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  2. It’s official: David Schreck is now an internet verb:
    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=schreck
    Schreck [shrek] verb (used with object) -ed, -ing
    1. The process by which a white male is viciously attacked for saying something perfectly reasonable and that that women and minorities say every day. It refers to a pundit in Canada who caused a national outrage when he suggested a female politician’s cleavage in the legislature was inappropriate, despite the fact that 62% of women polled by LinkedIn identified inappropriate attire as a workplace peeve.
    French: le Schreck (masc.) -Shrecké (past tense), que tu Schreck (Plus-que-Parfait)

    Did you hear that Larry Summers got canned as president of Harvard for saying boys and girls are somewhat different? Dude got totally Schrecked.

    The male candidate received a thorough Schrecking when he suggested women seek counselling before abortion, despite his female opponent saying the exact same thing.

    Obama doesn’t support gay marriage? Wow, if he were a white dude he’d totally get Schrecked.

    Sacre bleu! Mon chum été Schrecké par le Journal de Montréal à cause de critiqué les féministes!

  3. A conservative Conservative: MP Candice Hoeppner.
    …-
    “Tory MP who shot holes though Liberal long-gun registry reloads”
    “Candice Hoeppner slays Liberal politicians for a living.
    The second-term MP from Manitoba is the unlikely face of the Harper Conservatives’ efforts to kill the long-gun registry – and in her own small way she has helped deal a near-fatal blow to the Liberal Party of Canada.
    For that she was rewarded by Prime Minister Stephen Harper when he appointed her parliamentary secretary to the Public Safety Minister just after the May election.
    It means she’s not finished with the registry yet. The government bill to scrap it is expected to be introduced soon in the Commons, fulfilling a long-held Conservative promise to repeal the law if and when the party won a majority government.
    It will be Ms. Hoeppner’s job now to see it through to its death.
    She can hardly wait.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/

  4. Don Henley-My Thanksgiving
    http://tinyurl.com/6zo82aj
    So, Edmondson.
    You have an editing key that allows you to add new content to the urban dictionary and are citing your own recent addition.
    …viciously attacked/perfectly reasonable…
    Nice contrasting hyperbole you have in your rhetoric there, too bad you’re intellectually dishonest.
    Would you by any chance be a distant relative of Paul Joseph Goebbels?

  6. I was reminded of the novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird”, and then thought of the really fine Elmer Bernstein soundtrack for the movie. Here’s some of it:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t98LWNwUhI
    Beautiful music: along with so many blessings this day, something to be thankful for.
    A blessed Thanksgiving to everyone here.

  7. Emondson, be a peach and edit your new addition to the urban dictionary for accuracy would you?
    -“It refers to an NDP tout in Canada who caused a national outrage when he suggested a female politician’s cleavage in the legislature was inappropriate, despite the fact that the New Democratic Party (Shreck has long been an enthusiastic mouthpiece for) supporting Gay Pride parades in which the participants nance around with their tallywackers swinging in the breeze in full view of the general public, including children, and contrary to current public decency statutes on the books.”-
    Thanx in advance for being perfectly reasonable and do have a nice day, fella.

  8. Tonite,I am truly thankful for the firefighters,the pilots of the waterbombers,each and every person that has been fighting the fires here in SE Manitoba.Friday nite,I came home from work to an eerie red glow just west of our home…spent all wk-end packed,waiting for evac order.It really puts things in perspective,when the fires are raging all around the area..90km/hr winds..dense forest,and tinderbox dry conditions.The situation was really desperate,but tonite,we are still in our home,safe..and so grateful.Some of these ‘heroes’ have been going for days with little sleep,the waterbombers droned overhead all day…..but,tonite we will finally rest more easily.Thank-you to all who helped.

  9. Atlantic Jim (10:06)… that was an excellent read! It now graces my Favorites so I can laugh forever. No matter how stupid I ever get, I’ll know there’s far worse out there and somehow, somewhere, I can financialy take advantage of them!! Except, of course, they have no money.
    All the best… Jeff

  10. Fidge logic @10:45 – yeah, sort of abnormal. I guess that’s what happens when she’s given a book to read. I wonder why she’s off Obama. Must be a racist.
    Still Heather, though. “…Obama, who has taken on that bullied, inappropriately-touched-child look…” That’s the stuff, ms. Creepy (*shudder*).
    Neil Edmondson – it is a horrendous injustice, this micro-cleavage scandal, but you must try to pick up the pieces.

  12. Yeah, Atlantic Jim, thanks for that. Well-aimed mockery can be a powerful weapon.
    Oz (10:45): I must admit that I don’t understand your ad hominem attack on Neil Edmonson, who was entirely correct when he pointed out that white males can be excoriated for saying what women and minorities say every day.
    I’ve met more than a few women – none of whom are prudes in any sense – who think that displays of cleavage are fine in a social context, but inappropriate in a professional context. It’s not an inherently unreasonable POV just because it’s different than yours.

  13. Ozz my dear fellow, I’m not sure that I can accommodate your request. You see, Schreck and his BC Liberal pundit counterpart were on CKNW today and I was shocked – shocked! – when the female BC Liberal pundit brought irony and chutzpah to new levels by criticizing the revealing attire worn in the legislature by infamous NDP MLA Jenny Kwan.
    Said female Liberal pundit was of course the one who first raised a ruckus over Schreck’s comments in the first place, which is to say that any doubts over the veracity of the definition I have provided have been put to rest.
    There’s one set of rules for heterosexualist white males, and a far lower standard of conduct expected of the grievance cohorts, and that’s the story here. Partisanship over principle is penny wise and pound foolish in this spot.
    Schreck, who did his PhD on feminism before most of his largely (shurely large! – ed.) feminist critics were born, is getting right rump rogered by his own petard and that is payback enough for his decades of deleterious dystopianism.

  14. any doubts over the veracity of the definition I have provided have been put to rest.
    ~Edmondson
    What a crock, you wrote the definition yourself.
    Nevertheless, if we’re serious about basic equality and free expression, then he should have the same right as gays and women to comment on the appropriateness of a woman’s workplace attire without having to suffer the backlash he has thus far. The backlash has been way out of proportion to his comments.
    ~Neil Edmondson at October 9, 2011 3:12 AM
    October 8, 2011 David Shreck, Canadian Prude Tread
    I disagree.
    I’m serious about basic equality and free expression and I think people, myself included, have just as much right to exercise our free speech and vehemently disagree with Shreck’s opinion as Shreck has to offer his opinion in the first place.
    I’ll be the judge of whether or not my own speech is suitably proportionate or not, thank you very much.
    The NDP has been at the vanguard of inappropriate behaviour in our society, sexual and otherwise, and for him to pretend that he or his ilk now represent the opposite position of what they have been pushing for decades without acknowledging their previous position is disgusting.
    This is why I’ve got my wind up.
    The NDP and their foot soldiers like Schreck have been tearing down the moral norms in this country for decades and now pretend to be the guardians or metric of these same morals?
    I reject that.
    Until they openly confess their own history as champions of the reprobates in our society they cannot turn around and pose as the guardians of morality.
    I’m not defending Liberals, cleavage, or the pet peeves of office hens here.
    (I often work in Calgary oil companies and they are generally known for their conservatism)
    EBD,
    Do I have a problem with Edmondson writing an entry in the Urbandictionary and then citing his own entry as some sort of authority on how the word term “Borked” has been replaced with ‘Schrecked’?
    Yeah, I do.
    And then again simply because one Liberal agrees with himself and Schreck, Edmodson uses the term ‘veracity'(truth) to describe the definition he himself wrote and then foisted off as some other parties now accepted replacement for the term ‘Borked’?
    This new low in sophistry presented here by Edmondson needs an umbrella to keep ants from pissing on it.

  15. This guy is so far wrong he’s in an alternate Universe. None so blind that see only what they want to. The Baghdad Bob of America.
    Panic of the Plutocrats
    By PAUL KRUGMAN
    It remains to be seen whether the Occupy Wall Street protests will change America’s direction. Yet the protests have already elicited a remarkably hysterical reaction from Wall Street, the super-rich in general, and politicians and pundits who reliably serve the interests of the wealthiest hundredth of a percent.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/opinion/panic-of-the-plutocrats.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

  16. nice urban dictionary piece about Shreck, but she WASN’T dressed inappropriately, so it’s a little off.
    She’s a woman. She has boobs. Get over it already.

  17. Socialism’s natural end result: FAIL.
    “On every front the system has failed the people it was meant to serve.”
    …-
    “David Cameron’s ‘big bazooka’ idea leaves big questions unanswered”
    “Nils Pratley on finance: Merkel and Sarkozy say they’ve got a weapon to tackle the eurozone mess, but won’t say what it is. Investors are confused”
    …-
    “Greeks pay for economic crisis with their health”
    “Rising demand and cost-cutting put services at breaking point, while drug addiction, HIV and suicide rates increase”
    “It is 4am on the emergency ward of Evangelismos general hospital – the biggest in Greece – and the stream of patients is relentless. Dr Michalis Samarkos has not stopped working since he started his shift some 14 hours earlier, and he has been besieged by patients unable to afford the tests or the drugs they need.
    Many, like the unemployed diabetic man he has just examined, have gone without treatment for several days. “When you see a diabetic unable to afford his insulin you know he is going to die,” says Samarkos. “There is no infrastructure to help these people. On every front the system has failed the people it was meant to serve.”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/10/greece-economic-crisis-health

  19. Found: “Merkel and Sarkozy say they’ve got a weapon to tackle the eurozone mess,”.
    (see above)
    The choice: Mohammedanism? Socialism?
    Hobson’s Choice: “*If in this Case there be no other (as the Proverb is) then Hobson’s choice … which is, chuse whether you will have this or none.”
    …-
    “Dexia bank gets massive bailout”
    France, Belgium and Luxembourg are to bail out the troubled bank Dexia, following fears it could go bankrupt.
    The Belgian government will buy the bank’s division in Belgium for 4bn euros ($5.4bn; £3.4bn).
    And Luxembourg’s finance minister said a Qatari investment group was ready to buy the bank’s Luxembourg unit.
    The plan came after German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy agreed Europe’s crisis-hit banks needed to be recapitalised.”
    http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/
    *phrases.org

  20. Neo-AGW Progress Report.
    AGW/Red-Green is dead.
    Killed by reality.
    …-
    “Press the button now to secure your future, this opportunity won’t last!”
    (WUWT)
    Too late: Gonzo:
    “The economic slowdown is adding to carbon-permit supply as manufacturers and generators sell allowances not needed by idle factories and power plants.”
    …-
    “Green Europe Imperiled as Crisis Triggers Carbon Collapse”
    “(Updates with today’s carbon price in fifth paragraph.)
    Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) — The European sovereign debt crisis that’s spread from Greece to Italy and is roiling the region’s banks now has another potential victim: energy policy.
    European Union emission permits, needed by polluters from utilities to cement makers for each ton of the carbon dioxide they put in the atmosphere, slumped to their lowest price in 2 1/2 years on Oct 4. An auction of permits by Greece, trying to avoid the euro area’s first default, worsened a glut of the allowances, UBS AG analyst Per Lekander said last week.
    Lower carbon prices discourage European utilities including EON AG and GDF Suez SA from investing in wind farms and solar plants that don’t need permits. The industry needs to spend as much as 900 billion euros ($1.3 trillion) by 2020 to meet a target of getting 20 percent of power from renewable sources, Citigroup Inc. estimates. The economic slowdown is adding to carbon-permit supply as manufacturers and generators sell allowances not needed by idle factories and power plants.”
    http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-10/green-europe-imperiled-as-crisis-triggers-carbon-collapse.html

  23. *Of Boredom & The Demons, aka the Possessed.
    Dostoevsky: “in the name of equality, envy, and digestion.”
    Herein is Liberal socialist McGuinty’s socialism: the religion of the stomach, of envy, and equality.
    This was foreseen by the genius of the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevesky (1821-1881).
    …-
    “Of Boredom & The Demons, aka the Possessed.”
    “From this generation comes the sons who find themselves living
    in a world devoid of divine presence, i.e., in an existence characterized
    by a long and meaningless duration of time—a boring
    existence where they must struggle to free themselves from this
    boredom.
    Stepan Verkhovensky realizes rather late in life the
    source of the imbalance and laments: “I want to tell them about
    that perverted, stinking flunky who was the first to climb a ladder
    with scissors in hand to slash the divine image of the human ideal
    in the name of equality, envy, and digestion.”
    It is, however, too
    late. He has set the tone for his son, Peter Verkhovensky, and his
    surrogate sons, Nikolai Stavrogin and Alexei Kirilov. The pattern
    is established by the fathers and has been bequeathed to the sons.
    The bedeviling has begun.”
    http://www.nhinet.org/avramenko17-1&2.pdf
    “Bedeviled by Boredom: A Voegelinian
    Reading of Dostoevsky’s Possessed
    Richard G. Avramenko
    University of Wisconsin–Madison
    Introduction
    This article is about boredom. It does not concern boredom as
    a problem of analytical philosophy, nor does it concern boredom
    as a specific political problem. While boredom can, and often does,
    give rise to issues philosophical and political, here it is analyzed
    as a problem of human existence. Simply put, this article is concerned
    not only with how human existence becomes boring, but
    more importantly with how humans respond and cope with profound
    boredom. It is for precisely this reason that two so-called existential
    thinkers are invoked: Eric Voegelin (1901-1985) and
    Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881).”

  25. EBD at October 10, 2011 12:50 AM: “I’ve met more than a few women – none of whom are prudes in any sense – who think that displays of cleavage are fine in a social context, but inappropriate in a professional context. It’s not an inherently unreasonable POV just because it’s different than yours [Neil E.].”
    My point exactly, which I made at the Cleavage thread yesterday (also emphasizing the role model aspect for many of today’s clothing/modesty-challenged, young women)—with no takers, it seemed.
    Sammy, yes, horrible things happening can make one even more grateful for the blessings of life, especially those that seem mundane. Thank you for your post. God bless you, your family, and the other members of your community, and a very Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!

  26. (MND, yeah David Horowitz! And, yes, the “[b]lack cat with bad teeth . . . can use the words oligarchy and plutocracy” but he says “axed” instead of “asked”.
    I taught all of my students of a “certain ethnic group” the difference between “axed” and “asked”: quite apart from their meanings, one—“asked”—is quite difficult to actually say. But my students practised with me and were able to master the more difficult pronunciation. The soft racism of lower expectations sickens me.)

  28. lookout at October 10, 2011 12:50 PM
    EBD’s comment was directed at me.
    I don’t have a problem with someone expressing an opposing view if it is consistent with the views they have espoused in the past.
    The NDP, which Schreck is a mouthpiece for, has historically been a ratchet for radical immoral deleterious social change.
    Because the political pendulum is currently swinging to the right, the NDP is attempting for the time being to rebrand themselves, through their own actions and punditry from people like Schreck, as occupying moral positions which are centrist merely to consolidate their recent political gains.
    In view of the NDP history of Leftward progressive clicking in the direction of amorality/immorality, I reject this ratchet holding action as nothing more than cynical political opportunism.
    It is a mask, a farce, a pose.
    This is not who these people really are.
    They are bad faith actors.
    “Oceana has always been at war with Eastasia.”

  29. lookout: The black antisemite, who could use a nice Jewish dentist, also has trouble with ‘l’.
    He says, Waww (Wall) Street and meyins (millions)
    Oh, and thanks for the lovely music.

  30. Shoo! Get that pesky varmint. ShooEUrope’s socialist klingon.
    …-
    “The Financial Crisis Returns”
    “Europe’s Attention Shifts to Its Ailing Banks”
    “Sovereign bonds were once considered among the safest of all investments. Yet with Greece teetering and several more euro-zone countries on the watch list, the Continent’s banks are in trouble. The European Union is struggling to come up with an antidote.”
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,790865,00.html

  31. Oz, I altogether agree with you about the weasel NDPers!
    MND, you’re very welcome for the music. (My sister and I loved the movie and music so much, we bought the vinyl soundtrack many moons—as in decades!—ago.)

  32. O’narcissist: “the adoration of the crowd lifts his spirits.”
    …-
    “Canadians prefer Obama: survey
    If Canadians could vote in the U.S., President Barack Obama would snag a second term in the White House in a cakewalk, a new poll indicates.”
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/
    …-
    “Aimless Obama walks alone”
    “The reports are not good, disturbing even. I have heard basically the same story four times in the last 10 days, and the people doing the talking are in New York and Washington and are spread across the political spectrum.
    The gist is this: President Obama has become a lone wolf, a stranger to his own government. He talks mostly, and sometimes only, to friend and adviser Valerie Jarrett and to David Axelrod, his political strategist.
    Everybody else, including members of his Cabinet, have little face time with him except for brief meetings that serve as photo ops. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner both have complained, according to people who have talked to them, that they are shut out of important decisions.
    “If he cracked a single smile at the hour-plus event, I missed it. He seems happy only on the campaign trail, where the adoration of the crowd lifts his spirits.”
    http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/aimless_obama_walks_alone_OUgoMTkORRJioLl7B6ZYmN

  33. If the media is determined to analogize the Occupy Wall Street protesters to the TEA Party, the let me be the first to coin the term and name said protesters the KOOL-AID Party.
    Krazy Obamunists Out Lazing-Around Instead of Doing

  36. @ wallyj, the fellow in the video has been well brainwashed and the makings of a future Chekist.

  37. foobert @ 12:42 a.m.:
    The “protesters” don’t have the intelligence or the organizational capabilities to occupy Sesame Street.

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