I wonder

…how many of the same people who went into paroxysms of frenzied outrage and wanked themselves stupid over the sight of Janet Jackson’s nip during the Superbowl half-time a few years ago would be perfectly okay with something like this?:

For only three hours a year do Americans actually look forward to watching commercials rather than ignoring them, muting them or running to the bathroom during them, as we do the other 8,763 hours.

That is during the Super Bowl.

In fact, commercials have become part of the entertainment during football’s annual big game, a cultural phenomenon.

So imagine a 30-second Super Bowl ad showing the graphic reality of abortion.

Fetus pron during the Superbowl — just to make those Superbowl snacks a little more appetizing, eh?  Predictably, Nurse Stanek is pretty gung-ho about the idea:

Most Americans, including many pro-lifers, would abhor such an ad.  But pro-life activists like me would be ecstatic, if such a word can be used to describe fulfillment of a passion to see a multitude of people face the truth about abortion….

Such a word can indeed be used, but there are many many more accurate words  at our disposal to describe such mania:  “psychotic” springs instantly to mind.

The plan was hatched by the ubiquitous Randall Terry, whose foetishizing derangement extends beyond all known parameters on the sanity scale.  All he needs is a cool $2.5 to 3 million and, oh yeah, the blessing of whatever network is running the Superbowl…

GOOD LUCK WITH THAT!

Unhappy Meal

If the fact that it’s a nutritionally-bankrupt, fat-laden, sodium-loaded, chemically-enhanced (and not in a good way!) heart attack in a box isn’t enough to deter you, here’s something else that might give you cause to pause before wheeling into the Golden Arches Drive-Thru for that yummy Happy Meal.

Last spring, a New York photographer decided to conduct a Science Experiment of sorts on a Mcdonalds Happy Meal, and the results, or should I say the lack thereof, were appetite-challenging to say the least:

Not much has changed since April 10, 2010 on Day one. The top bun is very dry and a small part snapped off. The burger shrank as it dried out, but nothing much else.  […]

The Happy Meal stopped smelling of anything after only a couple days, and the only change that really seemed to occur was that it essentially plasticized. “At six months old, the food is plastic to the touch and has an acrylic sheen to it. The only change that I can see is that it has become hard as a rock,” Davies told the Mail.

No, really.

Maybe those plastic “toys” that come with the Happy Meals are just hunks of calcified meat-like substance that the burger flippers sweep off the floor every night and save.  Or maybe they’re not toys at all, they’re the plastic dessert that goes with the *heave* plastic “meal”.

Sexual McCarthyism comes to DC

Authoritarianism on the march: it’s here and it’s queer (closeted perhaps, but still)!

Hyperbigot Christianist freakshow voted (by me) “Most Likely To Be Caught Holidaying With A Hunky Personal ‘Bag Handler‘” Peter LaBarbera of — stand back! — “Americans For Truth About Homosexuality”, wants to know if SCOTUS nominee Elena Kagan is now, or ever has been, a member of Teh Ghey Conspiracy. Because according to LaBarbera, “the public has a right to know” the most private personal details of Kagan’s life:

In the wake of AP’s report that Solicitor General Elena Kagan is President Obama’s choice to fill the Supreme Court vacancy, Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) reiterates its call for Kagan to answer the question: ‘Are (or were) you a practicing homosexual?’

According to some reports it is an open secret that Kagan is a practicing lesbian — to which AFTAH President Peter LaBarbera responds:

“If Kagan is practicing immoral sexual behavior, it reflects on her character as a judicial nominee and her personal bias as potentially one of the most important public officials in America. The popular mantra — even among conservatives — is that Kagan’s sexuality is ‘irrelevant.’ But a Justice Kagan would help decide some critically important constitutional issues dealing with: homosexual ‘marriage’ as a supposed civil right; religious liberty and freedom of conscience; and the First Amendment as applied to citizens’ right to oppose homosexuality. So it certainly matters if she, as a lifetime judge, could emerge as a crusading (openly) ‘gay’ advocate on the court.

All I can say to that is:   At long last sir, have you no sense of decency?

Good night and good luck (and get fucked).  (EDIT:  As Bina would say.)

UPDATE: Oh, fun… the homobigot hate site has a search engine.  Let’s see if they’re up to date on the relevant news of the day:

Oh come on.  Surely they must have something more than a 4-year-old bullshit story about a different George Rekers (the one that hadn’t been caught yet).  This was a Big Scandal among the Christofascist Elite, after all, and AFTAH links to some of the very “ministries” Rekers helped head up (so to speak)…

Ah-ha!  Ding ding ding!How many of these deranged creeps do you think went straight to the rentboy site after reading that article?  Bwahaa!

(Post edited to use cache link to what appears to be a raging hate site.  Apologies.)

The Daily Catholic Priest

“Hear No Evil” Edition:

Top Vatican officials — including the future Pope Benedict XVI — did not defrock a priest who molested as many as 200 deaf boys, even though several American bishops repeatedly warned them that failure to act on the matter could embarrass the church, according to church files newly unearthed as part of a lawsuit.  […]

The Wisconsin case involved an American priest, the Rev. Lawrence C. Murphy, who worked at a renowned school for deaf children from 1950 to 1974. But it is only one of thousands of cases forwarded over decades by bishops to the Vatican office called the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, led from 1981 to 2005 by Cardinal Ratzinger. It is still the office that decides whether accused priests should be given full canonical trials and defrocked.

In 1996, Cardinal Ratzinger failed to respond to two letters about the case from Rembert G. Weakland, Milwaukee’s archbishop at the time. After eight months, the second in command at the doctrinal office, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, now the Vatican’s secretary of state, instructed the Wisconsin bishops to begin a secret canonical trial that could lead to Father Murphy’s dismissal.

Hands up all Catholic Priests who haven’t molested any small boys.  Anyone?  Anyone??  Hello??!?

This is getting repetitive

Yet another child sex abuse scandal has burst out of the Catholic church, this time in Das Vaterland of Pope Siegheil, no less:

Authorities have raided a monastery in southern Germany as part of a probe into allegations that priests sexually abused children there, prosecutors said.

Eight former students at the Ettal Abbey boarding school have reported that they were abused in 1954 and in the 1970s and ’80s, the abbey has said in a statement. The head of the monastery and the school headmaster stepped down last week.  […]

Nearly every day since the end of January, people have come forward to report cases of sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Germany. News reports put the number of cases at about 150.

150… and it sounds like the investigation just got rolling.  Surprised?  Right.

The shock value has long since gone out of these sordid tales of abuse and degradation at the hands of predatory priests who skulk the darkened hallways with even darker plans for their young charges  — by now it’s widely assumed to be standard operating procedure.

I wonder how bad it has to get.  Seriously:  if what’s going on in the Catholic church was business as usual in my neighbourhood, I’d move.  And furthermore, what is it about the Catholic church that attracts so many of these creeps?  I know of no other religious organization that is so teeming with child molesters and their apologists.

INACIYAR

“It’s not a crime if you’re a Republican!”

Remember the two little conservatards who took their “pimp and ho” act on the road for a covertly taped interview that snagged entrapped a dimwitted ACORN worker? This little creep…… was arrested with 3 other pinheads yesterday in the midst of trying to bug the phone system in a Democratic Senator’s office:

A conservative activist who posed as a pimp to target the community-organizing group ACORN and the son of a federal prosecutor were among four people arrested by the FBI and accused of trying to interfere with phones at Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office.

Activist James O’Keefe, 25, was already in Landrieu’s New Orleans office Monday when Robert Flanagan and Joseph Basel, both 24, showed up claiming to be telephone repairmen, U.S. Attorney Jim Letten’s office said Tuesday. Letten says O’Keefe recorded the two with his cell phone.

It should come as no surprise that in the past O’Keefe has teamed up with another low-rent authoritarian swine who gets off on invading privacy to make “undercover” movies, fetus fetishizing extremist “Lila Rose”.  That’s right, the degenerate punishment freak who goes into ecstatic spasms when visualizing women being forced by the state to have abortions “in the public square“.

O’Keefe became a conservative celebrity of sorts after his ACORN movies went viral (and I mean that in the worst possible way) on Youtube, but I guess he let it go to his head.  He apparently saw nothing illegal, immoral or just wrong about bugging a politician’s phone.  Or maybe he figured he had the connections to keep him out of trouble:

In the reception area, Flanagan, the son of acting U.S. Attorney Bill Flanagan in Shreveport, and Basel asked for access to the main phone at the reception desk.

After handling the phone, Letten’s office said, they asked for access to a phone closet so they could work on the main phone system. The men were directed to another office in the building, where they are accused of again misrepresenting themselves as telephone repairmen.

Hoho!  I guess we’ll see how much drag US Attorney Bill Flanagan has, because what these little dickheads were doing is a federal offense that would mean a world of hurt for most people.  Stay tuned…

UPDATE:

“It was poor judgment,” Robert Flanagan’s lawyer, Garrison Jordan, said in a brief interview outside the courthouse. “I don’t think there was any intent or motive to commit a crime.”

Is he kidding?   “Poor judgment” is getting shitfaced at the office Christmas party and pissing in the wassail.  Secretly wiretapping a Senator’s office seems a little more serious.

The sleazy face of scientific denialism

The climate change denialist “movement” is led by many sinister, squalid and opportunistic creeps, but one of the sleaziest is Christopher Monckton.  A business consultant and former Tory policy advisor with a political philosophy that seems to be equal parts Thatcher, Goebbels and the Pope, Monckton refers to himself as “Lord” although he’s never been a member of the British House of Lords — he is what’s known as a “hereditary peer” in one of those old aristocratic British families (rumours of inbreeding and insanity in the British aristocracy are just irresponsible speculation, I think?).   He achieved notoriety in the 80s with his warped views on AIDS/HIV:

“…there is only one way to stop AIDS. That is to screen the entire population regularly and to quarantine all carriers of the disease for life. Every member of the population should be blood-tested every month … all those found to be infected with the virus, even if only as carriers, should be isolated compulsorily, immediately, and permanently.”

Monckton went on to become a vehement critic of climate change science and spokesman for the well-funded flat earth denialist movement.  His attitude towards environmentalists is summed up in this slide from a speech he gave to the Minnesota Free Market Institute a couple of months ago:

A shout-out to the teabagger wing!

Naturally Monckton’s been among those denialists hanging around Copenhagen like a bad smell during the Climate Change summit. This week one of his speeches was interrupted by a group of young climate change activists, who he smeared as “Hitler youth”.  Want to see some slime?  Here’s a video of Monckton later justifying his remarks  to the young activists, and repeatedly calling them Nazis — (and doesn’t apologize even to one kid who says he’s a Jew):

Ugh.  I certainly admire the restraint of those young people in dealing with that sanctimonious asshole.   And what’s up with denialists and “the last 15 years”?  It’s no wonder serious people refuse to debate them — they should be dismissed out-of-hand, the same way scientists do to proponents of “creation science” when they clamor for debate.

UPDATE: Surprise — denialist claims have been Fact Checked and found wanting.

UPDATE II:  Who are you people?

(via DeSmogBlog)

OOF! *thud*

Now here’s a headline with the impact of a hail of bullets to the face:

No, really:

But I think we should be taking the possibility of a Dick Cheney bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012 more seriously, for a run would be good for the Republicans and good for the country. (The sound you just heard in the background was liberal readers spitting out their lattes.)

Why? Because Cheney is a man of conviction […]

Maybe he meant to say “a man who deserves a conviction?”

(via Wonkette)

Eww

This should be about enough to make you upchuck.  Guess what porcine, bigoted, drug-addled, sex-touristing, brainless bullshitting bigmouth will be one of the judges of the Miss America contest next year?   Puke:

Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren reported on her blog last night that the Miss America Organization (MAO) announced that hate radio host Rush Limbaugh will be named as one of the seven judges for the 2010 Miss America Pageant in Las Vegas…

EWWW.  Just the thought of that fat fetid old swine drooling and sweating over the contestants is enough to make any normal person lose their lunch.

If there was any doubt that these moronic contests have had their day, the fact that they’d choose a rotten misogynist douchebag like El-Pusbo to preside over one of them surely seals the deal.

Let’s hope he keeps his hands where everyone can see them.  EWWWW!

Freak Alert

This was too creepy for me not to post.

From Right Wing Watch, here’s a short video clip of anti-choice fascist Lila Rose, addressing the “Values Voters Summit” on the weekend.  Watch closely how the expression on her face transforms into almost a snarl when she talks about how women should be forced to have abortions “in the public square” — a truly medieval hair-shirt punishment routine if there ever was one — then transforms back to a benign smile when she talks about “hearing angels sing”.  

 

I don’t see misogyny behind every tree, but for a few seconds there I saw a hatred of women so raw it was like a slap in the face.   

It really makes me wonder about the origins of Ms.Rose’s crusade against Planned Parenthood; what she experienced that filled her with such loathing for her own sex. According to RHRC, it’s a question she “studiously avoids answering“.

Pssst… right-wankers: important rumour!

Live-Rapist-Walking Fernando Manuel Alves‘ last name isn’t “Alves” it’s

Al Ves.

And you know what that means…

SHRIEEEEEK!!!

!!!!!!!!!

(Think that might give them the motivation they need to demand this raping scum be sent to prison?)

For the rest of us, from Dawg’s Blawg:

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.

Do it.

Crimes of opportunity

Attention ladies:  don’t let this fat little beady-eyed fuck  

buy you a drink.  Not even a coffee.  If you see his smirking visage nearby, run.

The asshole in the picture, Fernando Manuel Alves, has a right to smirk:  he beat the system:

The former owner of a Burnaby, B.C., pub has been handed a nine-month conditional sentence after pleading guilty to sexual assault in a case that prompted criticism of the police from the convicted man’s lawyer.

Fernando Manuel Alves, 46, had faced four charges of sexual assault and one charge of administering a noxious substance.

His arrest two years ago prompted police to warn the public about drink-spiking.

Alves ultimately pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault after the other assault charges and the administering charge were dismissed following a preliminary hearing.

His lawyer, Lawrence Myers, maintains that Alves couldn’t possibly be the kind of man police have made him out to be,

(write your own caption), which might prompt one to wonder exactly what kind of man he thinks routinely drugs and rapes women… just a “regular guy”?  Why not?  With Myers’ client list, Alves probably is a pretty regular guy.  But that’s to be expected when your business is criminal law.  However, the sleaze shouldn’t extend to the judge, who callously dismissed the assaults as a “crime of opportunity” and allowed the creep to walk without a day of time.   Does that make sense?  (Or cents?  Or maybe $en$e?)

It would be interesting to know who the judge was, and what other cases he’s presided over.  Dr. Dawg is on it:  this ain’t over.

UPDATE: Details from the victim’s best friend; original post from 2007 here, reaction to verdict here.

Octomom signs for reality TV show

And we’re all so surprised we could just shit!:

The American woman who gave birth to the world’s longest-surviving set of octuplets has signed a $250,000 US deal for all 14 of her children to appear on a reality TV show, according to court documents filed in Los Angeles.

Nadya Suleman has agreed for her children to appear — for about $250 US a day, per child — in an upcoming show filmed by Netherlands-based production company Eyeworks, which counts the shows The Biggest Loser and Breaking Bonaduce among its television offerings.

Shooting is scheduled to begin Sept. 1.

What else would an unemployed mother of 14 do?

I have to wonder how well the show will go over, though.  Given that a lot of the fan base for these megafamily freak shows is the brain-damaged “focus on the family” crowd, a show about this particular family might be a misfire.  Bad enough that the Family Patriarch will be conspicuous in his absence, but it’s also bound to remind the audience that those little anklebiters weren’t conceived in Christofascist-approved sexual congress in the blessed Matrimonial Bed, but via in vitrio fertilization, a big-time anti-family, anti-life no-no.  They might as well sit a turkey baster at the head of the dinner table.  HA!

Another fundamentalist perv

…dances up and joins the conga line of conservative sexual hypocrisy, lechery and deviant lust:

A jury in Arkansas convicted evangelist Tony Alamo on Friday of 10 federal counts of taking minors across state lines for sex, according to the court in the Western District in Arkansas.  […]

Between March 1994 and October 2005, Alamo transported five girls younger than 18 across state lines for sex, according to the indictment.  […]

Asked why authorities were searching the property, Alamo compared himself to Christ.

“Why were they after Jesus,” he asked. “It’s the same reason. Jesus is living within me.”

Um err yeah, okay.

I’m shocked

Following the study last spring that revealed “endemic” child abuse at Catholic church-run childcare institutions in Ireland, a new report confirms that the abuse was/is(?) even worse than suspected:

DUBLIN — A shocking new report has identified hundreds of victims of child sex abuse by Irish Catholic priests, officials said Tuesday, two months after a landmark study found “endemic” mistreatment.

A government-appointed commission of investigation headed by a judge has been probing allegations of abuse by priests in the archdiocese of Dublin — the country’s biggest — since March 2006.

Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has warned that the report — presented to Justice Minister Dermot Ahern on Tuesday — would “shock us all.”  […]

A spokeswoman for the archdiocese said the Church authorities had identified between 400 and 450 people that allege they were abused by one of 152 Dublin priests since 1940.

“I would like to stress that that is a very conservative estimate and is likely to rise,” she told AFP.

In other news, Pope Ratzi declares the Catholic church is unyielding in its position that all evil 9-year-old slut-children who force older men to impregnate them will be sentenced to death by exploding uterus… no exceptions!

(h/t ellroon)