The I Wasn't Going to go There Heavy Metal Monday

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's Tuesday, but if I don't post something, it'll be two missed Heavy Metal Mondays.

I wasn't going to touch the Roman Polanski thing. It's being done to death all over the intertubes, and I doubt I'll have anything fresh to add. But, tonight when I was doing the dishes, Mrs. Fulminandrew had some entertainment "news" show on, and I heard something about a pity party for Polanski. Hmm, I should trademark that one. Anyway, not really believing my ears, I continued with the dishes until The Mrs. put The Boy to bed, fired up the 'puter and went to have a look...

Okay, yup, there it is. Hollywood is hard at work whining about the ill treatment of the old monster. You can go here, or here for the sordid details. Before really delving into it, what really struck me in the first story was the throwaway line:

The Los Angeles District Attorney’s office released a chronology on Monday of seven previous attempts to arrest Polanski since 1978 during the director’s expected or actual visits to England, Israel, Canada and Thailand.

Okay, England is done, Polanski is Jewish and I don't really see Thailand, for all that the age of consent there is 18 (seriously), extraditing him. But CANADA? Fuck, we're now giving passes to confessed child rapists, providing they make really good movies? Fuck, I've been ashamed of this piss poor excuse for a country pretty much my entire adult life, but this make me want to vomit.

Can we get one teeny, tiny detail straight here? HE FUCKING DRUGGED, RAPED AND SODOMIZED A 13 YEAR OLD GIRL. Now, what, pray tell, have the condoners got going?

The judge acted improperly...so the fuck what, he drugged, raped and sodomized a 13 y/o girl.

Her mother was a conniving cunt who was looking for a payoff... STFW, he drugged, raped and sodomized a 13 y/o girl.

He's been in exile for 32 years... first, I don't think being feted about the continent, when you're a dual French/Polish citizen, can be precisely termed "exile," but, STFW, he drugged, raped and sodomized a 13 y/o girl.

The woman doesn't want him punished any further... umm, in case I haven't said it before, STFW, he drugged, raped and sodomized her as a 13 y/o girl. This is not a civil case, it is a criminal case. The prosecution is on behalf of the people, not the victim. Why she says this, I don't know, but, judicially, it's not relevant. He did the crime, confessed to it, and then fled the jurisdiction. Extradite him and throw the book at him. Better yet, drug him and ram the book up his ass. Maybe he'll get an idea what he put the girl through.

It's at times like this I hate being an atheist. I would so love to believe that someday he will be joining Michael Jackson in the fiery pits receiving the none too tender ministrations of Satan and his barbed cock (thanks for the imagery, Your Majesty). Unfortunately, I don't believe in fairy tales, and the only punishment that piece of shit is going to receive is what we can apply. Jackson may have skated his date with cellmate Bubba, but maybe Polanski will still get his.

Now, for the heavy metal. What to choose? Where would I like this son of a bitch to be? How about spending his last night before a date with the hangman?



Hmm, I gotta dig out the old vinyl and listen to that on the headphones.

Cancer Treatment in Canada Suck - Colour Me Shocked

So, there's a new Cancer Advocacy Coalition of Canada study out saying that access to chemotherapy drugs varies widely across the Deranged Dominion. Now, I know this can't be true, since we have single payer universal coverage, and our medical system is the bestest in the whole universe. Certainly better than eeeeevil "two tier, American style health care." At least that's what I read in the Red Star over Toronto. Therefore, treatment is equal, and first rate. The logic is inescapable. Shit.

Snark aside, what the fuck did you expect, geniuses? I blogged about Canadian tiered health care here, but the meat of it is that we have multi-tiered health care, with unequal access to care, based on geography and socio-economic conditions and connections. Why the fuck would cancer treatment be any different than simple access to a GP?

As to cancer treatment, this is the takeaway line:

Want an appointment with a specialist? 7 - 13 weeks. Need treatment? After getting to see the specialist, add another 6 - 16 weeks. Do the math, 3 to 7 months from your GP to specialist treatment. Geez I hope you don't have anything serious, like pancreatic cancer (median survival 3 - 6 months).

Those are averages. Canadian health care IS multi-tiered, and it IS waiting in line. Granted, I didn't mention waiting for new drugs to be approved...oh, wait, yes I did. So the reccomendations from the panel:

• Establishment of a nationwide catastrophic drug strategy to resolve access inadequacies
• Development and implementation of Canada-wide guidelines to speed up access
• Increased research to identify subsets of patients who would best benefit from new therapies
• Introduction of an ongoing evaluation process for new cancer drugs
• Incorporate patient involvement and choice into decision-making

Because:

"People are dying because of the delay in approval by Health Canada for these new drugs," said oncologist Dr. William Hyrniuk of the Cancer Advocacy Coalition.

Ring a little hollow. Welcome to the party, pal, I've been screaming this for years.

America, don't let 0bama do it. Or, at least if you do, don't get cancer.

A Heavy Metal Monday Smattering of Shit

Heard on the morning news roundup. Kanye West, you're an asshole.

So, the smiliest used car salesman in Canadian politics, while claiming to be ready for an election, also says he will support the Conservatives, for the first time, if the bill to extend EI benefits "really helps workers." Bullshit. If the polling data look bad, he supports the bill, if the data look good, we go to an election. Jack O'Layton, you're an asshole.

The gawkiest American professor in Canadian politics says, "Canadians can do better," so he's going to trigger an election at the first opportunity. Nazzo fast, Guido, say other Liberals. Hmm, no one wants an election but Ignatieff, and he thinks we can do better. Is better defined as "pissing 300 million away on an election to end up with pretty much the same parliament, in order to salve Michael Ignatieff's ego?" If not, I'm thinking that, yes, Ignatieff, you're an asshole.

The fattest commie on the planet (and that's for damn sure saying something) prepares to release his latest homage to Leni Reifenstahl. This one is about the evils of capitalism. Wow, the planetoid known as Michael Moore is worth north of 50 million bucks, earned in the capitalist system, and is set to hoover a few more millions out of it with the help of the stupid and gullible, by complaining about the very system which enriched him. Michael Moore-on (no link here to that piece of shit), you're an asshole.

BTW, if you want an entertaining read, chronicling just how massive a hypocrite Micky Moron is (and not in the 48-waist-pants sense of the word), try "Do as I Say (Not as I Do)" by Peter Schweitzer.

Well, it's Heavy Metal Monday, and I'm thinking that all the assholes above need to be doing either The Thorazine Shuffle, or taking massive doses of...



Is Evanescence Heavy Metal? Well, Goth Metal, at any rate. Does that count for Heavy Metal Monday? Maybe, but since, as mentioned on a previous Heavy Metal Monday, the ballads aren't my thing, let us cleanse the palate. And ask all of the above assholes to kindly...