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!!??

Bye-bye, dickhead

Another fetus fetishizing fuckwad gets his just desserts:

"The appeal of an anti-abortionist who refuses to file income tax returns in protest of government-funded abortions was dismissed by a New Brunswick Court of Queens Bench judge on Friday.

David Little, 62, formerly of Fredericton, but now living on Prince Edward Island, was convicted last year for failing to file tax returns for the years 2000, 2001 and 2002." [...]

"Outside the court, Little vowed to continue to fight his case all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada if necessary.

"It's either we're going to win here or I'm going to be in jail until I rot, because I am never going to file again until the law is changed.""

Speaking of taxes and taxpayers' money, I wonder how much of it is being squandered on your extended exercise in judicial futility, Mr. Little? Here's how it works, douche: when I can choose which religious organizations I pick up the tax-exempt slack for, you can choose which medical procedures your fraction-of-a-cent goes toward funding. Until then, shut the fuck up and stop wasting my tax dollars on your personal persecution high.

Your morning SHRIEEEEEEEK!!!

My "lifeshite" tab is starting to jiggle and jerk and rumble as though it's trying to jump right off my bookmarks bar! That can only mean it's time to pop the corks again, because surely the Apocalypse is upon us:

SHRIEEEEEEEKohmygawdshrieeEEEEEK!!!!

"Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) the political arm of the pro-life movement has led the public outcry against the nomination with a petition of over 30,000 Canadians, commissioning the largest poll in the country on the subject..."

They're sure getting their money's worth out of the MASSIVE poll. Too bad, suckahs, we won. You lost. Own it. Get over it. Have a glass of champers...

HAHAHAHAHAHA! Congratulations, Dr. Morgentaler!

NOT TOTAL LOSERS UPDATE: Birth Pangs is all over it, baby!

I must have missed the want ad that said

"WANTED by the CBC:
One fetus-fetishist to write about fetuses, fetal rights, fetus fetishizing, fetaphobia and fetaphilia. Only the batshit insane need apply."

So much for that

We all remember last month Chuck McVety and "42" astroturfed "organizations" filed a complaint against Justice Beverly McLachlin for... uh, err... oh I don't know, thought crimes? in regard to her supposed "role" in Dr. Morgentaler's Order of Canada. Yes yes, sure we do. Well, it's back to the drawing board for those dithering assholes. W00t!

He loves it

And so do I:

"A provincial pro-life group is endorsing two federal Conservative candidates in Winnipeg -- even though one doesn't want to be publicly identified, the group's leader says." [...]

"One candidate is Conservative Rod Bruinooge, who is angling for re-election in the Winnipeg South riding. Slykerman said a second candidate -- identified by a media report as Trevor Kennerd, running in Winnipeg South Centre -- doesn't like his name being used.

"I can't say for one... he doesn't like to have his name stand, but Rod Bruinooge does," Slykerman said." [...]

"Slykerman said Bruinooge has happily accepted her offer to help.

"He loves it," she said. Slykerman said, however, she was unable to divulge the identity of the other candidate after that candidate told her not to disclose it."

Little late for that, wouldn't you say? Fuck, these fetus fetishists are so cataclysmically dull-witted. Trevor Kennerd's name and endorsement by Campaign Life Coalition are all over the internets, including in that same article.

So who is this guy Kennerd? The Globe & Mail says he's one of the ones to watch. Can't say I disagree, especially if he's being endorsed by Campaign Fetus Fetish but isn't being forthcoming about it. What else might he not be upfront about?

The endorsement nobody wants

HAHAHAHAHA, yeah... CLC again. From Endless Spin Cycle, the Winnipeg blogger who helped us expose the world-famous MASSIVE POLL a couple of months back, there's news of an endorsement for a couple of local federal CPC candidates -- an endorsement the candidates aren't exactly shouting about:

"Two Conservative candidates running in the federal election in Winnipeg ridings are getting support from a Manitoba anti-abortion group — but neither is talking about it.

The Campaign Life Coalition has endorsed Rod Bruinooge, who is seeking re-election in Winnipeg South, and Trevor Kennerd in Winnipeg South Centre." [...]

"Jared Wesley, a political scientist at the University of Manitoba, said the candidates' silence on the matter is not surprising.

Endorsements from groups with controversial causes are difficult for candidates to deal with, especially those in swing ridings like Winnipeg South and Winnipeg South Centre, he said."

How about that. Looks like Campaign Life Coalition is pretty chummy with Bruinooge, whose brother Allan owns KLRVU Research. You know, the company that did the MASSIVE poll... for Campaign Life Coalition. Just a coincidence, I'm sure! What's up with the silent treatment about the endorsement? Inquiring minds and all that! Because after all...

"Shannon Sampert, who teaches political science at the University of Winnipeg, said silence is not acceptable: "If you are pro-life or pro-choice, either way, you should make your intentions clear."

The Campaign Life Coalition's endorsement could lead some women to worry about the Tories' commitment to women's rights, she said.

"Women increasingly are worried about the Unborn Child Act that they were considering — if [Conservative Leader Stephen Harper] gets in as a majority government, I think women within the community in Winnipeg and in Canada in general will be very afraid of what's going to happen to these rights that we fought so hard for.""

No shit Sherlock. Everyone already knows that Rod Bruinooge is a fetus fetishist, so why is he being so coy about the CLC endorsement?

"Neither Bruinooge or Kennerd returned calls from CBC News."

Hmmm! Makes you wonder...

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

PZ Meyers gets an unexpected solicitation by email:

So Mike Koelzer the Fetus Fetishist Pharmacist wants to speak at PZ's church... and why not? He sounds like an accomodating guy -- well, unless you're trying to fill a script for birth control pills, then he's a total fuckhead. But no problem: PZ notes that the feti-pharmafetishist's "Kay Pharmacy" has an online survey so people can make suggestions about how to improve the store... hahahahaha! We know where that's going.

Indeed, lifeshite has caught the play and they've got the whine turned all the way up -- they are anything but pleased:

"P.Z. Myers, the infamous Minnesota biology professor who incited a national outcry after desecrating the Eucharist and photographing the act for his blog, has now focused his energies on a new target - Mike Koelzer, a member of American Life League Associate group Pharmacists for Life International." [...]

They didn't capitalize "The Act"? Hmph. Onward:

"An outraged Myers asked his blog readers to flood Koelzer's Web site with mail. They replied en masse with over 400 threats of profanity and hate-filled messages including:


"Burn the building to the ground. And have Mike Koelzer sterilized."


"Commit suicide."


"And..... the rumor is you have quite a nice looking butt and if you play your cards right ... well, let's just say, I can be awfully grateful."

"Not content with desecrating Catholics' most sacred Sacrament, Myers is once again spewing hate and anger at anyone who would dare proclaim a belief in God or attempt to stop the murder of the preborn," said Judie Brown, president of American Life League."

And so what? Koelzer's the one who offered to speak at the Church of Pharyngula in the first place -- if he had the brain of a chunk of tofu he might have done a little research first and avoided this hideous mistake. But such is life in the Vortex of Dumb. You own it, fetus fetishists, so stop crying.

Bubble zones and bubbleheads

Yesterday a gratuitous 10-year waste of the court's time and taxpayers' money culminated in the BC Court of Appeals ruling that the 50-metre "bubble zones" around womens' clinics do not violate the free speech rights of the anti-abortion protesters that infest the surrounding areas:

"A Canadian appeals court on Thursday upheld a provincial "bubble zone" law that limited protests around abortion clinics in British Columbia.

The three-judge panel rejected the claims of anti-abortion activists and civil libertarians that the law violated rights of free expression by stopping protesters from talking to women entering the clinics." [...]

"Two western Canadian anti-abortion activists, Donald Spratt and Gordon Watson, violated the law in 1998 outside the Everywoman's Health Clinic in an effort to have the law struck down by the courts.

The men argued unsuccessfully that protection zone was too large and that even if it had been needed at the time it was enacted it was no longer necessary because the tone of anti-abortion protests had changed."

How totally vomitous. These two guys want to get closer to the clinic so they can bully and berate the patients... and who-knows-what else? Take pictures of staff? Record license plate numbers? Leave a bomb? These people are bugfuck nuts and they've proven time and again that they can't be trusted, that's why there are bubble zones to keep them at bay. But the contention that the bubble zone law violates freedom of speech because, waaaahhh! protesters can't get close enough to really harrass the patients, is ludicrous. By that logic, stalking laws must also violate free speech.

Nobody's telling these cretins they can't say whatever they want to say -- they just can't say it that close to the clinic. They're free to jabber and foam all they want at a distance of 50 metres.

Bubble zones exist to protect the patients. This year, fetus fetishists have made a big show about how their dear departed Bill C-484 "protects pregnant women" (which it doesn't, but that's another story) -- obviously, in their view, some women are more deserving of protection than others.

9th OC returned... twice

This is an event of such earth-shattering significance that nobody except lifeshite is reporting it. After 2 months of whining and shrieking, moaning and groaning, fainting and swooning, a 9th Order of Canada has been returned:

"On July 10, John Culliton Poston returned his deceased uncle E.M. Culliton's Order of Canada medal in protest of the growing list of controversial Canadians being granted Canada's highest civilian honor - most notably the prolific abortionist Dr. Henry Morgentaler."

Whoa, hold the phone: July 10th? I thought the guy's name looked familiar! It looks like he tried to return his (deceased uncle's) OC to the wrong place and they sent it back. So he returned it again, to the right place this time, and it became "news" again. Tsk-tsk, lifesite, that's astroturfing, and astroturfers never prosper.

UPDATE: Not only that, but it's a dead guy's OC, so it's not even John Culliton Poston's to return anyway. So let me get this straight: lifeshite reported twice on an OC that was "returned" twice that isn't really even the returnee's to return... how the fuck many lies is that??

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.

Hyperbole much?

What the-???Um yeah. Meanwhile, in Reality-Land, the story goes like this.

Lifesite: Your fairly unbalanced news source.

US Election: pro-choicers ask the candidates

Now this is frightening.

In the afterglow of what I like to think of as the "Summer of Pro-Choice Vindication", and with an election about to rear its ugly, snarling head, Harper was asked recently by Dion to clarify where he stands on abortion rights. While his reply was a bit nebulous for my liking, Harper obviously cares more about staying in power than he does about that particular issue. Not that complacency is ever an option, eternal vigilance being the price of freedom -- as Bill C-484 showed. But still.

Now compare that happy state of affairs to what's going on south of the border, where pro-choice activists are advising voters to ask the candidates about contraception:

"Access to contraception is the only proven way to reduce unwanted pregnancy rates. It's no wonder that Americans on both sides of the abortion debate overwhelmingly support contraception. Yet few know that more and more candidates vying for their vote don't. Across the U.S., anti-abortion organizations have added anti-contraception activities to their agenda and expect those they help get elected to office to join in these efforts. Since this issue isn't on most voters' radar, most complacently comply." [...]

"The questions being posed to candidates on all other critical issues facing the nation today demand cogent and solution-oriented answers. A candidate isn't considered serious about the economy without answers on how to create new jobs. Who would be labeled pro-environment without a position on fighting noxious emissions? No discussion of escalating gas prices is complete without a candidate explaining his or her position on energy alternatives too. But, oddly, no anti-abortion candidates are ever asked about their position on contraception despite the fact that their views on the matter often differ dramatically from what the public wants and what works." (emphasis mine)

Oh, the dishonesty, the obfuscation, the stealth. Just another thing to watch for, and another reason to be goddamn glad to live in Canada.

105 MPs disagree

I'm shocked, I tell you! According to the results of a survey done by Campaign Fetus Coalition and released yesterday, 105 MPs say they disagree with the Morgentaler Order of Canada!

105 out of, what, 308? That's, what, about 1/3? Nice to see our parliamentary representatives reflect the Canadian public's views so precisely.

Demented in Denver

The giant inflatable fetus may have been rented out this week, but with their mighty Banner Of Bedsheets unfurled, fetus fetishists are using the opportunity of the Democratic National Convention to make total pains in the ass out of themselves. And look who's back:

"Randall Terry, the founder of the militant anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, was arrested at the Democratic National Convention after leading a sit-in that would have blocked a convention center entrance. Nearly 60 participated in the sit-in and 13 were arrested after police warned the protesters to disperse three times, according to the Associated Press.

Randall Terry is the militant anti-abortion extremist who exhorts his followers to "let a wave of hatred wash over" them, and after that, presumably, let nature (or nitroglycerine) take its course. (Like one of his buddies, James Kopp, did.) In addition to getting arrested for blocking the entrance to the convention centre, this time Terry's in a little trouble for spicing up the protest with a dash of spittle-flecked racism:

"“Racist” fliers authored by notorious anti-abortion activist Randall Terry littered cars parked at Elitch Gardens Saturday night where a DNC media party was taking place.

The brochure touts a fake “Candidate Smith” proposing “real solutions for the ‘Negro problem’” as a shocking metaphor for Christian voters who support pro-choice but otherwise conservative political candidates." [...]

"A favorite tactic of the anti-abortion movement is to equate their struggle with the Dred Scott decision to deny civil rights to African Americans. Advocates of proposed Amendment 48, which seeks to confer due process rights on fertilized human eggs in Colorado, have also conflated slavery and abortion." (emphasis mine)

Fertilized human eggs = oppressed minority. And they wonder why they have no credibility.

And outside the Democratic National Convention

... the goofball gallery gets creative with 20,000 bedsheets on the mesa above Denver:

I guess all the giant inflatable dead fetuses were rented out this week.

The pro-choice checklist

Dr. Morgentaler honoured with the Order of Canada -- CHECK!

Two (real) polls indicate the majority of Canadians are good with it -- CHECKITY-CHECK!

Campaign Life Coalition's MASSIVE poll a joke -- CHECK!

"Backlash" and "grassroots" protests against the award fizzle -- CHECK!

CFAC's complaint against Justice McLachlin becomes object of ridicule -- CHECK! and CHECK!

The Harper government kills Bill C-484, the "Kicking Abortion's Ass" Bill -- CHECK!

Now over to the alternate reality known as "lifeshite":

We may be on the verge of a turning point in the battle against abortion," said David Bereit, national campaign director of 40 Days for Life.

To borrow from CC, "Holy fuck! The burning fucking stupid!"

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.

Epp on C-484: "Hell no! It won't go!"

These fetus fetishists were never ones to look reality square in the face and see what's really there, preferring instead to re-interpret the information to fit their own warped worldview. Big protests against the Morgentaler Order of Canada... 400. A blizzard of returned Order of Canada medals... 9 -- 3 from dead people. Massive poll... heh. A huge grassroots Astroturf uprising against Justice McLachlin... whatever. Their delusions go on and on and endlessly on.

So it's no surprise that upon hearing that his scurrilous Bill C-484 (aka the "Kicking Abortion's Ass" bill) is being euthanized and replaced with something more in keeping with Canadian pro-choice values, MP Ken Epp stomped his feet and threatened to hold his breath 'til he turned blue:

"I definitely will not be withdrawing my bill," Epp told Sun Media. "They're quite different. I don't intend to let up."

So what? The thing is D.O.A. according to Justice Minister Rob Nicholson, and Ken Epp isn't running for office again. If it's not withdrawn, C-484 will just float around in Dead Bill Purgatory in perpetuity. It won't be lonely -- its buddy, C-537, will be along shortly to keep it company.

W00t!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

"As election speculation hits fever pitch, the Harper government has cut loose a contentious private member's bill that would have made it a crime to take the life of a fetus.

Justice Minister Rob Nicholson announced Monday that the government will draft a new bill to replace Bill C-484, the Unborn Victims of Crime Act, so that it closes the debate about fetal rights and focuses instead on penalizing criminals who harm pregnant women." [...]

"We've heard criticism from across the country, including representatives of the medical community, that Mr. Epp's bill as presently drafted could be interpreted as instilling fetal rights. Let me be clear. Our government will not reopen the debate on abortion," Mr. Nicholson said.

"For this reason ... I'm announcing that the government will introduce legislation that will punish criminals who commit violence against pregnant women but do so in a way that leaves no room for the introduction of fetal rights." (emphasis mine)

WE DID IT!!!

(h/t: reality bites)