I’m doing an overnight tonight for work. Yes, tonight. Saturday night into Sunday morning. When I should be adjusting the time on my various clocks and catching up on sleep. Lucky me.
So, click this image to behold what a Paul Ryan Old Spice ad might look like. Via the Mansplaining Ryan tumblr.
It’d be funny if it weren’t so true.
Wending its way about the intertubes is this documentary evidence that Mitt Romney has revised his positions — often for the worse — with precious little evidence to back it up.
I’ve never liked calling evolving your position “flip-flopping”, but it’s patently obvious Mitt is mendacious and simply shifting with the wind.
Someone tweeted a link to this story a few days ago. The story happened in May, but it’s chilling in light of current events.
The Conservative government is pitching the change as a way to cut red tape and provide greater flexibility to slaughterhouse operators.
But the New Democrats are raising a red flag saying the move invites possible “contamination” of the food supply.
“Under the present regulations . . . it has to come in alive, be slaughtered on site,” said NDP MP Malcolm Allen (Welland), the party’s agriculture critic.
“Now you can bring in dead stock. It’s okay to bring in that animal into a slaughterhouse, have it cut, wrapped . . . for human consumption.
“The real fear is how did it die, (and) under what circumstances did it die.”
Continue reading “Wayback: remember when Harper’s government wanted to process dead animals too?”
You folks are going to LOVE this one.
On Mitt’s “joke” that he doesn’t know why airplane windows don’t open and how that’s a big problem when there’s an electrical fire in the cabin, Linus Torvalds — Linux’s progenitor and Grand Poobah — had a few words to say on Google+.
He really seems to be a f*cking moron.
I suspect he’d crate his dog on top of the aircraft too. Because what could possibly go wrong?
He followed up:
Ok, since I publicly called the guy a f*cking moron, I guess I should also publicly follow up: it does seem Romney was joking.
Whew.
I dunno. I have my doubts it was really a joke — sure, give him the benefit of the doubt, but the way he said it was patently ridiculous and, even if intentional, terribly formed and terribly premised. Granted, I’m horrid at jokes off-the-cuff myself most days. But this depends on making yourself look way too uneducated, illogical and simple-minded to be leader of the free world. So I can’t buy it, unless Mitt — the self-aggrandizing fucker that he is — goes for self-deprecating humour in a deadpan.
But regardless of that incident’s joke status, Torvalds also said the following about Mormonism:
Continue reading “Linus Torvalds on Mitt Romney and Mormonism”
Now if only mainstream media would pick up on the fact that basically nobody likes the guy… ah. A boy can dream.
Hey, remember the whole “palling around with terrorists” argument, about Bill Ayers? Yeah, it was misdirection.
Rachel Maddow has to do a lot of framing — over ten minutes — to give the scope of this issue before getting to the “punchline”, being Paul Ryan’s latest nonsense and the Right Wing Conspiracy Theorists’ latest outrages.
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So there’s evidently a local election going on that I wasn’t aware of. It’s probably something at the town level, or I would have seen signs driving about. Want to know how I found out about this election? Well, it’s a funny story actually. I came home from work a few days ago, and Jodi says, “We got the most ridiculous note in the mail today.”
“Oh?”
“I can’t even explain… just read it. It’s on the counter.”
I pick it up. It is folded in half.
![Your Canadate [Local Politician] 2012](http://cdn1.the-orbit.net/lousycanuck/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/08/canadate-front-censored.jpg "canadate-front-censored")
Ohhhh, this has promise, thought I.
Continue reading “Our local canadate”
A perhaps startling, but perfectly heartening piece of pro-Canada propaganda err, news from Bloomberg:
According to data from Environics Analytics WealthScapes published in the Globe and Mail, the net worth of the average Canadian household in 2011 was $363,202, while the average American household’s net worth was $319,970.
Continue reading “Canadian families richer than American families — thanks, socialism!”
You have to admit, Oswald Cobblepot is actually significantly more sane-sounding than this normally. Jimmy Kimmel pretty much picked the perfect clips to show how ridiculous Limbaugh’s accusations are, because the clips of Bane are from an episode that first aired September 10, 1994. If there was a secret plot to make Mitt Romney look stupid and evil, it would have had to hatch eighteen years ago.
This evil villain was even in Batman and Robin, which I’m sure you’ve all scrubbed from your memories for Bane being such an ineffectual villain and for the existence of Bat-nipples. And yet somehow this was a plot against Romney — despite the fact that, when the first trailers for The Dark Knight Rises were showing up, we still thought Newt Fucking Gingrich was going to be Obama’s opponent.
Anyway, it’s ridiculous to say anything in the Batman mythology is politically tilted against Republicans in any way, frankly — it’s one long capitalist power fantasy. It’s Objectivism writ large, where the rich make the rules and personally destroy through physical violence and psychological terrorism any deviance from the script. Not that those fantastic elements don’t make for an entertaining story, mind you. I love the hell out of the Batman mythology, to be perfectly frank, even despite (and in some cases because of) it being so diametrically opposed to many of my own personal ideologies.
(Yes, I’ve heard about the theatre shooting. That’ll be a different post, please and thanks.)
Busy, full day, and I’m still down with the sickness otherwise. I just thought this video was important enough that you should watch it, so I’ll throw it up here with little extra to say about it. This video is an attempt to give you some idea what it’s like to be black-bagged and disappeared from your home, then tortured by the government.
You might not want to watch this if you have an overactive sense of empathy or if you’ve endured torture yourself.
The take-away message?
Nothing merits this. It wins us nothing. No friends, no reliable information, not even simple revenge.
How could anyone justify actions like these taken against another human being, no matter how horrible that human being is?
