Well, I thought blogging would be slow this weekend - as it turned out I was unable to access my account at all from Red Deer.
So, a belated welcome to those Edmonton Journal and Ottawa Citizen readers who may have dropped by this weekend. If you're confused about where the "quotes" referenced are - you won't find them on the main page. They were written by readers who added comments in response to one or more of my posts. I can't tell you where to find them.
To explain - some in the journalism field still struggle with the concept of blogging - consquently, one will often find remarks attributed to "smalldeadanimals.com" or other blogs, that are more properly attributed to readers of the blog who may - or may not - share the views of the blog author. That may seem like a minor quibble, but it's a device sometimes used by those in the mainstream to undermine the credibility of blogs - and about as intellectually honest as quoting a caller to Cross Country Checkup or Charles Adler and attributing the views expressed to the host.
Anyway - I've got a thousand or so emails to sort through, and surfing to catch up on - dog shows and the news cycle don't mix well. Things will be back to normal tomorrow.
And thanks again to Sean and Stephen for helping out!
Posted by Kate at November 6, 2005 8:38 PM
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What? You were in Red Deer and didn't let me buy you a bunch of beer?
Posted by: Darcey at November 6, 2005 10:48 PMBeer? merely a metaphor, a figure of speech when almost certainly a gold medal winning British Columbia wine would be shared and enjoyed.
Probably Jackson Triggs, Sawmill Creek or Grey Monk..mmmm.TG
Posted by: TonyGuitar at November 7, 2005 3:35 AMI'd have sprung for coffee at Tim's! Red Deer's just over an hour from Chez Eskimo!
Posted by: Eskimo at November 7, 2005 7:30 AMjust glad you go to all the effort - your words are insightful.
Posted by: Rick at November 7, 2005 8:13 AM"You live near Red Deer?"
It's about an hour drive from Olds to Red Deer (less if your right foot is a bit heavy).
Posted by: Sean at November 7, 2005 11:46 AMReading Kinsella.. I shouldn't even honour him with a comment. Ten pages of mixed and interesting commentry. Then on the last a summary.
The summary of a spin doctor. The conclusions are not really a logical conclusion of everything touched on above.
He even suggests that his services may once again be required by the Libranos.
Sorry, I see some entertainment and some playing up to the blogging community, but I also see valid reasons for extreme caution.
Someone would like to spin again and get back to the *real* money. TG
Posted by: TonyGuitar at November 7, 2005 11:47 AMSen. Coleman: The UN Must Not Control the Internet
Senator Norm Coleman has words of warning in today’s Wall Street Journal, as a cartel of repressive dictatorships plans to seize control of the Internet’s root servers: Beware a ‘Digital Munich’.
It sounds like a Tom Clancy plot. An anonymous group of international technocrats holds secretive meetings in Geneva. Their cover story: devising a blueprint to help the developing world more fully participate in the digital revolution. Their real mission: strategizing to take over management of the Internet from the U.S. and enable the United Nations to dominate and politicize the World Wide Web. Does it sound too bizarre to be true? Regrettably, much of what emanates these days from the U.N. does.
The Internet faces a grave threat. We must defend it. We need to preserve this unprecedented communications and informational medium, which fosters freedom and enterprise. We can not allow the U.N. to control the Internet.
The threat is posed by the U.N.-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society taking place later this month in Tunisia. At the WSIS preparatory meeting weeks ago, it became apparent that the agenda had been transformed. Instead of discussing how to place $100 laptops in the hands of the world’s children, the delegates schemed to transfer Internet control into the hands of intrigue-plagued bureaucracies.
The low point of that planning session was the European Union’s shameful endorsement of a plan favored by China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Cuba that would terminate the historic U.S. role in Internet government oversight, relegate both private enterprise and non-governmental organizations to the sidelines, and place a U.N.-dominated group in charge of the Internet’s operation and future. The EU’s declaration was a “political coup,” according to London’s Guardian newspaper, which predicted that once the world’s governments awarded themselves control of the Internet, the U.S. would be able to do little but acquiesce.
I disagree. Such acquiescence would amount to appeasement. We cannot allow Tunis to become a digital Munich. >>>>>>>>> Via LGF
Posted by: maz2 at November 7, 2005 3:10 PMFNAC peddles a known liar
posted by Joe N. @ 1:33 PM
The French retailer FNAC, a book and music chain was heavily promoting the graphic novel of this twit who’s story, even as they printed it in their promotional magazine, hardly held water.
Beside their ignorance in referring to a Marine as un GI they ate up his whole fraudulent story and promoted his book. He avers that as a recruiting sergeant he was sent to hard duty in Iraq. He didn’t describe any actual dates or locations that could be verified, possibly because he was inventing the atrocities that he said he was involved in.
«News organizations worldwide published or broadcast Massey's claims without any corroboration and in most cases without investigation. Outside of the Marines, almost no one has seriously questioned whether Massey, a 12-year veteran who was honorably discharged, was telling the truth.
He wasn't.
Each of his claims is either demonstrably false or exaggerated - according to his fellow Marines, Massey's own admissions, and the five journalists who were embedded with Massey's unit, including a reporter and photographer from the Post-Dispatch and reporters from The Associated Press and The Wall Street Journal.»
So too did FNAC. Maybe after this week they (and others who buy into taking cheap shots) might think twice about the mass promotion of material that promotes conflicts and confusion. >>> more
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