You can help a socialist avoid getting a real job;
I got an email today from Judy Rebick’s Rabble, begging for my spare change. It seems that they’re down on their luck after their dear leader broke with the Greens . That came on the heels of their internal rift over a labour dispute that lead to strikes, boycotts and spam attacks by their supporters.
Now, if I were a mean-spirited lefty, I'd drop a "good luck!" note in an envelope with no return address, write "donation" in big letters on the outside, and drop it in the mailbox with insufficient postage.
O Kate! That's nasty but I like it.
wonder how the send Rosie Grape Kool-Aid campaign went?
you'll never hear from the MSM.
The key to 'getting' direct mail campaigns is to mail back that special Return Postage Paid envelope with no donation.
The sender must pay the postage, without getting your donation to offset it, so you've just cost them 50 cents. And they really hate it too.
Judy and her lot do not know the meaning of shame, they're SHAMELESS BUMS.
It's not nice to rejoice in others' misery but in this case all I can say is that Judy Rebick and rabble's being down on their luck couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of rubbl...er, I mean, people.
This reminds me of the few times I got form letters from "Friends of the CBC," asking for donations to keep the CEEB alive. I usually wrote back to tell them I would not be supporting them, with chapter and verse of their most recent shameful examples of lib-left bias.
No money but an earful!
Even better than returning an empty envelope is filling it with junk mail, preferably enough to put it into the overweight category.
My favorite trick is to save junk mail for a week then send everything back in prepaid envelopes with somebody elses offers in them. Make sure you black out all info on the mail as it can be traced back.
I have not received any requests from org supporting non smoking for over a year, as I write and tell them my money is contaminated with second hand smoke, and could harm them.
The only thing I would send .50 to Judy for is a new hairdo.
And another 50 cents for 'stache removal.
Watch out ... they may end up getting a Canada Council grant! Or something from Industry Canada as a "High Tech" incubator in need of capital!
All the usual scams for the benefit of incompetent business operators who happen to support liberals.
"We do not receive tax funding"
The saddest, most tragic words ever uttered by the left.
S-niff.
Kate, I am shocked. Your suggestion would undermine our Direct Marketing industries, leading to the loss of millions of jobs held by our Most-Vulnerable-Canadians, namely those working for cash while collecting inadequate social benefits. What about the social workers who rely on having victims to service with social spending? How can they justify promotions and increased budgets without victims? What about those that supervise midnight basketball? What about food bank accountants? It takes five social activists to care for one victim, and victims need cash jobs to survive, to be able to afford necessities, like tailor-made smokes, beer, baking soda, tin foil, and lighters.
I shudder at the thought of what horrors you dish out to telemarketers. You frighten me.
"We do not receive tax funding"
That's like getting in between Rosie O'Donnell or Antonia Zerbias and the buffet line.
You be takin' your life in your hands.
Actually rabble gets taxpayer funding already. So we're all paying anyway.
Do a search
CIDA --> Oneworld --> rabble.ca
Judy Rebick has not been publisher of Rabble for some time now. They have received funding from Alternatives in the form of payment for providing "content" to Alternatives. So indirectly yes it may be argued that government money has found its way into Rabble coffers given that Alternatives receives a significant percentage of their budget from federal and provincial sources.
Why does everything always boil down to the almighty dollar???!!! (Unless of course you're not getting enough of the filthy, dirty, capitalist greenbacks).
I guess lefties are cheap bastards, or greedy. I don't ever recall Kate having a "pledge week" on her blog. Dare I ask what the money is for? Don't tell me the left has to pay its people to blog.
And don't forget to include a phoney cheque from whomever you'd like to use (or invent), like Amanda Hugnkiz. That's what I do with lefty postal begs.
"At rabble we are proud that we have provided free alternative independent
news and views for six years."
I can't stop laughing! Independent! Alternative!
Hardeharhar!
Boy, times are tough when your independant voice can't afford a 20 dollar a month hosting bill. What, no decent socialist will click on a google ad, or does their high and mighty morals force them to return the check from a raging capitalist company? I guess that's why so many leftists use free 'Blogger' accounts to support their whines.
It seems that they’re down on their luck after their dear leader broke with the Greens. That came on the heels of their internal rift over a labour dispute that lead to strikes, boycotts and spam attacks by their supporters.
No evidence, naturally, is offered to support any of this.
For there is, quite simply, none to offer.
rabble has for some time relied on donations from supporters, and has solicited those dollars both by e-mail and by snail mail.
Not much different from those sites which ask for donations via paypal, really (ahem).
Fantasists with a built-in bias towards schadenfreude might like to assume the site and its supporters are "down on their luck."
Those valuing a real alternative to the right-wing media so many treat with near-absolute credulity know otherwise, of course, and many of them will act accordingly.
How could CBC troll for donations given that we pay and pay and pay for their handy work as an arm of the LPC already?
Any donation made to CBC is the same as a donation to the Liberals. It's even obvious even listening to the spinning of what they call news.
It's gotta be illegal.
"Those valuing a real alternative to the right-wing media so many treat with near-absolute credulity know otherwise, of course, and many of them will act accordingly."
The meda is right-wing? Spoken like a true believer. Hilarious!
Still, all that aside, Stephen is right: there's nothing wrong with rabble.ca soliciting donations. As he pointed out, plenty of sites do - across the political spectrum.
As daffy as rabble.ca is, I must say I'd give them a donation long before I'd voluntarily part with one plug nickel for the CBC.
At rabble.ca, there's an earnest, unreconstructed pre-Stalinist faith in the Hugo Chavez types of this world. It's almost charming. Pathetic of course, but charming.
At CBC, it's all smugness and Toronto-as-the-centre-of-the-known-universe.* Spare me.
* That's not true either. We all know it's Niaagara-on-the-Lake. Or maybe the Okanagan Valley.
Stephen, Rabble.ca has long sucked on the public tit. By providing content to Alternatives/Oneworld they are paid with the tax dollars that have flowed into Alternatives coffers over the years. This arrangement has allowed them to maintain the fiction that they receive no direct government funding. Unless this arrangement with Alternatives has been cancelled in the last few weeks, they are still receiving our tax dollars.
The whole rabble crew are nothing but common panhandlers.....I've yet to see ine who makes a living in the private sector and stand on their own without some subsidy or other hand out.
Stephen - "That came on the heels of their internal rift over a labour dispute that lead to strikes, boycotts and spam attacks by their supporters."
2 other forums were in fact founded as a direct result of Rabble.ca having fired Audra Trower Williams or whatever her 3rd name is now. The other 2 were enmasse.ca, and bread n' roses. Interesting that enmasse is also suffering currently- seems that there are not enough leftists to support more than 1 forum, all have suffered from a lack of public participation.
Actually kate if they will pay the postage you send a brick with the envelope taped to the top of the box with their code on it. I know a few reformers who did that when the PC party didn't leave them alone. :)
mary T. I do that with credit card applications send them canadian tire flyers in the envelope, etc. Why recycle when you can mail it!
Free dominion does this regularly I don't have a problem with it and I doubt they get Govt $$$$$.
so what's their mailing address? i'd love to send them an empty envelope!
As for Blazingcatfur's most recent posting--I know very well about enmasse and bread & roses.
I simply maintain that there is no connection between the founding of those forums and the e-mail request for support sent out by rabble.
As for JJM, who finds it "hilarious" that some would consider the mainstream media to be right-leaning, I expect he'll have a "hilarious" time explaining why the Globe & Mail, National Post, most other CanWest papers, most talk radio, Global Television, and CTV are not "right-wing."
That the Toronto Star and the CBC support the Liberal Party is, of course, beside the point, since the Liberals are, according to the recent declarations of their own leader, a party of the centre-right.
As for Blazingcatfur's most recent posting--I know very well about enmasse and bread & roses.
I simply maintain that there is no connection between the founding of those forums and the e-mail request for support sent out by rabble.
As for JJM, who finds it "hilarious" that some would consider the mainstream media to be right-leaning, I expect he'll have a "hilarious" time explaining why the Globe & Mail, National Post, most other CanWest papers, most talk radio, Global Television, and CTV are not "right-wing."
That the Toronto Star and the CBC support the Liberal Party is, of course, beside the point, since the Liberals are, according to the recent declarations of their own leader, a party of the centre-right.