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“fundamental right of family reunification”
Librano$$$$$ Bullsh!t
This Thread was a total fluff entertainment.
The main statistic everyone missed was simply that polls are political tools and just as suited to being sprayed upon by dogs, as are poles and hydrants.
There was some humour, and it was fun to follow, but it was TV quality entertainmet.
The most useless bit of professorial bull ever devised goes something like, results are accurate to plus or minus two percent 19 times out of 20.
I can recall polls taken before elections that were out by 30 to 35%.
Meaning they were designed to sway voters, not give an accurate reflection of anything.
Does this link work? http://My.Opera.com/T-G/
Nothing to do with Opera btw.
This one works… great fun! Manolo’s shoe blog http://shoeblogs.com enjoy, ‘3s TG
Boys you need a life. Emmigration is a real problem. I don’t care what the stats are.
I’am new to this blog site and this dribble is unbelievable. I would like to see questions that some of you out there may have some answers. The Media will not or cannot investigate. Why do chariable organizations have foundations with thousands of dollars sitting in them and tell the public through free media stories (feel good stories) how they cannot feed the poor?
Sorry EGG, but the fundamental human right of family reunification is total BS. It is a nice thought, but VERY abused in practice. I used to work as an assistant to an MP in a high-immigration area and one of my jobs was handling the immigration cases coming through the MP’s doors. The problems? Let’s start with fake adoptions. A Canadian immigrant family “adopts” a 15 yr-old girl from their homeland. When the adopted girl gets here, a few years later she brings in her biological family. It’s not supposed to happen like that. There’s supposed to be tracking mechanisms to prevent it, but not only does government tend to lose the information, but if the immigration QUOTA hasn’t been met by year-end, the immigration officers approve a flood of non-qualified immigrants. I’ve seen it happen with my own eyes.
Another situation that arises is the young immigrant coming here who then wants to sponsor his elderly parents and extended family. I agree with the concept, but in the case of an Afghani friend of mine, his 60 year old mother had Tuberculosis! The case was denied because of that originally, but eventually she was let in after she found a doctor to declare her free of TB. So now we have an elderly person who is going to be using more of our taxpayer-funded healthcare and who’s highly contagious TB is in “remission”. Don’t forget the elderly father as well. Again, this Afghani is a friend of mine who had 3 jobs here in Canada so that he could afford to bring his parents over, but still I think we need to start thinking of Canada first.
People, hover your pointers on “not factually correct”‘s moniker to reveal the email address, which is apparently hosted at a far-left moonie site called pleasegodkillbush.com.
See how scary the left is?
Well, I tried to have a grownup conversation, I posted a bunch of data, etc., but Peter and the rest of them kept dragging the level of conversation down. Appararently making anus jokes is OK, and making fun of my nongratuitous use of Bayesian Inference or anything form of advanced thinking is something that makes people giggle. Nice! At least I can say I’m not a pussy, and not too timorous to broach a grownup subject like immigration.
All this thread has done is fulfill what I predicted at the beginning: that Canadian bloggers are such PC-chilled pussies that they would rather attack a guy for making a comment on an Untouchable subject matter like immigration…than attack the actual govenment that is implementing a policy that a) Canadians are nearly unanimously opposed to, and b) is quantifiably a bad thing.
Thanks for proving my point Peter, EKG, Tony, and the rest. Have a nice, safe, happy, shiny day.
“It’s really the last resort of a failing intellect.”
Maybe in corrupt pollster/adscammers minds who wish to stifle debate , but vulgarity can find an effective place in most discusions.
On the other hand, any support of the Librano$$$$$$$$$$$ doctrine is proof of any empty place where intellect should be.
All Librano$$$$$$$ and their choir of shrill neutered saprano$$$$$$$ are bought with OUR stolen money.
Here’s a good response to the question of whether we’re pussies:
“I think that the announcement that Pettigrews chauffeur has taken “leave” shows that the Canadian bogging community CAN have a significant effect on politics and are NOT “pussies”
Keep up the good work.
Horny Toad”
Perhaps now we can stop calling each other by the names of bodyparts with which people play and fornicate.
Would some guest blogger pls post a new post? Poor Kate. No way to whip y’all.
And people, Anonologue is entitled to his/her opinion (I say his/her ’cause I don’t know whether Anonologue has a pussy or a winky). Anonologue has provided reasonable evidence, Peter. No need to show off how much you know about polling- just accept that polls were provided. That was off-topic, btw, I believe. Topic is about pussies, I think.
BTW, Tony Big Word Guy, you forgot me! I’m one of those who comment! Gee, you must be getting old there, man.
And I’ve a bit of new stuff at CTS. My take on the tax cuts Ralph Goodale “promised” just yesterday to the Commons Industry Committee: http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com
And, Anonologue, I agree you’re no pussy. Neither am I. I just like ’em. And I’m not afraid to expose Librano corruption. I hunger at the prospect of taking them down via an expose…
This thread ,I believe shows Anon is no pussy!
I does occur to me that perhaps for some of you folks who have nothing better to do than complain about a conversation that you were not even part of, it might be better if you jumped in and tried to raise the bar. I’ve seen others do it.
Or perhaps I’m mistaken. Perhaps only Liberal Prime Ministers are allow to define what’s Canadian and what’s not. I just wanna’ know, will proposed changes to the elections act make those two postings mandatory?
Boris Yeltsin once said about communism, “Everything which was not permitted was forbidden. Whatever was permitted was mandatory. Citizens were shackled in their actions by the universal passion for banning things.” Yup, that’s us, right on the CUSP: The Canadian Union of Socialist Provinces.
Yours,
The Man From P.U.S.S.I.E.
Process Undergirding Systems Support Infrastructure Engineering.
Bring us your kitty, and we’ll build a bridge out of ‘er.
My Canadian cousin is wierd.
He went to a place called Pussies.
A cat fight broke out.
And he complained!
“It does occur to me that perhaps for some of you folks who have nothing better to do than complain about a conversation that you were not even part of, it might be better if you jumped in and tried to raise the bar. I’ve seen others do it.”
Fair enough Tony and Anonologue.
The question “are Canadian bloggers pussies?” is based on a comparison with the US which doesn’t make sense, because our institutions and our national characteristics are so different. In the Rathergate incident, bloggers found something fishy about a story, just a small detail, and the MSM picked it up, and pretty soon it became a huge national story. Up here, our “huge story” is happening every day — we have a kleptocratic government who won the last election with laundered taxpayer money, with more sordid details pouring in daily — but our major media consider coverage of such abuse of taxpayer money to be mere obligatory detail on the way to the holy land of lifestyle/celebrity crap. In the worst case — the CBC — they try to ignore as much Liberal crime as they can get away with, and then, when their hand is forced by some minimal standard of credibility, they couch all the sordid revelations in the context of an ongoing assault on the common good by “scary” racist western christians.
So if bloggers in Canada, average citizens for the most part, bear constant witness to the corruption and hypocrisy and criminality of a government, while the MSM focuses on entertainment, who are the pussies?
Mainstream producers and editors and to a lesser extent journalists who know about and actively participate in and assist the corrupt culture of the Liberals are pussies. People who consider it rude to publicly consider the character, motivations and behaviour of any auspicious functionary are pussies too, and in this latter group I include commenters who didactically attempt to nudge people off the topic of Liberal malfeasance, who warn of bad outcomes that would come from noticing such things, and who try to dissolve in petty details the anger of those who do go ahead and notice what the Liberals are doing to this country.
Kate, AGWN, the people at the Shotgun — Steel, O’Neill, Libin, et al — they are surely the un-pussies. People who read these blogs know that topics have been broached which were later picked up, unattributed, in the MSM, but in language so couched as to remove the important point. Since a big story is by definition one that gets overt MSM coverage, to blame Canadian bloggers for not breaking “the big one” is like exonerating criminals for their actions, while blaming the police for not solving the root causes of crime.
I’m not sure that pure unmitigated anger is the best policy, EBD. Surely if one wants to connect with the social reality of the conversations that spontaneously erupt in comments threads, a little humour goes a long way. I also understand that the record of a real conversation may look a bit silly in retrospect to those who were not there at the time, transcripts are like that. It’s just that it seems to me that anger without humor is a bit like running a hot engine without lubrication.
I more or less completely agree with your thesis as just outlined; well said sir. But if I allow my anger to blind me to the contexts that the ship called my life is sailing though, then the resulting too-taught stays may snap the mast. As captain of said ship, I’m responsible for preventing that.
Hnkwaah? I don’t have the first clue what you are referring to. Did I mention or encourage or demonstrate “pure unmitigated anger”, or say that it was the “best policy”?
And I didn’t even mention the completely OT conversation in the thread above.
I must be a raving lunatic then bc I didn’t see much anger in EBD’s last comment… only a bit of frustration with some frankness to help the easily amused pay attention. I found him to be quite lucid and stable sounding ๐
I can’t even watch news on CTV, A-channel, CBC et al anymore bc it is so “don’t worry, be happy” oriented and never seriously critical of government.. always announcing Martin edicts of “may” and “might” and “over 5 years” etc as real policies that we should all kiss his arse for in joyous worship… it makes me wonder all of the time where the real tele-journalists have run off to.
It’s a sad state of affairs… my fantasy is that Ralph Klein will offer to buy the CBC, privatize it and staff it with hot-blooded semi-libertarian Western separatists or fresh-faced graduates looking for a career-maker of a story to liven things up re investigative tele-journalism especially re government scandals and lies… am I stark raving mad to hope for something so entertaining? ๐
EBD’s comment was a harbour in the storm in comparison to the penis posts unless I’m just completely blinded by worship ๐
Canuck bloggers not breaking many stories
An article for Maissoneuve magazine by a National Post writer attempts to answer why Canuck bloggers haven’t generated a shockwave of a …
Oh, sorry EBD, I forgot to erase my memory of the last few weeks comments in these parts. How can you not have a clue as to what I’m referring to, considering your comment above and your words at SDA at 2005-10-02 16:16 and following: http://tinyurl.com/c55l3 . You’ve clearly demonstrated anger towards those who aren’t as angry as you, not that we all don’t do that.
I agree with your thesis. I said “well said, sir”. In what way exactly does that deny me the option to riff off the aromas of your fine cooking? We’re, what, 115 comments into a thread, nobody’s reading it any more, and we’re somehow supposed to believe that the context is irrelevent, people’s history is irrelevent, but somehow we’re suddenly back on topic?
I am not a topic digesting ideology producing automaton. I am human. I like this soap opera we’ve got going here. So sue me, my lawyer’s name is Milton Berle.
Obligatory On-Topic Reference
Pussie: http://tinyurl.com/ch3kq
Cripes. It wasn’t a thesis, it was a comment.
I went to the link you provided, and I still don’t see how I “clearly demonstrated anger towards those who aren’t as angry” as I apparently am. But even if I did, for you to directly respond to my post here with an unannounced comment on an unrelated thread from five days ago is inconsiderate to Kate’s site and her visitors. This isn’t a chat room.
I will endeavor to make this my last ever off-topic post. Full stop.
Ach, I’m so bad with words, I meant comment, not thesis.
I completely agree with your 05:23 PM *comment*.
I went to the deli this morning, our usual motley crew. Fred and Sally were there, and George, and Betty. There were visitors there too, varied folks, some found the atmosphere interesting, others made faces.
Over time the deli has become an intersting place. In the morning, people read the papers and get depressed by it all, and in the evening they gather at the bar and have a laugh over it all.
One day the government came in and said, we’re here to help you. You can’t chat in here! Only officially sanctioned statements of policy are good for you.
But the good folks of the deli rose up. Sod your sanctions, they cried, we shall chat in this room or in that room. The best you can hope for is to drive us underground. We’ve got rooms there too.
Kate come back soon, the chatroom atmosphere you asked not to indulge in, well..
I swear I never thought I’d see the day when good honest folks simply hanging around chatting would become a bad thing. Perhaps I’m really not human after all, and I just don’t get it.
CNEWS POLL: As at October 8, 2005 8:04am
The Fraser Institute is suggesting new immigrants are a burden on taxpayers and lower the standard of living in Canada. Do you agree?
Yes 72%
No 22%
Not sure 6%
Total Votes for this Question: 4710 http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/polls/poll_result.html
Anonalogue said:
“My best guess is that Canadian bloggers – people in general, really – are too ego driven; everyone wants to be popular, and even the dimmest blogger understands they will be shunned for making politically incorrect posts. So everyone plays it safe, and The Left gets another free pass. Popularity wins out over truth, justice, and virtue. So it goes.”
[snip]
As some guy once said:
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
“Don’t be like a puppy chasing the tennis balls the MSM throws to distract you from what is important. Set your own agenda, man.”
I agree. Completely. I’ve lost readers on the Chronicles because I’ve used the term “wetbacks” to refer to illegal mexican immigrants entering the US. The term is completely accurate but not politically correct. Some of those lost readers are themselves conservative bloggers and I would refer to them as pussies because of their reluctance to call a spade a spade. The same goes for those who avoid the issues of homosexuality and pedophilia. It’s not politically correct to connect the dots with these two so most dont. It’s a big social issue and needs to be addressed.
Before the flaming starts I should mention that SSM was addressed within the blogosphere but that was an attempt to put a band-aid on a broken leg. Put simply, there was alot of whining about SSM with no one addressing the root cause which is homosexuality.
So, again, I have to agree with the premise that canadian bloggers are, generally, pussies. Overall they’re too politically correct and not willing to tackle the issues head on.
Oh, I almost forgot. I’ve gotten some of my best “boo’s” over using the term “sand monkey” to refer to islamic terrorists. The sand monkey song didn’t go over very well and was pulled but it’ll be up again with the next audio rotation.
If I want another friend I’ll get another dog…
Oh sorry, I was looking for the guys can…seems I stumbled upon a chess laden tea party for metrosexuals…
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EBD,
Learn the uses of the word thesis will you. It doesn’t always refer to a lengthy document.
That is what I mean about the lack of education nowaday. You make my point.
FYI
3 entries found for thesis.
the๏ฟฝsis Audio pronunciation of “thesis” ( P ) Pronunciation Key (thss)
n. pl. the๏ฟฝses (-sz)
1. A proposition that is maintained by argument.
2. A dissertation advancing an original point of view as a result of research, especially as a requirement for an academic degree.
3. A hypothetical proposition, especially one put forth without proof.
4. The first stage of the Hegelian dialectic process.
5.
1. The long or accented part of a metrical foot, especially in quantitative verse.
2. The unaccented or short part of a metrical foot, especially in accentual verse.
6. Music. The accented section of a measure.
To prove I’m no pussy blogger, I, in the future, will indeed make postings on matters which have almost not been discussed at all. Politically incorrect? Quite possibly. Controversial? For damn sure!
Check from time to time: http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com
Hey, Richard Evans, I would submit that it’s ok to call terrorists whatever we wish. For example, I, in conversation, have called Osama Bin Laden “That mountain goat”. I can’t believe we’re supposed to be PC about those sand spiders who go around chopping off innocent peoples’ heads on tv. Hey, we good people who are conservative have been called horrible things, right? And it isn’t considered P. in-C. Think about that.
I agree Sentinel. That’s the point. There are very few of us willing to do this… Those who don’t or can’t are, for all intents and purposes, the pussies referred to in the post.
Quintessential pussiness 1 = letting metrosexual good for nothing PEI be a province and giving it more representation in Ottawa than Alberta. That province is the size of an Alberta ranch with Anne of Green Gables on CBC being it’s only claim to fame – holy pussy of us to not make them part of NB.
Quintessential pussiness 2 = not separting from those maggots in Ottawa who ONLY give a flying poop about votes in Toronto and Montreal. [this means every other province outside of that corridor]If you believe otherwise and that things are going to get better SEE A DOCTOR NOW.
Quintessential pussiness 3 = enforced francois bilingualism in any province in Canada where there isn’t ONE unilingual french citizen and where the Chinese to french (by french re chinese I mean even anyone who can even just read french) ratio alone is 10,000 to 1, and then STILL ALLOWING Quebec to bend English over a counter and fornicate it all day and night long with their RACIST language laws.
[WHY DOES ANY SELF RESPECTING ANGLOPHONE KEEP VOTING FOR REGIMES THAT ALLOW THIS???
My conclusion being… Canadian [english, in particular] bloggers are pussies because English Canada is. Good on Quebec for always trying to improve their power-base… but they only succeed because English Canada so feebly acquiesces time after time. Example being, in a nation of “two solitudes” I don’t see any blogs at all working over the English/French debate… why not? It’s representitive of all of the cowtowing in Ottawa on all levels… so it’s real. Everyone outside of Ottawa whines about how ridiculous it is that Quebec only gets what it wants because of a real threat of separation but I don’t see any blogging talking seriosuly about it. This internet silence on something that could easily start a debate in any part of canada at any time in a pub with great passion speaks volumes of our pussiness… so the article is right.
Quebec’s power to get what it demands is now in decline with the rise of separatism in the West. It’s going to be risky for Ottawa to bend over the counter for Quebec now lest doing so will only serve to expand the movement in the West. Or is that what the “Liberals” want? Do they want to cut off one half of the nation so they can fully dominate the other?
Worth thinking about…
no I feel the situation is more naive (in Ottawa) than that. I think most in Ottawa believe that nobody else except for Quebec would have to balls to truly separate and they credit the language and unique identity factor in Quebec as being the only kind of glue that could build a bloc of votes large enough to break away. They really don’t feel threatened by even Alberta… and truly Ralph Klein has backed away from almost every sabre rattle he’s done… so I don’t think the gears of Ottawa, which is composed mainly of Quebecors because of the requirement to be bilingual, feel any worry at all about anything. The field is just as tilted as ever in my humble opinion but the West is in the infancy of learning how to walk… it’s an interesting decade coming up…
You have come late to this thread. It is long and time prevents you from reading everything here.
This well help you.
EDB Oct7 5:23 [Spot on}
Tony Oct7 6:15 [Also, but with contest]
Meursault Oct 7 7:06pm [Where have all the tele-journalists run off to?]
Richard Evans Oct8 12:20
Meursault Oct9 1:41 [ The amazing question..mystifies me about Canadians, pussies ? or just asleep at the wheel?]
Non-Pussie Blogger
Good points about sticking to Principle where one can risk being an outcast with only the dog as your friend. I advocate packs of government inspected weed on all corner store shelves, beside cigarettes, and have been avoided as bit of a wing nut. Too out there. Too non-cool.
Well screw cool! You look into how kids get hooked into drugs and you will be of the same opinion. You have two choices with pot. Eliminate it or legalize it. The country could go broke trying to eliminate it. It’s burning up police resources for nothing. No gains whatever.
I personally don’t use the stuff. I have friends who do. They have used it for 25 years. Aspirin will do more damage than pot ever will.
Louis Satchmo ,Armstrong, brilliant musician, publicly admits to being a pot smoker in public interviews. Louis is still brilliant. What’s the point of telling Satchmo to quit?
Speaking out as a Non-pussie Blogger, that is. 73s TG
Thanks for addressing my above question, Meursault. You’re probably correct in your analysis of the current situation and where things will go to if the Libmob remains in power.
I believe Ralph Klein indicated this is his last term as premier. Wonder who’ll lead the Tories to their next Alta victory? What kind of person and leader will it be? Would they have the charisma to lead the province towards liberty?
Of course, the results of the next federal election are the main thing to consider.
Yes, the coming decade will indeed be fascinating and, perhaps, exciting, one way or another. Don’t, however, ask me to make any predictions; I’m no Nostradamus, after all…
Another possible proof to consider: On TCS, I did a post on a biased msm headline which falsely and w/o evidence claimed Mr. Harper was angry about the few dissidents led by Carol Jamieson. Only hours later the headline was changed. I don’t know if my post had anything to do with it, but I doubt if it would’ve been changed if no one at all said, “Hey!”. Maybe someone read my post and did say something…
A small victory, if the case. Nothing big, but I’ll surely do something big if the opportunity arises…
And I’m not alone.
“fundamental right of family reunification”
Librano$$$$$ Bullsh!t
This Thread was a total fluff entertainment.
The main statistic everyone missed was simply that polls are political tools and just as suited to being sprayed upon by dogs, as are poles and hydrants.
There was some humour, and it was fun to follow, but it was TV quality entertainmet.
The most useless bit of professorial bull ever devised goes something like, results are accurate to plus or minus two percent 19 times out of 20.
I can recall polls taken before elections that were out by 30 to 35%.
Meaning they were designed to sway voters, not give an accurate reflection of anything.
Does this link work?
http://My.Opera.com/T-G/
Nothing to do with Opera btw.
This one works… great fun! Manolo’s shoe blog
http://shoeblogs.com enjoy, ‘3s TG
Boys you need a life. Emmigration is a real problem. I don’t care what the stats are.
I’am new to this blog site and this dribble is unbelievable. I would like to see questions that some of you out there may have some answers. The Media will not or cannot investigate. Why do chariable organizations have foundations with thousands of dollars sitting in them and tell the public through free media stories (feel good stories) how they cannot feed the poor?
Sorry EGG, but the fundamental human right of family reunification is total BS. It is a nice thought, but VERY abused in practice. I used to work as an assistant to an MP in a high-immigration area and one of my jobs was handling the immigration cases coming through the MP’s doors. The problems? Let’s start with fake adoptions. A Canadian immigrant family “adopts” a 15 yr-old girl from their homeland. When the adopted girl gets here, a few years later she brings in her biological family. It’s not supposed to happen like that. There’s supposed to be tracking mechanisms to prevent it, but not only does government tend to lose the information, but if the immigration QUOTA hasn’t been met by year-end, the immigration officers approve a flood of non-qualified immigrants. I’ve seen it happen with my own eyes.
Another situation that arises is the young immigrant coming here who then wants to sponsor his elderly parents and extended family. I agree with the concept, but in the case of an Afghani friend of mine, his 60 year old mother had Tuberculosis! The case was denied because of that originally, but eventually she was let in after she found a doctor to declare her free of TB. So now we have an elderly person who is going to be using more of our taxpayer-funded healthcare and who’s highly contagious TB is in “remission”. Don’t forget the elderly father as well. Again, this Afghani is a friend of mine who had 3 jobs here in Canada so that he could afford to bring his parents over, but still I think we need to start thinking of Canada first.
People, hover your pointers on “not factually correct”‘s moniker to reveal the email address, which is apparently hosted at a far-left moonie site called pleasegodkillbush.com.
See how scary the left is?
Well, I tried to have a grownup conversation, I posted a bunch of data, etc., but Peter and the rest of them kept dragging the level of conversation down. Appararently making anus jokes is OK, and making fun of my nongratuitous use of Bayesian Inference or anything form of advanced thinking is something that makes people giggle. Nice! At least I can say I’m not a pussy, and not too timorous to broach a grownup subject like immigration.
All this thread has done is fulfill what I predicted at the beginning: that Canadian bloggers are such PC-chilled pussies that they would rather attack a guy for making a comment on an Untouchable subject matter like immigration…than attack the actual govenment that is implementing a policy that a) Canadians are nearly unanimously opposed to, and b) is quantifiably a bad thing.
Thanks for proving my point Peter, EKG, Tony, and the rest. Have a nice, safe, happy, shiny day.
“It’s really the last resort of a failing intellect.”
Maybe in corrupt pollster/adscammers minds who wish to stifle debate , but vulgarity can find an effective place in most discusions.
On the other hand, any support of the Librano$$$$$$$$$$$ doctrine is proof of any empty place where intellect should be.
All Librano$$$$$$$ and their choir of shrill neutered saprano$$$$$$$ are bought with OUR stolen money.
Here’s a good response to the question of whether we’re pussies:
“I think that the announcement that Pettigrews chauffeur has taken “leave” shows that the Canadian bogging community CAN have a significant effect on politics and are NOT “pussies”
Keep up the good work.
Horny Toad”
Perhaps now we can stop calling each other by the names of bodyparts with which people play and fornicate.
Would some guest blogger pls post a new post? Poor Kate. No way to whip y’all.
And people, Anonologue is entitled to his/her opinion (I say his/her ’cause I don’t know whether Anonologue has a pussy or a winky). Anonologue has provided reasonable evidence, Peter. No need to show off how much you know about polling- just accept that polls were provided. That was off-topic, btw, I believe. Topic is about pussies, I think.
BTW, Tony Big Word Guy, you forgot me! I’m one of those who comment! Gee, you must be getting old there, man.
And I’ve a bit of new stuff at CTS. My take on the tax cuts Ralph Goodale “promised” just yesterday to the Commons Industry Committee:
http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com
And, Anonologue, I agree you’re no pussy. Neither am I. I just like ’em. And I’m not afraid to expose Librano corruption. I hunger at the prospect of taking them down via an expose…
This thread ,I believe shows Anon is no pussy!
I does occur to me that perhaps for some of you folks who have nothing better to do than complain about a conversation that you were not even part of, it might be better if you jumped in and tried to raise the bar. I’ve seen others do it.
Or perhaps I’m mistaken. Perhaps only Liberal Prime Ministers are allow to define what’s Canadian and what’s not. I just wanna’ know, will proposed changes to the elections act make those two postings mandatory?
Boris Yeltsin once said about communism, “Everything which was not permitted was forbidden. Whatever was permitted was mandatory. Citizens were shackled in their actions by the universal passion for banning things.” Yup, that’s us, right on the CUSP: The Canadian Union of Socialist Provinces.
Yours,
The Man From P.U.S.S.I.E.
Process Undergirding Systems Support Infrastructure Engineering.
Bring us your kitty, and we’ll build a bridge out of ‘er.
My Canadian cousin is wierd.
He went to a place called Pussies.
A cat fight broke out.
And he complained!
“It does occur to me that perhaps for some of you folks who have nothing better to do than complain about a conversation that you were not even part of, it might be better if you jumped in and tried to raise the bar. I’ve seen others do it.”
Fair enough Tony and Anonologue.
The question “are Canadian bloggers pussies?” is based on a comparison with the US which doesn’t make sense, because our institutions and our national characteristics are so different. In the Rathergate incident, bloggers found something fishy about a story, just a small detail, and the MSM picked it up, and pretty soon it became a huge national story. Up here, our “huge story” is happening every day — we have a kleptocratic government who won the last election with laundered taxpayer money, with more sordid details pouring in daily — but our major media consider coverage of such abuse of taxpayer money to be mere obligatory detail on the way to the holy land of lifestyle/celebrity crap. In the worst case — the CBC — they try to ignore as much Liberal crime as they can get away with, and then, when their hand is forced by some minimal standard of credibility, they couch all the sordid revelations in the context of an ongoing assault on the common good by “scary” racist western christians.
So if bloggers in Canada, average citizens for the most part, bear constant witness to the corruption and hypocrisy and criminality of a government, while the MSM focuses on entertainment, who are the pussies?
Mainstream producers and editors and to a lesser extent journalists who know about and actively participate in and assist the corrupt culture of the Liberals are pussies. People who consider it rude to publicly consider the character, motivations and behaviour of any auspicious functionary are pussies too, and in this latter group I include commenters who didactically attempt to nudge people off the topic of Liberal malfeasance, who warn of bad outcomes that would come from noticing such things, and who try to dissolve in petty details the anger of those who do go ahead and notice what the Liberals are doing to this country.
Kate, AGWN, the people at the Shotgun — Steel, O’Neill, Libin, et al — they are surely the un-pussies. People who read these blogs know that topics have been broached which were later picked up, unattributed, in the MSM, but in language so couched as to remove the important point. Since a big story is by definition one that gets overt MSM coverage, to blame Canadian bloggers for not breaking “the big one” is like exonerating criminals for their actions, while blaming the police for not solving the root causes of crime.
I’m not sure that pure unmitigated anger is the best policy, EBD. Surely if one wants to connect with the social reality of the conversations that spontaneously erupt in comments threads, a little humour goes a long way. I also understand that the record of a real conversation may look a bit silly in retrospect to those who were not there at the time, transcripts are like that. It’s just that it seems to me that anger without humor is a bit like running a hot engine without lubrication.
I more or less completely agree with your thesis as just outlined; well said sir. But if I allow my anger to blind me to the contexts that the ship called my life is sailing though, then the resulting too-taught stays may snap the mast. As captain of said ship, I’m responsible for preventing that.
Hnkwaah? I don’t have the first clue what you are referring to. Did I mention or encourage or demonstrate “pure unmitigated anger”, or say that it was the “best policy”?
And I didn’t even mention the completely OT conversation in the thread above.
I must be a raving lunatic then bc I didn’t see much anger in EBD’s last comment… only a bit of frustration with some frankness to help the easily amused pay attention. I found him to be quite lucid and stable sounding ๐
I can’t even watch news on CTV, A-channel, CBC et al anymore bc it is so “don’t worry, be happy” oriented and never seriously critical of government.. always announcing Martin edicts of “may” and “might” and “over 5 years” etc as real policies that we should all kiss his arse for in joyous worship… it makes me wonder all of the time where the real tele-journalists have run off to.
It’s a sad state of affairs… my fantasy is that Ralph Klein will offer to buy the CBC, privatize it and staff it with hot-blooded semi-libertarian Western separatists or fresh-faced graduates looking for a career-maker of a story to liven things up re investigative tele-journalism especially re government scandals and lies… am I stark raving mad to hope for something so entertaining? ๐
EBD’s comment was a harbour in the storm in comparison to the penis posts unless I’m just completely blinded by worship ๐
Canuck bloggers not breaking many stories
An article for Maissoneuve magazine by a National Post writer attempts to answer why Canuck bloggers haven’t generated a shockwave of a …
Oh, sorry EBD, I forgot to erase my memory of the last few weeks comments in these parts. How can you not have a clue as to what I’m referring to, considering your comment above and your words at SDA at 2005-10-02 16:16 and following: http://tinyurl.com/c55l3 . You’ve clearly demonstrated anger towards those who aren’t as angry as you, not that we all don’t do that.
I agree with your thesis. I said “well said, sir”. In what way exactly does that deny me the option to riff off the aromas of your fine cooking? We’re, what, 115 comments into a thread, nobody’s reading it any more, and we’re somehow supposed to believe that the context is irrelevent, people’s history is irrelevent, but somehow we’re suddenly back on topic?
I am not a topic digesting ideology producing automaton. I am human. I like this soap opera we’ve got going here. So sue me, my lawyer’s name is Milton Berle.
Obligatory On-Topic Reference
Pussie: http://tinyurl.com/ch3kq
Cripes. It wasn’t a thesis, it was a comment.
I went to the link you provided, and I still don’t see how I “clearly demonstrated anger towards those who aren’t as angry” as I apparently am. But even if I did, for you to directly respond to my post here with an unannounced comment on an unrelated thread from five days ago is inconsiderate to Kate’s site and her visitors. This isn’t a chat room.
I will endeavor to make this my last ever off-topic post. Full stop.
Ach, I’m so bad with words, I meant comment, not thesis.
I completely agree with your 05:23 PM *comment*.
I went to the deli this morning, our usual motley crew. Fred and Sally were there, and George, and Betty. There were visitors there too, varied folks, some found the atmosphere interesting, others made faces.
Over time the deli has become an intersting place. In the morning, people read the papers and get depressed by it all, and in the evening they gather at the bar and have a laugh over it all.
One day the government came in and said, we’re here to help you. You can’t chat in here! Only officially sanctioned statements of policy are good for you.
But the good folks of the deli rose up. Sod your sanctions, they cried, we shall chat in this room or in that room. The best you can hope for is to drive us underground. We’ve got rooms there too.
Kate come back soon, the chatroom atmosphere you asked not to indulge in, well..
I swear I never thought I’d see the day when good honest folks simply hanging around chatting would become a bad thing. Perhaps I’m really not human after all, and I just don’t get it.
CNEWS POLL: As at October 8, 2005 8:04am
The Fraser Institute is suggesting new immigrants are a burden on taxpayers and lower the standard of living in Canada. Do you agree?
Yes 72%
No 22%
Not sure 6%
Total Votes for this Question: 4710
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/polls/poll_result.html
Anonalogue said:
“My best guess is that Canadian bloggers – people in general, really – are too ego driven; everyone wants to be popular, and even the dimmest blogger understands they will be shunned for making politically incorrect posts. So everyone plays it safe, and The Left gets another free pass. Popularity wins out over truth, justice, and virtue. So it goes.”
[snip]
As some guy once said:
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
“Don’t be like a puppy chasing the tennis balls the MSM throws to distract you from what is important. Set your own agenda, man.”
I agree. Completely. I’ve lost readers on the Chronicles because I’ve used the term “wetbacks” to refer to illegal mexican immigrants entering the US. The term is completely accurate but not politically correct. Some of those lost readers are themselves conservative bloggers and I would refer to them as pussies because of their reluctance to call a spade a spade. The same goes for those who avoid the issues of homosexuality and pedophilia. It’s not politically correct to connect the dots with these two so most dont. It’s a big social issue and needs to be addressed.
Before the flaming starts I should mention that SSM was addressed within the blogosphere but that was an attempt to put a band-aid on a broken leg. Put simply, there was alot of whining about SSM with no one addressing the root cause which is homosexuality.
So, again, I have to agree with the premise that canadian bloggers are, generally, pussies. Overall they’re too politically correct and not willing to tackle the issues head on.
Oh, I almost forgot. I’ve gotten some of my best “boo’s” over using the term “sand monkey” to refer to islamic terrorists. The sand monkey song didn’t go over very well and was pulled but it’ll be up again with the next audio rotation.
If I want another friend I’ll get another dog…
Oh sorry, I was looking for the guys can…seems I stumbled upon a chess laden tea party for metrosexuals…
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EBD,
Learn the uses of the word thesis will you. It doesn’t always refer to a lengthy document.
That is what I mean about the lack of education nowaday. You make my point.
FYI
3 entries found for thesis.
the๏ฟฝsis Audio pronunciation of “thesis” ( P ) Pronunciation Key (thss)
n. pl. the๏ฟฝses (-sz)
1. A proposition that is maintained by argument.
2. A dissertation advancing an original point of view as a result of research, especially as a requirement for an academic degree.
3. A hypothetical proposition, especially one put forth without proof.
4. The first stage of the Hegelian dialectic process.
5.
1. The long or accented part of a metrical foot, especially in quantitative verse.
2. The unaccented or short part of a metrical foot, especially in accentual verse.
6. Music. The accented section of a measure.
To prove I’m no pussy blogger, I, in the future, will indeed make postings on matters which have almost not been discussed at all. Politically incorrect? Quite possibly. Controversial? For damn sure!
Check from time to time:
http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com
Hey, Richard Evans, I would submit that it’s ok to call terrorists whatever we wish. For example, I, in conversation, have called Osama Bin Laden “That mountain goat”. I can’t believe we’re supposed to be PC about those sand spiders who go around chopping off innocent peoples’ heads on tv. Hey, we good people who are conservative have been called horrible things, right? And it isn’t considered P. in-C. Think about that.
I agree Sentinel. That’s the point. There are very few of us willing to do this… Those who don’t or can’t are, for all intents and purposes, the pussies referred to in the post.
Quintessential pussiness 1 = letting metrosexual good for nothing PEI be a province and giving it more representation in Ottawa than Alberta. That province is the size of an Alberta ranch with Anne of Green Gables on CBC being it’s only claim to fame – holy pussy of us to not make them part of NB.
Quintessential pussiness 2 = not separting from those maggots in Ottawa who ONLY give a flying poop about votes in Toronto and Montreal. [this means every other province outside of that corridor]If you believe otherwise and that things are going to get better SEE A DOCTOR NOW.
Quintessential pussiness 3 = enforced francois bilingualism in any province in Canada where there isn’t ONE unilingual french citizen and where the Chinese to french (by french re chinese I mean even anyone who can even just read french) ratio alone is 10,000 to 1, and then STILL ALLOWING Quebec to bend English over a counter and fornicate it all day and night long with their RACIST language laws.
[WHY DOES ANY SELF RESPECTING ANGLOPHONE KEEP VOTING FOR REGIMES THAT ALLOW THIS???
My conclusion being… Canadian [english, in particular] bloggers are pussies because English Canada is. Good on Quebec for always trying to improve their power-base… but they only succeed because English Canada so feebly acquiesces time after time. Example being, in a nation of “two solitudes” I don’t see any blogs at all working over the English/French debate… why not? It’s representitive of all of the cowtowing in Ottawa on all levels… so it’s real. Everyone outside of Ottawa whines about how ridiculous it is that Quebec only gets what it wants because of a real threat of separation but I don’t see any blogging talking seriosuly about it. This internet silence on something that could easily start a debate in any part of canada at any time in a pub with great passion speaks volumes of our pussiness… so the article is right.
Quebec’s power to get what it demands is now in decline with the rise of separatism in the West. It’s going to be risky for Ottawa to bend over the counter for Quebec now lest doing so will only serve to expand the movement in the West. Or is that what the “Liberals” want? Do they want to cut off one half of the nation so they can fully dominate the other?
Worth thinking about…
no I feel the situation is more naive (in Ottawa) than that. I think most in Ottawa believe that nobody else except for Quebec would have to balls to truly separate and they credit the language and unique identity factor in Quebec as being the only kind of glue that could build a bloc of votes large enough to break away. They really don’t feel threatened by even Alberta… and truly Ralph Klein has backed away from almost every sabre rattle he’s done… so I don’t think the gears of Ottawa, which is composed mainly of Quebecors because of the requirement to be bilingual, feel any worry at all about anything. The field is just as tilted as ever in my humble opinion but the West is in the infancy of learning how to walk… it’s an interesting decade coming up…
You have come late to this thread. It is long and time prevents you from reading everything here.
This well help you.
EDB Oct7 5:23 [Spot on}
Tony Oct7 6:15 [Also, but with contest]
Meursault Oct 7 7:06pm [Where have all the tele-journalists run off to?]
Richard Evans Oct8 12:20
Meursault Oct9 1:41 [ The amazing question..mystifies me about Canadians, pussies ? or just asleep at the wheel?]
Non-Pussie Blogger
Good points about sticking to Principle where one can risk being an outcast with only the dog as your friend. I advocate packs of government inspected weed on all corner store shelves, beside cigarettes, and have been avoided as bit of a wing nut. Too out there. Too non-cool.
Well screw cool! You look into how kids get hooked into drugs and you will be of the same opinion. You have two choices with pot. Eliminate it or legalize it. The country could go broke trying to eliminate it. It’s burning up police resources for nothing. No gains whatever.
I personally don’t use the stuff. I have friends who do. They have used it for 25 years. Aspirin will do more damage than pot ever will.
Louis Satchmo ,Armstrong, brilliant musician, publicly admits to being a pot smoker in public interviews. Louis is still brilliant. What’s the point of telling Satchmo to quit?
Speaking out as a Non-pussie Blogger, that is. 73s TG
Thanks for addressing my above question, Meursault. You’re probably correct in your analysis of the current situation and where things will go to if the Libmob remains in power.
I believe Ralph Klein indicated this is his last term as premier. Wonder who’ll lead the Tories to their next Alta victory? What kind of person and leader will it be? Would they have the charisma to lead the province towards liberty?
Of course, the results of the next federal election are the main thing to consider.
Yes, the coming decade will indeed be fascinating and, perhaps, exciting, one way or another. Don’t, however, ask me to make any predictions; I’m no Nostradamus, after all…
Another possible proof to consider: On TCS, I did a post on a biased msm headline which falsely and w/o evidence claimed Mr. Harper was angry about the few dissidents led by Carol Jamieson. Only hours later the headline was changed. I don’t know if my post had anything to do with it, but I doubt if it would’ve been changed if no one at all said, “Hey!”. Maybe someone read my post and did say something…
A small victory, if the case. Nothing big, but I’ll surely do something big if the opportunity arises…
And I’m not alone.