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Bark!

\"Gravatar\"i'd never heard of this woman until visiting bruce and now you. i'm not sure i'm brave enough to read her, i might pop a hemmaroid or something.

what's with neil boyd? bowen island's neil boyd (criminologist and media darling)....or another?

heh heh, nice rant!
scout | Homepage | 11.05.07 - 11:08 pm | #

\"Gravatar\"Hi scout - Yes, Neil Boyd the criminologist! This woman is batshit! She should be flipping burgers, not writing for a major newspaper (even if it is a fish-wrapper).

Let her write for Wingnut Weekly, major papers shouldn't be cranking out this BS.

/rant \"\"
JJ | Homepage | 11.05.07 - 11:17 pm | #

\"Gravatar\"Scout, I can't believe you never heard of her, this critter is beyond certifiable, she never should have been let out in the first place. As much as the Sun is a worthless rag, they shouldn't have published her crap but the more important thing here is that they feel they can. The righties in Canada are getting frisky even though the world watches Bush go down in flames. There's no stopping unreasoned self-determination.
Bruce | Homepage | 11.06.07 - 3:44 am | #

\"Gravatar\"Bruce - It seems like a weird time for them to start showing their Reform colours -- unpopular war going on, election on the horizon etc. Just when people were getting lulled into believing there was no hidden agenda. I'm baffled
JJ | Homepage | 11.06.07 - 6:59 am | #

\"Gravatar\"JJ, the conservative mind doesn’t work that way, you should know this by now. As right wing conservatism is being exposed for what it really is by the ineptitude of the Bush administration, we have a right wing government in Canada that is so blinded by the beauty of its own social concepts that they see it as an opportunity to prove they can do the same thing, but better. Current events only serve to make these guys work harder, failure is not an option for them no matter how obvious it is to the rest of us.

Sure we can vote them out eventually (damned Liberals) but they will make one hell of a mess before that happens and that is what they are doing right now. Harper is grabbing every stick he can and he will do whatever it takes. Parliament is just a procedural inconvenience to him.
Bruce | Homepage | 11.06.07 - 7:46 am | #

\"Gravatar\"\"the conservative mind doesn’t work that way, you should know this by now\"
I know. I am naive, I always assume reason and logic will win out over blind ideology, and that's obviously not the case.

I can't help thinking that if the Liberals had elected a different leader the conservatives wouldn't be so bold. Not that I dislike Dion, I actually like the guy, but I wonder if he'll be able to play the way the conservatives do.
JJ | Homepage | 11.06.07 - 8:12 am | #

\"Gravatar\"Actually, reason and logic are the basis of their blind ideology.

I like Dion too, but he's the wrong man at the wrong time. I look at this through the eyes of a gay man who has only recently won his rights in this world and realizes he can't be too complacent.
Bruce | Homepage | 11.06.07 - 8:26 am | #

\"Gravatar\"\"Actually, reason and logic are the basis of their blind ideology.\"
I suppose that's true, if they believe things like waterboarding is like a swimming workout because they both involve water. A simple and primitive form of logic could be at work there.

But Stockie believes there were dinosaurs on Noah's Ark -- 6000 years ago. (How many ways is that statement wrong?\"\" ) Logic?... hmm not so much.
JJ | Homepage | 11.06.07 - 8:52 am | #

\"Gravatar\"It's funny, but I still can't think of Stockie without that image of him in a wetsuit.
Bruce | Homepage | 11.06.07 - 8:57 am | #

\"Gravatar\"Time to man the keyboards and start writing Toronto Sun advertisers. My LTE was published today and naturally they added a smug, smarmy editorial note.

(Marsden was giving her opinion about whether coercive interrogation/torture is justified in order to obtain intelligence information from unlawful enemy combatants, an issue which is now being widely debated in the United States.)

BS. There is NO justification for torture. Ever.

I wrote back to the editors that a list of advertisers has already been circulating here in Canada and in the USA and that we are left with no chioice but to inform their advertisers of Ms. Marsden's past, her current opinion of torture and their now apparent association with it.

The only thing they (the newspaper)understands is $$$.

Time to hit them in the pocketbook.
Frank Frink | Homepage | 11.06.07 - 10:27 am | #

\"Gravatar\"huh? head shake, blink Stupid people hiring other stupid people ro say stupid thing, is that some desperate ploy go raise ratings?

What a stupid idea.
sassy | 11.06.07 - 6:10 pm | #

\"Gravatar\"Frank - I saw your letter at the website. Mine was shorter and less eloquent: \"Congratulations on being the first Canadian newspaper to endorse torture, well done! Your advertisers must be over the moon about it!\", or something like that.

They need to publish a retraction. And confine Marsden to writing about brownie recipes in the Cooking Section. Or oil changes in the automotive section. Or hockey in the sports section. No, wait, not hockey. Competitive Swimming.
JJ | Homepage | 11.06.07 - 7:30 pm | #

\"Gravatar\"Sassy - It's the same reason all the other places hired her -- an attempt to fire up readership with some controversy. Unfortunately, as her other employers found out, there's controversy and there's batshit crazy spittle-flecked insanity.
JJ | Homepage | 11.06.07 - 7:34 pm | #

\"Gravatar\"Bruce - I'm so glad to have that picture to do photoshops with. Fun!
JJ | Homepage | 11.06.07 - 7:35 pm | #

\"Gravatar\"I guess Rachel will have to go back to syndicating her columns at the totally bonkers canadafreepress.com home of the also fired Toronto Sun reporter Judi McLeod.
none | 11.08.07 - 5:51 pm | #

\"Gravatar\"Oh right, CFP!\"\" They'll always have a place for her, I'm sure.

Not quite as prestigious as the Sun, though (and that's not saying much).
JJ | Homepage | 11.09.07 - 6:18 am | #



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