Excuse me? WATCH ME.


/gah why did Carlin have to die? He would have had a field day with this.

An ounce of cannabis can get you up to 5 years in jail.

File trading (regardless of what you may or may not have traded) can get you 10 years in jail.

The monkeys at the TSA can (and often do) steal your consumer electronics. No, you cannot complain about it.

Gas is at $4.00 a gallon.

The presidential approval rating is one of the lowest in history.

We're in a recession.

This country is in some serious trouble. I'm just wondering how deep the rabbit hole goes.

You do realize the story is about Canada, right?

martosko: You do realize the story is about Canada, right?

Yes, I think that's the point. It is Canada, not Iran, and having this crap go on is deeply disturbing. If you are going to silence free speech you damm well better silence it equally and not facilitate the ramblings of one group. (In this case, the perpetually offended Muslims.)

Meh. It was just some uppity eaves-dropping retard who is scared by words and wanted to be a Hero. Security did the right thing by getting his side of the story and then leaving him alone.

Crosshair: martosko: You do realize the story is about Canada, right?

Yes, I think that's the point. It is Canada, not Iran, and having this crap go on is deeply disturbing. If you are going to silence free speech you damm well better silence it equally and not facilitate the ramblings of one group. (In this case, the perpetually offended Muslims.)

The rest of the free world has a different view on free speech than we do, Canada included. The sky isn't necessarily falling this time around, but it is worth watching.

I was referring to Weaver95 spewing the current "America stinks" boilerplate.

Solon Isonomia: The sky isn't necessarily falling this time around, but it is worth watching.

Agreed, there is still time for the people of those countries to wake up and put a stop to such crap.

Crosshair: Agreed, there is still time for the people of those countries to wake up and put a stop to such crap.

Whether or not that's a good idea, it won't happen. We're a minority in that we like our speech to follow the "uncontrolled firehose on full blast"; it would take something radical to get everyone else on board with us.

I tried posting this pic in response to the bewbies post, but it got zapped. So here it is, in poppy-link goodness.

/Not Safe For Fark, apparently
//Even though it was in the Carlin Newsflash thread
///RIP, Mr. Conductor

/gimme dhimmitude for a thousand, alex

Weaver95: We're in a recession.

This part is not true.

/slow yes. Negative no.

Canada has always had some pretty draconian laws surrounding free speech. I think it is the fact that they are too much French.

That journalist deserves a tall, cold beer. And five minutes with that clerk.

/I'll hand him the spiked club
//Then one with the batteries connected to the club' spikes via wires

Wabash: Meh. It was just some uppity eaves-dropping retard who is scared by words and wanted to be a Hero. Security did the right thing by getting his side of the story and then leaving him alone.

But the uppity eaves-dropping retard was an Air Canada employee, and she was later threatened by another employee that if she "made a scene", she'd be thrown off the plane. That seems significant to me.

Weaver95: This country is in some serious trouble. I'm just wondering how deep the rabbit hole goes.

If you and your kind hadn't defended the masterminds of our current shiatstorm for years, maybe it wouldn't have gotten so bad.

I'm glad you've seen the light, but try to see it quietly and humbly. Don't get uppity around those of us who saw it from the very beginning.

/obscure

If this had happened in the US, he'd be in PMITA federal prison for life.

bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb ba-bomb.

This journalist has a long history of fighting back against shiate like this.

Get 'em, Blatch !

I'm still absolutely dumbfounded that Canadians are allowing this crap to go on years after it was brought to their attention.

"...just returned from another trip to Afghanistan, where she traveled the country all on her own but for a young interpreter."

Oh for the days when lone women weren't allowed to wander about Afghanistan all willy-nilly.

Angel of Death: Weaver95: This country is in some serious trouble. I'm just wondering how deep the rabbit hole goes.

If you and your kind hadn't defended the masterminds of our current shiatstorm for years, maybe it wouldn't have gotten so bad.

I'm glad you've seen the light, but try to see it quietly and humbly. Don't get uppity around those of us who saw it from the very beginning.

This

When using English, the real terrorists talk in code in airports. I know for certain that "drinks before dinner" is code for "suicide bombing".

Also, in most airports, Farsi or Navajo are safe languages to use to talk openly about your upcoming terrorist attack.

Actually, in most airports in western Canada, you could use French.

Woops. DNRTFA, though it was about more HRC shenanigans.

Get Lost: Firecrackers. No bicycle helmets. Killing goats in your backyard in Surrey BC

I have no problem with any of those being done without the law having one damn thing to say about it.

On the upside, Get Lost, the freedom to use the <b> tag is still sacrosanct.

a) The reporter is Christie Blatchford (new window). Female.
b) This hasn't got anything to do with George Carlin.

/RTFA police

Weaver95: An ounce of cannabis can get you up to 5 years in jail.

File trading (regardless of what you may or may not have traded) can get you 10 years in jail.

The monkeys at the TSA can (and often do) steal your consumer electronics. No, you cannot complain about it.

Gas is at $4.00 a gallon.

The presidential approval rating is one of the lowest in history.

We're in a recession.

This country is in some serious trouble. I'm just wondering how deep the rabbit hole goes.


Nice rant, as usual.

But you do know this incident happened at a Canadian airport, right? And the subject's flight was within Canada, right?

When words are outlawed, only outlaws will have words.

When we boarded a little later, I asked for the ninny's name. He refused and hissed, "If you make a scene, I'll call the pilot and you won't be flying tonight."

I feel safer.

If we keep bending over the sink for these fascist cocksuckers, you suppose they'll keep screwing us?

Get Lost: Firecrackers. No bicycle helmets. Killing goats in your backyard in Surrey BC.


The immigrants in my neighbourhood butchering goats (and sheep and chickens and pigs) in their backyard were from Yorkshire and about a white as a sheet of printer paper.

Those damn limey bastards are always up to no good. Dirty, heathen Anglicans!

Wabash: Security did the right thing by getting his side of the story and then leaving him alone.

That's the surprising part of the story.

A couple of weeks ago I was on an airplane waiting to deboard at Boston Logan. I got into a conversation (quietly, I hoped) with the guy next to me about the people who were held up on the taxiway for 9 hours at Boston Logan this winter (I think).

I expressed admiration for the way one guy handled it - which was to make such a scene that he was arrested, and in the process, the plane got opened and everyone got let out.

The chorus of "SSSSHHHH!!!" around me was disturbing.

I didn't sshhh, and nothing happened. Flew home without incident four days later.

I think Weaver95's point still stands.

mr lawson: Weaver95: We're in a recession.

This part is not true.

/slow yes. Negative no.

It is true... from a certain point of view. *Jedi handwave*

Specifically, I'm in Michigan. If we, specifically, are not in a recession, we're in a depression, your choice. Other places are hanging together more firmly and may even have an upswing in their state economies, which leaves the whole 'RECESSION?!?' thing at a firm maybe. Depending.

Weaver95: An ounce of cannabis can get you up to 5 years in jail.

File trading (regardless of what you may or may not have traded) can get you 10 years in jail.
Make you smarter than
The monkey s at the TSA can (and often do) steal your consumer electronics. No, you cannot complain about it.
that has caused
Gas to rise to is at $4.00 a gallon.

The presidential Also known as the president whose approval rating is one of the lowest in history.

We're in a recession. Depression.

This country is in some serious trouble. I'm just wondering how deep the rabbit hole goes.

/FTFY.
//You were close.
///I had to really work hard but if you put it all together it was worth it.
//carry on.

Weaver95 said:
An ounce of cannabis can get you up to 5 years in jail.
Yeah, I live in a panic about that remote possibility.

File trading (regardless of what you may or may not have traded) can get you 10 years in jail.
Uhhuh, that's happening left and right. I don't know a single person who's even gotten a raised eyebrow by law enforcement for file sharing.

The monkeys at the TSA can (and often do) steal your consumer electronics. No, you cannot complain about it.
A rarity and yes, you sure as hell could complain if it ever happened.

Gas is at $4.00 a gallon.
As opposed to $8.00 in much of Europe.

The presidential approval rating is one of the lowest in history.
Disapproval of everything is seemingly in fashion.

We're in a recession.
No, we're not. We haven't had a quarter of negative growth in recent memory.

This country is in some serious trouble. I'm just wondering how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Maybe a 12-step program for fear addiction would help.

What would you actually detain him for? Expressing his annoyance at being detained? Isn't this akin to being charged only for resisting arrest (yes I know that can stand because you're supposed to follow police procedure for the safety of you and the officer)?

Weaver95: An ounce of cannabis can get you up to 5 years in jail.

File trading (regardless of what you may or may not have traded) can get you 10 years in jail.

The monkeys at the TSA can (and often do) steal your consumer electronics. No, you cannot complain about it.

Gas is at $4.00 a gallon.

The presidential approval rating is one of the lowest in history.

We're in a recession.

This country is in some serious trouble. I'm just wondering how deep the rabbit hole goes.

All the way down.

Setharian:

"No, we're not. We haven't had a quarter of negative growth in recent memory."

I take this with a grain of salt, because of who makes those statistics.

Setharian: Disapproval of everything is seemingly in fashion

As it damn well should be.

If we take anything away from George Carlin, it should be a healthy dose of awareness of how bad the status quo sucks.

Weaver95: This country is in some serious trouble. I'm just wondering how deep the rabbit hole goes.

Why don't you take a step inside and find out?

Words of interest to google:

Operation Paperclip
-Richard Helms
-Hubertus Strughold
MKUltra
-Subject "Lawful"
Operation Gladio
Operation Ajax
-Operation 40
-Alpha 66
-Hoover
Cointelpro
Operation Northwoods
Gulf of Tonkin incident
USS Liberty
Dark Alliance
-Gary Webb


While a lot of this may seem like old news to you, it's worth looking at again. There's been new information as late as mid-2007 regarding many of these operations, especially the USS Liberty, that paint an interesting picture of US Foreign and Domestic policy.

In my opinion, information regarding this little rabbit hole is easily available nowadays. All of it makes for interesting bedtime reading and it is unnecessary to draw fanciful conclusions in order to have an enjoying read of America's covert operations history.

Setharian: We're in a recession.
No, we're not. We haven't had a quarter of negative growth in recent memory.

I was in the pool!!!

Yep. The terrorists have won.

Stavr0:

Yes, until they leave office in a few months.

I admire the reporter's poise -- I probably would have expressed my typically American sensibilities and clocked the employee the moment that ninny said that they'd blackmail me from getting on the plane. At least then they'd have a legit reason to keep me off.

/Smart? no.
//Temporarily satisfying? Probably.
///Fark Headline? Almost certainly.

What words? "Star Trek?"

"I'm just wondering how deep the rabbit hole goes."

It's that you've only realised America is in trouble now.