Canadians Win Internet Poll Award
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Congratulations to Canadian blog Small Dead Animals for edging out Ace of Spades to win Best Conservative Blog in the internet poll called the Weblog Awards.
125 comments
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realwest Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:36:56am |
Good morning Charles! You are certainly very gracious about those "awards".
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Sizzlack Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:39:24am |
re: #3 Sharmuta
I've never been to small dead animals before.
It's better than its competitor, 'large alive animals'.
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yma o hyd Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:39:28am |
Looks like they ran a very good election campaign.
Congrats to them!
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yma o hyd Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:40:22am |
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jorline Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:40:24am |
Congratulations Small Dead Animals...surprise PETA isn't trying to pull the plug.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:40:55am |
I voted like a dead guy in Chicago. Congrat's anyway Charles! Can't think of a place I'd rather be.
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meeshlr Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:41:11am |
I started reading small dead animals and little green footballs at about the same time as my first introduction to blogs. Before that, I thought blogs were just self-indulgent online diaries ... boring. I was so wrong! Now I can't imagine not checking each one every day. Usually more than once.
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phoenixgirl Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:41:51am |
well Charles, the blogger at small dead animals claims to read lgf "naked while eating cherry ice cream" so you still win.
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meeshlr Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:42:21am |
I want an LGF t-shirt ... ladies-style.
oooh ... or maybe a lounge t-shirt? That would be really cool.
Please?
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J.S. Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:42:24am |
re: #3 Sharmuta
I've gone to the site (maybe once?) a couple of years ago...that was when the website's blogger was being harassed by the Human "Rights" people...(and I only became aware of the site through Ezra Levant's blog about the HRCs, etc.).
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spirochete Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:42:28am |
re: #12 phoenixgirl
Haven't had cherry ice cream in years.
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meeshlr Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:43:25am |
Not true. She reads "Protein Wisdom" naked while eating the cherry ice cream.
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meeshlr Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:44:04am |
I'm assuming that she's fully dressed while reading LGF. Or maybe just eating a different kind of ice cream?
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phoenixgirl Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:44:31am |
re: #16 meeshlr
i took it to mean the "yanks mostly" as well, my bad
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Sharmuta Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:44:51am |
re: #14 J.S.
I'm just saying- I've never read it before. But congratulations to them.
Personally- I think LGF should have been up for Best Blog, because that's where I think it deserves to be.
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MandyManners Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:45:42am |
I hope their hamsters are well-fed and well-rested.
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VegasRick Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:46:00am |
re: #20 Sharmuta
I'm just saying- I've never read it before. But congratulations to them.
Personally- I think LGF should have been up for Best Blog, because that's where I think it deserves to be.
I second that!
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J.S. Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:46:43am |
re: #20 Sharmuta
Yeah...I never understood how they chose categories, nor how they picked the candidates, etc. (seems to be an arbitrary process).
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greenmiler Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:47:50am |
weblogawards2008 would have had more participation if their site wasn't so slow; they had only two hamsters and one was dead the whole time
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Irish Rose Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:47:51am |
Congratulations to the winner!
I'm a regular patron of SDA, it's an excellent read... hats off to them!
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VegasRick Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:48:15am |
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meeshlr Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:48:33am |
Damn. The cute wins. Cute Overload beat F*** You Penguin.
That's just not right.
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midwestgak Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:48:35am |
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Erik The Red Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:48:52am |
Go over to the "the two sites that should not be named here" and read the gloating. The comments are even worse. You would swear that this poll meant everything to them. Makes me angry. Fuck you Pam and Bob.
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phoenixgirl Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:49:16am |
i think they should have playoff polls.........the winners of the different categories go up for best blog.......the grand daddy of the them all blog or super bowl of blogs per se
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midwestgak Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:49:37am |
re: #30 midwestgak
I found 1,000 uncounted votes under a sofa (SOFA) in Minnesota. Any one else?
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Irish Rose Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:50:08am |
re: #13 meeshlr
I want an LGF t-shirt ... ladies-style.
oooh ... or maybe a lounge t-shirt? That would be really cool.
Please?
I second.
C'mon, Charles... how about a CafePress?
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scottishbuzzsaw Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:50:29am |
re: #20 Sharmuta
Personally- I think LGF should have been up for Best Blog, because that's where I think it deserves to be.
Agree wholeheartedly...LGF is much more than a 'conservative' blog.
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notutopia Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:51:42am |
LGF IS the Best Blog. Period. (imho)
All the rest are for perusing...cautiously.
OT from the LGF archives, posted on the front page articles a bit ago. Very worthy of reading again. Watch the vid.
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
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sealizard Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:52:43am |
Congrats to the small animals, but I still love LGF best. Thanks, Charles, for a terrific site.
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lawhawk Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:53:10am |
re: #24 J.S.
Yeah...I never understood how they chose categories, nor how they picked the candidates, etc. (seems to be an arbitrary process).
Categories were chosen - self-selection plays a big role... you can nominate yourself. Blogs can't be in multiple categories.
Congrats to all the winners, including Michael Totten, Jammie, and Carl in Jerusalem.
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S'latch Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:53:11am |
I have never read Small Dead Animals. I suppose I should check it out.
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WriterMom Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:53:35am |
Small Dead Animals is WICKEDLY FUNNY and I highly recommend it.
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yma o hyd Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:54:26am |
re: #31 Erik The Red
Go over to the "the two sites that should not be named here" and read the gloating. The comments are even worse. You would swear that this poll meant everything to them. Makes me angry. Fuck you Pam and Bob.
Agree with your sentiment - but am not going over there to read the gloating.
Life's too short ...
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albusteve Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:54:30am |
good summary of GWB total failure at the border...it's unforgivable imo
[Link: townhall.com...]
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Charles Johnson Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:54:32am |
re: #2 realwest
Good morning Charles! You are certainly very gracious about those "awards".
There's no reason not be gracious -- it's an internet poll. As I've pointed out over and over in many different situations (Ron Paul!), Internet polls are basically meaningless. This one is a popularity contest that doesn't measure anything real -- and it's very simple to manipulate it in ways that cannot be detected.
I guess I'll just have to accept that LGF's place is among the other losers, like Victor Davis Hanson, Powerline, and Bill Whittle.
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acwgusa Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:54:35am |
Totally, Totally OT;
If I had the money, I want to buy a Cessna Citation Mustang.
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midwestgak Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:54:42am |
re: #42 WriterMom
Small Dead Animals is WICKEDLY FUNNY and I highly recommend it.
Is registration always open for that site?
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scottishbuzzsaw Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:54:57am |
re: #42 WriterMom
Small Dead Animals is WICKEDLY FUNNY and I highly recommend it.
...and that's an understatement! ;>)
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Charles Johnson Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:55:40am |
Ben Hur: I don't want that ugly garbage posted here. Please.
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midwestgak Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:56:20am |
re: #46 Charles
I guess I'll just have to accept that LGFs place is among the other losers, like Victor Davis Hanson, Powerline, and Bill Whittle.
That's good company indeed!
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Ben Hur Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:56:39am |
re: #51 Charles
Ben Hur: I don't want that ugly garbage posted here. Please.
Understood.
I wish I hadn't been so gracious when I met her.
You're a class act, Charles.
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WriterMom Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:56:44am |
re: #48 midwestgak
I dunno-I read it every day, but I don't comment there. But Kate is super smart and rides a motorcycle and does math. Super chick!
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jaunte Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:57:05am |
re: #46 Charles
Victor Davis Hanson, Powerline, and Bill Whittle.
Good company.
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meeshlr Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:57:18am |
re: #43 Ben Hur
What a perfect opportunity for a link to Kate at small dead animals.
When the Nazis show up to march with jihadists, you're supposed to pray for an asteroid, not provide a police escort.
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Ben Hur Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:57:36am |
re: #54 WriterMom
I dunno-I read it every day, but I don't comment there. But Kate is super smart and rides a motorcycle and does math. Super chick!
Never been on there until today.
Do you endorse?
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yma o hyd Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:57:57am |
re: #46 Charles
There's no reason not be gracious -- it's an internet poll. As I've pointed out over and over in many different situations (Ron Paul!), Internet polls are basically meaningless. This one is a popularity contest that doesn't measure anything real -- and it's very simple to manipulate it in ways that cannot be detected.
I guess I'll just have to accept that LGFs place is among the other losers, like Victor Davis Hanson, Powerline, and Bill Whittle.
Good company, that!
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meeshlr Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:58:55am |
re: #48 midwestgak
Is registration always open for that site?
There's no registration. Open comments but stay on topic and ignore the trolls.
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FrogMarch Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:59:00am |
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coquimbojoe Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:59:02am |
I voted for LGF like a dead person in Chicago.
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Kenneth Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:59:10am |
With Hamas taking its orders from Khaled Mashal in Damascus and its weapons and money from Iran, one might be forgiven for thinking that the rocket attacks on Israel are really a thinly disguised act of aggression by Damascus and Teheran. But we are never to think that. What we are meant to believe is that the cause of peace requires that Hamas be allowed to survive and the Iranian weapons shipments to continue.
The conventional wisdom is that Israel “can never win” and must therefore buy its way out from under the rain of rockets. Who do they make the check out to? Hamas, Damascus or Teheran?
If you support peace in the Middle East, then you should support Israel in destroying Hamas. In urging a ceasefire now, which will enable Hamas to survive to fight another day, the UN is ruining (yet again) any hope for peace.
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Ben Hur Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:59:12am |
re: #54 WriterMom
You see that krazy photo I sent you this am?
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midwestgak Wed, Jan 14, 2009 7:59:39am |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:00:35am |
Charles, thanks for cleaning up that unfortunate spill on the earlier thread. Poster was sorry as hell. Post this comment finger was faster than brain.
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Oh no...Sand People! Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:00:53am |
I'm just glad there is actually more than one 'conservative blog' to vote for. Helps me keep those nightmares of the 'fairness doctrine' in check.
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WriterMom Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:02:09am |
re: #57 Ben Hur
100% WriterMom endorsement-I don't know how much that means. SDA makes me laugh out loud.
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J.S. Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:02:18am |
re: #40 lawhawk
but if you could "nominate yourself", then how come there weren't 25,000 or more entrants?
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FightingBack Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:02:27am |
This isn't over. We cans do an Al Franken?
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DeafDog Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:03:56am |
re: #13 meeshlr
I want an LGF t-shirt ... ladies-style.
oooh ... or maybe a lounge t-shirt? That would be really cool.
Please?
I think you're on to something. LGF merchandise would be a hit. I imagine that it would be a pain in the neck to manage, however, and that's why the web-master stays away.
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Ben Hur Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:04:05am |
Sign seen in store window on Upper East Side:
ROSA SAT SO MARTIN COULD WALK
MARTIN WALKED SO OBAMA COULD RUN
OBAMA RAN SO OUR CHILDREN CAN FLY.
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Izzy Dunne Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:04:09am |
I thought that conservative thought was outlawed in Canada.
Kudos to SDA!
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notutopia Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:04:09am |
re: #43 Ben Hur
No need to down ding the messenger.
Thanks for bringing it this time. I never go there.
Her message is clearly ego froth.
History over time...has a way of always clearly showing who the valuable opponents of fascism are. And who were just pretty but faux window dressings.
Time. Give it time my dear Atlas.
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OldLineTexan Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:05:48am |
re: #75 Ben Hur
Sign seen in store window on Upper East Side:
Children fly, and shit rains down on our heads
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FightingBack Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:06:27am |
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Ben Hur Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:06:40am |
Report: Hamas agrees to ceasefire in Gaza
1. It's YNET.
2. It's activist Ali Waked on YNET.
Expect the story to change within two hours, like the rest of his "reports."
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coquimbojoe Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:06:59am |
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Ben Hur Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:07:24am |
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OldLineTexan Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:07:25am |
re: #81 Ben Hur
Report: Hamas agrees to ceasefire in Gaza
1. It's YNET.
2. It's activist Ali Waked on YNET.
Expect the story to change within two hours, like the rest of his "reports."
Ali Waked? He must be near the Gaza Rooster.
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acwgusa Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:07:27am |
re: #75 Ben Hur
Sign seen in store window on Upper East Side:
Fly like a plane with both engines out, and both pilots dead, and no autopilot.
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Spiny Norman Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:07:51am |
re: #63 Kenneth
If you support peace in the Middle East, then you should support Israel in destroying Hamas. In urging a ceasefire now, which will enable Hamas to survive to fight another day, the UN is ruining (yet again) any hope for peace.
The UN (or at least a certain very influential contingent) doesn't want "peace", they want an Arab victory and the destruction of Israel. Or, at the very least, a continuation of low level warfare (death by a thousand cuts) that they can blame on the Jews.
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acwgusa Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:08:42am |
re: #85 acwgusa
Fly like a plane with both engines out, and both pilots dead, and no autopilot.
Wow! That was bitter, even for a Wednesday morning!
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DeafDog Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:10:03am |
re: #75 Ben Hur
Sign seen in store window on Upper East Side:
I thought about saying something snarky back, but that's actually a good sign. I think it probably captures the feelings of all African Americans. Maybe it should of started with a Reference to Jackie (Robinson).
That said, the writer should be reminded that Rosa and Martin were Republicans and believers in individual liberty. Obama is the opposite. He ain't gonna make anyone fly, but he will help spread the wealth misery.
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looking closely Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:12:50am |
Well, I guess I'll have to check out this 'Small Dead Animals' thing.
Its in pretty distinguished company, and if it edged all out the others, it probably doesn't totally suck (even if there was some ballot-stuffing going on. . .).
BTW, I cast my votes for Ace.
I still think LGF is the clear leader in the category, but we were so far behind here, and Ace and "Animals" were literally so close, I thought my vote would have more value that way.
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Irish Rose Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:14:35am |
re: #31 Erik The Red
Go over to the "the two sites that should not be named here" and read the gloating. The comments are even worse. You would swear that this poll meant everything to them. Makes me angry. Fuck you Pam and Bob.
You mean Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs?
I'll name 'em, without hesitation.
This poll "meant everything to them" because they're more obsessed about attacking Charles Johnson, than they are about voting for people who actually do quality work.
In doing so they did a great disservice to the people who were actually hosting the polls, and they should apologize to the web hosts for abusing their bandwidth to carry out a personal vendetta.
RS is an intelligent man and a good writer but clearly, that's all he is.
Personality wise? As far as I'm concerned, he's a vindictive, vicious, mean-spirited little toad... I didn't know it before, but I sure do see it now. And sadly, so do a lot of other folks.
He likes to howl incessantly about people who are "trying to damage his reputation". My observation is that he does enough to damage his reputation all by himself, without help from anyone else. His website has become so sickening in content that I can't even bring myself to visit any more.
Pamela Geller? 100 percent pure attention-whoring back stabber.
She's gone completely off the rails, and one can only hope that her drooling cyber-johns have the good sense to wear a glove when they log on.
Someone should tell Ms. Geller that collecting votes from people who are voting for you because they hate someone else (instead of giving you a vote because you actually - ya know - earned it) diminishes any legitimate claim to achievement.
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Kenneth Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:15:44am |
Obama & Cheney, sounding very much alike on the problem of Gitmo:
Smart, nuanced, liberal Obama understands the problem:
"It is more difficult than I think a lot of people realize," the President-elect explained. "Part of the challenge that you have is that you have a bunch of folks that have been detained, many of whom who may be very dangerous who have not been put on trial or have not gone through some adjudication. And some of the evidence against them may be tainted even though it's true. And so how to balance creating a process that adheres to rule of law, habeas corpus, basic principles of Anglo American legal system, by doing it in a way that doesn't result in releasing people who are intent on blowing us up." - Barack Obama
Evil, Neocon Cheney, saying pretty much the same thing:
And these folks are, in fact, unlawful combatants, adversaries of the United States, members of al Qaeda. And I think that's true for most of them there. As I say, there's a regular, annual review of each of their cases to make certain that we're still justified in holding them. And if not, to send them back to their home country, if they'll have them.
Well, a lot of people, including the president, expressed the view that they'd like to close Guantanamo. I think everybody can say we wished there were no necessity for Guantanamo. But you have to be able to answer these other questions before you can do that responsibly. And that includes, what are you going to do with the prisoners held in Guantanamo? And nobody yet has solved that problem. - Dick Cheney
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Kenneth Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:17:44am |
re: #86 Spiny Norman
You are 100% correct. But Western liberals still want the fig-leaf of a "Two-State Solution" while inwardly hoping for the destruction of Israel.
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Irish Rose Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:17:49am |
re: #52 midwestgak
I guess I'll just have to accept that LGFs place is among the other losers, like Victor Davis Hanson, Powerline, and Bill Whittle.
That's good company indeed!
Indeed it is.
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Kosh's Shadow Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:25:30am |
re: #93 Kenneth
You are 100% correct. But Western liberals still want the fig-leaf of a "Two-State Solution" while inwardly hoping for the destruction of Israel.
They want a two state solution -Palestine and Palestine II.
That is, one of those would have been Israel before the "right of return" they insist on was exercised.
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Kenneth Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:25:32am |
re: #81 Ben Hur
I read a report this morning (can't find link) that Hamas in Gaza "accepted" the Egyptian proposal but added or changed the conditions (ie. open border crossing with no Israeli security). The Egyptian intel chief Osman Suleiman told Hamas to "accept the ceasefire deal as written, or else Hamas will be blamed for continuing the conflict." In other words, Egypt is fed up. Meanwhile, Hamas leaders in Syria rejected any ceasefire. They're prepared to fight to the last Gazan.
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SurferDoc Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:27:00am |
re: #26 greenmiler
weblogawards2008 would have had more participation if their site wasn't so slow; they had only two hamsters and one was dead the whole time
The hamster was only "mostly" dead.
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Kenneth Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:27:14am |
re: #95 Kosh's Shadow
I think a 3 state solution might work: Israel, Jordan (taking part of the West Bank) & Egypt (taking Gaza). Let them deal with the Fakestinians.
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Vicious Babushka Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:27:38am |
re: #29 meeshlr
Damn. The cute wins. Cute Overload beat F*** You Penguin.
That's just not right.
I voted for I Can Has Cheezburger in that category.
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Boxy_brown Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:27:42am |
The world is upside down... Canadians have a conservative PM, we elected someone left of the NDP... we are talking about socializing industries, they are talking about privatizing them.... they are drilling for oil we are talking about carbon caps... Now, they won this thing, whatever it was...
Amazing: Not only have we not learned from other peoples mistakes we are determined to make the same ones ourselves.
LGF was robbed like Norm Coleman by the way. ;-)
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Irish Rose Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:28:26am |
Ah, dammit... burned the chips and cheese.
One of those days.
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ducktrapper Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:28:58am |
Congrats to Kate and SDA. You realize this means ... there probably is a God so leftards be afraid, be very afraid.
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Irish Rose Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:30:03am |
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Boxy_brown Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:32:57am |
re: #91 Irish Rose
Pamela Geller? 100 percent pure attention-whoring back stabber.
She's gone completely off the rails, and one can only hope that her drooling cyber-johns have the good sense to wear a glove when they log on.
Don't sugar coat it Rose, give it to us straight. (I wont get you started on Malkin.) ;-)
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Summersong Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:35:04am |
You know what is shocking? How few people voted at all!
I'd venture to say this poll is not yet widely known or people just don't care.
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Irish Rose Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:36:20am |
re: #104 Boxy_brown
Don't sugar coat it Rose, give it to us straight. (I wont get you started on Malkin.) ;-)
Probably best.
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Catttt Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:48:51am |
I remember back when I voted for SDA for best small something or other (new? Canadian? foreign?) blog, or something of that sort. Kudos for the growth and success!
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Doug Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:50:43am |
As the resident provocateur at SDA, I have to say that although LGF is a daily stop on my internet travels, small dead animals is my first destination of choice.
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ceallaighgirl Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:55:42am |
I love LGF, but yay Small Dead Animals! I love reading that blog. I have to keep up on the Canadian politics as I inch my way closer and closer to Canuckistan, husband in the navy there. It's good to follow what's going on with our neighbours to the north . . . it seems that lots of what happens up there tends to trickle down here eventually over time.
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Irish Rose Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:59:34am |
Regarding my #91
Check out the mutual masturbation video over at Gellers'.
Classy.
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Pickle Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:59:49am |
I dislike Small Dead Animals for the way Kate treats Marc Emery. Won't read it.
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Sharmuta Wed, Jan 14, 2009 9:05:46am |
re: #110 Irish Rose
Regarding my #91
Check out the mutual masturbation video over at Gellers'.Classy.
Were they drinking before they did that?
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Irish Rose Wed, Jan 14, 2009 9:08:19am |
re: #112 Sharmuta
Were they drinking before they did that?
They were clearly doing something.
And I'll leave it at that.
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ShowMeStateOfMind Wed, Jan 14, 2009 9:10:53am |
Aww, c'mon... does anyone know of a good Canadian to English dictionary? I just read the article linked from the SDA post on the Obamamobile and already I have multiple issues... like what is a "tyre", how fast is 100km/hr and does it really have a 10-disc changer... or is that the equivalent of a 6-disc changer in America, once you convert from the metric system?
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mardukhai Wed, Jan 14, 2009 9:35:39am |
I did honors in Canadian Studies in graduate school. (Really!)
I eventually gave up on it, however -- It's a rather unique discipline. The deeper you get into Canadian Studies, the less there is to know.
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J'accuzzi Wed, Jan 14, 2009 10:15:10am |
Womens. Motorcycle. Stick finger in lefty eye. Me like.
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Ward Cleaver Wed, Jan 14, 2009 10:32:45am |
I liked this topic heading on her site:
2008 Weblog Awards: Every Time You Vote For SDA, Al Gore Cries.
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Alberta Oil Peon Wed, Jan 14, 2009 11:58:00am |
re: #114 ShowMeStateOfMind
Aww, c'mon... does anyone know of a good Canadian to English dictionary? I just read the article linked from the SDA post on the Obamamobile and already I have multiple issues... like what is a "tyre", how fast is 100km/hr and does it really have a 10-disc changer... or is that the equivalent of a 6-disc changer in America, once you convert from the metric system?
"tyre" is British usage. We use "tire" in Canada.
100 km/hr = 62 MPH.
FWIW, most Canadians of a "certain age" still think in Imperial units. My Suburban gets x miles per gallon, not Y liters per 100 km. Gack!
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aussie_dave Wed, Jan 14, 2009 12:15:08pm |
Congratulations on coming fourth Charles! Keep up the good work.
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yochanan Wed, Jan 14, 2009 1:23:01pm |
Kevin Libin: United under the swastika
Posted: January 12, 2009, 3:56 PM by Kevin Libin
Kevin Libin, Israel, Calgary, nazis, gaza
Critics of Israel are often quick to insist that they’re not anti-Semitic—just anti-Zionist, anti-“occupation,” or something along those lines. But not these guys: at a protest against Israel in downtown Calgary on the weekend, the Nazi group, the Aryan Guard, showed up to march alongside the Muslims. Of course, the Aryan Guard is honest enough to admit they just plain hate Jews, not bothering to strain themselves with arguments of nuance. They fit right in on Saturday with their posters of Israeli flags defaced with the accusation “Terror State.” As Darcey at Dust My Broom notes, the 150 “anti-racists” who came out in force to protest an Aryan Guard march in downtown Calgary last year didn’t complain this time. In fact, they marched right along with the Aryans, united under the swastika: the Arabs and Communists labeling the Jewish State a “Nazi” regime; the skinheads hoping to resurrect the Real McCoy.
Event organizer Shadi Abuid—who last made news a few years back as a university student when he brought to Calgary Norman Finkelstein, the popular anti-Israel author of “The Holocaust Industry”—told Canwest Global he was impressed with the “various groups uniting under one voice.” He explained that he had “directly told” the neo-Nazis that he'd prefer they didn’t join the march. “But in these demonstrations you can control the crowd but you can't control the emotions . . . you can't deny people's right to walk,” he shrugged.
That’s true. Except, many of the same organizers behind Saturday’s march attempted to deny the freedom-to-demonstrate of an Israeli supporter just the other week. At a protest in front of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s constituency office in southwest Calgary January 2nd, Gazan supporters called the cops to complain when one man showed up waving an Israeli flag. There were 150 pro-Palestinian protestors, but the single Israeli supporter was told by police that he must leave or be charged with "inciting civil disorder,” according to this account (with photos). Protestors reportedly cursed at and threw shoes at the man.
The anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, anti-whatever protestors should indeed get the benefit of the doubt when it comes to accusations of being Jew-haters. But attempting to suppress the rights of Israel’s supporters, while standing up for the rights of Nazis to march alongside them arm-in-arm, can only make drawing that distinction a lot more difficult.
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exredtory Wed, Jan 14, 2009 1:38:05pm |
Kate doesn't use hamsters, she has Richardson ground squirrels: you should see how those little b*****ds tear the hell out of my yard in the country.
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june_july Wed, Jan 14, 2009 2:54:36pm |
SDA does an incredible job in a very hostile environment. Freedom of expression is not as casually accepted in Canada as it is in the US, and the Conservative blogs are subject to an incredible double standard with regard to this.
That SDA has survived and thrived is a small miracle and a testimony to the intelligence of its owner.
The proprietress, Kate, is even now being sued by the usual anti-free speech anti-conservative anti-West anti-everything-good-in-our-society crowd. A donation to her defense fund, and also those of the other Canadian blogs who fight the good fight, will always be one to a good and important cause. Remember that we are fighting battles here that the US may have to fight in a few years.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Wed, Jan 14, 2009 3:17:07pm |
Congratulations, Charles, on the classy behavior; there isn't enough of that to go around these days.
This is why I am here, and not at sites that shall not be named.
I will confess to having voted for LGF like a Chicago democrat. I think next year I'll go the library and vote on every machine there, too.
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