Thousands of products made from the skins of cats and dogs are being offered on China’s largest retail website, sparking outrage among animal lovers, state media is reporting.

Search results and sales records from Taobao.com showed the most popular items were trousers and hats made from dog fur, which is touted for its ability to ward off the cold, AFP found after searching the website.

Animal rights activists said dealers usually targeted stray animals, selling their skins to fur traders in the country’s east and the meat to restaurants in the south.

Seriously. It’s a brutal game. By putting your thoughts out there, you leave yourself open to all kinds of bullshit, from disagreeing critics to flamers and trolls to potential rapists. Once you put your ideas out on the web, they’re not your own anymore, and everything is up for criticism.

Which is why I don’t understand why pantywaist fairies with thin skin think they can make it in the blogging world, let alone the political world. It’s BRUTAL! Many is the night I’ve gone to bed asking myself if I have the balls to carry on with this blog. And I’ve had to remind myself that the critics only exist because I feed them.

Such is the blogging life.

The thing is, if you’re going to threaten to sue every single person who disagrees with you or makes fun of you, you’re going to ruin your life with bitterness and hate. Yes, there will always be legitimate cases of libel or valid threats to life that some bloggers have to deal with. But then you get happy SLAPPers like Warren Kinsella and Richard Warman, who get a bug up their tight little asses every time their names are mentioned. It’s pretty funny, when you consider that they made themselves public figures; Warman with his crusades and Kinsella with his political… well, whatever it is he does.

Take for example the kinds of comments he received on his most recent article for the Ottawa Sun. Some of them are pretty scathing. Is Kinsella going to call Quebecor and ask for the names and IP addresses of every negative commentator? If that’s the way he feels, perhaps it’s time to retire from public life.

Warman sues anyone who calls him a censor, effectively censoring them, but is completely devoid of irony when he does it. Kinsella sues anyone who calls him a douchebag, even though truth is an absolute defence.

No wonder they’re friends. No one else will have them.

Warren Kinsella, who believes that Chinese people eat cats, has decided that another ethnic stereotype would be the way to go in his latest misadventure: The Rocco Rossi Campaign.

Skippy sums it all up here.

But here’s what it made me think of. Those of you who lived through the Chretien AdScam scandal might remember that Kinsella was a big Chretien man. If there was a way that Warren could emulate his political hero, he would. So isn’t it hilarious that, as the Chretien regime crumbled, Canadian conservatives came up with this little gem:

It’s nice to see Warren has a sense of humor, and is helping destroy his candidate from the inside by turning the joke around:

You can rest assured, if there’s a minority in Canada to be insulted, Kinsella will do his utmost to insult them. That’s just the kind of stand up guy he is.

The Warren Kinsella School of Politics:

1. Make your guy look like shit.

2. Something

3. Win?

UPDATE: Oh yeah, did I mention that the Libranos poster “offended” Liberal MP Joe Volpe at the time?

He may be a buffoon, but I just don’t see another choice. You see, I had planned on voting in the Toronto mayoral election for Rocco Rossi - a liberal, with good conservative fiscal policy. His ideas were very good, and he was running a clean campaign.

But today, Rocco Rossi unequivocally proved that his decision-making skills are questionable and he shouldn’t be trusted with the gigantic budget of Canada’s largest city. He hired Warren Kinsella to work his campaign. (Hello Warren, you chronic self-googler.)

For those of you not in the know (because unlike Warren, you’re not constantly googling “Warren Kinsella”), Kinsella is a spent Liberal party hack that very few people want hanging around. While every job loss in the last several years - from the Canadian Jewish Congress (which he wasn’t paid for) to the Federal Liberal Party - have been “resignations”, it’s pretty clear that he is the kiss of death to everything he puts his name to.

On top of his endless “resignations”, Kinsella is also the bored internet troll - we all know the type - who gets a hate-on for negative press and stalks the hell out of anyone who says anything negative about him. He actually pays his so-called “propeller heads” to sniff out his critics so he can serve them with legal papers*. Anyone with skin that thin should have their internet disconnected, because they obviously can’t handle it.

And this is the person Rocco Rossi - the closest thing to a sane candidate Toronto had on the ballot - wants working his backroom. Jesus.

Toronto mayoral candidate Rocco Rossi got a much-needed boost Monday as veteran Liberal strategist Warren Kinsella confirmed he is joining Mr. Rossi’s team.

“I’ve told Rocco Rossi I want to volunteer on his Toronto mayoralty campaign,” Mr. Kinsella said in an email.

“He’s super smart, he treats all people with respect — and he’s fiscally conservative and socially progressive. He’s a good man. Rob Ford is no good on the social issues; George Smitherman is not top-of-mind when it comes to fiscal discipline.”

On the plus side, Rossi isn’t paying him. Hence my liking of his fiscal policy.

* Screen cap of Warren offering a bounty for the deets on a blogger he didn’t like. Naturally, the original post is gone from his archives. Imagine that.

Dude. I can’t believe you would even write this post, considering your popularity within the Chinese community.

Warren Kinsella defines the word chutzpah.

…doing that thing one does while one is alone and bored. The TV is on in the living room, showing the evening news with Lloyd Robertson.

I hear Lloyd intone about the “merger” and I halt my electric device and sprint from the room butt nekkid to watch Warren Kinsella implode on the evening news. Michael Ignatieff barked “I don’t care” where the rumors are coming from! “No one has any authorization to even discuss this matter,” he said crossly.
Better than an orgasm, I tells ya.

Additional reading: Skippy is the happiest man alive.

Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff says rumours of a merger between his party and the New Democrats are “ridiculous,” adds it’s the Conservatives who are on the ropes these days not the Liberals.

…

Ignatieff was reacting to a CBC Television story in which Warren Kinsella, a onetime advisor to former Liberal prime minister Jean Chretien, said “Serious people are involved in discussions at a serious level.”

NDP Leader Jack Layton also said there was nothing to the rumours and that no one has been authorized from the NDP to even have such discussions.

Ignatieff dismissed the source of the story, saying “I have no relationship with Warren Kinsella” and instead talked about the Conservatives’ wild spending on the G-8 and G-20 summits, including the fake lake at the Toronto media centre, which has become fodder for stories around the world.

Over the question of Michael Ignatieff’s “true patriot love“.

ALSO APPARENTLY “JUST VISITING”

• ABLONCZY, The Hon. Diane, P.C., B.Ed., LL.B. Date of Birth: 1949.05.06. Place of Birth: Peoria, Illinois, United States.
• MARK, Inky, B.A., B.Ed. Date of Birth: 1947.11.17. Place of Birth: Toysun, China.
• OBHRAI, Deepak. Date of Birth: 1950.07.05. Place of Birth: Oldeani, Tanzania.
• SHORY, Devinder. Date of Birth: 1958.08.03. Place of Birth: Punjab, India.
• TOEWS, The Hon. Vic, P.C., B.A., LL.B. Date of Birth: 1952.09.10. Place of Birth: Fildelfia, Paraguay.
• WONG, Alice, Ph.D. Date of Birth: 1948.06.30. Place of Birth: Hong Kong.

Here the Clever Jackal attempts to equate immigrants to Canada with Ignatieff, an immigrant from Canada who chose to live in Massachusetts and teach at Harvard for 30-odd years. You know, McGill or University of Toronto weren’t good enough for him.

Not that I can personally begrudge Iggy from wanting to get the hell out of here for any stretch of time - I’d do it myself. But then again, my own lack of “true patriot love” pretty much precludes me (above all other things) from running for Prime Minister.

Then again, if we base things on Ignatieff’s country of choice, we will see that hating America is no hindrance to the presidency. So what the hell, right?

Maclean’s Magazine clearly tried very hard to project a good side to Warren Kinsella, but they seemed to have a little trouble finding it.

In their article: The “Prince of Darkness” is back in the Liberal fold by Martin Patriquin (who can expect to be served any day now), Maclean’s not only tells the rest of Canada about the bullying many of us were already privy to, but uses valuable column inches to show blatant lying and backtracking by the one known as The Lying Jackal.

In 2007, for example, Kinsella called Mark Steyn the “best conservative writer alive.” A year and a half later, Steyn was a “country club bigot and pompous windbag.”

Earlier this year, Kinsella attempted to have Kathy Shaidle, one of the bloggers invited to Israel, removed from a TVOntario current-affairs program, calling her “racist garbage” and sending a letter of complaint to Ontario’s minister of education. Yet Kinsella himself appeared on the same show with Shaidle two years before without protest-even though Shaidle’s controversial views on minorities and AIDS were well known at the time. He even posted the video clip of the show on his site, and wrote that Shaidle was “nice.” In 2006, Kinsella implied he couldn’t work for Ignatieff: “I simply object to too many of Michael Ignatieff’s views,” he wrote. Yet he will work in Michael Ignatieff’s war room in the next election. (Kinsella refused further comment.)

So is Warren Kinsella a liar? Or is he merely the consummate politician, following the prevailing winds of popular opinion? Maclean’s reports - you decide.

I know I don’t like getting called out for something I said. I’m still smarting over an article in the National Post from almost three years ago where I got called a “bigot in an echo chamber”. Bad press always hurts. And these days Warren “Catmeat” Kinsella is getting a lot of bad press.

While I sympathize with what a shitty couple of months ol’ Catmeat has had, I can’t help but point out that he’s brought it all on himself. Attacking Kathy Shaidle from all angles (unsuccessfully), racist comments, trying to throw his (non-existent) weight at broadcasters and Jewish groups, defending terrorist behavior (that one actually surprised me more than the others)… I think Warren needs a little time out of the spotlight. He’s harming himself possibly at an irreparable level. He’s being called out for his behavior in the House of Commons. Instead of laying low and letting it blow over, he’s hurling insults and attacking Kathy again.

The object of his frenzied obsession, Kathy Shaidle, gave me some advice last year. I was having a hard time, my medication was a mess, I was drinking too much. Kathy sent me a very cold, very clinical email that I wish someone would care enough to send to Warren Kinsella:

You have turned into Rachel Marsden. Time to clean yourself up.

The first thought was “I’m gonna slap that mouthy little bitch.” The second thought was “Holy shit, I really have turned into Rachel Marsden, haven’t I?” Needless to say, I never slapped my mouthy little friend. In fact, I thanked her.

Perhaps if Warren could see his way through his displaced hatred for Kathy, he too could benefit from the cold shower she gave me:

Warren, you’ve turned into Rachel Marsden. Time to clean yourself up.

I’m stealing this entire thing from Kathy. I’m sure she won’t mind.

1. If you believe that general intelligence exists, is heritable and at all testable for, you’re a racist.
2. If you point out that liberal philosophies and programs intended to have a good impact have had a disproportionately bad impact on the ethnicities targeted by liberals, you’re a racist.
3. If you notice that other cultures have some problems, you’re a racist.
4. If you notice your own culture has had some successes, you’re a racist.
5. If you try to identify subcultural problems, you’re a racist. If the problems existed or got worse under liberalism, see item 2, above.
6. If you’re mainstream American culture, and don’t hate that culture, you’re a racist.
7. If you’re capable of noting unpleasant facts about subcultures and discussing them without your brain fogging, you’re a racist.
8. If you won’t kowtow and grovel as soon as someone accuses you of racism for one of the reasons above, you’re a hopeless racist.
9. If you do not believe that mankind is a tabula rasa for liberals to make whatever they think would be good to make of man, this week, you’re a racist.
10. If you don’t take personal responsibility for all the evils of slavery, you’re a racist. This is true even if you only arrived from Poland last week.
11. If you’re white, you’re a racist.
12. If you’re white and just arrived from Poland last week and don’t accept that you’re a racist, you’re a racist.
13. If you try to interject logical thought into a discussion of culture, you’re a racist.
14. If you refuse to admit culture is a racial matter, and a liberal wants to conflate the two, you’re a racist.
15. If you believe that race and culture are indistinguishable and a liberal decides that you shouldn’t conflate the two, you’re a racist.
16. If you believe that black or hispanic girls who are paid by liberal inspired programs from the age of 13 to have babies will have babies, you’re a racist.
17. If you believe that _any_ girls of whatever color who are paid to have babies will then have babies but then, insensitively, observe that a smaller percentage of white girls do, most likely because the liberals haven’t targeted them for quite so much attention, you’re a racist.
18. If it doesn’t bother you that the truth offends liberals, you’re a racist.
19. If you read The Bell Curve, you’re a racist. On the other hand, if you didn’t read it but wrote a scathing review on Amazon anyway you might not be a racist provided you take personal responsibility for 300 years of slavery even if you just arrived from Poland last week.

In other “Kathy’s a Racist” news, Steve Paikin reminds us that Warren Kinsella can sometimes act like a spoiled, whiny child with a toothache. He also lets us know that he (Paikin) will not bow to threats of censorship:

Later that same day, I received another email from Warren informing me that he was emailing the Minister of Education to ask her to pressure us to “unbook” Kathy Shaidle, and that if we didn’t, there would be significant consequences for TVO and The Agenda. He did, indeed, email the Minister.

Well, now we’ve got a different story, right? Now, it’s no longer a story about the appropriateness of our choosing Kathy to appear on the program. Now it’s a story about a well known Liberal Party operative threatening us (with what? We didn’t know) unless we did what he said.

That’s a very different story and as a result, we naturally refused to “unbook” Kathy. We do not take our marching orders on whom to put on or take off our television program from anyone, but most assuredly, not from partisan political operatives with personal grudges (Warren’s tangle with Kathy, I’ve learned, goes back awhile).

I wonder how Warren would feel if he was “unbooked” for an appearance somewhere based on the fact that he believes Canada’s large Chinese community eat and serve catmeat.

Ever since I started working from home, I have celebrated No-Pants Friday. Try that at the office, you cubicle whores!

I have a few things on my plate today, like an 11th hour re-write for Brass Balls Radio, which will record this evening. So in the meantime, check out all this other fabulousness on offer:

My latest at Today.com on the California Tax Revolt. This is priceless - I am so proud of these counties for standing up to the state.

Round-Eye Kinsella wants to sue another little blogger and thereby make him famous. I ought to hire Warren as my agent, too!

While Warren “Nazi Hunter” Kinsella runs around taking pictures in the little boys’ room at the local hockey arena (Larry Craig was arrested for less than that, remember), actual violent anti-Semites attack a university Jewish organization in broad daylight, trapping its members inside for what must have felt like an eternity.

Another anti-Semitic incident took place in a Canadian university Thursday when over 100 anti-Israel activists surrounded a campus building belonging to the Jewish student club ‘Hillel’ at York University, Toronto. The activists pounded on office doors while yelling out racial slurs.

Campus security was forced to alert police to restore order and the latter demanded that the offices be shut down.

An anti-Israel march is also scheduled for Friday, and ‘Hillel’ leaders have called on Jewish students to arrive with Israeli flags in order to show support for the country.

Perhaps we should call on CUPE Ontario’s Sid Ryan to once more tell us how we shouldn’t allow Israeli profs on Ontario campuses, and then tell us how his remarks had nothing to do with Hillel being attacked. Of course, the Province of Ontario is too busy chasing down bogeymen like Mark Steyn to bother with the likes of Sid Ryan, and Canada’s Jewish groups (CJC, B’nai Brith etc) are too busy sucking the dicks of the local imams to complain.

Despite actual violence and the fact that - surprise! - I was right all along about anti-Semitism in this country, I am going to sit this one out. Ontario’s Jews need to stand up for themselves for once, instead of ever relying on this shiksa to wave their flag for them while they have brunch or go shopping. Put down the fucking brisket and support your own community. I’ll be at Starbucks if you need me.

Kathy Shaidle appeared on TVO’s Agenda with Steve Paikin last night, and shockingly, the world did not end. The sun still rose this morning over Toronto, and with the exception of what is most likely a terrible hangover, Warren Kinsella is still alive. Who woulda thunk it?

In response to yesterday’s plea of desperation from the Kinsella/Ignatieff camp, Kathy tells you all to go fuck yourselves:

If rejecting the language of appeasment during this conflict makes me a “racist, white supremacist whatever-the-word-is-this-week”, I will wear those appellations and others with pride.

“Racist” is the new “commie.”

I will continue to express my views, not only about belligerent, disloyal Muslims, but about everything that constitutes a threat to national security, be it the welfare state, radical ecology, the division of society into various arbitrary “victim” “communities, or official multiculturalism, “tolerance” and “diversity”.

(I also support the right to any other person, left or right, to post annoying, rude, ill-informed, provocative writing on their blog. That they don’t often extend me the same courtesy is unfortunate but I’m powerless to do much about that.)

This stance has, and will, cost me dearly. However, to do anything less would violate my conscience.

Catmeat Kinsella, who is paid by the Federal Liberal Party to make fun of Christians and Chinese, thinks Kathy Shaidle shouldn’t be on TVO’s Agenda with Steve Paikin. Because tax dollars go to fund it. Unlike say, the official opposition which is paid for with unicorn dollars, I suppose.

You see, Kathy is a raaaaciiiist because she unabashedly points out that Muslims want to kill us (they do) or that inner-city blacks have been turned into monsters because of a culture of low expectations on the part of do-gooder liberals like Kinsella (they have). But in Canada, truth is no defense, and people like Warren Kinsella seek to use the state to censor any opinion that differs from the establishment - in this case the Liberals/liberals. Even if the theater is on fire, you’d best keep your mouth shut and let the people burn. It’s more polite than raising your voice.

You may recall last summer, when Mark Steyn - under persecution by the Human Rights apparatus for an excerpt of America Alone which appeared in MacLean’s magazine - appeared on Paikin’s show. It was judged one of the best bits of Canadian television in history, and was put up for one of those paid-for-by-the-government-because-no-one-really-cares awards. Kathy, though far more mouthy than Steyn, has never been a subject of HRC scorn. At least not yet. But TVO had a bona fide hater on the air when they invited Steyn. Warren didn’t call for Paikin and TVO to denounce Steyn or uninvite him. Actually, at the time, Kinsella offered to debate Steyn himself, because his career was floundering an no one was paying attention to him - it would have been a great way for anyone to remember his name.

Canada’s establishment and media are liberal. That is a fact, and it is what it is. But that doesn’t mean that someone with a dissenting opinion should be quashed. Let them speak. Kathy is appearing on Paikin because she is a frequent go-to Catholic pundit. That’s her shtick. And in this case she’ll be talking about the “There probably is no God” bus ads. Sounds appropriate to me.

Once again, Warren “Richard Warman is the bravest man I know” Kinsella is fabricating scandal - with the help of his useful idiots - in order to get his name out there in a positive way and divert attention from his little “Chinese people eat cats” snafu. He is a spin doctor and anyone who falls for it and goes along with it is deluded if they think he’s doing it from an honest place. Warren Kinsella has no honest places. Too many years of politicking have worn his honest bits away. At the end of his life, all that will be left will be a stuffed dinosaur and a dead cat.

About three weeks too late.

Canada’s premiere rebellious aging punk/Nazi hunter/anti-racist and bbq cat eater would like Toronto to know that he supports Israel’s right to defend itself. He feels so strongly about this that he waited until weeks after the offensive was ostensibly “over” (as far as any offensive involving Israel can ever be over) to publicize his radical support.

No frostbite for our Warren when the anti-Semites were out and marching through the streets of the city we share.

No, now that it’s safe to have an opinion, because fewer bombs and rockets are flying through Israeli airspace, Warren Kinsella is publicizing his unwavering support for Israel. Now. Not three weeks or a month ago. Now. Way to be cutting edge, Warren.

Was the ad space just cheaper this week?

Why, that’s the kind of low-ball joke a hater like me would make!

The fact that it was made - not once but twice - by Internet Nazi hunter and anti-racist extrordinaire Warren “My Shit Don’t Stink” Kinsella is… well, it’s pretty damn funny.

Looks like Warren has some egg foo yung on his face, no?

BBQ cat & rice? Looks like he choked on it.

A classic from Kate’s (sorry, that would be KKKate’s) comments:

If we don’t crush WK’s rights, we’ll lose our freedoms. There’ll be Chinese people in ovens and neo-liberal bands of skinheaded leftards wreaking havoc across the land. There’ll be small children writing Liberal signs at knee height in bathrooms. Oh, the Horror!!

It’s time for this insidious free speech to be crushed so that our rights are protected and our delicate sensitivities are not harmed! After all, someone’s FEELINGS may be hurt!!!! What could be worse than that??

Lol. Scratch a leftard/Liberal and you’ll find a brain-addled hypocrite without self-awareness.
Posted by: Warwick at January 29, 2009 10:06 AM

Or Burny Farber or any of the other pro-Israeli Torontonians?

I expect to see Burny Farber and Frank Diamante out this Sunday afternoon. I want to see Michael Ignatieff out there, too. And if Warren Kinsella is back from Ottawa, I demand he be there. Time to do a little pushing back, and if it means standing side-by-side with a hater like me, tough shit. If the fight for freedom of speech in Canada has taught me nothing else, it has taught me that sometimes you have to stand next to people you wouldn’t otherwise associate with. Life is harsh - buy a helmet, dude.

Put your balls out for the world, boys. I have. Don’t worry, you can cower behind me if you need to.

And as for Toronto’s Jews: Do you want this Catholic girl to be More Jew Than You?

Well, two tricks, if you consider his serial SLAPP-suiting.

Mostly though, he can’t make a decent political comment and always falls back on… dinosaurs.

Serial SLAPP-suiter Warren Kinsella is thoroughly annoyed by the fact that the people he’s SLAPPing are getting financial support to fight him. Hmmmm… could he be worried that they might win?

Ezra Levant gets some emails of support from people affiliated directly with Warren “I’ll sue anybody!” Kinsella:

But if you think getting a donation for my legal defence fund from the CJC is weird, how about this: I received a letter of support from someone who works at Daisy Consulting Group — Kinsella’s own lobby firm! It was a brief note, but it was a note of support, sent from the company e-mail, with the corporate signature block on it.

I couldn’t believe it. My first reaction was that it might be some sort of trick, but that was just me thinking like, well, Kinsella. It was sincere — and I appreciated it.

I won’t catalogue everyone who wrote to me today. Suffice it to say that, from the Liberal Party of Canada, to McMillan Binch, to the Canadian Jewish Congress to Kinsella’s own staff, I have a lot of suprising new allies now that Kinsella is threatening me.

Kinsella writes:

I’ll debate you.

I’ve got the forum, too. In Ottawa, in June. Proceeds split and going to the litigants on our respective sides.

Let’s go, tough guy.

Warren honey, I’ve got some bad news for you… the moment Martin pushed Chretien out of office, you ceased to exist. No one knows nor cares who you are anymore. It would be like Donny Whalberg offering to debate Steyn. Steyn wanted to debate the Sock Puppets, and Elmasry, because they are plaintiffs in a case that affects not only him, but all of Canada. Now you want in on the action?

Who are you again?