High on oxy and doing a show. You may call me Rush.

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Ok kittens, I’m at the hospital about to have this motherfucker ripped out. Talk amongst yourselves, click ads and buy shit from amazon. Ta ta for now!

Ontario’s utilities overcharged customers with late payments, and were forced to pay back the exorbitant sums.

Now, in order to make up for the loss (of money that was never theirs to begin with) , they are hiking fees across the board.

As a result, typical residential electricity customers will pay an extra 20 to 30 cents a month on their bills, for a period of one to two years.

Hands up anyone who believes that after 2 years, rates will go back down.

Fuck the old and infirm, goddam it.

Of course, bad care isn’t only in the public sector. My father was in a $1300/day private palliative hospital when he died, and the head nurse on staff tied him up to the toilet, because he (the nurse) didn’t have time to stay with my father.

But when it comes to a lack of time and organization, the public sector is the worst. There are more red-tape bureaucrats that need forms filled out than there are doctors and nurses on the front lines treating patients.

Four men launched a horrific attack on a teacher in which they slashed his face and left him with a fractured skull because they did not approve of him teaching religion to Muslim girls.

Akmol Hussein, 26, Sheikh Rashid, 27, Azad Hussain, 25, and Simon Alam, 19, attacked Gary Smith with a Stanley knife, an iron rod and a block of cement.

Mr Smith, who is head of religious education at Central Foundation Girls’ School in Bow, east London, also suffered a fractured skull.

The four now face a jail sentence.

Remember this the next time some mouthpiece for Islam talks about how all faiths are welcome under their tent. I think the murder of Copts in Egypt, the murder of Christians in Nigeria, and the complete pushing underground of anything short of Wahabbism in Saudi Arabia will tell you all you need to know about the disease of Islam.

I never had much interest in Stephen Fry, even when I lived in the UK. I was always a Hugh Laurie kinda gal. But I’m sick in bed today (all-night gallbladder attack - only 8 more days and that cocksucker is getting removed - after a 16 month Canadian socialist wait), curled up with The Fry Chronicles. Many thanks to S who said “Read it, trust me.”

She was absolutely right! Fry’s style of delivery and turn of phrase are at times both hilarious and irritating. It’s just like listening to him speak.

The book is large (a few pics tucked throughout), but broken down into digestible chapters and sections that make each one an individual sketch, just like the comedy he’s known for.

The Fry Chronicles link is to Amazon.ca, as no pricing was available via Amazon.com.

I thank you for making your purchases via my Amazon links.

Good Christ, Warren Kinsella is a car crash. He badgered and threatened Skippy Stalin to print a retraction “prominently” on Postcards of the Hanging, which Warren’s lawyer would personally write, in order to further humiliate Skippy.

So Skippy buckles, Brian Shiller (the lawyer in question) writes the grovel, Skippy posts it as requested, and one of Warren’s commenters writes…

I’m surprised Warren didn’t threaten to sue this JenS person, for questioning the brilliance of his lawyer.

In other news, I’m thinking of writing a play called Jimmy Woodburn and the Garage Diaries. It’ll be hilarious, believe me.

Whenever the Muslims do something stupid (which is always) to get themselves eyed skeptically by the normal, 21st century folk, they whimper about a backlash that never comes. Here’s the latest:

Police have arrested a man concerning alleged assaults on children at a mosque after viewing a Channel 4 documentary screened on Monday.

Dispatches, Lessons in Hate and Violence, secretly filmed a man apparently hitting and kicking children during Qu’ran lessons at a school in the Markazi Jamia mosque at Keighley, West Yorkshire.

An Islamic school in Birmingham in the same documentary, where a preacher was filmed making offensive remarks about non-Muslims, said it would close early for half-term, amid fears pupils could be the target of far-right groups.

The children aren’t going to be “victims” of anyone except their own depraved religious leaders, already shown to be abusing and indoctrinating them.

Jazz pianist and composer George Shearing died today at the ripe old age of 91.

Seven years ago I sat in my living room in Falkirk, Scotland, and began to rant about politics. I had just discovered the point of blogs, and how they made reading journal entries linear and didn’t require clicking on each page separately. What a revelation! I was hooked from the first moment I logged into my Blogger account.

Now here I am seven years later, still screaming into the wind.

There have been times I thought I would shut the blog down. Lately I’ve been thinking about putting it up for sale. Yet time and again I keep returning. I can’t stay away.

Most of my dedication comes from the readers; the people who have commented here, clicked my links, bought books through my Amazon, clicked on my ads, fêted me and debated me, donated in tough times, partied with me in good times… I love you all. You’ve been with me through some of the most gruesome parts of my life, circumstances my “real” friends fled from in horror, and have cheered up me along the way.

Am I going to be at this another seven years? Highly unlikely. Technology changes and I might be off doing something else. But I’ll always be around.

Are we sure they can handle it? I mean, they’re not very bright…

Would-be looters who raided Cairo’s world-famous museum failed to steal priceless ancient artefacts - because they carried off cheap copies from the gift shop.

The hapless thieves are believed to have thought they were taking some of the country’s historic treasures, but had not even made it into the museum itself.

This is not going to end well.

Jimmy Carter is being sued for misrepresentation in his 2006 book Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid.

Having not read the book myself, I don’t know if he has put out any falsehoods in it, and then marketed it as fact. However, when it comes to the Israeli-Palestine issue, everyone on the planet would have to be sued for their own brand of vitriol.

Smells like a publicity stunt to me.

A $5 million lawsuit filed in federal court in New York on Tuesday against former US President Jimmy Carter and publisher Simon & Schuster alleges that Carter’s 2006 book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid contains false information and was intended to deceive the public and promote an anti-Israel agenda.

The five plaintiffs in the suit, readers of the book, want their lawsuit, which seeks compensatory and punitive damages, to be deemed a class action, meaning that the plaintiffs would be seen to represent a much larger group – that is, everyone who purchased Carter’s $27 book.

The plaintiffs are Americans, with two of the five holding dual American-Israeli citizenship.

The suit alleges that the five plaintiffs in the suit who purchased Carter’s book, as well as others, assumed they were buying an accurate record of historic events relating to Israel and the Palestinians.

Great. Try asking anyone, anywhere the history of Israel, and you’ll get a different story from each and every person you inquire of. SLAPP?

Rosie DiManno had an excellent article in yesterday’s Toronto Star about the blatant disregard for passengers displayed by the very drivers employed to move us around.

There’s so much more she could have added to the article. Of course, we all know about the sleeping ticket collectors, and the texting drivers.

The TTC and their union want people to stop snapping photos, and instead to call the complaint line. Really? Without proof, the union would protect an errant driver so heavily that no discipline would ever come to pass. Keep snapping pictures, people! It’s pissing off the head of the union, so you must be doing something right!

“We’ve got 13-and 14-year-olds that feel that they have an entitlement to film our operators in the performance of their duties, and that’s not acceptable.”

Yes, it is. Those 13 and 14 year old are paying customers, too, you jackwad.

Bob Kinnear, head of the TTC union, will not allow random drug testing, despite multiple occasions where TTC drivers and linesmen have been found to be under the influence of alcohol and other substances.

How about the inherent racism displayed by the drivers and booth-jockeys? The fact that if you ask them for something and you have an accent, they treat you like a retard. Or if you’re black and running for the bus, they ignore you and drive on by.

The reverse is also true. Try to find someone English-speaking to assist you in an emergency.

The list could go on and on, but until the union is busted, there will be no professional, courteous, top-notch service. There is currently no need for it on the part of the drivers. They can kill people and still have their jobs the next morning. Why bother smiling?

From Jay Currie:

That said, should a man who has apparently been in the pay of the Liberal Party of Ontario to the tune of about 10K a month – and Lord knows that can’t be for his political skills given his brilliant efforts on behalf of poor Rocco Rossi – be threatening bloggers with defamation actions? Should he be writing for The Sun without a clear declaration of interest? Should he be publishing the private emails of a man who was his effective, if not legal, client? Should he be writing up his kids on his pathetic little blog? Should he be threatening to sue someone who has stated that he would not publish the contents of his ongoing divorce file?

Of course he should. Because the rules of common decency do not apply to the Jackal.

Should the Jackal be allowed to whiteout his site? Should the Jackal be allowed to boink whichever bit of tail comes his way? Make bigoted comments? Hang with alleged terrorists? Yes indeed! He is, after all, the Jackal. He kicks ass in Canadian politics. He plays in a geriatric punk band. He’s down with Lucy and Bernie and managed to entirely miss Grant Bristow when writing about Canadian Nazis (1st edition).

The Jackal is just that cool.

Skippy, buddy, the Condo King rules, OK. Quit now before he runs the wood burner over your ass. Grovel! Apologize! Beg mercy!

The old, clapped out, bald guy is way cooler than you.

Jane Taber knows.

So should you.

Apparently The Lying Hyena’s “lawyer” wants to personally write the letter of apology that Skippy is supposed to “display prominently” on Postcards of the Hanging. If the lawyer is half as clever as Kinsella himself, it will be gibberish.

A truly horrific case out of the UK, where a respected and decorated Imam has been found guilty of repeatedly raping a 12-year-old boy and sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.

During the trial - which has prompted high emotion in the local community - prosecutor Tariq Shakor Khan explained how both boys kept their abuse secret from one another, each believing they were the Imam’s only victims.

Mr Khan said the youngest boy was raped outside the mosque by some bins after being asked to take the rubbish out.

The boy told officers that at first the imam was stern like a schoolteacher, but gradually he began talking to him ‘nicely’.

But play fights soon turned sexual and Hanif Khan allegedly raped the boy repeatedly over a two-month period in one of the mosque’s room.

He said the sex attacks happened after formal prayers with others from the congregation when Hanif Khan would ask the boy to go into the private committee room and lay out his prayer mat.

After the last attack in October 2009 the youngest boy claimed Hanif Khan told him he was going to take him somewhere else and ‘do it to him specially’. The following day he told a friend and was advised to inform his parents.

On the prayer mat? Oooo, that’s a special kind of sinning right there.

But here’s the part I can’t wrap my little infidel brain around. When a woman brings dishonor on her community - whether she wears her hair down or is raped by the local goat herd - she is murdered. When this imam dishonored his community… well…

As soon the allegations were known in the community there was an immediate revenge attack on Hanif Khan - as three men held him down and shaved off his beard to humiliate him.

Westminster Council in England wants to give priority council housing to… the working.

Ok, I’m a conservative, and I’m not wild about welfare, but in a depressed economy lots of people are losing jobs and homes. The social safety net is supposed to be there to catch them, not to offer cheaper housing to those who already have an income.

Lemme tell you a story… When the shit hit the fan in 2009 with my ex-husband, I was rendered homeless. After a 4 month wait, subsidized housing became available. With my meager freelance income, I paid my reduced rent. When I began to work full time, I began paying market rent. The agency that provided the housing has given me a one-year grace period of paying market rent to ensure my employment is stable, and then I have to move out. Someone else will need that unit more than me. I won’t be waiting out the full year. I’ll be gone before summer, opening up the apartment to someone who needs it. That is, after all, the point.

I’m not sure what Westminster is playing at. Yes, jobs and working should be rewarded, but why not just admit that you’re doing away with the council housing system? I mean, that’s what they’re doing anyway, they’re just being dishonest about it.

On September 12th, 2001, my friends and I spent 5 hours in line waiting to give blood - before the news came in the following days that no one at the WTC site would need it. They had all perished.

When my turn came to sit down with the nurse, she looked over my questionnaire and told me I couldn’t donate. I had answered the question “Have you ever had sex in exchange for money?” with a “Yes.” That made me a hepatitis/HIV risk. Of course, I don’t have those diseases, but sex workers have a much higher instance of them than the average person, so for simplicity’s sake, Hema-Quebec had these sweeping rules. The rules also included men who had sexual relations with other men, and intravenous drug users. Those three categories have a lower instance of safe practices and a higher risk of disease. And frankly, no one wants their 5-year-old daughter with leukemia to be transfused with the blood of a whore or a junkie.

On the other hand, queer activists who like to pretend that gay culture doesn’t promote unsafe sex practices believe they should be given a pass when it comes to the rules of safe blood donation. And now our cowed government wants to make a “goodwill” gesture that trumps all common sense.

The federal blood agency says reducing the time men must wait before donating blood after homosexual activity would show the gay and bisexual community it is serious about change.

The Toronto Star reported Thursday that Canadian Blood Services believes a lifetime prohibition against accepting blood from men who have had sex with men at least once since 1977 is no longer justified and that it plans to ask Health Canada to relax the rules.

The agency is funding a $500,000 grant to research a new policy — which could mean changing the donor criteria to focus on specific high-risk sexual activities rather than orientation — but a spokeswoman said Thursday that it will not wait for those findings before approaching the federal government about shortening the deferral period.

They already focus on high risk activities - prostitution and homosexuality. How much more specific do we need to be? Should the questionnaire include a list of positions that would make the average donor blush? How about pictograms?

This is a political move to appease a very vocal special interest group who makes its living off of hurt feelings. And people will run the risk of becoming infected with myriad diseases because of it.

They eat steak - lots of bloody, delicious cow meat.

It seems women don’t like vegetarian men - they want their men to eat meat, even if they themselves don’t. This brings us back to nature over nurture, survival of the species, and all that other great stuff that my creationist friends are uncomfortable with.

Here’s the thing: Not eating meat is a choice; eating meat is an instinct. I learned that from the great philosopher and human studies professor Dennis Leary. What Leary didn’t know when he recorded his brilliant No Cure for Cancer album was that soy products, which make up the bulk of protein consumed by vegetarians, is teaming with an estrogen-like chemical. Basically, too much of it will turn a man into his Aunt Ida.

In fact, many of the reasons men give for abstaining from meat - hormones in the cattle leading to man boobs, for example - will happen to them anyway if they eat too much soy.

Plus, it lowers sperm count. So if a woman is of child-bearing years, even if she doesn’t particularly want children, she is more likely to turn to a virile partner as opposed to a flaccid sprout-muncher.

My own gentleman friend lives on red meat. He’s Atkins but with beer (lots and lots of beer). Getting him to eat any vegetable beyond a french fry is impossible. He takes the whole meat-eating thing a little too far. That said, a healthy woman can smell fertility on him, and that makes him more attractive than his so-called “healthy” peers. On the plus side, he’ll also be dead in a few years, and he’s promised I can have his comfy bed.