Canada needs more Group Actions .

Dion , at his Calgary town hall ramblefest in January .

Kate, how could we have anymore obnoxious quotes,
we are Canadian?

Kate - I am quite astonished that you would start the New Year off by misquoting Mr. Dion. He didn't say that. What he said was "All dese workers livin too fast for da izzy money in da nort. Izz not gut for da e-con-om-eee."

Prime Minister Stephen Harper: "I met the Dalai Lama in my office but I meet everyone in my office. I don't know why I would sneak off to a hotel room just to meet the Dalai Lama. You know, he's not a call girl."

...nor is he a jelly bean.

All that idiotic ranting from AL GORE this wacko is completly unglued and this is the jerk who wont listen to reason

I should have known Rosie's "melting steel" tirade on the View was only the tip of the iceberg.

Reading those remarks make me feel like I've just waded through a cesspool of stupidity, gotta go take a shower. :-(

... Nor are you a functioning member of society, lberia. Is that the best you can come up with against Evil Stevie? Come on, I'm sure the CBC invented some better quotes from him.

That list provided in the link is truly scary. The good news? Most people know the loony left are, well, loony.

“The people of Pakistan need to know that we’re going to stand with them against horrific violence such as this.”

Jack bin Layton

Sure Jack....just like you stood with the Americans after the horrific violence of 9-11.

Taliban Jack, talking about BSE: “Another important issue is SARS. I was just talking to a cattle producer today who said the situation is worse now than when we were in the middle of SARS.”

From mr lberia himself.

Migrant workers aren't really white, so they need to be treated differently: Take the seats out of a minivan and shove about 20 of them in because seatbelt rules don't apply to non white foreigners (like it's done in BC); make them work more than 40 hours per week without overtime pay because labour regulations don't apply to non white foreigners(3w.canpay.com/manitoba.html); then, blame unions for interfering in how the plantation is being run. Pre-emptive floggings would have put a stop to this travesty

14) "Impeach the President and the Vice President, they are traitors to America, and so are all of their supporters. Impeach! Anyone in congress who refuses to save our union from these traitors by doing nothing needs to be recalled." -- Roseanne Barr

And here I thought she supported the American troops. This woman is so stupid; she is too stupid to know it.

My nomination for most obnoxious quote of 2007:

"I write this public response to you because I believe that by its inaccuracy, innuendo, exaggeration and expressed malice towards hundreds of Canadian journalists you risk damaging not just your target, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, but also public faith in our political process."

-- John Cruikshank of the CBC, i.e., the institution whose inaccuracy, innuendo, exaggeration and expressed malice towards millions of non-Liberal-voting Canadians continues to destroy public faith in the profession of journalism. (Cruikshank issued the statement after having "reviewed" the Conservatives' pre-Christmas fundraising letter to their own constituents.)

Without going through reams of records, this one comes to mind:

" Mr. Speaker, last evening I was in the House to raise a question on behalf of my constituents. At that time, I saw the member for Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam with an open laptop on his desk and on the screen was an image of a scantily clad woman."

"Hon." MP for London-Fanshawe, Irene Mathyssen.

Note lberia, pretending he doesn't understand what Harper meant. Typical behaviour from the likes of him, he probably also pretends Bush said Mandela is dead. Playing dumb sure comes naturally on beria's side of the political spectrum.

Actually, I know Roseanne Barr never supported the troops, I was just being facetious....just in case anyone thought I was registering on the Stupid Meter.

A few of the people quoted need to bend over and be paddled by a long line of so-called' idiots in the US military; a lot of pain and humility would do them good.

lberia - please help me out; I don't understand the reasoning behind your selection. To my understanding, the agenda is to provide obnoxious quotes.
By this term (obnoxious) I understand that the statement must include a certain level of ignorance, as well as arrogance and even, insults.

Mr. Harper was replying to the Liberal/NDP objections to his meeting the Dalai Lama on official or government grounds, ie, in his office. He was, quite correctly in my view, showing that THEIR questions and complaints were obnoxious.

Could you explain, therefore, why you suggested this quote? Thanks.

"It's a noble bird because it has good family values. They stay together for 30 years," Ignatieff said Thursday outside a Liberal caucus retreat in the Newfoundland capital.
"They lay one egg (each year). They put their excrement in one place. They hide their excrement. ... They flap their wings very hard and they work like hell.

"This seems to me a symbol for what our party should be."

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Irene Mathyssen; It was soft porn, Playboy kinda stuff. I know wat I saw and it is demeaning to womyn and..............

"The long, tiring, unproductive era of bickering between the provincial and federal governments is over." -- John Flaherty

“McGuinty seems to prefer to become the small man of Confederation.” -- Peter Van Loan

[And I like Van Loan, but throwing out direct personal insults is no way to govern. That had a 'beer and popcorn' obnoxiousness to it.]

"without my glasses I cant tell a horses derrier from an Alberta Tory" _Micheal Enright -CBCpravda journalist and non partisan type.

What's more incredible; that Harper is tied with Dion, the carrot, or that Harper has blown the environmental file twice in two years, despite the Liberal record?

Do yourselves a favour and find the CRAP a new leader before Dion humiliates the Portly Minister in the general election.

"I haven't heard anyone say that the Taliban can be defeated, and nor do I believe that that's possible"

-Jack Layton

"This prime minister has been more accessible, gives greater media scrums and provides deeper content than any prime minister has in the last 10 to 12 years" -- Sandra Buckler

"Small Dead Animals doesn't speak for the people of Saskatchewan" - Forlorne Calvert - 2007 (RIP)

@ 3:25 MST the score is

Liberals -3
CPC - 3
NDP - 3
Rosie/Rosanne -2

December Hansard is pretty productive hunting ground.

Hon. Jack Layton (Toronto—Danforth, NDP)in the HOC December 6, 2007:
"Mr. Speaker, what we are seeing is the same smoke and mirrors game that gets played by the Bush administration. It is exactly what we are seeing here and the big focus is on other countries. Let us focus on other countries and hope that nobody notices that our government here is permitting the biggest polluters to continue to pollute.

The Prime Minister likes to say there are reductions for the biggest industrial sectors, but these reductions, so-called, allow them to pollute more, a lot more, and the rest of the world knows it. That is why they are not taking Canada seriously.

Why is he trying to undermine international negotiations?"

We have to focus more on rebuilding as opposed to combat...any left wing lunatic mouthpiece.

"If they accept my homerun record with an asterisk I will boycott the Hall of Fame" Barry the "Juice" Bonds.

Harper signals his desire to go even further than the recognition of "nation". A commentary suggests at least more special status that singles out Quebec and implies constitutional change, and the media, other than the interview in La Presse, ignore it.

"Je veux assurer les Québécois et les autres que nous n’avons pas oublié cette motion. Nous reconnaissons qu’on devra faire plus pour vraiment continuer dans cette voie positive. La population du Québec cherche une solution, comme je dis, nationaliste, et le reste du pays veut une solution qui peut garder un Québec fort au sein du Canada. C’est la raison pour laquelle je n’ai pas l’intention d’oublier cette motion. J’ai l’intention de continuer à faire des choses, étape par étape, sur le terrain pour assurer cet avenir." -- Stephen Harper

Danny Whine for Wine Williams before accepting the payola from the rest of Canada - the feller dat cant add.

"Over the last month, I have cautioned the Canadian people about the trustworthiness of this government, and their propensity to provide misleading and inaccurate information to further their own interests," Williams said

Nothing to add, just seconding (tenthing?) the nomination of the 'izzy monny' quote, which was repeated, never modified, never excused or withdrawn.
It is a perfect example of the contempt the likes of Dion have for the West, workers, and wealth creators.

"Obviously the Liberal party opposes the change we have made, which is to give the police a voice in this process. I am not surprised, given what I am reading in The Vancouver Sun today, when I read this how the Liberal party makes decisions: "The Vancouver Sun has learned that the father-in-law of the member of Parliament for Mississauga--Brampton South--". (MPs start shouting: "Shame! Shame!") -- Stephen Harper, smearing the Liberals by trying to link them to Sikh terrorists

"I can understand the passion that the leader of the opposition and members of his party feel for Taliban prisoners. I just wish occasionally they would show the same passion for Canadian soldiers." -- Stephen Harper smearing the Liberals by trying to link them to Muslim terrorists

"When the leader of the Opposition is able to stand in uniform and serve his country, then I'll care about his opinion of the performance of the minister of defence." -- Stephen Harper trying to say that he doesn't really care about the opinion of Canadians who disagree with him

Just like Bush can (and does: http://www.slate.com/id/76886/) fill whole books on moronic statements, Harper could fill whole books on abnoxious statements. Too bad for him too. If he wasn't such a petty little uber-partisan man - and left the dirty work of politics to underlings the way other PMs have, instead of relishing it for himself - and acted like he cared about all Canadians, then he'd have found himself higher in the polls now than he was on election day. Alas for him, it is just not in his DNA to be a statesman.

Ted, your conclusion is illogical and invalid. Nothing in Harper's statement suggests what you conclude that: "A commentary suggests at least more special status that singles out Quebec and implies constitutional change"

You obviously don't understand the nature of decentralization. Ah well. Harper is talking about the original intent of the BNA act, which was a federation, not a centralized dominion run by Ottawa.

And that is what Harper is always referring to - a federation, with more powers to the provinces instead of the corrupted mess that the Liberals left us with - ie, a centralized nation with an authoritarian Ottawa governing in isolate ignorance.

It's best to base your conclusions, ted, on knowledge rather than ignorance.

Easy Money!!!

I'll tell you what easy money is ... it's being a university professor ... Professor Dion.

Those folks up in northern Alberta work their butts off and have a short career. There are no sabbaticals or tenure and the likelihood of serious injury is great. They also must leave their families for long periods of time. The pension plans are negligible when you consider that no one stay on that job for a very long time. Those people are akin to being in the armed services. They do us a great service and danger is everywhere

Dion is a disgrace to this country if that's even possible after all the years of Liberal governments. And he is indeed the cherry on the stupid Liberal sundae.

"I do believe that it's the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel."

Of course everyone knows that you make that 'alloy' called steel, by fusing iron and carbon together in a refrigerator.

A coke oven is where they make coca cola.

the science is settled. any liberal, ndp, green re climate and agw.

My favourite quote is neither obnoxious nor from 2007, but it is something we would do well to remember.
President Reagan convened a cabinet meeting. All the atendees were anxiously awaiting his presentation.
He entered, and said " Gentlemen, I hate inflation, I hate high taxes and I hate Communism. Do something about it".
He then left the room.

"The written word, condensed, fractured and often discombobulated by cyberspace, is unique."

Sheila Copps.

This is my last for today, but I think it is probably the most obnoxious, maybe even a winner for the year 2007:

"OK, whoa! You live in the United States of America. This is a country where Evangelical Christianity has ascended to the highest ranks of power, where conservative social values drawn and justified by the bible are imposed on people every day….They shoot abortion doctors in the United States of America! …Homophobia is rampant!....Is there a school where they teach you these American clichés?"

heard right on our very own CBCPravda, on June 11. Avi Lewis...come on down and get your well-deserved prize.

"You (ban smoking in) cars and then what? Do you get into people's homes?" - Dalton McGuinty February 8 2007

"The car is a kind of personal space. On the other hand, as a parent, I think the idea of smoking inside a car is reprehensible. Kids have no choice in the matter at all so I think it's an important debate to have." - Dalton McGuinty December 10 2007

When it comes to principles he's like a feather in a tornado.

The entire non-apology from the hostile feminist CBC chick re: the doctored photo fiasco is my nomination. In particular, I found the use of quotation marks around "warming filter" to be the most obnoxious punctuation I have ever seen in my entire life:

"We made a mistake...In this case, the original image was treated with a “warming filter,” which gave it the sepia tone, and cropped slightly to use as a graphic image. Fair enough, except it was – mistakenly – dropped in a file accessible for use with news stories and subsequently posted with the Baird story."

www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/006051.html

I know what it's like to be poor.

from that most believable of sources the Goracle.

"He was known to be the best passer of all time, Bobby Hull'

I love this contest

Ted...thanks for reminding us off some of the best moments in the HoC where our PM once again demonstrated his backbone and fortitude with some great smackdowns...even tho you tried put you T.ed( TO editor?) slant on them.
For my vote it's a tossup between izzy money and puffin poop. If I had time I'm sure I could find a real shallow hypocritically obnoxious quote from Suzuki.

from dizzy miss lizzy may - talk of the environmental record.

"a grievance worse than Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of the Nazis"

" I have an average sized penis"--- Dr. Suzuki on the nature of things. not in 2007 , but years ago.

see he always made things up.

I didn't mind Kathy Griffin's comments about God. It was a nice change from those who loudly and publically thank God every time something good happens to them, which was what, I believe, she was satirizing.

As if God gives a damn who scores a touchdown or wins an award.

Not obnoxious, but a knee-slapper by our friend Ted, proclaiming a 50/50 split in the media:

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Pretty much every city in the US, certainly in the north and California, has at least two major dailies, one more or less "left" in your view and one more or less right. That doesn't count the fact that most of the papers and media in southern states are distinctly conservative. Or the fact that Sun Media - which you can argue is not "truly" conservative, but it certainly isn't left or liberal - is the largest media company in our entire country.

The Vast Leftwing Media Conspiracy is only sustainable if you ignore over half of the media. In fact, it is only sustainable if you pick and choose media and pick and choose articles within that media.

1. "I want my Canada back" -Liberal MP Ken Dryden

2. "The PM is a political whore" -Liberal MP Barf Turner

3. "Some people call me a hero" - Liberal Leader Stephane Dion on his enviroment "record".

http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2007/11/tim_flannery_bl.html

global warming, "not by the skin of my ......."-

this guy was australian of the year. they must have as few real qualifiers as we have native canadians for the GG position.

After the May, 2007 shooting death, at C.W. Jefferys School, of black drug dealer, Jordan Manners—"He's a lovely boy," his mother and aunt are reported to have said—the Toronto District School Board handpicked the person they wanted to head the inquiry.

This man is the “prominent human rights (sic) lawyer”, Julian Falconer. He has impeccable left wing, race related credentials. E.g., He represented Maher Arar in his lawsuit against the Canadian Government.

Re the TDSB inquiry, seven months and two extensions later—BIG, BIG bucks later too—Falconer still hasn’t completed the inquiry. But, in his interim report in the summer of 2007 he said, “There are no villains in the piece.”

Teddy dearest, who the hell is "John" Flaherty?

Go easy on the Allbran, you must have had a double dose for breaki today.

Al Gore: "I drive a hybrid, Tipper and I got a Lexus hybrid. And we have a couple of Priuses in the family with our children. And I encourage people to make environmentally conscious choices because we all have to solve this climate crisis". Yeah right.

Doubt a Prius have enough power to drag his fat ass around let alone his ego.

Liberal MP Garth Turner: "Bite me."

http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2007/11/07/the-beast-among-us/

Also Julian Fantino's unprecedented threat to sue the citizens of Ontario and withdraw police services to Caledonia if they chose to peacefully protest against Indian terrorism, even Stalin didn't have the chutzpah to try that:

"The mayor and the commissioner do
not have a warm relationship. The two
have crossed swords on a number of
occasions. Perhaps the most memo-
rable was over an e-mail Fantino sent
nia. He was “deeply disturbed” by
what he believed were a councillor’s
comments supporting agitator Gary
McHale.
Fantino’s e-mail said if any of his of-
ficers are hurt during a McHale rally he
will hold council responsible, will sup-
port any injured officer in a lawsuit,
will bill all costs to the county and the
OPP would not renew Caledonia’s
policing contract"

64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:ZX2IfENGd4wJ:www.hamiltonspectator.com/pdfs/20071112/A6.pdf+fantino+sue+caledonia&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=7&gl=ca&client=firefox-a

If this doesn't win for the most obnoxious thing said in Canada this contest is rigged.

"Hello my name is Garth Turner MP"

MY NOMINATION FOR THE MOST TOXIC HYPOCRITE:

"Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism." - David Suzuki

"Thanks to Harper, Canada has become the pliant instrument of a failed U.S. Presidency"
Michael Byers

"I never thought he would become a prop for the Conservative Party" - Denis Coderre re Gen. Rick Hillier

"Save a seal - club a Liberal" - Me 2007

"....working families..." - said in nearly every sentence Jack Layton has uttered this year.

"Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism." - David Suzuki

Posted by: WL Mackenzie Redux at January 2, 2008 6:41 PM

Contest over , you win , well done .

Of course we'll have to have a consensus agree with my theory .....

"...nor is he a jelly bean"

Iberia, 2008, in reference to the Dalai Lama

or,

Pretty much anything from the keyboard or out of the mouth of Jeff Davidson.

"Clearly, the planet can no longer bear the demands that humanity is placing on it. We need to build a sustainable, green economy with policies that are

both good for the planet and good for our wallets."

Librano$ website. ...-

My most obnoxious quote (I mean, the one I find most obnoxious, not the one I made):

Death To America!

Quoted and requoted by the (anti) Western nedia at every opportunity.

I see the min iscule quantum of a liberal @5:12 PM misses the point entirely.

This simply underlines, with this escalating death toll of the soldiers and of civilians in Afghanistan, that this mission is going in the wrong way. Some variation of this is repeated like a mantra by Jack Layton every time a Canadian soldier dies. It's not even as much the words as the act of using such deaths as an opportunity to mouth campaign slogans.

John West @5,45 PM.

Yes, you are quite right, but Dijon is an elitist and there's nothing more horrifying to their eyes than the plebs getting rich, perhaps being able to enjoy their own perks. Maybe they may even turn up at their winter vacation resorts - the horror, the horror!

...continued...

Imagine, people on izzy munni eating at our restaurents. Next they'll vote us out of government, despite, despite I say, all we've done with their money.

"I AM NOT A BLOWHARD BUFFOON! Stop laughing, I'm serious!"

-Garth (not Wayne) Turner

Judge Metivier rules for warman in his libel suit against Paul Fromm:
"..Mr. Warman, who has had 10 complaints about Internet hatred upheld by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal in recent years, sued Mr. Fromm for postings that characterized him, among other things, as an ENEMY OF FREE SPEECH, A MEMBER OF THE THOUGHT POLICE AND A "HIGH PRIEST OF CENSORSHIP."

It wasn’t meant to happen like this. The climate scientists told us that our winters would become wetter and our summers drier. So I can’t claim that these floods were caused by climate change, or are even consistent with the models. But, like the ghost of Christmas yet to come, they offer us a glimpse of the possible winter world that we will inhabit if we don’t sort ourselves out.

George Monbiot

Tim Blair received a hundred and thirty five comments when he posted this quote.

Do you get extra points for irony?

“Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism”

David Suzuki

Dr. Dave spews:

“Albertans have always had the highest standard of living in the country.

“Why do you need all this out-of-control expansion of the oilsands?” said an angry Suzuki.

“It’s insanity … it’s crazy.”

I find this obnoxious for the same reason I find many things from the left obnoxious.....a blatant disregard of the facts.

Syncro

"I did not walk away from my party," he wrote in his blog. "It quit me. Mr. Harper tossed me out for refusing to support him without reservation, and for refusing to stop talking to Canadians.

After being a Progressive Conservative my entire life, an MP, cabinet minister and leadership contender, Stephen Harper took my party away."

Words uttered by the King of Obnoxious GT upon the occasion of his joining the Liberal party.

Omar Khadr's mother:

"Nothing has been proven against him,"

"I don't want extra sympathy," (hehehe...hahahah)

"Omar never attacked anybody," PORKIE

from 2005:

“As a mother, I beg every Canadian mother and father to get justice for my son and bring him home,” she said.

' I ask them (Canadians) to demand our government to stand up for our children and demand the Americans send my son home,'

2006:

"I want to tell the Canadian people: Please use your wisdom and justice and humanity. That's all we want."

"It was me," "It was me" Stephane Dion shouted upward to the aboriginal leaders, who looked a bit perplexed by all the gesturing.
Observers on both sides of the House averted their eyes at Dion's outburst.

WLMR: "Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism." - David Suzuki

Hands down winner so far, you're right Bill (Bills?). Devastating.

Cheers,
Norm

syncriodox @7.57

Yes I noted that quote. Rather eery, really.

Apparently the oil sands expansion is not, in and of itself, the problem. The problem is that it is out of control!!! Who's control? His control???

It is under control of those evil capitalist oil companies.

Fellis @5.55 pm,
I thionk you have it. I saw that too. Truly depraved.

Err.. but fire alone can't melt steel. Will somebody stand to correct me on this?

Ignatieff's explanation for suggesting the Puffin as Liberal bird:

"They lay one egg each year. They put their excrement in one place. They hide their excrement.
They flap their wings and work like hell. This seems to me to be a symbol for what our party should be".

“Stéphane, we didn’t get it done.”

-Michael Ignatieff.

Thanks for the support, Wimpy Canadian. Yes, that truly was a Magic Moonbat Moment, but we'll have to see what the judges say. WLMR's entry may be difficult to beat. If Suzuki actually said that, the combination of irony and hypocrisy might well be irresistable. If Suzuki didn't actually say it, well, it still describes him pretty well.

On second thought, I withdraw my suggestion. It wasn't actually obnoxious - it was merely the truth.

"OK, whoa! You live in the United States of America. This is a country where Evangelical Christianity has ascended to the highest ranks of power, where conservative social values drawn and justified by the bible are imposed on people every day….They shoot abortion doctors in the United States of America! …Homophobia is rampant!....Is there a school where they teach you these American clichés?"
Posted by: felis corpulentis at January 2, 2008 5:55 PM

Migawd, YES. But felis fails to point out that Avi Lewis was interviewing the incomparable Ayyan Hirsi Ali, arguably the bravest woman on the planet, which takes the obnoxiousness to a whole new level.
I can't be 100% sure, but I believe it was Avi Lewis' CounterSpin (LOL) which made me resolved to never watch CBC news or current events ever again. And no, I didn't watch this on CBC -- saw it on a web link -- sda?

Maurice Strong: "The only way to save the planet is to make everyone poor".

This is also not from 2007 but a quote from the "hockey stick" artist, drafter of Kyoto and alleged oil for food scammer.

Mark Holland , Dion's environment critic threatens Alberta's oil sands and reveals the Liberals' hidden agenda on Dave Rutherford's program:

Holland was asked whether a Dion government would considerer nationalizing oil companies if they didn't meet Kyoto standards. Holland replied,

"If they refuse to work with us....there will be consequences."

Layton's "big ass oil" was a dandy as well!
To Claude@8:03..that moment reminded me of the loser kid on the playground saying'pick me..pick me'

"The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."

Ole Danbolt Mjos' presentation speech on behalf of the Nobel Committee.

I believe he actually meant to say 'make up'....not 'build up'.

I think it was during the last election when Porky Martin in one of his many vein popping rants said something to the affect "I my Canada I will never let the majority rule over the minority"

"Gawd I hate stupid f*ckin' hippies"

Cartman, South Park

A twofer from S. Dion

This from a December 7, 2007 interview on CPAC regarding his pending participation in the Bali conference.

I'm not there to contradict the government as much as I'm there to help each delegation to go to the right direction.

The second is directly from Mr. Dion's stellar Bali Blog, December 13, 2007.

Canada’s Environment Minister John Baird has been spreading misinformation since the beginning of the week, trying to force-feed his vision to the 10,000 delegates present, but they won’t be fooled.

The situation is such that, at the request of Canadian national media here on site, I held a press conference in which I was able to deliver the truth.

First of all, Mr. Baird was not being candid with the assembly and his speech was not consistent with what Canada is actually doing in these negotiations. He tried to make people believe we would stand by our commitments – when he has walked away from Kyoto.

This one has the liberal trifecta...hypocrisy, lies and meddling by the Canadian media. I guess Pablo isn't the only one taking direction from the CBC.

Syncro

Wimpy Canadian @ 8:08

That's the point isn't it. Socialism disguised as environmentalism.

Syncro

A few of my personal favourites.

Dion on Afghan detainees:

"We should find another solution. We may bring them in Canada. We may keep them under our control in Afghanistan."

Dion getting his decades mixed up:

"There is a cover-up somewhere. The Prime Minister has a lot to explain. What did he know? When did he know it?"

Dion in response to Harper's announcement (for the second time) of a full inquiry:

"Speaker, even Mr. Mulroney is calling for a full public inquiry. The Prime Minister must be the only person who does not think it is a good idea. Why? What is he afraid of? Will he do the right thing? Will he call a full public inquiry now?"

Dion on reversing GST cuts:

"We will consider that."

"In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country." -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Columbia University

real conservative asked...
Err.. but fire alone can't melt steel. Will somebody stand to correct me on this?

Fire can melt steel just fine...assuming that the inferno it is burning in has the right surrounding materials to produce enough heat.

Actually, while Rosie O'Donnell's comment was stupid in that regard...when she made that statement, she actually misquoted her own "Truther" group's line. What they have actually been saying is that never before in history has a steel-framed building been made to collapse because of fire alone - as they say was the case with Building 7.

I don't know if that statement is true or not. But, that is actually the claim that I think O'Donnell was trying repeat...she just screwed up the wording.

Even if the claim of the Truthers is correct, it is probably also true that no building (steel-framed or otherwise) has been allowed to burn for so many hours with no firefighters there to fight it - and after having two mammoth neighboring towers come crashing down all around it.

So, the statement is still stupid and obnoxious.

I nominate UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon for this gem:

"We are at a crossroad. One path leads to a comprehensive climate change agreement, the other to oblivion. The choice is clear."

I agree --- my vote is for Suzuki's.

He supports Al Gore in Canadian classrooms --- at the same time says educators should teach schepticism.

Funny, if it wasn't so dangerous to innocent, vulnerable minds.

A 'Finding-Quotations' website claims Suzuki said it;

http://thinkexist.com/quotes/david_suzuki/

Word of advice for Garth Turner - 13 times you said there would be a federal election in 2007 - 13 times you were wrong. You should use that as a barometer for how right you are about everything else you talk about GT.

"Some people call me a REHO" - Liberal Leader Stephane Dion relating to his environmental record.

Of course no Canuckistanian list of obnoxious quotes would be complete without an offering from "Canada's premier blogger" Warren Kinsella.

In an entry today, the Saskatchewan-based extremist Kate McMillan calls Chinese fishermen "assholes" and suggests that it is understandable when they are beaten.

Apparently Warren has escaped the beatings not on his ethnicity, presumably because he lacks the skills to bait a hook.

Syncro

But since this is a tribunal affair, and not a case being brought by the Crown before a criminal court, Steyn’s freedom is hardly at stake.

Yet. -anon.@law is cool

I agree --- my vote is for Suzuki's.

A slur against Kate (who fortunately can take care of herself quite nicely) that W. Kinsella would presumably consider to be one of his wittier bon mots:

Thus we see plenty of seething hatred on the Small Brain-dead Animal's site...(Friday, December 28, 2007, 09:55 AM)

It's presumably a waste of time to suggest he a) look in the mirror and b) ask himself if his parents brought him up to refer to a lady in that way.

DB
Option b, provided:
a. the question is asked repeatedly; and
b. is reinforced with a suitably manipulated hockey stick.

Cheers

Warren lying awake at night;

"I wish to he** that go*damn Internet had never been fu%@#ing invented --- that damn broa* out there with a keyboard and a pail to sit on has more frig**ng followers and has more clout with Canadians than me --- bigwig lawyer, getting big dollars from my connections with bigwig politicians !!! Arrrgggg !! I got my guy elected, with the media's help, but that little bmmmm got her guy elected as well -- despite the power-of-the-pen. Gota help Maurice Strong shut it down."

Please forgive me for going off topic for a moment. Delete if you wish, but in case any of you missed it this evening.

"One of my predictions for 2008 was that the Global Warming fools will have to accept that they have been wrong and do the "Oh Shit!" back step. It started sooner than I thought. Tonight on the CBC National Peter Mansbridge stated that

"there is evidence (and more to follow) that man made global warming may not be the only reason that ice is melting in the Arctic. Studies now show that it is a natural phenomenon that is cyclical in nature."

He did go on to mention this phenomenon is in conjunction with made-made causes, didn't mention the percentage of contribution from either source."

Kate

As far as the update goes....well Garth only missed May, June and July. In other words he was incorrect 9/9ths of the time or 100%. If one factors in the 3 months he made no predictions and based on his previous predictions......this man could have a perfect annual record.

But I guess this is no surprise given his previous incarnation as a financial guru. As I understand it his record on that front is comparable.

Syncro

"I haven't heard anyone say that the Taliban can be defeated, and nor do I believe that that's possible ... In fact, the approach of the U.S., and the West generally, but particularly the U.S. in Pakistan, to infuse massive military aid over the last number of years - strengthening the military dictatorship situation - has failed dramatically."

Taliban Jack Bin Layton... of course.

My own vote goes for the Suzuki quote as well. Why should the federal gummit be the only one to recognize him?

"I do believe that it's the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel."
I don't suppose she's been tempted to pull that horseshoe out of her ass, and question how it arrived in that shape. ;)

http://www.nysun.com/article/68755

Rudy wants a surge in Afghanistan.

Very good, at least it brings Afghanistan back into focus.

I posted that last comment (above) before reading 'real conservative's questioning post and 'bryceman's' response, concerning "melting steel".
I've been trying off and on to find those famous pics of railway lines that look like rollercoasters, after having been subjected to intense prairie grass fires. Truly mindbending...
Blacksmiths all over the world have been rofl over this issue. :)

For Canadians I nominate Suzuki, for the greatest number of obnoxiuos quotes, in fact he is one big, irritating obnoxious quote, after that Layton,Dion, Avi Lewis,Carolyn Parrish, and anyone the CBC seems to wheel in to interview.

"In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country." -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Columbia University --
BWWWAHAHAHAAA!!!! --- Yep, they're called "Fertilizer!"

I think it only right that after the winners are noted that they be invited to either defend or add to the quote.

the CBCpravda reporters that read this blog can pass on the message directly to Dr.Bono Suzuki and Borat Dion.

"Dat his not fair" Borat Dion 2006

this open and transparent letter to the CPC

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/editorsblog/

From the double-duty gal at the cbc..Claire Martin.Weathergirl/financial advisor/Income Trust specialist.Can't remember her exact comments..I'm sure one of you here can remember her quote!
And the NDP's opening statements on more than a few occasions..'We apologize' then not really apologizing,and owning their stupidity.

From our friend,Albatros.........

"The story says the temp is rising and children are dying. So the inbred knuckle-walking cons come out to cheer each other on over their denial of the environmental facts, and exchange a self-congratulatory pat on the ass for excessive ignorance and stupidity. They remain clueless to the mechanisms of global warming and find comfort in groups that belittle the scientists that bring news that they find disagreeable to their uninformed biases.
Let’s face it, dead children are ok for cons as long as the oil continues to flow. How odd that American cons hold the same ideology in Iraq; so long as the oil flows, what are a few dead foreign children.
The fumes from the tar sands must be getting to what’s left of their con brains."

And from the same comments,the funniest from Zog. "Another drop kick for science through the goal posts of crazy."

Bush, et al:

"Islam is a religion of peace."

The reporting in the Star that Aqsa Pervez' "neck was compressed."

After explaining that Aqsa Pervez' murder had nothing to do with Islam, the slimy Sheik Alaa El-Sayyed, imam of a Toronto mosque, helpfully explained:

"We can not let culture supersede religion. If we stay away from the teachings of Islam, we will pay for it."

"Dey... dey did not... first. Dey did not distroy deir iconmy. Dey came with.... Norway has oil! -Stephane Dion in year end interview with Graham Richardson

I couldn't find the text for the quote I am thinking of anywhere, but I know they played it on the radio and it was likely in print..
The one where Lorne Calvert states that a family of a 15 year old diabetic won't be able to afford the kid's drugs, but they'll get a break on their (i'm assuming used and now PST free) Lexus under a sask party government

Folks, is this the best that we can do? Where are our Rosies and our Roseanne Barrs? The Joy Behars and Bill Mahers of Canada? Have we no Canadian Ted Rall to quote? Oh sure, we can find stupidity out there but where is the real world class combination of stupidity and ugliness. It appears that Canada can't even hate on a world class level.

"They shoot abortion doctors there."

Avi Lewis, kept man, responding to Ayaan Hirsi Ali's defense of America.

Golly, gee wiz, ET (at 5:45; www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/007748.html#c227150), I have no idea at all why someone might think that Harper is contemplating a constitutional amendment to recognize "nation" when the time is right. None whatsoever.

That is, aside from him saying that he is contemplating a constitutional amendment to recognize "nation" when the time is right.

Stephen Harper souhaite que la résolution qui reconnaît les Québécois comme une nation soit incluse dans la Constitution canadienne dès que « le terrain sera fertile ». Dans une entrevue exclusive accordée à La Presse, le premier ministre invite donc à se raviser ceux qui croyaient que cette résolution serait sans lendemain.

Translation: Stephen Harper hopes the resolution recognizing Québecers form a nation will be incorporated in the Canadian constitution when "the timing is right."

(translation: www.daifallah.com/2007/12/two-solitudes.htm)

Other than that, and the rest of what he says about what he's thinking in terms of "going farther" in recognizing a special status for Quebec in the article, who knows what the man is thinking.

Reading comprehension, ET. It's your friend. Or could be if you would only let it.

I left two comments on Garth's blog but both have been removed. I just pointed out his stellar track record on predictions. No swearing,nothing.
Guess you can't point out that he's an idiot.
I have a screen capture though.

"I've always maintained that there will come a point at which Stephen Harper will have to take a bullet. I mean, we'll arrive at a time when the only way we can protect this country, its ideal and its history from a violent rape at the hands of the neo-con pigs is to take this man out."
- blgger Allan Varlaki, March 2007

"""""Apparently Warren has escaped the beatings not on his ethnicity, presumably because he lacks the skills to bait a hook."""""

excellent there syncro:-))))))

My vote goes to kada @ 6:58 "save a seal - club a liberal"

although not obnoxious, kada at 6:58 "save a seal - club a liberal" is priceless

2008 nominee: a tax cut is a waste: "For a lot of us, the five-per-cent GST will largely go unnoticed when we get change at the cash register. And that seems like an awful waste of $12 billion, which is the estimated annual cost to the federal treasury of the GST reduction." Peter Hadekel in the Montreal Gazette

"It wasn't illegal."- Brian Mulroney