leaf May 30, 2008 at 12:20 p.m.

too bad media, money and ego doesn't attract nearly as many groupies as Conrad Black, eh Doug...

oh well, you can always make up more posters. nobody will know.

Barbara_in_BC May 30, 2008 at 12:31 p.m.

leaf Amiel is catty today...

Barbara_in_BC May 30, 2008 at 1:13 p.m.

About "making up posters" nobody knows better than Barbara Amiel how to write a fake newspaper story - how about that Daniel Pepper article back in 2003? The one where a volunteer peacenik to Iraq decided that war was the best option after all? The one that all the right-wing sites published as evidence that the peace movement was naive? Propaganda written by you-know-who, wife of The Daily Telegraph's owner who now sits in a Florida jail.

"I WAS A NAIVE FOOL TO BE A HUMAN SHIELD FOR SADDAM"
by Daniel Pepper • Saturday March 29, 2003 at 07:03 AM

http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2003...

Barbara_in_BC May 30, 2008 at 1:14 p.m.

I can't believe the real Daniel Pepper hasn't sued her for impersonation...

Barbara_in_BC May 30, 2008 at 2:10 p.m.

The real Daniel Pepper wrote this article for Time Magazine:

"Violence may be down 60%, but that only brings the city back to 2006 levels. Life in Baghdad in January 2008 is still a far cry from normalcy. Those of us who were here in 2003 and 2004 remember the backed-up traffic and streets wheezing with raw, unencumbered capitalism, let loose after decades of state-controlled socialism. Back then we ate lunch at hole-in-the chicken shacks. Today, those places literally are holes in the walls….

The last time I was in the Green Zone I heard the American spokesman, Dan Senor, articulate the goal of America's mission in Iraq. It was to establish "a free and democratic Iraq, at peace with itself and its neighbors." He said it with such iambic verve and confidence it could have been the subtitle of a best-seller on Iraqi history — in a parallel dimension.

Four years later Iraq is exactly none of those things: free, democratic, peaceful internally or externally. Lines of humongous, heavily-armored American Humvees with steel chains dangling from their front ends roll through Baghdad, America's tax dollars in action, a panorama of monstrous battle cats going anywhere they want. It was never like this before. Back then, you could at least see the fresh faces of young American soldiers, even if their eyes were obscured by wrap-around Oakleys. Now their faces are steel plates, their eyes electronic sensors."

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0...

leaf May 30, 2008 at 4:29 p.m.

"About "making up posters" nobody knows better than Barbara Amiel how to write a fake newspaper story"

.... and nobody knows better than Barbara in BC how to write a fake Barbara Amiel horoscope.

Barbara_in_BC May 30, 2008 at 5:30 p.m.

Wish I had, but that horoscope was as authentic as astrology gets.

leaf May 30, 2008 at 6:36 p.m.

yeah. you just falsified the date.
the horoscope(s) you claimed to be "today's horoscope for barbara amiel" was actually a couple years old. you picked any old horoscope that suited you.

the fact that you still deny having falsified the date shows what bad faith you're made of.

that and everything else puts you pretty low on the totem pole. right about where it's planted in the ground, where insects roam.

i quite resent you. do you know that?

clic

Barbara_in_BC May 30, 2008 at 9:35 p.m.

Paranoia strikes again!

jade_lee May 30, 2008 at 9:50 p.m.

What a bitter pill you are leaf. The dark hole you have dug for youself here on this blog speaks volumes about how a person like you is able to completely buy into that dreaded feeling most people avoid.....namely HATE. You hate most of us on this blog and there is no doubt in my mind whatsoever you hate most people you come in contact with in your daily life. To be so focused on hate that your judgment is impaired with respect to others is not helpful to your personal development leaf. It's pathetic that you feel so victimized by what you claim to be the ignorance and the fraudulent behaviour of others. You are the perfect example of a personality disorder. An otherwise good mind is wasted by your personality flaw....go get help.

leaf May 31, 2008 at 2:05 a.m.

please look up the definitions of hatred and resentment, jello. you will notice differences.

i've used the word 'resent' in blondie's case.
in your case... how should i feel about a made-up poster? i guess i'm amused at the trouble someone is going through to keep his blog somewhat alive. also a bit dismayed i must say.

you ought to be more particular with your choice of words, jello. i have 'no respect' for most people left on this blog would be accurate. hate? please, don't give yourself that much credit, sweetie.

Barbara_in_BC May 31, 2008 at 2:36 a.m.

This is now your social circle leaf... no wonder you're dismayed. It's even worse if we're all imaginary!

leaf May 31, 2008 at 3:07 a.m.

dumb like you can NOT be made-up blondie. i know you're a real bored and boring receptionist living somewhere in BC.

why do we know so much about you? why do you feel the need to write about yourself?
could it be that this blog is YOUR social circle?

for me it's an exercise in memory, in observation and yes, a guilty pleasure to point out every flaw, lie, contradiction etc i detect.

Barbara_in_BC May 31, 2008 at 3:43 a.m.

Sideshow Barb as seen by Peter Newman:

“While I treasured her shock value, she left me with the impression that her opinions were swallowed whole, undigested, to be defended with unsheathed claws instead of mental effort.”

http://www.torontolife.com/features/side...

GravityLevity2 May 31, 2008 at 6:20 p.m.

The movie was okay, but I was horrified more by the age of the very young people (early teens) who were let in to see it.

jade_lee June 1, 2008 at 9:53 a.m.

why horrified?

GravityLevity2 June 1, 2008 at 6:53 p.m.

Why horrified?: there are all sorts of things our laws protect people below the age of majority from; but not a tale of unremitting and triumphant sadism--apparently because the sadism is only subliminally sexual in its presentation.