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...

Heavy Metal Monday

Okay, Saturday night, for some reason, I had AC DC's Hell's Bells running through my head. They're not really heavy metal, more heavy metal precursors, but, what the hell it's a great f'ing tune. Live from Donington, 1999...

McGuinty, You're an Asshole

So, Premier McDickhead is steaming ahead, full speed, to fuck over the Cambridge Memorial Hospital. The hospital, according to the evening news, is about 5 million dollars in the red. According to the local dead tree media, it's 6.5 million in the red, and I'll use their numbers. This is all, according to Premier McGetafuckingclue, 100% totally, absolutely the hospitals fault, there's no more money, and the board will just have to make cuts to make up the shortfall. Let us see how quickly we can tear up that steaming turd.

Hospital budget: $106 million
Hospital deficit: $6.5 million
Deficit expressed as a percentage: 6.1%

Average Ontario per patient funding: $1009
Cambridge per patient funding: $730
Funding expressed as percentage of the average: 72.3%

So, McShithead, tell me again that the hospital budgetary shortfall is due to inefficiency. Just looking at those numbers indicates to me 2 things. First, that Cambridge has one of the most efficiently administered hospitals in the province. Hell, it should be a model for other hospitals, just imagine the level of care should they be given even 80% average funding. Second, you are a lying sack of shit. A boil on the body politic. A smarmy little creep who is playing politics with the lives of Cambridge residents.

You say there's no money, yet you've comitted 30 Billion dollars for health care upgrades. The Cambridge hospital is 10 fucking years overdue its sorely needed expnansion, and isn't even on the list for this money. But maybe for the next one. You oozing pustule, just because the good citizens of Cambridge don't elect Liberals to Queen's Park is no reason to train wreck their hospital, and fuck with their health care. In case you hadn't realized, everyone in this crappy country is subject to our POS, single payer health care system, and your petty partisan politics have no part in it.

In short, McCumstain, fuck of and die, you maggot.

Beautiful Asian Women; Lucy Liu

Gach, I've gotta bleach the stench of Ted out of my mind. Here' some Lucy Liu. No bikini, but a couple of plunging necklines to make up for it.

Good Riddance

I said these exact words the day that the late, unlamented and never to be sufficiently cursed Pierre f'ing Elliot f'ing Trudeau kicked it:

Good riddance to bad garbage, and 40 years too late.

Senator Edward "Teddy the Swimmer" "Drunken Lifeguard" "This Isn't Your Father's Buick" Kennedy has finally begun the eternal celestial dirt nap. Good. Shame it didn't occur 40 years ago.

They say you shouldn't speak ill of the dead. Why the fuck not? The man was a drunken, philandering, murdering, treasonous, freedom hating, freedom destroying, terrorist loving piece of shit, and we are richer for his death. My only regret (other than how overdue his passing really was) is that I cannot take comfort in his eternal roast in hell, as I do not believe such a place exists.

I'm not going to say any more, as others will say it better. I'll simply leave it with Physics Geek's standard Kennedy comment, "Mary Joe Kopechne couldn’t be reached for comment."

Emperor Misha (there's more than just one post, and enjoy the comments to this one).
Bill Quick (also more than one post, visit the main site)
Ace (also more than one post, visit the main site)
Jay Currie and I seem to be on the same page
Darlene Click at Protein Wisdom is a helluva lot nicer than I
Dan Collins is at least 50% nicer than I
Serr8d has a good one
The Other McCain has some thoughts

More if and as I feel like it.

Update:

Just saw Pres-Uh-dent Uh-bam-uh on the evening news. Called Chappaquidick Ted one of the greatest Americans. By what fucking standard, President Zerobama? I know you have to lie. Hell, I know you're congenitally incapable of telling the truth, but one of the greatest Americans? Hyperbole ought to have limits. Even if you don't think he was a total piece of shit, there have been wayyyy too many great Americans to mention the Lifeguard in their company.

And City TV news bunny? It's called "News" not "Hagiography for liberal sacks of shit." Ted's dead, you can stop fellating him now.