We live in a very, very ignorant society…
And yes, Olbermann messed up by confusing carbon dating with using the half-life of uranium to measure the age of the planet.
While I’m on the topic of barking mad right-wing lunatics… Here’s some more of that “conservative” civility we’re always hearing soooooooo much about.
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109 Comments
July 9, 2009 at 12:08 pm
“We live in a very, very ignorant society…”
“We?”
July 9, 2009 at 12:13 pm
I figured someone might take issue with that.
July 9, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Well, I just have a hard time imagining our public figures (MP’s, media) getting away with this kind of thing. Look how exercised everyone was over Goodyear’s claim that a question about evolution was related to religious beliefs.
Mind you, they probably would like to get away with it, but it’s the checks on that kind of thing that make this society somewhat different. For how much longer, I have no idea.
I remember a BBC journalist commenting one time (I don’t remember who) that one difference he found striking with Canada as opposed to the US or Britain was the absence of a tabloid press.
July 9, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Re “…the absence of a tabloid press.” LMFAO
July 9, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Nothing more puritan, more precious, more fragile, and more timorous than a Liberal in the presence of a Conservative, we always say.
Man up, Nancy Boy, you’ve been spewing hate for months incessantly and you only look tiny by doing what you’re doing here – expressing righteous indignation when we return fire for once.
Oh dear. I made a metaphorical reference to firearms. Red’s going to go running to the RCMP – again – and they’ll laugh in his face – again – for being such a pussy.
I insist that you act more like a man, as much as you can manage, Red, this…effeminate caterwauling simply will not do.
Man up.
July 9, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Re “…the absence of a tabloid press.” LMFAO
Why is that so funny, Ronin?
July 9, 2009 at 12:57 pm
It’s odd that every time I’ve told a Connie troll that I’m ready to met him/her face to face to defend a point, they always find excuses not to show up…
Heck, I’ve been badgering NAMBLA Dick to actually sue me like he’s threatened to do on so many occasions…
I’m even going to met Ralphie in TO soon (that’s if he does not chicken out).
So “Conservative Attack Squad” what kind of fire would you like to return? This something you’d like to do in person?
I’m sure that your scrotum needs a good kicking…. Or are you just another anonymous chicken? Ottawa-Montreal-Toronto, your choice?
But please make it fast, because I have a feeling I’ll die of old age before any of you lot show up…
July 9, 2009 at 1:03 pm
So she confuses 6 thousand with 6 billion. Olbermann’s a fool and anyone who has had the misfortune of watching his show can see it.
Sad that journalism has stooped to this. The “worst person in the world” misreads what was probably written as “6,000 million” on her laptop. Stupid, yes. Important, not even close.
And nice on Olbermann to make a similarly stupid misunderstanding while mocking her for one.
He’s a tool.
July 9, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Don’t encourage “Conservative Attack Squad”. It’s the same loony sock-puppet who’s been on a tear at ChuckerCanuck’s and The Western Standard in the last few days.
I think it’s “The Return of Anonalogue” to tell you the truth. And if you don’t know who that is, consider yourself lucky.
July 9, 2009 at 1:07 pm
So she confuses 6 thousand with 6 billion.
You mean she confused 4.5 billion with 6 thousand. Yeah, I can see how that can happen…
*rolls eyes*
July 9, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Re “Why is that so funny, Ronin?”
You’re pretty dense Ti-Guy. The whole of the Canadian media is decending rapidly to tabloid news. We only need the last 24 hours to prove that.
“Harper 1 min 40 sec late for a photo-op!”
“Harper wafer-gate scandal!”
Pathetic. Any young person of quality would see today’s journalistic landscape and decide to major in something more honest and respected. . . like law. Things are only going to get worse, because those that see how bad it is and still wish to become part of it are not going to be the agents of change that are needed.
Einstein said “No problem can ever be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”
The current lack of credibility in the media won’t be fixed by the same people currently in it.
July 9, 2009 at 1:14 pm
I’m sure it took you all of 2 min to wiki “age of the Earth”.
The point is that it’s a meaningless mistake that doesn’t change the substance of her argument, whatever it may have been.
July 9, 2009 at 1:18 pm
It’s John Baird. Why are you fast-tracking $10B for car manufacturing when there is already a $3500/car trade in subsidy, a $1300(?)/car Japan import tarriff, and made at a $2500/car loss (in USA, IDK here)…yet getting all lawyer-weasely about giving $600M to Toronto for public transit? Which do u think helps the poor, new cars or bus service??
Are there any Conservatives ballsy enough to threaten a communicable pandemic like me? Nooooo. They call in the RCMP for pipeline bomber in CPC interior BC.
July 9, 2009 at 1:24 pm
…than again AB just fired their leading epidemiologist instead of taxing tar sands, so maybe that’s twice as effective as being the first to post bioterror blueprints to kill rich CPC Canadians…I think even posting a strategy of how to outwit NSA would be devastating, and it is Harper’s THC prohibition platform that has such thoughts enter my brain from time to time.
July 9, 2009 at 1:26 pm
It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
- Mark Twain
July 9, 2009 at 1:35 pm
“You’re pretty dense Ti-Guy. The whole of the Canadian media is decending rapidly to tabloid news. We only need the last 24 hours to prove that.”
Is your name Ronin?
I’m thinking of a newspaper tradition going back decades, and Canada never compared to Britain or the US in that regard.
I don’t think the best of our news is any better than what can had in those two countries, but the masses were never offered the variety of rubbish the Brits or the Americans have long been blessed with.
It’s all crap now, but that’s a very recent development.
July 9, 2009 at 1:37 pm
I’m sure it took you all of 2 min to wiki “age of the Earth”
Anyone who doesn’t know the Earth is around 4 or 5 billions years old is uneducated or loony. Admittedly, that could be a huge chunk of the population these days.
July 9, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Conservative Goon Squad — You’re so cute when you’re mental.
July 9, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Conservative Goon Squad: Fake … that’s for sure.
Or Anonalogue, as Tiggy helpfully suggests? Abu is not so sure. Anonalogue was really, really freakin’ crazy … that’s for sure.
” … one difference he found striking with Canada as opposed to the US or Britain was the absence of a tabloid press.”
Translation: Boring media. No surprise there, of course. Quite fitting. Now THAT’s for sure!
July 9, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Ti, Sun Media has been on the street since what, mid-seventies? And that is merely the most obvious bottom of the barrel. As for the rest, even the most “stellar,” they serve a very simple purpose: to read between the lines and deduce what was not printed/said. Or am I missing something with concentrated corporate ownership of media? What’s that, around first year soc?
July 9, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Another crazy who disappeared himself was Ian Scott. Gone without a trace! Was he disappearance due to a nervous breakdown over the lack of interesting newspapers like the NY Post? Who knows? There is no accounting for crazy Canadians, that’s for sure.
July 9, 2009 at 2:03 pm
He = his in clown-speak.
July 9, 2009 at 2:13 pm
The point is that it’s a meaningless mistake that doesn’t change the substance of her argument, whatever it may have been.
You can’t argue with “logic” like that, folks.
July 9, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Ronin, if you want to assert that the news media now is abysmal, I won’t argue with you. But the examination of how public opinion for all adults alive now (roughly a span of about 60 years) has been shaped requires the long view.
July 9, 2009 at 2:26 pm
CWTF,
“It’s odd that every time I’ve told a Connie troll that I’m ready to met him/her face to face to defend a point, they always find excuses not to show up…” sez you.
Do you EVER stop trying to pick fights? Are you determined to leave us all with the impression that you are a dickless wonder? Are you in the least bit concerned with how you come off?
The answers are: No, yes, and no.
Meet me at the corner of 2nd and Ave. A, mutha fucka and I’ll show you who’s the man-clown. Coward! Come on! I’ll wipe the floor wit’ ya! You little peace of shit, I’ll kick you flabby ass all over town! You yellow sissy-boy, you make me want to puke!
That’s for sure!
July 9, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Peace = clown-speak for “insignficant pussy that smells like a piece”
July 9, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Not exactly the Algonquin Round Table around here these days, is it?
July 9, 2009 at 2:38 pm
These days?
July 9, 2009 at 2:38 pm
No. Abu’s dander is up!
Cave clownem.
July 9, 2009 at 2:50 pm
SR — Less so than usual, that is.
Look, if people wish to engage in thoughtful discussions, there’s certainly nothing preventing them from doing so.
But if they’d prefer just to snipe at one another or clown around, there’s likewise nothing stopping them from doing that either.
July 9, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Information entropy; print, electronic and digital. One must sift carefully…with a razor.
July 9, 2009 at 3:02 pm
As Sir Bernard Woolley would say, one can’t actually sift with a razor.
July 9, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Dude, make some sense; you’re scaring me.
July 9, 2009 at 3:03 pm
I’ve had the Woolley pulled over my eyes.
July 9, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Is that “Dude” or “Dud?” Reminds me of “The Duck of Death.”
July 9, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Sebastian, do you really believe 9-11 was “an inside job”?
July 9, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Abu…etc., if anything, have you read Crossing the Rubicon?
July 9, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Is that a “yes” or a “no”?
July 9, 2009 at 3:15 pm
X Files, March 2001
July 9, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Is THAT a “yes” or a “no”?
(Or are we going to continue this dance ad nauseam?)
July 9, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Do I “believe?” There is not the slightest doubt in my mind. The scope and magnitude of the evil (for lack of a better word) has just begun.
July 9, 2009 at 3:19 pm
And yet you still live.
July 9, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Life as a tin foil hat.
July 9, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Well, you have me convinced with that clip from the X-Files.
Why don’t you give me your address so we can discuss your “findings”?
July 9, 2009 at 3:29 pm
novacadia at gmail dot com…or click on the name link.
July 9, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Not email address. Home address. We’d like to meet you in person.
July 9, 2009 at 3:42 pm
I mean, “I’d like to meet you in person.”
July 9, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Said the straight man to the late man
Where have you been…
July 9, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Never mind, Mr. Ronin. No need for your home address. Everything is copacetic.
July 9, 2009 at 4:09 pm
It’s a pretty sad state of affairs when Abu Abas Abat is the most normal commenter you have, Mr. Red Tory.
July 9, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Wow Red, it’s like you’re getting carpet bombed by the nutbars these days. You must be doing something right.
July 9, 2009 at 4:23 pm
Actually, it likely means he’s doing something wrong.
July 9, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Dear Bindsulan,
You are damning me with faint praise, you realize. Right?
But your heart is in the right place.
Best,
Abu
July 9, 2009 at 4:25 pm
doubt it, you keep coming back.
July 9, 2009 at 4:28 pm
So when Abuabasabat and Bindsulan exchange comments is that like masturbation? Seeing as it’s the same person….
July 9, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Meaning …?
July 9, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Bindsulan Marionett and I certainly are not the same. How could you say this? He is Bindsulan Marionett.
July 9, 2009 at 4:31 pm
has it made you blind already Abu?
July 9, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Ha ha so quick to deny. Do you also have he wafer in your pocket Abu?
July 9, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Now you’re being absurd, Sapphic.
July 9, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Not really, that took about enough time for you to log off and log on, one handed. You must be a pro (is there a certification for pro-wanker in “your parts”?). So is Bindsulan your name when you are in drag?
July 9, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Sapphic fancies himself a Sherlock Holmes.
July 9, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Wow, that is so amazing Abu! How you log off and log on in your various names. Let me try it.
July 9, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Sapphic, you’ve got nothing on Abu. He is true blue … or my name isn’t Calza Fantoccio
July 9, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Wow this is so amazing Abu. It’s like its 1995! You are the technical wiz3rd. All hail L33t H4×0R Abu!
July 9, 2009 at 4:40 pm
So amazing Abu, you should really go for a scholarship in computer science. You could amaze the world with logging off and logging on.
If you’re going to post using multiple IDs please try to not use the same writing style. It’s lame. Especially when you praise yourself in your own comments.
July 9, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Sapphic, you are making a fool of yourself. Please, stop it. It’s really quite sad.
July 9, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Yeah right Abu, I cast the hook and you bit it. Now, you’re just doing backfire because you’re not as clever as you think you are.
So defensive Abu, masturbation is normal.
July 9, 2009 at 4:46 pm
If you bothered to go to my blog, Sapphic, you would see that Bindsulan Marionett, CalzaFantoccio, and Calcetín Títere are regular commenters of mine. They respect my intelligence and wit. They are quite independent-minded. They are no sock puppets.
July 9, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Abuswhatsit — Worst sockpuppeting, ever.
July 9, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Will someone explain to poor Sapphic what is going on, or will I have to do it?
July 9, 2009 at 4:48 pm
And explain it to dim RT too?
July 9, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Abu, please. Logging on and Logging off is not rocket science. What might have passed off as cool for trolling usenet in 1995 looks rather lame in 2009. Also, your attempt to praise yourself comes off as public masturbation which I do believe you enjoy being a tosser.
Too bad that noone care to see you rub your tiny little mental penis. What you lack in wit and smarts you more than make up for with wordpress Ids.
July 9, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Do you EVER stop trying to pick fights?
Nope.
I have no qualms on taking up offers from assmonkeys safe in the knowledge that most will not leave their parents basement or be allowing out of their “special” school….
Keep the offers coming….
July 9, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Sapphic is just too smart for me. Alas! Despite all my clever feints, smoke, mirrors, and *carefully crafted names*, he ACTUALLY FIGURED IT OUT ALL BY HIMSELF!!! The genius is staggering. Sapphic did it! Only he! (Well, maybe the super genius, Red Tory too — but nobody else!)
July 9, 2009 at 4:58 pm
“Keep the offers coming….”
Let’s go, douchebag. 2nd Street at Avenue A. Anytime, scaredy-pants. I’ll kick your limp dick self all over town. I’ll make you cry like the little baby you are, girly-man.
July 9, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Look at that avatar of your, CWTF. You’re nothing but a girl. Yeah, sure you’re “safe in the knowledge” that most commenters won’t fight you … but I will, coward!
I hereby amend my offer. I’ll fight you whenever and WHEREVER your sissy heart desires. Just name the time and place, dickless.
July 9, 2009 at 5:06 pm
see? Harper really did kidnap Jesus. Look what has happened to us since…
July 9, 2009 at 5:22 pm
I hereby amend my offer. I’ll fight you whenever and WHEREVER your sissy heart desires. Just name the time and place, dickless.
Sure, I’ll be at the Montreal Jazz Festival on Friday.
We could hook up just before 11:00 am.
July 9, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Indeed. Probably not the politically charged banter hoped after returning from your respite. Reading all this anonymous bravado just reaffirms my belief that Freud would’ve absolutely loved the internet.
July 9, 2009 at 5:28 pm
C-C: Quite. But then, between work and the nice weather, I haven’t really been paying much attention to it. Certainly not the crap coming from obnoxious whackaloons like Abuwhatever.
July 9, 2009 at 5:53 pm
somebody tell scenty to fuck off already.
KEvron
July 9, 2009 at 6:04 pm
somebody tell scenty to fuck off already.
No worries, it’s his/her bedtime already….
(wonder if he/she will take me up on my offer, or what wearily way he/she will use to avoid it…)
July 9, 2009 at 6:21 pm
“somebody [sic] tell scenty [sic] to fuck off already.
FIght YOur OWn BAttles, KEvron.
July 9, 2009 at 6:26 pm
CWTF,
“Sure, I’ll be at the Montreal Jazz Festival on Friday.
We could hook up just before 11:00 am.”
I’m sure you will. I’ll see you at the corner of Rue Mistral and Rue Foucher tomorrow at 11AM. I can tell you don’t have the balls for this because you gave me no time (or so you thought) to get up there. Fortunately, I have money to burn and plenty of time.
I’ll be the guy with the red clown nose, chicken shit looza.
July 9, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Let’s make it corner of DeMaisoneuve and Jeanne-Mance…. You know, somewhere actually near the JazzFest…. 11:00 am – sounds fine.
July 9, 2009 at 6:45 pm
“Let’s make it corner of DeMaisoneuve and Jeanne-Mance”
No. You picked the country, city, day, and time. I pick the location. Don’t be an asshole in addition to being a tough-talking coward.
July 9, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Amusing….
I hereby amend my offer. I’ll fight you whenever and WHEREVER your sissy heart desires. Just name the time and place, dickless.
Sure, I’ll be at the Montreal Jazz Festival on Friday.
We could hook up just before 11:00 am.
Now piss off or be there…. I’ve named the place and time.
Like any Conservatard, you tire quickly…
July 9, 2009 at 7:02 pm
No. You picked the country, city, day, and time. I pick the location. Don’t be an asshole in addition to being a tough-talking coward.
In your Google Map search, what made you settle on Mistral and Faucher, Abu? It’s not really a happening part of Montréal. I had to look it up myself.
I’ll be willing to beat you up a few blocks south, on St-Denis, but it’ll ruin my day (and my reputation) to have to go that far north.
July 9, 2009 at 7:08 pm
You are as phony as a three dollar bill. You have no intention of being anywhere. I’ll be at Foucher and Mistral, dipshit. I agreed to your fag country, your gay city, the day of your pussy “jazzfest,” and even the fucking time you wanted. I have to go from NYC to gaytown in 12 hours, if you can’t take a 15 minute drive from you precious jazzfest, you are a full-of-shit pussy looking for anything to back out.
You tried to set an impossible task for me, I called you on it. Be at Foucher and Mistral. What will you miss, faggot, an hour of your sissy music? Coward.
July 9, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Tiggy, you are a nosy old crone. Shut up. I have my reasons and that’s all any of you fakes has to know.
July 9, 2009 at 7:12 pm
Well, whoever shows up at the “Miscarriage on Mistral” please make sure to record it on your iPhone so I can watch it on YouTube in all its grainy glory.
July 9, 2009 at 7:12 pm
I agreed to your fag country, your gay city, the day of your pussy “jazzfest,” and even the fucking time you wanted. I have to go from NYC to gaytown in 12 hours…
Heh. That’s kind of amusing…
July 9, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Well, whoever shows up at the “Miscarriage on Mistral”
The Sinking of the Mariposa Belle part deux.
…look it up, yank.
July 9, 2009 at 7:22 pm
The Sinking of the Mariposa Belle part deux.
Doesn’t really fit on a marquee though, does it? I was trying for more of a Thrilla in Manilla thing. Either way, put me down for 1,000 views, max.
July 9, 2009 at 7:24 pm
“…look it up, yank”
Why bother?
July 9, 2009 at 7:29 pm
Don’t worry, Ms. Coulter. This will be recorded.
July 9, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Why bother?
Because you might learn something about the people you’re bothering. Stephen Leacock’s satire is archetypally Canadian, in that it manifests empathy and solidarity with the targets it’s nevertheless viciously criticising.
It’s the kind of satire Canadians are good at. SCTV, Trailer Park Boys, Corner Gas, Les Bougon, our current Parliament, etc. etc.
July 9, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Gee, thanks for the explanation, but I have less than zero interest in Canadian satire or Canadian popular entertainment of any kind. No one has ever heard of it and, yet, the world continues on as if it did not matter.
This is probably because it does not matter.
What are SCTV, Trailer Park Boys, Corner Gas, or Les Bougon?
Your Parliament doesn’t count because the satire is unintentional. But I still don’t care.
July 9, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Impressive blog. Impressive commenters.
Yes, I’m making fun of you. Get some fresh air kids.
July 9, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Don’t worry, Ms. Coulter. This will be recorded.
Cool. I think I found the video of your last fight.
July 9, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Oh yeah…100th comment! Wooohooo!!
July 10, 2009 at 1:46 am
I guess that makes me the 101st Airborne monkey. I swear, on some days I find myself wishing God’s speed for Kim Jong-il to follow through on his bombastic, nuclear threats. Then I crawl back to my senses, assume my seat on the ecological overshoot, knowing that everything is right on schedule.
July 10, 2009 at 10:19 am
I swear, on some days I find myself wishing God’s speed for Kim Jong-il to follow through on his bombastic, nuclear threats.
Same here.
July 10, 2009 at 10:33 am
This morning, I was delayed getting to the Jazz Fest, which is a good thing. I was able to leave my office on the fringes of Little Italy to meet Mr. Abu….
Once again proving that all Conservatives are chickenshits. Enough said.
July 10, 2009 at 10:39 am
No surprise there.
July 10, 2009 at 11:43 am
Re “Same here.”
We should start a Kim Jong-il Do It! Facebook group. The CIA data-miners (and owners) would have a field day.
July 10, 2009 at 11:22 pm
CWTF,
“This morning, I was delayed getting to the Jazz Fest, which is a good thing. I was able to leave my office on the fringes of Little Italy to meet Mr. Abu….”
Liar. I was there. What happened? Did you see me and run away?
I bet you never showed. Funny how you never bothered to confirm with me you’d be there. Funny how you never gave me your description to make it easy to find you. Funny how you are so blind as not to see a guy standing on the corner in the middle of nowhere, sporting a bright red clown nose, just as I had told you I would.
Describe the corner for me and what you saw. I bet you can’t.
Given the nearly impossible task you set for me, only giving me 12 hours notice to get from NYC to Montreal, you clearly never intended to meet me. The only way I could get to Montreal in time was to get up at 4AM and fly out of NY at the crack of dawn. Thanks for wasting my time and money. Big man, big mouth, big coward.
Now it’s your turn to come down to NY, but I bet you are too chickenshit to come. Tell you what: I’ll make it easy for you. I’ll pay your way, you penniless hick. Come here, meet me in the East Village on Sunday, we’ll “talk,” and I’ll give you cash reimbursement for your costs to get here. This is an offer you can’t refuse, what with all your big talk about how people refuse to meet you. Let’s see if you’re man enough to back up your tough words.
July 11, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Abuchickenshit — Lame. Utterly pathetic.
Buck, buck, buck-ahhhhhhhh!