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Shut up or die, for your words may lead directly to your demise. That is the premise that lies at the heart of director Bruce McDonald's latest film Pontypool, about a small town that has been infected by a virus that is spread through language.
I am a member of xt3.com a Catholic social networking site that is an outworth of this year's World Youth Day in Sydney.
Today, I got an email from XT3 which stated:
Cardinal George Pell sent you a new private message
Too bad much searching on both youtube and google photos has not turned up anything else, but I trust true SCTV fans will know what I'm talking about here.Mayor Tommy Shanks (John Candy) is Melonville's "easygoing" (corrupt) mayor who is prone to sudden fits of rage and physical violence, yet gives regular fireside chats on SCTV while a stuffed dog sits motionless by his side. Throwing out one non-sequitur after another, Shanks manages to convey absolutely nothing of relevance during his broadcasts. Eventually, Shanks succumbs to mental illness and is institutionalized. While still in the institution, he runs for re-election with the campaign slogan "Get me outta here!" and wins by a landslide.
From: "Docter Frinkster"
To: rphl_lxndr@yahoo.ca
Subject: You can run but you won't be able to hide
Unfortunately the Wordpress will not be allowing my last reply to you in that thread at Red Tory's.
Shame, because it thoroughly demolishes your faux sense of 'reasonableness', 'propriety' and 'civility'. Not to mention exposes your utter hypocrisy. It's actually much milder than my previous two replies.
As I did save it in anticipation that it would not be posted, I'll reproduce it here for you.
Be aware of two things (if you actually do read this and don't summarily delete upon receipt)
1) That reply has already been circulated among many blogging on the left side of the aisle. Not that they really needed any reminder that you are an utter, contemptible fraud.
and
2) I'll reproduce this comment where I see you posting your usual passive-aggresive 'who me?' comments on left-leaning blogs. I don't bluff, by the way.
Here it is...
Raph, clue phone is still ringing.
I'm not 'debating' you. There's never any 'debate' with you.
I'm mocking you.
If you care to attack my grasp on reality, try doing this.
Now, since you currently live in North Vancouver you have three Squamish
Band reserves within spitting distance. Pick one, any one. Then walk
into the community centre or council office and recite this,
in as loud a voice as you can muster, for them. Then also recite this.
Then come back here and tell us all about how those particular brown
people praised you for your deep, abiding, overly precious love for, and
understanding them. Not to mention how they appreciate, deeply and
profoundly, you make no notice of skin colour.
That pain you feel afterward? That's reality thoroughly kicking you in
your fraudulent, hypocritical, '5th generation Canadian' nutsack.
Heh. Fuck you three times, bay-by.
So, keep this in mind... don't tempt me.
Dr. Frink
by matttbastard
Is McCain’s VP choice bad? Sure. But we don’t need her to go to the penalty box in order to win the game. McCain threw the elbow, now the American public is going to referee the follow-up. Now that their attention is drawn to that corner of the rink, they’ll be watching to see what happens next. Frankly, most Americans don’t give a rat’s ass about Troopergate, or any of the other scandals surrounding McCain’s VP pick. Should they? Probably. But the fact is they don’t.
Now, do we spend our energy trying to make them care? When most of them are trying to pay mortgages, pay for college, or just simply eat a decent meal?
Or do we put our focus on the puck?
Let’s make sure that what happens next keeps our focus where it should be.
- AndrewMC, All Democrats Would Do Well to Read This (Or, “How 538 Nails It”)
h/t pale via IM
(Note to our Canadian readers: will begin our no-doubt obsessive Canadian election coverage later tomorrow. Be afraid.)
Recommend this post at Progressive Bloggers
I'm going to bed after Pink performs. Love that new video. Love it. Oh! She broke a mirror! She used a sash/rope thingy in her last concert tour - it was very cool. I love how she actually sings live. Let me say this about that: if you ever get a chance to see her live, you should go. It's worth every penny. That was a seriously risky outfit, don't you think? Oh, I love her.
I'm off to bed. Later all!

Robert, who has been coming around this here blog for a couple months now, recently started up Canada Blog Friends, a review site of Northern webzines (ha! when was the last time you heard that? Webzines! hmmm…) that:
…is a celebration of life in Canada, as manifest in many different blogs, across many different genres from every part of the nation.
The coolest Canadian blogs are profiled here, and sometimes extra passionate posts are condensed in compelling story briefs and further digested in comments.
Well I got featured yesterday and I have to tell you, I’ve never had a stranger say such nice things about my blog/hobby who didn’t want money or sex. Go read the review. I rarely toot my own horn on here but the post is so well written I feel like a proud parent at a grade 2 musical and my child just nailed “I Don’t Know How To Love Him”.
Thanks Robert!
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Robert, who has been coming around this here blog for a couple months now, recently started up Canada Blog Friends, a review site of Northern webzines (ha! when was the last time you heard that? Webzines! hmmm…) that:
…is a celebration of life in Canada, as manifest in many different blogs, across many different genres from every part of the nation.
The coolest Canadian blogs are profiled here, and sometimes extra passionate posts are condensed in compelling story briefs and further digested in comments.
Well I got featured yesterday and I have to tell you, I’ve never had a stranger say such nice things about my blog/hobby who didn’t want money or sex. Go read the review. I rarely toot my own horn on here but the post is so well written I feel like a proud parent at a grade 2 musical and my child just nailed “I Don’t Know How To Love Him”.
Thanks Robert!
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We have fixed election dates in Canada so there won't be an election until October 2009 - because fixed election dates stop leaders from trying to manipulate the calendar.Canada's prime minister dissolved Parliament on Sunday and called an early election for next month in hopes of strengthening his Conservative minority government's hold on power.
McCain gets BARACKROLLED:
I hope they fail to fix that little problem McCain’s having with background colours before the general election.
...is a woman's touch. In the James Thurber sense, of course.


OTTAWA - Canada's federal leaders have fanned out across the country after the nation was plunged into its third general election in little more than four years Sunday.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper pulled the plug on his minority government to ask voters for a fresh mandate as Canadians face growing global economic turbulence, a move that opened the political floodgates for an Oct. 14 vote. Harper's political opponents say the campaign will be a referendum on his leadership and the direction he has taken the country since the Conservatives won power in 2006.
And here we go. Let the games begin.
UPDATE: For the record, my initial prediction.
CONSERVATIVE: 131
LIBERAL: 96
BLOC QUEBECOIS: 50
NDP: 30
INDEPENDENT: 1
This is a basic prediction, though. I'll have a more detailed one in a few weeks, once we really see the direction of this campaign.
Either way, I agree with Jarrett on this one. Harper may have angered those who voted for him on a single issue (in my case, for example, Bill C-61), but it's not enough to make them park their vote elsewhere for the most part. At the same time, those who have shown the outrage of Harper being some secretive ideologue are people who wouldn't even vote Conservative if hell froze over, so their input has no real effect.
In the end, though, it will be a minority, not a majority, because, while Harper has been a competent PM, he hasn't dazzled. That will keep him from the magic number of 155 seats.
That said, if a Conservative majority happens- and I don't think it will- I predict that would be the product of Layton and/or May running strong campaigns moreso than Harper, effectively splitting the left into three different camps that are much, much closer in numbers, and much more fractured than they've ever been. In other words, for it to happen, Harper would need what Chretien had in the 1990s.
OTTAWA - Canada's federal leaders have fanned out across the country after the nation was plunged into its third general election in little more than four years Sunday.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper pulled the plug on his minority government to ask voters for a fresh mandate as Canadians face growing global economic turbulence, a move that opened the political floodgates for an Oct. 14 vote. Harper's political opponents say the campaign will be a referendum on his leadership and the direction he has taken the country since the Conservatives won power in 2006.
And here we go. Let the games begin.
Uncle Sam's Cabin alerted me to an interesting blogpost on the abortion issue.
This requires a bit of background...
The Point of View of an Aspergian is an autism advocacy blog. Judging from the language, I'd say she is an advocate of what is known as "neurodiversity". The neurodiversity movement posits that if you're born on the autistic spectrum, there's nothing wrong with you. You're just different. Autistic behaviours do not need therapeutic attention.
As the mother of one daughter (possibly two) on the austistic spectrum, I strongly disagree with that stance.
POVA warns us that we are coming closer and closer to a prenatal test for autism. And she fears that when that day comes, it will be used to eliminate autistic babies through abortion-- and it won't even be 100% accurate.
We are faced with evil in our time. The specter of eugenics is raising its ugly head once more. The call is now for "Normalcy" a normal race. We all want normailty ?? right? It is the latest ploy to rid the world of its so called undesirables deemed by a few.
When we compare that with denying a woman's right to choose, there is no comparison. Genocide is the greater evil. A whole group of people with the devalued genetic signatures will go into the night of history , if we allow this.
Our last stop gap measure until we as a community are more in a position to better advocate for ourselves is to support the lesser of two evils.We need to align and ally ourselves with the prolifers. They have a real shot at making abortion illegal thereby resulting in any and all prenatal test useless. So please join with me and support Mcain/Palin to stop a prenatal test by stopping abortion.
As a (pro-choice) mother of boys with Autism and Downs, I understand your worry. I was surprised to be offered selective termination after the amniocentesis proved Trisomy21. I know the stat of 90% and that could be true. To me, it means that there aren't Curebie parents to Downies, because the ones who don't want them just don't have them. That will certainly happen to autistics if a prenatal test is developed, especially in a world where Autism is made out to be a thief of children's souls.
As a *modern* woman, I used to vote solely on the abortion issue alone (Supreme Court appointees). Now, as a mother, I cannot bring myself to support the Dem party.
I'm with you on McCain/Palin and switched my voter registration this week.
This is probably one of the toughest issues we face. One of the biggest suprises for me has been my transition from an absolutist pro-choicer, via an AS diagnosis, to an pro-lifer
Uncle Sam's Cabin alerted me to an interesting blogpost on the abortion issue.
This requires a bit of background...
The Point of View of an Aspergian is an autism advocacy blog. Judging from the language, I'd say she is an advocate of what is known as "neurodiversity". The neurodiversity movement posits that if you're born on the autistic spectrum, there's nothing wrong with you. You're just different. Autistic behaviours do not need therapeutic attention.
As the mother of one daughter (possibly two) on the austistic spectrum, I strongly disagree with that stance.
POVA warns us that we are coming closer and closer to a prenatal test for autism. And she fears that when that day comes, it will be used to eliminate autistic babies through abortion-- and it won't even be 100% accurate.
We are faced with evil in our time. The specter of eugenics is raising its ugly head once more. The call is now for "Normalcy" a normal race. We all want normailty ?? right? It is the latest ploy to rid the world of its so called undesirables deemed by a few.
When we compare that with denying a woman's right to choose, there is no comparison. Genocide is the greater evil. A whole group of people with the devalued genetic signatures will go into the night of history , if we allow this.
Our last stop gap measure until we as a community are more in a position to better advocate for ourselves is to support the lesser of two evils.We need to align and ally ourselves with the prolifers. They have a real shot at making abortion illegal thereby resulting in any and all prenatal test useless. So please join with me and support Mcain/Palin to stop a prenatal test by stopping abortion.
As a (pro-choice) mother of boys with Autism and Downs, I understand your worry. I was surprised to be offered selective termination after the amniocentesis proved Trisomy21. I know the stat of 90% and that could be true. To me, it means that there aren't Curebie parents to Downies, because the ones who don't want them just don't have them. That will certainly happen to autistics if a prenatal test is developed, especially in a world where Autism is made out to be a thief of children's souls.
As a *modern* woman, I used to vote solely on the abortion issue alone (Supreme Court appointees). Now, as a mother, I cannot bring myself to support the Dem party.
I'm with you on McCain/Palin and switched my voter registration this week.
This is probably one of the toughest issues we face. One of the biggest suprises for me has been my transition from an absolutist pro-choicer, via an AS diagnosis, to an pro-lifer
“Beyond stunning” is how Rod Pedersen described the Roughriders’ 34-31 comeback against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers Sunday afternoon. What a game! The Riders win the Banjo Bowl.
Riders are now 8-2.
“Beyond stunning” is how Rod Pedersen described the Roughriders’ 34-31 comeback against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers Sunday afternoon. What a game! The Riders win the Banjo Bowl.
Riders are now 8-2.