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Environmental Rally Causes Mass Yawning Epidemic
The Moderate Separatist ^ | , September | Leigh Patrick Sullivan

Posted on 09/27/2011 8:02:33 AM PDT by Leigh Patrick Sullivan

Imagine you threw a party and no one showed up. That’s how members of the environazi movement must feel after Monday’s anti-oil sands protest at the Parliament grounds in Ottawa.

Billed as ‘the biggest environmental demonstration in Canadian history’ with thousands of protestors expected to attend, what actually resulted were a few hundred people showing up.

In theatrical terms, the show was a flop.

The media, instead of filling the papers and televisions with reports of a massive protest, is instead dissecting the failed event with numerous theories as to what happened. Gang Green must also be wondering.

Someone forget to tweet? Not enough unemployed people with time to kill?

(Excerpt) Read more at themoderateseparatist.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: canada; environmentalism; oilsands; protest

1 posted on 09/27/2011 8:02:35 AM PDT by Leigh Patrick Sullivan
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To: Leigh Patrick Sullivan

The problem with depending on the “What’s Happening Now” crowd, is the possibility of something else happening when you think you’re the thing that’s happening.


2 posted on 09/27/2011 8:08:52 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Leigh Patrick Sullivan
And Canadians wonder why we in the U.S. don't seem to know/care what they're up to in the Great White North. Maybe it's because we get more people showing up at a single Wal Mart store for a big sale than they can get for "the largest protest rally in Canadian history"!

I have Canadian relatives, and they cannot help but spout off about how awful the U.S. is every chance they get. Put a sock in it Canada. Just keep sending us lumber, oil, and comedians, and we'll keep watching your back and fueling your economy like we've been doing for 200 years...

3 posted on 09/27/2011 8:15:24 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Leigh Patrick Sullivan

“Get all excited and go to a yawning festival” - Steve Martin (Grandmother Song)


4 posted on 09/27/2011 8:17:09 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Leigh Patrick Sullivan
Billed as ‘the biggest environmental demonstration in Canadian history’ with thousands of protestors expected to attend, what actually resulted were a few hundred people showing up.

A few hundred? The media must of been counting each other as part of the group. These 'protesters' are living in the past - the 70's are O-VAR. What was mildly cool 40 years ago - isn't cool at all today...

5 posted on 09/27/2011 8:28:17 AM PDT by GOPJ (Muslims will want to go to the moon when the Jews set up Israel there. - Dennis Miller)
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To: Sicon
I have Canadian relatives too, but I haven't seen them in forty years. The wife and I just got back from a trip that included four days around Calgary. It's funny, if Canadians dislike the U.S. so much, why does so much of Canada resemble the U.S?

Actually, I doubt most Canadians hate the U.S. as is proclaimed by some people. We had a very nice chat with a Canadian guy near an Alberta provincial monument (Smashed In Buffalo Head or something like that). After noticing our Wisconsin license plates, the guy walked over and talked our ears off about himself and his family. I would think he was probably the average Canadian. At least the average Albertan.

6 posted on 09/27/2011 8:29:24 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: driftless2

Alberta is the Texas of Canada, much more conservative than the rest of the country.


7 posted on 09/27/2011 8:32:01 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Leigh Patrick Sullivan; humblegunner
"Imagine you threw a party and no one showed up."

Imagine you pimped a blog and nobody clicked on the excerpt.......
8 posted on 09/27/2011 8:32:41 AM PDT by shibumi (Goi! Rode, Goi!)
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To: driftless2

The perceived anti-Americanism in Canada is vastly overblown. The national broadcaster (CBC) and some lefties down East feel that way, but for the rest of us (especially in Alberta), we have no problem with our Yankee cousins...except for your poor choice for Prez, of course.


9 posted on 09/27/2011 8:36:50 AM PDT by Leigh Patrick Sullivan
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To: shibumi

Are you a conservative against free speech, marketing and promotion, or are you a liberal killing time on a con site? Just wonderin’...


10 posted on 09/27/2011 8:38:28 AM PDT by Leigh Patrick Sullivan
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To: Leigh Patrick Sullivan; Vendome
Are you a conservative against free speech, marketing and promotion, or are you a liberal killing time on a con site? Just wonderin’...

Some people just don't get it. This sites owner has made it quite clear many times that he doesn't like people excerpting their blogs here.

11 posted on 09/27/2011 8:54:09 AM PDT by houeto
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To: Leigh Patrick Sullivan

Are you masquerading as a conservative blogger, perhaps a Soros troll, posting on conservative sites to draw traffic to your scummy blog in hopes of garnering unearned revenue?


12 posted on 09/27/2011 9:16:02 AM PDT by shibumi (Goi! Rode, Goi!)
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To: shibumi

He/She is a self proclaimed, slightly right of center, (1 of) posting history, blog pimp.


13 posted on 09/27/2011 9:21:15 AM PDT by ZX12R (FUBO GTFO 2012 !)
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To: ZX12R

Being “middle of the road” around here is almost as dangerous as being a BlogPimp.


14 posted on 09/27/2011 9:25:59 AM PDT by shibumi (Goi! Rode, Goi!)
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To: Leigh Patrick Sullivan

Pimping for hits to your blogpage?


15 posted on 09/27/2011 9:33:06 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: shibumi
Being “middle of the road” around here is almost as dangerous as being a BlogPimp.

Indeed. Probably watched the debates and likes Huntsman.
16 posted on 09/27/2011 9:33:41 AM PDT by ZX12R (FUBO GTFO 2012 !)
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To: Leigh Patrick Sullivan; shibumi

This is pretty is a really nice place for those who would like to engage in commentary and the exchange of ideas.

It is not a place that can be used illicitly for anyone’s self serving business plan.


17 posted on 09/27/2011 9:54:45 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Leigh Patrick Sullivan
" Gang Green must also be wondering."

That's a real good name for them.

18 posted on 09/27/2011 10:05:39 AM PDT by shove_it (Just undo it!)
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To: driftless2

Yeah, I know, the vast majority of Canadians are great people, and good friends to the U.S. I just like busting their chops once in a while :-)


19 posted on 09/27/2011 4:34:04 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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