One of the pitfalls of guestblogging is that you have to take an awful lot of guff from chest-puffing shitflingers so accustomed to one form of entertainment that when they encounter something different they feel emboldened to lash out at you, often quite aggressively.
The irony, of course, is that they are lashing out at the very people whom the vacationing host has hand-selected to provide content in her absence — which, when you think about it, is a lot like being invited into Kate’s house, drinking her booze, and then pulling out your woefully undersized pecker and pissing all that free liquor back onto the trouser legs of one of her guests.
Just a thought.
At any rate, thanks to Kate for having us.
Wow.
We’re here worrying about the destruction of our country. What are you here for?
“pissing it all back onto the trouser legs of one of her guests.”
Hopefully, it dries by morning, or I’m gonna be pissed….
Just a thought.. . 😉
Your doing a good job, just people are in an angry mode, but need to lghten up a bit.
CodeTech: ease up, he was trying to lighten the mood up a bit. He’s from south of the border and has a killer blog, and is not very familiar with what goes on here.
Kate asked him to confuse us, and he’s done his job, so lift up the glass, and cheers, he got us… 🙂
I agree with Jeff… It’s a perfect anology…
I’d like to thanks all of the guest hosts for their wit and ability to challenge our thinking.
We are not a one minded one note type of puppet people- we are Canadians and as diverse as this wonderful country.
Challenging us to think outside the Blog as it were has been quite fun.
Skool.
Wow.
We’re here worrying about the destruction of our country. What are you here for?
Well, because I was invited. You?
Incidentally, you aren’t the only one worried about the destruction of a country. You just happen to be one of those humorless f*cks who thinks that your public displays of seriousness entitle you to a gravitas and grace that you haven’t yet earned.
Nothing but sanctimony, that.
Thanks, though, for taking time out from your crusade to save Canada to criticize a handful of guest bloggers for their choice of content. You’ve stopped us in our tracks!
Not quite Normandy, certainly, but a big win for Canadian seriousness nevertheless.
HappyDaze wins Christy Lanes greatest hits, I think you can buy it at Itoons or Amazon … .. what…. ya’ll thought it was free .. 😉
Yup, confirmed, 14 Golden Hymes buy Cristy Lane available on IToons for 11.99.
One Day at a Time
Just As I Am
Amazing Grace
Just a Closer Walk With Thee
Ave Maria
Away in the Manger
Rock of Ages
He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
Footprints in the Sand
Sweet Hour of Prayer
Precious Memories
Sing to the Lord
Standing on the Promises
The Lord’s Prayer
Disclaimer- ya gotta be over 35 to remember them…
You just don’t get it Jeff. We were all THIS close to saving the country — then YOU came along.
Thanks a LOT.
Thanks for the offer but I think I already have all those songs in a piano book somewhere – I like to hum along to my own tunes.
It’s been great to share thoughts with fellow canadians – and contrary to the often heavy topics we discuss I think you guys (gals) have kept your senses of humour – we laugh in the face of diversity; we giggle along with Jane Taber and Mike Duffy on the foibles of the Libranos- we are looking forward to the day when we laugh and laugh at the pundits who said it coundn’t be done.
Ironically, I only made one comment, and it wasn’t even close to what else was said.
Oh well, if you think you’re affecting me in any way, you’re wrong… but you’re used to that.
I am entertained at how you PASS JUDGMENT on me while accusing me of PASSING JUDGMENT… but in all reality, I don’t visit SDA to be “entertained”. I’m very sorry that this is all fun and games to you.
I’m also amazed that you felt in neccessary to actually make a blog entry calling me out. How childish is that?
Would it be fair to say, CodeTech, that you took a gratuitous shot at one of Kate’s guests? And that if you insult someone’s guest, you insult the host?
You know what I hate? Is when grown men and women degenerate into bitter namecalling and insults. It’s very unbecoming. It often ends up this way in parliament and by the looks of this it has gone on here. I’m 17 and I see the inefficiency and futility of this, I wonder why people many years older than myself don’t see it.
I’m still laughing at the suggestion that Jeff is a Liberal.
For those of you who take him too seriously: the guy writes one of the funniest damn blogs out there: http://www.proteinwisdom.com
Plus, he thinks Anne Murray is still hot. Oh sure, she may have been hot back in the 70s. Now she’s wrinkly. But hey, at least she doesn’t look like Rita McNeil. Or Bryan Adams.
Ryan T’s 1:38 should be a guest post. I wonder how long the topic would hold.
I thought you blogger types enjoyed the free exchange of ideas.
Or is it all about rattling each others cages?
Lighten up. Get away from the computer and breath some fresh air.
As long as Kate keeps dishing up the very best in conservative news and views on the web and keeps her blend of serious discussion and humour, I’m going to keep coming back.
“but in all reality, I don’t visit SDA to be “entertained”. I’m very sorry that this is all fun and games to you.
I’m also amazed that you felt in neccessary to actually make a blog entry calling me out. How childish is that?”
…And I’m sorry that after 2 months of blogging yourself you still think of a blog post as somehow sacrosanct. Space is virtually unlimited here in the ether, and it took me all of 1 minute to write up my reply and fashion it into a post.
Nothing childish about it. You made your critiques public by posting them on Kate’s site at the expense of all of those who she asked to post here while she was gone; I simply raised the visibility of your ungratefulness a bit. I should think you’d be happy. After all, attention is clearly what you crave.
But why do you keep responding, is the real question? Shouldn’t you be off saving Canada? I mean, my goodness! — where do you find the time to do both?
It’s not JUST about cage rattling; it’s also about making threatening gestures and flinging poo.
Hey Ryan, it’s you and me kid. Using the basic four letters is kinda limp here as it is sort of lasting in some ways.
You know how when you google blogs or skip names and all your clips of comments come up? Pretty bad news if your new girlfriend decides to investigate via Yahoo or Google.
That’s not to mention the great impression it leaves with kids looking over shoulders in living rooms, rec rooms and computer rooms.
I gotta save the real blue stuff for when I get sloppy and nail my thumb with the hammer.
Did you notice that military gaze on the gal who runs this blog? I feel guilty about I’m not sure what, when the main page comes up. Sure would not want to be in the wrong shoes when she gets home. Who knows what those trained dogs of hers can do. 73s Tony
Jeff G. – glad you think the one link is the only experience I have in the blogosphere. Again, you couldn’t possibly be more wrong.
Personally, I really don’t care one way or another. You’re not a funny guy, your sense of humor is, in fact, infantile. From reading your stuff I would guess you are about 14. You chose to attack my post which was actually quite neutral, and others are now commenting on something I never said.
Ungratefulness. What a joke.
Notice: at no point did I start using language, making nasty allegations, mocking you, or any of the other stuff that you have done. I never even picked a fight. Your accusations are as groundless as the sky is blue, and yet you’ve used someone ELSE’s blog to hurl them at me. Disgusting behavior. Did you train at DU? Are you proud?
It’s a bad feeling, being jacked-up about negative shots. It makes you feel like your honor is at stake, when it really isn’t.
There’s a simultaneously magnifying and distancing effect to this medium which makes guys, especially, prone to monkey-brain duels.
Relax. It’s been a hard month or two for people who care about this country. Everyone is a bit off. It’s okay.
Somewhere there’s a town in Canada in need of rescuing, and you, CodeTech, are here engaging in a pissing contest with an unfunny, infantile American whom you suspect has been trained at the Democratic Underground.
Not the best of use of time for someone so serious and valuable to the country’s struggles as you, if I may say so.
Go! Save the country! Or don’t you even care about Canada anymore?
Reason no. 28 why guest blogging is so rewarding
28. All the swell new friends you meet!
KIDS! KIDS! KIDS!
Chill.
Jeff, I must admit the lyrics had me confused. So I just ignored them. I read the comments, to see if I missed anything, and saw some of the goofy comments. Sorry, I probably should have played “Mom” sooner.
Thanks for bringing fresh ideas and a fresh outlook. You need to look at us as, perhaps, the Iranians (actually, to be technical, Persians) just before the fall of the Shah. Because we’re watching democracy (not to imply that the Shah ran a democracy, hoping you get my general drift) & our country go down the toilet and our only “out” is blogging. Which is fun and informative, but doesn’t get PMPM out of office.
Forgive us for being a tad defensive and crabby. You would be too.
Cheers.
I’m glad self-important trolls are running rampant north of the border as well. Makes me feel better that the pain is spread around evenly.
code tech is a poo head.
It’s a blog, not a cult. Too serious, too infantile, too bad.
Jeff – Just because you are a guest blogger doesn’t absolve your comments from accountability. The fact that you have accepted the task of making your views public means that those views are open to critique, dissent, debate – and rejection. You are essentially denying readers the ‘right to dissent’ from your views.
I, myself, was puzzled by the nature of the guest blogs. I felt Sean’s focus on SSM was actually the Liberal/NDP focus..which isn’t the point – but felt that his case FOR it wasn’t argued with any validity. I want a blog with stronger debate.
And Jeff’s long lyrics were, in my view, not an argument, not a discussion, but only a basis for an argument..and none was made. I skipped them.
What bothered me, Jeff, was your vitriolic anger at criticism. You moved into ad hominem name-calling of dissenters rather rapidly..and then further rejected the right of people to dissent, by saying that you, as a guest, were beyond criticism.
I have a problem with both tactics.
People,
This JeffG weiner is just another unimformed American ignoramus in WAY over his infantile, geographically-challenged head.
Canada is a mystery to these people, so they start flinging shit to see what reaction it gets.
Makes him feel important. pffft!
Ad Hominum attacks, the Koran of the left, are quite simply facile and mean spirited attempts to kick the thread OFF TOPIC, when that topic attacks anything in the socialist redliberal Holy Grail.
Lefties have such LOW expectations from life it seems.
BINGO!
Hey, That’s more like it, eh..Ryan? 73s TG
Thanks, though, for taking time out from your crusade to save Canada to criticize a handful of guest bloggers for their choice of content. You’ve stopped us in our tracks!
Not quite Normandy, certainly, but a big win for Canadian seriousness nevertheless.
Well, more like Dieppe. Without the barvery.
Or even “bravery.”
You’re not a funny guy, your sense of humor is, in fact, infantile. From reading your stuff I would guess you are about 14. You chose to attack my post which was actually quite neutral, and others are now commenting on something I never said.
An insult that can only be levied against the funny by the tragically unfunny.
People,
This “Bill from INDC”/”JeffG” weiner is just another unimformed American ignoramus in WAY over his infantile, geographically-challenged head.
Canada is a mystery to these people, so they start flinging shit to see what reaction it gets.
Makes him feel important. pffft!
Ad Hominum attacks, the Koran of the left, are quite simply facile and mean spirited attempts to kick the thread OFF TOPIC, when that topic attacks anything in the socialist redliberal Holy Grail.
Lefties have such LOW expectations from life it seems.
bobbybaun: You DO realize that by insulting Jeff in this manner, you are also insulting Kate in that she invited him to post in the first place?
CodeTech:
To make you laugh, you ungrateful bastard.
Sean,
Look Jeff/Bill from INDC offers precisley NOTHING to the discussion in Canada we are having here.
PLUS he is a shit flinging, baiting troll insulting to ALL CAnadians on top of it all.
Kate acheived zero in inviting this ‘know nothing’ offensive little weiner to guest host what was, to this point, THE best Canadian political blog on the web.
I love Kate…but I think she made a mistake here.
Make that now “Jeff/Bill from INDC/The Powers That Be” the shit flinging, baiting troll.
bobbybaun –
“Geographically challenged?”
You guys are north, right?
Canada is a mystery to these people, so they start flinging shit to see what reaction it gets.
Well, a “mystery” has the implication that we give a crap, like the exposition of a delicious Hercule Poirot story. In reality, Canada is merely sort of like a cultural strip mine for us Americans. We siphon off your most talented entertainers (as well as a smattering of your lumber, beaver pelts and finest Torontian strippers – but I repeat myself) and send you our draft dodgers and acid rain. Other than that, the relationship or details of your placid land are of little concern to us.
In fact, unless the development that your government is disolving into a banana republic has any effect on this trade balance, I’d go so far as to say that you should stop whining about it. If you’re lucky, we’ll annex you as our 51st state if you can’t run yourselves properly.
We’ll even teach you how to shoot!
PS – can I have a gander at your dictionary, because “socialist redliberal” must be a different concept for us here in the states. And here I thought that the Quebecois were the only insufferably humorless wankers among you.
Kate acheived zero in inviting this ‘know nothing’ offensive little weiner to guest host what was, to this point, THE best Canadian political blog on the web.
Wow, you mean you HAVE to read ALL the posts on this blog? That’s harsh.
Is that some kind of new Canadian law or something?
Well Sean,
You still think this “Bill from INDC/JeffG” igoramus adds anything?? LOL!
Kate DEFINITLEY made a huge mistake.
What an insulting moron.
Yo boobybaun! You’re acting like a short person. Quit it and go read a book, or something. It’s too doggone easy to get you riled up.
Uh, boobybaun, I am not JeffG.
Keep this up and no 51st state for you; we’ll turn the entirety of Eastern Canada into a parking lot for upstate New York. We’ll let the Minnesotans and Wisconsians over the border to ravage your women and drink your Molson.
Listen, I understand that you’re upset because your country is backsliding into third world status, that you’re piqued because you’ve become the least stable, most corrupt concatenated North-South geographic neighbor to the United States, but …
… that’s no reason for losing your sense of humor.
Breathe deep. More Kevin McDonald amd Dave Foley.
Less Carolyn Parrish.
I can see why Andrew was forced to close his comments… Keep it up folks and Kate will do the same…
Richard,
Just more ad hominum baiting and trolling designed to push the thread OFF topic.
Not gonna happen.
“Bill from INDC/JeffG/Jeff in Pullman,WA/TomB” you sure YOU are not just another redliberal using aliases trying to get us to hate Americans??
That would explain the hostility. LOL!
Just more ad hominum baiting and trolling designed to push the thread OFF topic.
The thread is devoted to pointing and laughing at humorless “shitflingers.” (That would be you) Thus, my baiting of your humorless shitflinging is pointedly on-topic.
Forgive me for the assumption that you could read English. “Stellar literacy rates and yada yada,” we’re always hearing about, and all.
“Bill from INDC/JeffG/Jeff in Pullman,WA/TomB”
I’M SOMEBODY! I’M SOMEBODY!
Here’s a clue Sparky, if you don’t know that Jeff from Protein Wisdom and Bill from INDC aren’t different people, you are so out of touch perhaps you should just give up on blogs.
Oh, the lot of you, just grow up and cut out this puerile name calling.
Bobby, your “big chip, small shoulder” stuff is what has allowed the Liberals to redirect any rightful public anger against them by fomenting and indulging anti-Americanism among susceptible Canadians. I don’t give a rat’s patoot whether you like us Gringos or not, it’s not at all relevant to how I view myself, my nation, and our place in the world. Your misplaced ire only hurts you and the most important task you face.
PS: I haven’t been a lefty since I wised up to statist tricks long ago. Emotion be damned.