a feasible motive.   After all, Sparkman wouldn’t have been the first … [Read more...]

From This Hour has 22 Minutes, Marg catches up with SaWah… sort of… (Video replaced — this one should work for everyone.) … [Read more...]