There you have it. Pretty much case closed. 1. Two audio experts have ruled out George Zimmerman as the voice yelling “help” on the tapes. 2. The medical reports are in. No serious injuries to Zimmerman.
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Wolcott skewers Shaidle for defending bullying: "strenuously witless".
One of the best tweets of the day involves the formidable James Wolcott taking on the diminutive Kathy Shaidle for an article she wrote celebrating the bully lifestyle.
Continue readingCon who called cops on reporter has harassment complaint dismissed
Man, these modern conservatives are such wimps. I thought it was just the Sun News dandies. But these conservative politicians sure are such pantywaists! What are they so afraid of? Palin, Bachmann, Ford, Burke, Harper. They’re all so afraid of being asked questions and having to actually answer them. We
Continue readingDon Martin woes: When telling Dimitri Soudas and Bell boss to “go fuck yourselves” can get you suspended from CTV.
Don Martin: badass I would have loved to been a fly on the glass. I wonder how many free speech warriors from the right will race to Don Martin’s defence? Don Martin, the new Canadian hero. Speaking for the rest of us. Cross posted at Let Freedom . . .
Continue readingDon Martin woes: When telling "senior government officials" and Dimitri Soudas to "go fuck yourselves" can get you suspended from CTV
I would have loved to been a fly on the glass. I wonder how many free speech warriors from the right will race to Don Martin’s defence? Don Martin – the new Canadian hero. Cross posted at Sister Sage’s Musings.
Continue readingHarper cuts Environment Canada budget because of the internet. Dovetails nicely with Bill C-30.
The Conservatives are a lot of things but probably their strongest quality is that they are shrewd. They’ve built their strength thanks to a wedding of the oil barons of Harper’s Alberta with his political party. Hardly anyone in the Canadian public has noticed. It will be a lot harder
Continue readingHarper getting serious about squashing environmental groups. $8M worth of serious.
This is beyond bold. Harper setting aside $8 million to fight environmental groups is appalling of course and a sign that Harper’s totalitarian approach to governance is just beginning. A recent Maclean’s analysis suggests the initiative is aimed directly at Tides Canada, a registered charity which spends some of its
Continue readingAbortion clinic’s landlord turns the tables on anti-abortion activists
This is the way you do it. But his tormentors crossed the line last fall when a big group showed up at his daughter’s middle school on the first day of classes and again at back-to-school night. They had signs displaying his name and contact information as well as those
Continue reading"Bradford Spring": George Galloway rises again
This guy must have nine lives. BRADFORD – Britain’s mainstream parties were reeling Friday after firebrand George Galloway, a fierce critic of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, won a sensational return to parliament. The Scottish politician becomes his Respect party’s only lawmaker after crushing his former party, Labour, in
Continue readingVideo of George Zimmerman post-kill – unscathed. Trayvon Martin’s hands showed no signs of struggle.
video platform video management video solutions video player Despite the overwhelming evidence showing George Zimmerman unbruised and unharmed immediately after killing Trayvon Martin, Zimmerman and his right-wing followers are unswayed. Zimmerman claims he was the one
Continue reading"Oh, that’s a John Baird skin tag. That one hangs on like a son of a bitch."
Another funny but too true sketch from Rick Mercer. H/T: Shelley Cooper-Stephenson
Continue readingC’mon Adrian Dix, you’ve got to be better than this
The BC Liberals are faltering. Their leader is disliked across much of the province. They are prime for a smart, disciplined opposition to pounce. The stakes are too high – and too opportune – for stupid mistakes. Well, guess what? The leader of the party primed to take over the
Continue readingNOM: ‘Seeking glamorous, non-intellectual celebrities’
The National Organization for Marriage has been in the news lately for its efforts to force a wedge between blacks and gays. As if to lighten the mood, NOM has unintentionally also come under scrutiny for this Onion-worthy ad.
Continue readingI guess hiring all those Harper henchmen wasn’t such a great idea after all, eh Christy?
I don’t think hiring Sara MacIntyre and other Harper enablers has had the impact Christy Clark had hoped. B.C. Premier Christy Clark has among the worst approval ratings of premiers in Canada, and saw her popularity drop nine points to 33 per cent since August, according to an Angus Reid survey. snip
Continue readingToews wankfest takes place today in Parliament
My brain hurts. Rarely has something been so indicative of the impotence and irrelevance of the modern Tory than Vic Toews’ retribution against those who mock him. In a primo example of Conservative wastefulness and vengeful preoccupation with payback, Parliament is set today to go after that ‘amorphous’ organization known
Continue readingCasting genius: Jane Fonda to play Nancy Reagan in new flick
Most casting decisions these days are flat out puzzling. Take the upcoming ‘On the Road’ for example. Playing the lumberjack all-American Kerouac is a ferrit-faced Brit. The voluptuous MaryLou is played by androgynous Kristen Stewart. Empty-headed Kirsten Dunst is tackling sophisticated Carolyn Cassady. It’s all a bit of a maddening casting-against-type horror story.
Continue reading"Fucking coons" a "term of endearment"? The smearing of Trayvon Martin.
Right media’s new job: no brown Skittles allowed! Trayvon Martin, a victim in death as he was in life on the night he was killed by an overzealous and perhaps racist self-professed cop of the streets, is being vilified and murdered all over again by the right, the media and the assassin’s lawyer. You
Continue reading"A Gift For the Muslim Couple" – Sun Media and the US far right unite in indignation
This morning the US blog/news aggregator Memeorandum featured a Toronto Sun article (no link, you can find it yourself if you must), along with links to the Islamaphobic Atlas Shrugs and the equally despicable Weasel Zippers. It is rare to see a Canadian blog or news source in Memeorandum so out of
Continue readingThe wisdom of John Ibbitson: "NDP opts for a power broker over a protest leader"
Let’s face it, to the stuffed shirts at the Globe & Mail, ‘protest leaders’ = ‘hippies’ = ‘socialists’ = NDP. Glad to see Ibbitson is happy a ‘power broker’ has defeated the dirty fucking hippie element of Canada’s most progressive party. Don’t expect this bit of relief washing over Ibbitson
Continue readingNatynczyk learns the hard way. Never turn your back on a Conservative.
Christy Clark would be smart to heed Walter Natynczyk’s words. By importing a small army of gum-chewing ex-Harperites to represent her in BC, Clark would also be well advised to check over her shoulder. At all times.
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