46 Replies to “The NDP – Syntax You Can Vote For!”

  1. “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
    Clearly, this dipper is not the silent type.

  2. I have a good use for Helen’s degrees. I was about to start my fire pit last and discovered I didn’t have enough kindling.
    She honestly thinks that what she studied gave her an education?!?!?!?!?!?!?
    hahahahahahahahahahahaha
    GASP
    hahahahahahahaha
    oh my aching sides

  3. One may be the most educated person in the world, but if one doesn’t have any common sense, one is pretty well stupid.

  4. The schools she attended should be announced publicly.
    And denounced for giving an illiterate elitist 3 degrees.
    The NDP… home of the Space Cadets.

  5. She’s smarter because has a degree in social work from UBC?
    Like they say on the ground, “BFA? BFD.”

  6. LOL X 2!!!!
    Degrees in SOCIOLOGY and ANTHROPOLOGY??
    Well, whoop-de-doo!!
    On the other hand, I know who I’d like to represent me in the HOC: the Honourable Chuck Strahl, educated at the school of hard knocks. He’s the guy I’d want staring down the bullies.
    Take your university degrees and go home, Ms. Kormendy.

  7. Kormendy, with all her “education” doesn’t understand that you can’t fix “stupid”.

  8. Not all education is learned in a classroom. In my time here, and it’s been a long time, some of the brightest, most articulate people I’ve met have had little more than high school. Some of the dumbest (unworldly) had multiple degrees. Spent most of their lives sheltered in a classroom and knew little more than their narrow field of expertise.
    My grandfather had to quit school in grade 8 at the age of 13 to support his mum and siblings. Before he was 30, he had a successful accounting firm, a seat on the TSE, was Commodore of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, an 8 bedroom cottage at Lake Simcoe, was involved in numerous charities and raised a family.
    Education is a great tool. Where you get it matters not. How you use it is of paramount importance. Anyone who brags to me about how much better they are then me or anyone else because of their being comrade many letters can stuff their parchments where the sun don’t shine and take a sexual adventure in an extremely hot climate. That is just arrogance and near terminal insecurity.

  9. Horny Toad: “Too bad she failed english” — I noticed this too . . . the “educated” Dipper is not exactly articulate.

  10. Old Spice: Up the Burgee!! And here’s to self-educated, truly smart people.
    I’ve got two university degrees, which really mean f-all, except as pieces of paper that qualify me for certain jobs.
    Everything important I’ve learned has been in the years I’ve spent wandering the highways and biways of this planet. When I asked a university administrator who was giving me a rough time vis a vis a few credits I supposedly needed in order to take a post-grad degree in my early fifites, “Doesn’t my 35 years’ of life experience count for anything?” she gave me the figurative finger in the form a chilly silence.
    LOL!!!

  11. A degree in anthropology? I wonder what type. Some (but not all) departments of anthropology have been taken over by radical leftists dedicated to postmodernism and epistemological relativism.
    Some departments have even split into two, with one side for those who want to do science, and the other for those who want to do politics.

  12. Sociology, anthropology and social work and she calls herself educated?
    Pa-leeeeze!
    I always wonder about the conceits of humanities grads. Spending a couple of years loafing around universities doing nothing productive doesn’t make you smart.
    For that matter, take two high school grads:
    One goes to take their sociology degree and the other goes to trade school to be an electrician.
    The electrician spends (I’m guessing here) two years in school then goes off to do their apprenticeship (small pay but being paid is better than paying.) At the end (3 more years?) they’re making 80-100k a year. You need math for electrical work. It isn’t for half-wits. Speaking of which…
    The sociologist spends 4 years in university drinking and feeling smug about their brilliance while racking up 50k in student debt. They graduate to all those payments just to realize that there is no work for sociologists cause they have no skills and even if there were a place for sociologists with undergrad education, the market sure as hell doesn’t need 200,000 more of them a year. They eventually (after a year or so of unemployment) “lower” themselves to take that 30k a year call centre monkey job bugging the electrician at home.
    Now who’s stupid?

  13. Steve Wosniak, Steven Spielberg, Emile Zola, Karl Rove, Bill Gates, Abe Lincoln, Ted Turner, George Washington, Joyce Hall, Mark Twain, Thomas Edison, Leo Tolstoy, Christine Comaford,
    Andrew Carnegie, Carl Bernstein, Paul Allen, Yogi Berra, Bo Derek, Jack Kent Cook, Jim Carrey, Peter Jennings, Richard Branson. There are thousands more.
    Does she put herself above these people, none of whom finished university or college, many of whom didn’t finish high school and few who dropped out in elementary school.
    Has she created countless jobs for people the way Bill Gates, Thomas Edison and Joyce Hall did.
    Can she match Peter Jennings or Christine Comaford, neither of whom finished high school.
    Elitists like her, who lord it over others because of their degrees, are pitiful, stupid and creepy. What a twit.

  14. Ghost of Ed
    She mistakes education and intellegence. Given her subjects, I’d say that she has neither.
    Especially with current no-fail, every-excuse mentality of degree-factory universities, about 2/3rds of students have no business being there.

  15. BatB:
    I would have given you a chilly silence as well. Or worse.
    Like it or not, universities are about formal training. Those universities that give too much credit to “equivalent life experience” (life experience? What other type is there?) are generally not worth going to.

  16. Warwick
    “She mistakes education and intellegence. Given her subjects, I’d say that she has neither.”
    Precisely!

  17. And as usual there’s no mention of this “gaffe” on the big media sites whereas if if a Tory uttered such a thing it’d be a big story.

  18. “Not to say he isn’t in a formal way, I have three degrees.”
    Please write to the institutions and ask for a refund.
    A degree in social work and a masters in same – heh, ’nuff said.

  19. VanIslander ~ Perhaps that’s because journalistic standards have actually plunged to such abysmal depths that the agents of the MSM compound their egregious partisanism with respect to content with an actual inability to recognize the astonishing flaws in the form of Kormendy’s statements.
    It’s heartening, though, to see that the very cream of the NDP’s intellectual elite continues to rise to the call to public service.

  20. She was “taught” not “educated.” She “learned” but did not synthesize new knowledge. Where is the compassion for her fellow passengers on the bluemarble that she should have developed during her studies in the “social” sciences?
    Using one’s acquisition of degrees to belittle others does not demonstrate leadership or character.

  21. I wonder how much public spending was needed to earn those degrees. I wonder how much she has contributed in taxes. I wish we could see a “tax” balance sheet for everyone, now that would be interesting!

  22. Gus.
    Not only that. I’ll bet she never had a job that wasn’t supported by taxpayer dollars.

  23. The elitist left continue to add credence to the theory that education and stupidity are not mutually exclusive.

  24. “””””” Not only that. I’ll bet she never had a job that wasn’t supported by taxpayer dollars. “””””
    hahahahaha
    my exact thoughts

  25. Well, she may have collected three degrees, but I can’t see her getting that Nobel Prize for Literature that she’s been working on….
    Her fail English.

  26. rabbit: I had a three-year B.A. degree, which was totally adequate in the ’70s. I’d also done grade 13.
    Many years later, apparently, one was supposed to have a four-year degree. Why? I suspect that’s because grade 13 had been omitted and a four year degree was then the equivalent of grade 13 plus 3 years at university, which I already had, PLUS two more credits I’d picked up over the years.
    Add 35 years of life experience to completion of grade 13, a 3-year B.A., and two other university credits–all in the days before the Internet, which meant that plagiarism was almost non-existent, and I was actually overqualified for the degree I was looking to do.
    BTW, I was accepted at another university, and did exceptionally well–in the top 5% of my class.
    I hope that fills in the gaps for you!

  27. Maybe she’s another one of those NDP crazy-hay tokers!looks like Jack’s gonna lose another stoner in BC..story at Bourque.

  28. Taliban Jack Layton (NDP) asks Olivia, what’s pot for?
    “Another NDP candidate quits in B.C.”
    (cbc)

  29. There is a huge difference between education and schooling. She has a bunch of the latter and none of the former.

  30. “sociology” is simply a synonym for “mythological anthropology”. The latter was too many syllables for sociology students…

  31. They eventually (after a year or so of unemployment) “lower” themselves to take that 30k a year call centre monkey job bugging the electrician at home.
    Then they’re resentful and vindictive for the rest of their lives – unless they can get cushy government, NGO, “journalism” or “higher education” jobs.
    Explains a lot, eh?

  32. curious how the hundreds of verbal gaffs committed by dubya are given a free pass by the right wing cheering section.
    vote CPC, vote hypocrisy !!

  33. anilliteratibyanyothername:
    Just what in your twisted, leftist logic requires you to bring George Bush into a discussion about an NDP candidate who is, ahem, three degrees below zero?

  34. Back when I was studying engineering at U of Toronto, we used to joke:
    “Before skule, I wanted to be an injuneer. Now I are one.”
    But of course, there was also an English proficiency exam that you HAD to pass before you could graduate.
    And, as anyone who reads my posts here knows, I take pains to ensure my spelling, grammar, and syntax are correct. But then, my goal is to communicate with people, not just make air move.

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