O.K. How much did you pay them to say all those nice things.
Nice compliments and observations on their part.
SDA is a great site and enjoyed by many.
Cheers, doug
Horace & Carpe Diem: Seize the Day. ( & Ride ).
Tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas, quem mihi, quem tibi
finem di dederint, Leuconoe, nec Babylonios
temptaris numeros. ut melius, quicquid erit, pati,
seu pluris hiemes seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimam,
quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare
Tyrrhenum: sapias, uina liques, et spatio breui
spem longam reseces. dum loquimur, fugerit inuida
aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
Don’t ask (it’s forbidden to know) what final fate the gods have
given to me and you, Leuconoe, and don’t consult Babylonian
horoscopes. How much better it is to accept whatever shall be,
whether Jupiter has given many more winters or whether this is the
last one, which now breaks the force of the Tuscan sea against the
facing cliffs. Be wise, strain the wine, and trim distant hope within
short limits. While we’re talking, grudging time will already
have fled: seize the day, trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.
Kate, I could hardly praise you adequately without getting undignified. But you have richly earned every word of the praise here, and then some.
I was enjoying my read at S,C&A…fairly objective, on balance and insightful…then I read this:
“Perhaps because rural and farm life is so much more black and white, Kate succeeds. Rural living means chores and responsibilities not understood by urban dwellers. ”
Has the stench of pontificating elitist stereo-typing to me…unless you rural folk got all ‘o them perdy thoughts while slopping the hogs, milkin’ Bessie, keepin’ the tractor fixt an’ sowin’ the hay seed?
Golly Willikers Kate, how do you find time for intellectual pursuits with all them farm chores and the Hicksville environment to wrestle with???
BTW: I’m sure the author of S,C&A meant well, but there are enough regional and urban-rural stereo-typing to go around these days, it seems pointless to pigeon-hole “intellect” as coming only from certain environs….seems a tad unobjective to me.
Otherwise I enjoyed the browsing time at S,C&A
Kate, seriously, can I have your autograph?
Your articles are everything said about them. It is always a pleasure to read them, even if I’m way behind on Canadian politics – but then the articles are not always about that.
Sometimes though, you make me work, reading and clicking a lot and I am such a lazy person. I thought at first, you ran a farm or something, doing wheelies and stoppies on the side. Now you travel all over the world doing dog shows and what else.
Seriously, your autograph – how much? 🙂
Well, the problem is that I think there’s substance to the stereotype, and don’t take it as a perjorative. While I no longer live on a farm, the sense of urgency at getting the job done while weather permits, etc. is all around here. And when it comes to responsibilities – how many urbanites have actually killed something with their own hands? There are distinct differences in lifestyles that lead to different communication styles.
Just my take, though.
There is a toxic level of self-absorption often found in urban dwellers which is completely absent in those who were raised on farms or small towns. Kate’s readers thrive on her absense of that.
Sigmund, Carl and Alfred are quite right about many influential artists being born in rural or “second-class” urban areas. I think of Joni Mitchell — an unparalelled talent — who grew up in rural Saskatchewan, or Bob Dylan, a fairly successful artist, who grew up in small-town Hibbing, Minnesota.
SC&A weren’t saying that intellect comes exclusively from any one place. But there is no doubt that we are subject to the environment, especially in Canada. If you live on the prairies and it’s February, it’s the first order of business. It usurps considerations about the purple pumps with the matching earrings or the half-decaf half mocha semi-dry cappuchino.
In the pike position.
I knew they’d love you, Kate!
Well said.
Sweet! Well Done!
Kate,
More evidence that Mark Steyn has found it worthwhile to visit SDA. That’s a great compliment, as well.
“…. in Thailand, where far from the gaze of CNN and the BBC some 800 people have been killed by Islamic terrorists in the first six months of this year.” The New York Sun
Oh crap! Are they going to be doing all of us?
Impressive work Kate, feels good to be recognized apart from the herd now. Since I am in Cali, you and Richards site are the best for the Canadian angle on things. Keep up the good work…
I think Kate would be Kate no matter where she grew up.
Kate said: “While I no longer live on a farm, the sense of urgency at getting the job done while weather permits, etc. is all around here. ”
Maybe that’s tied to the “biker” ethic 😉 Ride while the sun is shining……uh, er, well, rideing AFTER the cows are milked and the hay is in of course , harumph, harumph. 😉
I agree: Kate is great. Don’t be embarrassed, K. you are yourself and you work hard and it shows. I cannot help but admire that.
I’m inspired to think: the urban living concept has its flaws. It makes living, sometimes, way too easy. Makes many of us lazy, bored, unmotivated, lacking a telos. I’d rather live like Kate: having to be self-sufficient and not waiting for others to make things happen for oneself. I’m a city-dweller and always have been. I therefore know the pitfalls. People tend to think alike, hence are more manipulable. Seems one must be betrayed by the city setting and become alienated by that way of life and type of social setting to think for oneself and see the world the way it is. In other words, one must break from the herd, in a manner of speaking. Certainly, one must still make a living, but can still develop sovereignty of mind if one has the courage to do so regardless of peer pressure to think what one is told.
Perhaps I’m luckier than I feel. I’m optimistic. I sincerely believe life for all of us can be better. We must work hard to make it so. Not just for ourselves, but for our country. After all, it was built by hard work by all. Apathy is what could be our undoing as a people, and that is what the Libranos are counting on.
Keep up the good, hard work, Kate. You have inspired this Canadian. Not since Arnold Schwarzenegger has anyone so motivated me.
A heartfelt thanks!
Well, I meant that in the way the pace of life and overall economy is influenced in small towns.
The Dogs of Bore, Part Deux
Here we go again. Check out this offering from the aptly-named “Cerberus.” Don�t forget the comments, because some of them are a hoot. A note to Kate: it�s axiomatic that you can�t reason a person out of a position he wasn�t reasoned into, so kudos to you for taking this guy on, but I suspect you�re wasting your time.
rightthinkingpeople.blogspot.com
You should check out the crap being left at “Sigmund”s” site. It never fails – those without the gonads to take on the issues on their merits, resort to slagging me personally.
Ah, I just viewed the comments some people left like little brown lumps on the lawn following the “analysis” in the Sigmund site.
I wondered, WTF are they talking about? These people must be on drugs or something.
And that “Old Mother” is another of those lefties that only succeeds in earning my great disdain. She calls us commentors unintelligent! She says stuff about Kate that reminded me of the stuff the left has been saying for years about all non-left people like me and you that are simply malicious lies. Perhaps “Old Mother” is a pseudonym for Warren Kinsella? Or Carolyn “Hates Americans” Parrish? Or Hedy “Crosses are Burning” Fry? Perhaps Svend “Pro-Milosevic, Pro-Arafat, Pro-Saddam” Robinson? None of them would surprise me as taking on a pseudonym to do what they do.
It is people like this that have built the inferno of my bombardment within SDA of the left in general. Fecking moonies like Old Mother are only squirting high-octane gasoline on the fire and inspire me to continue to fight fire with fire without apology.
If the left wants to have a war of words with the majority of Canadians who are not leftist moonies, then we should fight back in kind using their own tactics against them without apology. They are the ones who want it. Give it back to them.
Kate, don’t let the bastards intimidate you. Continue fighting the honorable fight.
Clarity Through Bloody Hands
the media- and much of the political powers that be, label rural citizens as stupid, backward, uneducated and so on.
How does that play in the heartland? Well, these people who have never grown anything in their lives (save a few pot plants) or ha…
ALMOST? Our work is not yet done.
O.K. How much did you pay them to say all those nice things.
Nice compliments and observations on their part.
SDA is a great site and enjoyed by many.
Cheers, doug
Horace & Carpe Diem: Seize the Day. ( & Ride ).
Tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas, quem mihi, quem tibi
finem di dederint, Leuconoe, nec Babylonios
temptaris numeros. ut melius, quicquid erit, pati,
seu pluris hiemes seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimam,
quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare
Tyrrhenum: sapias, uina liques, et spatio breui
spem longam reseces. dum loquimur, fugerit inuida
aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
Don’t ask (it’s forbidden to know) what final fate the gods have
given to me and you, Leuconoe, and don’t consult Babylonian
horoscopes. How much better it is to accept whatever shall be,
whether Jupiter has given many more winters or whether this is the
last one, which now breaks the force of the Tuscan sea against the
facing cliffs. Be wise, strain the wine, and trim distant hope within
short limits. While we’re talking, grudging time will already
have fled: seize the day, trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.
Kate, I could hardly praise you adequately without getting undignified. But you have richly earned every word of the praise here, and then some.
I was enjoying my read at S,C&A…fairly objective, on balance and insightful…then I read this:
“Perhaps because rural and farm life is so much more black and white, Kate succeeds. Rural living means chores and responsibilities not understood by urban dwellers. ”
Has the stench of pontificating elitist stereo-typing to me…unless you rural folk got all ‘o them perdy thoughts while slopping the hogs, milkin’ Bessie, keepin’ the tractor fixt an’ sowin’ the hay seed?
Golly Willikers Kate, how do you find time for intellectual pursuits with all them farm chores and the Hicksville environment to wrestle with???
BTW: I’m sure the author of S,C&A meant well, but there are enough regional and urban-rural stereo-typing to go around these days, it seems pointless to pigeon-hole “intellect” as coming only from certain environs….seems a tad unobjective to me.
Otherwise I enjoyed the browsing time at S,C&A
Kate, seriously, can I have your autograph?
Your articles are everything said about them. It is always a pleasure to read them, even if I’m way behind on Canadian politics – but then the articles are not always about that.
Sometimes though, you make me work, reading and clicking a lot and I am such a lazy person. I thought at first, you ran a farm or something, doing wheelies and stoppies on the side. Now you travel all over the world doing dog shows and what else.
Seriously, your autograph – how much? 🙂
Well, the problem is that I think there’s substance to the stereotype, and don’t take it as a perjorative. While I no longer live on a farm, the sense of urgency at getting the job done while weather permits, etc. is all around here. And when it comes to responsibilities – how many urbanites have actually killed something with their own hands? There are distinct differences in lifestyles that lead to different communication styles.
Just my take, though.
There is a toxic level of self-absorption often found in urban dwellers which is completely absent in those who were raised on farms or small towns. Kate’s readers thrive on her absense of that.
Sigmund, Carl and Alfred are quite right about many influential artists being born in rural or “second-class” urban areas. I think of Joni Mitchell — an unparalelled talent — who grew up in rural Saskatchewan, or Bob Dylan, a fairly successful artist, who grew up in small-town Hibbing, Minnesota.
SC&A weren’t saying that intellect comes exclusively from any one place. But there is no doubt that we are subject to the environment, especially in Canada. If you live on the prairies and it’s February, it’s the first order of business. It usurps considerations about the purple pumps with the matching earrings or the half-decaf half mocha semi-dry cappuchino.
In the pike position.
I knew they’d love you, Kate!
Well said.
Sweet! Well Done!
Kate,
More evidence that Mark Steyn has found it worthwhile to visit SDA. That’s a great compliment, as well.
“…. in Thailand, where far from the gaze of CNN and the BBC some 800 people have been killed by Islamic terrorists in the first six months of this year.”
The New York Sun
Oh crap! Are they going to be doing all of us?
Impressive work Kate, feels good to be recognized apart from the herd now. Since I am in Cali, you and Richards site are the best for the Canadian angle on things. Keep up the good work…
I think Kate would be Kate no matter where she grew up.
Kate said: “While I no longer live on a farm, the sense of urgency at getting the job done while weather permits, etc. is all around here. ”
Maybe that’s tied to the “biker” ethic 😉 Ride while the sun is shining……uh, er, well, rideing AFTER the cows are milked and the hay is in of course , harumph, harumph. 😉
I agree: Kate is great. Don’t be embarrassed, K. you are yourself and you work hard and it shows. I cannot help but admire that.
I’m inspired to think: the urban living concept has its flaws. It makes living, sometimes, way too easy. Makes many of us lazy, bored, unmotivated, lacking a telos. I’d rather live like Kate: having to be self-sufficient and not waiting for others to make things happen for oneself. I’m a city-dweller and always have been. I therefore know the pitfalls. People tend to think alike, hence are more manipulable. Seems one must be betrayed by the city setting and become alienated by that way of life and type of social setting to think for oneself and see the world the way it is. In other words, one must break from the herd, in a manner of speaking. Certainly, one must still make a living, but can still develop sovereignty of mind if one has the courage to do so regardless of peer pressure to think what one is told.
Perhaps I’m luckier than I feel. I’m optimistic. I sincerely believe life for all of us can be better. We must work hard to make it so. Not just for ourselves, but for our country. After all, it was built by hard work by all. Apathy is what could be our undoing as a people, and that is what the Libranos are counting on.
Keep up the good, hard work, Kate. You have inspired this Canadian. Not since Arnold Schwarzenegger has anyone so motivated me.
A heartfelt thanks!
Well, I meant that in the way the pace of life and overall economy is influenced in small towns.
The Dogs of Bore, Part Deux
Here we go again. Check out this offering from the aptly-named “Cerberus.” Don�t forget the comments, because some of them are a hoot. A note to Kate: it�s axiomatic that you can�t reason a person out of a position he wasn�t reasoned into, so kudos to you for taking this guy on, but I suspect you�re wasting your time.
rightthinkingpeople.blogspot.com
You should check out the crap being left at “Sigmund”s” site. It never fails – those without the gonads to take on the issues on their merits, resort to slagging me personally.
Ah, I just viewed the comments some people left like little brown lumps on the lawn following the “analysis” in the Sigmund site.
I wondered, WTF are they talking about? These people must be on drugs or something.
And that “Old Mother” is another of those lefties that only succeeds in earning my great disdain. She calls us commentors unintelligent! She says stuff about Kate that reminded me of the stuff the left has been saying for years about all non-left people like me and you that are simply malicious lies. Perhaps “Old Mother” is a pseudonym for Warren Kinsella? Or Carolyn “Hates Americans” Parrish? Or Hedy “Crosses are Burning” Fry? Perhaps Svend “Pro-Milosevic, Pro-Arafat, Pro-Saddam” Robinson? None of them would surprise me as taking on a pseudonym to do what they do.
It is people like this that have built the inferno of my bombardment within SDA of the left in general. Fecking moonies like Old Mother are only squirting high-octane gasoline on the fire and inspire me to continue to fight fire with fire without apology.
If the left wants to have a war of words with the majority of Canadians who are not leftist moonies, then we should fight back in kind using their own tactics against them without apology. They are the ones who want it. Give it back to them.
Kate, don’t let the bastards intimidate you. Continue fighting the honorable fight.
Clarity Through Bloody Hands
the media- and much of the political powers that be, label rural citizens as stupid, backward, uneducated and so on.
How does that play in the heartland? Well, these people who have never grown anything in their lives (save a few pot plants) or ha…