I saw this for the first time about 3 weeks ago but thanks for the chuckle again, Kate.
On a serious note, the soldier’s cavalier attitude does speak to the very good conditions in Iraq. He would not have made such statements if his unit was busy.
Say, is that shag carpeting on the cabbie’s dashboard? Reminds me of the Seventies…
You know, I don’t think the cabbie understood much.
So perhaps the soldier decided to have a little fun… why not? It must help immensely to have a sense of humor when you’re stuck in camel territory waiting for baddies to shoot at or to get shot at…
Yes and let’s not forget your SEATBELT & Drink your milk. LOL
Pick me up off the floor
I’ve also seen footage of soldiers at checkpoints reciting song lyrics and comedy routines, whilst the Iraqi drivers smile uncomprehendingly…
The shag carpeting is actually important. It shows
1. the young man expects to be in the taxi business for a while ie expects a fairly quiet life
2. has the spare cash to decorate his car.
The video also shows that he doesn’t fear this soldier who is armed to the teeth and backed up by a tremendous amount of firepower.
Exactly; US soldiers are never to be feared (when you’re their friend….).
Nice to see the soldiers hamming it up with the locals. It’s clever. It sends two messages. First, “We’re nice guys and we offer no threat. We can joke”. Second, if the taxi driver did happen to be a mole, it says, “Do your worst, we’re not afraid, and we’ll spot you the first shot ’cause we’re going to clean your clock once it’s over”. Good psy ops without even trying.
This is something you admire Kate? You know, for a time I thought you must have some level of intelligence. You have some success here. Or at least some notoriety. But more and more you are revealing yourself to be a kind of imbecile. A kind of snorting baboon. Is it because you are fond of guns and killing that you are titillated by the macho posturing of this heavily armed American soldier? My guess is that if and when he is eyeball to eyeball with an insurgent one of his last acts will be to wet his pants…
I dare say that might be one your first acts should you find yourself any closer to war than good ‘ol Saskatchewan. Do Canada a favour Kate. Shut down smalldeadanimals.
Daly . I am going to do you a favor and give a troll a little nibble . If Kate was to shut down SDA you would have nothing to do but sit in your mothers basement and play with your self,so you should be happy you have somewhere to go and make a jackass of yourself.
Troll=someone who disagrees with the majority view on a forum or website…
Man, Rob, you so-called free speech types dig the freedom just as long as it’s your flag being saluted,right.
Consider me one of Kate’s better angels. She has sacrificed integrity in favour of anything that will bring a cheap hit or any kind of notoriety. This particular bit of video, though, just reminded me that basically, her world view is nothing more complicated than idiotic.
Complicated, as in:
One of the candidates to become Canadian Chief of Defence Staff is an Iraq war veteran?
Complicated, as in:
One of the candidates to become Canadian Chief of Defence Staff is an 2004-Iraq veteran?
Daly, I just took a peek at your traffic stats. CLEAR!
What’s the matter Daly? Are you shocked that the soldier doesn’t fit the anti-military mind of the stereotypical soldier? Do you have other suggestion on coping mechanisms for the people who get up every day and put their lives on the line?
Reality bites, eh Daly?This isn’t about Kate, or your impression of Kate. This is about soldiers.
I loved this vid. I picture my brother ‘coping’ the same way in Nam.
“What’s [da] matter Daly? Are you shocked that [this] soldier doesn’t fit the anti-military mind of the stereotypical soldier?”
Actually, I think Daly was expecting something more like “South Vietnamese Colonel point-blank executes Viet-Cong spy” mixed with “Psychopath Marine Rapists a la ‘Redacted'”
Therefore, for Daly, this bit of “Mike Yon-style” unfiltered digital video cracks his assumptions and illusions a bit.
“titilated by macho posturing’ is a BAD thing, now?
John, that soldier and others like him is the only reason you’re at liberty to be a free range asshat.
“Wetting his pants”?!? First of all, the chances of being “eyeball to eyeball” with an insurgent are slim to none since the preferred M.O. of the insurgent is to plant a bomb in a market crowded with innocent civilians or detonate explosives at a funeral. If the “eyeball to eyeball” confrontation ever became reality, I’m putting my money on the soldier.
As for slagging the military for trying to rid the world of cowardly, murderous thugs ….. Daly is entitled to his opinion.
I am also entitled to an opinion. One which is no doubt shared by many. Daly’s posting is nothing more than verbal colon detoxification by a pathetic waste of oxygen who is best ignored.
Kate: your reference to traffic stats is interesting and telling. This is important to you. You are, I guess, suggesting there is a relationship between the number of folks who come to your site and the quality of what you are presenting and providing…
There may be. In your case, there isn’t. You are a reasonably competent writer, but not a good one. You’re not in the same league as I am in terms of writing Kate. Full stop. Clear.
But you attact millions of hits. Most of that is because there are millions of folks who are filled with anger and fear and resentment. Simple as that. So if you’re honest with yourself (which in your case is something that might happen in the future, or not…) you will see that you can be successful and not successful all at the same time.
The folks who come to read at my site are faithful. They come because I write well. Different deal, Kate…
And Kathy Shaidle: you’re just wrong about the freedom and asshat stuff. Asshat, mabye. But to link my freedom with what the trigger happy lad is doing in Iraq is just foolish and silly. Those are not new experiences for you…
John Daly? Isn’t he that fat, overweight, whiskey drinkin’, chain smoking golfer who wouldn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground….oh, yeah, that’s right, he would know a hole in the ground.
John, wow, you’re actually trying to sound intelligent these days! But enough said, we all know you’re simply trying to be a Warren Kinsella wannabe! Fat chance!
Well Johnny Maudlin, let’s see.
“Maudlin”:
1. Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly.
2. Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness.
Now thank Websters.
Mr. Daly:
One thing is certain. Your assertion that you write well is not neccessary sustained by a visit to your site. Frankly, the content seemed a tad boring. Pretty phraseology alone does not suffice.
G.K. Chesterston once wrote, “If something’s worth doing it’s worth doing badly” – but lordy man – the first part of his truism is essential to supporting the truth of the second part.
Mr. Daly:
One thing is certain. Your assertion that you write well is not neccessary sustained by a visit to your site. Frankly, the content seemed a tad boring. Pretty phraseology alone does not suffice.
G.K. Chesterston once wrote, “If something’s worth doing it’s worth doing badly” – but lordy man – the first part of his truism is essential to supporting the truth of the second part.
“John, that soldier and others like him is the only reason you’re at liberty to be a free range asshat”
LOL 🙂 “free range asshat” good one Kathy.
Free range “poltroon” is more like it.
John Daly wrote (to Kate): “You’re not in the same league as I am in terms of writing Kate.”
Hmmm …. he writes to Kate that she is not in the same league as him in writing Kate.
Is there another Kate in play here? Or am I also not in the same league as John, and therefore unable to understand the subtlety of his writing. Certainly it could not be the case that the basics of English grammar have escaped such a skilled wordsmith.
“You’re not in the same league as I am in terms of writing Kate. Full stop. Clear.”
Dud, my hamster writes better than you do, and with better grammar. But then, my hamster’s been dead for 27 years or so, so what does he know…
Thank you Kate for showing the human side of Military Operations. Yes folks there is some bravado here-backed up by being able to clean up on the muj anytime they unwisely act as the warriers they claim to be. It also shows our troops retaining a sense of humor-unlike the leftards who cannot understand the depth of intelligence required for humor. Thanks for telling your side without apologies-not that I think you need them. SDA is a great site, I read it everyday. We do not always agree on everything but I have always been compelled to reason out what I read here. Which is probably why the leftards hate you. Thought implies reasoning which implies the ability to discern right from wrong, a from b, something the liberals do not even agree exists.
Hmmm..
From http://juicystudio.com
Typical Fog Index Scores
Fog Index Resources
6 TV guides, The Bible, Mark Twain
8 Reader’s Digest
8 – 10 Most popular novels
10 Time, Newsweek
11 Wall Street Journal
14 The Times, The Guardian
15 – 20 Academic papers
Over 20 Only government sites can get away with this, because you can’t ignore them.
Over 30 The government is covering something up
SDA Gunning Fog Index: 8.82
Johnny Maudlin Gunning Fog Index: 7.74
Flesch Reading Ease
The higher the score, the easier it is to understand the document. Authors are encouraged to aim for a score of approximately 60 to 70.
SDA Flesch Reading Ease: 66.56
Johnny Maudlin Flesch Reading Ease: 74.16
Flesch-Kincaid grade level
SDA Flesch-Kincaid Grade: 5.75
Johnny Maudlin Flesch-Kincaid Grade: 4.61
I looked up “write” and “well” in the dictionary. They don’t seem to mean what you think they do…
really laughing my ass off, no abrevs necessary.
Well done, John Daly! Your superior logic crushes me, us and her.
Rem acu tetigisti, as we iggorant right-wing baboons say.
Baboons!!!!??? You’re not specist are you?
So I gave in and visited the site, thinking perhaps there could be some basis for this huge, ugly ego.
“Lots of short sentences. About how i feel. But do I really feel this way? Clouds. Lots and lots of clouds floating like my thoughts.”
And, johndaly, you might want to lose that “I dare say” phrase.
Christopher Rivers. That was brilliantly written. It made me float like a cloud. Or did it? You’re in a far better. League. Than the rest of us. I dare say.
Daly,
The people who flock here regularly are here because the rest of media is designed for ego-maniacal girly-men like you and yours.
Kate did a poll some time ago to see who was frequenting this site and I can tell you there are very few pikers. Most are highly intelligent, self reliant, well educated, and well employed.
You are going to lift your leg log higher if you want to piss with the big dogs.
Why would anyone bother to respond to anything I have written here unless what I have written here has caused them to think?
A- What I have written has caused them to think
B- They have nothing better to do
Kate: the comment about traffic is something you’ll think about. I’m sure. So that will be good. And folks, come and visit my site again, and anytime. I dare say you’ll find material there that you enjoy sometimes. Sometimes not.
What you won’t find is the kind of mindless or even intentional destructive cause that is made here. Once in awhile I get into that. But to get into that on a daily basis is just plain unhealthy. I think Kate ought to seek some kind of redemption. Either change the tone of what she’s presenting here or make the world a more positive place and shut ‘er down.
John Daly can’t be right-he’s smart great athlete and by god he smokes can’t be that piddling putz smearing your blog resposes/ naw he just missed the daily kos!
Re. Daly
A poster tells us he writes well, it must be true.
So giving the benefit of the doubt, I visit. What do I find? A long passage on, how should I put it, navel-gazing! Which is here: http://www.readthiswillya.blogspot.com/
John’s had 26,053 visitors since June 22, 2005, or roughly 814 a month. Kate’s had 8,490,211 visitors since February 18, 2004, or about 184,570 a month. Straighten your nose out, John. You won’t sound so anal.
OOOOHHHH! John Daly — I’m Thimking!!! My head hurts!!!
Wow! BANG! My cerebral cortex just exploded!
Don’t you love it: pompous ass comes here, slags the regulars, is shown the proverbial intellectual door, comes back in bragging that the sidewalk didn’t hurt his face when he was thrown onto it and begs for another fight.
Here: http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/reading_level.aspx
SDA Reading Level: high school
John Daly: elementary
Not to blow my own horn, but:
The JAGwire (12th Grade book learnin’, doctorate in Life): college (undergrad)
Warren Kinsella: junior high school
Dr. Dawg: high school
Canadian Cyndy: elementary
I’m sure there are more, but why embarrass them?
Now, Daly brought this on himself. This isn’t the Oxford Debating Society and blogs aren’t literature.
But he assured us that he “writes well”.
As long as you are in 6th Grade, sure. Some of us aim a bit higher.
John Daly:
People respond to what you’ve written because failure to do so graces your self-inflated claims with unmerited credibility. Stick that in your peace pipe and smoke it.
I have made clear the business of these statistics. You folks are misguided in a number of ways and that includes, apparently, your understanding of the merit of traffic. If Kate posts a picture of tits and ass her numbers will be fabulous. Don’t mean a thing. Negativity attracts lots of attention. S–t attracts flies. I am happy for the opportunity to make a very simple point here, repeatedly. Kate McMillan is creating a terrible cause in the world. She ought to stop. She is tolerating me and I guess I appreciate that in some way…
But the glorification of violence and the constant effort to demonize Muslims is lousy. The issue of writing is not really even close. Someone pointed out my poor grammar. OK. It does not get in the way really. Kate would not challenge my assertion about writing. She would agree that my creative skills are superior.
She and Shaidle don’t write. They are a clearinghouse for negative ideas.
Another quick point: Kate does not get readers. Neither does Shaidle. Neither of them are writers. Kate and Kathy get gawkers. And clickers. Gangsters. Lonely folks hanging on a street corner wishing it was the 50’s. Readers? If comic books are read, then Kate gets readers.
John Daly: when you are shortlisted for a Governor General’s award, you can brag about how good a writer you are compared to Kathy.
As it is, you write at a lower grade level than Kate and don’t see the connection between BRAGGING about “writing well”, and proving it by actually, you know, writing well.
All you seem to be fixated on is the fact that you apparently believe yourself to be happier, and therefore write happy thoughts, than Kate or Kathy.
My only question is: do you pay royalties to Al Franken for ripping off Stuart Smiley, or are you just ripping him off?
“…Kate McMillan’s website is a gathering place for mean-spirited angry mostly white men, and some manly women…”
You probably shouldn’t write stuff like this while posting pics like this on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/65381711@N00/2355357181/
The one sitting down could pass,but the one on the right should probably use some hormone therapy.
“Vengeance is mine,” saith the Lord (or the Universe, or Karma. Or whatever):
‘”Lots of short sentences. About how i feel. But do I really feel this way? Clouds. Lots and lots of clouds floating like my thoughts.”
…
Posted by: christopher rivers at April 17, 2008 4:41 PM’///
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Heh. A 60-yr. longitudinal study of an abbey traced, among other variables, the writing patterns of the nuns. The strongest link that showed up for ANY correlation was that those who wrote in short sentences early in their lives (and few or none later changed this pattern of expression) were far more likely to succumb to Alzheimer’s. Those who wrote compound-complex sentences apparently had more resources and fewer mental bottlenecks that were irreplaceable when blocked or slowed.
Those aren’t “clouds” you saw in there, Chris; those are called “tangles”.
Cdn. Sentinel;
IIRC, this was a Marine who was among those who were getting very bored by all the peace they had caused, and were hoping for more action. But by that time the few remaining AQ and ‘sergents in the area knew much better than to cross them. They tended to go see Allah at a ferocious 10-30:1 kill ratio, and even wannabe martyrs get tired of dragging away and quick-burying their buddies.
To quote myself from earlier:
“Actually, I think Daly was expecting something more like ‘South Vietnamese Colonel point-blank executes Viet-Cong spy’ mixed with ‘Psychopath Marine Rapists a la “Redacted”‘”[.]
Sure enough, three posts later:
“trigger happy lad”
Soldiers. With guns. In our cities. Canadian cities. I’m not making this up!
[The thinking is: Fear all soldiers! Their ultimate fantasy is to be Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings! “Redacted,” “Lions For Lambs,” “In The Valley of Elah”: these aren’t films, they’re documentaries! /sarc]
“One of the candidates to become Canadian Chief of Defence Staff is an 2004-Iraq veteran.”
How, in John Daly’s “complex world”, did that happen?
I saw this for the first time about 3 weeks ago but thanks for the chuckle again, Kate.
On a serious note, the soldier’s cavalier attitude does speak to the very good conditions in Iraq. He would not have made such statements if his unit was busy.
Say, is that shag carpeting on the cabbie’s dashboard? Reminds me of the Seventies…
You know, I don’t think the cabbie understood much.
So perhaps the soldier decided to have a little fun… why not? It must help immensely to have a sense of humor when you’re stuck in camel territory waiting for baddies to shoot at or to get shot at…
Yes and let’s not forget your SEATBELT & Drink your milk. LOL
Pick me up off the floor
I’ve also seen footage of soldiers at checkpoints reciting song lyrics and comedy routines, whilst the Iraqi drivers smile uncomprehendingly…
The shag carpeting is actually important. It shows
1. the young man expects to be in the taxi business for a while ie expects a fairly quiet life
2. has the spare cash to decorate his car.
The video also shows that he doesn’t fear this soldier who is armed to the teeth and backed up by a tremendous amount of firepower.
Exactly; US soldiers are never to be feared (when you’re their friend….).
Nice to see the soldiers hamming it up with the locals. It’s clever. It sends two messages. First, “We’re nice guys and we offer no threat. We can joke”. Second, if the taxi driver did happen to be a mole, it says, “Do your worst, we’re not afraid, and we’ll spot you the first shot ’cause we’re going to clean your clock once it’s over”. Good psy ops without even trying.
This is something you admire Kate? You know, for a time I thought you must have some level of intelligence. You have some success here. Or at least some notoriety. But more and more you are revealing yourself to be a kind of imbecile. A kind of snorting baboon. Is it because you are fond of guns and killing that you are titillated by the macho posturing of this heavily armed American soldier? My guess is that if and when he is eyeball to eyeball with an insurgent one of his last acts will be to wet his pants…
I dare say that might be one your first acts should you find yourself any closer to war than good ‘ol Saskatchewan. Do Canada a favour Kate. Shut down smalldeadanimals.
Daly . I am going to do you a favor and give a troll a little nibble . If Kate was to shut down SDA you would have nothing to do but sit in your mothers basement and play with your self,so you should be happy you have somewhere to go and make a jackass of yourself.
Troll=someone who disagrees with the majority view on a forum or website…
Man, Rob, you so-called free speech types dig the freedom just as long as it’s your flag being saluted,right.
Consider me one of Kate’s better angels. She has sacrificed integrity in favour of anything that will bring a cheap hit or any kind of notoriety. This particular bit of video, though, just reminded me that basically, her world view is nothing more complicated than idiotic.
Complicated, as in:
One of the candidates to become Canadian Chief of Defence Staff is an Iraq war veteran?
Complicated, as in:
One of the candidates to become Canadian Chief of Defence Staff is an 2004-Iraq veteran?
Daly, I just took a peek at your traffic stats.
CLEAR!
What’s the matter Daly? Are you shocked that the soldier doesn’t fit the anti-military mind of the stereotypical soldier? Do you have other suggestion on coping mechanisms for the people who get up every day and put their lives on the line?
Reality bites, eh Daly?This isn’t about Kate, or your impression of Kate. This is about soldiers.
I loved this vid. I picture my brother ‘coping’ the same way in Nam.
“What’s [da] matter Daly? Are you shocked that [this] soldier doesn’t fit the anti-military mind of the stereotypical soldier?”
Actually, I think Daly was expecting something more like “South Vietnamese Colonel point-blank executes Viet-Cong spy” mixed with “Psychopath Marine Rapists a la ‘Redacted'”
Therefore, for Daly, this bit of “Mike Yon-style” unfiltered digital video cracks his assumptions and illusions a bit.
“titilated by macho posturing’ is a BAD thing, now?
John, that soldier and others like him is the only reason you’re at liberty to be a free range asshat.
“Wetting his pants”?!? First of all, the chances of being “eyeball to eyeball” with an insurgent are slim to none since the preferred M.O. of the insurgent is to plant a bomb in a market crowded with innocent civilians or detonate explosives at a funeral. If the “eyeball to eyeball” confrontation ever became reality, I’m putting my money on the soldier.
As for slagging the military for trying to rid the world of cowardly, murderous thugs ….. Daly is entitled to his opinion.
I am also entitled to an opinion. One which is no doubt shared by many. Daly’s posting is nothing more than verbal colon detoxification by a pathetic waste of oxygen who is best ignored.
Kate: your reference to traffic stats is interesting and telling. This is important to you. You are, I guess, suggesting there is a relationship between the number of folks who come to your site and the quality of what you are presenting and providing…
There may be. In your case, there isn’t. You are a reasonably competent writer, but not a good one. You’re not in the same league as I am in terms of writing Kate. Full stop. Clear.
But you attact millions of hits. Most of that is because there are millions of folks who are filled with anger and fear and resentment. Simple as that. So if you’re honest with yourself (which in your case is something that might happen in the future, or not…) you will see that you can be successful and not successful all at the same time.
The folks who come to read at my site are faithful. They come because I write well. Different deal, Kate…
And Kathy Shaidle: you’re just wrong about the freedom and asshat stuff. Asshat, mabye. But to link my freedom with what the trigger happy lad is doing in Iraq is just foolish and silly. Those are not new experiences for you…
John Daly? Isn’t he that fat, overweight, whiskey drinkin’, chain smoking golfer who wouldn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground….oh, yeah, that’s right, he would know a hole in the ground.
John, wow, you’re actually trying to sound intelligent these days! But enough said, we all know you’re simply trying to be a Warren Kinsella wannabe! Fat chance!
Well Johnny Maudlin, let’s see.
“Maudlin”:
1. Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly.
2. Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness.
Now thank Websters.
Mr. Daly:
One thing is certain. Your assertion that you write well is not neccessary sustained by a visit to your site. Frankly, the content seemed a tad boring. Pretty phraseology alone does not suffice.
G.K. Chesterston once wrote, “If something’s worth doing it’s worth doing badly” – but lordy man – the first part of his truism is essential to supporting the truth of the second part.
Mr. Daly:
One thing is certain. Your assertion that you write well is not neccessary sustained by a visit to your site. Frankly, the content seemed a tad boring. Pretty phraseology alone does not suffice.
G.K. Chesterston once wrote, “If something’s worth doing it’s worth doing badly” – but lordy man – the first part of his truism is essential to supporting the truth of the second part.
“John, that soldier and others like him is the only reason you’re at liberty to be a free range asshat”
LOL 🙂 “free range asshat” good one Kathy.
Free range “poltroon” is more like it.
John Daly wrote (to Kate): “You’re not in the same league as I am in terms of writing Kate.”
Hmmm …. he writes to Kate that she is not in the same league as him in writing Kate.
Is there another Kate in play here? Or am I also not in the same league as John, and therefore unable to understand the subtlety of his writing. Certainly it could not be the case that the basics of English grammar have escaped such a skilled wordsmith.
“You’re not in the same league as I am in terms of writing Kate. Full stop. Clear.”
Dud, my hamster writes better than you do, and with better grammar. But then, my hamster’s been dead for 27 years or so, so what does he know…
Thank you Kate for showing the human side of Military Operations. Yes folks there is some bravado here-backed up by being able to clean up on the muj anytime they unwisely act as the warriers they claim to be. It also shows our troops retaining a sense of humor-unlike the leftards who cannot understand the depth of intelligence required for humor. Thanks for telling your side without apologies-not that I think you need them. SDA is a great site, I read it everyday. We do not always agree on everything but I have always been compelled to reason out what I read here. Which is probably why the leftards hate you. Thought implies reasoning which implies the ability to discern right from wrong, a from b, something the liberals do not even agree exists.
Hmmm..
From http://juicystudio.com
Typical Fog Index Scores
Fog Index Resources
6 TV guides, The Bible, Mark Twain
8 Reader’s Digest
8 – 10 Most popular novels
10 Time, Newsweek
11 Wall Street Journal
14 The Times, The Guardian
15 – 20 Academic papers
Over 20 Only government sites can get away with this, because you can’t ignore them.
Over 30 The government is covering something up
SDA Gunning Fog Index: 8.82
Johnny Maudlin Gunning Fog Index: 7.74
Flesch Reading Ease
The higher the score, the easier it is to understand the document. Authors are encouraged to aim for a score of approximately 60 to 70.
SDA Flesch Reading Ease: 66.56
Johnny Maudlin Flesch Reading Ease: 74.16
Flesch-Kincaid grade level
SDA Flesch-Kincaid Grade: 5.75
Johnny Maudlin Flesch-Kincaid Grade: 4.61
I looked up “write” and “well” in the dictionary. They don’t seem to mean what you think they do…
really laughing my ass off, no abrevs necessary.
Well done, John Daly! Your superior logic crushes me, us and her.
Rem acu tetigisti, as we iggorant right-wing baboons say.
Baboons!!!!??? You’re not specist are you?
So I gave in and visited the site, thinking perhaps there could be some basis for this huge, ugly ego.
“Lots of short sentences. About how i feel. But do I really feel this way? Clouds. Lots and lots of clouds floating like my thoughts.”
And, johndaly, you might want to lose that “I dare say” phrase.
Christopher Rivers. That was brilliantly written. It made me float like a cloud. Or did it? You’re in a far better. League. Than the rest of us. I dare say.
Daly,
The people who flock here regularly are here because the rest of media is designed for ego-maniacal girly-men like you and yours.
Kate did a poll some time ago to see who was frequenting this site and I can tell you there are very few pikers. Most are highly intelligent, self reliant, well educated, and well employed.
You are going to lift your leg log higher if you want to piss with the big dogs.
Why would anyone bother to respond to anything I have written here unless what I have written here has caused them to think?
A- What I have written has caused them to think
B- They have nothing better to do
Kate: the comment about traffic is something you’ll think about. I’m sure. So that will be good. And folks, come and visit my site again, and anytime. I dare say you’ll find material there that you enjoy sometimes. Sometimes not.
What you won’t find is the kind of mindless or even intentional destructive cause that is made here. Once in awhile I get into that. But to get into that on a daily basis is just plain unhealthy. I think Kate ought to seek some kind of redemption. Either change the tone of what she’s presenting here or make the world a more positive place and shut ‘er down.
John Daly can’t be right-he’s smart great athlete and by god he smokes can’t be that piddling putz smearing your blog resposes/ naw he just missed the daily kos!
Re. Daly
A poster tells us he writes well, it must be true.
So giving the benefit of the doubt, I visit. What do I find? A long passage on, how should I put it, navel-gazing! Which is here:
http://www.readthiswillya.blogspot.com/
John’s had 26,053 visitors since June 22, 2005, or roughly 814 a month. Kate’s had 8,490,211 visitors since February 18, 2004, or about 184,570 a month. Straighten your nose out, John. You won’t sound so anal.
OOOOHHHH! John Daly — I’m Thimking!!! My head hurts!!!
Wow! BANG! My cerebral cortex just exploded!
John Daly???
Isn’t he some fat-ass golfer?
Hey, you guys could use some snow. According to the Weather Network, over half of Ontario, most of Quebec, most of Newfoundland and Labrador and half of New Brunswick still have snow on the ground!
http://thejagwire.blogspot.com/2008/04/snow-cover-as-of-april-17-2008.html
Don’t you love it: pompous ass comes here, slags the regulars, is shown the proverbial intellectual door, comes back in bragging that the sidewalk didn’t hurt his face when he was thrown onto it and begs for another fight.
Here:
http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/reading_level.aspx
SDA Reading Level: high school
John Daly: elementary
Not to blow my own horn, but:
The JAGwire (12th Grade book learnin’, doctorate in Life): college (undergrad)
Warren Kinsella: junior high school
Dr. Dawg: high school
Canadian Cyndy: elementary
I’m sure there are more, but why embarrass them?
Now, Daly brought this on himself. This isn’t the Oxford Debating Society and blogs aren’t literature.
But he assured us that he “writes well”.
As long as you are in 6th Grade, sure. Some of us aim a bit higher.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder
Remind you of anyone?
John Daly:
People respond to what you’ve written because failure to do so graces your self-inflated claims with unmerited credibility. Stick that in your peace pipe and smoke it.
I have made clear the business of these statistics. You folks are misguided in a number of ways and that includes, apparently, your understanding of the merit of traffic. If Kate posts a picture of tits and ass her numbers will be fabulous. Don’t mean a thing. Negativity attracts lots of attention. S–t attracts flies. I am happy for the opportunity to make a very simple point here, repeatedly. Kate McMillan is creating a terrible cause in the world. She ought to stop. She is tolerating me and I guess I appreciate that in some way…
But the glorification of violence and the constant effort to demonize Muslims is lousy. The issue of writing is not really even close. Someone pointed out my poor grammar. OK. It does not get in the way really. Kate would not challenge my assertion about writing. She would agree that my creative skills are superior.
She and Shaidle don’t write. They are a clearinghouse for negative ideas.
Another quick point: Kate does not get readers. Neither does Shaidle. Neither of them are writers. Kate and Kathy get gawkers. And clickers. Gangsters. Lonely folks hanging on a street corner wishing it was the 50’s. Readers? If comic books are read, then Kate gets readers.
John Daly: when you are shortlisted for a Governor General’s award, you can brag about how good a writer you are compared to Kathy.
As it is, you write at a lower grade level than Kate and don’t see the connection between BRAGGING about “writing well”, and proving it by actually, you know, writing well.
All you seem to be fixated on is the fact that you apparently believe yourself to be happier, and therefore write happy thoughts, than Kate or Kathy.
My only question is: do you pay royalties to Al Franken for ripping off Stuart Smiley, or are you just ripping him off?
“…Kate McMillan’s website is a gathering place for mean-spirited angry mostly white men, and some manly women…”
You probably shouldn’t write stuff like this while posting pics like this on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/65381711@N00/2355357181/
The one sitting down could pass,but the one on the right should probably use some hormone therapy.
“Vengeance is mine,” saith the Lord (or the Universe, or Karma. Or whatever):
‘”Lots of short sentences. About how i feel. But do I really feel this way? Clouds. Lots and lots of clouds floating like my thoughts.”
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Posted by: christopher rivers at April 17, 2008 4:41 PM’///
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Heh. A 60-yr. longitudinal study of an abbey traced, among other variables, the writing patterns of the nuns. The strongest link that showed up for ANY correlation was that those who wrote in short sentences early in their lives (and few or none later changed this pattern of expression) were far more likely to succumb to Alzheimer’s. Those who wrote compound-complex sentences apparently had more resources and fewer mental bottlenecks that were irreplaceable when blocked or slowed.
Those aren’t “clouds” you saw in there, Chris; those are called “tangles”.
Cdn. Sentinel;
IIRC, this was a Marine who was among those who were getting very bored by all the peace they had caused, and were hoping for more action. But by that time the few remaining AQ and ‘sergents in the area knew much better than to cross them. They tended to go see Allah at a ferocious 10-30:1 kill ratio, and even wannabe martyrs get tired of dragging away and quick-burying their buddies.
To quote myself from earlier:
“Actually, I think Daly was expecting something more like ‘South Vietnamese Colonel point-blank executes Viet-Cong spy’ mixed with ‘Psychopath Marine Rapists a la “Redacted”‘”[.]
Sure enough, three posts later:
“trigger happy lad”
Soldiers. With guns. In our cities. Canadian cities. I’m not making this up!
[The thinking is: Fear all soldiers! Their ultimate fantasy is to be Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings! “Redacted,” “Lions For Lambs,” “In The Valley of Elah”: these aren’t films, they’re documentaries! /sarc]
“One of the candidates to become Canadian Chief of Defence Staff is an 2004-Iraq veteran.”
How, in John Daly’s “complex world”, did that happen?