Barbara, a few months ago you rode your bike to the Vancouver Sun and wrote a column in which you warned Conservatives and specifically the very grown-up Conservative Party of Canada leader Stephen Harper (do you call him Uncle Stephen?) against allowing those nasty and bizarre religious weirdos (“Christians”—you know, the ones with all those big-people stupidhead “values”) to get a grip on the Conservative Party. I returned the favor to you here in my own column which I’m sure you didn’t read because, I know, there are so many Michael Moore seminars and appreciation nights in Canada and a young growing gal’s only got so much time for other research.
Let’s review: In opposition to your seemingly rather anti-Christian rant and dire warning to Uncle Stephen Harper (you were only doing Canada a favor, I know, and so was Michael Moore), I reminded you of the last Canadian Census:
In it, seven out of every ten Canadians identified themselves as either Roman Catholic or Protestant. Them’s Christians! Only 16% of the population in 2001 identified themselves as having no religion—that’d be you, I guess, and much of the media, as has been proven by other studies. In 2001, just four in ten adults reported that they had not attended religious services during the year prior to the survey. Which means that up to sixty percent of Canadian people had attended religious services within the past year. Of course lots of people are Christians and hold their Christian beliefs very dearly but don’t necessarily go to church every Sunday. I might even estimate that most fall into that category.
I wondered about you and just when your growth spurt might start when I read your latest diatribe against things conservative (“The race is over and that’s a relief”, November 3, 2004). In this case, the fact that a comfortable majority of Americans voted for right-wing conservative (and whadyaknow, Christian) George Bush a couple of days ago seemed to bother you and cause you to loose some of those good manners that your mommy taught you. I don’t know if it’s a pot-smoking thang or what, because kids are all about the ganga these days, but once again your still-developing brain started oozing some more of that liberal-left prattle.
It now seems to me that your advice to Stephen Harper some time ago turns out to be even more stupid than I’d previously thought, as religious and general moral values were precisely the ticket for that huge Republican win yesterday for our brothers and sisters in the United States (which I would argue was also a win for Canada).
But you don’t seem to learn from past mistakes which is either because you’re still not a big girl yet, or (and I perish the thought), it’s a sign of early-onset insanity. In your grumpy little rant you as much as called President Bush a “moron” in agreeing with the Liberal Party’s infamous Chretien advisor Francie Ducros and her infamous Bush assessment. About our neighbor’s clear majority-chosen leader, you said:
In truth, Dubya has been viewed by many Canadians as a moron, to quote Chretien’s one-time press aide, Francie Ducros, who lost her job for zeroing in on such an apt label.
“Such an apt label”. For “Dubya”. So you endorse that picayune sentiment. You agree. Do you and Carolyn Parrish play together? Or even the three of you—Francie joining you in your sandbox when she’s in town? Hey R u guyz goin’ to the Michael Moore movie?
Your anti-American liberal rhetoric and that of your friends on the left is becoming tiresome and jejune already, Yaffey-daffey. You sound remarkably like a dirty little girl who’s cranky after playing in the mud. (Clearly I haven’t zeroed-in on your exact age yet, but young).
Now that a comfortable majority of grown-up Americans voted for President Bush—eight million more than last time and the most of any president in American history, and voted for even more his Senators and Representatives and Governors, and every state that has been given the chance has voted against gay “marriage”: if Bush is a “moron” as you want to convince us that he is through shear repetition and nothing else, then surely by logical extension you agree that everyone who voted for him must be somewhat of a “moron” or at least a “big fat idiot head”.
And those of us on this side of the border who support Bush are similarly stupid, am I right? I mean we got “cooties” too, huh? Those who like me have actively supported him in as many ways as I could think of, must be truly bereft of any mental capacity whatsoever. Have I got you right? Do I get to be in pal Carolyn Parrish’s “Coalition Of The Idiots?” Pulleeeeeease?
Here’s a cookie, Babbler: Being anti-American is one thing. That’s fatuous and bigoted enough. Being anti-conservative and anti-religion and advising Canadians against that sort of thing is just dumb, as we’ve seen. That’s playschool. And we all gotta grow up, Barbya.
I’m beginning to think that your oh-so-fresh ideas and “recommendations” to Harper and nuanced advisories to Canadians in general should be taken in much the same way that Americans rejected the ideas and suggestions of your mentor Michael Moore, the genius politician and strategist. Of course I’m a Christian. And a conservative. And a Bush supporter. So what an idiot, huh?
Barbara Yaffe, you’re in the exact same sandbox as Carolyn Parrish and Michael Moore and lots of others like them. I have no advice for you. Stay there in that sandbox because it serves us conservatives well, as we’ve see down south in what you call might call big fat idiotpants land.
By Joel Johannesen
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