Right Wing Bigotry From Alberta

[Hard-Luck Henry]

Do we get to vote for Pope?

 

[Vanni Fucci]

Re: RE: Right Wing Bigotry From Alberta

Do we get to vote for Pope?

Well, I can't see why not...I'll get on the phone with the Vatican and find out...they'll listen to me if I'm a Rev...

...give me three minutes...and I'll get back to you about that... :wink:

 

[Hard-Luck Henry]

No, don't phone - we'll sneak round now and blow white smoke up the Vatican chimney. It'll be a laugh.

 

[Vanni Fucci]

Yeah...we can use it like a papal bong... 8O :wink:

 

[mrmom2]

Yeah...we can use it like a papal bong...

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Reverend Blair]

Hey, you guys are making a mockery out of religion. Good call. 8)

Not sure what you're referring to with the seafood thing...but I've had an epiphany...

I didn't think it was that vague...think I ended up talking about 70's porn movies.

I was tempted, Vanni, but that a sin, so count me out. And three minutes is a long time. God, I'm so weak.

Three minutes?

I mean think about all the problems it would solve...

1. A quick and easy solution to the energy crisis.

2. Kyoto targets would be a breeze.

3. People would be too busy building barns and making quilts to be gay.

4. There would be no filching of taxpayers money, because we'd all be bartering chickens and cows.

The possibilities are endless, Rev...Just think about it!!!

I think we have the makings of cult here. Anybody have any L Ron Hubbard books. :wink:

Do we have to wear the hats and beards Vanni?

I'd hate to stop now.

Would that be brother Rev?

Y'okay. I might feel a little odd saying "Brother Mom" though.

Do we get to vote for Pope?

I vote for Leonard Cohen.

 

[Vanni Fucci]

Well I did it Rev...and goddamn I feel dirty...:twisted:

Reverend Vanni Fucci, at your service... 8)

They have a monk course there that I'm considering signing up for...that might be a hoot...

 

[Reverend Blair]

RE: Right Wing Bigotry Fr

They do have some serious religious stuff there, Vanni. I applaud them for accepting the rest of us too, so I leave them alone. Mostly, at least. You might want to have a look at the forums there though. ;-)

 

[Hard-Luck Henry]

This is to certify that the bearer hereof Reverend Hard Luck Henry (that's me) had three minutes to spare, and has all the rights and privileges to perform all kinds of bollocks, in most states. And I've got the credentials to prove it. (Although I may occassionally require a Letter of Good Standing. Which are easy enough to come by, if you have the connections :wink: ... I'd imagine... Ahem).

 

[Reverend Blair]

RE: Right Wing Bigotry Fr

Congrats. You're one of us now.

 

[Twila]

RE: Right Wing Bigotry Fr

Yeah...brother Vanni's fine...and the beards are the best part about being amish... Wink

Mind holding a place for me? It seems I'm going to have to wait for menopause before I can join. I haven't the ability to grow a beard yet.

 

[Machjo]

A little question about homosexuality and the Bible. Someone in this thread stated that it wasn't possible to be homosexual and Christian a the same time.

So let's suppose that I were a Christian, now considering that whenever I see a beautiful woman I might experience a few hormonal changes in my body :wink: , and considering that I'm not married, and so obviously she's not my wife, and considering the Bible prohibits adultery, would that mean therefore that my being a normal heterosexual would prevent me from being a Christian?

And while we're at it. For those who argue that homosexuals shouldn't be allowed to marry because it's a Christian institution, does that mean that only Christians ought to be allowed to marry, according to the same logic?

Don't worry, for those who oppose homosexual marriage, I'm not making any statement for or against, myself. I'm merely trying to understand your logic behind this?

 

[mrmom2]

Reverend Fucci and Reverend Hard Luck are you guys going to bapstise people ? I might just have to sign up :lol: What kind of stuff will you use in the ceremony?Papal bongs maybe :wink:

 

[Vanni Fucci]

Reverend Fucci and Reverend Hard Luck are you guys going to bapstise people ? I might just have to sign up :lol: What kind of stuff will you use in the ceremony?Papal bongs maybe :wink:

Baptized in beer seems like a nice start to a long lasting tradition... 8)

...and sacrimental Screech...:wink:

...and we could have Dorito's for communion wafers...:lol:

By the way Rev, I looked into the monk course...the instructions for application kind of freaked me out, so I think I'll pass on it...that and they want 500 American in a money order or cashier's cheque to be sent with the application...all this leaves me with the feeling that their monastic enterprise is dubious at best... :? :wink:

 

[jamie]

How could you possibly complain about media bias when it's a well established fact that media in general is left-wing biased. You only need to watch the CBC (Communist Broadcasting Corporation) to acknolwledge this.

That basically states the truth of it.

 

[Vanni Fucci]

How could you possibly complain about media bias when it's a well established fact that media in general is left-wing biased. You only need to watch the CBC (Communist Broadcasting Corporation) to acknolwledge this.

That basically states the truth of it.

Well established fact you say?

Established by who? Facts require evidence, of which I've seen none.

A few people pissing and moaning about the CBC being too socialist does not constitute a fact. Neither do op-ed articles written by right-wing pundits.

So where have you found these well established facts which you are now affirming as truth?

 

[crit13]

So where have you found these well established facts which you are now affirming as truth?

Who says the CBC has a political bias?

Monday, 28 February 2005
Kevin Steel

So Taylor, a graduate student at Ontario’s Queen’s University, wondered what kind of political agenda might be behind the CBC’s own skewering of Fox. He decided to run the names of the directors on the broadcaster’s board through Elections Canada’s database of political contributors. It turns out the honchos that oversee the nation’s broadcaster are every bit as partisan as the Republican-bashers at MoveOn. Eighty-two per cent of all the cheques they wrote to political parties since 1993 went to one place: the Liberal Party of Canada.
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“Everybody should be able to contribute to the party of their choice, but when you make decisions to fund documentaries that hold one political philosophy higher than another, and complain that there is going to be a competitive political atmosphere in Canada because of the introduction of Fox, I find it a little hypocritical,” Taylor says.


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The directors’ pro-Grit stance shouldn’t come as a big surprise: they were, after all, appointed by a Liberal prime minister. Noreen Golfman, chair of the pro-CBC group, Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, told a 2003 conference at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada: “Our research indicates that every member of the present CBC board of directors is affiliated with the Liberal Party of Canada.”



Clear and distinct evidence of not only bias, but a clear conflict of interest when claiming to be fair and balanced.

Monday, 28 February 2005
Ezra Levant

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In January, Pierre Pettigrew, Canada’s foreign affairs minister, told Christians opposed to the Liberal same-sex marriage bill to shut up. “I find that the separation of the church and state is one of the most beautiful inventions of modern times,” he said when asked about Catholic opposition to the bill. Asked later to clarify whether Christians had a right to participate in the debate, he dug in: “I said there is a separation of church and state and it is a wonderful invention of modernity. I’ve seen a lot of right-wing press put all kinds of things around it, and some right-wing commentators.”

Ah. So it’s not the left-wing churches who noisily support same-sex marriage that Pettigrew wants to butt out. Just those “right-wingers”--the ones who might believe there is a higher moral authority than Prime Minister Paul Martin and his whipped caucus.

Freedom of expression is a right available to all Canadians, not just Pettigrew and his chorus in the press. “Freedom of conscience and religion” is actually enumerated in the charter before freedom of expression is. And the charter’s preamble states that “Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.” One wonders if most charter-loving Liberals have actually read the document.

For a cabinet minister--from a party that champions “multiculturalism” no less--to tell Christians to shut up about a moral issue is outrageous, but apparently not as outrageous to the media as if he had told Jews or Muslims to shut up. Pettigrew’s sound bite was played on the evening news, but not as an explosive scandal, and not as the top item, and not rebutted by all those human rights critics on the CBC’s speed dial. The story was a one-night wonder, and only a few “right-wing” columnists in the media ever mentioned it again.




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This month, CBC Radio in Charlottetown refused to air a paid ad from the Maritime Christian College. It was to advertise a lecture about problems that families face--pretty anodyne stuff. The CBC declined the ad, according to a spokeswoman, because the lecture was going to discuss “family issues from a Christian perspective.” No private broadcasters found the ad offensive; it wasn’t. But the CBC has blacklisted anything Christian.

CBC's budget bias
by Arthur Weinreb
Associate Editor, Canada Free Press
Tuesday, March 1, 2005

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In order to properly convey what this budget means, it is necessary to clearly show that the amounts set out in it, where applicable, are spread out over a five-year period. Of all the major media, the CBC was the worst offender when it came to throwing out numbers without specifying that they were amounts that are to be spent over a five-year period and not immediately.

In their budget report on CBC News’ website, the first paragraph of the article stated, "Finance Minister Ralph Goodale delivered a broad-ranging and balanced budget Wednesday, including almost $13 billion for the military, $5 billion for a national child-care program and another $5 billion for the country’s cities." When those figures were mentioned, it was never stated that those amounts were allocated over a five-year term. The five-year aspect to those major expenditures wasn’t mentioned until the fourth paragraph and even then it wasn’t clear; "And given an ambitious social agenda, Goodale has turned to a five-year framework." Although reference was made to "five years", it still was not made clear that those large amounts that were mentioned in the story’s lead were to be apportioned over that period with most of the spending slated for the end of that term.

The proper way to report the figures of the budget was the way that most other media, including the ultra pro-Liberal Toronto Star did it. Every time an amount was reported, it was reported as "$5 billion over five years", not simply $5 billion.

The CBC, of course has a conflict of interest when reporting what the government of Canada is spending; after all the network collects approximately $1 billion a year of taxpayers’ money. The CBC has a vested interest in making it appear that the government is actually spending $13 billion on the military this year rather than over five years. The higher the government’s overall spending appears, the less it appears that the CBC CBC gets.

Perhaps the network should be required to state that it receives public funding every time it reports on government spending. All in the name of fairness, of course.

 

[Machjo]

Perhaps if the media wasn't so full of right wing lies Alberta wouldn't be so conservative. I think BC should move it's borders a bit more east and take over Banff. I wish the Rhinoceros party where still around.

How could you possibly complain about media bias when it's a well established fact that media in general is left-wing biased. You only need to watch the CBC (Communist Broadcasting Corporation) to acknolwledge this.

 

[Vanni Fucci]

I guess you paid no heed to the right-wing pundit qualifier...

A few people pissing and moaning about the CBC being too socialist does not constitute a fact. Neither do op-ed articles written by right-wing pundits.

Interesting how the only people saying the CBC has a left-wing bias are writers from the Western Standard and Canada Free Press...

How about right-wing media bias?

David Frum is the worst kind of neo-con, and his involvment in promoting right-wing media explains a lot in terms of the proliferation of conservativism in this country.

Oh...and by they way, the Liberals are not really all that left-wing in this country...just thought you should know...

 

[Reverend Blair]

RE: Right Wing Bigotry Fr

They gave David Frum 4 hours on CBC Radio as host just before the last US election, BTW. They haven't done that for any left-wing pundits.