May 2011 – (AP) NEW ORLEANS A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most
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Rusty Idols: Hello Wildrose, Goodbye Public Healthcare
In the States, that crazed pack of screaming ideologues known as the Tea Party only hate one thing more than the idea that a black man named Barack Obama could be their President and that’s his paltry industry supporting attempt to provide all Americans with healthcare. A plan that subsidizes
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…by attempting to discriminate against gays and women seeking reproductive services, guaranteed to cause legal challenges equally guaranteed to be decided against the Alberta Government after expensive legal battles with preordained results. So called ‘Conscience Rights’ have been decisively adjudicated. People in government licensed positions like Marriage Commissioners MAY NOT
Continue readingRusty Idols: Danielle Smith: Wrong for Alberta
What happens if a rigid, far right ideologue who’s only experience in a public service role is a tale of obstruction, fundamental lack of understanding of the facts, radical disdain for the role of the public sector, childish spats and a seeming inability to compromise or work with anyone who disagrees with her
Continue readingRusty Idols: Damn Peasants!
The Globe and Mail sniffs in outraged offense at the peons daring to inconvenience or insult their betters. Consider contacting the Globe and Mail and expressing how you feel about this display of patrician disdain. Try to avoid any tempting four letter words. Hat tip to Dawg sdnxry5z7g
Continue readingRusty Idols: Should Canada start considering EVERY American woman eligible for Refugee status?
Government mandated rape with medical instruments, laws mandating that women be forced to explain to their boss why they are using birth control pills, laws mandating that even if pregnancy will KILL the mother she be forced to carry a pregnancy to term – even if the fetus itself is dead.
Continue readingRusty Idols: Pandering to Hate
Throughout his career, whenever his job was on the line French president Nicolas Sarkozy has never shied away from pandering to the worst instincts of the French people. With the polls showing that the French are abandoning the political center and that the more xenophobic have begin to flock to
Continue readingRusty Idols: How the mighty have fallen
Last year Gary Mar was the odds on favorite to win the leadership of the Alberta Progressive Conservatives and by extension the Premiership of the richest province in Canada. Now he’s been peremptorily and unceremoniously summoned back to Alberta from his consolation prize/exile job as Alberta’s Asian trade representative in
Continue readingRusty Idols: Taking on a Revolting Bully
A billionaire Mormon backer of Mitt Romney with an anti-gay axe to grind and a habit of using his vast wealth to harass, intimidate and silence critics gets openly challenged by Glenn Greenwald to put up or shut up: Frank VanderSloot is an Idaho billionaire and the CEO of Melaleuca, Inc.,
Continue readingRusty Idols: Delivering a Message
Explain to me the how the interests of public safety are served by a gang of black clad thugs showing up swaggering about and shoving people for a while, sucker punching one person and throwing another to the ground and then getting back in their cars and driving away? Are
Continue readingRusty Idols: Sun Media’s Jihad against the CBC so blatant even a Conservative Minister can see it
Initially, Heritage Minister James Moore said he would like to see more warning on the website regarding the show’s content while stressing that Sun is “in the business of going after the CBC.” Wow. Somebody went off message. sdnxry5z7g
Continue readingRusty Idols: Calling Out
Had one of his critics gone on a radio show and compared Rob Ford to Hitler the Canadian right wing blogosphere would be exploding with fury right now. That sound of crickets? Its their reaction to Ford comparing his opposition to Joseph Stalin. sdnxry5z7g
Continue readingRusty Idols: He’s back……
Wow, two months. A longer time without blogging then I’ve had since I started Rusty Idols lo those many years ago. What can I say? Sometimes real life takes precedence. So while I’ve been gone Huffington Post Canada has continued to be an embarrassment and a disappointment. Famously progressive in
Continue readingRusty Idols: The Man Behind the Mask
The author of graphic novel masterpiece V for Vendetta reflects on the strange new life of his creation as a symbol of protest and resistance. It all comes back to Moore – a private man with knotty greying hair and a magnificent beard, who prefers to live without an internet
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Doo dooo doodoodoo… sdnxry5z7g
Continue readingRusty Idols: Afraid to call a Liar a Liar
The Montreal Gazette headline is ‘NDP accuses Tony Clement of doctoring Hansard’. Wow, thinks the reader, that’s a pretty serious allegation, accusing someone of deliberately distorting the public record of Parliament is a big deal. But look, the headline just says he’s just accused of it, so if its just
Continue readingRusty Idols: Alison Redford owes me an apology
Me and the millions of other Canadians and Albertans who care about the environment for suggesting that she has the right to go to Washington and lobby for the Keystone Pipeline but those who oppose the project shouldn’t have the same right. OTTAWA — Premier Alison Redford found herself Thursday
Continue readingRusty Idols: If Ezra Levant pushed his way into your house and wouldn’t leave, wouldn’t YOU call the cops?
OTTAWA – When the CBC’s Mary Walsh shows up unannounced with a camera crew at Toronto mayor Rob Ford’s house, the state broadcaster considers it comedy. When Sun News Network’s Ezra Levant pops up in the lobby of the CBC’s Toronto headquarters with a camera operator, it’s a matter for
Continue readingRusty Idols: Punished for Overreach
The number one crippling tactical flaw of the American Republican party is a tendency to drink their own kool-aid. Over and over they make the same mistake, confusing what they believe with what the majority of Americans believe. They have managed through the enormous efforts of a right wing media
Continue readingRusty Idols: "just another bad thing that happened in downtown Vancouver
Somebody overdoses decently out of sight in the east end and the response from the Vancouver government, the media and too much of public is a collective shrug. Have it happen 15 blocks to the west and suddenly its an urgent public health and safety crisis. Ashlie Gough was happy
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