Rushfeldt to Cosh: "We wuz stonewalled!"

We have another pulse! In today's National Post, there's more socon mewling and whining as Canada Family Action Coalition's Brian Rushfeldt responds to Colby Cosh's article last week in which the CFAC and their complaint against Justice McLachlin were given a good shitkicking. Cosh called the complaint "ludicrous", and pointed out that, among other ridiculousness, it cited completely irrelevant sections of the OC constitution. Rushfeldt fires back that any stupidity only occurred because they were unable to get the correct information:

"We thank Colby Cosh for reclarifying comments Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin made regarding her role on the Order of Canada Advisory Council. However, notably absent in his column ("A ludicrous attack on McLachlin," Aug. 22) were several key facts.

Canada Family Action Coalition (CFAC) operated with the best evidence available to us on Aug. 13 when we filed the complaint with the Canadian Judicial Council. Some information came from news stories (one from the National Post), some from past council decisions and some from the Constitution of the Order. All attempts we made to confirm the accuracy of information were stonewalled. We were stonewalled by the Governor-General's office and the judge. Requests for information under the Access to Information Act failed. We were informed the Governor-General is exempt from requirements of the act, which allows her to operate in a code of secrecy. Additionally, a one-liner on the Governor-General's Web page states: "All deliberations of the Advisory Council for the Order of Canada, as well as for any Canadian honour, are confidential.""

... so they went ahead and filed the complaint anyway, with whatever information they had. From news stories? What, like lifesite?? DUH! (Funny that Cosh didn't seem to have any trouble getting the facts straight, but I digress.)

It's unlikely that CFAC is too concerned about the facts anyway -- if they were, they might have addressed Cosh's scoffing ridicule of the "42 groups" that signed the complaint. Nah, they don't want to go there (and who can blame them?). What probably sent them into a furious foaming spittle-flecked lather was the last sentence of Cosh's article:

"Could it be that Morgentaler's appointment was in fact perfectly in line with the "social norms" of today?"

Read it and weep, fetus fetishists. And learn to live with it, because that's the Way It Is.

Riding Roughshod over the McVety Show

I've never seen Charles McVety talk for more than a few snack-sized sound bites, so last night I watched his show, which runs on the Miracle Channel, online. OUCH. My unrelentingly logical mind tends to start screaming in agony when exposed to more than a few minutes of incoherent non-sequiturs and straw men, so 20 minutes of raw, unleashed and unchained McVety was kind of a shock to the system. I may have to call in sick today.

This week, McVety treated his viewers to a rambling, repetitive and factually-inaccurate diatribe against the she-devil, Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin. He opened with something about "42 groups filing a complaint" (inaccurate fact #1) and went on to list 7 ways McLachlin had contravened Chuckles' Rules of Order. McLachlin, it seems, is a threat not only to democracy, but to the very fabric and foundation of Our Society, the rule of law, the family, marriage and everything else, because according to McVety she "rode roughshod" over the Order of Canada constitution. McVety got more "uh uh umm" exercised the longer he spoke, at one point sounding like he was shitting his pants ("Uh! Huh! Uhh! UHHH!!!"). And maybe he was: I would be too, if I'd been caught ASTROTURFING.

McVety was particularly incensed that in the past, McLachlin advised judges to have "active imaginations". "Active imaginations" -- what kind of thing is that for our judges to have??" thundered McVety. Those active imaginations were apparently responsible for "re-defining marriage" and causing the sky to come crashing down upon us. McVety rode roughshod over Justice Roy McMurtry, who was instrumental in making equal marriage the law in Ontario. After which all the provinces fell, one by one, like rainbow-coloured dominoes... SHRIEEEK!

McVety's 20-minute tirade was naturally punctuated with feverish pleas for cash -- "Get involved! Get a degree from Canada Christian College! Call us tonight! Our operators are standing by!" -- as the words "MASTERCARD or VISA available!" scrolled along the bottom of the screen. These unrelenting hucksters always have an eye on the Main Chance.

"Call us tonight"? Well, I tried.

Unfortunately, operators were not standing by -- either that or the Jesus Camp Phone Police already have my number flagged as that of a godless miscreant and worse, a cheapskate. By divine intervention, my call was greeted with a continuous busy signal, and being one of the amoral "leftists" who demands instant gratification, I hung up. Maybe that's how they weed us out. Oh well, I'm pretty sure Chuckles wouldn't have wanted to answer my questions about Astroturfing anyway... even if he'd really been available to speak to, which he wasn't, this show having been pre-recorded. Chiselers!

The video, should you be so inclined, is up at word.ca... it really must be seen to be believed.

Don't call us "goofballs", babykiller.

We have a pulse! Yesterday Cliff Pyle, "Life Ministry Co-ordinator" of Saskatchewan "Lutherans For Life" (and husband of Life Canada's Saskatchewan rep, Nicole Pyle) responded to Colby Cosh's merciless smackdown of the CFAC's absurd complaint against Justice Beverley McLachlin. Boo hoo hoo!:

"Colby Cosh's ad hominem attack on Brian Rushfeldt and Canada Family Action Coalition shows how liberal thinking operates in our fair land: If you don't agree with it, attack it with animus and subjectivity.

His comment about "Punting deeper still into goofball territory" is language unbecoming of a journalist."

"Lutherans for Life" is one of the groups clinging tenuously to life on the updated list of the "42 Organizations™©®etc.etc"... though Cliff didn't mention Colby Cosh's derisive snort about the veracity of Rushfeldt's "42" ("CanAm Fabricating & Welding stands strong in favour of life!"). No, it was being referred to as "goofball territory" that Mr. Pyle just couldn't abide.

Truth hurts, I guess. If these people don't like being ridiculed, maybe they should stop being ridiculous. Until then, I see no reason not to continue unabatedly deriding and mocking them with great gusto and uninhibited joy.

Heck hath no fury

...like a socon scorned, and after he unloaded on the CFAC's complaint against Justice McLachlin in the National Post yesterday, Colby Cosh might be feeling some socon wrath. (But like most of us, he probably doesn't care.)

Cosh's op-ed hit one out of the park: he called the CFAC's letter of complaint "bizarre" and jeered at the Massive 42 Organizations™ that supposedly signed on to it, putting "42 organizations" in "quotes". HA! He even referenced some of the original information turned up by Buckets in his research on the CFAC's astroturfing, and appropriately disgusted at yet another odious example of socon sleight-of-hand, proceeded to tear the CFAC and their complaint 8 new assholes:

"CFAC’s letter of complaint is a bizarre document even if one overlooks the sheer improbability of having a Chief Justice cashiered over some supposed act of jiggery-pokery involving the Order of Canada. CFAC’s Web site, whereupon the hyperlink to the letter is currently broken, has marshalled “42 organizations” in support of their missive; eccentrically, the “organizations” include several small businesses (Can Am Fabricating and Welding stands strong in favour of life!) and at least one private citizen."

"Its arguments, rest assured, are no less weird. The Constitution of the Order states that a member may be terminated if his conduct marks “a significant departure from generally-recognized standards of public behaviour which is seen to undermine the credibility, integrity or relevance of the Order.” According to CFAC, Morgentaler’s years of challenging abortion law are obviously in violation of “the norms of society”: Ergo, the Chief Justice of Canada must be fired. It’s simple logic, people!"

But socon Johnny Quest was not pleased, leaving this odourific little diatribe on the carpet of the comments section:

HRCs attacking socon groups!?? Feminazis driving them out of universities? The Broadcast Standards Council rendering them too controversial for airtime!? They have their own 24/7 channel, fer fuck sake. JQ's brain is clearly squirming like a toad on crack, but his comments highlight the delusional persecution complex that characterizes the religious right. They truly believe that if they can't tell everyone else how to live, they're being silenced, censored and persecuted.

More of this, please: more articles like Cosh's, taking these cretins to task, and more public displays of inanity like Johnny Q's comment. And more questions before taking these people at their word about who they are and what credentials they've earned.

The "42 Organizations" Crash Diet

Woohoo! Here's the most current list of the Canada Family Action Coalition's "42 organizations" that signed the complaint against Justice McLachlin, revised to reflect its Ultra TRUTHfast™ diet and subsequent slim-down. As it stands, without the bloat there are now 20 legitimate "groups", less than half of the original 42. To those still left on the list:

"Have ya called Buckets yet?"

UPDATE (Aug. 23): 18! ~ 18! ~ 18! ~ 18! ~ 18! ~ 18! ~ 18!