In today’s Sun: five years later (updated)
UPDATE: Delacourt weighs in on what I’ve tried to say, and what Martin has said much better than I could.
UPDATE: Delacourt weighs in on what I’ve tried to say, and what Martin has said much better than I could.
And if you don’t like our position today, we’ll have a new one next week!
UPDATE: And the game is afoot, as they say, thanks to Monsieur Duceppe. Wonder if it’ll be a whipped vote?
Proving Monte’s point, below. I loved this one. Leftards! Liberals! Socialists! Grrr, I’m angry! Grrr!
—–Original Message—–
From: Tom Robinson
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 05:12:32
To:
Shut the fuck up goof.
If this was the USA, the many Conservative commentators would eat you alive.
None of that softball shit we get here in Marxist Canada.
You’re a piece of shit Kinsella and you can take that to the bank,meat head.
Wait till your hero Omar Khadr comes home.
That’s when shit is going to hit the fan.
Are you going to babysit Omar, you anti-American piece of shit?
Warren Kinsella is a fucking piece of shit junkie.
Go smoke another one junkie.
My response:
—–Original Message—–
From: wkinsella@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:29:25
To: Tom Robinson
Reply-To: wkinsella@hotmail.com
Subject: Re:
Thanks, Tom! God bless you and your team of doctors!
Yes, some of the reader comments are insightful. Some are witty. This is especially the case with Sun readers! But it pains me to note that most of the comments on most websites most of the time are comprised of conspiracy theories, sweeping generalizations, random thoughts and ugly venom. If you struggle with depression, please avoid reading them.
Awesome look, great concept, terrific writing. (They wrote to me a while ago to say they’d be featuring web sites and blogs and whatnot, and here they are. But Werner Patels? Good God. Not an auspicious start. What’s next, Five Feet of Hate and Blazing Crosses?)
I don’t want to make this personal, so I will not – not! – call him a rude, pompous, soulless rageaholic who is, was, and always will be a tourist in the Liberal Party of Canada.
I won’t do that. I just won’t.
Thank you.
“For years to come, political scientists will ponder how a genial, peace-loving former NDP politician was transformed into such a tough-talking hawk. After all, this is the same man who once declared that Canada’s participation in such conflicts “isn’t the wisest and best course for the world or Canada.” He said that in January 1991, when he was Ontario’s NDP Premier, and when the Mulroney cabinet chose to help remove Iraqi forces from Kuwait.
Said Rae at the time: “Is this a cause for which I would be willing to go to the desert and fight for? The answer is no.”
Well, that was then and this is now, I guess. If asked, Rae will have a suitably plausible explanation for his change of heart about all this war stuff. He usually does.”
POST-SCRIPT: Rae was apparently livid, last night, that I posted on Thursday an email I received from within the federal Liberal family questioning his motives (which was picked up by NNW, days later). He even posted a Facebook status update about it, because I’m a “blogger” who makes stuff up, etc. W/e. Here’s what I posted on FB in response: “A politician like Bob Rae should know that his caucus colleagues are questioning his motives. It may not make him happy – but they are.” I’ve heard from MPs, Senators and many grassroots folks – they’re extremely unhappy about what Rae has done. And shooting the messenger will be about as effective as it usually is.
No SNL sketch: this awaits you on your next trip Stateside.
I am a big, big Obama fan, as regular lurkers will know. But I think these new Transportation Security Administration rules – wherein they are permitted to paw your privates, in effect – are insane. And Obama is insane for letting them happen.
I don’t give a rat’s ass what the Fourth Amendment says. If some bureaucrat touches my kids, I’m drifting him.
From the New York Times:
Some offer graphic accounts of genital contact, others tell of agents gawking or making inappropriate comments, and many express a general sense of powerlessness and humiliation. In general passengers are saying they are surprised by the intimacy of a physical search usually reserved for police encounters.
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