Fox has escaped fines in the past, but when the dreaded f word appears so often in a segment, hmmm…
On another bent, look at that crowd. All over the place, scruffy, dirty. No one is going to listen to the rabble, get on message get it together and march for ONE reason at a time. The Squares don’t listen when you should 10 different things at them, all together all of ya, ONE TOPIC AT ONCE.
One would swear that just four years ago, America was engaged in the “laugh at the rich guy” game for about 6 months; but when faced with a NEW rich guy ex-soldier (who was such a poor soldier that he got shot down and caught rather than fighting his way out like the ‘laughable’ rich guy) he can’t help but do well.
The insane thing is; he’s not even trying: Look at how he reacts to being called out for being so wealthy that he has no idea how many homes/houses he owns:
McCain, who huddled with advisers at his desert compound in Sedona, Ariz., said nothing in public. A nine-car motorcade took him to a nearby Starbucks early in the morning, where he ordered a large cappuccino. McCain otherwise avoided reporters.
Not, he retired to his campaign headquarters and ordered in some coffee. Not, he retired to his home in Sedona and worked on a response. He took nine cars to get one coffee. That’s like using 9 gold bricks to kill one fly! It’s so incredibly ostentatious and austere, I can’t even fathom where the sense of it is. One could argue that two of the cars were secret service, even four. There is no way that eight of them were, not if McCain isn’t wasting taxpayer money. Is he?
So McCain, in his response, comes up with another easy target. “John McCain needs nine cars to go get coffee”!
There’s another Meme in there somewhere. I KAN HAZ GASOLEEN WASTES PLEEZ?
All bets are off on fixed voting date as PM backtracks on promise to wait until October, 2009; decision expected within weeks
Be ready for fall election, Harper warns
I must have missed this quote:
“Mr. Dion is threatening to bring the government down, again, but we’ve heard that same song for nearly two years,” said Mr. Harper, accusing Mr. Dion of doing “everything in his power to slow the business of Parliament.
Ah, it’s refreshing to see a Tory behave like one, getting the Liberals to cow to their requests then accusing them of acting as a disrupting force for what they say in the media. It’s Castigation for Words and ignorance for their deeds. It’s too bad that Celine Dion is all Hat and No Cattle, since this kind of crap will go (Legistlativly) unanswered. At least we get to see Harper baring his teeth and reminding the people who do hear it (I missed it too) that he’s a sneaky bastard in the mold of the Neocons to the south. His near-invisibility in public lets him get away with it.
Now, will Celine Dion get his hand dirty and bring down the Government? Probably not. The Liberals really need to stop playing “politics” and start playing POLITICS and get out there and remind people that excepting ONE SCANDAL the Liberals led Canada to peace and prosperity and the Tories continues to Spend and Spend while cutting services and selling out to the Americans. There is NOTHING wrong with pointing out how often the Tories have cowed to the Bush Admin.
They won’t though, because they are the “New Liberals” and just an organ of the Tory machine.
Protestors at the Monument, originally uploaded by eschipul.
I make no bones about my dislike of the disorganized, messy and chaotic way the Western Left approaches protest. I’m not a proponent of lock-step marching as protest either; but I’m just looking for cohesion, a phalanx of ideas if you will.
It seems that hippies will decide, as a group to get together to protest “something” but will often show up
and have their concepts all over the place. The Majority will be on line with the main concept “We Quite Like Tea!” and there will inevitably be some spoilers “We like CHINESE TEA! Those INDIAN Tea lovers can get stuffed!” So the two (or more) factions will be a cacophony of ideals and colors and their chaotic presentation is lost to the “squares” as “Dirty Hippies can’t get it together over their Love of Tea”
They all love Tea, but, you know, can’t agree what brand of Tea. They don’t fight over it, but they all want their message to be heard. Ostensibly the protest comes off a cracking success, hundreds of people getting together to tell the world about the Tea and so on; but to the outside it’s just a bunch of students with more time than sense.
Protest over, it’s left to the organizers to either determine if the “Squares” got it; or if the whole thing should have been thrown over for a good game of Ultimate Frisbee or just a funky Drum Circle session. I think, perhaps, that self-evaluation is not really coming off for the team; since the very next protest is inevitably loud, disorganized and those Chinese Tea bastards are there, working against the rest of the group. I don’t think the protesters refer to each other as “bastards” but in my head they are all from the UK and they love beer.
So, what to do? Get REALLY organized! No outside signs, everyone has signs along the same theme, no sub-protests on the virtue of some other ethos. Everyone marches, bangs, sings and dances to the same BASIC tune. Variations on the theme are fine, as long as we are all on the same page, not to mention the same book.
So, there you have it. The next time you take to the streets en masse to profess your love for all things Tea, you are all set with these simple pieces of advice. See you on May Day!
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Abortion Protestors (Group), originally uploaded by NiteMayr.
I’m not a big fan of these folks, as they always seem to be of the “I am much more moral than you” stripe and relative morality is a pet peeve of mine. Additionally, they always tote those heavily graphic images of dead babies, right out there with the proverbial bloody shirt.
Usually I hassle them a bit and get on my way; but I had the opportunity to take a few pictures of them before I headed out to the shack yesterday so I snapped a few.
They weren’t sure what to think about me at first, as I got more “curt” I think they got the picture that I wasn’t just some tourist.
I didn’t call them out or insult them (I wanted them to smile ya know) but I really wanted to.
One thing that stuck out for me; there was a nurse there who quickly hid when she saw the camera, she was named “Debbie” Here’s the picture I got of her:
If you know a Debbie who works at Victoria hospital in London, tell her to use a Pseudonym when she is protesting if she doesn’t want people to know she is down with the protesters, okay?
The last time I engaged them I asked them why they thought it was appropriate to attack the poor and the victimized, but they feigned ignorance. I think the next time I see them I’ll pull the young women from the group (the ones that look like they can still have kids) and ask them on video what they will do if they (or their daughters) are raped and become pregnant. It’s provocative; but can you look at those pictures of dead babies and not feel provoked?
What about severely deformed babies (no heads and so on) are they going to force women to carry it to term?
I have no idea why they want to get involved and not get involved in more worthy causes, like poverty. It always seems that these Moral types want to get involved in something that is easy, they can condemn and feel like they have done something but it’s an easy something. Babies are easy to protect, most everyone loves babies.
It’s the parents I care about, until a baby is born, Mom and Dad matter more.
I know a bit about their motivation, I was anti-abortion until I was about 17-18. I don’t know for sure when I accepted that being anti-choice was wrong, I came to it when my brain developed the capacity to think critically instead of just emotionally I guess.
As I’ve stated before, I don’t think Canadian Politics could get any less interesting. The Big Bad Dog that is Stephen Harper has become almost invisible behind his Minions in the Parliament, he just has to “on occasion” kiss a pig and pat a baby. Yaawwwn.
Even Canadian Conservative Blogs are boring, true they filled with ridiculous personal attacks rather than substantive discussion about politics; but still boring. And as for the Liberal or Non-Partisan websites, some haven’t updated since February.
Celine Dion is still not enough of a Personality to drive an election; and lets face it, he isn’t going to help a Liberal win. It’s time for the Liberals to take a LOUD public stance, dump Celine and move towards a stronger and more NEWSWORTHY position, the scandals of the past are nearly forgotten; but if they can’t put out a series of candidates who can say “Things are good, but we can make them better in this way…” then it’s time to let Harper call another election and bide your time to the next cycle.
Harper’s near invisibility is a stroke of genius, Bush’s biggest mistake in the US was ever speaking about anything, he should have just kept to prepared and written statements and pretty much disappeared behind his political hacks, causing them to fall on their swords as they pulled boner after boner on his say. Harper’s near complete media non-existence lets his party stay safely in power as there is always a plausible deniability of “it was some other minister” when something goes bad.
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I dunno what Lowenm was up to here, were they simply being dim or did they think they were replying as “someone else” it looks like some sock puppetry gone stupid; but you never know Loewenm might just be dim.
I dunno, this might be offensive to you; but I enjoy a bit of troublemaking when I’m out and about. Adria, Anita, Chris, Shawn, Alex and Rosie will tell you that I’m the friend that will draw on your metaphorical face when you’re sleeping. It’s all about the “naughty” japes, no hits. You know?
This guy (who I will call English MotherLover from now on) was at the Party after the Shirt Tail Parade on Sunday night; and we saw him sashaying around the party as we were getting our own boogie on. Eventually someone said to me, “what do you think gay, straight or metrosexual?” and gestured to English MotherLover here. We debated this one for a while, because he was really flexing the pink and was “way too good looking and comfortable” to be straight.
Faster than you could say, How Rude, I went over to get the 411 on the situation. He assured me that he was straighter than your ruler, I asked about the tattoo. Apparently he has his friend’s Mothers name on his arms. He said that his friend was going to kick his ass for it; but he didn’t care. (It was airbrushed on anyway)
It was way too loud for a long conversation about this whole deal; and so I asked for his picture and returned to dutifully report on the details. Not Really gay, but just English (I was a great deal more colorful here but why ruin a good story).
The point of this little narrative is to reinforce a couple of points, why be shy and why not know the answer for sure? We were wondering, we had all considered the facts, but were not close to an answer, for the most part when dude’s were playing the fey at the party they were obviously straight guys playing it for kicks, this dude looked like he might really be “the only gay at that part of the crowd” and we had debated it. The truth was WAY more interesting than holding onto our little theories. People are awesome and their stories are always better than your fiction, you know?
As with everyone else I snatched for a photo on Sunday, thanks for posing English MotherLover!
Canadian Politics are Embarrassing: Dion is playing to lose
Published by NiteMayr on August 25, 2008As I’ve said before Celine Dion is going to drag the Liberal party down in the next election; when he ‘blasts’ the Tories for cutting arts funding he says this:
Please, someone, get him a few Bill Hicks tapes or Bill Connolly or something, anything. Teach him to breathe fire, get angry, dig deep and find righteous indignation! Celine Dion is pretty much a dead weight and until someone can smack him around and make him into a firebrand for Liberal values, he’s going to lead the Party into irrelevance.