Recent Demotivators

... here are the latest ones I've done...

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Funkytime in the 416

 

Well, the G20 event was something, eh? It was quite the billion dollar weekend. I've been on a few marches at a few demos over the years, including the "battle" in Seattle and I was glad to watch this one from a few hours north of the Greater Toronto Metro whatever. 

There were a lot of surprising moments during CopFest Toronto, but none greater than the realization of a new, highly active national political coalition in Canada?

Who'd a thunk that the hardest of the Hard Left would be all the way there to pull Mr. Harper's Christian hard-right's bacon out of the fire?

... Just when it seemed like blowing all that money, and screwing up the lives of so many people up in "cottage country" and downtown Toronto, and negatively impacting so many businesses might hang off Steve like a bad smell from here to eternity - or at least the next election - suddenly a couple of hundred alleged anarchists step up and make him a hero.

Naturally, these losers think they are really something- heroes of a revolution that only exists in their activist imaginations. They are as far from the "vanguard" as one can be. The Black Bloc are the best friends that the worst kinds of cops could ever have.

This doesn't mean they are ineffective, though. Just ask Mr. Harper. Thanks to them, he'll probably be back... with a majority.

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Another Harper Conservative Moment...

One of the few personal upsides of living under the Harper junta is that decoding the news becomes very, very simple. If Governor Harper thinks something is a good idea - like say, the recent CopFest here for the G8/G20 posse - I can look at a long history of his ideas and work back from the downside vis-a-vis "how f***ing lame/stupid/dangerous/anti-Canadian is that?"

His recent announcement of "our" new Governor-General is another case in point. The last two GGs were, in my humble opinion, amazing people who rejuvenated the post into something useful and inspirational. 

No matter how much of a smarmy, fake-o, pompous, creepy sanctimonious jerk Mr. Harper might be, at least there were these smart, sensitive, literate women representing a Canada I could feel proud of...

I don't know much about the new guy... but I do know that if Mr. Harper thinks it's a good idea...

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WTF? Glenn Beck talks soccer...

just when you think you've heard it all...

just when you think it's impossible to be surprised by just how stupid, how illiterate and just how straight up ignorant the rabid Right of America can be, Glenn Beck opens his mouth again...


 

Glenn Beck: Today, America, I'm not a commentator. I'm just concerned.

Shane Falco: You're not alone, Glenn.

Glenn Beck: Doesn't it seem strange that America is suddenly willing to ignore baseball and watch soccer? Doesn't it seem strange that in the United States' first "match" with England, we're all supposed to act like a tie is a victory? Doesn't it seem strange that the American media has propped up a bunch of British men to announce these games? Doesn't it seem strange that the media tells us that USA-England got 17 million American viewers the other day?

Am I the only one who sees what's going on right now?

Shane Falco: I'm right there with ya, Glenn. Soccer is for the immigrants, pre-pubescents, and that John Daily character on Comedy Central. But now we're supposed to cheer this "Landycakes" fella? Smells like a fruitcake to this American.

Glenn Beck: (actually said this) "It doesn't matter how you try to sell it to us. It doesn't matter how many celebrities you get, it doesn't matter how many bars open early, it doesn't matter how many beer commercials they run, we don't want the World Cup, we don't like the World Cup, we don't like soccer, we want nothing to do with it."

Shane Falco: Doesn't sit well with this American, and I won't stand for it.

G. Gordon Liddy: (again, actual quote) "Whatever happened to American exceptionalism?"

Glenn Beck: Riddle me this, America: Was Mussolini a soccer fan?

G. Gordon Liddy: (actual quote) "This game originated with the South American Indians and instead of a ball, they used to use the head, the decapitated head, of an enemy warrior."

Shane Falco: Gordo, I have no idea whether we can prove that, but it feels right.

Glenn Beck: Folks, this is our America. And they are trying to take it from us. From me. From you. From regular folks like Shane Falco. I don't want to be right about this...

Shane Falco: If not you, then who's gonna be the one to speak for the Americans out there that make this country what it is?

Glenn Beck: Soccer, my friends, is not American. Why else do you think we lose? Whatever happened to American exceptionalism? When we start taking soccer seriously, it disappears. Am I the only that sees what's going on here? We're tying the rest of the world.

So, Americans, don't feel bad. It's okay to segregate yourself from the hordes of media pawns pretending to like soccer. They are symptoms. The media is the disease.

Do you want to risk getting cancer?

Shane Falco: These are the stakes.

Glenn Beck: Think of the troops.

pre-pubescents?
Mussolini?
cancer?
the troops?

or is he just freaked out
that 17 million Americans
watch the World Cup
and only 3 million
watch him?


check it out right here

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the G20 in Toronto...

well, Steve Harper's billion dollar weekend has come and gone. looming large among the amazing accomplishments, it seems governments have agreed that deficits are bad.

meanwhile the city seems to be traumatized by the weekend's activities. ironic, in a way, given the colonial concerns so often expressed in YYZ about being "world class". all "world class" cities have these confrontations between the police and the inhabitants from time to time...

i guess it also speaks to how long it's been since the Toronto Maple Leafs were a serious contender for the Stanley Cup. that always seems to bring out the riotous impulses in some of a city's more sporting people...

 no one stood to gain more from the weekend than Canadians. Governor Harper was seriously over-exposed on the massive spending surrounding this event- most of it on the security involving more than 19,000 police from across the country.

it could have hung on him like a bad shirt through the next election and led just enough voters to express their discontent at the ballot box to deliver us all from the christian colonial conservative policies of Harper and his backers.

but no...

thanks to a few hundred losers in the "Black Bloc", CopFest was a huge success.

their need to act out their masturbatory fantasies - as always - has to come first.

the idea of a revolution that would not be televised is an anethema to the black block. they love to vogue a radical pose- they live for the photo op and youtube clip.

unlike the people in Gaza or Iran, for whom protest and action are life and death issues, these sad brats are risking nothing more than an intoxicating whiff of tear gas, a deodorant failure following a gleeful sprint or an overnight detention.

they reduce decades of honorable anarchist thought and action to petty, pointless prom-night level vandalism while sanctimoniously celebrating themselves in tones and terms Torquemada would find familiar.

self-absorbed to point of sociopathic, dressed up in radical hand-me-downs, the BB gang are a bigger threat to school lunch programs, needle exchanges and other under-funded social programs than they are to any forces of Darkness, here or anywhere. 

the Black Bloc are "radical" in the same way the Brown Shirts were "radical".  they are the best friends bad cops could ever have, and when the Christian Right in this country really needed a friend, the Black Bloc was right there for them.

tribe knows tribe...

 

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Cats are Evil

I was so relieved to see this cartoon... I've been trying to warn people about this for years! "Look at the ancient Egyptians" I say "what happened to them?"

But do they listen?

No.

It is sad to see people enslaved by cats. I guess it's a good thing that other parasites never grew fur, or learned to purr...

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In Other World Cup Action....

... no one is more surprised than me
to find me giving a damn
about another sporting event. 

nonetheless, the World Cup
has turned up big in my mirror.
i even bet $10 on proline
and lost badly.

it's nice to have a thing outside
the day-to-day with my crazy
old man we can both just swear
at and have a beer to...

it's pretty interesting, really. 

i had no idea there was
so much opera in it.

and when you've grown up
trying to score on a net
that's 4 feet high and six feet wide,
it takes a while to appreciate how someone could miss a net
that's 24 feet wide
and 8 feet high.

it's great to see so many people in Africa, and all over the world, rejoicing every day.

it beats thinking about the fait accompli of the G8/G20 billion dollar weekend too...especially when it's just up the road from here, and just down the road from here...


and the Gusher in the Gulf
BP situation was kind of eating
my brain. and it will still
be happening after
the World Cup.

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