“I do believe that it’s the first time in history that fire hasever melted steel.”

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Inspired by the Right Wing News selection for “The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes Of 2007”, I am opening the comments for your submissions for Obnoxious Quotes Of 2007: Canickstan Edition.
My nomination:

“All these workers living too fast for the easy money in the north. It’s not good for the economy.” – Stephane Dion

Let’s see what others you can come up with, and I’ll post the selections in a few days.
Update – Related!

135 Replies to ““I do believe that it’s the first time in history that fire hasever melted steel.””

  2. Word of advice for Garth Turner – 13 times you said there would be a federal election in 2007 – 13 times you were wrong. You should use that as a barometer for how right you are about everything else you talk about GT.

  4. Of course no Canuckistanian list of obnoxious quotes would be complete without an offering from “Canada’s premier blogger” Warren Kinsella.
    In an entry today, the Saskatchewan-based extremist Kate McMillan calls Chinese fishermen “assholes” and suggests that it is understandable when they are beaten.
    Apparently Warren has escaped the beatings not on his ethnicity, presumably because he lacks the skills to bait a hook.
    Syncro

  5. But since this is a tribunal affair, and not a case being brought by the Crown before a criminal court, Steyn’s freedom is hardly at stake.
    Yet. -anon.@law is cool

  7. A slur against Kate (who fortunately can take care of herself quite nicely) that W. Kinsella would presumably consider to be one of his wittier bon mots:
    Thus we see plenty of seething hatred on the Small Brain-dead Animal’s site…(Friday, December 28, 2007, 09:55 AM)
    It’s presumably a waste of time to suggest he a) look in the mirror and b) ask himself if his parents brought him up to refer to a lady in that way.

  8. DB
    Option b, provided:
    a. the question is asked repeatedly; and
    b. is reinforced with a suitably manipulated hockey stick.
    Cheers

  9. Warren lying awake at night;
    “I wish to he** that go*damn Internet had never been fu%@#ing invented — that damn broa* out there with a keyboard and a pail to sit on has more frig**ng followers and has more clout with Canadians than me — bigwig lawyer, getting big dollars from my connections with bigwig politicians !!! Arrrgggg !! I got my guy elected, with the media’s help, but that little bmmmm got her guy elected as well — despite the power-of-the-pen. Gota help Maurice Strong shut it down.”

  10. Please forgive me for going off topic for a moment. Delete if you wish, but in case any of you missed it this evening.
    “One of my predictions for 2008 was that the Global Warming fools will have to accept that they have been wrong and do the “Oh Shit!” back step. It started sooner than I thought. Tonight on the CBC National Peter Mansbridge stated that
    “there is evidence (and more to follow) that man made global warming may not be the only reason that ice is melting in the Arctic. Studies now show that it is a natural phenomenon that is cyclical in nature.”
    He did go on to mention this phenomenon is in conjunction with made-made causes, didn’t mention the percentage of contribution from either source.”

  11. Kate
    As far as the update goes….well Garth only missed May, June and July. In other words he was incorrect 9/9ths of the time or 100%. If one factors in the 3 months he made no predictions and based on his previous predictions……this man could have a perfect annual record.
    But I guess this is no surprise given his previous incarnation as a financial guru. As I understand it his record on that front is comparable.
    Syncro

  12. “I haven’t heard anyone say that the Taliban can be defeated, and nor do I believe that that’s possible … In fact, the approach of the U.S., and the West generally, but particularly the U.S. in Pakistan, to infuse massive military aid over the last number of years – strengthening the military dictatorship situation – has failed dramatically.”
    Taliban Jack Bin Layton… of course.

  14. “I do believe that it’s the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel.”
    I don’t suppose she’s been tempted to pull that horseshoe out of her ass, and question how it arrived in that shape. 😉

  16. I posted that last comment (above) before reading ‘real conservative’s questioning post and ‘bryceman’s’ response, concerning “melting steel”.
    I’ve been trying off and on to find those famous pics of railway lines that look like rollercoasters, after having been subjected to intense prairie grass fires. Truly mindbending…
    Blacksmiths all over the world have been rofl over this issue. 🙂

  17. For Canadians I nominate Suzuki, for the greatest number of obnoxiuos quotes, in fact he is one big, irritating obnoxious quote, after that Layton,Dion, Avi Lewis,Carolyn Parrish, and anyone the CBC seems to wheel in to interview.

  18. “In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country.” — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Columbia University —
    BWWWAHAHAHAAA!!!! — Yep, they’re called “Fertilizer!”

  19. I think it only right that after the winners are noted that they be invited to either defend or add to the quote.
    the CBCpravda reporters that read this blog can pass on the message directly to Dr.Bono Suzuki and Borat Dion.
    “Dat his not fair” Borat Dion 2006

  21. From the double-duty gal at the cbc..Claire Martin.Weathergirl/financial advisor/Income Trust specialist.Can’t remember her exact comments..I’m sure one of you here can remember her quote!
    And the NDP’s opening statements on more than a few occasions..’We apologize’ then not really apologizing,and owning their stupidity.

  22. From our friend,Albatros………
    “The story says the temp is rising and children are dying. So the inbred knuckle-walking cons come out to cheer each other on over their denial of the environmental facts, and exchange a self-congratulatory pat on the ass for excessive ignorance and stupidity. They remain clueless to the mechanisms of global warming and find comfort in groups that belittle the scientists that bring news that they find disagreeable to their uninformed biases.
    Let’s face it, dead children are ok for cons as long as the oil continues to flow. How odd that American cons hold the same ideology in Iraq; so long as the oil flows, what are a few dead foreign children.
    The fumes from the tar sands must be getting to what’s left of their con brains.”
    And from the same comments,the funniest from Zog. “Another drop kick for science through the goal posts of crazy.”

  23. Bush, et al:
    “Islam is a religion of peace.”
    The reporting in the Star that Aqsa Pervez’ “neck was compressed.”
    After explaining that Aqsa Pervez’ murder had nothing to do with Islam, the slimy Sheik Alaa El-Sayyed, imam of a Toronto mosque, helpfully explained:
    “We can not let culture supersede religion. If we stay away from the teachings of Islam, we will pay for it.”

  24. “Dey… dey did not… first. Dey did not distroy deir iconmy. Dey came with…. Norway has oil! -Stephane Dion in year end interview with Graham Richardson

  25. I couldn’t find the text for the quote I am thinking of anywhere, but I know they played it on the radio and it was likely in print..
    The one where Lorne Calvert states that a family of a 15 year old diabetic won’t be able to afford the kid’s drugs, but they’ll get a break on their (i’m assuming used and now PST free) Lexus under a sask party government

  26. Folks, is this the best that we can do? Where are our Rosies and our Roseanne Barrs? The Joy Behars and Bill Mahers of Canada? Have we no Canadian Ted Rall to quote? Oh sure, we can find stupidity out there but where is the real world class combination of stupidity and ugliness. It appears that Canada can’t even hate on a world class level.

  28. Golly, gee wiz, ET (at 5:45; http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/007748.html#c227150), I have no idea at all why someone might think that Harper is contemplating a constitutional amendment to recognize “nation” when the time is right. None whatsoever.
    That is, aside from him saying that he is contemplating a constitutional amendment to recognize “nation” when the time is right.
    Stephen Harper souhaite que la résolution qui reconnaît les Québécois comme une nation soit incluse dans la Constitution canadienne dès que « le terrain sera fertile ». Dans une entrevue exclusive accordée à La Presse, le premier ministre invite donc à se raviser ceux qui croyaient que cette résolution serait sans lendemain.
    Translation: Stephen Harper hopes the resolution recognizing Québecers form a nation will be incorporated in the Canadian constitution when “the timing is right.”
    (translation: http://www.daifallah.com/2007/12/two-solitudes.htm)
    Other than that, and the rest of what he says about what he’s thinking in terms of “going farther” in recognizing a special status for Quebec in the article, who knows what the man is thinking.
    Reading comprehension, ET. It’s your friend. Or could be if you would only let it.

  29. I left two comments on Garth’s blog but both have been removed. I just pointed out his stellar track record on predictions. No swearing,nothing.
    Guess you can’t point out that he’s an idiot.
    I have a screen capture though.

  30. “I’ve always maintained that there will come a point at which Stephen Harper will have to take a bullet. I mean, we’ll arrive at a time when the only way we can protect this country, its ideal and its history from a violent rape at the hands of the neo-con pigs is to take this man out.”
    – blgger Allan Varlaki, March 2007

  31. “””””Apparently Warren has escaped the beatings not on his ethnicity, presumably because he lacks the skills to bait a hook.”””””
    excellent there syncro:-))))))

  34. 2008 nominee: a tax cut is a waste: “For a lot of us, the five-per-cent GST will largely go unnoticed when we get change at the cash register. And that seems like an awful waste of $12 billion, which is the estimated annual cost to the federal treasury of the GST reduction.” Peter Hadekel in the Montreal Gazette

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