I thought I’d dredge up this old piece about one of our most famous Canadians. People usually crow with glee about records, but this is one record Canadians would just as soon forget about:
The article further suggested that he was, “generous, cooking for them, handing out drugs, hosting wild, never-ending parties.” Investigators fear that the food he was serving to his guests may have actually been the remains of some of his victims.
Libertarians often carp about the danger of mega-government that acquiesces ever more authority to bureaucracies. Libertarians theorize that once governmental bodies reach a certain critical mass, they begin to work outside the democratic process and are in fact, a law unto themselves. Brussels Journal brings us an interesting piece on the EU elite; un-elected, un-bowed, and bound and determined to ignore democratic processes:
“It is not France that has said ‘no’ to the constitution,” he (Valéry Giscard d’Estaing) said last week, “it is 55 per cent of French people.” France, in other words, is represented, not by its ill-informed population, but by its former President. “L’état, c’est Giscard.”
What do PETA and the dictionary have incommon? Well, not much apparantly, except the word “circus.” Moonbattery explains why, and tosses in some charming PETA pics:
It looks like the English language may suffer from collateral damage in PETA’s war on circuses. The animal rights organization best known for staging foolish publicity stunts, advocating terrorism, attempting to convince children that their parents are monsters, and of course, killing animals, is now demanding that Merriam-Webster change the definition of the word “circus” to conform with their hyperbolic propaganda.
Annie get Your Tongue… Love her… hate her… you’ve just got to admire her rapid fire shoot from the lip candor. Watch Anne Coulter take on a “fan”, live, on British TV.
PETA.
people for the expedient treatment of animals.
seems their death toll percentages are on the upward trend.
yet another moonbat outfit practicing ol’ george goebbel’s lessons, pound and pound and pound away at the same message, variations and different targets, then pound and pound away some more, then mix in some well known truth then revert to the mantra.
they didnt count on the double edged word aspect of the web though, eh?
I was wondering when I’d get a chance to slip this in: according to a dictionary definition I happened on, a “coulter” is a sharp blade or disc at the front of a plow.
‘Loved Ann Coulter’s exchange with the oh-so British and dripping-with-condescension BBC commentator, Jeremy Paxman.
Well, la-dee-dah, Mr. Bulging with Bile Commentator. When you open with the question, having admitted you’ve read only the first chapter of the book, “…does it get any better?” I think Mr. Paxman is fortunate that Coulter continued with the interview.
To his last impertinent question about her endangering “more reasoned critique of the liberal establishment,” she zinged at him that “more reasoned critques” were not the #1 book in America, “so I think I’m doing just fine,” and nicely put Mr. Paxman in his place.
I think BBC man got more than he bargained for!
Ann’s response to the host’s questioning whether there was a Liberal bias in the media considering her appearance on a slew of major broadcasters was priceless… “…well, considering that warm, welcoming introduction…” lol!
Even if Ann can go over the top sometimes, you have to credit her with having one helluva sense of humor.
She’s absolutely marvellous. Showed how empty his opinions were.
I’m confused.
A friend sends me an invitation every year to a pig roast. It ends with the acronym P.E.T.A
People Eating Tasty Animals.
Have I been mislead?
It is not France that has said ‘no’ to the constitution,” he said last week, “it is 55 per cent of French people.”
Channeling Marie Antoinette. Priceless.
When the socialist’s EU Constitution is ratified, whether the common people want it or not, the text will be the size of a major city phone book. That’s a fact. In contrast, an American can buy the complete US Constitution in pocket size and keep it in their purse/back pocket. A profound democratic comparison that should never be lost in civic lessons.
I feel sorry for the newer ex-Communist bloc countries in the EU that thought they had finally made it out of slavery only to find the same familiar apparachniks ruling them from Brussels.
Paxman’s condesension is really his own insecurity and genuine dislike for what he and his ilk stand for. After all condesension is a defence mechanism for insecurity.
Colter on the other hand is so plain spoken and so sure of herself, arrogant really that we who have been spoon fed pablum for so long find it shocking when someone comes along grabs us by the shoulders and shakes vigorusly saying wake up numb nuts this is what going on, it’s your world too are you going to do something about or roll over and die.
Her message I believe is that important.
Her arrogance I feel is her own shock at her level of success and therefore hasn’t quite learned to cope yet with how wildly successful her message is.
We would all be in a serious HEAP of trouble if Anne Coulter became a spokesperson for PETA!…
But,seriously,as much as I dislike her’troll-like’disrespect for ANYONE who dare have a differing view,I’m glad she’s on OUR side!
Honestly,she must have some hardcore liberals ABSOLUTELY screaming at their TVs by constantly attacking them with their very own nasty tactics.Sswwweeeeeett!
Such harsh words coming from such a pretty face, Gotta like it.
alas, the eastern bloc at least had a chance to break free from the kremlin as history showed.
not now !!!
theys all on the sames side now !!!
this has to be an even bigger con than ol’ karl EVER dreampt up. there is some thought you know, that line between grande altruism and petite self interest, that mr marx only writ his manifesto as a clever way of getting an allowance to pay his rent and meagre meals. kinda like the modern day professional students I saw in action whilst acquiring my now famous BA BSc. those I was either working at the time or in the case of the BA, used my savings to pay tuition.
there is also a rumour his last words were ‘Im not a marxist’. read that somewhere too.
Re: Coulter
I think most rational people are surprised at the audience for this philistine, what could be the connection…oh wait, never mind.
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0612321/
The role of Paxman will be played by ABC-TV Soap Star Richard Mulligan.
I don’t really think Ann did a good job here. Her justification for her theories was mostly that she had a number 1 book-though i get the feeling some of those sales are out of morbid curiosity. That was a truly intelligent argument. I am not sure if her book should be called “godless the church of liberalism” or “brainless:the church of coulterism”. Seriously. She makes the right look like a bunch of crazy mentally deficient lunatics.
I was surprised at how calm she was through an interview/ad hominem attack that would have skewered lesser thinkers. I would have been furious. She just laughed off his attempted condescension traps: “aren’t you worried about what people might think . . . ”
He nicely proved her point of media bias by asking why all the major networks were interviewing her — and presumably all treating her like the same kind of weird conservative insect. And yet they pretend they don’t form a liberal hegemony.
Paxton made the media look like sneering hateful leftists, with no real point to their anger of diverse opinion, and no facts to back up their assertions.
He ends the interview abruptly, tail between his legs, not a single point on the scoreboard. Usually he crows victory and issues one final statement reassuring viewers that BBC Think remains superior.
The money quote from the Ann Coulter interview: “The ‘more reasoned critiques’ [of the Liberal Establishment] … are not the number one book in America, and mine is, so I think I’m doing just fine.”
Proof positive that “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.” (H.L. Mencken)
Mein Kampf has sold millions more copies than loud-mouth Annies ode to conservatism. So that makes fascism more correct than conservatism according to Ann.
Paxton should have done his homework rather than relying on British arrogance to win the day.
Really sad on both parts but truly amusing to watch 2 assholes duke it out.
A nil nil tie. They both lose with conservatism taking it on the chin!
America and the Allies have a bad habit of winning the war and losing the peace.
I think maybe we should have left the Berlin Wall up./half sarc
EU-wise it sometimes seems to me that a lot of stupid commie ideas and practices came free flowing westward when the Wall fell.
It’s funny how Liberals/socialists/leftists/whatever will look at something like the Ann Coulter interview and see “irrational” Ann “losing” or “drawing” with Paxman while Conservatives/neo-cons/rightists/whatever seeing Ann “the Champion” skewering Paxman.
We see the same thing, filter it through our own preconceptions and draw two completely disparate conclusions based on our own philosophy or perspective. And then on a forum such as SDA, we try to “debate” the issue with one-sided comments (well, those basically are Kate’s rules)…all the while, never actually getting to the heart of the matter or making any allowances that “the other side” may actually have a point in anything they say.
Funny. From my perspective, I saw a condescending Paxman try to shame Coulter with respect to her “bizarre” opinions and I saw Coulter calmy but arrogantly defending her own opinion. Paxman didn’t try to score any points by making any valid points…he just tried to shame and belittle Coulters comments. Coulter defended with valid points, though not convincing by any means. I see it definitely as a Coulter win.
Agitfact, I have read many comments here at SDA by “leftists” who basically try to claim that “most Canadians” agree with their point of view and, not surprisingly, “rightists” dismiss those claims…Ann Coulter tries (essentially) the same tactic and you dismiss it. The only difference…the claims by the leftists are usually offered with nothing to back them up (just empty statements), while Coulter has at least something substantial to back it up. So, nice try but not good enough.
Bravo Ann!, she sliced and diced that pompous prig.
Speaking of pompous prigs, David Brown gets it oh so wrong yet again. Red card to you. On yer bike Brown.
To David Brown,
Actually, Mein Kamph (if memory serves) was not a very good seller until Hitler became chancellor, and even then only because many schools, groups, etc were pressured into buying it. Current sales are bolstered by his infamy.
BTW, a definition for you: argumentum ad nazium: The practice of comparing your opponent to Hitler, or comparing their position to Nazism in order to bolster your own weak argument. When you play the Hitler card, you admit defeat.
“yet another moonbat outfit practicing ol’ george goebbel’s lessons, pound and pound and pound away at the same…”
Robert J, that was Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister, and a damned good one. People still use his tactics today.
George Gobel was a really funny American comedian in the fifties through the seventies, don’t know if he’s still alive. He played guitar and made some pretty funny observations, you can see him on old Carson tapes. Personally, I loved George, hated Joe.
I thoroughly enjoyed Ann Coulter’s calm answers to the priggish BBC meathead’s baiting questions. I wish we had “an Ann” in Canada.
David Brown said, “A nil nil tie. They both lose with conservatism taking it on the chin!”
I rather thought that arrogant, condescending, no-points-made liberal/left media elitism took it on the chin.
I don’t really think Ann did a good job here. Her justification for her theories was mostly that she had a number 1 book-though i get the feeling some of those sales are out of morbid curiosity.
That was my first reaction to her final answer, as well; then I thought back to what the question was. I re-played the video, and here are the exact words: ” . . . you have no anxiety that many people will just look at this and find it so extreme and so absurd that they won’t countenance a more reasoned critique of the liberal establishment, as you see it?”
To paraphrase, the question was whether she was concerned that her shrill approach would cause people not to listen to her arguments. Her response was effectively that the fact that she had the #1 book in sales in the American market meant that she was reaching a lot of people, and, therefore, probably not causing many not to listen to her arguments.
I agree wholeheartedly that popularity is not a measure of quality; for example, Public Enemy’s music doesn’t measure up even to that of a minor composer like Emanuel Chabrier, much less the music of Bach or Mozart, even though there were undoubtedly more CDs sold of Public Enemy’s music over the past twelve months than of Chabrier’s. But that’s not the question that the interviewer asked.
There’s no snot like an English snot; no English snot like a “public school” snot; no “public school” snot like a BBC snot. Man they get up my nose.
That wasn’t an interview? That was an intended freak show. But PaxMan was the freak.
My favourite bit of snotiness was the line, “in her book Ann Coulter argues … if that’s the right word for it” … [or close to that].
And who ended up sans argument but the PaxMan. These guys think that a plummy accent = truth — lazy bastards, sorta like a restaurant with bad food relying on its view.
So what else will these jerks at PETA do to get what they want? frankly the only ones who have anything to do with PETA are thsoe whos brains have become so small to find SCREW PETA,SCREW PAMELA ANDERSON and SCREW ALEC BALDWIN
I would eat a mile of her shit to get within an inch of her brain.
As one who is in and out of France frequently (and loves the place), it’s becoming very clear that something is afoot there.
The French folks I run into there, be they waiters or bankers, are getting very cranky and restive about the situation.
All this is exemplified by the Ségo-Sarko presidential contest; a contest that actually seems to be making French politics interesting again after decades of dreary, patronizing, élitist governments.
“[S]orta like a restaurant with bad food relying on its view.”
Then there’s this exquisitely tiresome approach to suck in the usual trendy suspects – a restaurant completely in the dark with NO view:
http://www.danslenoir.com/london/
I liked Ann’s interview. Given the heavily loaded questions, often with erronious presupositions Paxman pitched, I think Ann showed a lot of poise and self-restraint. I think Ann still struggles, as most of us conservatives do, with how hopelessly muddled yet utterly arrogant liberals are in their mindset. It was tough for Ann to appear chivalrous since she was fighting a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.
DrD Exactly my sentiment. I found myself initially disappointed with the Coulter performance, but after some further reflection it occurred to me that it was an impossible situation. It was not an interview; it was “drive by media” at work. In the context, she did very well indeed. Pommie Bastard he is (aussie term: whinging pommie bastards, makes me chuckle).
re: mein kempf:
this work has has some 70 +/- more years to sell, thus the higher figures. trhe true test is what the sales were prior to oh, say, 1936 or 1939 or 1945. sales afterward I suspect went to a lot of armchair analysts trying to figure out how he, hitler, did it and what warning signs may have existed in hte book.
ms. coulter is hardly a nazi sympathizer. it was a republican, Eisenhauer, who led the successful effort to beat the shit out of naziism.
p.s. re messrs goebbels: both are deceased. George was the quinessential deadpan comic artiste. joe was the quitessential architect of modern propaganda. you dont have to agree with the objectives to understand and agree that the methods work. you have to know the enemy to fight them.
George S Patton is my fav. WW II commander. he beat rommel because he read rommel’s book. he’s the only senior mil. bloke Ive EVER seen weeping on film over the personal cost of war. it happened during his stateside tour post may 1945.
excuse me whilst I find the road under all this dust and get back on topic . . .
anyone wishing to screw pammy anderson is strongly advised to wear a condom and refrain from french kissing. the woman has hepatitis C. hepatitis is a prolonged incurable viral infection. I am not aware of even a single spontaneous cure. I have hep A & B vaccination because of my work in construction. hep C which is quite diff virus as I understand, hasnt even got a vaccine.
LOL !!!
pamela fukin anderson and her bags of silicon. hey boys, its SILICON. got that? silicon and botox. (pant pant pant)
jeezuz is there ever a lot of dust around here . . .
LOL !!!