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2004-03-06 Great White North

Lifelong activist feared dead (Must.....resist.......gloating.....)

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Posted by Evert Visser 2004-03-06 6:24:07 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Why is everyone assumiing he committed suicide? He could have just... seen a bottle in the river and jumped in after it.

Posted by Charles 2004-3-6 8:15:29 AM|| 2004-3-6 8:15:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Edmonton is seriously cold for at least 6 months of the year. Only a moron would advocate cycling in a place where it would gaurantee frostbite inside 6o seconds. Halifax is positively balmy by comparison.

Posted by phil_b 2004-3-6 9:07:46 AM|| 2004-3-6 9:07:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Bridges--Why do they hate us?

Posted by Dar 2004-3-6 9:32:59 AM|| 2004-3-6 9:32:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I bet this guy ~~used to~~ ride a recumbent, surest sign of a leftist.

Posted by Raj 2004-3-6 12:57:40 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2004-3-6 12:57:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 My goldie points at recumbents. I've been tempted.

Posted by Shipman 2004-3-6 1:01:04 PM|| 2004-3-6 1:01:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 This is a most inappropriate time for a laugh at poor Mr. Gomberg's expense.So,here goes:"Spacemoose meets Tooker Gomberg".Read here (scroll down) for the explanation.

Posted by El Id 2004-3-6 1:05:44 PM|| 2004-3-6 1:05:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I ride a recumbent, I don't ride it because I care about the planet (Gaia is a cool biatch, she can take a few punches)I ride it because I can go realy, realy fast without relying on anything else then my own physical strength.

And I like that.

Posted by Evert Visser 2004-3-6 2:30:49 PM|| [http://chinditz.blog-city.com/] 2004-3-6 2:30:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Why are republicans so eager to express their hatred of anyone different from them? If this article isn't evil, I don't know what is.

Posted by Anonymous 2004-3-6 5:44:09 PM|| 2004-3-6 5:44:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 cause repubs are bong killas

Posted by HalfEmpty 2004-3-6 5:54:56 PM|| 2004-3-6 5:54:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Why are republicans so eager to express their hatred of anyone different from them? If this article isn't evil, I don't know what is.

Ya know, that's the problem with the looney halfwits on the left. They think a bit of levity at the expense of a self-appointed moron is "evil". Those of us who have stared REAL evil in the face, whether we've been strong or shit or pants, know what we're talking about. The rest of you are buffoons clouding the environment with your ridiculous twiddle. The man proved by his life that he was a fool. There's a damned good chance he woke up, saw what kind of a fool he was, and couldn't face himself any more (or couldn't face the rest of the world, who KNEW he was a fool).

It might do you a bit of good to get out of your self-imposed exile and see a bit of the real world before declaring that one group "hates" because they don't genuflect to the god of Political Correctness and Leftwing Moonbatism. There's a broad, six-lane avenue between "hating" someone and having total disdain for his moonbat attitude and lifestyle, which is being lampooned here.

YOU are the one who hates, Anonymous. BTW, if I had your intellectual capacities, I'd hide my identity, too.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-3-6 6:17:19 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-3-6 6:17:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 thanks for the courageous wisdom and critique "anonymous". Troll fever - catch it!

Posted by Frank G 2004-3-6 6:43:33 PM|| 2004-3-6 6:43:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 I'd like you thank you, Old Patriot, for providing such a perfect example of the point made in item #8.

(Surely, you must be joking. Your comments sound like a maniac's.)

Posted by Anonymous 2004-3-6 6:45:05 PM|| 2004-3-6 6:45:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Gawd, it's thick with trolls in here. Must.hold.breath.while.punching.IP-Kill.button.

Posted by Rivrdog 2004-3-6 7:49:00 PM|| [http://rivrdog.typepad.com] 2004-3-6 7:49:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Why are republicans so eager to express their hatred of anyone different from them? If this article isn't evil, I don't know what is.

Authoritarian Strawman, demonizing generalization and pretense of clairvoyance.
Since it's not likely that your education includes these terms, Anonymous, a strawman is a deliberate misrepresentation of another's viewpoint ("hatred of anyone different from them"). Have you established this as a fact? How? That's where authoritarianism comes in. You presume to tell others not only what they should think, but what they do think, in the form of a clairvoyant characterization of motive that you ludicrously generalize to a group of millions.

You compound this laughably arrogant pretense by claiming that another poster sounds like a maniac, as though this statement of self-serving demonization somehow constitutes a fact. This can only be based on the presumption that you are the sole arbiter and interpreter of how a statement sounds.

Yet you and your fellow LLL conformists deny that you are power-crazed authoritarians.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-3-6 8:31:40 PM|| 2004-3-6 8:31:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 BTW, I am a Democrat and have twice held public office as such. I won't be supporting the Kerry/ANSWER/Soros coalition however.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-3-6 8:38:21 PM|| 2004-3-6 8:38:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Why are republicans so eager to express their hatred of anyone different from them? If this article isn't evil, I don't know what is.

I think you're confusing hatred with old-fashioned mockery. I don't think anybody here hates poor old Tooker. I certainly don't. Matter of fact, I could care less about old Tooker, except to have a laugh at the acne-scar impression his presence here in this vale of tears actually left.

Has he landed yet?

Posted by Fred 2004-3-6 11:20:58 PM|| 2004-3-6 11:20:58 PM|| Front Page Top

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