You know, for a hearing that the National Post augured would be a 'watershed' for Canadian human rights in Canada, this is kind of -- anticlimatic.
And more:
And now ... they're quibbling over the mechanics of search engine queries. Kill me now.
And more:
"We are done," says the judge. "This case was done last June." This seems to aggravate Christie, who shoots back that nothing is more important than being in this courtroom at this time. I think that may be as close to drama as we're going to get.
Kadey has a way of making her experience of sitting through really boring stuff funny.
Frankly, this all sounds like a rehash of the testimony that's already appeared in transcript, although I would like to know what the "Bell Guy" had to say.
Update: The Bell guy was apparently testifying re. IP 70.48.181.203, which does NOT belong to Warman in any of his incarnations, but is supposed to belong to a CHRC agent of some sort. Not Mr. Steacy, however, and nobody I've heard of in regards to this matter (and, frankly, I'm not sure if I should be revealing the name it is attached to here). Furthermore, their address seems to be an Ottawa condo.
Updater: Looks like the IP above does NOT belong to an CHRC employee:
Barbara asks if he knows someone by the name of ******, and he seems genuinely baffled. No one else seems to have heard of her either, and CRHC lawyer worries that, as a result of that line of questioning, a possibly entirely innocent third party bystander may now have her name and address on the record. The chairman sympathizes, but reminds her that now that they've gone to digital voice recording, there's no transcript to redact.
Another Update: Why was Steacy signed-up on FreeD before a complaint was made against the site?
So why *was* he on freedominion.ca before there was a complaint? Because there was the *potential* for a complaint to come in, he says - prompting muffled gasps from the group beside me, which includes the two founders of Free Dominion.
Like, why wasn't he signed-up with a gazillion other possible forums (FreeD regs are asking themselves)? Well, duh! If you want to monitor internet hate, you go to where it occurs and not somewhere else.
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Well, I suppose it's a watershed event for that conspiracy of neonconservative liars at The National Post, in that it will reaffirm just how much skating along that line between truth and fiction Canadian society will tolerate.
I think The Post really wants to run a lot more "Iranian badges for Jews" stories, at least as many as it can get in before Bush is out of office. The clock is ticking furiously.
"Kadey has a way of making her experience of sitting through really boring stuff funny."
She uses exclamation points! To let you know she is being facetious!
Even the female commenters at SDA are giving fellow sister O'Malley the once over; very unusual for The Sisterhood to break, so the commentary has to be awful. I took a quick look: flippant, ignorant, ditzy, uninformed, passive-aggressive.
No women comment at SDA. It's just a bunch of men sitting at their computers in bra and panties pretending to be women. That's why the commentary is so cartoonish.
In your dreams BCL. She works for MacClones, no left wing dweebs need apply.
Steffi wears a bra and panties, does that mean he reads SDA ?
Shoot. I knew if I mentionned the word "bra" that wormy little masturbator who imagines Stéphane Dion as a woman all the time would comment.
Gah...where's the Purel?
Poking around Maclean's I see they have resurrected Fotheringham. I honestly thought he died in the 90s.
Still a Liberal sperm receptacle, though: Toronto dweller Foth appears to believe that the low profile of Canadian premiers will result in serious consequences for Canadian backpackers this summer.
Now this is funny: at news aggregator Digg they are now affixing a disclaimer to Maclean's articles, something I have never seen before:
"Warning: The Content in this Article May be Inaccurate
Readers have reported that this story contains information that may not be accurate."
See the link on the right, top story:
http://www.macleans.ca/canada/national/article.jsp?content=20080319_72532_72532
Now look at disclaimer at Digg:
http://digg.com/world_news/91_Of_Americans_Surveyed_Think_Canada_Would_Be_Better_Quality_of_Life?OTC-widget
You mean this disclaimer?...
Warning: The Content in this Article May be Inaccurate
Readers have reported that this story contains information that may not be accurate.
Well, you can't argue with "conservative science."
Who is that airhead? That was excruciating to read . . .
Put her back to blogging about talking with girlfriends at the mall, or whatever.
ti-guy, you're Projecting again. TMI.
My heavens, I had no idea that Maclean's was such a treasure trove. This one should be dear to Ti-Guy's Scottish heart:
"The tipping plague
Suddenly everyone from the Starbucks barista to the dog walker has his hand out. Blame the decline in shame."
http://www.macleans.ca/culture/lifestyle/article.jsp?content=20080319_110870_110870
That's quite a wide array of Canadiana Andy Money references, all the way from Starbucks to professional dogwalkers.
And he's not exactly helping the image of Canadians as shitty tipping penny pinchers. Complaining about tipping his "hair stylist" - geez, even *I* tip my barber. And I'm not a London School of Economics trained son of the governor of the Bank of friggin' Canada. The general point of the beggar culture is valid, but Coyne has to fuck it up by writing:
"I am not a cheapskate. Well, yes I am, but the proof of this is not my refusal to succumb to..Did you know you were supposed to tip your masseuse? Also your manicurist, your tattoo artist, and your personal trainer."
This is a cunt that should shaddap.
More like Uberditz.
My my, somebody scored an X.
Can someone who speaks American explain to Fakename how to code links in html?
"11:51:28 AM While I've got the chance, I just want to apologize for, alternately, mangling the names of the various parties and witnesses, or making up my own ones entirely."
That's cool, Kady, you just go on "making up" your own names "entirely" and apologize after the fact, it's not as if we have any expectations when it comes to your work. *GROAN*
You're right. This is dull. Someone should just lob a canister of nerve gas into the hearing room and take out as many of the Righties as they can, now that the worst of them have all congregated there.
"At that point, Christie really seems on the verge of a lawyerly tantrum -- he bellows over the poor little government lawyer"
Poor little government lawyer.
Because nothing screams freedom, baby, like overwrought empathy for lawyers, working on behalf of the state at good rates, at a hearing where it is being revealed that the state is planting fake Nazi "evidence" all over the internet.
OK, this has to be documented:
"4:59:45 PM
Blah blah, I admit it. I'm starting to lose focus"
You see, in Ottawa, home of the 3PM traffic jam, they are used to being in their jammies and with their cats by 3:30PM.
"5:31:25 PM
For some reason, Blight's questioning - the last round, the one that comes right before the end of this very, very long and tiring day"
Sweetie, a twelve hour shift in minus twenty doing manual labour on the oil patch is a very, very long and tiring day, not a day that starts at 9 and ends at 5:30; that is a "normal person" day for millions of Canadians.
Sweetie, a twelve hour shift in minus twenty doing manual labour on the oil patch is a very, very long and tiring day...
Yeah, but she doesn't get all the employer-subsidised crank, crack and cocaine they get to make through their shifts. As she said, Red Bull is all that was available, and she probably had to pay for it herself.
Seriously, do you Righties spend all day seething about people who have better/more honourable careers?
Cherniak's liveblogging of today's Ontario budget is statesmanlike in comparison.
Has Poilièvre and his large pores made an appearance yet?
Ew, he's a little young for you Ti-Guy. How about Keith Martin? Nice fully grown handsome young man, strong on freedom of expression, yes?
Well, doesn't surprise me that you went there.
I was innocently commenting on Pierre Poilièvre's awkward phase, but of course, with Righties...everything's about sex.
This exposition of the HRC's inner workings is like shining a light on cockroaches.
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