Category: ‘Women’
It’s really too bad this notion and action has taken so long to arrive. [...] the 58-year-old minister proclaimed in July that he would stage “International Burn a Quran Day”. Supporters have been mailing copies of the Islamic holy text to his Dove Wor…
Whatever your political orientations/choices may be, there’s some interesting information to be found in the article about Sarah Palin in the October issue of Vanity Fair, now online.She manages to be at once a closed book and a constant noisemaker. He…
Good news: The president of Ecuador Rafael Correa stated in his weekly address that Beauty Pageants organized in public schools will no longer be authorized. He directed the Minister of Education Gloria Vidal to bring an end to these events which he qu…
the tide has finally turned against Harper’s ReformaTory government.In his recent visit to the Arctic, Prime Minister Stephen Harper warned that Canada must remain vigilant because of “foreign aircraft probing the skies.”But statistics requested by the…
Well, isn’t it classy?Yesterday Avaaz experienced an attack on our “Stop ‘Fox News North’” petition consisting of fraudulent sign-ups of targeted individuals.And dig this (bold mine):It’s deeply disturbing that in all Avaaz’s years of campaigns…
Referring to the Citizen article I linked to yesterday, Chris Selley writes:Well, well, well. As the Ottawa Citizen’s Elizabeth Payne reports, Canada’s Minister for International Co-operation now has no problem with funding abortion infrastructure …
Illegal ones, too.Despite its refusal to consider abortion in its maternal-health plan, the Harper government has given financial support to an international agency that provides abortion illegally in some African countries.It’s a very coy article and …
Imagine the following scenario.An ex-patient of an orthopedic specialist initiates a civil suit against her, her gynecological oncologist husband and a hospital. Several years ago the patient found herself in the untenable situation of receiving, whil…
Looky here. Libs and ReformaTories are tied.The Tory largesse to which Mr. Graves refers is, of course, the census. For weeks now it has dogged the Conservatives, gradually picking away at the party’s support, even with its own supporters.“This see…
As deBeauxOs pointed out yesterday, fetus fetishists are always quick to distort spin a story to paint themselves as victims.They are also really fast on their feet when it comes to ‘But-but-but pro-aborts do it too!’ SUZY ALLCAPSLOCK equates the nutte…
Feelings. The lounge ballad classic used judiciously.This is the famously banned Durex commercial, back for a repeat showing.Just thought the blog could use a little gaiety.If you enjoyed this post, our blog archives have many more.
Blob Blogging Wingnut often re-posts propaganda pieces from Lies-Site at HER place.Facts about public events and occurrences tend to get varnished, twisted and distorted by The Fetus©™ fetishists in their attempt to provoke outrage and to get a good…
I haven’t been blogging much because I’m in despair over the level of political discourse going on. The bald-faced lies, endless spin and re-spin, ideology trumping sense every fucking time. I’m just so sick of it and it’s going to get worse if the Har…
A U.S. study from the Pew Research Center Social and Demographic Trends shows that while women are consistently rated higher on most leadership traits, that overall only 6% of respondents felt that women were better leaders than men, while 21% … …
Blob Blogging Wingnut defends DoDo the Dumbth.From the comments at Dr Dawg: “She didn’t say all Jews were money loving Jews. She said that one was. There are money-loving Jews in the world, like there are alcoholic Irish Catholics, whiny French Canadia…
How many people turned out for Glen Beck’s ‘Whitestock’ yesterday? (Go to the link for further links.)So what was the attendence like? CBS says the rally drew 87,000, (with a stated margin of error of 9,000 either way). Attendees were tweeting 300,000,…
And now for something completely different. Good and hopeful news.Toronto has become the first city in the world – and the first government in North America – to formally endorse a declaration that advocates harm reduction over the war on drugs.The…
Wow. The Boston Globe takes note of the census kerfuffle. Oh. Wait. Their census kerfuffle.The Republican National Committee’s new attack on the US Census is so nakedly transparent that you almost want to avert your eyes.The charge is being led by Te…
This is the stuff that really really gets up Canadians’ collective nose.So up there on his annual northern photo op, King Stevie the Peevie surprises everyone, including his security detail, by hopping on a 4-wheel drive buggy and haring off at high sp…
So, the Liberals have found some spare vertebrae and have a draft bill to reinstate the mandatory long-form census. John McCallum, point-man on this, said: ‘A voluntary survey will skew the picture of what Canada really looks like as lower income minor…
News item: Two men arrested in Wednesday’s anti-terrorism raids in Ottawa [...] appeared in court Thursday to face terrorism charges in an alleged bomb plot linked to al-Qaida. Alizadeh has been charged with conspiracy to facilitate terrorism, posses…
When it comes to heavy hitters in the sciencey-facty biz, they don’t come any heavier than Nature. But that’s where this report comes from.Canada will pay a huge price for the Harper government’s “short-sighted” decision to scrap the mandatory census, …
. . . you know someone has bitten off a hunk of burning stooopid.Here’s one of them opining on the long-gun registry. First he (probably) outlines how everybody in Canada — except the Frenchies and who gives a shit about them? — is on side with scrap…
The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police is having a bunfest in Edmonton and oh, looky here. They’re honouring the guy who got axed sent on a language course because he strongly supports the long-gun registry.As the Canadian Association of Chiefs o…
The Guy Who Kicked Hornets’ Nests Meets His Bareback Waterloo?In a so-called newsgathering environment where the sexual shenanigans of Tiger Woods dominated several info-tainment cycles for several weeks, it’s no surprise this story is emerging as the …
Wow, I haven’t written about Catch 22 Harper Conservatives since March. Here are the Campaign Objectives:Had enough of the Conservatives, their political gamesmanship and abuse of power? We’ve seen this government side-step Parliament through proroga…
Start with vulnerable people, malleable individuals or a captive audience. For the past several years, two U.S. Army posts in Virginia, Fort Eustis and Fort Lee, have been putting on a series of what are called Commanding General’s Spiritual Fitness …
I’m finding federal politics too depressing to blog about. So, let’s turn to municipal politics, specifically Toronto, shall we?We in Toronto have a major disaster looming, and I mean LOOOOOMING. Rob Ford is running for mayor and at the moment — early…
Dr Dawg caught Blob Blogging Wingnut doing what SHE does best – shriEEEking. The folks at St. Joseph’s Parish in Ottawa are supporting the Capital Pride march on August 29.What, tolerance squeezing through the door of the Catholic church? Not so fast. …
The choice of words depends on one’s vantage point when observing how a Democratic pro-choice organization is responding to Sarah Palin’s tactics. EMILY’s List, the feminist organization that works to elect pro-choice, Democratic women to office, has l…
Ayatollah Ouellet is multiplying the goodbyes and farewells, stretching out the time left in Canada to exploit the free publicity he’s getting.A controversial Roman Catholic priest extended an olive branch during his last sermon in Canada before leavin…
By that, I’m not referring to the actions of that poor deluded soul who attempted to exorcise the malevolent spirit in residence at 24 Sussex last Saturday.Go read Alison at Creekside who nails Stalinist Steve in all his encapsulated & self-absorbe…
We say legal obligation – the Cons say concession.We say endangering public safety by covert deregulation – they say the private sector will manage those risks.We say better resources for preventing and reporting crime – they say more and bigger prison…
Crime wave, we’re having a ReformaTory crime wave. Here’s Vic Toews laying more ground work for justifying the building of mega-prisons.Six Toronto Jewish groups are getting federal cash to combat hate crimes, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews announced…
“…[P]robably the most exciting day was the day I found out I became dean. And I remember the person who phoned me said, ‘Are you sitting down?’ And I said, ‘No.’ And the person said, ‘Well, you are about to make history.’ And I was, like, ‘Oh, my God.’ [I]t was scary, of course, but [...]&srcId=http://lawiscool.com/2010/08/12/the-glass-ceiling-is-breaking-umm-kind-of&crtId=148&dt=1283071044)
Of course, there’s no backing down.An auction of cattle raised on a Kingston, Ont., prison farm that many people have been trying to prevent is scheduled to take place in Waterloo Tuesday in spite of major protests over the last two days.Three hundred …
At the various anti-ReformaTory Facebook pages/groups, people are talking about annual visits with the fambly and being energized by what the oft-vaunted ‘ordinary’ Canadians are saying. They’re saying that the census idiocy is senseless, the G8/G20 sp…
Gay. Back in the day, when the air was clean and sex was dirty, the word ‘gay’ only meant cheery, perky, happy. Now some of the unstraight guys in the US Republican party are trying to redefine ‘fun’.”The gay left has done their best to take all the fu…
In a discussion on Why Harper thinks he’s smarter than the experts at Macleans no less, a commenter at the Freaks named Fabulous Fred had this to say:Harper had potential to be a good.P.M. if he didn’t have so many personal flaws like being a control f…
Help, please, sister and fellow bloggers and loyal readers. How can we find out what the most unpopular move by a Canadian government is?I want to compare to the census senselessness. Now at Census Watch, the count is 265 civil society institutions ver…
It’s really too bad this notion and action has taken so long to arrive. [...] the 58-year-old minister proclaimed in July that he would stage “International Burn a Quran Day”. Supporters have been mailing copies of the Islamic holy text to his Dove Wor…
Whatever your political orientations/choices may be, there’s some interesting information to be found in the article about Sarah Palin in the October issue of Vanity Fair, now online.She manages to be at once a closed book and a constant noisemaker. He…
Good news: The president of Ecuador Rafael Correa stated in his weekly address that Beauty Pageants organized in public schools will no longer be authorized. He directed the Minister of Education Gloria Vidal to bring an end to these events which he qu…
the tide has finally turned against Harper’s ReformaTory government.In his recent visit to the Arctic, Prime Minister Stephen Harper warned that Canada must remain vigilant because of “foreign aircraft probing the skies.”But statistics requested by the…
Well, isn’t it classy?Yesterday Avaaz experienced an attack on our “Stop ‘Fox News North’” petition consisting of fraudulent sign-ups of targeted individuals.And dig this (bold mine):It’s deeply disturbing that in all Avaaz’s years of campaigns…
Referring to the Citizen article I linked to yesterday, Chris Selley writes:Well, well, well. As the Ottawa Citizen’s Elizabeth Payne reports, Canada’s Minister for International Co-operation now has no problem with funding abortion infrastructure …
Illegal ones, too.Despite its refusal to consider abortion in its maternal-health plan, the Harper government has given financial support to an international agency that provides abortion illegally in some African countries.It’s a very coy article and …
Imagine the following scenario.An ex-patient of an orthopedic specialist initiates a civil suit against her, her gynecological oncologist husband and a hospital. Several years ago the patient found herself in the untenable situation of receiving, whil…
Looky here. Libs and ReformaTories are tied.The Tory largesse to which Mr. Graves refers is, of course, the census. For weeks now it has dogged the Conservatives, gradually picking away at the party’s support, even with its own supporters.“This see…
As deBeauxOs pointed out yesterday, fetus fetishists are always quick to distort spin a story to paint themselves as victims.They are also really fast on their feet when it comes to ‘But-but-but pro-aborts do it too!’ SUZY ALLCAPSLOCK equates the nutte…
Feelings. The lounge ballad classic used judiciously.This is the famously banned Durex commercial, back for a repeat showing.Just thought the blog could use a little gaiety.If you enjoyed this post, our blog archives have many more.
Blob Blogging Wingnut often re-posts propaganda pieces from Lies-Site at HER place.Facts about public events and occurrences tend to get varnished, twisted and distorted by The Fetus©™ fetishists in their attempt to provoke outrage and to get a good…
I haven’t been blogging much because I’m in despair over the level of political discourse going on. The bald-faced lies, endless spin and re-spin, ideology trumping sense every fucking time. I’m just so sick of it and it’s going to get worse if the Har…
A U.S. study from the Pew Research Center Social and Demographic Trends shows that while women are consistently rated higher on most leadership traits, that overall only 6% of respondents felt that women were better leaders than men, while 21% … …
Blob Blogging Wingnut defends DoDo the Dumbth.From the comments at Dr Dawg: “She didn’t say all Jews were money loving Jews. She said that one was. There are money-loving Jews in the world, like there are alcoholic Irish Catholics, whiny French Canadia…
How many people turned out for Glen Beck’s ‘Whitestock’ yesterday? (Go to the link for further links.)So what was the attendence like? CBS says the rally drew 87,000, (with a stated margin of error of 9,000 either way). Attendees were tweeting 300,000,…
And now for something completely different. Good and hopeful news.Toronto has become the first city in the world – and the first government in North America – to formally endorse a declaration that advocates harm reduction over the war on drugs.The…
Wow. The Boston Globe takes note of the census kerfuffle. Oh. Wait. Their census kerfuffle.The Republican National Committee’s new attack on the US Census is so nakedly transparent that you almost want to avert your eyes.The charge is being led by Te…
This is the stuff that really really gets up Canadians’ collective nose.So up there on his annual northern photo op, King Stevie the Peevie surprises everyone, including his security detail, by hopping on a 4-wheel drive buggy and haring off at high sp…
So, the Liberals have found some spare vertebrae and have a draft bill to reinstate the mandatory long-form census. John McCallum, point-man on this, said: ‘A voluntary survey will skew the picture of what Canada really looks like as lower income minor…
News item: Two men arrested in Wednesday’s anti-terrorism raids in Ottawa [...] appeared in court Thursday to face terrorism charges in an alleged bomb plot linked to al-Qaida. Alizadeh has been charged with conspiracy to facilitate terrorism, posses…
When it comes to heavy hitters in the sciencey-facty biz, they don’t come any heavier than Nature. But that’s where this report comes from.Canada will pay a huge price for the Harper government’s “short-sighted” decision to scrap the mandatory census, …
. . . you know someone has bitten off a hunk of burning stooopid.Here’s one of them opining on the long-gun registry. First he (probably) outlines how everybody in Canada — except the Frenchies and who gives a shit about them? — is on side with scrap…
The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police is having a bunfest in Edmonton and oh, looky here. They’re honouring the guy who got axed sent on a language course because he strongly supports the long-gun registry.As the Canadian Association of Chiefs o…
The Guy Who Kicked Hornets’ Nests Meets His Bareback Waterloo?In a so-called newsgathering environment where the sexual shenanigans of Tiger Woods dominated several info-tainment cycles for several weeks, it’s no surprise this story is emerging as the …
Wow, I haven’t written about Catch 22 Harper Conservatives since March. Here are the Campaign Objectives:Had enough of the Conservatives, their political gamesmanship and abuse of power? We’ve seen this government side-step Parliament through proroga…
Start with vulnerable people, malleable individuals or a captive audience. For the past several years, two U.S. Army posts in Virginia, Fort Eustis and Fort Lee, have been putting on a series of what are called Commanding General’s Spiritual Fitness …
I’m finding federal politics too depressing to blog about. So, let’s turn to municipal politics, specifically Toronto, shall we?We in Toronto have a major disaster looming, and I mean LOOOOOMING. Rob Ford is running for mayor and at the moment — early…
Dr Dawg caught Blob Blogging Wingnut doing what SHE does best – shriEEEking. The folks at St. Joseph’s Parish in Ottawa are supporting the Capital Pride march on August 29.What, tolerance squeezing through the door of the Catholic church? Not so fast. …
The choice of words depends on one’s vantage point when observing how a Democratic pro-choice organization is responding to Sarah Palin’s tactics. EMILY’s List, the feminist organization that works to elect pro-choice, Democratic women to office, has l…
Ayatollah Ouellet is multiplying the goodbyes and farewells, stretching out the time left in Canada to exploit the free publicity he’s getting.A controversial Roman Catholic priest extended an olive branch during his last sermon in Canada before leavin…
By that, I’m not referring to the actions of that poor deluded soul who attempted to exorcise the malevolent spirit in residence at 24 Sussex last Saturday.Go read Alison at Creekside who nails Stalinist Steve in all his encapsulated & self-absorbe…
We say legal obligation – the Cons say concession.We say endangering public safety by covert deregulation – they say the private sector will manage those risks.We say better resources for preventing and reporting crime – they say more and bigger prison…
Crime wave, we’re having a ReformaTory crime wave. Here’s Vic Toews laying more ground work for justifying the building of mega-prisons.Six Toronto Jewish groups are getting federal cash to combat hate crimes, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews announced…
“…[P]robably the most exciting day was the day I found out I became dean. And I remember the person who phoned me said, ‘Are you sitting down?’ And I said, ‘No.’ And the person said, ‘Well, you are about to make history.’ And I was, like, ‘Oh, my God.’ [I]t was scary, of course, but [...]
Of course, there’s no backing down.An auction of cattle raised on a Kingston, Ont., prison farm that many people have been trying to prevent is scheduled to take place in Waterloo Tuesday in spite of major protests over the last two days.Three hundred …
At the various anti-ReformaTory Facebook pages/groups, people are talking about annual visits with the fambly and being energized by what the oft-vaunted ‘ordinary’ Canadians are saying. They’re saying that the census idiocy is senseless, the G8/G20 sp…
Gay. Back in the day, when the air was clean and sex was dirty, the word ‘gay’ only meant cheery, perky, happy. Now some of the unstraight guys in the US Republican party are trying to redefine ‘fun’.”The gay left has done their best to take all the fu…
In a discussion on Why Harper thinks he’s smarter than the experts at Macleans no less, a commenter at the Freaks named Fabulous Fred had this to say:Harper had potential to be a good.P.M. if he didn’t have so many personal flaws like being a control f…
Help, please, sister and fellow bloggers and loyal readers. How can we find out what the most unpopular move by a Canadian government is?I want to compare to the census senselessness. Now at Census Watch, the count is 265 civil society institutions ver…