Here's proof of the existence of Canadian freepers

[ironflange]

Just as bad as American ones. This guy, Paul Jackson, is always spouting sad crap like this. Sorry for posting the whole thing, but the Sun doesn't seem to have archived stuff, and if I just post the link, it's liable to be gone tomorrow. Well, here's the link anyway, he's always good for a chuckle.

http://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/jackson.html

You should also know that Calgary is one of the only places in Canada where this drivel can be published without the author being laughed out of town. Notice especially his keen grip on history's subtleties.

* * * * *

Four-square for George
U.S. prez enjoyed terrific year indeed
By PAUL JACKSON -- Calgary Sun

A shroud of critics gather over my head as the New Year opens and ask why I stand up for President George W. Bush.

Truth to tell, I don't. He doesn't need me to stand up for him.

But I stand right behind him in his war against international terrorism and tyranny.

And who can deny 2003 wasn't a top-notch year for Bush?

Bush, a history buff who has learned the lessons of the past, is a much-maligned man.

He knows the mighty Roman Empire wasn't destroyed by a superior civilization. But by nomadic German Tribes. Men in caves. Sound familiar?

Yet the American Lib-Left -- and the shameless anti-Americans in Europe -- have to try and demean Bush and his administration as it fights for sanity in the world.

One way to destroy a society is to fill its people with doubts about their place in the world. Then get them to disparage and denigrate their own values.

EDITED BY ADMIN: COPYRIGHT

[Holly]

1. yuck

this guy is trying to relive a bad nightmare
This statement jumped out;"You can bet it would have been far, far different if Brian Mulroney were still prime minister. "

Hmm, I recall that we basically rid the country of the Progressive Conservatives because... Brian Mulroney was Prime Minister. Just another right wing nut....Here's hoping we can get rid of most of them after the next election. People like this are living in the past, we Canadians no longer need to define ourselves through the American vision...we are Canadian, and confident in being who we are.
Canada has grown up.

[ironflange]

6. I still feel sorry for Kim Campbell

I think she was a smart and reasonably adept politician, and it sickens me the way Mulroney threw her to the wolves in the election, then blamed her for the destruction of the PCs. What a complete jerk.

[Melsky]

2. Further proof:

http://www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/portal.php

But I still like Canada.

[ironflange]

3. They claim to be "Principled"

Yet they have a forum called the Ridicule Room. What a bunch of hypocrites.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

12. Folks, please don't visit freedominion, we're trying to close them down

through lack of traffic. They're constantly on the verge of going under, so don't give them any hits, it's really not worth it. They have nothing to say.

[Jane Roe]

13. Free *Dominion* is a funny bit of doublespeak n/t

[Unforgiven]

17. Problem is......

.........if people are told something over and over again, guess what happens?

[Brian_Expat]

25. Canada is technically a sovereign Dominion

Its official name is "The Dominon of Canada."

[durutti]

4. Here.

http://www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/portal.php

[anti_shrub]

5. Sadly

Freepers in Canada are more like a sideshow, not to be taken seriously.

In America, they dominate the political landscape.

[ironflange]

7. Yeah

Up here, they are seen mostly as a source of amusement.

[Minstrel Boy]

8. Avert your gaze. Now, here's something better to see from Canada:

http://www.rabble.ca/

Though it's dormant over the holidays, until Jan 5. Pretty lively discussion boards under "babble." And click on the A10 Warthog cartoon in the corner.

Canada's DU, I suppose.

[vanityfair]

9. Also in Calgary Herald Jan 1st...

A story about the "charmed lives" that George Bush and ?Ralph Klein lead. Yecch! The author, Shelley Youngblut, sounds pretty supportive of Shrub. What can you expect? Calgary is in "Conservative Country."

If it weren't for the mountains and dry climate...I'd be moving somewhere more liberal.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

11. Yeah,I put the herald's new year editorial up here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=975576&mesg_id=975576

I just love my local nutjobs.

[ironflange]

22. Pretty safe bet that Catherine Ford didn't write that one

Southam papers are sharing editorials now, so this may not even be from Calgary. It actually sounds like something that the nut in Edmonton, Lorne Gunter, would come up with.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

26. Yeah, Gunter, on Peter Menzies, or just straight from the National Post

[Brian_Expat]

24. But Dubya and Ralph have a lot in common. . .

. . . they're both incompetent alcoholics. :evilgrin:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

27. lucky incompetent alcoholics with an electorate that doesn't care.

[jonoboy]

10. why do they bring Hitler into everything ????????/

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

14. Trying to muddy the waters

to cover the undeniable fact that Hitler was a RIGHT-WING extremist.

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-hitler.htm

Myth: Hitler was a leftist.

Fact: Nearly all of Hitler's beliefs placed him on the far right.

Summary

Many conservatives accuse Hitler of being a leftist, on the grounds that his party was named "National Socialist." But socialism requires worker ownership and control of the means of production. In Nazi Germany, private capitalist individuals owned the means of production, and they in turn were frequently controlled by the Nazi party and state. True socialism does not advocate such economic dictatorship -- it can only be democratic. Hitler's other political beliefs place him almost always on the far right. He advocated racism over racial tolerance, eugenics over freedom of reproduction, merit over equality, competition over cooperation, power politics and militarism over pacifism, dictatorship over democracy, capitalism over Marxism, realism over idealism, nationalism over internationalism, exclusiveness over inclusiveness, common sense over theory or science, pragmatism over principle, and even held friendly relations with the Church, even though he was an atheist.

[opihimoimoi]

15. He is conning us..... with drivel from the Right. ..Bush and ROME???

Gimme a break.

[Moderator]

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[ironflange]

20. Ulp, sorry

My bad.

[Orrin_73]

18. Neanderthalers(freepers) are not

confined to the US.

kucinich.us

deanforamerica.com
clark04.com
sharpton2004.org

Tom DeLay:"I challenge anyone to live on my salary" <$158,000 a year>

[MrPrax]

19. Most of FD is Randian's...

When McKay was negotiating his place as a footnote in a Trivia Pursuit game...he said that Alliance was little more than a 'right wing debating society'

I love there stuff on anti-smoking bylaws...they want to fit a 'free market individualism' into some whacked rap about 'nattering nabobs' and the 'nanny state' control us...
I dare ASK!!! What Next? Infant car seats??? Stop Signs???

har har...idiots

[TrogL]

21. The Sun's gone so far right wing

that it put the Alberta Report out of business. They used to have the monopoly in right-wing wackiness.

[ironflange]

23. You'll love to hear this

Ezra Levant is starting up a new magazine, every two weeks. It could be worse than Alberta Report.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

28. I know people who were at school with Ezra.

He's a monumental coward.

[lumpy]

29. Hehehehehehe

Bush is a history buff...
Paul Jackson has not a burr but a bush up his butt.

[SeveneightyWhoa]

30. Paul Jackson is a wacko, anti-Canadian ignoramous.

Thankfully, the Sun is not TOTALLY inundated with individuals of his type. I can still rely on Eric Margolis, an excellent columnist who speaks "the truth". I'm amazed that he's still on the rightwing Sun's payroll.

[Moderator]

31. ironflange

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