Is it just me, or does it look like he’s doing a facepalm and going “Oy, vey!”
UPDATE (Monday): The rest of visinvox’s photos from the protest.Interestingly, the anti-choicers were proportionately a lot older and more male than the pro-choicers. There’s something genuinely creepy about anti-abortion men of any age — I mean, the obsession with womens’ private reproductive business, you know? Ew — and these photos really captured it. Like this one of creepy TroyBoy Newman from Operation Scum.What a slimy little weasel.
The fetus fetishists have a new target, and they’re wasting no time in getting a bead on it.
The target: Dr. LeRoy Carhart of Nebraska. The mission: to keep him from opening a clinic in Kansas to replace Dr. Tiller’s, and ultimately, shut him down completely (read into that what you will). Since their escalating campaign of harassment against Dr. Tiller worked out so well, they planned to use the same Winning Formula against Dr. Carhart.
First, nuisance legal harassment, just like they inflicted on Dr. Tiller. Then, to get the up-close-and-personal-harassment-and-intimidation aspect of things off to a good start, they planned to converge on Dr. Carhart’s clinic this weekend for a MASS(ive?) protest:
Mass! Protest! It was all going according to the Operation Rescum Anti-Abortion Terrorism Handbook… until pro-choicers decided they were crashing the party.
Ready to rumble? The 200 supporters who showed up to defend the clinic from the spittle-flecked onslaught were ready to rumble times ten. The MASS of 60-odd (and I do mean “odd”) anti-choicers who showed up with their fetus porn and ovary-rosaries and “Keep it closed” signs were met by signs that barked “This clinic stays OPEN, motherfuckers!” (or words to that effect). The end result: fetus fetishists were not only outnumbered, but outsmarted and outplayed. They were successfully held at bay, and forced to slink off whimpering and whining and licking their nuts.
So the “Mass” protest ended up a Massive FAIL for the fetus fetishists. But there were revealing moments, some of which were tweeted:
Balbulican points out that, rather than being an occasion to prove that much-vaunted “Conservative Civility” (and imagine that phrase being said in the most mocking of tones, because that’s how I’m thinking it as I type), the death of Ted Kennedy prompted a virulent, full-bore feeding frenzy in the Wankosphere.
The burst of self-righteous rancor spewed by those who like to smugly think of themselves as “Good Catholics” (imagine same tone as above) is particularly amusing, in a loathesome, maggoty kind of way: the Pope himself forgave Kennedy. Too bad so many of his minions can’t follow his lead.
The suspect in the killing of abortion provider George Tiller is in talks with a prominent attorney who represents anti-abortion protesters and has long advocated justifiable homicide as a legal defense in such cases.
Scott Roeder, 51, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and aggravated assault charges in the May 31 shooting death of Tiller in the foyer of his Wichita church. The Kansas City, Mo., man has refused to discuss his case, but he has told The Associated Press that Tiller’s killing was justified to save “the lives of unborn children.”
Roeder is consulting with Michael Hirsh, the lawyer who represented anti-abortion terrorist Paul Hill, who was canonized by anti-choicers for the murder of a doctor and clinic escort in 1994. Here’s how this shit-eating, fetus fetishizing douchebag responded when it was pointed out to him that an acquittal based on a “justifiable homicide” defense would only endanger the lives of more doctors:
But Hirsh discounted the suggestion thatif a jury acquitted Roeder of murder based on such a defense, it would lead to an open season on abortion doctors.
“It has been open season on unborn children for over 30 years. I think on abortionists there will be a bag limit,” Hirsh said in a phone interview this week from his Kennesaw, Ga., office.
“I think on abortionists there will be a bag limit.”That’s how seriously these scumbags take the murder of doctors and clinic staff, regardless of their lame, pearl-clutching “denouncements”. This is what they want to happen.
Here’s my 14 measly scrawny little FAILURES of tomato plants — they’ve been in the ground (or potted) since the middle of May and what? I’ve gotten maybe 8 tomatoes from them? EPIC tomato fail…
(Oh yeah, there are 2 strawberry plants in there as well, and they’re ALSO an epic fruit fail, having yielding about 6 strawberries. WTF? I’m going back to hydroponics.)
… takes place tomorrow (Saturday) at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica in Boston:
BREAKING NEWS:
Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston will preside at the funeral of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy tomorrow at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help (the Mission Church). The Rev. J. Donald Monan, a Jesuit priest who was the longtime president of Boston College and is now the chancellor, will be the principal celebrant. And the Rev. Mark R. Hession, pastor of Our Lady of Victory Parish in Centerville, will deliver the homily.
There’s obviously no doubt the funeral will go on. The only question is whether anti-choice scum will have the douchebaggitude to show up and launch some kind of protest against it. Judging by their conduct in the last 6 months, I’d be surprised if they didn’t.
Apparently the Ten Commandments have been edited for the sake of brevity, specifically lopping off the ones that deal with stealing and lying. I’ve noticed the fetus fetishists on Twitter have recently engaged in the anti-health care reform battle with great gusto, bearing false witness for the express Godly purpose of enabling private insurers to continue robbing everyone blind.
This week the newly-formed “Freedom Federation“, made up of dimtwits like “Concerned Women of America” and the “American Family Association”, pronounced that the US Healthcare System Is Working — though they neglected to say exactly “who” it’s working “for”:
Conservative Christian groups on Wednesday ramped up opposition to health care reform, saying the current system “has problems” but “it is working.”
Members of the newly formed Freedom Federation, comprised of some of the largest conservative religious groups in the country, say they oppose taxpayer-supported abortion, rationed health care for the elderly and government control of personal health decisions. [...]
The Freedom Federation said they would only be satisfied if the reform bills explicitly state that abortion is not a form of health care and would not be paid for with taxpayer funds.
Get that? What the fetophilic freaks and Christo-kooks are saying is that as long as the bill explicitly excludes abortion coverage, they wouldn’t have any other gripes. Gone and forgotten would be “rationed healthcare for the elderly” and “government control of personal decisions”. If they were being h o n e s t (a pretty massive “if”), wouldn’t they demand that the bill also explicitly address/exclude these other concerns?
Of course not, because they know good and damn well that both of these issues are mythical and made up of whole bullshit cloth. “Rationed care” is a steaming, maggoty load meant to bully and frighten seniors; all anyone has to do is look at Canada’s universal health care system and how it cares for seniors to know “rationed care” is nothing but a paranoid wingnut fantasy pulled straight out of the porcine, pimply ass of Rush Limbaugh.
As for “government control of personal decisions”, oh please! Apart from being flat-out Wrong — under Obama’s plan, people would still be able to stay with private insurers if they chose to do so — can you spell “hypocrisy“? I mean, who takes more delight in the concept of “government control of personal decisions” than the finger-wagging, laws-to-protect-you-from-your-sinful-self religious right? As long as they’re the ones in control and making the personal decisions, of course.
Although an estimated 45 million Americans lack health insurance, federation backers said they support the current system. “There may be problems,” Jackson said, “but it is working.
In case you didn’t catch that dog whistle, let me interpret it for you: that’s a big Godly “Fuck You” to the uninsured, who are probably sinners, reprobates and evildoers anyway.
The US health care system is working, alright — for private insurance companies. Here’s someone it ain’t working for:
And that’s someone who actually has insurance, but the people the insurance company employs to figure out how to screw its policyholders are obviously earning their keep.
Wingnut Daily’s Joseph Farah expectorates a gob of green gooey phlegm about Ted Kennedy:
I know there’s an old adage that one shouldn’t speak ill of the dead.
But I don’t subscribe to the idea that when evil and foolish people die we should pretend they were something other than evil and foolish.
And Ted Kennedy was evil and foolish.
He wasn’t just a politician with whom I disagreed.
He was a rotten man – a wicked man.
That reminds me of Randall Terry’s speech after Dr. Tiller’s assassination: “mass-murderer, evil, wicked, hands covered in blood”, yada yada. Funny how they never have Word One to say about the serial adulterers and depraved perverts in their own political sphere, so many in number that an interactive flow chart is required just to track *some* of the most recent ones… but what the hey. If they did, they wouldn’t be
H Y P O C R I T E S
would they? Way to live down to our expectations, wingnutters.
Is El-Rushbo back on the drugs again? I only ask because his paranoia seems to be spiraling out of control lately.
This week, laying the groundwork for what will almost certainly become the next feverish wingnut meme, Rush! insinuated to his credulous listeners that Obama is after their Manly Conservative Appurtenances, starting with Little Rush and working his way through the trailer parks of Dittohead America with a pair of rusty pruning shears in his hand and a malevolent grin on his face.
Blithering about a rap song that mentions his name and the word “balls” in the same verse, with a CDC statement about circumcision as a preventative measure against HIV weighing heavy on his mind, Rush! deployed this blast of hyperboleon Tuesday:
“I have been mentioned in a … rap song,” intoned Rush Limbaugh on his radio show today, saying ”rap” as if the musical genre might transmit syphilis.
After expressing astonishment at the strange turn of events, Limbaugh played a clip of a Jay-Z song that calls on Limbaugh to “get off his balls.” Limbaugh then fact-checked and refuted the main premise of song, politely reminding Jay-Z about who plans to do what to the nation’s genitals.
“I would remind the rapper Jay Z; Mr. Z, it is President Obama who wants mandated circumcision. We had that yesterday. That means if we need to save our penises from anybody, it’s Obama. I did not know I was on anybody’s balls.”
Rush! ought not to be worried: his penile unit will probably wither and fall off, rotten and riddled with STDs (Sex Tourist Diseases), long before Obama can get at it with his Satanic Scissors of Socialism.
Hundreds of Order of Canada recipients, representing some of the country’s leading scientific, cultural and political luminaries, are joining a growing global groundswell calling for a multilateral agreement to end the use of nuclear weapons. [...]
In recent months, a petition has been circulated to recipients of the Order of Canada urging support for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s calls for a multilateral nuclear disarmament treaty. Of the 3,215 living recipients of Canada’s highest civilian honour, 286 have signed on so far.
Looks like those Order of Canada recipients can muster a pretty good showing to protest an issue they feel strongly about. Like last year, when a “blizzard” of Order of Canada awards were returned in protest of Dr. Morgentaler’s award. How’d that work out, anyway? 400? 500? Eleventy-thousand?? Err, oh…uh…*cough*seven (7)*cough* (not counting the two returned from beyond the grave).
Seven?? Seriously?
Bwahaha! Fetus fetishists, the losingest losers in the Lose-O-Sphere.
US conservatives, I should specify, “teabagger-Americans”, are driving themselves crazy with misinformation, half-truths, untruths, and miscellaneous propaganda. I just stumbled upon this “urgent message” via twitter, pasted into a “paste bin”:
Banana Republic a la Argentina!?? That’s insane. But you can certainly see why they’re going apeshit — all these pig-ignorant rubes who don’t know what they’re talking about, relaying information that’s basically made up, from meetings they don’t understand. This, I suppose, is the downside of the internet’s lightning-fast communication capabilities.
(Oh yeah, that bit at the end was me — I didn’t realize you could actually do edits like on Wiki. Oops. Maybe one of my more creative readers would like to take a run at making the message a little more healthcare-friendly? Just kidding! Bwahaha!)
Anti-abortion terrorist Randall Terry’s rolling roadshow got a warm response from those attending the Jim Moran/Howard Dean town hall meeting last night:
Protestor Randall Terry, the founder of anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, who had warned local media he planned to make a ruckus, particularly infuriated the congressman with his screaming accusations that Dean was a “baby killer.”
Moran offered Terry five minutes of floor time to ask a question in exchange for quiet, but Terry refused and was muscled out of the meeting, as the crowd chanted, “Kick him out.”
It’s striking that Terry, rather than take the floor and make his case in a rational manner as was offered to him, chose instead to continue his psychotic raving about “baby-killers”. So let no one ever claim that the shutting down of such anti-choice fascists is the quashing of free speech: it’s a matter of simple civility, something of which they appear to be utterly incapable.
Talk-show host Sean Hannity, a vocal opponent of Barack Obama’s policies, said today he would not rule out a bid for the presidency in 2012.
Egged on by radio colleague Bill Cunningham, Hannity said he would consider entering the front lines of the political fray if God directs him.
“I’ve never made a decision in my life without – whatever destiny God has you’ve got to fulfill it,” he said. “I’m not sure that’s my destiny.”
Hannity would make a formidable candidate, with the likability of Reagan, good looks and strong convictions. He’s also a polished communicator and knows the issues inside out.
And he can debate.
Oh really?
Is this the same Sean Hannity I was listening to last week, whose rebuttal to a caller’s point that health care was unaffordable to many people was that those people should “just work 2 jobs” or “work 14 hours a day”? Or the Sean Hannity who, when informed that many health insurance policies often won’t pay for treatment when the shit hits the fan, suggested such policyholders were cheaping out on their insurance and they should *just* find jobs that offer ‘the good insurance’, not ‘the cheap insurance’. Easy-peasy, libtards! Especially in the bad economy that Hannity likes to bitch about (depending who’s in the White House).
That Sean Hannity? Paired up with Sarah “Death Panel” Palin?
Later in the program, a member of the audience asked what the host thought of a Hannity-Palin ticket.
I think it sounds awesome. By all means, WND, make it happen.
Sen. Ted Kennedy died shortly before midnight Tuesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass., at age 77.
The man known as the “liberal lion of the Senate” had fought a more than year-long battle with brain cancer, and according to his son had lived longer with the disease than his doctors expected him to.
“We’ve lost the irreplaceable center of our family and joyous light in our lives, but the inspiration of his faith, optimism, and perseverance will live on in our hearts forever,” the Kennedy family said in a statement. “He loved this country and devoted his life to serving it.”
Truly the end of an era, especially for those of us who can still remember hearing the news that President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated.
American progressives, you know how best to honour this man. Get it done.
Ahh well — once the birth certificate hysteria grew flaccid and teabaggers started fondling their weapons in public, it was only a matter of time before they’d remember the Clenis and demand a full accounting of the calibre of President Barack Hussein Osama bin Obama’s weapon. For security reasons. And the Constitution!!
Look familiar? Pay attention, dear USians. That was 63 years ago and we’re still standing, no Death Panels, no Grannies being executed at the hands of the state.
Living in the secular paradise of Canada, we’re bothered by the occasional fetus fetishist or some other variety of right-wingnut, but the truly batshit insane tend to be institutionalized or standing on street corners mumbling and shrieking and shaking their fists at the sky. They’re seldom elected to political office, and on those rare occasions when they do weasel in, *cough*CherylGallant*cough*, our paranoid Prime Minister keeps them muzzled in the interest of political self-preservation.
Not so in the USA, where all manner of nutjobs can and do run for office on whacky platforms like “abortion, litter and paying city councillors a dollar a year”… in Jesus’ name, of course. If you think Cheryl Gallant’s a wingnut, check out Livonia, Michigan city council candidate Glenn Moon:
Ever wonder why those dining room tables out there seem so horrifically fact-challenged, particularly when it comes to health care reform? I used to blame it on their cataclysmic feeble-mindedness… and okay, it’s partly that, but there’s something else at play.
A recent poll asked if respondents believed 4 outrageously wrong ideas about health care reform, then broke the results down by the respondents’ self-identified TV news sources, separating Fox News from MSNBC and CNN. What a surprise: Fox News viewers turned out to be overwhelmingly misinformed. Behold the dumbfuckitude:
So what’s happening here is that Fox News viewers (and Republicans in general, since Fox News viewers are overwhelmingly Republican) inhabit an alternate “facts-optional” universe, courtesy of brain-damaged bozos like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity, who are only too happy to misinform the psychotic and cerebrally-deprived. That’s why it’s so frustrating to attempt “debating” such people — it’s like talking about the weather with someone who operates on the basic premise that the sky is green and rain falls upwards into the clouds. What’s the point?
It is appropriate to lobby the decision-maker at the Crown’s office with respect to a sentence appeal.
The decision-maker in this case is:
Mr. Grant B. Wong
Deputy Regional Crown Counsel
222 Main Street
Vancouver, B.C.
V6A 2S8
FAX: 604.660.4347
Mr. Wong will be returning to his office in the first week of September, but no reason to wait until then. Your comments should be in letter format (not email). Be polite and stick to the facts. Point out the public policy implications of letting admitted rapists walk free.
The religious right loves to whine about how oppressed they are and all the vile “anti-Christian persecution” they must endure — which may be true in some savage parts of the world, but here in North America where they’re by far the majority religion, it’s common knowledge that they in fact get a spectacular buzz off it. Well, that’s all over: the next time I encounter such griping and grousing, I’ll just refer them to the story about the persecution of the Friendly Atheist at the hands of the Illinois Family Institute.
The IFI is yet another one of those pearl-clutching homobigot fundie groups that erroneously conflates the word “family” with “anti-gay” (much like our own Institute for Marriage and Family). The Friendly Atheist is located in the same state, so it’s incumbent upon him to mock and ridicule nutbars like the IFI as necessary, which is just what he did when they posted thisoutrageously dumb article. The IFI then found out who the Friendly Atheist is in Meatspace: a teacher, and OHMYGODWHATTHEFUCKWon‘t someone think of the CHILDREN??!!??
… you can guess the rest. The IFI didn’t even bother to contact the FA privately with their complaints, they went straight to the school board and administration, his employers, and advised them of the grave and growing Threat in their midst. (To no avail since, unlike some, FA’s employers actually do respect the right to free speech.) To make matters even sleazier, the IFI now claims they never intended to get the Friendly A fired… they just wanted to warn the school in case his “personal views” started finding their way into the classroom. Right, and I’m sure it bothers them just as much when the “personal views” weaseling their way into the classroom include stories about Jesus riding dinosaurs and the 6000-year-old earth.
The whole sad sordid story of pernicious persecution is here: I advise bookmarking for future reference.
The Republican Party chairman of Boise County in Idaho was arrested Thursday for aggravated assault after he pulled a gun on a man whose house he was photographing.
Charles McAffee, 33, was among Idaho’s anti-tax tea-party activists, and is a member of the Idaho Republican Party Central Committee. He was arrested after pulling a handgun on a homeowner whose mortgage his employer sought to photograph for being delinquent. His employer is a contractor for Wells Fargo.
Wells Fargo condemned the guy’s “behaviour” (no shit!?), but this is still seriously bad craziness. This McAffee guy isn’t just some street thug, or even just an anonymous teabagger — he’s chairman of the local GOP, and he works for a bank (kicking people out of their houses, by the sound of it, nice), not the mafia.
Haha! If you’ve got some Gravol on hand and half an hour to kill, check out this column at Rabble from James Winter that gives a rundown of some of the finest feminist-bashing to be found in the wingnut press this silly season. One of the articles I’ve already seen, but most were new to me.
Of the four featured evacuators of the summer’s most fetid anti-feminist turds, the Ottawa Citizen’s John Robson delivers most impressively with an article that achieves a twisted logical balancing act I can only characterize as a “dialectic arabesque“, somehow connecting homosexuality, Islamic terrorism, feminism and the Cannes Film Festival. Heavy. The others, while not quite up to Robson’s analytical acrobatics, are engaging in their own putrescent way.
So down a gravol to pre-emptively settle your stomach, and go read.
Here’s an election scenario that Sarah Palin would have a good chance of winning handily… the all-important “Birthers-only” vote:
Public Policy Polling, a liberal pollster, had an interesting idea recently: The firm broke down a national presidential survey it did, separating out the Birthers among the respondents in order to see who their preferred candidate was. [...]
Palin clocked in with a 66 percent favorability rating among the Birthers; Mike Huckabee was second with 58 percent, while Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney brought up the rear with 46 percent and 43 percent, respectively.
I’m not sure what the take-away from this is, exactly — maybe just that Stupid, like Misery, loves company.
It’s no secret that the rallies and town hall disruptions in opposition to US health care reform are largely, if not completely, organized by private insurance front groups (“Patients United Now“, “Americans for Prosperity“, “Conservatives for Patients’ Rights” etc.). In a desperate attempt to maintain the uber-profitable private insurance cartel, these groups have been capitalizing on the drifting, directionless fear and anger of malleable, low-information, “dining room table” conservatives. Recently the insurers themselves started blatantly getting into the act, with at least one, United Health Group, urging its employees to go a-teabaggin’ on Wednesday with Dave Daubenmire:
However, a source who’s insured by UHG–and who also obtained the letter–called the hotline on Tuesday and says the company directed him to an events list hosted by the right wing America’s Independent Party, and suggested he attend an anti-health care reform tea partysponsored by religious fundamentalist Dave Daubenmire, scheduled for today outside the office of Blue Dog Rep. Zack Space (D-OH).
UHG is now into pretty serious whackaloon territory with their endorsement of an event sponsored by Dominionist douchebag Daubenmire, whose connections to the far, far, FAR right run from the American Independence Party to Militiamen to Operation Rescue and the Army of God.
It’s unknown how many UHG employees actually followed their employer’s instructions and attended Daubenmire’s teabagging party. But there’s something profoundly disturbing about the fact that a big mainstream insurance company is so determined to stop health care reform that they don’t mind making common cause with people who endorse murder and terrorism as a means to an end.
Is it just me, or does it look like he’s doing a facepalm and going “Oy, vey!”
We hear ya, TroyBoy. Loud. And. Clear.
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Look familiar? Pay attention, dear USians. That was 63 years ago and we’re still standing, no Death Panels, no Grannies being executed at the hands of the state.
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