Progressive Bloggers and the Abortion Battle

I must admit that when I first saw the battle over abortion raging at Progressive Bloggers, my first instinct was to duck and cover. Because I've seen it all before, and it always ends badly.

It's the kind of fight where the one who tries to break it up ends up in hospital. And everyone loses, except the real enemy.

But now that I've found my courage at the bottom of a bottle. Even though I don't usually drink. And now that I've written my will, I figure I have to say something  before it gets even worse. 

So here goes. 

Gay Marriage and the Unrepentant Old Hippie

I don't know why the Unrepentant Old Hippie feels she has the right to dump on progressives, in such a foamy manner, for having the decency to defend the human rights of gays and lesbians.

Especially since she regularly accuses progressives who despise Stephen Harper and his foul Cons, of suffering from "Harper Derangement Symptom." And probably voted for him, because like him she thinks Big Government and taxes are bad, capitalism and greed are good, anyone left of Michael Ignatieff is a commie, the Canadian occupiers are spoiled kids and rabid animals, and Great Not So Bad leader promised to kill her hated gun registry.

Because she does love guns.

Prozac anyone?

But before she shoots me eh? I might ask her to explain why we should not be concerned about this small detail. 

My Summer Journey and JJ's Return

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I must admit that I'm finding it hard to blog these days. I'm not sure where I want to go. I don't know where this country is going.

There are a lot of stories out there, but after this story.

So many flowers cut down so savagely. They all seem so trivial.

And then there's summer...

It's so short I want to enjoy every minute of it. Soak up the sun, feel the gentle breeze in my face.

Smell the flowers...

Before they are gone.

Because what happened to Jack Layton reminded me that for everything there is a season. Life is so fragile. And I can't get his parting words out my head.

We WILL replace the Conservative government, a few short years from now.

And we WILL work with Canadians to build the country of our hopes
Of our dreams
Of our optimism
Of our determination
Of our values...
Of our love.

Because they sound so much like an epitaph.

But since I don't know to what dark place Stephen Harper is going to take this country...

I don't know how we can stop him. Nobody wants to talk about that because its summer. And since defeating the Cons means everything to me, the progressive blogosphere seems strangely hollow, and more of an echo chamber than ever.

Or the personal sandbox of a small group of gigantic egos, who can't write enough posts, and suck up all the oxygen in the blogosphere, competing against each other for votes.  

Which brings me to the good news. The return of the Unrepentant Old Hippie.

JJ is an amazing blogger, a feminist warrior, and a very old friend who was one of the first to encourage me when I set out on this blogging journey six years ago.

I missed her terribly, and the progressive blogosphere has never needed her free spirit more.

You know I was thinking tonight if only the blogger Bruce MacDonald could come back it would be like it was before. But of course he can't, and maybe that's why I find his great friend's return so comforting.

I don't know where this summer is taking me. Or where Stephen Harper will take this country.

But all seems fine tonight. JJ is back.

Life goes on and the journey continues...

The Gun Registry and Progressive Bloggers

Oh no.What bad timing for the Reform Cons. It's gun hate day in Amerika.

Just 24 hours after their disgusting little gun love day in Canada.

And can you believe those scummy Cons? They hid this report until after the vote was over. Even though it it involves the safety of police officers. Those dastardly crime police busters.

And can you believe that so many progressives MPs folded like cheap suits or cowards?

By caving in on a Reform Party style free vote...instead of acting like members of a party with PRINCIPLES. What will the next "free vote" be on I wonder... ABORTION?

But what I also found disheartening was the number of progressive bloggers celebrating the death of the Gun Registry. Including some of the best, most decent and progressive ones.

I'm not going to single anybody out, or deal with their arguments. I dealt with most of them last night.

But I would ask ALL of those progressive bloggers why NONE of them bothered to mention that filling out a form could save the life of a police officer?

Does the kinder gentler Canada we are trying to build really include a society full of unlicensed guns? What does progressive really mean? Because I'm confused eh?

And how, since some of them are such strong feminists, could they all have forgotten to mention the women of the Montreal Massacre?








Not just the ones who died or were injured, but all the others who fought the powerful gun lobby for years to bring in the gun registry, and make sure the victims didn't die in vain.

People like Suzanne LaPlante-Edward who believes a gun registry might have saved her daughter. (PDF)

We victims of gun violence want more than tears, white ribbons, and kind words. We want action. The semi-automatic Ruger Mini 14 used at the Polytechnique in Montreal is still sold as an unrestricted hunting rifle. With C-391 we will no longer know who owns these guns or the 7 million other rifles and shotguns in Canada. In most cities there will be more information about who has cats and dogs than who owns firearms.

Doesn't her opinion count? Or the opinions of so many other victims of gun violence. Isn't it worth more than the yapping of gun owners too lazy to fill out some forms...or the teabagger screeching of the Con's rabid Reform base?

You know a month today we will mark the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre. And I can't think of a better way for some progressives to prepare, than reading up on that terrible day.Studying the history of the heroic feminist struggle that followed.

Fighting to FIX the gun registry ...if it needs fixing...rather than letting these ReformCons and their stooges DESTROY it.

Or as I said yesterday, just watching this movie...



Because we need to decide what sort of a gentler, kinder, more civilized society we want to build.

And we really need to REMEMBER...

Misogyny and the Death of a Canadian Blogger

Renée Wathelet was a Canadian blogger who was brutally murdered the other day in Mexico.

And now it turns out she may have blogged about her killer.

Wathelet wrote of “Jose’s” kindness and humour, as he answered her numerous questions about local history, landmarks and politics. She called him a “veritable encyclopedia” and even suggested she would begin a special blog feature where she would share his stories, titled Jose Tells Me.

And what was one of the stories Jose told her?

Les Xtabay sont des très très belles femmes, bien habillées, elles portent des hipils merveilleusement brodés, de beaux bijoux, elles sont parfumées … et très dangereuses à rencontrer pour un homme : si tu rencontres une Xtabay, elle va t’attirer, te séduire, te promettre de merveilleux moments en sa compagnie, en fait elle te promet tout ce que tu voudras. Et si tu la suis, si tu l’écoutes, tu te réveilleras tout seul, au milieu de nulle part, loin de ton chemin, dans un champ rempli de cactus et de buissons épineux. Et bien sûr la Xtabay ne t’aura rien donné de ce qu’elle t’a promis. Juste des problèmes. Ce sont de vraies démones que l’on peut rencontrer partout à travers la péninsule… Il vaut mieux les éviter, bien sûr, mais tu connais les hommes…

The Xtabay are very very beautiful women, nicely clothed, they wear marvellously embroidered hipils( Mayan dresses), beautiful jewels, they are perfumed...and very dangerous for men to meet. If you meet an Xtabay, she will attract you, seduce you, promise you marvellous moments in her company, promise you everything you want. And if you follow her, if you listen to her, you will wake up all alone, in the middle of nowhere, far from your path, in a field full of cactuses and prickly bushes. And of course the Xtabay will not have given you anything she promised. Just problems. They are real demons that you can find all over the peninsula. It's best to avoid them, but you know men...

Oh yes we know them. And the misogyny of the ages. Women as seductive temptresses who must be shunned....or KILLED.

Scary isn't it?

Poor gentle Renée was enchanted by the story.

When it should have been a WARNING.

But now it's too late. Her ashes are going into the sea she loved so much. The misogyny monster rears its bloody head again.

And the real demons still roam the earth...

The NDP Convention and the Media Circus

As you know, I try to stay away from criticizing Canada's progressive parties, because I believe in a united left, and don't think it's a good idea to burn bridges we will some day have to cross.

But the reaction to the NDP's convention is so absurd ...such a circus...I feel I must.

First came the dumb media reducing everything to an idiot headline.

As if there weren't more important things to discuss. Like how to win more seats in the next election.

And most idiot of all....completely ignoring the fact that if you translate the words Democratic Party into French, and then use the initials it sounds like Pe- De. The slang word for FAGGOT. Which would make the party the laughing stock of the province.

Why do you think Mario Dumont called his party the ACTION Democratique instead of the Parti Democratique? Duh.

Then came the country's disgusting right-wing media

The more than 1,000 delegates endorsed action to prevent violence against aboriginal women. They endorsed enshrining childcare into law. They endorsed investment in environmentally friendly jobs. They endorsed ending rules that prevent homosexuals from donating organs.

In the end, there were more than 50 policies approved. But there was little to raise the eyebrows of the party's socialist founders.

As if the word SOCIALIST... as in social democracy.... was something to be ashamed about. Instead of the trademark of some of the world's most advanced democracies. As if the issues discussed weren't important.

Then came the Liberal bloggers.

Who sounded like members of the Con choir. Even though if Ignatieff does manage to win an election, because the Bloc isn't going ANYWHERE he can only hope for a minority. And will have to depend on the NDP to stay in power.

Oh boy. It's all such a ridiculous and tragic FARCE. The centre-left eats itself while the dirty Cons kill Canada.

And while I'm at it .....I'm still waiting to hear why, according to the latest EKOS poll, 41 per cent of Liberals believe the country is heading in the RIGHT direction. And why one out of three of them would choose the Cons as their second choice?

Because let's face it, with those kind of scary numbers, if the NDP didn't exist we would have to invent it.

You see that's the irony eh?

The NDP doesn't need to change its name because EVERYBODY knows who they are.

But who I wonder are the Liberals?

And isn't it about time THEY changed their name to the LCP? The Liberal Conservative Party.

People please. Trust me I love you ALL. But we must understand that thanks to the Bloc, the home team of the semi autonomous nation of Quebec, the political landscape of Canada has changed FOREVER.

And the only way the tyranny of the Con minority will be defeated, is if the left unites or forms a coalition like they do in other civilized countries.

The Coalition for Change was an idea ahead of its time in a country stuck in a rut and going NOWHERE. But sooner or later everyone will recognize the obvious.

And it will be back...















My advice? Love it now or love it later. But while we wait for it to return don't do the Con's dirty work for them.

If you really love Canada.

Don't shit in your own backyard...

Antonia, Teh Gays, and the Summer Follies

The only bad thing about being gay....apart from living in a world where millions of people want to kill you...is that no matter what you do, or where you go, you can't get away from it. Everybody is always talking about you.

Even in summer when there are so many better things to do.

Never mind what natural, economic, or medical disasters we are facing Teh Gays is ALWAYS in the news. From the sublime, to the horrifying, or the merely ridiculous.

Now look... many other bloggers have said it better.

But I thought I'd add my two bits, just so our many enemies don't call us lazy as well...

(1) Antonia Zerbisias is an awesome blogger and an excellent journalist. She may be wonderfully opinionated and a proud feminist, but her arguments are always based on facts. And she's a great READ. The Star should recognize that talent, and try to clone her rather than punish her if they hope to survive in the internet age.

(2) Bernie Farber is being silly and mean at the same time. It's OBVIOUS that Antonia was just having a little fun, and he should have laughed it off. Instead of kicking up such a fuss which makes it look like he's embarrassed to be called gay. Or is just trying to be censorious. Again.

I mean people often confuse me for straight and do I get offended? Of course not. On the other hand if Bernie could send me one of those t-shirts, so I can clear up the confusion right from the start, I'd appreciate it. Because I hate telling straight people "Not that there's anything wrong with being straight eh?"

(3) Kathy English sounds like a nice person caught in the unfortunate position of having to sit on a cactus and suck on a lemon. Because honestly any more priggish than that, and they'll stop calling her the Public Editor and start calling her Mother Superior. Or cast her for a starring role in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

But then maybe she was just doing what she was told by Star Publisher John Cruikshank, who sounds like a boring old fart, and the second worst guy to be trapped in an elevator with.... after Ezra Levant. A guy who doesn't seem to understand that you can run a good liberal paper, but if nobody reads it you're DOOMED.

And English was just making the best of a bad situation.

Gawd. I hope so. So everybody can just chill out, leave Antonia alone, stop talking about Teh Gays.

And I can just enjoy summer .

Like my dog....














And these guinea pigs.



Mmmmm....watermelon.

Don't bother talking about us for three weeks eh?

Antonia we love you. Bernie you idiot.

Teh Gay boys has gone camping...
















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P.S. OK OK I'm sorry. Me bad. I apologize. I saved that sausage for Sébastien. But I ate the others...

Stephen Harper: Bastard or Monster?

When I read what James Bow,one of the best and gentlest bloggers in Canada, had to say about Stephen Harper's Cons.

I cannot understand the government’s actions in this case....Don’t they realize how bad this makes them look? Don’t they care? This and this alone is enough for me to want an election so we can throw these bastards out.

Such a government can only be deemed markedly worse than any other government which has preceded it, regardless of any scandal you’d like to wave in my face. The time has come to punish this prime minister at the polls, and to send the Conservative Party back to the political wilderness where it currently belongs.

It was like music to my ears.

Because when James calls Harper's Cons mean-spirited bastards... I feel so much better about calling Harpo Great Monster Leader.

On the other hand why has it taken so long for James and a lot of other decent Canadians to come to that conclusion? Because the evidence has been there from day one of Harper's hideous un-Canadian regime.

What else can explain his decision to go after women and minorities, by ordering that the word "equality" be stricken from government documents. And killing the Court Challenge program?

What kind of cruel person would keep a Canadian child soldier rotting in a place like this?

What kind of bully would say he enjoys seeing fear in the eyes of other people?

What kind of political thug would turn our Parliament into a partisan pig sty...and launch the ugliest attack ads in Canadian history?

What kind of Prime Minister would condemn hundreds of thousands of Canadians to suffering by refusing to allow more Canadians to qualify for employment insurance?

What kind of human being can't feel the pain of others?

You know.... I think James and other decent Canadians took a little longer to appreciate the true nature of Stephen Harper because they couldn't believe that something so horrible could happen in Canada.

But who can blame them? Not me. Because although I'm going to keep fighting Harper my way....until the monster is driven from power. And I could never be as nice as James.

Deep down inside.

I share their gentle vision of Canada...



Except that for way too long, too many good people in this country were blinded by their own decency....didn't call a spade a spade...or a monster a monster.

And only after that mean-spirited bastard monster is gone.

Will Canada be Canada...

The Great Progressive YouTube Offensive

During the last election I hoped that the Progressive side would launch a YouTube assault on Stephen Harper's Con thugs. And make them pay for the brutish bully ads they fired at Stephane Dion.

It didn't happen then, but now it finally has..... and it's awesome.

From the brilliant ad in that post about the creationist chiropractor posing as a Science Minister.

To the wonderful work of The Amazing Grit Girl....



And the best part is because these progressive attack ads are so classy... the horrible attack Cons don't know what to do. Except whine and make empty threats.

If the Conservatives are holding their fire so they won’t be blamed for playing politics during this economic crisis, the Liberals and their proxies have just given them the green light and the media wouldn’t hold much credibility if they said the Tories fired first.

When in fact the Con ads are probably so brutish and dumb they don't even DARE launch them. Because they would only remind Canadians that attacks ads and Harper's sleazy Cons go together like shit and toilet paper. And make Great Pretend Liberal Leader look like a right-wing asshole. Again.

I believe we call that being hoisted on your own petard...or drowned in your own CRAPPER.

Now due to my almost complete lack of editing skills..... I'm not quite sure what MY attack videos are going to look like. But I think it's safe to say that Great Monster Leader will NOT look his best in them.

And that although I'd like to be as classy as The Grit Girl ....I'm sorry to say I wouldn't really be surprised.

If they ended up looking and sounding a bit like this one....



Except that in my videos the inflatable Harper doll won't say anything vulgar. Just "I saw it coming....OUCH !!! "The economy is strong ...WAAAH !!! " And the dog will just say: "I know what I'm doing....WOOF WOOF !!!"

Over and over again. Until the doll springs a leak or blows up. PFFFFFT. *POP.* And the punchline comes on:

Stephen Harper's Conservatives: Fucking ...Blowing it up as they go along.

C'mon comrades it's time to storm the barricades....and master those editing skills.

The Great YouTube War has begun.

And we're gonna KILL 'EM....

Why Blogging Won't Make You Rich

Uh oh. Bad news everyone. When we all lose our jobs thanks to Stephen Harper's incompetent Con government, selling chestnuts in the street might help pay the bills..... but blogging definitely won't.

For two years I was obsessed with trying to turn a blog into a business. I posted 10 or 20 items a day to my site, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, rarely taking a break.

I walked away feeling burned out and weighing 20 pounds more than when I started. I also came away with a sneaking suspicion that while blogs can do many wonderful things, generating huge amounts of money isn't one of them.

Oh well I guess it could be worse.

Or could it? TWENTY pounds? I'd have to use Mike Duffy's face as my avatar and wouldn't that be awful?

But wait it DOES get EVEN WORSE.

OK so let's do the math. Blogging won't stop you from being homeless, it can kill you or make you really fat. And if you lose your job it can wreck your chances of ever getting another one....after subjecting you to the most embarrassing job interview EVAH.

Mr Simon did you write THAT? Um...er...yessirree Mr Boss Man. But I must have been DRUNK.

But of course it REALLY REALLY could be worse. You could be on Twitter and Facebook as well. So you can let the world know when you're going to have a shit. Or find out that Ken has flat feet that sound like suction cups when he walks. And what Sarah thinks about nutmeg.

Because the only thing worse than that would be to have my mother walk in on me when I was playing video games.

With a Joydick....



But wait...isn't that how the Blogging Tories blog?

You know people sometimes I can't help wondering whether blogging is all it's cracked up to be.

Or whether we're all dead already. The cellphones HAVE eaten our brains.

And we just don't know it...

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The Doggy Detective and the Maginot Line

I normally wouldn't read Steve Janke's blog unless somebody stole my dog's bunny hat....and I needed a doggy detective to try to track down the culprit.

So imagine my horror when I stumbled upon it by mistake and found myself on the Maginot Line.

French forces at the opening of World War II went into their fixed defensive positions along the Maginot Line (which wasn't a single line of defenses like a single trench or the Great Wall of China, by the way) waiting for the Germans to advance against them. The Germans didn't fight that way the second time, using mobility to their advantage to attack from an entirely different direction (helped by a willingness to invade non-combatant nations), and so the French generals failed in their defense of the republic.

The French generals were fighting the wrong war.

Stephen Harper and the Conservatives are not making that mistake.

A new leader means a new line of attack, and you need to be flexible in your thinking to recognize that. It sounds like the Conservatives are not fighting an air war this time around (first Gulf War in 1991) but are instead planning a ground fight (second Gulf War in 2003), a classic example of switching strategies to reflect new realities, instead of simply repeating the past.

Yikes. Bomb me with a Kaiser bun. I don't know what to say. Except that by their words you shall know them. And have you EVER read such ridiculous shite before....even from the doggy detective?

But let me at least TRY to get this straight. The Cons are planning to fight the next election against a Coalition that doesn't exist? But one that before it died was more popular than the Harper government, and powerful enough to make Great Pathetic Leader grovel for his job, steal the Coalition's ideas....and turn him into a LIBERAL?

Oh yeah. That should work. Now remind me WHO is fighting the wrong war?

Steve,Steve, don't be a dummy. We're not fighting the First World War, or the Gulf War, we're fighting a war of ATTRITION.

First we watch as the Cons are softened up by a barrage of bad news.

Then we let Stephen Harper twist in the withering fire, and let him look like an incompetent .....or an idiot.

Who didn't see it coming, and doesn't know what he's doing.

Then when the moment is right, and the Cons are bleeding and demoralized...and fighting themselves... we wipe them off the electoral map. You know...defeat them, crush them, finish them off.

Golly. Even in these uncertain times some thing are for sure.

The Cons are intellectually bankrupt and doomed to extinction.

My dog loves his bunny hat.

And Steve is no Bismark...

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P.S. Don't forget to read Steve's cheap filler in the National Post....before the Con flagship is sunk by a U-boat....

The Day they Called me a Homophobe

Golly. I've been called a lot of names in my life. From Mr Faggot and Mr Poof for my gay gorgeousness, to Mr Telephone Pole for the size of my....um....intellect.

But I think I can honestly say....cross my heart....I've NEVER been called an intolerant homophobe.

And I'm speechless. I can't help but feel I'm not WORTHY. So I think I'll leave the good Dr Dawg to deal with Small Dead Chihuahuas.

While I deal with Diogenes.

By sending him a little note...in a discreet brown paper envelope.

With love from one gay guy to another...

Dear Dio

I was sorry to hear that you took offence at my mild criticism of Uncle Fred's new cabaret Gay Dominion.

And of course even sorrier to note that you've been used like a tool by the bigots at the Chihuahua Factory.

And I just want to say that if I had known it was you who came up with that awful name, I wouldn't have slagged it. Just suggested something better like La Con Aux Folles.

However, brother, I do think you exaggerate a bit when you say this:

What happens when gays have the audacity to announce that they support the Conservative Party of Canada? They get compared to black klansmen and Jewish Nazis, called "Uncle Toms" or compared to black minstrels tap-dancing for "massa". They are subjected to the most outrageous, condescending and offensive smears I can imagine.

I have never encountered from Conservatives who know I am gay the animosity and vitriol directed at me by gays who find out I'm a Conservative.

I mean PUH- LEAZE. Who do you think you are? St Sebastian of the Con Closet Queens?
















At least he's HOT....I mean he WAS.

But seriously Dio what really annoys me is not that you're a Conservative Party supporter. What really pisses me off is that you and the others like you spend all your time attacking the gay movement. And always seem to be apologizing about being gay.

But still I could NEVER hate you like those homophobic Cons do. Your so-called friends. Oh sure they LOVE it when you attack us. But they laugh at you behind your back, and hate you just as much as they HATE the rest of us.

You can pretend otherwise, or hide behind your ridiculous slogan:

"Each individual should allow reason to guide his conduct, or like an animal, he will need to be lead by a leash."

But the fact is you're the one on the leash. These homophobes are just using you Dio. Like Kate just did. Taking you WALKIES. While you wag your tail, and beg them to love you...or give you a treat.

So please let's not play the martyr anymore. I'm sorry to say you're just a gay stooge.

So if you didn't like that video of what you call those "happy tap dancing negroes." At the Gay Dominion Cabaret.

How about this one?



Mammy. Mammy. Massa. Massa. I'm just a poor gay Con. I'd walk a million miles for one of your smiles....and a pat on the head. Now gimme a watermelon !!!!!!!!

Enjoy it. And don't forget to spit out the seeds. Eh?

Love.

Simon

Which only leaves me with something to say to Krazy Kate at Small Dead Chihuahuas.

Which is a real problem.

Because I don't speak her language.

But luckily he does....



So there. Take THAT.

Oh boy. Isn't it great to be gay, lefty, and FREE? Woof. Woof. The bigots can call me a homophobe, And bombard me with ugly messages. But I don't give a shit.

Because with opponents like that. And their gay stooges.

How can we possibly LOSE?

Gay Dominion and our Uncle Fred

I hate blogs with the word Dominion in them. They remind me of tea and crumpets, and thanks to Free Dominion, of racists, and homophobes, and other nasty crawling things.

So imagine my shock when I came across a new Canadian Con one called Gay Dominion.

Gosh is that a pink triangle in their logo or a martini glass?

Now look.... I have to admit my first reaction was to wonder whether we could HUSH it up. Shove it back in the closet. So straight people wouldn't find out that some gays support the Conservatives. Like the 27% of gay Americans who apparently voted for John McCain and the Christianist homophobe Sarah Palin.

You know the gay IDIOTS.

The ones who want the gay rabble to be like them. i.e. buttoned down, boring and BOURGEOIS. The ones who embarrass us all the time by supporting Conservative parties full of raging racists,sexists,and homophobes.

But then I realized that Gay Dominion was only the work of Uncle Fred of Gay and Right.

And he's been embarrassing us for YEARS. Whew!!!

If he's not denying global warming, he's going after the Mooslims, or blasting lefty gays for being politically correct, or joining the homophobes in the wingnut crusade against the Human Rights Commission. Or putting down the gay rabble for being too strident or flamboyant.

That's why me and my friends call him Uncle Fred. As in EVERY family has one. You know the crazy but harmless old uncle you have to watch like a hawk at a community gathering. In case he unzips himself...and starts pissing in the punch bowl. Or stirring the macaroni salad with his PENIS.

But look I don't want to be too hard on Fred. After all he IS gay, so he is part of the gay community he hates whether he likes it or not. Because the homophobes don't care whether you are left-wing or right-wing. And we accept ANYONE.

Unfortunately.

So I want to wish him and Gay Dominion all the best. I hope it serves as a flaming forum where crabby old Conservative queens can discuss their favourite subjects. Like Global Cooling ....political correctness....the monarchy....Stephen Harper's irresistible manly manlyness....how to mix a good martini... and of course, why can't those young faggots be as respectable and BORING as we are?

So on behalf of the gay lefty rabble I just want to say.

Now that I've seen these gays Cons in action.

I think they're......um..... TERRIFIC !!!!



You know if those ridiculous gay Cons could tap dance like that.

In high heels.

I might even FORGIVE them...

The Pink Unicorn and the Blogging Addict Test

The other day I got a chance to send a message to my friend JJ, the awesome blogger known as Unrepentant Old Hippie, who has gone for a ride on a sparkly pink unicorn.

Now I really miss her. Not just because she's such a BRILLIANT blogger for human rights. And we all love her. But also because she has supported me so much over the years.

So I told her it's OK to take a short break...because she deserves it. As long as it's a very very very very short one.

And I made a joke about how we're all blogging addicts.

But then I took this test.

And now I'm not laughing because it turns out I'm a hopeless junkie ...or ...um...Blonkie?

91%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?

Gawd.I KNEW my ass was expanding exponentially, but how SCARY is that?

All I can say is thank goodness I don't live in China.

China is likely to become the first country in the world to officially recognise internet addiction as a clinical disease as it battles with the increasing number of people who spend almost of their time in chatrooms, blogging or playing online games.

Mr Tao runs a "boot camp" in Daxing, a suburb of Beijing, one of several hundred across the country. During the therapy, Mr Tao, who built his career on treating heroin addicts, offers addicts counselling, military discipline, hypnosis and mild electro-shock therapy to help them reform.

Military discipline and mild electro-shock therapy?

Uh oh...no thanks. I guess I'll just keep blogging until I get a perfect score...or my chair collapses. Or JJ comes back from China to relieve me.

Anyone seen a sparkly pink unicorn?

It can't happen soon enough...

Gay Marriage and the Blogging Tories

OMG. I paid my daily visit to the Blogging Tories today. And I got a HORRIBLE shock.

There in the midst of all that seething and heaving blogging depravity was this shimmering post.

I've discussed same-sex marriage issue with many of its opponents, and I've never been given a convincing reason why letting gays and lesbians marry will ruin that ancient institution for the rest of us.

With a great link:

Who precisely does gay marriage hurt? Can anyone give me a serious answer to that? If your society is so fucking fragile that the idea of homosexuals committing their lives to one another - just as social conservatives say they want everyone to - is threat to your society, then maybe your society just isn’t worth saving. At what point does the government and, by extension, the people, mind their own fucking business?

Wow. That was EXCELLENT.

I couldn't believe my eyes. If I wasn't sitting down I would have had to sit down, if you know what I mean.

Could the Blogging Tories...the home of Small Dead Chihuahuas, the Halls of Macaroni, Celestial Clunker, The Stoopid of Dr Roy, and of course the Nerd Monster Lezra, have been so inspired by the Coming of the Obama, that they were turning over a new leaf?

And then I read the comments:

So what happens when schizophrenics decide it's their right to marry farm animals? Or when bipolars want to marry rocks? Or when the criminally insane want to marry a harem of their dead victims? Well... we're being asked to accomodate one group of mentally ill's bizarre requests... why not all of them? Why are we bending over backwards to accept one kind of mental illness as normal and good but others we treat and try to cure?

.....to legitimize such sinful behavior by granting it the status of marriage is just too much, and should be resisted by all legal means. To such a believer you might as well allow thieves to steal as much as they like and call it "spreading the wealth around", or allow people to commit infanticide and call it "the right to choose".

Personally, I refuse to call two weiners or two buns a hot dog. I insist that a hot dog must have both a weiner and a bun. If it doesn't it's not a hot dog. Same with marriage.

And then I wasn't shocked anymore. And I took another look at the Blogging Tories. And no they hadn't changed. Too many of them are still the same wretched bigots.

The same nerdy nutbars.

The Nazis are INVADING Remembrance Day? Uh oh. Never mind the paddywagon to the HRC Gulag. How about an ambulance to the insane asylum? Somebody. Quickly.

But good for Damian and Skippy. I don't envy them. With the right-wing movement in North America shrinking into the hands of the Christianists and the crazies, they've got their work cut out for them.

And as for gay people?

Hey after THAT.

And THIS.

What do you think?

For them the struggle CONTINUES...

The Sweet Sights and Sounds of Victory

I don't have much time to blog but I feel like I'm FLYING tonight, so I just thought I'd take a few minutes to cheer on all progressive people. Not just the ones in Canada, but also those in the United States.

Because we are all fighting the same battle. The battle to drive the criminal neocons from power.The Battle for North America.

And after so many anxious days things are looking up at last.
In the U.S. the road to victory looks like this:


In Canada if you plug the latest Nanos numbers into the Hill and Knowlton election predictor this is what our road to victory looks like.

Cons 115
Libs 97
NDP 41
Bloc 55

Which means even if we don't do better, and I'm sure we can, the Cons would be left weaker than they were before, and if the Liberals and the NDP can form a coalition, we can defeat the government (with the support of the Bloc) and expel Stephen Harper's thugs from power.

So keep up the good work. Remember we're all in this together. We have our small differences but they are NOTHING compared to the foul Cons. And our beautiful Canada is depending on us.

Please don't take cheap shots at each other, just concentrate on hitting the Cons as hard as you can. Like Obama and our American friends are doing in the United States. As the debates in our country showed when we gang up on the monster we can make him BLEED.

Remember too we are BETTER than them. They are ugly diseased bullies, bigots and Canada haters who have RAPED our country and its values. Like the ugly Republicans have done to the U.S.

We are beautiful and we believe in building a more beautiful, just, tolerant, EXCITING Canada. A Canada for everyone. A Canada we can be proud of again.

OK I gotta run. I tried to think of a song or an artist who would say what I feel about my progressive brothers and sisters in Canada and the United States tonight.

But then I saw The Boss on TV singing for Obama.

And I said to myself he's OUR guy.



Because he's been fighting the power for a long time. He's still fighting them as hard as he can.

We ALL love him.

And because....as that sign in the crowd said....We're Alive Out Here.

And we're going to WIN !!!!!

Warren Kinsella Throws in the Towel...

By declaring that Stephen Harper is the Canadian Everyman.

By design or by accident, consciously or not, Stephen is the Canadian Everyman. He let us know that early on, when he grinned and said that meeting Bono about peace was his predecessor's schtick - and when he carried his son's hockey bag to a game, and the resulting photograph said to a few million Canadians: "He doesn't just understand my life. He is living my life."

Oh REALLY ? An Everyman? A hockey mum? Like Sarah Palin?

Or the vicious little nerd who tried to abolish the Student Union in both high school and university? The guy whose only real job was a stint with Imperial Oil...before he started hanging out with the ultra-right wing fanatics of the sinister Calgary School.

A man who attends a church that believes the world could end tomorrow...and that's a GOOD thing. And that women are born to serve and stay at home, and gays are an abomination. A man whose first act in government was to strip the word "equality" out of the mandate of the Status of Women.

An ordinary guy who shakes his kid's hand on the first day at school. Has a personal stylist to make him look PRETTY.













And lets other men take his wife out on the town...like every other ordinary guy. Wot?

A right-wing neocon monster who has run the most authoritarian and brutish government in Canadian history. A man who LIES all the time, and who let the thugs at Guantanamo torture a Canadian kid.

And then there's the "Canadian" part of the "Everyman." But why don't we let Bush Harper tell us about that one....

"Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it.... In terms of the unemployed... don't feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don't feel bad about it themselves, as long as they're receiving generous social assistance and unemployment insurance."

Golly. Who knew that a Canadian Everyman is someone who poses as a nice guy in a granny sweater.... so he can get a majority and rip the soul out of a country he hates so much?

Warren, Warren are we even talking about the same guy? And are you the same guy I once admired. And still sometimes do especially when you take on the right-wing hatemongers. Surely you must understand the banality of evil. Or are you just getting old and TIRED?

Because let me tell you something. To me a Canadian Everyman is a guy who fights for his country and our precious Canadian values. A guy who treats women as equals. Doesn't bully people or try to DESTROY his opponents. And doesn't want to turn our country into a neocon jungle like Amerika.

By killing the culture that keeps this country Canada. Killing the CBC. Or sentencing 14-year-old kids to be RAPED in jail.

And anyone who thinks differently must be confused.. or a DEFEATIST.

Stephen Harper is winning, and will win, not because of that Tim Horton's vs. Starbucks stuff I said in 2006. That doesn't apply anymore, because he's been in power for three years. Harper will win because he is the Everyman, and that is what folks want right now. They want someone like them.

Because Stephen Harper is not like THEM or US. He's a hideous neocon stooge who HATES who we are. Just like most Canadians HATE him.

And the battle to rid ourselves of this sinister freak will NEVER be over until the glorious day he is DEFEATED and dumped into the garbage can of history.

So throw another log on the fire Warren. Or roast yourself some marshmallows while we keep on FIGHTING to prevent Harper from getting a majority.

Because as I said in my last post, Canada is too beautiful to allow this monster to DESTROY it.

And defeat is NOT an option....

Sarah Palin, Heather Mallick, and the Top 5 Bloggers

Well I learned something new today. If you want to be the TOP ELECTION BLOGGER you have to denounce someone.

So I think I'll start by denouncing Susan Ormiston.

Now I'm sure she's a very nice lady. And the CBC is a precious Canadian institution. But really dahling, I'm afraid to say that anyone who includes Jason the Jabba and Stevie the Doggy Food Detective on a list of top bloggers, has got to be OUT of it.

But why am I surprised? So are her bosses.

Now look, even though I LOVE Heather, I'm not saying the Ombuddahman was completely wrong. For example when she says that Republican men are sexually inadequate, how does she know that I wonder? Huh? And was the toe tapper Larry Craig inadequate or just unlucky?

But does the CBC have to be so absolutely mindnumbingly BORING. Why did it have to give in to somebody like this? Jabba's ugly cousin.

Why do they inflict the right-wing dwarf Rex Murphy's dribbly diatribes on us all the time?

And don't they understand that in a country as sexually repressed as this one, anyone who can evoke the image of vaginas calling out to each other in the night, deserves to be REWARDED not punished.

Besides I thought her attacks on Palin's redneck family, and the white trash that support her, could have been so much worse.

And so much more shocking.

A shotgun marriage between Wasilla's wild makeout queen and the redneck oxycontin dealer .... to save the Republicans? Is that a Hail Ho pass?

Or something as scary as this halloween mask?















And as for calling this Christianist homophobe a porn star and a liar, I bet she isn't the only one.

Although I'd rather call her Jezebel.



Heather Mallick RULES. Susan Ormiston should get with it.

Her CBC bosses should stop being so BORING.

And if anyone sees Jason Cherniak or Steve Janke's absurd bloated ego floating past their window ....like one of Jabba's farts.

Make sure you have a safety pin handy....

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P.S. Extra good news...the guy who put that video of Sarah Palin on YouTube says he's got footage of her playing the flute.

EXCELLENT. Will it be a redneck howdy doody?

Or a funeral dirge?