Cue the outra-- err, crickets?

Remember how some folks had their panties in such a painful twist over Stephane Dion's use of the apparently unusable phrase "Never Again"?

If that got them so torqued up, they must REALLY be choked about this:

Hello?? HELLO!!??

Bring Chris Reid back!!!

Sure, I'll get in on some of this "Chris Reid blog-on-blog action". From Birth Pangs:

"In another coup for the blogosphere, a Conservative candidate who was outed as a
right-wing. gun-totin’, fetish fetishizing nutbar by Big City Lib has withdrawn from the campaign.

But that’s not the end of the story.

Blob Blogging Wingnut and her unsavory pals want him back.

Chris Reid is pro-life.Proudly pro-life. I’ve seen him publicly defend unborn children in facebook debates.

But Suzanne, he’s gay…

So I’ll say a rosary for him.

So, there we have it. Nutopia priorities. Gays marginally tolerable if anti-choice.

We at Birth Pangs agree. Bring Chris Reid back! He’s the perfect example of the havoc the Conservatards will wreak if they get a majority.

UPPITY-DATE: From the You Can’t Make This Stuff Up Department: Some staunch homophobic nutbars Conservative supporters do not want him back. Seems he represents a ‘homo plot’ to torpedo the Reforma-Tories."

Yes, please please pleeeeeease by all means bring Chris Reid back because he's a fetus fetishizer, but make sure you pray feverishly for him -- he's got Teh Ghey!!!

Do these people even know what disgusting hypocrites they are?

UPDATE: Montreal Simon weighs in, in his inimitable way.

Family values

Guess who slashed funding for teenage mothers:

"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live.

After the legislature passed a spending bill in April, Palin went through the measure reducing and eliminating funds for programs she opposed. Inking her initials on the legislation -- "SP" -- Palin reduced funding for Covenant House Alaska by more than 20 percent, cutting funds from $5 million to $3.9 million. Covenant House is a mix of programs and shelters for troubled youths, including Passage House, which is a transitional home for teenage mothers."

Yes girls, by all means "choose life". But unless you're cushioned by fortunate genetics and have rich Republican parents, don't expect any help after your little "choice" has arrived.

Never thought I'd say it, but...

Jonathon Kay is right -- this time, anyway:

"This is a bad day for Canada. As I write this at 1pm Tuesday, piteous video images from Omar Khadr's interrogation at Guantanamo Bay are not only the #1 news item on the National Post web site, but also the lead item on BBC News and USA Today. Millions of Web surfers are now wondering why Canada's government has acquiesced — and as the video shows, even participated — in the unconscionable treatment of a blubbering boy-soldier.

As someone who otherwise considers himself one of the War on Terror's noisiest Canadian cheerleaders, I submit that the bleeding hearts are right on this one: Omar Khadr needs to come home."

Kay summarizes the reasons Khadr should be brought home, including the fact that he probably didn't kill anyone; if he did kill (something that has yet to be proven after an astonishing 6 years of incarceration -- talk about "justice delayed"), he acted as a soldier in a military engagement, not a terrorist; his treatment at Guantanamo has been atrocious.

Of all the arguments in Khadr's favour, the most significant is that he was the product of his upbringing. Having been indoctrinated from birth into militant Islamism, it should come as no surprise that he ended up a kid soldier doing what he was told was the right thing: defending a Muslim country under siege on the other side of the world. It doesn't matter what side of history he was really on, only that as far as he knew, he was in the right. At 15, how would he know otherwise?

It's surprising the number of conservatives who, screaming for Khadr to be "waterboarded until he stops crying", don't seem to get this. One can't insist that The Family is the pinnacle of importance to society because of its profound impact on children, then turn around and completely dismiss familial influence in Khadr's case.

Kay is right: bring Omar Khadr home.

HRC complaints for me, but not for thee

When the Human Rights Commission is cramping the minority-slagging style of bigots, racists and Nazis, it's a Commie Leftard Star Chamber Kangaroo Kourt, "jackbooting conservatives since 1978".

But when the HRC does some successful work on behalf of a fetus-fetishizing group the drooling mouth-breathers support, it's all good:

"The Capilano College Heartbeat Club and the Capilano Students Union (CSU) have reached an agreement that will see the pro-life Heartbeat Club achieve CSU club recognition, pending they submit an application in the fall. The parties released a joint statement shortly after the agreement had been made:

"The Heartbeat Club filed a Human Rights complaint against the Capilano Students' Union. The Club and the CSU have entered into a settlement agreement which is confidential. The parties agree that there is no admission of liability by the CSU and that the Heartbeat Club will be entitled to CSU club status if they apply."" (emphasis sarcastically mine)

See how this works now, fucktards?