Sarah Palin…. Fiscally and Socially conservative

If Sarah really is socially conservative why isn’t she at home looking after the kids and cooking her husband supper?
I am not a shitbag neo con but this dissonance needs addressing.
All over the place you hear from wingnut religious women that the traditional fundie way is the only way. Well guess what if that is [...]

Secret Republican plan… Lose!

I was watching the Daily Show (Still the bestest news programme from the USA) and I was hit with a revelation.
The Republicans don’t want to win. Bush in eight years has done so much to mess up their economy and standing in the world that they know they can’t be elected until somebody has put [...]

CPoC – The party of Law and Order

Indeed?
(Cheers CC)

And to paraphrase Lance Manion in order to add a relevant sentiment on Tory behaviour in committee:
If the Goverment is a car setting out to give every one a ride to work, then for 40 years the Republicans the CPoC have been puncturing the tires, pouring sand in the gas tank, stealing the [...]

Christians lieing for Jesus…. Again

Something tells me that the fundies doon south are running scared and this screed from a Dr Wheeler illustrates it beautifully.
I’m not at all that involved in the election, both candidates are lacking and better ones dropped out earlier because it was such a beauty contest. But I really couldn’t believe this. There isn’t a [...]

So the Tories are saying that the food industry should regulate itself…. Right!

A sad outbreak of food poisoning has claimed the life of one person and damaged many others. Mt heart goes out to those affected. In a previous life I worked for local authorities who responded to these types of outbreaks and along side regulators who tried to prevent them.
Now I read this in the G&M. [...]

Road rage – why is it called that?

Okay personal bitch time. But why is road rage called road rage?
Today I was driving through Calgary. It seems that everybody on the road in that esteemed burgh uses vehicles to get from A to B but doesn’t really like to actually focus on the job in hand. Cell phones, coffee and the written word [...]

Before you moan about the speck of dust in our eye, please remove the beam from your own.

American Poli Sci wafflers are all of a twitter about the infringement on free speech that the HRC’s impose on people in Canada. APSA is sooo worried about it that they are considering moving their annual jamboree from Toronto to anywhere in US.
Let’s take a deep breath, hold and release.
Yes the process in Canada is [...]

Religious doctors get to make diagnosis based on faerie tales.

Here we go again.
If you expect a doctor to do their job then you are an intolerant bigot.
That’s the long and the short of it from another godbot called Susan Martinuk. This op ed follows nicely on from the pharmacists who want to second guess a doctors prescription because the pill means you are a [...]

Back peddling on the anti-carbohydrate front.

That paragon of quality health information, MSN, is at it again, but this time is trying to save face for all the purveyors of woo who tried to bash the inclusion of carbs in our diet. Now they try and implicate that they weren’t all wrong… Honest! Because those carbs sources that cause a spike [...]

What is it about dogmatists – can they not recognise their own kind?

Yet another xtian tries to separate the certainties of religious dogma from the certainties of political dogma by claiming they have nothing in common. In fact he tries to assert that  the political dogma has more in common with non-dogma. Go figure, I guess the guy is blinded by his indoctrination.
To support this he quotes [...]