DAILY NEWS -- August 18th, 2010

DAILY NEWS – AUGUST 18th, 2010

DATELINE: IN THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE – Pat Stogran, the Ombudsman for Canadian Veterans, has been shown the door. Why? Because he is one of the few who dares to not tout the fucking government line. He speaks out about the atrocities faced by the men and women who wear a Canadian uniform and come back home to bureaucratic red tape and fucking bullshit intended to screw them over. I make no secret of my disagreement with the government’s decision to send out troops to war on trumped up crap issued from Bush’s Oval Office, but to send them out and THEN fuck them over when they return is absolutely unforgivable. In the name of penny-pinching in the extreme, instead of pensions, these soldiers are given lump payouts and disability stipends that amount to fuck-all and allow the government to wash its hands of the whole issue. Totally fucking unacceptable, but typical of Comrade Harper and his ‘my way or the highway’ way of running a country. The Ombudsman is there to help the soldiers, to mediate and negotiate between them and the government, specifically to point out areas in which the government is remiss or neglecting its responsibilities. Funny enough, we don’t seem to need an ombudsman to make sure the fucking politicians get their HUGE undeserved pensions and benefits for the rest of their lives. Funny enough, we have enough money to pay senators (who don’t even bother to show up for work for months at a time) their absolutely obscene paycheques and pensions. Stogran will now join a growing list of government-appointed watchdogs who have gotten tossed out of office for doing their jobs. There should be an award for these men, who despite the constant roadblocks, interference and indifference of the government, have tried to do what they were paid to do. Too bad our Members of Parliament don’t have that fucking work ethic.

DATELINE: ON THE RED CARPET, READY TO ACCEPT HER ‘MOTHER OF THE YEAR’ AWARD -- Shaquan Duley is in a South Carolina jail, as she should be. The 29-year-old mother, and I use that term with apologies to the real mothers of the world, took her two little boys to a motel, took her anger out on them by strangling them, then strapped them into her car, pushed the car into the river, and wandered back towards town to report the ‘accident’. She had been arguing with her own mother, whom she shares a residence with, about Shaquan not being a responsible parent and wishing she had no children so she could be free and have fun. Nothing like proving old Ma right. We are not talking about a teen-aged mother here. We are talking about a mature woman who made the decision to have three children, the oldest one a five-year-old girl. She was angry, having the fucking pity party of the decade and blaming her problems on two little boys, one two, the other eighteen-months old. The older one had fucking defensive wounds, showing that he was scared enough to know he had to fight for his life... fight with his own mother – perhaps in this case, ‘fetal incubator’ would be a better term for what she was. Yes, I understand she was having a hard time with finances, that she was a single parent living in a less-than-desirable area, but that was not the fault of her children. It is to be hoped that Shaquan is sentenced to a lifetime behind bars, where she can pity party down to her heart’s content without hurting innocent babies.

DATELINE: IN THE MOTHER OF ALL FUCKING TIME WARPS – Two people were murdered in Kunduz, Afghanistan. They were taken out and stoned to death in front of 150 other people. Their crime? They were in love. She was single and twenty, he was married and twenty-eight. They were guilty of adultry, although I have no doubt the investigation and trial combined lasted less than twenty minutes, and was nothing more than a fucking farce. That said, it should be pointed out that in 22 US States, adultery is a crime. What happened in Afghanistan was an execution, reported to be the first in the area since 2001, carried out by the Taliban and undoubtedly intended to spread the message that they are back in town and meaning business. While the Taliban is wanting a NATO/UN commission to be established to investigate civilian casualties in their country, it seems a tad hypocritical to begin again to carry out such crimes against their own people. When the fuck are these taliban assholes going to get over their insecurities and the need to show they have power, obviously something they do to compensate for their lack of real balls. When will they grow up and grab a damned brain? They are bullies, schoolyard small-penised bullies who like to stone and beat the poor, the weak, their women... well, I guess anyone would do when you are trying to show just how very very tough you are. Taliban terrorism: the new Christian Inquisitors... and really nothing more -- certainly with nothing to do with religion, God or anything holy. I pray for the day when they are replaced by real men. I also pray that Anne Coulter, Sarah Palin, Bill O’Reilly or Dr. Laura don’t hear about this execution, because they just might start demanding similar punishments back in this part of the world.

DATELINE: IN A JUST FUCKING SOCIETY – Just the other day, we were discussing the huge difference that has been made to our lives and our governments by allowing the huge contributions of corporate campaign funding (read that as if it was written in sarcastic font) We discussed how even the best, most just-hearted candidate will not have a hope in hell of winning an election without a multi-million dollar ‘war chest’ to dip into. Just the term ‘war chest’ is a sad commentary on the entire process, that partisan politics has taken what should be a civilized and honorable process and turned it into something heinous, something that demands a thrust of uncontrolled power, something that results in bodies scattered behind and phenominal waste of time, money, effort and lives. Yes, such is politics today, where every candidate is in the pocket of big corporations, banks, lobby groups and now... Rupert Murdoch. Rupert Murdoch is the owner of the Wall Street Journal, not an insignificant rag in the US. And yes he also owns Fox TV, that paragon of fucking political punditry and perspective which seems to have a gift for daily defining the potential depth and breadth of partisanship in terms often hard to imagine. In a system where it behooves us to have an impartial media that will actually report on the aspects, the platform, the promises of all parties on equal footing, how the fuck can that happen when one of the parties is owned by the paper? Yes, Mr. Murdoch is entitled to his own opinions and political beliefs, as are his colleagues in other news media, and in that regard he, like everyone else, is more than welcome to drop a fucking ballot in the box come election day, but his influence and mongering should stop there. Unless and until the ‘ordinary’ man can run for political office without the currently inevitable threat of having to kiss some corporate ass on a daily basis, unless the ‘Big Bucks’ component of the current political system is removed, there is no fucking hope of ever electing an honest man to office. Such is the pity for all of us.