Three years ago today – what a day that was.  We had a big, big party at Daisy that night.  “The arc of history,” bent towards a better day.

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This New York Times story is amazing because of the technological revolution it describes:

On Dec. 14, 2007, Mr. Woo was paralyzed after an accident at a construction site at Goldman Sachs headquarters on West Street. Mr. Woo, an architect on the project, was struck as seven tons of metal studs, hoisted by a crane, crushed the trailer in which he was working.

This week, Mr. Woo has been testing a bionic exoskeleton called Ekso, designed to allow patients in wheelchairs to stand and move while upright.

The story’s been covered in other New York papers, too.

But what puzzles me is that no Canadian paper has picked up on the obvious Canadian angle:

As Mr. Woo has continued his rehabilitation in New York and consulted on projects for his firm, his wife has been living in Toronto, with their three boys, ages 4, 5 and 6. Mr. Woo said he was designing a home in Toronto — with elevators and upward slopes, but no stairs — that he expected the family to move into in the coming years. Perhaps, he said, he will be able to walk in.

Historic advance in medicine, with Canadians at the centre of it.  Canadian media, where art thou?

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Well, well, well.  Isn’t that interesting.

Yesterday, as the whole country saw, the bovine Peterborough Conservative MP – who is Stephen Harper’s Parliamentary Secretary – had attacked Justin Trudeau’s Catholicism.  He said Justin wasn’t a good Catholic. Justin and me and not a few others were plenty unhappy about that.

So, within minutes, someone pointed out to me that Del Scumbag had violated one Church teaching, and voted for the death penalty.

Not long after, I started to hear from plenty of Peterborough folks about other ways in which the troglodyte’s life was not exactly, um, illuminated by the light of the catechism.  One of the stories I heard bowled me over.  And, this morning, someone sent me proof.

Dean, you see, doesn’t even go to Catholic Mass.  Hasn’t for a long time.  That means, unless I’m missing something, the self-professed uber-Catholic doesn’t observe the sacraments – while Justin Trudeau does.

Cornered by a terrific reporter at the excellent local paper, The Examiner, Del Scumbag finally admitted what many residents of Peterborough already knew – he doesn’t even “belong” to a Catholic church anymore.  Quote:

“The Examiner has received several calls about what church the MP attends since he met with the Pope at the Vatican on Saturday, after the G8 summit in Italy…Del Mastro said he’s a member of the congregation at Calvary Pentecostal Church.”

Oh, but he’s great “friends” with the Bishop, mind you.  He said so in a written statement.  That’s nice.

Anyway.  For me and others, Del Scumbag’s rank hypocrisy has rendered him the new Benedict Baldy, and we have jointly committed ourselves to – pardon the pun – making his life a living Hell.

Next up: sponsorship, a park, and Del Scumbag’s Conservative Party hockey team!

UPDATE: Fern Hill – who, with GritChik, made the life of Del Scumbag’s pal Tim Hudak positively Hellish (there’s that word again) during the provincial election – offered this up yesterday about what Catholic leadership in Peterborough think about Del Scumbag’s Catholicism:

A Roman Catholic in “good standing” must attend mass every Sunday and holy day of obligation, says the vicar general of the Diocese of Peterborough. “There is nothing to stop a Catholic person from attending services elsewhere if he or she chooses to do so. However, Catholics are still required to attend Catholic mass every Sunday and holy day of obligation,” said Father Raymond Rick. “You’re either a Catholic who is practising his faith or you’re not.” [Examiner, July 17, 2009]

UPDATER: Nobody’s asked, but I’ll say so anyway: yes, I’ll pray for this conservative hypocrite in church this coming Sunday – just I prayed, last Sunday, for all the other conservatives I detest.  Then, like all good liberation theology Catholics, and all followers of Teilhard de Chardin, I will go out and do all I can to ensure that conservatives Del Scumbag are beaten into dust.  Metaphorically speaking, of course.

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Brian and I debate guns while, unbeknownst to us, a giant person fiddles with a poppy.

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“I previously published material here that attacked the personal reputation of Mr. Kinsella. Those allegations were false and I retract and apologize for them without reservation. I have no information at all that Mr. Kinsella is anything but a good father and my publication of facts to the contrary was mean-spirited and unacceptable.

Kathy Shaidle”

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You can be forgiven for thinking that Dean del Mastro is a scumbag. God would.

He doesn’t decide who is a “good Catholic” and who isn’t. God does.

If I were Justin, I’d handle this like we used to at Loyola or Bishop Carroll or Our Lady of Lourdes – behind the church, face to face.

Justin is a way nicer guy than me, so he won’t. But I have no doubt he’d knock del Mastro’s porcine form into next week. You could sell tickets to that one. Hell, you could retire the national debt.

Anyway, this one has gotten me so pissed off, I think we Grits should make Dean del Mastro the next Benedict Baldy. Let’s get together and kick the crap out of him the next time he runs.

Who’s in?

UPDATE: And another thing: does he really want to have the personal lifestyles of some of his fellow Conservatives – including the one he names – scrutinized to see how rigorously they observe what conservatives consider to be “traditional” Christianity? He won’t like the result.

FURTHER UPDATE: Hey, look who voted against a well-known and well-established Catholic principle: Dean del Scumbag!  Del Scumbag voted against reaffirming Canada’s rejection of capital punishment, both here and abroad. Dean del Mastro favours capital punishment – and that’s contrary to the long-standing position of the Vatican and the Catholic church.  So I encourage everyone to contact The Most Reverend Nicola De Angelis, c.f.i.c., D.D., the Bishop of Peterborough, and other Catholic clergy, and demand del Mastro’s excommunication. You can contact every Roman Catholic priest in Peterborough right here. What’s good for the Liberal goose is good for the Conservative gander, isn’t it?

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One, here’s Testy Tom speaking candidly to Barbara Yaffe – who, BTW Tom, works for a newspaper and will quote you and all that: “There’s nothing I find more galling than to have the fact of being from Quebec used as a wedge issue, saying: The guy is from Quebec, he cannot lead a national party,” he said. “We’ve come full circle from the time it was seen as an advantage to the time it’s used as a slur against you.”

Two, here’s what the black-hearted CRG elf lords will turn that beaut into, in just a few months from now: “NDP LEADER [OR DEPUTY LEADER] SAYS HIS OWN PARTY IS AGAINST QUEBEC.”

And, three, here’s my suggested slogan about this guy, gratis: “Thomas Mulcair – once an idiot, still an idiot.”

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Get a load of this:

“Several ministers and influential Liberals pleaded with the Liberal war room to insert some humble pie in the Premier’s message, to no avail.“

Like, as if the author would have access to the intimate thoughts of “several ministers and influential Liberals.”  Let alone “the Liberal war room,” which I sort of know something about. Uh-huh.  Riiiight.

So what is this about, you ask?

Oh, golly, I don’t know.

 

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BCL strikes again. Check it out:

“Mr. Lemire” is Marc Lemire, a former leader of the violent neo-Nazi group, the Heritage Front. “Mr. Chisu” is a Conservative MP. He’s new.

I will be charitable, therefore, and assume for a moment that Mr. Chisu and the young Mr. van Vorstenbos didn’t know Marc Lemire has been a central figure in the most powerful anti-Semitic, white supremacist group to emerge in Canada since the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in the Eighties.  I will, however, say that they are supposed to check these things out in advance, and not be total idiots.  Which, in this case, they are.

If, on the other hand, Messrs. Chisu and van Vorstenbos knew who Mr. Lemire was, and sent their pithy letter anyway, I will only say this:

Thornhill, York Centre, Eglinton-Lawrence, Don Valley West, North York, et al., welcome home.  We missed you.

UPDATE: Greg Elmer, who I like, suggested the headline was off, and I think he’s right.  Thus the tweak, above. Grammar is everything!

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At the moment, I am about 100 friends short of having 5,000 friends on my Facebook page. According to Facebook’s rules – which make sense to me, for what it’s worth – I will no longer be able to accept new friends after the 5,000 number is hit.  Given the rate at which I get friend requests, I expect that to happen sometime next week.

So, for the folks who get stuff from me on my Facebook page – posts from here, and also stuff I don’t post here – things are going to be different.  After 5,000 is hit, I am going to be posting to my newly-constituted “fan” page, found here. I may not be posting to the old Facebook page anymore – it depends on what the Facebook elf lords let me do.  If I can do both pages, somehow, I will.

In the meantime, c’mon over to the fan page, if you like, and join the fun.

And, yes, to answer the question you may now be pondering.  I really do know all 5,000 of my friends.

We are very close.

 

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