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Here we go, I would hate to miss such an important day. Oh bring the righteous fury my delusional Islam friends.
Prodding of the delusional aside. Have a great day.
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-The Arbourist.
Canada's own high representative of batshite-crazy misogyny.
The catholic church really needs to go. They are doing a fairly good job at self immolation as is, but the process itself is taking too long. The cloistered catholic church wankers, from their deslutory anti-rational palace of fuckwittery, make another bold statement:
“Ouellet apparently had no intention of wading into a public policy debate when called abortion a “moral crime” as serious as murder and said it is never justified — even in cases of rape.”
Not surprisingly, given Canada’s proclivity toward rationality, this little gem of religiously approved anti-woman twaddle did not go over well. Now Ouellet is doing PR backflips in order to correct the ‘spin’ he claims the media has put on his words.
“He’s not calling for re-criminalization. He was talking [about] a moral thing. This is a moral issue. He was not bringing this to the judicial level.”
Ah, right. The RCC is certainly not about limiting women’s access to reproductive services. They are not about buggering alter boys either.
At least the politicians in the Quebec know how to deal with the bullshite that oozes from the church’s direction.
“Parti Québécois Leader Pauline Marois, speaking at a weekend party policy conference, said she was “absolutely outraged” by the remarks and that Ouellet was trying to undo rights won decades ago.
“These remarks … take us back to [the] Middle Ages,” said Alexa Conradi, president of the Quebec Women’s Federation.
“At the same time, my concern really is at the federal level. There is movement of right wing Catholic groups to find different ways to re-criminalize abortion.”
Conradi said that since the Conservatives came to power, there have been a number of — failed — attempts to get private member’s bills passed that threaten Canadian women’s legal rights to an abortion”
This Ouelleut is a real peach. He concurs with the Steven Harper’s G8 initiative that gives a hearty thumbs up to sentencing women to die because it dovetails nicely with his sickeningly inane religious beliefs:
“Ouellet applauded the Harper government for its stance against funding abortions in the developing world.”
Your church sponsored douchery has a place. Firmly in the past. Condemning women to die and denying them their autonomy is reprehensible and has no place in the 21st century.
Or do not.
C0nc0rdance from ytube does a good job of showing that we should not abandon the reasoned evidence based approach to medicine because of the amoral behaviour of some pharmaceutical companies.
Via the CBC.
“LOS ANGELES, Calif. – The Environmental Protection Agency has a new weapon in the fight against radioactive contamination at a Los Angeles-area lab: Mules.
The EPA will use four mules to carry high-tech scanning equipment to detect radiation on steep and rocky terrain at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory.”
Who would have thought the humble Mule would be helping us clean up the environment.
Radiation Detecting? What an odd idea;I guess we'll just have the mule that over for awhile. :)
“The EPA is conducting a survey of soil and water contamination at the lab near Simi Valley, where rocket engines were tested for years and a partial meltdown of a nuclear reactor took place in 1959.
About 500 acres (200 hectares) of the lab will be scanned for gamma radiation.
Results will be turned over to the state, which is overseeing a cleanup.”
The RCC. Always open, always deluded and always anti-woman.
The Catholic Church is mired in yet another anti-woman scandal.
via NBC – “PHOENIX – A nun and administrator at a Catholic hospital in Phoenix has been reassigned and rebuked by the local bishop for agreeing that a severely ill woman needed an abortion to survive.
Sister Margaret McBride was on an ethics committee that included doctors that consulted with a young woman who was 11 weeks pregnant late last year, The Arizona Republic newspaper reported on its website Saturday. The woman was suffering from a life-threatening condition that likely would have caused her death if she hadn’t had the abortion at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center.”
Wow, do we need another reason to shit-can the mystical bullshit that pervades our society? Yet another case of backward, unhinged, delusional thinking attempting to corrupt and trump reality in the 21st century. The Nun in question, followed her own personal ethics, as opposed to the rancid 2000 year old wisdom of burning bushes and talking snakes. She made the correct evidence based decision. Her commitment to reason is to be commended, and of course free thinking in the musty halls of religion gets you punished:
“Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, head of the Phoenix Diocese, indicated in a statement that the Roman Catholic involved was “automatically excommunicated” because of the action. The Catholic Church allows the termination of a pregnancy only as a secondary effect of other treatments, such as radiation of a cancerous uterus.”
“I am gravely concerned by the fact that an abortion was performed several months ago in a Catholic hospital in this diocese,” Olmsted said in a statement sent to The Arizona Republic. “I am further concerned by the hospital’s statement that the termination of a human life was necessary to treat the mother’s underlying medical condition.”
Ah yes, because of your funny hat and the rotten sepulchre of a religion that supports your fantasy based point of view enables you to punish people for saving lives. The Bishop of Bullshit continues:
“An unborn child is not a disease. While medical professionals should certainly try to save a pregnant mother’s life, the means by which they do it can never be by directly killing her unborn child. The end does not justify the means.”
Huh, well if then this is not a pillar for Catholic women to frakking rally around then let us distill it down a bit further to ‘clarify the message’.
“If a woman grows weary and at last dies from childbearing, it matters not. Let her die from bearing, she is there to do it.” –Martin Luther.
Now this is a quote that women can get behind. All aboard the train straight back into the shitz and giggles known as the Dark Ages! We need to get back to a time where Bishop Frothing in the Mouth Crazy has some real power. The malodorous drivel oozing from this rectal polyp of human being is matched only by the unctuous waves of support for his position wafting through the spinelessly uncritical anti-choice wankosphere . Okay okay, I digress. Back to the real world where evidence does matter…
“The patient, who hasn’t been identified, was seriously ill with pulmonary hypertension. The condition limits the ability of the heart and lungs to function and is made worse, possibly even fatal, by pregnancy.
“This decision was made after consultation with the patient, her family, her physicians, and in consultation with the Ethics Committee, of which Sr. Margaret McBride is a member,” the hospital said in a statement issued Friday.”
Thank you medical science, thank you rationality, for showing us the correct solution in this case. We need to banish the fucking voodoo magical crap that masquerades in our society as religion. This case finely illustrates how morally bankrupt the RCC is and how out to lunch religion is in general.
H/T to Pharyngula.
Aerial Death for you Evil Doers!
It is really crappy when the people you are killing decide to return the favour, Hillary Clinton is outraged at the audacity of people who are being bombed a couple of times a week that they might want to strike back, how dare they:
“We’ve made it very clear that, if, heaven forbid, an attack like this, if we can trace back to Pakistan, were to have been successful, there would be very serious consequences,” Clinton said on CBS News’ 60 Minutes programme last week.
Yeppers, watch out. It is the US who wields the stick, at all times. Or the US Proxy forces that must be eager to toss their people into the gapping bloody maw of the neo-imperialist war machine. Observe the pressure placed on Pakistan to get their people out there to die for US policy.
“And behind the scenes, the US is also reportedly pressuring Pakistan to launch a fresh military offensive in North Waziristan.”
Evil Doers are out there, and you need to go git’em!
“Many analysts say that recent history is not encouraging: Drone strikes and several major Pakistani army offensives have succeeded in inflaming public opinion, but they have failed to dislodge the Taliban or al-Qaeda.
Huh, accidentally killing innocent people inflames public opinion? Who would have guessed? Of course it just the opinion of the people who are being bombed, if they have not read the US Foreign Policy handout telling them that this murderous war is officially a “good thing” then they simply need to get with the pogrom program. Thankfully, the casualties are all foreigners, otherwise we would have a real problem stateside.
It is okay though, the US is consolidating the military gains made in Afghanistan securing large portions of the country as safe from harm. Or not.
“The Swat Valley offensive last year displaced more than two million people from their homes. Most have returned, according to the Pakistani government – but many of the returnees say the government is not providing basic services, notably security and housing.
“Widespread insecurity has also allowed the Taliban to return to previously-cleared areas in the Swat Valley.
Even if Pakistan launches an offensive there is no guarantee it will be able to hold and consolidate its gains – particularly if eastern Afghanistan, just across the border from North Waziristan, remains insecure.
“The Pakistanis acknowledge that they haven’t been able to do [counterinsurgency]. But the Nato failure on the other side of the border is just as obvious,” said Hassan Abbas, a professor at Columbia University and a former Pakistani government official.”
Whoops! Perhaps the US should begin establishing strategic hamlets so we can sort out who is good and who is evil. It has worked effectively in the past, so why not now?
Of course, intensifiying the conflict will only make things better:
“The US, meanwhile, has already accelerated its aerial bombing campaign in the tribal regions: Suspected drone strikes have already occurred 35 times this year, compared with 53 attacks in all of 2009, according to the Washington-based New America Foundation, which maintains a comprehensive database of the strikes.
“That seems to be the alternative plan: In case the Pakistani army refuses to go into North Waziristan, the US will intensify its drone strikes,” said Abdul Basit, a researcher at the Pakistan Institute of Peace Studies in Islamabad.
But the drone strikes have not decapitated the TTP; the group continues to terrorise Pakistan, and some US officials
Your home and relatives destroyed, love the War on Terror
acknowledge that the drone strikes have made the Taliban more determined to strike targets in the US.”
The blowback is festering and growing in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
“It is too early to tell what caused his radicalisation, but there are reports that he was motivated – at least in part – by anger over US drone strikes.
A larger US military presence in Pakistan could have a similarly negative effect on public opinion.
“I don’t see what more boots on the ground will do … in terms of bolstering the military’s capacity to fight the TTP,” said Sameer Lalwani, a research fellow at the New America Foundation.”
Afghanistan will be yet another untimely end to an imperialist power. The rails are greased and the US is already on the downward trajectory.
From the fat file of addressing effects rather than causes in the Middle East:
“Barack Obama, the US president, has asked Congress for $205m to help Israel speed up construction of a new short-range anti-missile defence system, White House aides have said.
Another 'pillar' of the Peace Process
The so-called “Iron Dome” project is designed to intercept rockets and artillery shells from the Gaza Strip and neighbouring Lebanon.”
Rather than addressing the root causes of why Israel needs a missile shield, lets just build a slapdash system give it a sexy name and throw a couple billion into developing and deploying it. The amount of US peaceable hand-waving in the Middle East is increasing as of late as well as the threat of military action.
“As the president has repeatedly said, our commitment to Israel’s security is unshakable and our defence relationship is stronger than ever,” Vietor said.”
An equitable two state solution would solidify Israel’s security concerns without lining the pockets of the defense industries.
“A senior department of defence official tells me that recently, US officials saw a test of the project and were very impressed by it, and decided to give the money to help speed up production.”
The move comes after ties between Israel and the US were strained by an announcement of more illegal Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem made during a visit to Israel by Joe Biden, the US vice-president.”
Oh well; it is kiss and make up time as the frothy pro-Israeli lobby in the US once again dictates foreign policy. “Oh hey, don’t worry about breaking international law and the whole illegal settlement thing. Here is a couple million for your troubles we caused you by daring to call you on your anti-Palestinian colonization program.”
“According to the US state department, US military aid to Israel in 2009 totalled $2.55bn. This will increase to $3bn in 2012, and will total $3.15bn a year from 2013 to 2018.”
Will there be peace in the Middle East? I have 3.15 billion reasons to think that the answer for the foreseeable future will be ‘No’.
Update: Watch the Pro-Israeli Flak machine in action at Think Progress, sickening.
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