How could those Con stooges make us guys look so...um.. DUMBER?
Men also tend to support those they think will attack deficits and keep the economy moving, Mr. Gregg said.
“You have to continue to keep that male advantage,” he said of the Tories. “You have to position your opponent as a wimp and as an effete snob and out of touch with manly concerns.”
Or BRUTISH.
Then I remembered....wait a minute.... this is a STRAIGHT guy problem. Because you can fit the number of gay men who would vote for Stephen Harper into a closet...or a shoe box.
I mean gay guys and straight guys share a lot of "manly concerns." Like our love of sex, sports, sex, video games, sex, sports, and of course toys of every description.
Like the one that flew over my house the other day...
OMG. Baby come back. I LOVE you !!
But try as I might, I probably will NEVER be able to understand why so many straight men are attracted to this sinister nerd...
I mean what part of him turns them on so much?The vote hooker, the flabby ass, the hockey book he's been writing forever, the torture freak, or the wild look in his cold dead eyes?
Is it his nerdly musk those straight boys find so irresistible...or do they just enjoy being his BITCHES?
I mean really dudes MEN UP. Stop acting like pathetic weaklings and stooges.
Are we really going to let the women save this country all by themselves?
No way eh? They're obviously smarter than we are.
But we can still do some things better than they can...
Or can we? Gawd. That's it isn't it? The painful truth.
Now that the pirate hostage drama off the coast of Somalia has ended in bloodshed.
And the American navy is patting itself on the back...for using a missile destroyer to bring down four men in a lifeboat.
Maybe it's time to remind you of the pirate story I told you the other day. And of the other lies they told us.
In 1991, the government of Somalia collapsed. Its nine million people have been teetering on starvation ever since – and the ugliest forces in the Western world have seen this as a great opportunity to steal the country's food supply and dump our nuclear waste in their seas.
More than $300m-worth of tuna, shrimp, and lobster are being stolen every year by illegal trawlers. The local fishermen are now starving. Mohammed Hussein, a fisherman in the town of Marka 100km south of Mogadishu, told Reuters: "If nothing is done, there soon won't be much fish left in our coastal waters."
You know if I was a poor Somali fisherman I'd probably be a pirate too.
And as for those other pirates....
Pirates were the first people to rebel against this world. They mutinied – and created a different way of working on the seas. Once they had a ship, the pirates elected their captains, and made all their decisions collectively, without torture. They shared their bounty out in what Rediker calls "one of the most egalitarian plans for the disposition of resources to be found anywhere in the eighteenth century".
They even took in escaped African slaves and lived with them as equals. The pirates showed "quite clearly – and subversively – that ships did not have to be run in the brutal and oppressive ways of the merchant service and the Royal Navy." This is why they were romantic heroes, despite being unproductive thieves.
If I had lived back then..... I KNOW I would have joined them.
Although sometimes I think I have...
Here's to the poor and the oppressed of the world.
Shorter version: The pirates were once fishermen who lived in a country without a government.So nobody patrolled the coastal waters and stopped foreign trawlers from ravaging fish stocks.
Or stopped countries from dumping toxic waste that sickened them and their families and ruined their livelihood. So they started "taxing" trawlers for the damage. And it wasn't very long before somebody figured out that piracy might be even better.
It doesn't excuse what they are doing. Especially when the ship they held up is loaded with U.N. food for malnourished mothers and children in Somalia and Uganda. And badly needed cooking oil for refugees in Kenya.
But it does explain how it happened. And it does makes you wonder who are the real victims? Who is really to blame? And who are the navies of the world really protecting out there? Oh boy. What a world eh? When even pirate stories are complicated. Just a lot of desperate people in a country the world forgot. And enough shame for EVERYONE...
