Making it Official

For the record, I shan't be commenting at Dawg's Blog anymore. I still admire and read the guy, but it royally irked me to be treated as being somehow the equal of a moral defective like Peter1. Then there was the double-standard of having my pseudonym used as a term of generic mockery while having to restrain my disgust for the monsters. Having made the choice though, I must say I feel a little bit lighter. I now know there will be no more pointless discussions with the lying and disgusting Peter1, the relentlessly deluded Marky Mark, the revolting degenerate kryngathim-kazus, the liar fergusrush, and all the other gang of idiots who pollute his blog.

Learn From Japan

Yeah, I know. The right-wing are braying like the jackasses they are saying that THEIR favourite politicians should be able to engage in any conflict of interest with no penalties, and that the RCMP is pulling private airplanes out of the sky because they are pulling banners that offend his majesty stephen harper the first. But a big part of all the austerity bullshit, all the keep the homeless homeless and starve the hospitals and beat-up the unions and all the other insanity is the canard of the public debt.

That's why, given how it could illuminate this subject and point to how the "debt" issue is the same reeking bullshit it always was, this essay on how Japan is pretending it is broke is so important and you should read it

Japan’s debt-to-GDP ratio looks bad.  But as economist Hazel Henderson notes, this is just a matter of accounting practice—a practice that she and other experts contend is misleading.  Japan leads globally in virtually all areas of high-tech manufacturing, including aerospace.  The debt on the other side of its balance sheet represents the payoffs from all this productivity to the Japanese people.
According to Gary Shilling, writing on Bloomberg in June 2012, more than half of Japanese public spending goes for debt service and social security payments.  Debt service is paid as interest to Japanese “savers.”  Social security and interest on the national debt are not included in GDP, but these are actually
the social safety net and public dividends of a highly productive economy.  These, more than the military weapons and “financial products” that compose a major portion of U.S. GDP, are the real fruits of a nation’s industry.  For Japan, they represent the enjoyment by the people of the enormous output of their high-tech industrial base.

Good stuff.

Malnutrition in Afghanistan

It's "shockingly" high say UN officials:

"What's shocking is that [the malnutrition statistics are] very high by global standards," Michael Keating, deputy head of the UN mission in Afghanistan, told the Guardian. "This is the kind of malnutrition you associate with Africa and some of the most deprived parts of the world, not with an area that has received so much international attention and assistance."
As the Guardian notes: "The Afghanistan Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) found 29.5% of children are suffering from acute malnutrition there. A level of more than 30% among young children is considered one sign of a famine."

 In the 21st Century, apparently it's beyond the ability of the USA, Britain, Canada and all the rest of the NATO countries (among the richest in the world) to prevent pervasive malnutrition after over a decade of occupation.

There's a pattern here, for those with eyes to see it:

Charlene, 16 with a month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the country's central plateau.
The mud has long been prized by pregnant women and children here as an antacid and source of calcium. But in places such as Cité Soleil, the oceanside slum where Charlene shares a two-room house with her baby, five siblings, and two unemployed parents, cookies made of dirt, salt, and vegetable shortening have become a regular meal.
"When my mother does not cook anything, I have to eat them three times a day," Charlene said. Her baby, named Woodson, lay still across her lap, looking even thinner than the slim 6 pounds, 3 ounces (2.7 kilograms, 85 grams) he weighed at birth.
Though she likes their buttery, salty taste, Charlene said the cookies also give her stomach pains. "When I nurse, the baby sometimes seems colicky too," she said. 

 Who's kidding who? We know our elites despise the majority of the world's population. "Useless eaters."

Following Ford's Testimony Re: Conflict of Interest

Rob Ford is a fucking dunce.

Right-Wingers & Unions

 The biggest thing that I took away from my recent swim in the fetid swamps of right-wing insanity is that unions are full of thugs. Thugs. Thugs who practice bullying and intimidation. That's it. Nothing else. Thugs. Thugs. Thugs. Corrupt. Corrupt. Corrupt. And if you question that stupid, sweeping generalization, then you've evidently said that unions are flawless, divinely constructed entities. Because right-wingers tend to find ordinary thinking to be like trying to wield an 80 lb. sledgehammer. Sometimes they reel backwards and fall completely over. Sometimes they bring the thing down "BLAM!!!" more or less in the vicinity of the idea they were trying to communicate.

Thugs. Intimidation. Bullying. Corrupt. Bosses. Anti-Democratic. Lazy. Unnecessary.

And whatever. I've just got to get this nonsense out of my system somehow.

Canadian "Conservatives" and Artistic Brilliance

So, the following videos are pretty much a portrait of the desperate living" quality of your average right-wing mind. But there's also some brilliance there. Look at how easily and carelessly Eunice could have avoided this tragedy. Look at the self-importance of these stunted souls. This isn't mockery of a certain CLASS of people, but of a certain MENTALITY. And the moronic victims of this satire took about 100 years, but they finally were instructed to call it "elitism." And that guilt-trip worked for a few decades, but after seeing the results of these stupid chumps and their political choices, ... well, guess what?

Holy fuck ...

Idiots

Having immersed myself in the brain-dead culture of right-wing whining and crying for about a week, I realize the extent of their insanity with some more precision.

In their world (as I last posted) their is no robocall scandal. Nothing happened. We (leftards) made it all up. There is literally nothing to investigate. Which would go a long way to explain why Elections Canada isn't investigating anything!

Mental and moral defective "Fred from BC" likes to post in Saskboy's comments section that not one person has come forward to say they actually didn't vote because of having been sent on a wild goose chase (by a mysterious caller who broke the law by deliberately lying about moving polling stations). Of course:

Nobody has said that they were prevented from voting by fraudulent or misdirecting calls during the election, although Elections Canada officials reported in court documents that angry voters in Guelph tore up their voter cards in when they discovered that they had been tricked.

And, then there's statistical evidence:

I show that those polling stations with predominantly nonconservative voters experienced a decline in voter turnout from 2008 to 2011, and that this effect was larger in ridings that were allegedly targeted by the fraudulent phone calls.

But here's the thing: These right-wing fucks believe that all the complaints are from Liberal and NDP hacks. Despite the FACT that these illegal calls were made, the complaints about them are all bogus. (Just try to wrap your head around that particular piece of insanity.) If a poll were conducted asking people if anyone didn't vote as a result of these (illegal) calls, and it was reported that any number of voters were successfully discouraged, the "conservatives" would simply declare that the poll respondents were all Liberal or NDP or Green or some other variant of "leftard" lying for the sake of attacking the harpercons.

Heads they win, tails we lose. Except nobody gives a shit what these right-wing liars and assholes and thieves and morons think about anything. Just shut the fuck up and get the fuck out of the way you dirty-diapered scum.