Miller Beer behaving badly again!

Oh dear, tut-tut, tsk-tsk, gasp, swoon etc. That evil rainbow-coloured bottle cap can only mean one thing: Miller's at it again, celebrating diversity... the bastards! Boycott! SHRIEEEEEEEK!:

"When LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) last week contacted Mike Setto, the Michigan party store owner who helped spark a nationwide protest of Miller (now MillerCoors) beer in October 2007, following their sponsorship of the Folsom Street Fair, he was stunned to hear that MillerCoors had purchased a centerfold advertisement in this year's program.

Last year Miller apologized for their association with the "disrespectful" activities the fair is known for. Those who spearheaded the boycott that provoked the apology had been led to believe that the issue was satisfactorily put to rest and that Miller would no longer associate itself with the sadomasochistic sex fair.

When asked whether he would resume the boycott, Setto said, "Hold me on this: I will take everything out of my store with Miller, because I will not hesitate to do that again. I will not, because I am so upset at this moment, it ruined my whole day. I just can't believe it.""

Mikey doesn't like it -- it ruined his whole day. Break out the violins! Weirdly, Mikey is about 2000 miles away from the hissing crater of burning evil where the Folsom Street Fair rocks and rolls in Frisco. You'd think it was happening across the street, not across the country. Oh, boo hoo hoo!

Last year, in response to the Catholic League's boycott, Miller dropped out as a sponsor of the fair -- and the Catholic League was satisfied with that. As long as Miller wasn't sponsoring the event, they wouldn't be boycotted, promised the CL's bilious bloviator Bill Donohue. But (surprise surprise) they lied. This year, although Miller isn't sponsoring the event as per the Catholic League's ridiculous demands, the goalposts have shifted and now Miller can't even buy an ad in the event's program.

That's the problem with caving in to imbeciles like Mikey and his idiotic fellow travellers in the Catholic League... they never stop. Give 'em an inch... (finish that sentence however you like).

Maher under seige!

After Bill Maher's extremely un-PC but also extremely funny (and extremely true) remarks about the Pope's visit last week, Wingnuttia resounded with the sound of exploding heads. The Catholic League's perpetually-outraged Bill Donohue, who's always up for demanding an apology from someone or other for some slight or other, real or imagined, angrily put Maher back on his shit-list for the umpteenth time. Maher capitulated in his own little way and apologized for calling the Pope a Nazi (hahahahaha!), but went on to point out the cold hard truth that any CEO heading an institution of child molesters would probably be fired.

"Fired!?" thundered the "American Life League", grabbing its collective crotch, "We got yer 'fired' right here, Maher!":

"FIRE BILL MAHER!"

"Bill Maher slanderously attacked the pope and Catholics everywhere, and for that he MUST be fired!
- He lied when he called Pope Benedict XVI a “Nazi.”
- He lied about Pope Benedict coordinating a cover-up."

The campaign to silence Bill Maher has begun with a website set up for the express purpose of getting everyone on board with the Fire Bill Maher! Project. Talk about offensive! Why don't these people know how to design a website? But entertainingly, there's a petition with comments:

Mahers continual crude and ignorant bashing of Catholics is not comedy its hate Either he goes or my subscription goes ("Its" called "punctuation" and "its" really cool; try it sometime.)

Bill Maher is a sick twisted liberal He is evil (If "sick twisted and evil" describes a talk show host, what superlatives describe child sexual abusers and their enablers?)

his words hurt Jesus (But pedophile priests only hurt little kids, so that's okay.)

Pray for Mr Maher that he be healed and set free in Peace from what wounds him (The gloves are off -- a Full-Scale Prayer Assault!)

Bigotry is not humor or free speech (You might want to remind your cousins in North Wingnuttia of that little factoid.)

Fire Bill Maher for his hate speech (Bigotry for me, but not for thee.)

i could not find anything to compare maher with except to a piece of excrement a living example of a degenetated low life it ("Degenetated"? That's a keeper.)

And finally...

Pray for Bill Maher he is so lost

Aside from punctuation, conspicuously absent amid the outrage and piousness is any comment on the harsh ugly truth of Maher's remarks -- that the Catholic church knowingly enabled vicious pedophile priests to continue abusing children through a systemic cover-up operation. Any institution that engages in something so heinous has permanently lost its right to be outraged about any volley of criticism fired its way.

But never mind that -- helmet on and head down, Bill -- you've got INcoming! And the Coalition of the Swilling is at your service if you need us!

War on Miller update

The war that the Catholic League's chief bloviator Bill Donohue declared on Miller Brewing over its sponsorship of the Folsom Street Fair rages on. The CL announced a boycott of Miller products and worse, to be an ongoing nuisance to the company. Miller caved, announcing that they would conduct an immediate audit of their marketing procedures. Eyeballs bulging, spittle flying and jowls jiggling, BD raged:

"Today's San Francisco Chronicle reports that at yesterday's Folsom Street Fair, "couples led each other up and down the street with dog collars and leashes, men in thong underwear played Twister". There was also a man who was flogged to such an extent that "red lash marks covered his back." (Hello Opus Dei.)

"Other gay men decided to "walk around naked" in front of women and children." (Yeahyeah, we already heard all about those little shenanigans, from a Reliable Source right up here in the Great White North! Remember?)

"The lead sponsor for the incredible spectacle is the Miller Brewing Company." [...]

"Today, it extended its original statement by apologizing for the misuse of its logo, "particularly [to] members of the Christian community who have contacted us to express their concern." It also said, "We are conducting an immediate audit of our procedures for approving local marketing and sales sponsorships to ensure that this does not happen again."

"An immediate audit" -- the funny thing is I couldn't find any news about this immediate audit in the Chronicle -- or anywhere other than religious sites that are just regurgitating Donohue's blather verbatim. "An immediate audit" -- translation: "a big donation to Our Lady of Perpetual Outrage Catholic School, to be spent on abstinence education".