(Actually, I think "my editor" is suffering a psychotic break.)
From the unfortunately titled "Students getting the message across"
Posted By SUN MEDIA
Posted 3 hours ago
They're designed to scare off Canada not global warming experts. geese in Centennial Park provedThey're not in tight with David so realistic it prompted a police Suzuki.
takedown. And many probably don't have
City hall staff saw the animal Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" cutouts advertised and, hoping among their DVD collection. they might help reduce scat in
But that doesn't mean the students at Kate S. Durdan elementary school don't understand the importance of environmental sustainability.
Quite the opposite, actually.
h/t Maz2
Update - "flood has become forecaster, little Alf more Warkentin, than a gimmick." is now 8 15 hours old and counting....
Wow, that looks like word salad. Hope it was organic.
Bad meds.
More:
"The symbolic campaign emerged. A jogger out for a run began two years ago in Sydney, came across the cutouts and was Australia. The team effort so startled she ran to a construction included 2.2 million homes and site. There she told a worker businesses. It resulted in a 10.2 a coyote had "barked" at her and per cent reduction in energy was afraid it would give chase, consumption. That's the equivalent McCallum said.
of taking 48,000 cars off the road for one year. "
I'd like to get the story behind this:
Diversity co-ordinator: Why do you feel qualified for this night desk editor job after a career as a night watchmen in Ouagadougu, Mr. Yaméogo?
Mr. Yaméogo: I...am...newspaper...
Diversity co-ordinator: You start Monday.
WTF. The most garbled bunch of gibberish I've ever seen. Was this actually published or is it some sort of sick editorial joke?
And the print media wonders why it's dying.
Did that grade one class write this article or is it for comic releif?
And it doesn't improve further into the article either, did they mix up two completely different stories? New way to editorialize efficiently? Just cut and paste, it's all in green hues anyways...blur.
They've managed to paste one story over another. I have no idea how. What's astonishing is that no one has noticed yet.
They need a comments section!
Bwahahahaha. Can anybody confirm if that actually made it to print?
Possibly related: The Eater of Meaning.
> Actually, I think "my editor" is
> suffering a psychotic break
That or Norm Spector is writing for The Observer now.
The collective powering down is meant to demonstrate the strength many individuals can the waterfront park, spent $60 on a pair last summer.
Collective - how appropriate. Note to editors: The last thing you want to power down is the grammar checker; it really is your friend.
Natedawg, you've solved the riddle of what happened to the article posted by Kate above!
Must have been edited through the 'eater of meaning' machine, or in other words, just another newspaper article.
"They've managed to paste one story over another."
Either that, or they plagiarized the Winnipeg Free Press.
"police Suzuki" says it all, doesn't it? As in, I'm gonna go all Police Suzuki on yah if you don't shut your damn lights off NOW!
They must have had all of the lights off as a "practice for tonight" when they edited this one.
Cal
Doubleplus ungood!
"New" has found a new job!
"the animal Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth"
truer words never spoken.
Looks like Heather Mallick got a job as an editor.
Police Suzuki! Japanese punkabilly band, I have all their albums
Green y goes Wobbl y.
No edting.
Bonus: "The right to offend the easily offended*"
+ Bonus bonus flom Dim Sum Mao Stlong:
*"China and Tibet
Rejoice, damn you"
Prus; Mo Mao Stlong:
*"One billion souls to save - Christianity in China is booming"
...-
George Marshall:
"Earth Hour: Turning out the lights plays into the hands of our critics
Darkness evokes feelings of danger, decay and death. So why use such imagery to highlight our cause?"
"Sounds great. However, let's deal with one assumption first: this will not actually reduce any emissions."
"So it is hard to think of any image more destructive to our cause than turning off lights. The metaphors of darkness are overwhelmingly negative: danger, decay, and death. We see the dark ages as a time of brutality."
urlm.in/bzon
(*MSM)
(Edited c/p link came from Tim Blair's blog: Roundup!
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/).
Inside the fluff/eyecandy of Earth Hour is the diabolical scheme/fraud of Strong-Goreacle-Hansen-Dionky-Suzuki-UNMoon, et al.
The New World Order; UN Uber Alles; the Communist Internationale.
Canadian Maurice Strong* (Hi! I'm Bob Rae's Uncle) is a criminal, an evil genius.
...-
"The trillion-dollar UN climate plan
A United Nations document on "climate change" that will be distributed to a major environmental conclave next week envisions a huge reordering of the world economy, likely involving trillions of dollars in wealth transfer, millions of job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies and complicated payments for greenhouse gas abatement schemes and carbon taxes -- all under the supervision of the world body.
Those and other results are blandly discussed in a discreetly worded United Nations "information note" on potential consequences of the measures that industrialized countries will likely have to take to implement the Copenhagen Accord, the successor to the Kyoto Treaty, after it is negotiated and signed by December, 2009. The Obama administration has said it supports the treaty process if, in the words of a U. S. State Department spokesman, it can come up with an "effective framework" for dealing with global warming.
The 16-page note, obtained by Fox News, will be distributed to participants at a mammoth negotiating session that starts on March 29 in Bonn, Germany, the first of three sessions intended to hammer out the actual commitments involved in the new deal."
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=1437445
*"Isn't the only hope for the planet that the
industrialized civilizations collapse?
Isn't it our responsiblity to bring that about?"
- Maurice Strong,
founder of the UN Environment Programme"
(greenagenda)
Some reader cautions guessing language fifth grade writer in "New Canadian" translated to the people often use of Google similarly Babblefish.
http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2009/Mar/Week3/15241623.jpg
Prince of Moonbats.
Maz2 - purpose of Earth Hour is not to save diddly squat, but rather to demonstrate political power. If enough sheeple follow get with the program, the architects demonstrate their influence over the populace - so pay attention politicians! (Chinese commies, and Euroweenies relax, you're in the bag already, no need to dim the lights or put a cork in the smokestack). Do the sheeple see they are being manipulated? Or do they actually think they are accomplishing something? All the more reason to defy the likes of WWF and Uncle Mo by doing, as Kate suggest, exactly the opposite of what they propose.
We need a graphic similar to the Islamic salute posted here earlier today - one that directs itself to the WWF, Dr. Fruitfly, the Librano UN-aparachi, Uncle Mo, and the rest of those that have decided for us how we should live - because they know how to conduct our lives better than we - because they are better people. Which is arrogance in the extreme.
I am firing up the gas grill in honor of Earth hour, and am going to feed my family western Canadian beef. As far as I recall, said supplies were purchased by yours truly with funds earned through some darn hard work (no social injustice occured in the production of this dinner). Thanks you folks out there in Alberta for the gas and the cow. Yum.
Enjoy your vegan noodles in the dark, Uncle Mo.
This article gives me renewed hope. I can resurrect my dream of becoming a syndicated writer.
This article gives me renewed hope. I am resurrecting my dream of becoming a syndicated writer.
Bad meds.
More likely off meds.
A new age Kerouac wannabe perhaps.
What? What?
Life used to be so simple. In grade three teach them enough so they could fill out the forms when denouncing their parents to the people's militia for anti-party sabotage. Now it's never ending drivel about global warming and junior police Suzuki.
Shaken, yes, the people do believe they are doing something useful. My wife believes so, my daughter believes so, and there will be some friction when I turn on all the lights, self-clean the oven, run the clothes drier, and idle the SUV with the headlights on high-beam.
Calgary has the distinction of being the only major Canuckistani city to actually increase it's consumption of electricity last 'Mirth Hour', and I hope to continue the proud tradition.
The above notwithstanding, I support the reduction of night-time lights in cities in order to increase the efficacy of earth based telescopes. (Except during Mirth Hour, of course.)
O snubs his nOse at EH. O is "taking a pass" on EH's parade.
Can't be. Time will tell. Pending until darkness falls on WashDC.
...-
"Why Won't Obama Turn Down His Lights for EarthHour?
The Obama Administration is apparently taking a pass on a major opportunity to lead Americans to confront climate change."
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/03/why-wont-obama.html
The most coherent line in the entire effort at word juggling was from a Grade 3 student.
Well done Ella!
What do you call someone who creates something like that (other than "stoned")?
I mean writer obviously does not apply since it involves a skill set this person obviously lacks. Assembler? Word assembler?
Sominkg to mcuh geern.
Sounds like REALLY heavy drugs!
Goreacle celebrates Blizzard Hours.
Goreacle "knocked out power" and the heat, the lights, the shebang.
...-
"Storm piles 70 centimetres of snow on Kansas
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A storm has buried parts of Kansas in about 70 centimetres of snow and knocked out power to at least 17,000 homes and businesses.
The same storm also dumped heavy snow on parts of Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle.
The National Weather Service says the heaviest snow in Kansas is about 70 centimetres around the Pratt area.
Other areas of Kansas are reporting snow drifts almost two metres high.
Some areas are dealing with freezing rain that has coated power lines and trees with ice up to 2.5 centimetres thick."
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It looks to me as if someone cut and pasted across two columns.
Oh good, I'm not the only one who couldn't make out the article. I figured I either had a virus or I'd have to give up beer.
Best reconstruction I can do in the available time:
Story 1
designed to scare off Canada geese in Centennial Park proved so realistic it prompted a police takedown. City hall staff saw the animal cutouts advertised and, hoping they might help reduce scat in
Story 2
They're not global warming experts. They're not in tight with David Suzuki. And many probably don't have Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" among their DVD collection. But that doesn't mean the students at Kate S. Durdan elementary school don't understand the importance of environmental sustainability.
Quite the opposite, actually.
Hey, with all of the job cuts in the print media with so many editors gone, their first line of defense against the sheer idiocy of their worker ants that would ruin the product completely, this is what you get.
- Or - the newsroom is under siege by yet to be revealed masked men and it's a cry for help.
- Or - their employee drug policy wasn't implemented.
- Or - they are just plain idiots.
So many questions, so few answers.
I expect they will start offering human sacrifices to the Earth god, this pseudo-religion so hates mankind . I mean heck. Most who follow the false prophets of climate change are anti-human with extermination gleaming in their eye’s against the blasphemers of their god. Against Mother Earth the holy planet. Burnt offerings to their god of the elements. Meanwhile I will enjoy lots of broadband room while they make penance to dirt. By the way where is the Obama? Him, who would lower the waters & heal the Earth?
I wonder how many tree’s they will weep for today?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlDlWveHJ04
JMO
For those people who still deny the fact of evolution: proof, proof I tell you, that proof-readers have become extinct.
Or else they all got raptured into Heaven while the reporters were on coffee break.
Texas Canuck: Don't do anything foolish.
Looks to me like drugs were involved.....
Eukardios, I think story 1 and story 2 are just as meaningful together.
POTUS without the TOTUS.
Geez, I can't make it any clearer than that! Do I have to darw matikpincuture?
It's a cry for help I tell you. YODA is calling. He is held captive in the police Suzuki by the coyote geese. Either that or it is Stage one of the Revolt of the Machines.
I think they drank the water straight out of the St. Clair -- probably downstream of another chemical spill.
On the plus side, this had me laughing harder than I have in days. Much better than what most "humourists" laboriously produce.
We have a large number of scatting Canadian geese all over the place. I never thought of using Al Gore cut outs to reduce their carbon output. Thank you, Canada! To paraphrase Homer Simpson, Canada is both the source & the solution to Canadian geese scat problems.