A poll that asks to go horribly wrong, offered up to a blogosphere where there are people who can make it happen…
Update – on display, the spectacular reading comprehension skills of today’s Liberal. “Small Dead Animals is lobbying her readers to get me to stop! Is she a scared dead animal, or something?”
Can anyone point out to me where I’ve told readers how to vote? No, they can’t. Because that would be cheating, and cheating is for Liberals!
Upperdate – The poll is rapidly and abruptly closed. With the “pier option” rapidly overtaking all others that were once on offer, it looks like someone’s afraid of the democratic will of the people, or in other words – a Liberal.
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When you answer a poll, is your ip address recorded in any way?
Just because I’m paranoid …
Just cast my vote for the pier and walk option.
Nevermind. Compared to Kinsella, I’m not paranoid at all.
Wow….the poll is closed after 150 votes!!!
That didn’t take long !
VOTING DAY (UPDATED)
Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 11:22 AM
I’ve considered all of your comments – and thank you muchly for sending ’em in. Thank you, too, to the many more people who sent along personal notes.
I have my own preference for what to do about wk.com. But I wanted to impose again on you folks, and see if we can get a show of hands, as it were.
[LATER] A clear majority wants it to keep going. Back to y’all soon.
Kinsella & his ilk only like polls where they know the results ahead of time.
P.S. Michele, EVERY time you visit any website, your IP address is potentially recorded.
Too funny. Last time I checked, it was pretty evenly split between “keep going” and “walk off pier.”
Was about to be run over by sda so he pulled off the road. Lost the game of chicken 🙂
“Update – on display, the spectacular reading comprehension skills of today’s Liberal. “Small Dead Animals is lobbying her readers to get me to stop! Is she a scared dead animal, or something?””
Scared of what,katsmeat??? Kate has more readers within 2 minutes of a post then you have in two months.Who’s running scared??
You know,Kinsella…in order to get it right(for you),you have to phrase your poll something like….do you want me to improve my blog(shouldn’t be hard),or just keep going??? But then,that might be to hard for your three liberal buddies to understand.No feelings attached,ya know.
Why ask if you do not want to know?
I would never ask because I blog for myself and if someone reads it all the better but that is not why I do it. Though I never shy from pointing out praise because that is human nature.
Sometimes the approval we all seek manifests itself in very strange ways in some people’s minds.
A whole page of bafflegarb that basically said “I lost, the media is loosing and so I may pick up my marbles unless my ‘fixed’ poll tells me my fans want me to stay.” Touching.
{[LATER] Before someone decided to engage in a bit of mischief, a clear majority expressed a desire to keep going, apparently in the way that it was. Anyone with additional comments, please register in comments and comment away.}
beep Beep BEEP !!! varrrrrooooomm — sda express
Not sure how he can assume that because 80ish percent voted to have him smarten up or quit, that it was Kate’s influence. It’s been my experience that when Kate decides to influence a poll, the number of voters is in the thousands, and not a buck and change.
I assume, as Ron does, that he was scared of what would happen when the avalanche of SDA voters actually did come through.
btw, thanks for making me visit his site Kate, I gotta go have another shower now.
And just what we’re the results after Canadians exercised their right to vote, wk ?? 92% to walk the pier ? Good guess ? Never mind, someday one of his little helpers will spill it.
Coming soon to an Iggy platform – Election Day workers should screen all anti-lib voters.
LOL. 150 votes. Isn’t that how much traffic SDA gets in 15 minutes?
sda, about 13,000 to 15,000 a day
Ann Coulter ad on WK.com is something to see.
Got in “long walk short pier” just minutes before Catman shut the poll down. What a putz!
Why doesn’t Warren ask the government what he should do with his life. That is what he and all leftists want for the rest of us.
I am sure they will assign him something at least as mundane and meaningless as what he has already chosen for himself. So no big risk there Warren the Man-Child who owns a bass guitar but cannot play it.
It’s not his fault.
He was raised by a weak father.
That poor demmented Mr Kinsella…a legend only in his own poor mind.
(personally Warren, I think you should opt for the long stroll on the short pier option…wearing only the red Liberal condom and thong accesories so liberally passed around at LPC conventions…
Definitely a class act by a quasi classy dude!!)
Only a fool doesn’t learn from their mistakes. What do you call someone that NEVER learns from their mistakes? A Liberal advisor I guess.
Kate kicks Kinsella’s ass, then puts the knife in and twists.
I love it!
Meh.
Borin’ Katmeat babbling about his blog and getting all paranoid about another blogger?
So what else is new?
He thinks Kate’s scared? I can’t see that. Kate’s amongst the most fearless of folks I’ve ever encountered. Borin’ K., on the other hand, well, he’s a scaredy cat-eater…
Older people who refuse to grow up… Borin’ K’s the poster old fart for them.
I’m embarrassed for him. It’s one thing to have an unused, unloved website, it’s another to wander the blog-o-streets in perma-soiled rags begging for affection and putting out come-hither feelers to every passing stranger. And when you consider his legacy of publishing laudatory comments from fictional characters, who would take any positive responses to his “poll” seriously, really?
I wave my * at all I meet
They point and laugh at me
I give advice to one whose voice
is in the Royal We
Thugger-ee
thugger-ah
thugger-eeee
thugger ah ha ha ha ha ha…
When Kate points out polls that ask to go horribly wrong, it reminds me of those old WWII naval films of ponderous battleships training their huge 18″ guns to starboard before unleashing hell. You just know what’s about to happen.
Warren Kinsella hates democracy!
What’s with Liberals of a certain ilk and their desire to be petted by their fans?
“Oooo, I’m sick and feel sorry for myself, please tell me you like me enough so I’ll deign to stay. Please, please?”
It’s like the Red Tory quitting and coming back, like three times now? Whining about being sick and oh, woe is me. Enough! Die already! Both of you. At least Cherniak had the good taste and intelligence to just go when he had enough. That I can respect.
as he stated at his “poll” *vote freely*
or not… and to paraphrase Kate… “heh”
It’s not his fault.
He was raised by a weak father.
lawsuit in 5…4…3…2…
So Warren Kinsella is in effect saying he needs to grow up. How refreshing.
mid island mike
“Too funny. Last time I checked, it was pretty evenly split between “keep going” and “walk off pier.””
I guess that means he should do both: Walk off a pier and…keep going!
Update:
The Iggy-McGuinty-Liberals-Tamil Tigers Coalition.
LibMcGuinty goes wobbly.
…-
“Riot police stand guard over Tamil protest”
urlm.in/ckmj
“OMG, you love me, you really really, wha huh,”
//Scurries back under rock.//
“Stupid democracy”
Hmmmm, interesting, I knew Kinsella père. Didn’t know the relationship until wikipedia-ing today
K-p later in life carved out a niche in the newly formed area of medical bioethics
Is there anywhere else we can create a vote on this question? Long walk, short pier, no waterwings…. Predicting a water(land)slide!
wk doesn’t get it. “Before someone decided to engage in a bit of mischief, a clear majority expressed a desire to keep going, apparently in the way that it was.”
Erasing or amending your blog post for anything other than typos or timeline errors is a clear signal you’re a weak, pandering posting poodle poser. His ‘blogging’ has always been simpering garbage, he’s just now getting the feedback he deserves from us ‘ordinary’ Canadians, a group he’s always despised.
Kate,
I attempted to view Kinsella’s site from my work server, which is riddled with web filters like you wouldn’t believe, and I was blocked from entering.
This is the message that came up:
“The page you’ve been trying to access was blocked.
“Reason: Forbidden URL. URL Category is Political Extreme / Hate / Discrimination.”
Inform the authorities.
Warren seems to have the whole Left/Right thing reversed; the usual left-liberal stance. Adolf Hitler was not right of center in any way and NAZI was socialist. It’s the Left who are the new Holocaust deniers. Was Zundel a bible thumping Christian? Don’t think so.
I can’t wait until Hugo Chevez is declared Right-Wing. Won’t be long.
I’m glad Warren is staying the course. I wish he would get his own radio show. We need his dialog.
Here’s my read on a poll that could not have gone anyway but wrong.
Kinsella is being told to let his blog die silently so that he won’t be a liability later on now that the CPC has decided to start releasing attack ads. Kinsella is just trying to legitimize the end of his blog so that it won’t look like he was muzzled by his boss Iggy Squidward.
I would advise that if anyone wants to be able to quote Kinsella for future reference that you quickly go to his site and start saving screen shots before he has the whole site deleted/deactivated/shutdown.
BTW
He is still one of Iggy’s bigger liabilities and is bound to cause problems when the election campaign starts so this action to try and prevent a trainwreck won’t do any good.
Bigger question: what should Kinsella be IF he grows up?
He could use his new gained time taking on some more clients.I here there might be 2 or 3 nannies looking for a lawyer.
Gimbol: “Iggy Squidward”
“Squidward”? Don’t you mean “skidmark”?
Kantsellit who????
He doesn’t have to walk off the pier actually, he just needs to stand near the edge until a member of the Chinese community walks past behind him.
Jump Warren, jump!
Jump Warren, jump!
If his lite gets any brighter, he’ll be able to see the inside of an urinal.
Here kitty, kitty, kitty:
“You have sat for too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!”
“This Must Be A Trick”
Yes, gotta be – nothing else explains it. But when is the plot going to unfold ?
I thought punk rockers were supposed to be real men and not pussies, but Warren not only drops the poll but requires registration to make comments. Look for Warren’t new book, How To Be A Pussy Wokker, this summer from Scheisse Kopf Publishing.
Warren’t = Warren’s
Doh!
Just keep doing what you’re doing, if only for the comedy value alone.