http://calvinists4conservatism.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/sarah-palin-a-maverick-on-rape/

For pete’s sake we just had a tainted meat scandal up here and fifteen people died. The cons have deregulated meat inspection and made food labelling optional. They’ve also gotten rid of the mad cow inspection program. Even the national food manufacturing association wrote to the PM and told him this would be a very bad thing to do. And people still think they are the better choice? I can’t understand what’s happening.

I’ll tell you why: Canadians are complacent and tend to believe that what happened in the USA is due to American stupidity. At the same time, polls show that Canadians like majority governments, as long as it’s any majority government.

This is very much like the situation at the reelection of the Mike Harris government in Ontario. Seriously, this is Mike Harris writ large. Combine that with a decentralist Québec that is no longer voting directly on sovereignty. Harper can quite credibly tell them that he’ll dismantle the federal government without actually requiring them to vote yes. That’s a really popular position in Québec.

Truer words were never typed by you. Huzzah and kudos!

BTW, you might wanna slip a comma in there, chief.

(‘I think that I shall never see
a politico as creepy as Sarah be’

No, huh? How about

‘Abou Bin Laden, may his tribe increase,
awoke one night from a deep dream of peace
and saw within the moonlight of his room
Sarah with a shotgun, making a boom’)

Nope, can’t do it. Catherine wins.

Well, it’s not like we are advocating internment camps for dull, fat, humorless, homophobic, sexist, fundamentalist white guys. There will always be places for you.

Can I have fries with that?

The Alaskan secessionists are pathetic, deluded clowns akin to neo-Confederates, white supremecists, survivalists, and the like. They obviously aren’t a political movement that is going anywhere.

Eidos:

Problem is, just because they’re completely fuckin’ crazy, doesn’t mean they aren’t influential.

Two truths diverged in a yellow wood,
And knowing I could not utter both
And be vetted, long I stood
And trampled one down as far as I could
Until it gasped in the undergrowth;

Then claimed the other, ‘cause all is fair
When one’s on deck for batter McCain.
Because he is glassy and worse for wear
(And for all his bluster, his passing near),
I assure you we’re really about the same.

We both one moment equally laid
Our cars on the Rove-and-Cheney track.
Oh, I kept ethics for another day!
(Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubt if I should ever come back.)

I won’t be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two truths diverged in a wood, and I –
I claimed the truth most like a lie.
My base doesn’t know the difference.

More irony: during the Civil War the northerners who opposed the war and sympathized with southern goals were the “Copperhead” Democrats- most of whom were from the big cities like New York and Chicago.

Actually, it wasn’t so much that they were sympathetic to the defense of slavery, it was more like, screw ‘em, let them go. So that hasn’t changed much.

Yes. There is absolutely *no* reason for them to hate a nation that doesn’t feel sympathy when hundreds of their innocent people are killed. /sarcasm

If someone tried to pull the kind of shit the USA pulls on brown people on *me* I’d hate the fuckers too, and be thrilled when they got murdered.

“Sarah Palin had $15 million for an ice rink, but no money for rape kits.”

Because there’s such a dire lack of ice in Alaska.

I have no sympathy for terrorists or terrorist supporters.
…
Habeas corpus? Why?

But loads of sympathy for their disregard of human rights, eh, Robby-boy? Funny: a lot of folks consider YOUR viewpoint as being a kind of terrorism in itself. Denying basic human rights to one’s enemies, being “fine” with the murder of innocent civilians, cheerleading for fascist tendencies domestically – yep, smells just like terrorism to me. Pot black, kettle, also black.

Of course an American citizen is protected under the Bill of Rights.

LOL – not since Chimp-boy signed the Military Commissions Act. Hope you never get popped by mistake for “SUSPICION of complicity with terrorism” … because that happy little dream of yours will be most rudely interrupted. You can puke up Puritan cut-&-paste with the best of them, but you’re not playing with a full deck if you actually think the Bill of Rights remains intact with an elephant like the MCA sitting on its throat. Fail.

I don’t believe in criminalizing legitimite dissent which is what the Alaska Independence Party is. I also don’t believe in criminalizing Americans who criticise their government, thats not what I’m advocating at all.

Rather a creative form of “legitimate dissent” if it involves the party’s leader buying plastic explosives, eh? Cherry-pick much?

What you BELIEVE means jack – what your spiritual twin in the Oval Office is DOING is putting the US Constitution in a blender & emboldening the most barbaric extremist fringe of Christianity to try for a real theocracy, death to infidels, praise the Holy Junta, the wholle 9 yards. He’s also fine with first demonizing & then crimnializing ALL dissent, including yours, bright-eyes.

The Truth Says:
September 15th, 2008 at 0:29

I’m not going anywhere liberals.

… indeed … which is central to my point.

Here are the current headlines on Bloomberg.com’s financial news page as of 9:39 EDT, 14 Sep 08:…

That’s gonna leave a mark