…and fern hill was kicking ass all over the pla
ce! W00t!
DJ has the links that tell the entire tawdry tale.
And while we’re giving props to those who deserve, how about an honourary scoop of freshly-minted dogpoop to the Toronto Star, supposedly Canada’s Flaming Liberal Newspaper of Record, for refusing to publish even a Letter to the Editor (let alone an equal-space rebuttal) without a real name from “The Blogger” who drove the entire Penninga article. Since Penninga referred to fern hill only as “a blogger”, her response to his brainless swill shouldn’t require any name more explicit than “The Blogger Who Made Tim Hudak’s Abortion Stance an Election Issue and Made Mark Penninga Cry”.
Whoops! Bonus solidarity track: The Good Doctor weighs in.
(Okay, time to hit “publish”… psyching up… come on, this won’t hurt a bit… aaaccckk!!)
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Yay! I was having a totally, as the kids say, awesome day and now this!!!! Might need some bubbly.
Well, this is a candy bonus to Ms Fern’s Investigative Awesassity aka ‘googling where no news org has apparently dared to google’ badge!
Good to see you have..uhm..bounced back, Ms JJ. (Someone had to say it after that video)
Pop that cork, fern! You deserve that super expensive Moet Chandon that the rich bastards drink in foreign movies
Woot! You have been missed!
We knew you’d be back.
The only possible response to JJ’s return.
So uh.. does that mean I can add your feed back to Progressive Bloggers?
Welcome back JJ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gawd. It’s about time eh?
I never lost hope that you would return. But you tested that hope severely.
It’s funny how old blogging friends can feel like family. The progressive blogosphere never needed your free spirit so badly.
And I missed you terribly…
I knew you’d be back, JJ! (Although you held out long enough to make me doubt on my bad days.
)
Give ‘em hell!
Yey, the west coast comes alive. This is exciting.
fern hill – You rock! I’ve been following your work on this story and have been most impressed with your tenacity at exposing the slime beneath the rocks and making it an Election Issue. (And causing Mr. Penninga some major butt-hurt :p )
Your return has made my day.
“Bounced back” indeed… this time without the Ouch! that followed having my 56 year old spine momentarily stretched about 6″ by falling momentum pulling in one direction and a bungy cord pulling in the other. Not for old people! (But I’d do it again anyway.)
Beijing – Yay! Here’s a toast to our intrepid investigative reporter, pseudonym & all.
orthodox – Thank you! I look forward to getting back into it!
Buckets
LOL
OB – Ahhhhh! The Amazing Dog Dancing Merengue! My favourite!!!
Scott
Do I make the cut? It seems like a pretty exclusive club lately…
Siiiiiiiiiiiimonnnnnnn!!!!
At first I figured I would eventually get back to it after a break. But as time went on, I wasn’t so sure that my “free spirit” was all that welcome in the progress-o-sphere, so for awhile I lost interest. But I was driving everyone nuts with my blathering… a blog is at least a good way to vent frustrations and express amazement at the utter dumbness of things…
Mark – I quit for 7 months to the day, which was long enough to totally lose interest in blogging, and then change my mind
FFIB – I have been practicing my latte-drinking so as to make the cut
Balb!!!
As yours did mine. (And I still harbour secret hopes that Conucopia will someday be resurrected
)
Welcome back, JJ. It’s good to see you
blogging again. I’m looking forward to your
posts.
Welcome back JJ.
http://drdawgsblawg.ca/2011/07/many-happy-returns-plus-one.shtml
♡ ♡ ♡ Thankyou balb!!! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♬☼
I previously uploaded to your blog a u-tube link of my one-of-a-kind original song (but in a good way) entitled “THE BALLAD OF MARC EMERY vs THE DEA which is a genuine protest song the likes of which is pretty rare these days, and my style never heard of before. Anyway I’m getting no hits – alright, 18 in a year and change, and I suspect most of them were cops – so I’m looking for links. Still. Marc Emery’s has got to be among the greatest miscarriages of justice I have ever experienced and certainly cause celeb in Canada, all the moreso given the last couple of federal elections. So I’m still looking for links, and the song seems like something that might be right up (down?) your alley. So if you missed my first link please consider giving it a listen if you’ve a free twenty minutes over the course of a few days and maybe consider giving it a review and even a recommendation and, you know, link.
Thanks, #38
#38 – Thanks a lot, I’ll check it out asap.
Shouldn’t that be “The Blogger Who Gave Mark Penninga A Severe Case Of Butthurt?“
Thanks JAB. I can see that link being used on a regular basis in the future!
JJ:
A) I wish there was way to reply to individual posts and have them threaded.. instead of having it end up here at the bottom (or I’m completely missing where to reply)
but b) nope.. as a former member who left in good standing, if you want back on, you’re on.
Scott – (a) I changed the comments to “threaded” just for you
I seem to recall trying this before, and everyone complained about it so I changed it back. We’ll see how it goes.
(b) Okay — maybe you could quarantine me in the section labeled “PINO” so I don’t contaminate the purists. (I keed, I keed.)
If I may be able to add to the chorus, it is great to have you back JJ! Something tells me that being out of the minority rabbit hole and into the brave new political frontier, you will have quite a few things to say, and I will be pleasantly waiting for them
.