Circle wagons, fire inwards

What’s an extreme right-wingnut to do when they can’t get anyone to pay attention to their insufferable whining about abortion?  Easy: turn on other extreme right-wingnuts over whether they’re anti-abortion enough.

American Right To Life, radical anti-abortion absolutists who are so far out there that they’ve criticized Focus on the Family for not being sufficiently anti-choice, recently took to the radio talk shows to go after Ann Coulter for her support of pro-choice presidential candidate Mitt Romney last year.   This clip has some short takes of the on-air ambushes, during which the foetishists drove Coulter even more bugshit than she is already:

Whew.  When you’re insane enough to make Ann Coulter look almost normal, you’ve truly crossed the Rubicon into the most hideous heart of fetus fetishizing darkness.  Uh, whoops, I meant to say — keep up the good work, RTL!

(via RH Reality Check)

The bizarro-world of wingnuts

I guess enough time has passed since Fox’s disastrous and hideously un-funny  attempt to produce a right-wing “Daily Show“, so they’re trying to co-opt another successful progressive media formula with their own version of the Huffington Post.  Behold “Bizarro Huffington Post”:

Just what the world’s been waiting for:  a clearinghouse for news stories, videos and opinion about liberal bias, the culture wars, and the ongoing “leftist” romance with Islamic Jihad.  Bizarro-News and BIzarro-Views in the Bizarro-World of Wingnuttery, Bizarro-HuffPo!

Would it be too strenuous an exercise for them to come up with an original idea once in awhile?  Or even just “once”?

Careful

Watch for flying fragments of exploding irony and burning hypocrisy…

…yes, it’s yet another free speech FAIL.

“Homeless Cons” = “Homeless Fetus Fetishists”

Ye fucking gads, this is the “Homeless Cons’” idea of “Politicians Worth Promoting”?

Only three so far, but raging religious nuts and fetus fetishists, every last one of them.

We all know more than we want to about the trailer trash trainwreck called SaWah.  Cheryl Gallant?? You’re kidding, right?  BWAHAA! And last but not least, a South Carolina Republican by the name of Bill Connor… if you haven’t heard of him, you can get a pretty good idea of his headspace from a recent article he wrote:

Err yeah, okay.

I don’t know about you-all, but I’ve got this site big-time bookmarked.  It looks like a promising source of material.

Just passin’ through

Speaking of acid flashbacks, shades of my misspent and chemically-enhanced youth! This is all! kinds! of awesome! Famous freak and “subversive cartoonist” R.Crumb is publishing a “scandalous Bible satire”:

The famously subversive US cartoonist Robert Crumb has announced the completion of his long-awaited take on the Book of Genesis.

The acclaimed satirist revealed on his personal website that he had finished the project, which is out this autumn, and which his UK publisher is predicting will “provoke the religious right”. Four years in the making, Crumb worked from the King James Bible and Robert Alter’s translation to reinterpret the Book of Genesis, from the Creation via Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden to Noah boarding his ark. [...]

According to his publisher, Jonathan Cape, Robert Crumb’s Book of Genesis is a “scandalous satire” which “presents a complex, even subversive, narrative that calls for a significant re-examination of both the Bible’s content and its role in our culture”.

“Will provoke the religious right” — well, it don’t get any better than that.

I wonder if he used Mr. Natural for the cartoon role of God. Ya think?

(h/t pharyngula)

Everyone’s twittering

Even teh wingnutz.

Undecided

touchdown jebus!

President Barack Obama has been invited to speak at the famous Catholic University of Notre Dame, and the hard core is anything but pleased:

In American Catholicism, it doesn’t get much bigger than Notre Dame. So when the university known for its golden dome, “Touchdown Jesus” mural and rigorous academics invited President Barack Obama to speak at its commencement and receive an honorary degree in May, it stoked both pride and anger on campus and nationwide.

Okay, so they’re pissed, they’re mad, they’re irate. But does furious anger and blind burning rage explain this?

No. That can only be explained by the Stupid. Or the Satire. I’m undecided.

Morans

From another one of those teabagging parties that Angry Republicans are attending by the millions thousands hundreds tens:

Dumies.  Crutons.  Freeks.

Speaking of teabagging, the batshit-insane American Family Association (you remember the AFA) has launched another excellent campaign called “National TEA Party Day”  (TEA = “Taxed Enough Already”).   On April 15, aka Tax Day, the AFA wants disgruntled conservatives to get teabagging at city halls across the nation.  Let’s hope they take lots of pictures of the teabaggers and especially their articulate signage.

(pic from Bob Cesca’s Blog)

Good morning

Be careful out there… don’t let this happen to you.

Reform V.2

Harper’s Red-ass gay abortionist pinko Tories beware!   There’s fuckery afoot:

We’ve heard of neo-cons, that’s neo conservative. There are so-cons, the social conservatives. Of course most Canadians are familiar with politicians who tell you they are fiscally conservative (and of course they quickly follow with “but socially, liberal). But what on earth are Homeless Cons? It’s a group started by Robson and his wife, fellow writer and pundit Brigitte Pellerin as an outlet for people who don’t think the current Conservative government is conservative enough. [...]

And Robson thinks that with the way the Harper Conservatives are acting right now, the score is zero for three. The government will not touch the abortion issue he notes, gave up on the vote they promised on gay marriage and in his mind doesn’t fund the troops properly. ” The final straw for Robson appears to have been the latest budget with its projection of a $64,000,000,000 deficit over two years; this after the government was already the biggest spending government in Canadian history. “If that’s conservatism,” he says, “why not vote Liberal.”

Anyone who considers personal issues like abortion and gay marriage to be of equal (or greater) importance to the economy and the military is a socon, no more and no less, so this appears to be a simple rebranding exercise.  Hmmm… how’d that work out last time?

Robson and Pellerin have attracted just 49 members so far, including for employee of Stephen Harper, Gerry Nichols, author of the book Loyal to the Core, an attack on his former boss. But Robson says having just a few dozen members in the first week doesn’t mean he should be written off, “That’s exactly what the Mulroney Tories said about the Reform Party, and where are they now.”

Where are they now?  They’re in the CPC, and the only way the conservatives can hold onto even a minority government is to keep them muzzled and hog-tied.   So as far as their resurrection goes, I don’t think it’s going out on a limb to say

FAIL!

Facebook “send the pope condoms” campaign

A Facebook campaign (with multiple groups) is now raging in response to Pope Siegheil’s idiotic comments last week about how condoms don’t help prevent AIDS. The idea is to send condoms to the pope to protest his remarks — I guess this is the secular version of the infamous “Full-Scale 30-day Prayer Assault“, let’s call it “Contraceptive Combat”:

Critics took to the social networking site Facebook to voice their fury over Pope Benedict’s remark that condoms do not prevent HIV.

Thousands have pledged to send the pontiff millions of condoms to protest the controversial comment he made to journalists as he flew to Cameroon last week.

“You can’t resolve it with the distribution of condoms,” the pope told reporters. “On the contrary, it increases the problem.”

Pope Benedict XVI has made it clear he intends to uphold the traditional Catholic teaching on artificial contraception. The Vatican has long opposed the use of condoms and other forms of birth control and encourages sexual abstinence to fight the spread of the disease.

People Who Know What They’re Talking About have already added their voices to criticism of the pope’s delusional anti-condom rant:

The Lancet, a British medical journal, urged the pope Saturday to issue a retraction for the “outrageous and wildly inaccurate” statement to journalists aboard his plane.

“His plane”. I wonder how many tithing Catholics it took to pay for that. But I digress…

Anyway, some quite creative critters have even come up with specially wrapped condoms for the occasion (pictured above). Now if the pope wasn’t completely blinded by superstitious dogma, he’d do the smart thing and re-route those condoms to Africa, with his apologies and mea culpa.

But I don’t like the odds of that happening.

If criticism of religion is a crime

… then slap on the cuffs and take me away.

As if to prove the point of those who decry the fascist tendencies of Islamic nations, yesterday at their behest the UN passed a declaration which would make it a crime to “defame” religion:

The U.N.’s top human-rights body approved a proposal by Muslims nations Thursday urging passage of laws around the world to protect religion from criticism.

The proposal put forward by Pakistan on behalf of Islamic countries — with the backing of Belarus and Venezuela — had drawn strong criticism from free-speech campaigners and liberal democracies.

No kidding.

As I recall, this started out as an “anti-blasphemy” declaration made in response to Mohammed cartoons and other theocratic thought crimes.  Still bullshit, but apparently it’s even more insidious, proscribing “criticism” of religion, which goes far beyond blasphemy.

Although I have no sympathy for those who couch bigotry in terms of “religious criticism”, this declaration is horse shit.  People have a right, no, an obligation, to make critical observations about religion, especially the kind of religion that metastasizes into politics and government.

The correct response to criticism is rebuttal.  An attempt to silence rather than rebut criticism could easily be seen as tacit admission that it’s the truth.

“Islam is frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violations and terrorism,” the resolution said.

Well then — your move.

Hoser

Speaking of sex with picnic tables and other unusal “partners”, here’s another one for the “Um err yeah, okay” file:

Jason L. Savage brought national, night-time jokester humiliation and worldwide embarrassment to the Great Lakes Bay Region by having sex with a vacuum hose in a Thomas Township car wash, Saginaw County Circuit Judge Fred L. Borchard said while scolding him at his sentencing Wednesday. [...]

A Thomas Township resident saw “someone acting suspicious” at the car wash at 7362 Gratiot at 6:45 a.m. Oct. 16, authorities said. A police officer parked nearby and caught Savage in the act, investigators said.

Hmm, I wonder if he got Hot Wax? … maybe “Hot Whacks“, eh? Oh well, Hoseboy copped a plea and life went on about as normally as it can for someone that weird:

Savage, 29, said the ordeal was humiliating and “has been overwhelming.” He said people stare at him, he’s afraid to come out of his house and he can’t find a job.

Naahhh… ya think!?? Maybe he should try applying somewhere other than car washes.

PSA

Via facebook, a message from Choice Joyce about the Ottawa Morgentaler Clinic, which is currently under siege by fetus fetishists:

The Ottawa Morgentaler Clinic has asked for letter-writing assistance in countering the anti-choice 40 Days for Life vigil, as well as the Mother’s Day protest in front of their clinic. The City of Ottawa has given the anti’s a permit to protest there. Please send a copy of your letter to Police Services, because they have often failed to respond quickly and adequately to calls from the Clinic about protester harassment of patients (although apparently they have recently improved).

The problem is not that protesters want to protest, it’s the location. One’s freedom of speech should not infringe on another person’s right to access a legal and required medical service. If they want to protest, they can do that anywhere, but they should not be allowed to interfere with women accessing services, especially at such a vulnerable time when women need privacy. Laws and court injunctions in other jurisdictions have recognized this. Further, patients’ stress and fear caused by protesters increase the risk of surgical complications, and picketers outside clinics increase the risk of violence or vandalism against clinics.

Please ask the City to rescind the permits because clinic protests violate women’s rights and endanger their health, and foster violence against the clinic and its staff.

Also if you can, please write Letters to the Editor: http://www2.canada.com/ottawacitizen/letters.html. Get the word out that the CITY is failing women and is more afraid of pissing off anti-choicers than it is about protecting the safety of women.

Here are the addresses:

Patricia B, Permit Services
City of Ottawa
City Operations, Public Works
Traffic and Parking Operations Branch
100 Constellation Cres, 5th Floor West
Nepean, ON K2G 6J8

Tel 1-613-580-2424, ext 28164
Fax: 1-613-560-1333

AND

Superintendant K. Roberts
Ottawa Police Service
Central Patrol Division
P.O Box 9634, Station “T”
Ottawa, ON K1G 6H5
Fax: 1-613-760-8098

Although anti-choicers have a right to assembly and peaceful protest, they do not have a right to impede safe medical treatment or harass patients with their craziness. A Mother’s Day Protest? One can only imagine the ghoulishness… shouts of “Mommy, Mommy, don’t kill me!” etc. at women entering the clinic.

Ladies and gentlemen, start your keyboards.

“Bestiality, gay orgies and babies eating sperm”

Hey, I don’t write the news — only the fetid and feverish imagination of a fundie would be capable of generating a line like that.

That awesomeness is the latest from the American Family Association, who are apparently in a masturbatory frenzy over “The Family Guy”.  From their latest “AFA Alert”:

HAHAHAHA!  Wild, mon!

I’m not sure what the AFA finds so offensive about this one:

“Lois, wearing skimpy lingerie, is turned down by her now gay husband”.

unless it’s a scene that hits uncomfortably close to home.

(via the stranger)

WTF?

From the thread with Pharyngula’s post on compassionate Christian Gingi Edmonds’ spittle-flecked diatribe about the Montana plane crash… a very strange comment:

Cringe, fellow canucks, CRINGE.  It’s one of our own fetus fetishists, doing Canada proud.

The comment looks like pretty standard bible-banger mumbo-jumbo, cretinous drool really, except for one thing: the commenter chose a handle made up of the names of PZ’s kids.  In context with the quote about “visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children”, suddenly a squirt of idiotic verbal splooge takes on new and sinister significance… at least some of PZ’s commenters think so.

Unfortunately, impotent veiled threats are probably just business as usual to the FBI, who are more accustomed to anti-abortion freaks shooting doctors, bombing clinics or ramming their cars into Planned Parenthood offices.

Stuff God Hates

HAHAHAHAHA!

But I’m not so sure this guy is the real thing because he doesn’t type the word “Lord” in ALL-CAPS (“You will know I am the LORD when I lay my vengeance upon thee!”).  Still funny, though.

Seeing double (standards)

The manufacturer of Gardisil, the HPV vaccine for girls, is trying to get approval for a corresponding HPV vaccine for guys. Oddly, debate about the “male” vaccine has shifted away from its supposed potential for encouraging promiscuity and focused on grimy dollars and cents:

When a vaccine designed to protect girls against a sexually transmitted virus arrived three years ago, the debate centered on one question: Would the shots make young girls more likely to have sex?

Now the vaccine’s maker is trying to get approval to sell the vaccine for boys, and the debate is focusing on something else entirely: Is it worth the money, and is it safe and effective enough?

There seems to be a bit of a howling, shrieking double standard in play here, but I’d expect nothing less.

(via feministing)

The Daily Disgust

Need a little rage to go with your morning coffee? Read on…

By now everyone’s heard about that tragic, horrible plane crash in Montana on Sunday: 14 people killed, 9 of them members of the same family, 7 of them
children 9 and under:

Fourteen people, including seven children, heading for a ski trip died Sunday when their single-engine plane crashed into a Montana graveyard and burst into a fireball, federal officials said.

One would think that all after such a tragedy there’d be only sympathy and compassion for the surviving family. One would be wrong.

Among those who lost several loved ones in the crash is Irving Feltkamp, who owns a chain of clinics that offer abortion services. And supposedly the graveyard where the plane crashed contained a monument to aborted fetuses (a pretty common thing in Catholic cemeteries). These factoids are completely irrelevant to the story, but you know where this is going, don’t you? Opportunity knocked — what better time to put the boots to someone in the name of advancing the “pro-life” cause than when they’re heartbroken and reeling from a devastating loss?

It wasn’t long before the rotten shit-eating scum were crowing with malevolent satisfaction, slyly suggesting that the horrible crash was some kind of divine retribution. Abortion clinic owner? Plane crash at the “Tomb of the Unborn”? Coinicidence? This lowlife douchebag thinks not, gloating:

I don’t want to turn this tragic event into some creepy spiritual ‘I told you so’ moment, but

… but I’ll just go ahead and do it anyway, right? Maggot.

One would think that anyone with an ounce of Christian charity would denounce this story as the cruel and opportunistic use of tragedy to push an ideological agenda, but one would again be wrong.

The tale of how the “abortionist” felt the wrath of god’s great shit-hammer as it smote his family instantly caused an anti-choice internet pile-on of such brain-damaged magnitude that it has to be seen to be believed. The story was repeated with grim satisfaction by various fetusblogs — it hasn’t occurred to any of them that this might be a less than charitable way to recognize the tragic loss of 14 people, including 7 real live children.

Fetus fetishists: “choosing life” and gloating over death. SCUM!

(via andrew sullivan)

Smallest dinosaur found in Alberta

No, I’m not talking about the patrons of the Creationist Museum.   Recently, two Alberta paleontologists discovered North America’s smallest dinosaur, a little predator half the size of a housecat:

It was the tiny terror of the prehistoric world, a two-kilogram killing machine that was essentially a mini-version of the velociraptor seen in Jurassic Park.

With its razor-sharp claws and teeth, Hesperonychus was a highly successful predator of the Cretaceous period. Yet due to its diminutive size — no bigger than a chicken — its existence was only recently discovered by a pair of Alberta paleontologists. [...]

The predator’s discovery is significant because it fills a gap in knowledge about the Alberta ecosystem of the late Cretaceous period, Currie said.

Look at the little anklebiter (artist’s rendering):

And here’s an actual picture of the little guy with one of it’s discoverers:

(pic from CBC)

Cool! Cool! Cool!

The definition of insanity

Theyyyyy’rrrre back!:

A pro-life group has once again set up a controversial display at the University of Calgary.

Officials say they have told the group they are no longer welcome to protest on university property.

If the pro-lifers refuse to leave, they will once again be facing trespassing charges.

Gotta give ‘em points for persistence. Although for good or ill, they no longer have club status, so I wonder about the source of their tenacity.  One thing is certain — this is unlikely to help them in court.

A taste of the persecution high… ahh, so sweet… first one’s for free… and they can’t help coming back for more, it’s like crack to these people.

Kids and Google Earth

A bad mix:

(from the guardian)

Fess up

I can’t help being unimpressed with the increasingly intrusive presence of Internet Hall Monitors around discussion boards and blogs, and I find this FD situation (a court order to reveal identifying information about anonymous posters) a little ominous.  Hoping to learn more about the details, I started reading through the thread at FD and immediately noticed this comment:

BWAHAA!  Alright girls, which one of you threatened to beat the snot out of this poor wimp pussy “guy”?   Or was it me??  I make so many violent threats on a daily basis that I lose track after awhile.

And one other point of interest, if you please:  you can always recognize a real “free speech warrior” by the way their first response to any pushback isn’t to fight for what’s right, but to contemplate doing the same to someone else.

How’s that for irony?

Family Research Council onside with Iran

The social conservative spincases at the “Family Research Council” have flipped their lids over the US government’s decision to endorse a UN declaration on Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. SHRIEEEK!:

Adding to the long list of Bush positions that are now history, the Associated Press reports that the Obama administration will reverse Bush’s policy and endorse a nonbinding U.N. declaration to “protect” homosexuals. The document was first presented at the General Assembly last December, when the U.S. joining several African and Arab nations refused to sign.

The FRC’s article goes on to abuse “scare quotes” with reckless abandon as it describes how the evil and odious declaration condemns “violence” and “harassment” and “stigmatization and prejudice” due to “sexual orientation”. (Must be a “bitch” typing like “that” with “quotation marks” every other “word”.)

Okay, hands up everyone who’s surprised that on a human rights issue, the fundamentalist screwheads at the FRC would take sides with shit holes like Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria and Pakistan…

Oh come on, there must be someone…

Lost in the translation

“Fun which you need to lubricate”?  Um err yeah, okay.

Maybe the ad agency should have hired a human translator instead of relying on Systran to adapt this Chinese Durex ad:

I would have used

“A rusty screw will never do — Pamper your pubes with Durex Lubed”.

(from ad of da month)